The English accents I encountered in my trips
While travelling, I have stumbled upon several English accents of native or non-native speakers. The easist one for me is always the American accent, since I've always focused in this type of English; I've running into a lot of Americans in my trips and I usually don't have problems in understanding them. Canadian accent is not a problem too, since it looks a lot like American accent - at least for my Brazilian ears. Getting out of America, I've already spoken to some people from England and the accent from London doesn't sound hard to me - although I've heard that British English can become really peculiar when it comes to other places in England. One of the best friends I made in Mexico is from London and we chat for hours without any problem to communicate.
I've been also in touch with Irishs and New Zealanders who have a slightly difficult accent for me, but there is no doubt that the hardest accent I've ever heard is the Australian accent. In my last trip to Mexico, I runned into two Australian guys and I find their accents really peculiar. It was kind of frustrating because I've been studying English for a while and I couldn't understand them properly, although they could understand me perfectly. Despite of the difficulties we made it through with a little patience.
It's an honor having the opportunity to get in touch with that many different anglophones.
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The English accents I have encountered on in my trips
While travelling, I have stumbled upon several English accents of native or non-native speakers. The easiest one for me is always the American accent, since I've always focused in this type of English; I've running into a lot of Americans in my trips and I usually don't have problems in understanding them. [The] Canadian accent is not a problem too, since it looks sounds a lot like the/an American accent - at least for my Brazilian ears. Getting out of America, I've already spoken to some people from England and the accent from London doesn't sound hard to me - although I've heard that British English can become really peculiar when it comes to other places in England. One of the best friends I made in Mexico is from London and we chat for hours without any problem to communicate communicating.I've been also in touch with Irishs and New Zealanders who have a slightly difficult accent [for me], but there is no doubt that the hardest accent I've ever heard is the Australian accent. In my last trip to Mexico, I runned ran into two Australian guys and I find found their accents really peculiar. It was kind of frustrating because I've been studying English for a while and I couldn't understand them properly, although they could understand me perfectly. Despite of (either "despite" or "in spite of") the difficulties, we made it through with a little patience.
It's an honor (spelt "honour" in the UK) having the opportunity to get in touch with that (or this may be better here) many different anglophones.
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Nice work Anderson! You've got a good turn of phrase, and it reads very well, almost like a native would write it. As a side note, make sure you don't confuse England and Britain (or the UK either for that matter). Britain is England, Scotland and Wales, and they don't like to be forgotten! I appreciate it can get a bit confusing though...
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I have put together a page of different accents on my website and you can access it here.
There are a variety of accents, including UK, USA and foreign ones.
The only one I myself, as a native speaker, had problems with is one of the Scottish ones. Where the man is stuck over the gate.
The first example on the page, Glenda Jackson, was an MP (Member of Parliament) and double Oscar winning actress.
https://www.businessenglishtuition.com/accents
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