And there's a reason for that: regular exposure to RP speakers in broadcast media. If you're a native speaker who's never met anyone with a particular regiona

And there's a reason for that: regular exposure to RP speakers in broadcast media. If you're a native speaker who's never met anyone with a particular regional accent, you might have trouble at first, but you'd soon "tune in" to their accent, as long as they spoke clearly in Standard English. It would be a lot more effort for them to change their accent.