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no. I love theire accents.

cant answer that I am english and sure dont have problem with english or american!!!

I always liked old English movies. Their so polite and gentile.

Nope.  I love their accents..Aussie's even more!!!!!..Which movie did you have trouble with???

My youngest son, when he was very little, could never undertand what my Dad was saying, with his Irish accent. It was the same with my friends. Dad would say something to them and they'd just nod (looking quite stricken), as they didn't have a clue! I found it very amusing.

I know what you mean. Considering they invented the language, you would think that they'd speak it without a funny accent. Like we North Americans,for instance. Eh ?... I mean...Huh ?

Nothing tops the Aussies,though. I don't think they should call their dialect English. ;-)

No i don't. and i enjoy their accent.Watch BBC youll get the hang of their words.

You sound like my ex-husband... "What?"  "What?"  "What?".... Click the sub-titles and enjoy the ride.

I don't have a problem with listening to any accent,  in fact,  i find it intriguing.

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Some of the movies from the UK I have trouble understanding, if the accent is 'thick'.  Then again, I can't understand my wife's family in Tennessee either, as a matter of fact, sometimes i don't understand my wife's accent.  The 'down home' English is very difficult to understand, also Cajun.. They have a language all their own.  I don't think its English.  LOL 

"The GIrl With The Dragon Tattoo" comes to mind, as I saw it recently.  If Daniel Craig hadn't MUMBLED so much, it wouldn't have been a problem.
As a matter of fact, ANY mumbling is difficult, whether it is in a movie or coming right out of my kid's mouth. 
SPEAK CLEARLY! I can work my way through an accent. Mumbling, not so much.

I live in Essex UK and I can't understand anyone north of Watford. I can understand Americans alot easier than some UK accents.

I don't have a problem with listening to any accent,  in fact,  i find it intriguing.

I like them. They're much better than American accents. The only difficult accent to understand is the Scottish accent from Glassgow. Just try and understand them. They seem to swallow every word and they sound like turkeys.

As a Canadian...NO because we have every kind of accent here!..You ought to try to understand the English of some of the Northern Tribes here...priceless to listen to..a sort of sing-song way of speaking and everything sounds like a question!...And da French-Canadian?Dey sound even cooler!...On the other hand...what up with the Southern drawl? Where the hay did that come from y'all???

I aways got a kick out of watching WWII moves made in England.   In the beginning the British actors, who were playing Germans, would begin speaking in German, with Englich translation across the bottom of the screen.

Soon however they would begin to speak in English and even using "Bloody" coequal English, "Eh. wat ol chap?"

I had trouble understanding what they were saying on the Brittish show, " Upstairs, Downstairs "  but my parents were soaking it up. They understood every bit of the dialouge. Must be my dad's Englsih blood. LOL.  He was born in the U.S. but had ancestors that hailed from England, and Scotland on his dad's side. His last name was the same as The Ilse of Wight. That was my maiden name.

I do! :( I wish they subtitle them for me :)

All I know is I had a great deal of trouble being understood in the U.S. especially on the 'phone.

I found it's not so much the way we say things it's the things we say.We have a completely different idiom to Americans.

Petrol = gas,biscuits = cookies for instance.

Australians don't have a great deal of trouble understanding Americanese tho.Thank the TV shows for that.

As for understanding British Movies,No problem.There are so many Poms here it's like our second language.LOL

I do! :( I wish they subtitle them for me :)

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What you Americans need to know is that BBC English, also known as 'Received Pronunciation' is not an accent, it is the correct way to speak. Anything else is an accent.

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