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<blockquote data-quote="witzend" data-source="post: 203583" data-attributes="member: 99"><p>I have a bit of an advantage with accents as we have hosted several dozen international students, (mostly from Asia) and go to Mexico every year. We also have several French friends. I do notice that I understand what foreigners with a thick accent are saying when others around me don't. I think that it is often because others are not expecting an accent and it takes them a moment or two to process.</p><p></p><p>I watch a lot of BBC, so I am comfortable with the various British and British Isles accents, but I haven't been exposed to many Aussie or NZ accents. </p><p></p><p>The thing about having a non-native English speaker around is that you realize how much slang you use every day, all of the time. People just learning English learn proper English. We mangle it. Then there are things like "How come?" It's actually kind of fun to figure out how it is that we all know what things like "how come?" mean and where they came from! </p><p></p><p>Snags are cigarettes, I think.</p><p></p><p>Relos are Relatives.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="witzend, post: 203583, member: 99"] I have a bit of an advantage with accents as we have hosted several dozen international students, (mostly from Asia) and go to Mexico every year. We also have several French friends. I do notice that I understand what foreigners with a thick accent are saying when others around me don't. I think that it is often because others are not expecting an accent and it takes them a moment or two to process. I watch a lot of BBC, so I am comfortable with the various British and British Isles accents, but I haven't been exposed to many Aussie or NZ accents. The thing about having a non-native English speaker around is that you realize how much slang you use every day, all of the time. People just learning English learn proper English. We mangle it. Then there are things like "How come?" It's actually kind of fun to figure out how it is that we all know what things like "how come?" mean and where they came from! Snags are cigarettes, I think. Relos are Relatives. [/QUOTE]
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