Which English accent is the hardest to understand for you?

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If you are a native speaker of English, which accent is the hardest to understand of the followings?

A) RP / Queens English
B) Cockney / Typical Londoner
C) Scottish
D) Welsh
E) Irish
F) Canadian
G) General American
H) Southern Accent (American)
I) Ebonics / African American Vernacular English
J) Austarlian / Aussie
K) New Zealand / Kiwi
L) South African

Mine is C) the Scottish farmers' accent and I) strong AAVE.
What about you?

Have you ever had a hard time to understand native speakers' English accent?

Pure Ebonics and some parts of Welsh and Scottish.
Keep in mind though, that the more you hear the accent, the more you will understand it.

I would say C), but there is a wide variety of accents in Scotland, some of which are very easy to understand, and some that take a little work.
I would add Geordie to the list; that's probably the hardest large-population accent for me to understand (I'm sure there are small villages somewhere that have harder accents for me).
I think a lot of people's comprehension problems with AAVE have more to do with vocabulary and morphosyntax than with pronunciation itself. AAVE probably has the most innovative consonant phonology of any English variety though.

Hey, you forgot Indian and Carribean.

Geordie and Scouse.

I can only speak for the British accents in the list provided by the Englishman in New York.

You can take a tour of the UK map, click on any of the green dots and follow all links to hear the whole gamut of British accents in all their glory (or otherwise, depending on opinion) and then you can make your own mind up on intelligibility. It goes without saying you must have your audio switched on.

For those outside of the UK not familar with our geographical set up, Scotland is that bit at the top of the main island, Wales is that bit further down on the main island with two arms reaching out into the sea leftwards, and England is the main chunk remaining. . Northern Ireland is that wee bit right at the top right of the other sizeable island floating about to the left of the rest of us.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/recordings/index.shtml

Click on Scouseland (that little collection of green dots on the left of the main land just above the Wales bit and see if you agree with me that Scouse (Liverpool/Merseyside/Wirral) is pretty dreich. I'm in a wee bit of a Scouse bashing mood. :-)

Why would you never knock over a Scouser on a bike?
The bike might be yours.

Why is it not unusual to see Scousers in a pub at 4am?
They've broken in.

I have trouble understandin the suits from Londonways.

Thick Scottish accents can be quite difficult for me, a speaker of something quite close to General American. The other ones I have no problem with...usually.

Definitely American English

It always sounds like they are talking with a hot potato or chewing gum in their mouth

<<Definitely American English

It always sounds like they are talking with a hot potato or chewing gum in their mouth>>

You must not be a native speaker then...

No, I'm not, does that matter?

Obviously native speakers can't be aware of this fact, it's like when you are in the lavatory, you never smell your products.

H is really hard to understand to me, especially really strong southern accents, deep south I'm talking about. I find it easier understanding RP than Southerners at times.
I'm not all that familiar with Australian and Kiwi accents, but all the Australian I've heard was quite understandable.
I've never heard Welsh or South African.
Naturally, General American and Canadian don't cause any trouble to me.

Some kiwi accents are tough.

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