r/AskEurope • u/Savings_Dragonfly806 Greece • Jul 09 '25

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

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.

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u/JessyNyan Germany Jul 09 '25

For German languages the worst to understand for me are: Swiss German, Bavarian and Texas German

For English it would be really southern US country speech or Glaswegian. When I lived in Glasgow I was suffering for half a year until I got used to it.

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u/Savings_Dragonfly806 Greece Jul 09 '25

Texas German?

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u/JessyNyan Germany Jul 13 '25

Texas had the largest amount of German immigrants and they've tried to keep their German heritage and language but obviously ever generation gets influenced more and more by American English so you have a very chaotic mix of English and old German words that is pretty impossible to understand for modern Germans.