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<blockquote data-quote="Bob Crowley" data-source="post: 76086149" data-attributes="member: 383390"><p>On the OP topic, American accents, we had a young American bloke as one of the staff at my last job. I had no trouble understanding him on a face to face basis, but I sometimes struggled to hear him clearly on the two way radio. </p><p></p><p>But I'm hard of hearing, and I struggled to hear other staff at times, so it's an unfair comparison.</p><p></p><p>One thing we probably don't think about is that when we listen to American actors in films (or any other actors, news anchors etc), they're trained speakers. Many of them can bung on a foreign accent if they want to, although most of them have difficulty trying to put on a convincing Australian accent.</p><p></p><p>It's a different story when we are talking about ordinary people with their home town accents.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bob Crowley, post: 76086149, member: 383390"] On the OP topic, American accents, we had a young American bloke as one of the staff at my last job. I had no trouble understanding him on a face to face basis, but I sometimes struggled to hear him clearly on the two way radio. But I'm hard of hearing, and I struggled to hear other staff at times, so it's an unfair comparison. One thing we probably don't think about is that when we listen to American actors in films (or any other actors, news anchors etc), they're trained speakers. Many of them can bung on a foreign accent if they want to, although most of them have difficulty trying to put on a convincing Australian accent. It's a different story when we are talking about ordinary people with their home town accents. [/QUOTE]
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