[HPforGrownups] Re: UK vs. US

[Cassy Ferris]

No: HPFGUIDX 170976

2007/6/22, Ken Hutchinson <klhutch at sbcglobal.net>:
>
>
> Lately I've noticed that TV newscasts
> that interview British speakers will more and more often include
> subtitles even though there are hardly any British accents that are
> impenetrable to American ears.
>






Cassy:

You know, what I find really amazing is that people, for whom English is not
first language (myself included) somehow manage to understand BOTH British
and American English. (well, not Australian, perhaps ^_~). And being native
Russian speaker I can understand Ukrainian, Polish or, say, Belarussian
fairly easily, since the languages are quite close. How come that people
speaking ONE language have so much difficulties understanding each other?


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