> My take on this is to speak regular English with a slight foreign accent It does sound ridiculous, but I do exactly this when speaking to groups of foreign c

> My take on this is to speak regular English with a slight foreign accent It does sound ridiculous, but I do exactly this when speaking to groups of foreign colleagues. I'll slow down a bit, change my consonants and vowels ever so slightly, and use slightly "incorrect" or simplified grammar. And I think it's helped me. At least, it hasn't hindered me.