[vodila]

Is here somebody, who has experience in translating from english to russian as interpreter? May be somebody has encountered with english-speaking person concerning his job. I don't mean proffesional translators.
What can you say, whom it is easier to communicate with: with people from english-speaking country (GB, USA, Australia,...), with people from european countries such as France, Italy and others, of with people from Asian region?

FFCME ;-)

[Boy Superstar!]

I preffer to communicate with european peoples cause as I feel that they have the same way of thinking and sentences building. British peolpes is closer to us in thier way of speaking than native speakers from US, that's why I think that it's easier to communicate with europeans, especially from eastern europe like Czech or Poland:) Koreans has not bad accent but some strange ways of explanation of their thoughts that was the only one issue in communications with them.
And basing on my experience I must say that Scandinavians has a worst english accent that I every heard :D

[Glebasyan]

It's always easier to speak and enterpret anyone except a native speaker.

[sobachka]

I agree that it's not that difficult to understand a western european, they don't have such a strong accent. As for british people, it's very very challenging! Not the ones that declare news on tv, those that were trained to speak flawlessly cuz of their professional demands, but the ones that are regular people on the street. it seems they may break their tongue literally when they speak. Americans are very easy to understand, southern accent could cause few questions but overall no problem. Australians and New Zealanders are a bit different in their language, some words vary, accent of course, they are somewhere in between Britians and Europeans on my difficulty scale. Asians...well, it's a tough one! Very very hard to understand, Japanese for instanse, confuse letter "l" and "r" cuz they don't have "l" in their phonetics.

[Boy Superstar!]

It's always easier to speak and enterpret anyone except a native speaker.
Hmmm, sometimes communication with peoples who aren't native speakers seems like "brocken telephone" and became to total misunderstanding between both sides in such conversation.

[vodila]

It's always easier to speak and enterpret anyone except a native speaker.

As for me it is more easy to speak with the people from european countries too. but not with native english-spoken men. Because there isn't any typical accent, the sentences are built by usual rules.