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tekdemon @ Feb 25th 2008 3:33AM
Dolemite makes a good point...I think people need to put in a little more effort to improve their English listening skills so that they can understand a variety of accents. I've heard people complain about their bosses' English because their bosses were from some other country, or a professor or teaching assistant had a heavy accent. But the truth is that I've understood all those accents because I put some effort into my listening abilities.
While it might be easiest to understand your own accent, it's not like your accent is the only one in the world. Just in North America there's a huge variety of accents from French Canadian to deep south. It's really unfortunate if you can't understand English that isn't in your own accent, because the vast majority of English speaking people most likely do not speak the same accent.
And seriously? If you give it a little bit of thought I'm pretty sure you can figure out almost every accent out there. I've found it fairly easy to figure out English accents from everywhere from Spain to France to China to India. Ironically the hardest accent to figure out that I've ever encountered was in England-no I didn't have trouble with the standard London accent you see in movies, but some of the more rural English accents can really test your grasp of accents.