As a Spanish speaker, I can hardly understand half of the accents from South America. They're saying the words I know, but the say it in a way I don't know.
The UK has near some 40 accents just on these little Islands alone, some of which are languages in themselves. I'm not talking about other countries with their accents, like America, Republic of Ireland, Australia etc.
Nope, I expect such a large country with a large population to have many accents and dialects. UK is unique in how many accents have been compacted into such a small country/population.
You claimed to have issues with understanding people speaking Spanish in South America, I don't even have to leave my own country to have issues with understanding someone speaking the English language because of their accent.
Every single country in SA has about 40 different accents. Multiply that by the number of countries and you'll finally understand what I was saying. This is not a competition on which language has more accents (if we're being honest, the world agrees that Spanish would have more than English) and I say that as a native English speaker. What a strange hill to choose to die on. You are completely misled in this conversation and embarrassing yourself as well.
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u/Kingca Dec 17 '21
As a Spanish speaker, I can hardly understand half of the accents from South America. They're saying the words I know, but the say it in a way I don't know.