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[Akumu-chan / My Little Nightmare]

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[Star Trek: The Next Generation/Deanna Troi]

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[The Borgias]

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[Kaiba Seto and Jounouchi Katsuya from Yu-gi-oh!]

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[Spring Breakers]

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[Murder Rooms]

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[Twin Peaks]

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[Mass Effect]

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[Despicable Me 2]

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[Ice Age]

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[Arrested Development]

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[Halloween]

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Okay, so I just started watching Doctor Who. (I know, I know.) But while I'm watching I have to pull up a transcript because I have trouble with the accents. I've had trouble understanding English accents in other media, but I haven't noticed it so much until now. I'm a mid-western American and I really don't think I should be having such a problem, it's not like they're so different. Does anyone else have this issue?

...get your hearing checked? I'm deaf, so yes, but getting acclimated usually happens, if you stick with it. I have found that to be the case IRL and I have worked with people from all over the world, with accompanying accents. It just takes time.

Don't sweat it, you're just not used to it. Sometimes I have trouble understanding what people speaking my mother tongue are saying, just because they have a thick regional accent.

check your american privilege

lolwat, I have this problem and I'm an immigrant living in America

Yes, because there are no American citizens or soon to be American citizens with non-American accents. No siree bob.

There are Englishmen who have trouble deciphering the accents of fellow Englishmen.

Check your bullshit meter. I think it's in need of re-calibration.

My friends and I most often watch TV and movies with subtitles turned on, partly because some of us don't have very good hearing/aural processing skills, myself included. I just find text easier to parse than speech, especially if it's fast speech or people talking over each other or unfamiliar accents. /shrug

OP. And the weird thing is that it's mostly accents from the UK. I'm just as good at understanding other accents as other people, but these trip me up. Especially listening to Amy Pond's Scottish accent after the Doctor's.

It depends on the accent. I'm usually the accent interpreter for people when we are watching movies or tv shows, but sometimes there's that combination of thick accent and the manner of speaking that just makes it hard to understand.

For me it depends on the TV/sound system and where I am in relation to it. I used to judge other Americans who said they had trouble with the accents on British shows and then we got a new TV and I can't understand half of the stuff I could on our old one unless I move really close to the TV.

I only ever had a problem in one episode where Ten was talking really, really fast. I had to rewind and listen again a couple time for me to catch it.

Normally I'm fine though. In fact, I was so fine with most of it I didn't even realize Captain Jack had an American accent until a few episodes after his introduction.

Then again, I was raised around a bunch of different accents so it's easy for me. In fact, apparently my father is hard to understand? He sounds American to me but apparently to everyone else his true country of origin shows through in his accent. Figures.

But if you haven't been around a lot of different accents other than your own I hear it can take some time to understand people who have different ones. Good luck with all of it. I'm sure you can pick it up.

Haha, same here.

I was raised in a foreign country for many of my formative years, and - yeah - the BBC or whatever local British station was the only English-speaking channel we got. So I've never had a problem with British accents. In fact, it's always been quite the opposite (like you, I didn't realize Captain Jack had an American accent at first either).

Oh my gosh I thought I was the only one! I'm so glad I'm not alone!

I don't, but it's really common -- I have tons of friends have trouble with even the weakest saturation. It's just not the way you're used to hearing the words, in personal interactions or American media, so it throws you. No big.

They are quite different, because the physical formation and production of sound is so different. When I'm listening to accents, I'm literally translating the altered sounds into English that is comprehensible to me. With practice, you'll likely get faster at processing the difference.

I'm a Midwesterner too and I didn't have any trouble with the accents (though I had trouble hearing at all if it was turned down too low by my friends). idk, maybe other factors involved?

My mom has that same problem which is odd considering she grew up NYC where there are millions of people talking a whole rainbow of accents. Even stranger still, she was raised in a household where her parents spoke English with heavy Spanish accent. So, you would think she would have an advantage but nope. I am better than she is. Growing up, she would often turn to me and whisper, "What did they say?" And it wasn't just with non-American accents. She is horrible in understanding Southern accents.

Some people can understand the most muddled of accents and some people can't. I think it's a brain thing more than anything else. Like some people are hard wired better in the ability to decipher that other people are saying.

I had a lot of trouble understanding some of the accents in Doctor Who and Torchwood. I don't know why, since I've watched lots of other shows featuring people from all over the UK and never had an issue understanding them (barring slang and regionalisms, obviously).

I also have a very hard time understanding specific American accents, though, which is a problem because my job requires me to travel a lot and I sometimes run into clients that are basically unintelligible for me, especially in the mid-west around Kansas, Oklahoma, etc.

English isn't my native language, but I do have trouble understanding accents in my mother tongue in movies sometimes. And I don't mean only accents from other countries, but accents found in my own country. It's usually solved with earphones and a bit of rewinding here and there, or just ignoring the parts I miss. It's actually easier to understand movies in foreign languages I speak than movies with different Portuguese accents.

Where are you starting? I only have this problem with Eleven/Matt Smith, and I don't think it's the accent, I think he's just mumblier than the other Doctors. (I may have gotten acclimated to Ten shouting, IDEK).

Another Midwesterner here, although I grew up used to hear a range of various accents. Doctor Who doesn't bother me. I also watch a lot of British programming, which might make a difference.

I'm romanian and I usually use subtitles for movies by default 'cause sometimes the actors speak really fast and my attention isn't always 100%.

I understand most of it without much trouble but sometimes, accents are just difficult to understand - especially if they go more into a very special dialect direction. It's the same in a lot of languages - I can't always properly understand accents or dialects in my native language if I'm not used to them.

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