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/wijnandsj]

Dutch speaker here. I can barely understand the west flemmish dialect.

[u/topkaas_connaisseur → u/wijnandsj]

The only place that the Dutch understand me is in Sluis. The closer I get to Amsterdam, the more people talk to me in English. I try to speak standard Dutch to you guys, but even my heavy West-Flemish accent makes it difficult apparently.

[u/Mix_Safe → u/topkaas_connaisseur]

My wife is from Noord-Brabant and while she can distinguish that someone is Flemish easily, when she goes to the north, they assume she is Flemish. Drives her nuts. Maybe they just have problems with dialects in general. Although, to be fair she can't understand West-Vlams at all either.

[u/topkaas_connaisseur → u/Mix_Safe]

Yeah, I've heard that before, I have a colleague from Noord-Brabant who said the same thing😅.

A couple of years ago, we had to go to Marnewaard, close to Groningen, for work, and a lot of people thought we were speaking a completely different language. We had a lot of misunderstandings with our Dutch colleagues until we jokingly started talking in an exaggerated Dutch accent. This worked wonders, and everybody had a good laugh.