thickest accent ever

Shrykull · Post by **Shrykull** » 2004-02-07 07:51pm

What's the thickest accent you've ever come across from someone? Mine was this Carribean woman and while she only spoke English I couldn't make out a word she was saying usually.

For any of you non-americans, have you ever had trouble understanding a thick american accent, to the point where you could hardly even make it out at all?

Pablo Sanchez · Post by **Pablo Sanchez** » 2004-02-07 07:53pm

One of my cousins has a very thick accent when speaking English, but I can understand him just fine. None of my friends understood a word of it, however.

The thickest accent I've seen on a celebrity is Colin Farrel

Zac Naloen · Post by **Zac Naloen** » 2004-02-07 07:54pm

a scots man i met a while back... they don't speak english.

i've met someone with a pretty thick welsh accent as well, thats also difficult to understand.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2004-02-07 07:54pm

A few months back they were showing this Scottish film on some channel, and I absolutely could not make out what they were saying. It was like listening to a foreign language.

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2004-02-07 07:55pm

Some east European guy, it was English but I could only understand every 3rd or 4th word. I had no idea what the hell he was bitching about (he sounded quite angry and was doing lots of hand gestures) so I just pawned him off on my boss.

Xenophobe3691 · Post by **Xenophobe3691** » 2004-02-07 08:32pm

Those God Damned Pikies in Snatch. Who the hell understands them?!?

Post by **fgalkin** » 2004-02-07 08:34pm

Me.

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

Zac Naloen · Post by **Zac Naloen** » 2004-02-07 08:35pm

Xenophobe3691 wrote:Those God Damned Pikies in Snatch. Who the hell understands them?!?

no one cos tehy talk gibberish!!

Straha · Post by **Straha** » 2004-02-07 08:43pm

Henry Kissinger

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2004-02-07 09:22pm

my second fiance was a glaswegian. I couldn't understand a feckign word she said the first week i knew her. IMHO the people of glasgow speak a new language.

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2004-02-07 09:27pm

Rab C Nesbitt.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2004-02-07 09:28pm

I could actually under stand Rab. He was mostly drunk and i have an ear for one of my own kind.

The Aliens · Post by **The Aliens** » 2004-02-07 10:50pm

Any random Glasweigan. They were talking behind me in the pie-shop and I couldn't make out a single word, and my family are all geordies.

Post by **Gandalf** » 2004-02-08 12:06am

Billy Connolly in his early days.

El Moose Monstero · Post by **El Moose Monstero** » 2004-02-08 12:14am

My uncle, I can understand people from glasgow, I can understand my aunt and uncle in Edinburgh, the Uncle in Aberdeen however, with a highland brogue? Nope. Not one bloody word. I was trying to find out how I should be lacing up the kilt socks, and he was trying to explain it, but we gave up after he tried asking me how I was doing and I couldnt understand a word of it. Then again, I'm not much of a phone person and we hardly ever see the Aberdeen part of the family, so maybe I'm not entirely to blame.

Johonebesus · Post by **Johonebesus** » 2004-02-08 12:38am

I once met this fellow from New Jersey. He didn't have a very strong accent in and of itself; it was a very generic Northerner Latin accent. However, he spoke so fast that I could only catch about 50% of his words. I have never heard anyone speak English so quickly outside of an auction.

SyntaxVorlon · Post by **SyntaxVorlon** » 2004-02-08 02:59am

I've spent lots and lots of time in the carribean and I can feel my way through patois pretty easily, but sometimes just the british accent can through me really late at night or early in the morning.
The most unplacable accent by far is Carl Sagans. WHERE THE HELL did he get that accent?

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2004-02-08 03:31am

There was this Vietnamese dude in one my college classes, nobody ever understood what he said in English. Even other Vietnamese people.

Dahak · Post by **Dahak** » 2004-02-08 07:33am

Generally, I have more problems understanding American accents than British ones.

One of my lectures is held by a Russian guy. While he is hard to understand in German, it is well nigh impossible to do so when he talks English...

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2004-02-08 03:48pm

Dahak wrote:Generally, I have more problems understanding American accents than British ones.

One of my lectures is held by a Russian guy. While he is hard to understand in German, it is well nigh impossible to do so when he talks English...

Are you able to tell the difference between American accents?

ie) Someone from New York vs California?

Just curious, I met a girl in class once who was from Vietman. She was ethnically chinese so spoke both Vietnamese, Cantonese, and English fluently.
But she had a lot of trouble understanding people from the south, blacks, and new yorkers. It was an interesting learning experience because I know other places have accents just like we do, but to me all German sounds the same.

Singular Quartet · Post by **Singular Quartet** » 2004-02-08 03:52pm

Japanese teacher. First month I had her class, no one understood a word she said, except for the three kids who were repeating it. I have never had a problem with accents since then.

Post by **Dalton** » 2004-02-08 04:45pm

Thickest accent I ever came across was actually from a black guy working in a bowling alley. It wasn't a foreign accent; rather, it seemed to be straight from Harlem. I couldn't understand any of it.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-02-08 04:48pm

sometimes i've had trouble understanding jamaicans who have only recently learned english. i just couldn't get what they were saying through their accents.

Vendetta · Post by **Vendetta** » 2004-02-08 05:08pm

Of all the people I speak to who actually use English as a first language, the Irish.

Perfectly ordinary words rendered completely incomprehensible.

And you try taking some bugger's address... Especially if it's only specific to what county they live in...

Techno_Union · Post by **Techno_Union** » 2004-02-08 05:31pm

The neurologist I go to is Arabian, I could not understand a word he was trying to say. He wanted me to touch my nose and remember something about a house and a pen (some tests I had to do, not sure why), but he would tell me something about the house and the pen and I would have to remember it, I could understand him so I was constantly going, "uh", "what", "I'm sorry say that again", hopefully my migraine medicine is what I am supposed to be taking.