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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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[–] Tachanka@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

movies are not very good for this imo. There's this I wanna call it "white-facing AAVE" (I don't know if there's a more scholarly term for it) that media uses that's sort of halfway between the real thing and the standard transatlantic white media dialect. It's to give "authenticity" without being "scary." I find that this is especially true for Caribbean dialects, which are way harder to understand in real life than they are in movies.

@OP: There's this youtube channel, CharlieBo313. His videos are kinda sensationalist in that the titles are always in all caps and trying to hammer home how dangerous the neighborhood is, etc, etc. But if you really want to hear street interviews with people casually speaking their regional dialects, it's a pretty good resource.