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How do i learn to understand AAVE better (hexbear.net)
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Im autistic and have a hard time parsing spoken language. Unfortunately the only jobs available to me are customer facing jobs. I have a very very hard time understanding black customers, to the point where i sometimes have to call other employees over to help them instead because i seriously cannot understand them. Having to ask a customer to repeat themselves 3 times and then just giving them a blank stare has made customers very angry with me before.

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[–] muddi@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

Idk if you're the same as me but I learn languages and lects better if I learn the etymology and phonological background. Wiktionary is surprisingly a good resource for this. There are also articles and videos on AAVE as someone else mentioned. If you're really into it, you could read some linguistics papers too

Also get black friends and learn from them, linguistic fieldwork is as important as theory