Matthew McConaughey's crazy speaking
I just saw the Matthew McConaughey Lincoln commercial today. I think he is a great actor. I love his performance in 'True Detective', 'Lincoln Lawyer', 'Dallas Buyers Club' and other movies also, but as an ESL student, his speaking style sounds terrible. His low voice, his accent, his speaking pace. It was super hard to follow his speaking.
I wonder whether a native English speaker can fully understand what he was talking.
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Matthew McConaughey's crazy speaking
It was super hard to follow his speaking because of his low voice, his accent, his speaking pace.I am wondering whether a native English speaker can fully understand what he was saying.
You did a great job with this paragraph. I changed "His low voice, his accent, his speaking pace." because it was not a complete sentence. There are a number of ways you could rephrase this. The second sentence was also correct I believe, but it is not normally phrased that way. I normally hear "I wonder" used like this: "I wonder if a native English speaker could fully understand what he says."
Now to answer your question. Yes native English speakers can understand him fully, but it might also depend on what kind of accent the speaker is used to. Matthew McConaughey is from Texas, and I have heard a lot of people from Texas speak similarly to him. I am also from the South Eastern part of the United States, so the people here also tend to have a similar accent. Someone from the U.K. might have a hard time understanding McConaughey, but I don't know for sure.
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