Quote Originally Posted by Justiciar
I was speaking to the Greek fellow that owns a restraunt down the road about the same thing a couple of days ago. He claims he can't tell the difference between American English and British English.. on reflection, I can't blame him. The differences aren't that great.
That's what I think, it's only easy for fluent or even native speakers of the language to tell the difference between two accents. I for example couldn't tell the difference between Spanish spoken by a Spanish person and Spanish spoken by a Mexican (except for the pronunciation of z's and c's, which is like a th sound in Castilian but not in Latin American).