Aha. That explains why "poke-uh-tallin" was so easy for you. Polly
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Like you, i love to listen to people from different areas/countries and decipher the conversation. Good thing since my job means facing a lot of the public each day and noting things for the record. Often we will have them s-p-e-l-l their name for the record, since we do audio recording.
And similar to another post here, I pick up accents very easily when working with people.
Ginger in CA who speaks 4 languages but listens to all, and thinks plain old body language is the clearest!
Tia Mary wrote: My degree is in Cultural and Organizational Communication and I LOVE
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ROFL! I should get you over here to help me decipher Bavarian! I do all right in German, but the real dialect speakers are a mystery. Roberta in D
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do you detect a trend here?
my (swedish) DW is a language teacher; you know, one of those people that when the instructor says put your tongue here and your lips like this and make the ooo sound from the throat, she can and does, and the sound is correct. hence after self study from a tape and five days in china, she could ask a question of the driver on the way to the airport and get an answer. or in tahiti for five days, every meal was a lesson in tahitian from the wait staff and then in new zealand, she could carry on a simple conversation with the maori. not me. i can barely speak american english any more. after studying swedish, stockholm dialect, for several years i wonder how i learned english .... maybe because i started at an early age!
last week we had a young swedish couple visiting us. at lunch in a (barbecue) restaurant, the young swedish woman, whose english was very good, asked if the waiter were 'putting on' an accent. no, he was from texas and she had never heard a texas accent, maybe not any other southern accent either. a real, 'old virginia' from southern virginia accent is different, i.e., house is more 'huuus' i think
[and then on hearing there were three swedes at the table with me, the waiter commented his grandmother was swedish!klh in VA
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