Hi, 
I'm really the dumbest
, I posted here a grammar question by mistake, but I didn't manage to delete it. I don't know why, there was no "delete icon." Since I wasn't able to delete this post, I made it an "audio and pronounciation" question! And the first question that came to my mind was: "Do you guys understand Black English (that is Ebonics or AAVE)?" I can't understand a word when I listen to hip-hop songs or when I hear black guys talking. That's a strange accent, yet maybe if they spoke slowly I would be able to understand something.
So, do you understand Black English?
By the way, I already asked this question in a chat room once and it turned out that AAVE is generally difficult to understand, unless you have lived among people who speak it.
I'll wait for your replyes.

I'm really the dumbest

So, do you understand Black English?
By the way, I already asked this question in a chat room once and it turned out that AAVE is generally difficult to understand, unless you have lived among people who speak it.
I'll wait for your replyes.

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The language of hip-hop is another thing. That includes a great deal of slang that I don't understand at all, superimposed on Black English. Both pronunciation and vocabulary create problems for understanding, as does speed of delivery.
Just as blacks who speak mostly Black English need to learn standard English almost as if it were a foreign language (and this is the idea behind the Ebonics teaching method*), whites also need to learn Black English as if it were a foreign language.
*I have observed class rooms in which speakers of Black English (children, in fact) were doing "translation exercises". Given a sentence in Black English, they practiced translating it into standard English. Boring as it may seem to us, they seemed to be quite enthusiastic about this task!
CJ
I'm not sure how widely it is spoken there either...don't assume that all black Americans speak in that way.
You wrote:
It is said that the origin of Black English is in the grammatical structures of African languages. The verbs to be and to do are handled a bit differently, and redundant subject pronouns are ubiquitous.
CJ
Still, a lot of people have different types of speech for different situations. I used to have a black boyfriend whose parents were Jamaican, and he would either speak 1) fairly standard working class London English (at work etc), 2) full-on Jamaican patois (this seems to be the basis of 'black British English') when he was with Jamaicans, and what I dubbed 3) 'urban black British' as his natural 'somewhere in-between the other two' language. I could understand all of 1) most of 3) and very little of 2).
I was also at school with a boy who spoke exactly like us at school, but I found it hilarious to visit his house and find out that his home life involved talking with a very strong northern accent to match his parents'.
You wrote:
I know nothing about the situation in the UK, if there's a typical "black-dialect or accent." I'm almost sure British blacks don't talk the same way as Americans, that is, they don't speak AAVE. Nona mentioned something about Jamaican language, which is pretty different from AAVE.
You asked: In my experience communicational problems are rare between speakers of General American and Black American English. Even if you speak RP you will almost always get your point across with Black English speakers, and if you have a good ear for Black English, you will likely understand them, too. I also believe it's easier to understand someone when you're actually talking to them than if you merely hear the accent on the TV, for instance. People tend to modify their speech a bit when they talk to people with different accents so as to make it easier for their interlocutor to understand them.
You wrote: There most certainly is something called Black British English. The accent is different from American Black English, but they also have something in common.