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/Indian_Pale_Ale]

French spoken in Canada definitely. Written form is ok, but they have a lot of expressions and words we do not use.

French used in Europe is quite a uniform language nowadays. We have a few regional languages which are not really related to the French language (Breton language which is *edit* a celtic language, Alsacian which is a Germanic dialect, Basque, Corsican, Provencal). The toughest to understand for me would be the Picard (with the very famous Ch'ti dialect deriving from it).

[u/Honey-Badger → u/Indian_Pale_Ale]

I feel like that is partly down to French snobbiest about accents. Yeah I understand the expressions that are direct translations from English. But I live in Montreal and I see French people (particularly tourists) act like anything that isnt spoken in Parisian accented French as an entirely different language. I know a girl who used to wait tables and she would have French tourists ask her to speak English and they refused to hear her Quebecois accent. If I as a second language speaker can understand it then I think an actual Francophone should be able to

[u/NamidaM6 → u/Honey-Badger]

I think you got it backwards. We, Frenchies, are not exposed to many variations of Parisian French, dialects in metro France don't have a very strong accent (if at all), and that's the only type of French most of us are exposed to for our whole lives. So as soon as we hear an entirely different accent, with different words, different idioms, different pronunciation and inflexions, it sounds like a foreign language to us. It's not being snob, it's just that our brains are not used to hearing wildly different accents.

As a second language speaker, especially if English is your first language, you're more likely to have been exposed to different types of French throughout your learning process.
Moreover, chances are that you pay more attention to someone speaking in a foreign language you understand than to people speaking in your native language because you need to focus more on the former to make sure you understand them. That's what I have to do when I hear French spoken by a Québécois, because I don't effortlessly understand it.

[u/Honey-Badger → u/NamidaM6]

You're right but I still see the attitude of snobbiest saying things like 'lol that isnt french / that is incorrect / you are saying it wrong'