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What are some non-English speaking nationalities that would tend to sound rather articulate and facile when they speak English? And what about those that sound so coarse and incomprehensible?
I think Eastern Europeans and Scandinavians sound very intelligible when they speak English. I would understand them clearly.
I personally find an Asian-English, French-English or Indian-English accent hard to understand.
Yeah I'd say Swedes, Norwegians. Germans and Dutch, it depends, some sound more American or British, some more German. A lot of Asians and I'd say Hispanics sound the least 'native', though then again a lot of Americans would have more trouble understanding a lot of regional British accents than ESL accents.
Coincidentally I went travelling with a group of young travellers and there was a Danish girl who said my Australian accent was easier to understand than a couple of Brits who travelled with us. They had fairly standard SE English accents too. So there you go.
Arabic speakers seem to have little difficulty mastering all the phonemes of English, and get the rhythm right.
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