關於英式同美式英文

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hi friend. I have the exact same problem with I first came to the US for college 7 years ago. Even I studied in a English secondary school in HK, I still find it difficult to understand what people are saying and people have difficulty understanding what I am trying to say. And I was in Texas too, and Texas people have heavy southerners accent.

Even 7 years later and I have already started working, people in the office still say I have a little bit of british accent. I think the key to this is, you have to talk to american more and then you will be able to pick up their accent and your language skills will improve. Try to think and talk more in English so that one day words will flow out of your mouth without the translating the thoughts in your mind.

There are a lot of slangs in the US depending where you are living and it's hard to teach you specific ones. To be honest with you, you only learn it through everyday interaction. There are a few examples:
in texas: Howdy.... means how are you?
let's get it roll'n... meaning let's get it started.

The your final part about pronoucation. I have the issue R.... I cant really roll my tongue until today. I think if you say more you will get used to it. The more practice you gets the better. I think now it's ok for me to say words with the R sound in it like Rolling, Repeat, etc, but I know it deep inside me that if I am just saying R it's a bit weird. But it's also a mothertongue thing too. So don't worry about it too much.

If you can understand 80% is already good la... give yourself sometime and you will speak more and more like an american.