question for non native English speakers

[Hollock]

Backstory: yay! I just came home from seeing Harry Potter with two friends, one of whom is from France. She said she had trouble understanding because of their accents. And whenever we watch something with these accents (the British accents). The same goes for another French speaker I know (only this ones from the Ivory Coast) So my question to you is which accent is harder to understand the American accents or the British accents? And what's your native language. I've never heard of this before so I want the scoop. For added fun you can put what language/accent you personally have trouble dealing with.

 

[10zack986]

As an American, I sometimes find it hard to understand English accents, sometimes to the point of having to put on subtitles for certain shows or movies. Sometimes it's easy, sometimes it's like Brad Pitt in Snatch.

 

[Eloyas]

I'm going with your friends on this: British accents are a lot harder to understand than american ones.

Maybe it's because i'm a french speaking canadian and so we share some north american similarities in our accents?

 

[Zeema]

Well im from Russia studying English Italian and Latin but i found the Brits have the better accent to understand and i really like the lingo.

 

[Something Amyss]

Strangely enough , french. My native language is spanish.

One of my friends is a native Spanish speaker who has a terrible time with French.

 

[Amaury_games]

I'm from Brazil (Brazilian Portuguese would be my native language - Yeah, it's that different from Portugal's Portuguese).

It might be because of the many shows, games, TV Series and stuff, but I think I can understand pretty well American and British English. However, I have a hard time with Irish and Australian (that doesn't stop me from watching Zero Punctuation, though! XD). I probably don't understand very well people from Scotland also (to me, they sound as if they have something in their mouth and speak through their teeth).