Why do I have a difficult time understanding the dialogues in Dear you?
Just watched it this weekend and was completely blown away; was expecting some boring drama but it turned out to be probably be the best movie i watched in the last 10 years and this is coming from someone who hate drama.
With that said i had had difficult time understanding their speech which surprised me a bit since I can communicate with my parents and relatives np.
Background, my family is from Vietnam both parents are teochew ancestry. We speak 100% teochew growing up in the US. even my extended family which there is a lot all speak with the similar accent, cadence, etc.. so i thought i was prepared to understand it however i would say i probably can only undertand about 50%. I do have to say tough that when my dad speaks to the elders he does sound quite different..
might potentially be a dumb question but im just scratching my head because is not like our family was isolated for multiple generation. My grandparents are from China so how could the struture and accent change so drastically?
thanks in advance fellow teochew redditors!