Do Poles have a problem understanding American English?

My style of writing is literate and my words well chosen. Kindly don't project your own mediocre English writing if it doesn't measure up to my level!

Your English actually isn't half bad, I must admit. There are mistakes however. You presumably aren't an English teacher, so you're "forgiven".

Well, I would call it modesty.


I'm sorry, Ziemowit, but it's you who must have a "superiority complex" if you thought that such basic things had to be explained to people here.


What's wrong, Ziemowit? Is it getting on your nerves? :)
Because that's what Wlodzimierz is doing in almost every language thread on this forum. Do you realise that?


Nope, I'm writing about it only in this thread :) And only because Wlodzimierz doubted my ability in discerning whether someone is speaking English with an accent or not and whether I can say if someone is saying "w" or "v" when speaking English lol

So I wanted him to realise that there are other people beside him who maybe have some gift of pronouncing and hearing things right :)


What am I obsessing over exactly? :D


lol
That's what I'm talking about :) You seem quite full of yourself.
My English writing will always be "mediocre" in comparisment to that of the native speakers.
However, I can see a difference between your style of writing and of all the native speakers of English on this forum.
For someone it may be "literate with words well chosen", for others it may be pretentious and irritating - I don't really care about that.

All I'm saying is - considering that your writing style isn't typical for many native speakers of English, it's simply unfair on your part to judge the style of non-native speakers of English so harshly and call it "primitive".


Why thank you, kind sir, you're simply too gracious lol

Listen, Wlodzimierz, I think you're an OK person in general, there are worse people than you on this forum lol, I have no grudge against you. It's just that obsession of yours and your attitude is irritating. I think you should, as we say in Poland, "spuścić trochę z tonu" and maybe even people will start talking to you in their native languages ;)

Do Poles have a difficult time understanding Americans when they speak English? Specifically, do they think Americans speak too fast?

It depends who's speaking. Especjally I love this Louisianas accent :) I had problem with it.

I think so. That is why, when I want to lift my students` spirits about learning ESL, I recommend or even play for them some videos with British politicians who speak in the Parliament. Or even the Queen herself. My students are thrilled coz they understand almost everything.

youtu.be/rv5t6rC6yvg

I do simply because I am used to listening to Britush English and I am not used to listening to American English. But I love reading books on America and American history!

Me too!

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To me nothing beats nice British English. It's so clear...But then you go to UK, walk the streets and find out that not many people on the streets speak like that....

But I guess it would work in similar way with American English.

Try listening to American Black English sometime.

They didn`t graduate from Tonbridge, Eton, Cambridge, Oxford etc.

Yeah this is a prime example of American lexical abiguuuiiiittttyyys .

"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo"

Yeah that's right this is a example of American english

WOW, books of my youth! But I've never known of that one. I am familiar with this one:

I read all parts of Tomek Wilmowski series, some of them a few times. This one above was the most boring of all and I read it only once.Szklarski`s Native American saga was much more interesting.

Have you read any of Wiesław Wernic's books on the Wild American West?

Yes, the only one which I found in our home library, sth about Wichita Falls. Not bad, I think I read it twice.

Mainly due to regional dialects.


Neither did I, but I do speak clearly. Poles have said in the past that they can easily understand what I'm saying, but I think that's because I don't have any trace of a dialect. I think anyone who isn't from the UK is going to find it hard work listening to a geordie, mancunian, brummie, for example.

So, my last chance: St Paul's Girls' School and UCL. hahaha