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   GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) (greenskyoverme@ohai.social)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Apr-2025 01:23:36 JST GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

   We had British English in year 5-7 and 9, US English in year 8 and 10, whatever we wanted in 11-13 and I spent a year in the US between 11 and 12.

   My English language pronunciation/accent is a mess.

   I recently tried to work on unifying it towards US English. After all I use US spelling, too.

   But maybe with the US going down and becoming unvisitable maybe I should have chosen British English.

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     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) (greenskyoverme@ohai.social)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Apr-2025 02:58:15 JST GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

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     • Aurin Azadî

     @atarifrosch I’m not really into watching stuff in English. If it’s available in German I watch it in German. With English subtitles if it’s originally English.

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     Aurin Azadî (atarifrosch@mastodon.de)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Apr-2025 02:58:17 JST Aurin Azadî

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     @GreenSkyOverMe My English pronounciation formed by watching movies and series (mostly) from US, so … 😉

     But I find it really helpful, so I can understand a lot of different ways to speak English, from lots of US dialects to British English to even most of Australian English.

     If the original language of a series/movie is English, I ignore the German audio track, even when ripping DVDs, and watch it in original only.

     The only show I really still have trouble understanding is The Expanse. No, not the accent of the „Belters“, but the way one of the main characters speaks. I guess I have to watch it several more times to get that, too.

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