2013-05-26, 07:27 AM
I don't mind accents. They make conversations more colourful, and speaks a great deal about the person's background. The only problem is... when accents become so heavy they distort the phonetics intended for English words, and you start to fail to understand what they're saying.
The one in the video is a pretty nice accent. Given that here there are loads of international students from all over the world, it's pretty fine. The only accent I can't stand is... Scottish -- because I REALLY can't understand them until they lose most of the Scottish accent.
What does not make conversations fun: heavy accent + poor grasp of grammar. Engrish is a good example, but it goes way beyond just that.
Hadriel
The one in the video is a pretty nice accent. Given that here there are loads of international students from all over the world, it's pretty fine. The only accent I can't stand is... Scottish -- because I REALLY can't understand them until they lose most of the Scottish accent.
What does not make conversations fun: heavy accent + poor grasp of grammar. Engrish is a good example, but it goes way beyond just that.
Hadriel