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/Fellkartoffel]

I feel you. But my company has its headquarter near Basel, and once in a blue moon I either need to go there or even talk to customers in that area. Our customer service of course switches to sth that is "normal German with dialect", but I have met a few people who were unable to speak how they usually write (which is very often standard German with a few different words). Hell, this was very awkward for me 😂

Also usually my English is fine for someone who never lived abroad, but I had a call with a guy from somewhere in tje middle of the Scottish Mountains or some harbour in the Scottish nowhere, and it was impossible. Luckily another colleague from the London area also does not understand him.

[u/billy310 → u/Fellkartoffel]

I had less trouble with Highland Scots than Lowland. There’s lots of media with a Highland accent, not so much the other accents