Non-native English-speakers: do you generally find Brits or Americans easier to understand?

[Tooting Carmen]

American English is far easier to understand, even when you account for regional accents.

And ethnic ones too, like AAVE and Chicano?

[Rumata]

American English is far easier to understand, even when you account for regional accents.

Aren't you a native speaker of American English?

[Graham]

I find more Europeans speaking in an American English twang than in any English accent unless they move to the UK.

[Tooting Carmen]

I find more Europeans speaking in an American English twang than in any English accent unless they move to the UK.

True, I think American English is easier to imitate for foreigners.

[Norb]

when I visit foreign Countries and they hear me speak English they think that I'm Australian

[Östsvensk]

I would say both in equal measure, except that I do not get British lingo much. i have heard of Americans having to turn on the subtitles when watching Snatch or Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. It was not much of a problem for me. Not until Brad Pitt started to speak in Snatch did I start having real problems.

I use American pronunciation when I speak English. Some teachers in Sweden disapprove or are not too much fond of that, apparently. The curriculum is supposed to be British English. I've been told that it sounds ear bleeding for Brits when somebody not native makes an attempt at speaking Received Pronunciation, though.

[michal3141]

For me it more depends on a person who is speaking.
Generally I would say both in equal measure.

[Parça do Neymar]

A lot of cognates sound more similar (to Portuguese) in British English (banana or zebra, to name two), but I have a much easier time understanding American English, courtesy of their entertainment media (TV shows, movies, videogames, etc).

[Mejgusu]

My class teacher was British, she always spoke in English, because of that i understood British more than American for years. After watching series and YouTube vids i can nicely understand American too.

[HelloGuys]

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