Americans and their pronounciations

[Bwat]

Trent Hamilton nails it in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC8pFgaQR90

[david johnson]

HA! This reminds me of my home area. All sodas are 'cokes'. At a concession stand, as a child, I would go up to the counter and say, "I want a coke."
"What kind?" was the query.
"A Dr. Pepper...or RC...or Pepsi" ...chuckle

[kehaulani]

I'm from Hawai'i. You should hear that dialect. Not only English but from other Asian and Pacific languages/dialects.

I also did some English teaching in Germany. Most could understand formal German but more regionally, sometimes locally, there are different dialects.

One night (in Germany) on a band break, I heard two guys talking and didn't understand a word they were saying. I told a friend, "Sometimes I have a problem understanding you Saarlanders (I was from the Rheinland-Pfalz) but what the heck are those guys saying?"

My friend said, "Oh, they're from a small village and even we can't understand them."LOL
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[quote="kehaulani"]I'm from Hawai'i. You should hear that dialect. Not only English but from other Asian and Pacific languages/dialects.

I also did some English teaching in Germany. Most could understand formal German but more regionally, sometimes locally, there are different dialects.

One night (in Germany) on a band break, I heard two guys talking and didn't understand a word they were saying. I told a friend, "Sometimes I have a problem understanding you Saarlanders (I was from the Rheinland-Pfalz) but what the heck are those guys saying?"

My friend said, "Oh, they're from a small village and even we can't understand them."LOL[/quote
My wife grew up in Honolulu and I spend about 4-6 weeks there every year. Hawaiian Pidgin takes a while to understand. Some words crept into my vocabulary over the years. We had an intern at the last school I taught at who asked me one day if I was from Hawaii. Turns out she lived in Honolulu for 10 years. Apparently I said something that was Hawaiian Pidgin.
One year we had a resident artist come in to teach the kids hula. She was one hundred percent Native Hawaiian. That’s becoming a rare thing these days.
The minute she opened her mouth I turned to my teaching partner and said that this woman wasn’t from Hawaii. I could tell by her way of speaking. I spoke to her later and said that I could tell she wasn’t from Hawaii. She laughed and said she was born and raised in Southern California. She asked me how I knew and told her she had no Pidgin accent. She didn’t sound like any of my wife’s cousins!

[kehaulani]

I was at a mall in Mississippi and saw a guy who looked Hawaiian so I talked to him. My wife later said, "I heard you ask, 'You from Hawai'i?' and he said 'Yes' and that was the last thing I understood". LOL
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