Do foreign people ever have difficulty articulating slang?
474190
I am in the electronics business an have had dealings with many different cultures and languages.  The one thing I have been surprised with is how many people to whom English is a second( or third) language can have such great difficulty pronouncing words in English can perfectly pronoun slang and curse words.  For example, many Koreans I know cannot pronounce F's and P's correctly but can say Mother *ucker perfectly.  Interesting.
381983
Can you speak idiomatic English?
413527
who can tell you CLEARLY can't put proper sentences together?  I CAN!
1008789
The complex linguistic nature of language, especially english, being the most difficult language in the world to learn as a second language, makes it very difficult to create a program that determines whether a sentence makes sense, and given that a sentence can make sense to one person and not another makes it difficult to even define parameters within which the program would operate. I have made several mistakes in this answer alone, both grammatical and linguitically, but that is how I communicate, and the way that makes the most sense to me, despite the mistakes. Perhaps my individuality and uniqueness is expressed through my mistakes, and therefore to eliminate those mistakes would change my language tone and emphasis to becomeing more mainstream, all for the sake of being colloquially correct. I prefer to hang on to my unique mannerisms, precisely because they are warped and twisted. Thats me, expressing myself through the power of word and phrase, tone and emphasis.
1101934
♡Well, I'm sitting with a group of 8 Japanese (as I pretty much do once a week) and I asked them your Q just now. This is what they said ～　It's a little difficult for us to pronounce "R" as well as "L", "V", "TH" and a few other letters or combinations of letters because they are those letters/sounds that aren't used in our everyday Japanese. SOME of us aren't accustomed to forming the letter(s) with our mouths or making the correct sound. We're just not used to it so when SOME of us speak English, which is foreign to us, we have some difficulty. It's not on purpose! It would be the same for some "foreigners" trying to speak Japanese and using "tsu", "gyo", "ryu" and such, they just don't get it. Think about it. We stress SOME because many Japanese people don't have the problem and pronounce "R" and all sounds perfectly. ～～So Coffee, there you have it, straight from the mouths of Japanese, who all speak English exceptionally well I might add!♡
193446
Perhaps they can't spell?
173960
when i was younger i would call people and ask them if they ordered Chinese food and i would be talking with an accent and i would keep repeating words like i didn't understand English that well and it makes a lot of people mad. "yo odo chin nee foo yo nuba ***-**** oh yo odo chi nee foo chashew chicke flrie rrice. no?? yo odo no chi nee vety soty yo no odo chi nee foo today huh? ....." you get it right?
904680
No, it's not a physical difference.  It's the same reason that we English speakers have trouble "trilling" the 'r' in Spanish, Italian, etc.  It's a sound that we do not make in our native language.  It takes lots of practice to get our mouths to make the sound.
1116345
I'm sure a majority are non-native english speaking.  I find that in the gaming community as well.\n\nOne girl (I answered her question not to her liking) e-mailed me a long, rude and profane message and  informed me it's slang these days and perfectly acceptable to have poor grammer, spelling and sentence structure.  She knew how to spell and if she wanted to spell it that way she would.  If so, I wonder why they bother to put spell check available here?\n\nI hope I'm dead by the time they all take over the country.....
912332
It probably was a product of laziness at first but now, pronouncing your Ts sounds...like...cultured, and almost condescending. Only the most educated people will pronounce their Ts. I know, it's weird, but it's become culturally acceptable for the average American not to pronounce them.
1100963
Under certain circumstances, yes.  \n\nWith a few basic words of any foreign language one can communicate within the parameters which are covered by those words.\n\nShould I be in a Spanish speaking area, I can use my basic Spanish (maybe not even 200 words!) to find a restaurant, order  a meal, ask for and pay the bill, locate the Ladies' room, hail a taxi, go back to my hotel, pick up messages at the front desk, get some coffee and desert in the hotel coffee shop and to know which side to put facing outward on the door hanger so I am not disturbed in the morning.......\n\nIn the context of those defined and very limited circumstances my Spanish would probably serve me just fine.\n\nHowever I probably would NOT pick up on it if the taxi driver tried to hit on me, unless he used recognizable gestures....nor could I discuss the intricacies of Physics with the students in the coffee shop --- though I probably could figure out that they WERE students and studying Physics!\n\nLimited parameters aside, think I read somewhere that in order to have full communication in a language you would need to understand and speak somewhere around 2000 words in that language.  Good luck!\n\nI hope this answer helps!\n\nAlley
983379
Well, I wait a few moments to listen and figure how great their grasp on my language really is.  Appearances may deceive.\nYes, I'll speak slower (since I go fast easily) and more deliberate, and definitely use proper English (no slang, sometimes no contractions, and generic terms).  \nI might ask them to teach me something from their language (thank you, or hello, or some blessing).\nSounds like your husband provides a little entertainment!
180123
The main problem with imitating someone's accent to get them to understand you more is that you are presupposing that you are going to be able to make the same sounds that they make in their original language that is making it harder for them to pronounce English, for example, perfectly.\n\nThick accents can be difficult to understand at first, but if you get used to someone's manner of speaking you can understand what they say very clearly.  Therefore, its only an impatient person would would think that accents are a total bar to communication... what if you were stuck in their country and tried to communicate?  You wouldn't want to be dismissed because you couldn't speak perfectly?
1160668
NO never......but when I was in Germany.....and knew very little GOOD German.  THEY would laugh and point and make gestures.\n\nI made it my GOAL to learn German to smile and reply politely to anything negative that may have been said.  When I did learn it.....I found that most of what they were saying and pointing at where the interesting clothes I was wearing or my jewelry.  \n\nDifferent circumstance......but oh so similar.....don't you think!
456661
some people really can't spell. others, as I tend to do sometimes, just don't feel like using correct grammar and punctuation when the message can get across by using slang or a homemade version of shorthand.
787004
i'd help them and assist them on the grammar and suggest ways they can improve on their english. just as long as they say a few simple words, i can usually understand what they are saying. sometimes, when i'm in central london i have tourists, who don't speak perfect english, come up to me and asking me to take a photo of them and i oblige. as for people, such as those who come to settle down in britain from other countries, who don't speak it well, i do commend them for trying, and yes i appreciate people who make the effort, whilst not patronising or being nasty to people of other cultures. it goes to show they are willing to learn and are prepared to learn a language, just so they can become better and all-round communicators and learners. i know that for some english is difficult- but it's never impossible. with practice and persistent learning, anyone and everyone can speak and pronounce english extremely well
607270
All living languages have a slang. But I strongly disagree that slang bastardises a language. Quite on the contrary, it enriches it. Certain ideas cannot possibly be accurately said without using slang. For example, try using any expression in academic English to say "son of a bítch". Anything you find will be a washed-out version of the original expression.