> You can speak weird english and people still understand what you say I suppose OP meant "weird non-native English". Native accents, in my experience, are a

> You can speak weird english and people still understand what you say I suppose OP meant "weird non-native English". Native accents, in my experience, are a different matter. Certain non-American accents (Irish, Scottish come to mind) are just very hard to understand for untrained American ears that have never been exposed to them before.