What does an american accent sound like to a foreigner?

[NJ5]

trashleg said:

NJ5 said:
The strong Southern US accent sounds pretty bad (as in cowboy movies but not limited to those)... but it can be funny too. Other American accents sound much better, and are the easiest form of English to understand IMO.

The standard British accent sounds pretentious and it's not as easy to understand as most American accents. Some other British accents are almost impenetrable, such as the Sccotish accent.

what do you mean by impenetrable?

o.0

Like... very hard to understand. It was a while ago, but I once met a guy who (I think) was Scottish and I could barely understand a word, even though I'm pretty fluent in English and could even understand fairly well an Australian guy who mumbled a lot.