English Accent Diversity

Obviously I mean foreign accents when speaking English.

Accent is such a non issue, in the UK the accent can be very different even 30 miles from one another, so let alone someone speaking it with a French, German or Spanish accent. It's still English and 99% of the time you can understand it. I assume the same is true of other languages too.

I have a fairly generic, south east English accent, much like you'd hear on Radio 4, and weirdly the country where I have the most trouble with people not understanding what I'm saying is the United States.

"native English speaker" - is many different accents

Aren't both English but with different accents?

There's a lot of weird accents here in the UK. Even cockney sounds odd, and that's local to London. In the same place you'll meet people from Liverpool, Newcastle, Birmingham, Scotland and so on, all with distinctive accents that are not so easy for your ordinary American or second language speaker.

This is true. As someone who speaks English as a second language living in London, I can understand both "standard" American English and "BBC" British English very well.The problem is that in a London alone you are exposed to all kinds of accents, including Queen's English, Cockney, Scottish English, and Irish.This video is a good example of how a Cockney accents sounds:http:/

I don't know about US English but I know how to speak "TV English" perfectly however when I came to the UK I had a hard time adjusting to the different accents around London for a couple of months.Scottish, Irish or just about every accent out there sound like weird sounds the first time you hear them and you actually have to focus hard to figure out what the fk that person just said.Written English may be the same everywhere but spoken English varies greatly from reg

tbh there are a lot of british accents that are hard to understand even for native english speakers.

I speak American English and it gave me some kind of British accent. I have no idea why!