is there a so difficult English accent that genuine native speaker can't understa

[Jamilion]

Is there a so difficult English accent that genuine native speaker can't understand it?
If the answer is positive, what is that accent, or whos accent is that?.

I wish I find an answer for this question..

Thank you.
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[Kitosdad]

Good morning Jam, most English people have great difficulty in understanding Scots and Irish folk.
Each have strong dialects and both speak very quickly. Of course there are many Scots and Irish who speak perfectly good English.

Kitos.
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[Alan]

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Hi,

Try this for size and guess the accent I'm trying!!

Alan
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[Blue113]

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Hi,

I was trying what we would call broad Scots.

Alan
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Hi,

What I meant was: The other day upon the stair/I met a man who wasn't there/He wasn't there again today/Oh how I wish he'd go away.

You want that higher pitched?

Here goes.
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[Blue113]

"The other day upon the stair/I met a man who wasn't there/He wasn't there again today/Oh how I wish he'd go away." - Doesnt make sense to me. Dude's schizophrenic or something?

Lol the high pitched one was funny Alan, thanks for being such a good sport.

[Hollandhaggis]

I wouldn't agree with Kito's statement that "most English people have great difficulty in understanding Scots and Irish folk."
Some English people have some difficulty in understanding some Scots or Irish people ( my uncle, whose very gutteral Glasgow accent stays with him always, is incredibly hard to understand).
Most Scots speak very good English. However, most regions of Scotland have their own dialect.
Dialect refers to differences in accent, grammar and vocabulary among different versions of a language.

In my student days I lived just north of Aberdeen in north-east Scotland .A neighbour's young son, who spoke perfect Standard English when he wanted to, taught me many local expressions in Doric, that distinctive dialect of the region.

Among them ( still with me after more years than I care to remember !) were ..

"Loons and quines" .... " Boys and girls " .

"Foo's yer neeps ? " "Chavvin awa " ..... " How are things with you? " "Just great."

Michael's father was a farm worker at a big farm just up the road, owned by a woman. She gave Michael a real 'telling-off ' for addressing me in the local dialect.
She said that it was 'disrespectful ' !!

My mother, brought up in Bathgate in central Scotland, 100 miles south, couldn't understand Michael when he spoke in his local dialect.
Nor would many English people manage. ... but would they understand if they were addressed in his local dialect by a Geordie from North East England ? I doubt it !

Dialect is an important part of the cultural heritage of the British Isles.
It is not slang as Blue113 seems to think ...
" throw away their slang terms and unique ways of constructing their sentences ".

Yes, some accents are difficult to understand but please don't confuse a Scottish accent ( which I have ) with a regional dialect ! HH

[Bulone]

[Jamilion]

Very interesting
Thank you all for your important informations even if your opinions were somehow contrdictive about the accents which may be the most difficult.. but now I'm sure there are...

and that is good and bad thing for students, good because that bears 'for example' some of our foreign accent as foreign speakers. and bad because we don't know sometimes, if the problem was coming from our understanding or from the accent while we listen to one of that difficult accents. but I think we have to be faraway from those accents at present ,so as not to fall in their hole...
But so far, I'm convinced that I'm driving on the highway to the pure English language here!
furthermore I'm not against learning all the accents or a part of each one of them, because I'm very sure that each one of them is interesting and worthy to be learnt.

Jam..
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[Torsten]

[Jamilion]

Ah!, thank you for your new information
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[Torsten]

And we usually put a full stop (period) at the end of a sentence.

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[Jamilion]