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by StavrosK 3541 days ago
I just found out about him, and his videos look very interesting, but the way he talks (the timings/accent/stresses) make me completely unable to focus on the content because I keep focusing on the speech. Does anyone else get that?
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He made English subtitles for his videos for this reason -- even the ones in English.
Oh, no, he's perfectly intelligible, it's just that the specific accent/tone variations he uses are a bit peculiar, so I fixate on them.
Opposite for me but I am a nordic ESL speaker myself.
I think my problem is how he pronounces the "r". It sounds a bit off-place with the rest of the accent being rather Finnish.