Re:If English was written like Chinese (1999)
by aworks on Tuesday June 04, 2024 @02:26AM
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Reminds me of when I went on business trip of several weeks to Sweden from California. The Swedes spoke English reasonably well. I then went to Scotland for vacation and had a much harder time understanding their dialect than I did with the Swedes.
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Re:If English was written like Chinese (1999)
by The_Colonel on Tuesday June 04, 2024 @02:45AM
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For me as a non-native speaker of English and German, this is quite normal - I mostly have an easier time understanding other non-native speakers since they usually use "international" dialect/pidgin, speak slower and usually articulate more distinctly.