You know your accent is thick when

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Youtube automatically subtitles you in Dutch (turn on captions). I especially liked the "chinchilla die crisis". Now I can't stop wondering what a chinchilla die crisis would be like.

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[diejacobsleiter.livejournal.com]

Too hard. After repeating, some phrases are getting clearer. But not that mysterious chinchilla's (midlife?) crysis. Poor chinchilla...

And I think, it's rather a subcultural thing than a national one. I cannot say that I understand my native-speaking gang teenagers better...

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Why don't you understand them, they use slang that do not understand?
Here it is mostly about the accent not slang I think.

[diejacobsleiter.livejournal.com]

Slang partially, yes. But mostly - because of a very bizarre pronunciation. Russian young gangsters or just teenagers from a troubled families speak exactly like this young man, something like quick one-syllable barking: "eh-uh-ah-bum-bdang".

I understand Scottish accent well enough, and even like it in movies, if there are more or less educated people who talk not too quickly. But in your video I hardly recognize a half of the words...

What about slang, Russian crimilal world has its slang deeply developed, it's almost a language: adult people can talk very clearly, and you still don't understand a word.

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Interesting.
This boy has a Glaswegian accent.