Additional context:
Native speakers of my mother tongue do not all understand each other due to some pretty extreme dialects. Now that I’m in Europe, I’ve noticed multiple instances of people sometimes not understand the dialect of someone from a village 10-20 km away…
In contrast, for example most American, British, and Australian people can just… understand each other like that?? I never thought much about it before but it’s pretty incredible
Edit: thanks everyone, and clearly I didn’t think of certain parts of the UK when I was in the shower and thought of this…
How are you with New Brunswick French? I find it significantly easier to understand than Quebec French. Partially I think it’s because they speak slower in New Brunswick.
I can’t comment on that because I’ve never been out that far but I do live in Winnipeg and we have a large french community … and I can say that I can understand and communicate in French with everybody here.