Do other people experience this, with regards to language?

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Over the last year I've become increasingly aware of a behaviour of mine, and I don't know whether this is caused by Asperger's or whether it's a discrete disorder.

I've never been gifted in conversation, that part I know is the AS, but sometimes I'm listening to someone telling me something and a chunk of it I just arbitrarily cannot understand. It's nothing to do with my hearing, or the volume of their speech, or my vocabulary. If someone asked me 'what did they just say?' I could probably repeat, verbatim what just said. But it would take me a couple of moments for the meaning to 'click'.
It's like, for a moment, parts of the english language are foreign to me.

I've come to find certain factors make this thing more likely to occur:
- Person talking quickly
- Person talking in a strong accent
- Myself being tired

Is this an ASD thing, or something else?

When a person is speaking a lot of words to me I often "tune out" to chunks of what they're saying. I can tune out and tune back in - while they're still talking. Most of the time I am able to come up with a response that sounds as though I heard everything they said. Alternatively, I pretend I simply didn't understand what they said, so that they explain or say it again.

Yes, I experience that. It is like I hear the sounds, and register them, but my brain has to 'sort out' the meaning- until then it is just gibberish. I think this is fairly common, as I have seen threads discussing it. Seach "auditory processing disorder" on wrongplanet archives. I believe this is a comorbidity, not exactly a symptom of ASDs.

I'm terrible with understanding accents, meself.

Actually that's not uncommon.
A lot of NTs can struggle in those factors also regardless.
Like how when tourists or foreigners learn English, a lot of people that have lived in UK or America etc. can find it hard to understand them due to their native language.
P.S. This is about as racist as telling The Pope he's not religious. It holds no meaning.

Happens to me on occasion. I chalk it up to not having English as my first language.

I'm like that but my brain doesn't process things rite away sometimes

I experience this as well. Although I don't usually have a problem with accents. It's more likely to happen to me with a native English speaker. Especially if I'm bored with the conversation.

I can make strange choices when interpreting what someone is asking me.

One time I was being asked about my college experience and the person said "How far did you go?"

I responded by telling them how far I drove to the college, but what they really meant was how far did I go Academically or in grades. It's weird in retrospect, I mean why would they care how for I drove to the college?

I can definitely relate to this. I have no idea what causes it, but judging by what I'm reading in the above posts, I'd dare argue it's an ASD thing.