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Originally Posted by lapiz  My teacher of phonetics say that The British accent is the most understandable one. |
I'd say that what your teacher of phonetics is
really saying is that the British accent is the most understandable for him/her and that he/she personally has difficulty with the "American sound".
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I once had to teach a group of beginners and, because I'm American and their coursebook and accompanying tapes were also "American", the pronunciation they heard in class was initially strictly American.
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When we were about halfway through the course book, I decided to start doing some listening exercises with British pronunciation. The particular course book that was being used had both British and American versions, so I simply brought the "British" cassette with me one day. My students promptly commented on how odd the speech sounded and complained that they could hardly understand anything the speakers said. They had very little trouble understanding the American tape because that's the sound they'd learned up to that point.
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I rest my case. 8)
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