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[–] Jakylla@jlai.lu 2 points 5 days ago

À propos du Français, en tant que natif du sud-ouest de la France:

L'accent Québecois. Avec un peu d'entrainement ça se comprend bien, mais quand on a pas l'habitude, c'est très difficile. (Mais c'est pas un "accent de mon pays" à proprement parler...)

L'accent du sud de la France est semble-t'il assez difficile à comprendre (selon mes amis du Nord). Au contraire, il est rare que je trouve des personnes du nord que je ne comprend pas (ou alors vraiment quand ils parlent patois). J'aurai peut être un peu de mal avec le Chti, mais j'en ai jamais entendu hors du film.


About French, as a south-western French person:

Quebec (Canada) accent. With a bit of practice it's ok. But when you're not used to it, it's very difficult. (But that is not one of my "Country"'s accents technically speaking)

Southern French accent seems to be somewhat difficult to understand (according to my northern-French friends). In reverse, I don't find a lot of northern people that I can't understand well (or only when they speak the local dialect/language). I may have troubles understanding "Chti" accent, but I never really heard of it outside of the movie (Welcome to the Sticks / "Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis")

[–] Grim@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 days ago

I don't think there is a single Swedish dialect that is hard to understand, but there sure are ugly sounding ones (looking at you, eastern gothian/östgötska).

[–] LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Geordie it's Newcastle, uk and it's hard.

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I, an American (sorry) work with a bunch of Geordies. Their accent took some getting used to!

[–] roserose56@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Maloks in Albania and the people from Tirana. Most of the time it's hard for me to understand what they say, so I say "yes, yes" or laugh when they laugh.

[–] Bonus@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago

This can be dangerous.

[–] Monkyhands@feddit.dk 4 points 1 month ago

I don't understand Sønderjysk at all - a regional accent in the south of Jutland in Denmark, near the border to Germany.

[–] Foni@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

Andaluz in spanish, not allways, but sometimes...

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago
[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

I visit Ireland every year, I REALLLY struggle to understand people from northern Ireland.

It often doesn't even sound like they're speaking English

[–] LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 2 points 4 weeks ago

I'm glad it's not just me!

[–] genau@europe.pub 2 points 4 weeks ago

Well, all of them. That's why we have the standard language which is foreign to just about everyone but at least it's common.

[–] Bonus@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Which European country is that ?

[–] Bonus@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

*everywhere in America nowadays