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I think problem is, English accent is probably the worst. This is because pronunciation-wise there hardly are other two languages as different as English and French. (The French return the favor, obviously - their accent sounds just as terrible.)

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Accent is such a non issue, in the UK the accent can be very different even 30 miles from one another, so let alone someone speaking it with a French, German or Spanish accent. It's still English and 99% of the time you can understand it. I assume the same is true of other languages too.

> Accent is such a non issue

But for the French it apparently is (and understandably so).

I meant that you can still understand the speaker, and if so it is courteous to answer. Refusing to understand because you don't like the accent is hardly courteous.

Which is ironic, given that English developed as basically French + German (or some old versions of those languages).

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