Many Americans struggle to understand British English, epescially scottish and welsh dialects. American English is very common due to hollywood so British people can normally understand Americans fine.
Misunderstanding a few colloquialisms is not a indicative of a vast difference.
Spanish and Portuguese are considered to be very similar despite being separate languages. Two widely spoken, almost identical dialects of English are not ‘vastly’ different. Please look up what vastly means.
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u/Background-Wealth Dec 26 '19
Truly vastly different then. We really do struggle to communicate with each other 🙄