Why Are Some English Speakers Hard To Understand?

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  Welcome to the Listening Time Podcast.

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  Hey everybody, this is Connor, and you're listening to episode 206 of the Listening Time Podcast.

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  I hope you're all doing great.

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  I hope that your English learning is going well and that your listening comprehension is improving.

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  Speaking of which, the topic of today's episode is why are some people hard to understand?

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  You're an English learner if you're listening to this podcast, so you might ask this question,

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  why are some people hard to understand when they speak English,

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  whereas other people are much easier to understand?

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  There are different reasons why this is,

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  but I think that one of the best explanations for this is...

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  the fact that we all have different idiolects.

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  So I talked about this recently with Brian in a US Conversations podcast episode.

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  I had him back on for another conversation.

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  It was my second conversation with him.

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  And he brought up this term idiolect.

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  And after that, I said,

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  I got to talk about this in an episode

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  because it's a really important thing to understand because so many people ask this question.

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  Why are two people who both speak English so different in terms of how easy or hard it is to understand them?

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  And this all really boils down to their different idiolecs.

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