Air carrier flight crew reported a ground conflict at eham after all three pilots misunderstood the ...

Attributes
ACN	1457523
Time
Date	201706
Local Time Of Day	0601-1200
Place
Locale Reference	EHAM.Airport
State Reference	FO
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Large Transport Low Wing 2 Turbojet Eng
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Taxi
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Captain
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Person 2
Function	Pilot Not Flying First Officer
Events
Anomaly	ATC Issue All Types Conflict Ground Conflict Critical Deviation - Procedural Clearance Ground Incursion Taxiway

Narrative:

After landing and receiving taxi instructions which were difficult to clearly understand due to the ground controllers accent and rapid speech rate. We proceeded to taxi according to what we read back to ground control. An aircraft after landing behind us took a reverse high speed taxiway and was difficult to see due to it coming behind us at a diagonal; taxied in front [of] us forced us to stop abruptly then ground controller proceeded to chastise us about that we were supposed to have stopped and held for aircraft.strong accent and rapid talking rate from controller with fatigue from all nighter on our part. Double question controllers.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Air carrier flight crew reported a ground conflict at EHAM after all three pilots misunderstood the Ground Controller's hold short instructions because of rapid; accented speech.

Narrative: After landing and receiving taxi instructions which were difficult to clearly understand due to the ground controllers accent and rapid speech rate. We proceeded to taxi according to what we read back to ground control. An aircraft after landing behind us took a reverse high speed taxiway and was difficult to see due to it coming behind us at a diagonal; taxied in front [of] us forced us to stop abruptly then ground controller proceeded to chastise us about that we were supposed to have stopped and held for aircraft.Strong accent and rapid talking rate from controller with fatigue from all nighter on our part. Double question controllers.

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Air carrier flight crew reported a ground conflict at eham after all three pilots misunderstood the ground controller's hold short instructions because of rapid; accented speech.