Accent shock I'm in the UK for working holiday now. There are a lot of people from different countries here. Even though I've only stayed here for a few days, I found that I seem to have more difficul

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Accent shock I'm in the UK for working holiday now. There are a lot of people from different countries here. Even though I've only stayed here for a few days, I found that I seem to have more difficulties understanding people who have European accents. When I heard them speak to each other, even if they are from different countries, they didn't seem to have any problems understanding one another. It makes me wonder if it is a kind of culture difference. I'm interested to know if they find Asian accents (or more specific, Taiwanese accent, since I'm from Taiwan) more difficult to understand than other Europen accents.

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Accent shock

I'm in the UK for a work holiday now. There are a lot of people from different countries here. Even though I've only been here for a few days, I find that I seem to (this is redundant) have more difficulty understanding people who have European accents. When I hear them speak to each other, even if they are from different countries, they don't seem to have any problems understanding one another. It makes me wonder if it is a kind of culture difference. I'm interested to know if they find Asian accents (or more specifically, a Taiwanese accent, since I'm from Taiwan) more difficult to understand than other European accents.

Nicely done. When you say that you have more of something, in this example more difficulty understanding people with European accents, there is a comparison implied. So the question is, more than who else? I'm assuming you mean more than native English speakers. I think it would be better if you included that in your statement.

Enjoy your holiday!

Thanks for sharing your story :) Hope I can get used to it soon!

I`m from Europe but I teach English to Chinese students. At first, it was very hard for me to understand them cause they were trying to sound fluent and speak fast. But then I got used to hearing it:-) Maybe you will get used to European accents too

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