Strange thing: our guide in Dublin, a native, told us that she'd speak more slowly if we couldn't understand her, that she'd gotten a lot of comments (mostly from Americans) that her accent so thick that they couldn't tell what she was saying.
To my sister's ears and mine, she had NO accent. We were BAFFLED when a few Americans spoke up and said that yes, they were having a bit of hard time! I mean, she said a few vowels with a BIT of an accent...nothing more!
Baffling. Why do Canadian ears not hear a Dublin accent? Or why do American ears invent one? Weird.
I have no problems. There are a few times where I asked, politely, if they could repeat themselves, but I haven't had a problem really. I'll probably have no problem with the accent after I get used to it for a few days. I had a really hard time with the accent in Liverpool!
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Strange thing: our guide in Dublin, a native, told us that she'd speak more slowly if we couldn't understand her, that she'd gotten a lot of comments (mostly from Americans) that her accent so thick that they couldn't tell what she was saying.
To my sister's ears and mine, she had NO accent. We were BAFFLED when a few Americans spoke up and said that yes, they were having a bit of hard time! I mean, she said a few vowels with a BIT of an accent...nothing more!
Baffling. Why do Canadian ears not hear a Dublin accent? Or why do American ears invent one? Weird.
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