Anybody else having trouble understanding other people?

I have troubles with movies. Not just in English that is my second language but also my native language. Most new movies have terrible sound.

Most of the time I do have a difficult time understanding people. You're a drummer? No wonder you have a difficult time understanding people.

Being an eloquent speaker needs lots of practice..

Living in a world where no one talks much any more and everyone is on their digital devices has really had a negative impact of peoples ability to speak with clarity..

Maybe you should visit an ENT just in case, to see if there’s something they could do to improve that for you

Ever since I was a child due to a viral infection.
Mostly in the right ear and it’s really annoying getting the sounds of words mixed up 😖
Hearing aides can’t correct it and over the years I come to rely on reading lips a little.
Closed captioning is wonderful 🙌
Might want to visit an audiologist though to get things checked. I still go for tests every few years.

I’m an alien , I’m a legal alien ~ sting 🐝

Yep, bad case of tinnitus from gun and artillery fire. It's soooooooo frustrating.

YEs I think I'm going a bit deaf, sounds like everyone is mumbling lol

I do - the edge has gone off my hearing (ageing and past noise exposure), and my ears sometimes wax up.

It can make conversation within my own circle in a busy place hard to follow.

Even when I can hear everything else well, the least coherent speech I hear is in film-clips played in reviews on the radio. They are dreadful: fast talking in quiet voices, the words often slurred even through the characters are not drunk (as far as I know), and largely submerged in excessively high backgound noise levels, including sometimes music that need not be there at all.

I've also heard advertisements on commercial radio stations, and not only is the message itself usually inane as you'd expect, but the "small print" at the end is read as a garbled burble of neither use nor ornament.

I don't know what to say. Perhaps drop the expectation to understanding them. The ones who you are meant to listen, you will be able to listen to, and the rest... well.

I too have a hard time sometimes understanding others and others understanding me as well. I try to get better in my articulation and also try to not be ashamed to ask few times for what I didn't understand.

Many people respond with "huh?". I just walk off. My tinnitus is from the military.