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

[Kivan]

American, since I already studied in the USA and my entire life i watched American TV shows and played video-games with American English dub.

[FinalFlash]

Aren't you a native speaker of American English?

Yes I am.

[Tooting Carmen]

Yes I am.

Then the fact you find Americans generally easier to understand is essentially a moot point.

[Creoda]

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

https://vocaroo.com/

Say something in vocaroo, I'm curious what they confuse.

[FinalFlash]

Then the fact you find Americans generally easier to understand is essentially a moot point.

I get you but Britain seems to have some really strange local accents where it wouldn't surprise me at all if even Brits have trouble understanding.

[Ranger0075]

my listening and my reading are totally in different levels, I can read what they write or type but I cannot understand what they say. I believe I've created my own pronounce for the words I am typing that when I hear these same words as sounds for the first time it sounds totally different

[Rafael Passoni]

Brits.

[Suinthila]

Usually, I've realised, it depends on the speaker.

We're accostumed --at least I-- to listen to American English, through their movies, documentaries, speeches, etc.-- but sometimes American English is quite hard to understand --especially that one from some areas from the south.

On the other hand, the standard English pronunciation is quite understandable as well. Some other kind of English are harder.

[Hektor12]

I learned English firstly from an Aussie, so both British and American were harder to me at first. Before going to Norway for erasmus, i needed to improve my accent so i made listening sessions of British as people told me that Americans speak very fastly and its hard to understand. Deep into British, i didnt really like guttural stops and pronunciations in general sounded poor to me. I stopped studying in British and switched to American. Now after quite some time i understand American very well (even songs) and British sounds me a continental accent like Dutch. I still use British in writing but because of i live in Europe region and this region learns English from Brits.

Long story short, IMO both are equal level to understand and it depends on which one you hear more.

[Teutone]

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.

I hated the fact they teach us British English with the gay pronunciation, thank god 50,game and rick ross teached me more than school ever did. I used to hate British English, now I love chav English and the way the grime ppl talk, but hate upper class english.





Bottom line, I understand American English better, but im not good in English generally having verbal conversation.