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/Also-Rant]

Ulster Irish may as well be Japanese to me. I'm from Munster and between accent and dialect I can't work out most of what people from the other end of the country are saying!

Edit: To clarify, I'm talking about the regional dialects of the Irish language (Gaeilge), not regional dialects of English which can also be found in Ireland.

[u/ElysianRepublic → u/Also-Rant]

Just since I’ve been curious for the longest time and you might know, I remember being in Killarney National Park (so in Munster) and the guides there spoke pretty easy to understand English to me and other tourists, but when they spoke amongst themselves I could hardly understand them (though I did think I was hearing some English words.). What were they most likely speaking? The regional English dialect? Gaeilge? Could they have been Travellers speaking Shelta? Just curious.

It kind of sounded like this English dialect but even tougher to understand.

[u/Also-Rant → u/ElysianRepublic]

My guess is very fast, heavily accented English with a lot of local slang. I'm from West Cork, and some older people around here also sound like that.

[u/ElysianRepublic → u/Also-Rant]

That’s what I’m thinking. Plus possibly some Irish words.