Is it hard to understand when people speak your native language with an accent?
I live in Thailand and we have many kind of accents, for example, northern accent, southern accent, north-east accent and general accent.
People from difference part of Thailand may called something differently. I sometime have trouble to understand what they said.
I know that American English and British English has subtle differences. If people from other part of your country talk with you, did you ever have a hard time to understand what they sad? (Maybe some words, or idioms)
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Are you talking about native speakers with different accents or people learning my language as a second language?
Generally I'd say it depends on how different the speaker's accent is from what I'm used to. I think I could understand most educated people from the United States or cities in England and Africa and Australia and India, but people from more rural parts of other countries might be harder for me to understand.
And second language learners are a whole different story. I generally understand Chinese and Indian people well if they're speaking in English, but some Eastern European accents are hard for me to understand.
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If guess this happens in all kind of languages =)
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