Sometimes accents can make it harder. In my first job in China, I was working on a project with Chinese colleagues and an Indian software company. They teams

Sometimes accents can make it harder. In my first job in China, I was working on a project with Chinese colleagues and an Indian software company. They teams had difficulty understanding one other. During conference calls, I often had to relay messages. Everyone could understand my English, and I could understand theirs, but the Chinese folks couldn't understand the Indians' accents, and vice versa.