>>Ditto for english in any other country. I've had the same trouble understanding it when spoken by an Ozzie and by some of my then neighbors in the south - the consonants are omitted or not distinguishable. But the rules for reading are not so different across the variants - equally rich with confusion.
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>Your English is better than most.

Not that there's much of a competition - it's better than my hungarian and my russian, but not better than my serbian. Then there's the lower level of competition, my bad languages with which I'm not really on speaking terms.