I don't think they were at all saying it's not important, but rather trying to encourage, to reassure that 'breaking into a cold sweat' isn't necessary. Also,

I don't think they were at all saying it's not important, but rather trying to encourage, to reassure that 'breaking into a cold sweat' isn't necessary. Also, from what I've heard, Chinese is rather an extreme outlier among languages in terms of difficulty in westerners being understood, isn't it? Everything about it's different. (It works the other way too: by far the worst, opaque, near-indecipherable English-speaking I've experienced online text-chatting with people was by a couple of Chinese people..who told me they were English teachers! I could hardly believe it..)