> Being able to drop in anywhere in a country of 300+ million people and being able to converse with the locals (not just communicate, but convey your deepest t

> Being able to drop in anywhere in a country of 300+ million people and being able to converse with the locals (not just communicate, but convey your deepest thoughts)--it's a benefit the vast majority of people in the world simply do not have. Weird how I never really noticed that. The US does have its fair share of local dialects, but they are usually still very easy to understand, even for non-native English speakers. It's one of the reasons why I prefer US English to British English, with some British dialects I have a really hard time understanding what's being said. Do Brits struggle with understanding some British dialects? As a native German speaker, I know for a fact that some German dialects just sound like incomprehensible gibberish to me. Which is extra funny when you run into these kinds of dialects near big US military installations, like Grafenwöhr, where the locals speak with an extremely thick upper palatinate dialect. Must be really confusing for any of the US servicemembers stationed there who are trying to learn German, trying to understand German that not even most Germans would be able to understand.