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« on: August 18, 2010, 11:42:25 am »

I have the hardest time understanding Indians over the phone.  They seem to be the hardest for me.
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« Reply #1 on: August 18, 2010, 01:04:32 pm »

I work with a lot of Indians and Chinese, and so I have become very good at adapting.  Sometimes, surprisingly, I have trouble with the Mexicans and some eastern Europeans.  Overall, though, I typically can understand pretty much everyone.
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« Reply #2 on: August 18, 2010, 01:06:09 pm »


The only accent I ever really have any issues with is a heavy Scottish accent. I have one client on this list, and we've gone to email-only communication to save us both some time.

I do think that traveling around the world and picking up different languages goes a long way toward me being able to sift through most accents without any real problem.

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« Reply #3 on: August 18, 2010, 01:54:42 pm »

In general, I'm pretty poor.  I am probably best with Spanish or Portuguese accents, and Eastern European is generally pretty OK for me too.
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« Reply #4 on: August 18, 2010, 02:02:24 pm »

I had a friend who recently moved back to Finland. At first I had a very hard time with him. I'm not sure if I adapted or he did , but before he moved back everything was much easier to understand.
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« Reply #5 on: August 18, 2010, 02:56:56 pm »

Ghetto and redneck.  My family is full of rednecks and I can't understand half of them.  When people talk really ghetto I have trouble understanding.
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« Reply #6 on: August 18, 2010, 03:00:07 pm »

I have a client and son with a Cockney accent. (They sound like that movie, Snatch.) I can't understand a thing they say. However, I think they both say really filthy things to me because they always wink at me.
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« Reply #7 on: August 18, 2010, 03:41:15 pm »

^^^ Cockney is very hard to understand.
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« Reply #8 on: August 18, 2010, 04:05:55 pm »

^^^ Cockney is very hard to understand.

Yeah. It's not just me because my boss doesn't catch anything either.
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« Reply #9 on: August 18, 2010, 04:43:15 pm »

^^ i don't even know what that is....
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« Reply #10 on: August 18, 2010, 04:56:13 pm »

Cockney is impossible, but it's not anything I've ever naturally run across.
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« Reply #11 on: August 18, 2010, 05:11:44 pm »

^^ i don't even know what that is....

It's a very specific British accent. This is one example I found: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBQxU8K1uJw
However, my clients are way, way worse.

Cockney is impossible, but it's not anything I've ever naturally run across.

There are actually quite a few in the yachting business, but as stated these two are the worse I've run across. It's like they are speaking an entirely different language.
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« Reply #12 on: August 18, 2010, 05:22:55 pm »

^^^^ “Two peoples separated by a common language.”- George Bernard Shaw
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« Reply #13 on: August 18, 2010, 06:18:03 pm »

haha Cockney....I had a drunk English friend straight off the boat and we used to go boozing all the time, man that guy was impossible to understand but he was so freaking hilarious i loved to just listen to him rant all nite long
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« Reply #14 on: August 18, 2010, 06:43:09 pm »

I've run into a few jamaicans with those thick ass accents that have me trying to decipher every frickin word.
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