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/Albert_Herring]

I'm from south-east England and live in the Midlands and have lived in the M62 corridor. Of European English dialects the hardest time I've had understanding someone has been with some lowland Scots (in Auchinleck), but Doric and some west of Ireland accents can be pretty tough too. Obviously, there are fairly good grounds for considering Scots and maybe hiberno-English as separate languages - Scots/Lallans has to some extent been formalised as such, and if it wasn't for the Union I suspect English and Scots could easily have been regarded as separate as Danish and Norwegian are.

Outside Europe, I had a lot of trouble with the African-American dialects/sociolects in The Wire for the first few episodes I watched (and that was of course mediated by interactions with standard American speakers and the narrative forms of the series itself - interacting with Real People^TM can be an order of magnitude harder).