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> if at first upon hearing it you're bewildered, about halfway through you realize that you can understand what she's saying.

As a non-native English speaker, this is basically my experience watching some movies (where the characters speak with regional dialects). The first 10 minutes I feel like the actors are mumbling and then after 20 or so minutes I have no problem keeping up anymore.

Also what it feels like when someone with an accent is holding a lecture at my university.




It took me longer for British accents to become intelligible; I think it took about a season of Top Gear before I no longer had to rewind certain portions or listen very actively to understand what was being said.


I'm kind of the same when watching Shakespeare. Takes about 10 minutes and then my brain snaps into the right mode to more easily follow what is being said.




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