Accents are a problem...yeah yeah your right....the accent, as we in Phils, were sorrounded by people whos using American accent and even our english lessons in our universities mostly derived from American authors......but its fun...and we have same problem as well, its really hard to understand esp those native english....

but dont worry english people can understand us, and they are polite for us....cheersss..
even my fiance helped me a lot for this...my fiance's friends asked me once if im american hehehe wow wow thats great heheheheh lol lol lol, well anyways lets enjoy being here .....