> My impression is that it's actually quite common for Japanese people to understand Japanese accented English more easily than a native English speaker. This

> My impression is that it's actually quite common for Japanese people to understand Japanese accented English more easily than a native English speaker. This is actually very true, made me think back to many situations in Japan where adding a strong Japanese accent to my English words made it comprehensible to the listener (just as adding a Japanese accent to the generated speech makes it nearly incomprehensible to a non-Japanese speaker).