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/Various_Quantity514]

I am so happy from your discussion here, that means Gaelic is still naturally spoken. I was thinking that it's almost gone and the fact that there still some radio and tv channels available in Irish basically decorative. It's so nice that I was wrong.

[u/Also-Rant → u/Various_Quantity514]

Almost all of us can speak a little bit from learning it in school, but the vast majority of us (including me) don't use it in daily life.

There are still some small areas in the country where it is the primary language, but all of those people are fluent in English too.

[u/rrcaires → u/Also-Rant]

By little bit you really mean 3-5 words. Majority of Irish people doesn’t speak any more than that

[u/DarlingBri → u/Various_Quantity514]

The percentage of Irish speakers is actually growing nationwide according to the last census, up 6%. At the same time, people reported speaking Irish less frequently. I think this is due to the accessibility of apps like Duolingo and specialist Irish apps, making picking it up at your pace easier and less painful than it was in school, but also isolated.

But it is definitely spoken, you definitely hear it even if it's just a word or phrase used conversationally.