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Why native English speakers fail in global business
- anotheryou 11y agoI'm no native speaker, but also passed that point at which I have to be careful not to speak to complicated english.
- rahimnathwani 11y agoClickbait title, but it's a real issue. Having lived in China for the past 5+ years, I now speak English differently than I did back home in England. I rarely speak English with an English person. Even many Americans will find me easier to understand than they would have before I moved here. Also "The three of us embarked on an utterly unnecessary conversation in which I deftly translated from English into English and then back again." mirrors my own experience doing the same in a series of meetings with Chinese colleagues and Indian developers, all of whom had pretty good English, but were virtually unable to communicate with each other except by email.