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I think it's extraordinarily difficult for American authors to write British or for British authors to write American and do so with total conviction. But there are, of course, exceptions where people have lived in the other country for a long time.
While I am quite happy with reading American writing I do have trouble understanding some spoken American dialects. I was recently watching a DVD of series 1 of The Wire. I thought it was exceptionally good, but at the beginning I could barely understand anything the black characters were saying. My daughter suggested switching subtitles on, and it made all the difference. |It would not have occurred to me that I might need subtitles for something in English. I understand, however, that Americans often need subtitles for films from England.
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