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I have the hardest time understanding Indians over the phone.  They seem to be the hardest for me.

I work with a lot of Indians and Chinese, and so I have become very good at adapting.  Sometimes, surprisingly, I have trouble with the Mexicans and some eastern Europeans.  Overall, though, I typically can understand pretty much everyone.

The only accent I ever really have any issues with is a heavy Scottish accent. I have one client on this list, and we've gone to email-only communication to save us both some time.

I do think that traveling around the world and picking up different languages goes a long way toward me being able to sift through most accents without any real problem.

In general, I'm pretty poor.  I am probably best with Spanish or Portuguese accents, and Eastern European is generally pretty OK for me too.

I had a friend who recently moved back to Finland. At first I had a very hard time with him. I'm not sure if I adapted or he did , but before he moved back everything was much easier to understand.

Ghetto and redneck.  My family is full of rednecks and I can't understand half of them.  When people talk really ghetto I have trouble understanding.

I have a client and son with a Cockney accent. (They sound like that movie, Snatch.) I can't understand a thing they say. However, I think they both say really filthy things to me because they always wink at me.

^^^ Cockney is very hard to understand.

Yeah. It's not just me because my boss doesn't catch anything either.

^^ i don't even know what that is....

Cockney is impossible, but it's not anything I've ever naturally run across.

It's a very specific British accent. This is one example I found: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBQxU8K1uJw
However, my clients are way, way worse.


There are actually quite a few in the yachting business, but as stated these two are the worse I've run across. It's like they are speaking an entirely different language.

^^^^ “Two peoples separated by a common language.”- George Bernard Shaw

haha Cockney....I had a drunk English friend straight off the boat and we used to go boozing all the time, man that guy was impossible to understand but he was so freaking hilarious i loved to just listen to him rant all nite long

I've run into a few jamaicans with those thick ass accents that have me trying to decipher every frickin word.

I have the hardest time with Asians.....anyone Chinese, Japanese, etc are almost impossible for me. I deal with a ton of Mexicans so I have actually adapted to that quite well.

I discovered tonight that I can't understand Dominicans if you paid me.  I was watching an interview with Hanley Ramirez and couldn't understand a word he said.  Same with David Ortiz.  And these guys speak pretty good English, but just the accent for me is so hard to understand.

Any accent. I'm half deaf, so I have a hard time with accents.