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Q: What English accents do Chinese people have the most difficulty understanding?
And I'm talking regional English/American and of course non-native speaker accents.... My kids are fine with mine as I speak pretty slow anyway, but what about yours?
11 years 5 weeks ago in Teaching & Learning - China
Australian, even when they're not drunk.
I do character voices but they are wasted in China as no relation. Who knows Groucho? If I do an east Indian accent most can not be understand me, but some do and laugh. I do not use the same structure in my speech when I talk like that either. More like,, dis what I am telling you, you are not bein a very good listener...
American Southern accents (people from Texas, Alabama, etc)
People seem to get lost listening to Irish accents. I know this because whenever anyone bothers me to practise their English I gradually slip into one myself until their eyes mist over with confusion and with a "Top o' th'mornin' to ye" I am able to bugger off.
Australian for sure and also a lot of slang....I'd probably say accents from the Phillipines. I knew a girl that was teaching and one of the mothers told me she couldn't understand what she was saying. The class involved the parent so that's what she told me afterwards.
I am lucky to come from California. It is a scientific fact that people from California don't have an accent.
Jersey Gweedos (they cant understand each other) that live in NYC (just for the speed) whose parents are from Texas (King of the Hill) and Louisiana (Coon-Ass).
And before you think its a joke I know one... I live in Texas and I can't understand a damn thing they say...
I met a Liverpudlian lass with the most broad scouse accent at the weekend. She told me that she is in China teaching English. I nearly spat my beer all over the floor.
