Hi,
there's something I've always liked to know, I'm too curious! When you watch TV or a movie in your own country, what kinds of accents do you hear? This is a very general question, but it involves this important point:
Thank you.
there's something I've always liked to know, I'm too curious! When you watch TV or a movie in your own country, what kinds of accents do you hear? This is a very general question, but it involves this important point:
- Are movies or programs dubbed? (i.e., British E. --> American E. and vice versa) I don't think so, but if they are not dubbed, that means you sometimes watch movies or programs in another accent. Well, so how much "different English" is there on TV and in movies in your country? And, most importantly, what's the effect of that? Does it bother you a little? Do you always understand? Do you find it perfectly ok, or does it sound strange and you have to strain you ears?
Thank you.
Comments
I can understand most British accents better than some of the more exotic American accents (e.g., very 'thick' accents from Brooklyn or Louisiana).
CJ
You wrote: I think some children's cartoon films are dubbed, though.
Englishuser
Really? I've never heard of that. Which ones? So, you guys on the other side of the puddle really can't understand us then?
The purpose of this thread is to understand how people see the "opposite" accent (opposite means British for an American, and vice versa). If what I wrote above is true, then American English should sound very natural to British people, since they hear it in a great number of movies, in the Simpsons, and in a extremely huge number of songs (all genres). As for Americans, well, I don't know. I guess there's less British English in the US than American English in the UK, nevertheless it seems that British English sounds natural too...
So, the famous sentence "England and America are two countries separated by the same language" is just nonsense, isn't it? If that sentence were true, we could sometimes hear conversations like these:
- (In the US) - What about watching a good movie? How about <insert movie here> ? ----- That movie? But... but they talk in British English in that movie, let's choose another one...
- (In the UK) - Tom!!! What are you doing in your room? ------ I'm watching TV, the Simpsons... ------ Oh my, again that American stuff...
I hope you like my examples