@bb1webs 169095 wrote:
agree. Further is my experience … its often better to communicate via written word opposed to face to face because we have trouble understanding accents from one side of the country to another, it gets really tough once you start jumping country to country.
Curious, do you folks down under and in Europe, have as much trouble understanding us … as we do you?
Downunder, no. But you gotta rememeber that most of the tv shows played here are American.. so we’re used to the accent.
When I was in Vegas in 2006, I was in a club and asked the bartender for a water, and she had no idea what I was asking for. Asked for it a couple of times and still nothing, so I said it with an american accent and she felt really stupid for not understanding me.. LOL
I think its harder for you guys to understand our accent because you don’t hear it as often as we hear yours…
I dont have any trouble understanding European accents for the most part either, but I think that’s because i have grandparents who are european, so I’m used to that.. but I know some other Aussies who have a real hard time understanding the european accents…