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tautozhone · 5 months ago

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fun and cool trick to not be a dick to people who have noticeable accents when speaking english is to remember that you have an accent to them. miscommunication just gets worse if you try and ignore or baby this i feel. if someone is communicating to you in short snippets and small vocabulary don’t treat them like an idiot but also perhaps don’t treat them like a first language speaker of whatever language you are communicating in

#tauto talks #primarily about english but i’ve heard ab this shit w the french too #aaugh and spanish #idk understanding each other is a two way treat it’s not rude to say some ppl genuinely struggle understanding and speaking english #especially if they only speak it for their job #and not every day #like i think english speakers mainly have this go over their head where they assume if someone is speaking english then surely they must #understand it fluently #like. haha. no #at the exact same time don’t underestimate someone’s fluency just because of an accent #usually more like yknow. notice the vocabulary level. try and mirror the same energy #i only say this because i started yapping to a poor subway worker who did NOT seem like she was registering anything so i moved on to order #they have to deal w entitled bitches all day i’m not going to be a nail in the coffin of complicating their day

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