One of the funny things about Hunan, especially in the countryside, is that the people there have probably the strangest Chinese accents I have ever heard. Like Fuzhou, the people in Hunan have a local dialect which is their first language, but unlike Fuzhou, I noticed people in Hunan would sometimes inadvertently mix words from their dialect in with their Mandarin, making it even less comprehensible to outsiders. Additionally, Hunanese men like to chew on a dried, minty, fruit called beetlenut as they smoke their cigarettes. So imagine a foreigner coming to America trying to communicate with a rural bumpkin from Mississippi as he chomped on a mouthfull of Big League Chew and sucked on a cigar.