A Visa for founders, engineers and investors willing to join France

Re:A Visa for founders, engineers and investors willing to j... by dvdhnt on Monday January 16, 2017 @01:06PM (#13411704)

Funny, I'm from the US and find it difficult to understand some of the accents from both North-Eastern Americans (ayy Boston) and some of the UK folks I've met (when they write exactly how they speak).

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Re:A Visa for founders, engineers and investors willing to j... by ptaipale on Monday January 16, 2017 @01:24PM (#13411827)

I'm non-native English speaker and find that I can understand the severely broken pronunciation of people from China or India, but many of the English accents from England are quite impossible. I can ask them to repeat over and over again, and can't understand a thing, and feel rather silly.

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Re:A Visa for founders, engineers and investors willing to j... by WildUtah on Monday January 16, 2017 @09:52PM (#13414826)

I'm a native English speaker with the world's most broadcast accent (the main Hollywood movie accent) and I'm a fan of Sherlock and Doctor Who. Those programs are produced with the most well known UK accents.

And yet I still have to rewind a few times in every episode for dialogue that I just can't decypher. Sometimes I never quite get the words.

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