Not always. Just sometimes. Hence the "when." lol. And I don't know about tourists from other countries, but when American tourists come over to Fiji and they're in a conversation or asking me something, I literally have to quicken my mind up to the pace because if I don't I'd be totally lost.
When I encounter conversations with some American exchange students, I have to keep asking them to repeat themselves every other sentence 'cause they're either speaking too fast for me to understand or the way they're pronouncing words isn't the way I'm used to hearing them. I always think that they'll get mad but two times out of two, they say that a lot of other people (probably just in Fiji) ask them to speak slower because of their accents.
When I encounter conversations with some American exchange students, I have to keep asking them to repeat themselves every other sentence 'cause they're either speaking too fast for me to understand or the way they're pronouncing words isn't the way I'm used to hearing them. I always think that they'll get mad but two times out of two, they say that a lot of other people (probably just in Fiji) ask them to speak slower because of their accents.
June 13th, 2012 at 01:42am