Abilene Slim SASS 81783 Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 I watch a lot of military documentaries on YouTube which are often narrated by folks in England. Some of the accents are thick enough to make understanding with my feeble hearing difficult. Do folks in Australia and New Zealand sometimes struggle with English accents? What about American? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckshot Bear Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 1 hour ago, Abilene Slim SASS 81783 said: I watch a lot of military documentaries on YouTube which are often narrated by folks in England. Some of the accents are thick enough to make understanding with my feeble hearing difficult. Do folks in Australia and New Zealand sometimes struggle with English accents? What about American? Never struggle with American accents, REALLY struggle sometimes with British accents. New Zealanders......well they just talk damn funny. Abilene Youtube has a button marked CC, if you hit that captions will come up mate. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abilene Slim SASS 81783 Posted January 16 Author Share Posted January 16 7 minutes ago, Buckshot Bear said: Never struggle with American accents, REALLY struggle sometimes with British accents. New Zealanders......well they just talk damn funny. Abilene Youtube has a button marked CC, if you hit that captions will come up mate. Yep they do and I use it, but the text often lags the narrator by quite a bit. Annoying, but it works better than my hearing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.D. Daily Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 Does YouTube's CC translate British & Australian slang? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckshot Bear Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 2 minutes ago, J.D. Daily said: Does YouTube's CC translate British & Australian slang? I just hope it doesn't translate the swearing 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckshot Bear Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 This sheila will give you some lessons - 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Creeker, SASS #43022 Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 As an American - I have zero (or nearly zero) challenge with New Zealanders or Austrailans accent. I can even usually tell which is which (big deal to me; probably simple for others). British is "usually" ok (enough years of Monty Python and Top Gear), but Irish and Scottish are another thing altogether. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 " but Irish and Scottish are another thing altogether." Irish and Scottish are languages from another planet galaxy .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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