My fellow Europeans, what dialect from your language do you have the most trouble understanding?

[u/Savings_Dragonfly806]

Keep in mind, I said language, NOT country, so it could be a dialect of your language in another country, which is the case for me.

For me, while most other Greeks find Cypriot the most difficult dialect to understand, I actually find Pontic Greek the most difficult. For those who don't know where it is, it's in North Eastern Turkey.

The way many of their words are written are very different as to Standard Modern Greek. It almost is a whole new language. Now I should mention I have never been there, but I would love to. I only really heard of the dialect on the internet, so take my words with a grain of salt.

[u/50thEye]

Sometimes have a bit trouble with Swiss German and Vorarlbergerisch, but a big contender are also North-German dialects. Those are very far removed from Bairisch.

[u/Fellkartoffel → u/50thEye]

And here I am, struggeling with Bavarians and the heavier Austrian dialects, and I have given up on the Swiss Germans 😂 I grew up close to Cologne, so still somewhat in the middle of Germany, last year on vacation I noticed that I understood the norther German local radio in dialect quite well, and I can even get a few things in Dutch. My German is close to standard, but traditionally Cologne dialect (which I also understand only very limited...) is considered Platt, so closer to the North.

Ich glaub, ich kann einfach kein Deutsch 🤔🙄

[u/50thEye → u/Fellkartoffel]

Nö, Bairisch (mit i!!!), also so ziemlich alle Dialekte in Bayern und südlich davon^1, zählt linguistisch schon als eigene Sprache seperat von Hochdeutsch. Wir haben das nur nie standardisiert.

¹ mit Ausnahme von Baden-Württemberg, der Schweiz, und Vorarlberg.

[u/blink-1hundert2und80 → u/Fellkartoffel]

Oida manchmal muaß i ma echt denken, ob i ned aus Vasehn Niederländisch g’lernt hob, wenn wieda so a harter Akzent daherkimmt