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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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Me.

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

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

no one cos tehy talk gibberish!!

Henry Kissinger

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.

Rab C Nesbitt.

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

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.

Billy Connolly in his early days.

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.

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.

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?

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

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.