Re:Raising a Truly Bilingual Child
by jessaustin on Sunday July 23, 2017 @12:13AM
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That seems like English? Anyone from any part of the English-speaking world can understand anyone else from any other part, except there are lots of people from England that none of us can understand.
There are plenty of incomprehensible Americans and Australians etc, precepts you either don't interact with them (poor people?) or you are American / Australian, and don't realise that as a Brit I can have difficult understanding a strong Boston accent.
(I think. One of the characters in "Spotlight" was the most recent time I understood almost nothing.)
Who is "us"? I'm not English, but lived there for more than 16 years. I think I understand most British regional English accents, including Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish quite well.
> Anyone from any part of the English-speaking world can understand anyone else from any other part,
Try watching an English person ask an American (in the US) for water or where the herbs are.
Re:Raising a Truly Bilingual Child
by jessaustin on Sunday July 23, 2017 @07:40PM
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Yes my point was precisely that many people from England are incomprehensible.
But in Europe I've been sitting on trains directly next to Portuguese speakers and had a very difficult time even understanding say 40% of what they were talking about. It was as if in Portugal they just chew up the words and chop them all up, which makes it super difficult to understand. That wasn't the case with the Brasilians I've spoken too. With them I could actually have conversations and know what they were saying.
But thats just my personal experience.