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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 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.

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> 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.

I have to revert for you to kindly adjust to the same.

Do one thing. Timely discuss about doing the needful years back.

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Honestly, they only issue I run into is that they tend to speak English extremely fast.

I’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.

I 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.

Right, everyone else needs to adjust to the Indian dialect of English.

Need or else, your career may improve if you can work with a wider group of talented people.

Welcome 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!

american have accents too to the rest of the world, but very less

Absolutely, 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

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