Lip reading accents...

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I think today about how some people who have accents are hard for me to understand.

For example, I'm in Whistler, BC, for a mini-break until Sunday and front desk clerk is Asian but he do not annunciate 'English' if that make sense?

I do, however, understand that he tell me about an, how do you say, sound curfew? I tell him I don't hear so it do not matter and I see he say, "Oh, sorry." :roll: I almost yell to him, "Why the F##K are you SORRY!!!!!" :giggle:

Do you find it harder to lip read people who have an accent? Where they speak English but English is not their first language?

I sure do.
 
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I can't read different accents. Even the Brits throw me off.
 
After spending years in the casinos - asians are getting easier. They talk behind their teeth. Tricky to read. :)

They're the hardest of all i think.
 
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Have you ever noticed that deaf people who either grew up speaking or mouth when they sign are easier to lip read than most hearing people? Regardless of how clear their speech actually is? Only accent I can read is deaf accent! :)
 
KittenEyez05 said:
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Have you ever noticed that deaf people who either grew up speaking or mouth when they sign are easier to lip read than most hearing people? Regardless of how clear their speech actually is? Only accent I can read is deaf accent! :)
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SO true! Unfortunately I am not around Deaf too often. So, hearies are what I'm left to interpret.:hmm:
 
Same goes with me, it is easier to lipread the people with accent close to our country, but hard to lipread others except the the one who grew close with me.
 
Never knew Asians talk behind their teeth. I do have trouble lipreading them. Same as most other accents, but I seem to do the best with the Brits and Australians (other than American, that is). My SO tells me the Brits and Aussies have almost identical accents.
 
I find it so hard to lip read people who's first language wasn't english. the ladies next door, they are asian... the older ladies are nearly impossible... any time a client comes in that is very hard to lip read I go to my handy google translator, and type what I need to say into it... makes it easier for them and me. I'm getting the hang of reading brits lips... but i'm not around them often enough to actually understand with the accuracy that I do Americans... (though people from the south are hard too...)
 
My stepmom is Fillipino - I had a hard time understanding her at first but combined with getting used to her and her now being perfectly fluent in English, it's not a problem anymore. The Southern drawl in Alabama took me a week to get used to - I couldn't understand a single word they said!
 
Spanish-speaking people give me a lot of problems when they try to speak English....do they speak in high notes? (sound of their speaking)....seems to me they do. Had a deaf friend whose husband was Spanish and knew no English. Mainly, they conversed in gestures....
 
I had no idea that people moved their mouths differently when speaking with an accent. You learn something new every day.
 
I have trouble with accents even from my own state never mind foreign accents. I remember when I got my CI, people were saying I'd hear accents for the first time. :roll: Hello! I could hear them with my HA and I don't understand accents much better with CI.
 
KittenEyez05 said:
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Have you ever noticed that deaf people who either grew up speaking or mouth when they sign are easier to lip read than most hearing people? Regardless of how clear their speech actually is? Only accent I can read is deaf accent! :)
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Very true. I think because they are so used to annunicate.
 
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