Your Accent: The Secret Ingredient to Better Connections!
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Your Accent: The Secret Ingredient to Better Connections!

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I have a friend from Italy who's living here in Hungary, and I also have a friend from Texas who's living in Hungary just to enjoy life a bit, since he has a passive income and can work from anywhere he wants. I introduced them to each other, and even though my Italian friend uses English in both work and daily life - He's a head chef at a fancy restaurant and he manages a staff of more than 80 people daily using only English, so his English is excellent -, he rarely consumes any American media and doesn't have any American friend, so he had a difficult time following what my American friend says.

For a lot of people, it's much easier to communicate with non-native speakers for several reasons. Just to mention some a few: they tend to speak more slowly, pronouncing every word clearly, and speak word for word, for the most part, avoiding connected speech.

So, my non-native English-speaking friend, don't be afraid that people won't understand you just because you have a Ukrainian, Russian, Romanian, Italian, Spanish, German, or any other accent! Your accent might actually help some people understand you better.

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