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minus-squarejaschen@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·4 days agoMy wife too. She grew up in Taiwan and moved to America in middle school. She can’t understand understand British or Australian accents, where I can hear the differences between the two. She literally can’t understand Indian accents. It’s like they are not speaking English at all.
minus-squareProbius@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·4 days agoI’m a native speaker and have absolutely no issue whatsoever with Australian and British accents, but people with a heavy Indian accent still sound like they’re not speaking English to me.
minus-squarejaschen@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 days agoI think we were exposed to more Brit and Aus influences. Thinking Steve Erwin, Crocodile Dundee, and a bunch of British actors. For Indian speaking influence, nope. Even today, the only exposure to Indian accents is at work and even then, its limited.
minus-squareProbius@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·4 days agoYou can get better at understanding accents by listening to them more, so yeah, that’s probably why.
My wife too. She grew up in Taiwan and moved to America in middle school.
She can’t understand understand British or Australian accents, where I can hear the differences between the two.
She literally can’t understand Indian accents. It’s like they are not speaking English at all.
I’m a native speaker and have absolutely no issue whatsoever with Australian and British accents, but people with a heavy Indian accent still sound like they’re not speaking English to me.
I think we were exposed to more Brit and Aus influences. Thinking Steve Erwin, Crocodile Dundee, and a bunch of British actors.
For Indian speaking influence, nope. Even today, the only exposure to Indian accents is at work and even then, its limited.
You can get better at understanding accents by listening to them more, so yeah, that’s probably why.