The film itself received generally favorable reviews, and DiCaprio was praised for the authenticity of his South African Afrikaner accent, known as a difficult accent to imitate.
Participants from Mendip highlighted that they found foreign accents difficult to understand on the phone and often had to ask them to repeat themselves which they felt would prove difficult.
Our partner Joel from the NGO Caritas was generous enough to drive us to Ayilo and act as a "translator" in case our accents were difficult to understand.
When the small team of gardeners who work with James Priest at Giverny in Upper Normandy wish to ignore one of his more pedantic instructions, they simply tell him his accent makes him difficult to understand.
On the other hand, I pointed out, he's an immigrant, he's unemployed, he's seeking incapacity benefit and council accommodation, and his heavily accented English is difficult to understand at times.
Accents can be difficult to understand, especially if you haven't spoken with an individual before, and especially without the critical cues from facial and body movements that make in-person communication so much more effective.
"I reported back to my then-bosses that, although I thought he was an absolutely brilliant political journalist and the nicest person in the world, I didn't think we should employ him as the on-air political editor because people would simply find it too difficult to understand his accent," he said on Friday.
The combination of the patient's multifunctional decline (hearing, vision, cognition, etc) and doctors who spoke the patient's language with an accent made it especially difficult to understand medical information.
Everybody speaks English in the interviews, but the accents can be very difficult to understand.
Accent -- Do you have an accent that makes it difficult for people to understand you or might bias them against you?
Kashif had assured her that he would be right there, was a minute away, although she also said that he had an accent that was difficult for her to understand.
