Can second this. My house has folks from France, Burundi, US and India. The non-US people find it a lot easier to understand each other's accents than American

Can second this. My house has folks from France, Burundi, US and India. The non-US people find it a lot easier to understand each other's accents than Americans do understanding us. Ironically though, I have a bad habit of using big words in spoken English, because I learnt it as written bookish English first.