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Originally Posted by tiuxiu
Plenty of other reasons people might not want to retire there but communication is solvable.
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Maybe. Tonal languages can be a huge challenge to those with worse than average hearing. Visayan is tonal. I've had a couple filipinas say the three different pronounciations of the same four letters (dile). Each pronounciation gives the word a different meaning. For the life of me, I am unable to hear the difference. I know I have a slight hearing problem. Volume is fine, I have trouble with distinguishing things in a specific frequency range.
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