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Communication is pretty much sorted for me. I know exactly what you mean and do see people around me struggle with it. But I have never had people tell me to re

Communication is pretty much sorted for me. I know exactly what you mean and do see people around me struggle with it. But I have never had people tell me to repeat my sentences or get closer to the mic etc. (Well it might have been because of the internet connectivity etc. but never because of my accent) I lived in the US for 2 years as a kid, so have a pretty neutral accent.

nimzo33 7y ago
It may be partly because india is looked at having lesser talented developers (in the sense of questioning things, speaking up, really thoroughly thinking before starting to do your work and if it makes sense), while i know this is not always true it seems to be for majority from my experience
dominotw 7y ago
I highly doubt living in USA for 2 yrs neutalized your accent. How do you know for sure?
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- taejo 7y ago
  Two years as a child could be plenty to develop a local accent. I know people who lived in Germany for less than that time (usually because of US military parents) and return to Germany after decades of not speaking the language at all with near perfect accents. The combination of excellent accent with barely-existent grammar and vocabulary can be quite funny.
  - dominotw 7y ago
    german has very similar sounds to english though. The sounds of English and German are similar, as are stress and intonation patterns.Also, accent is not just sounds its also culture. germany and us have similar cultures. What exactly is neutral accent, I don't know what that even means.
    - objectivetruth 7y ago
      I presumed it meant roughly halfway between "indistinguishable from native-born American speaking General American" and "Typical ESL accent for people who were born in India." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_American https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_American
- cm2012 7y ago
  My wife lived in Korea as a child for 3 years, and has a perfect korean accent to this day (we visited korean recently, people were surprised she was actually American)

nimzo33 7y ago

It may be partly because india is looked at having lesser talented developers (in the sense of questioning things, speaking up, really thoroughly thinking before starting to do your work and if it makes sense), while i know this is not always true it seems to be for majority from my experience

dominotw 7y ago

I highly doubt living in USA for 2 yrs neutalized your accent. How do you know for sure?

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taejo 7y ago
Two years as a child could be plenty to develop a local accent. I know people who lived in Germany for less than that time (usually because of US military parents) and return to Germany after decades of not speaking the language at all with near perfect accents. The combination of excellent accent with barely-existent grammar and vocabulary can be quite funny.
- dominotw 7y ago
  german has very similar sounds to english though. The sounds of English and German are similar, as are stress and intonation patterns.Also, accent is not just sounds its also culture. germany and us have similar cultures. What exactly is neutral accent, I don't know what that even means.
  - objectivetruth 7y ago
    I presumed it meant roughly halfway between "indistinguishable from native-born American speaking General American" and "Typical ESL accent for people who were born in India." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_American https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_American
cm2012 7y ago
My wife lived in Korea as a child for 3 years, and has a perfect korean accent to this day (we visited korean recently, people were surprised she was actually American)