Hey Brits/Aussies, or people for whom English is a second language,

[raccoon]

is there any particular American accent you have difficulty understanding?

edited for clarity.

[flvegan]

1. Erm...I don't think English is a second language to them.

[raccoon]

3. Sigh. You don't say! Let me rephrase it. nt

[billyskank]

9. Thank you

...I could have sworn the language was invented here. :shrug:

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

2. Very deep southern accents

where the speaker hardly opens his/her mouth and pronounces all words together in a slurry fashion. Sort of like Boomhauer on King of the Hill.

[kentauros]

4. Even native Texans

can't understand Boomhauer!

[KansDem]

7. I lived in Switzerland back in the 1980s for a few months...

One Swiss told me Americans tended to sprechen im bart (speak into the beard). I believe she was referring to your statement of "hardly opens his/her mouth and pronounces all words together in a slurry fashion."

[Neshanic]

5. Western Maryland accents are incredibly hard to decipher for anyone.

[spinbaby]

6. I have trouble with Liverpool accents

Incomprehensible.

[JCMach1]

8. same same

:)

[intaglio]

10. Understanding as in hearing the words

then backwoods Kentuck or Cajun

As in understanding the words then some Californian stuff is just way out there

/edit Geordie and Glaswegian; really hard Geordie from Newcastle and Weegi from Bearsden

[billyskank]

11. I've never heard an American voice I had difficulty understanding.

There are some accents in the north of England I find difficult though.