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The hardest time I’ve had communicating at work has been with native English speakers from India. They have such a strong accent and such different idioms. Same
by throwayyy479087 4y ago
The hardest time I’ve had communicating at work has been with native English speakers from India. They have such a strong accent and such different idioms. Same to some extent with Singlish.
The problem is they really are speaking perfectly legal English, with grammar better than mine, but it’s a different dialect. Not true of ESL Indians.
- ebiester 4y agoI’ve spent long enough in the industry that I am relatively comfortable with many of the accents, I would love a class to exist that teaches non-Indians the dialect.
- operatingthetan 4y agoI think after about a year in tech consulting I developed a pretty robust ability to understand accents that most Americans have trouble with. Chinese, Russian, Indian, Nigerian, you name it. I guess if someone wants to practice they could listen to Kitboga or something.
- jojobas 4y agoRight, everyone else needs to adjust to the Indian dialect of English.
- ebiester 4y agoNeed or else, your career may improve if you can work with a wider group of talented people.
- xeromal 4y agoWelcome to my ted talk: Prepone Do the needful Kindly You are now well-versed. I'm joking though. That would be a fun class to take!
- jojobas 4y agoI have to revert for you to kindly adjust to the same.
- xiaodai 4y agoamerican have accents too to the rest of the world, but very less
- throwayyy479087 4y agoAbsolutely, that's what I'm trying to say - that they have accents, and we have accents, and they're different. I sure as shit don't speak the Queen's English, which is etymologically closer to what they speak
- beezlebroxxxxxx 4y agoHonestly, they only issue I run into is that they tend to speak English extremely fast.
- unmole 4y ago> native English speakers from India Native English speakers make up 0.02% of India's population. I've worked in tech for a decade and have met exactly zero native English speakers in India. I honestly have no idea what you're talking about.