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Native speakers of my mother tongue do not all understand each other due to some pretty extreme dialects. Now that I'm in Europe, I've noticed multiple instances of people sometimes not understand the dialect of someone from a village 10-20 km away...

In contrast, for example most American, British, and Australian people can just... understand each other like that?? I never thought much about it before but it's pretty incredible

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[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago
[–] olbaidiablo@lemmy.ca 0 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

A definite exception would be the Newfie accent from eastern Canada. People in the same country cannot understand them.

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Same with Quebecois!

We were taught Parisienne French in school in Canada even in my French Immersion school.

What is spoken in Quebec is so different they're effectively different languages, outside of academic or linguistic analysis.

I excelled in French as a kid and that's why I went to immersion school. Imagine my shock when I moved to QC for 4 years in my early 20's... I could have a great conversation with the dude that literally came from France but neither of us could communicate in either direction with our French co-workers lol

[–] AreaKode@lemmy.world 0 points 17 hours ago (13 children)

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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