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   Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 08:06:35 JST Adrianna Tan

   I'm on the phone with a hotel in Singapore trying to clarify something about the booking and I couldn't understand the person at all.

   I was like 'maybe I"ve been away so long I don't understand the Singaporean accent anymore'

   But actually it is 'I don't understand French people who learned to speak English in Singapore and have a heavy French-Singlish accent' (I know more than 5 people like that. I don't understand them either)

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 08:56:12 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Alistair K

     @libroraptor possible!

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     Alistair K (libroraptor@mastodon.nz)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 08:56:13 JST Alistair K

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     @skinnylatte Interesting. I struggle to understand people speaking French with a Chinese accent, at least a northern-dialect accent. It hits the vowels in just the right way to maximise damage. I had the same difficulty with people speaking German with a Russian accent.

     I wonder whether there's some rule or table matching mother tongues to the second languages that bring about the biggest language-learning challenges?