Timeline for Native English speakers: worse understanding of other accents?
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| Apr 29, 2022 at 9:29 | comment | added | Eric Nolan | @justhalf I didn't want to put personal anecdotes in to the answer but I was thinking specifically of a German exchange student when I was in college. He could not understand me at all. I would say something like "Do you want to go for a coffee?" and an English person that was with us would have to repeat it exactly before he could understand. The German person said that I slurred my vowels and my consonants together and that made it difficult for him to pick out individual words. | |
| Apr 28, 2022 at 4:24 | comment | added | justhalf | To me it seems like OP didn't believe that a non-native speakers can understand other more accents than a native speaker, and so feels "surreal" about this experience, and asking for research on this topic to confirm or deny or generalize or specialize. Your answer does well on the generalization and the specialization part by giving your personal anecdote! | |
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| S Apr 27, 2022 at 16:29 | history | answered | Eric Nolan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |