Closer to my home: my mum, Devonion, could make herself nearly unintelligible to me by speaking as she did as a young girl. That's my mum, not a random stranger from another country 8)
I'm no expert but I do know that the French spoken in Quebec is rather different than that spoken in France, which of course has many varieties of "French". There's also whatever is spoken in Brittany (Breton?) which I think is closer to Welsh/Cornish/Irish/Scottish ie Brythonic languages than English or French.
English is a right old mish mash of loosely coupled dialects, patois, pidgins and whatever linguists call the other varieties and vagaries. I gather that the easiest variety of English to understand for non native speakers, in general is the Dublin accent.
I know it isn't brummie because I remember seeing big Tex (he wore a stetson on his 10 gallon head) on a Norwegian cruise out of Miami heckling a comic on stage. I ended up translating. I kept it simple and told Tex that he was from Birmingham, England because trying to explain the "Black Country" was likely to be tricky. I can just about tell the difference between a brummie and a yam yam accent. The next act was a geordie and I gave up and suggested to Tex that we hit the bar.
I'm no expert but I do know that the French spoken in Quebec is rather different than that spoken in France, which of course has many varieties of "French". There's also whatever is spoken in Brittany (Breton?) which I think is closer to Welsh/Cornish/Irish/Scottish ie Brythonic languages than English or French.
English is a right old mish mash of loosely coupled dialects, patois, pidgins and whatever linguists call the other varieties and vagaries. I gather that the easiest variety of English to understand for non native speakers, in general is the Dublin accent.
I know it isn't brummie because I remember seeing big Tex (he wore a stetson on his 10 gallon head) on a Norwegian cruise out of Miami heckling a comic on stage. I ended up translating. I kept it simple and told Tex that he was from Birmingham, England because trying to explain the "Black Country" was likely to be tricky. I can just about tell the difference between a brummie and a yam yam accent. The next act was a geordie and I gave up and suggested to Tex that we hit the bar.
Now, what have you got against Chilean?