Large Transport; Low Wing; 2 Turbojet Eng
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Fatigue; Situational Awareness; Distraction; Communication Breakdown; Confusion
ATC Issue All Types; Conflict Ground Conflict; Critical; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Clearance; Ground Incursion Taxiway
Air Traffic Control Issued Advisory / Alert; Air Traffic Control Issued New Clearance; Flight Crew Became Reoriented; Flight Crew Took Evasive Action
Human Factors; Procedure
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.
Landed 36C in EHAM cleared at W3. Contacted ground control; he spoke very fast; I had to ask 3 times for him to repeat the instructions - Bravo-Quebec; hold short Quebec 1. We taxied down Delta (Delta turns into  Bravo) I was looking for the hold short point on the taxi chart. At this point an RJ had cleared 36C at W6 a reverse high speed. We were just about to W6 when Ground control asked if we saw the RJ.  I had not seen them because of them coming down the reverse high speed and due the size of the aircraft. They were taxing at pretty fair speed. Ground control then told us to stop and give way.  Ground then told us that we should have given way on our own. The ground controller could have been much clearer with the instructions and should have said to give way at W6 or to hold short of W6 if it was going be an issue.
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.