I struggle with this problem daily at work. The whole company is remote and we have a new team of excellent developers from India. But in group meetings, while

I struggle with this problem daily at work. The whole company is remote and we have a new team of excellent developers from India. But in group meetings, while I listen hard I can rarely make out what they say. When my name comes up in a group conversation my standard answer has become, please describe the issue via email or slack. It's no use asking them to repeat themselves or to talk more slowly. To me it's yet another reason why I prefer async means of conversation over live meetings. I'm hoping that I'll learn to understand the accent after more experience with it, but if that's happening, it's slow going. Maybe there's a more systematic way to go about it, like finding books, podcasts, etc., spoken in strong Indian accents to practice with. Or even learning a little of their language to get experience with their cadence, etc. If I can learn a new computer language dammit, I should be able to learn to decipher the accent of people who are speaking my birth language coherently, with better grammar than I do.