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What is your native tongue?
Spanish has a pretty wide array of accents and dialects, but I think for the most part Spanish speakers understand one another.
What's incredible is that an island of people who all watch the same tv and same radio can all maintain different accents
I think maybe because english already standardised when the world decided to learn it, so it's mostly accent and less about dialect. Still impressive nonetheless.
On another note, chinese dialect sounds so different that it might as well be another language, then China decided to standardise the language into "common language"(mandarin) and basically attempt to eliminate dialect.
So i guess this impressive result is because colonialism.
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I live in the US Midwest with almost no accent. Anytime I go somewhere where people have strong accents, my brain really has to work to understand them. It'll take a couple of days of immersion before I really start to understand people.
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A definite exception would be the Newfie accent from eastern Canada. People in the same country cannot understand them.
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