Accents

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Re: Accents

@Huma

I hear accent reduction/neutralization training is quite big in India. Not sure if it has taken off in Pakistan too. Not a fan. It’s all a bit superficial in my opinion. It’s like skin lightening - some say brown skin isn’t as appealing as gori chitti skin and you should appear lighter to look beautiful. In the same way, desi accent isn’t the most alluring I know but it is what it is. People shouldn’t be expected to lose their accents. It shouldn’t be a deal breaker unless you couldn’t even comprehend each other or if there were fluency issues. I work with Europeans, Asians and South Indians with really strong accents of their own, sometimes during conferences I even have difficulty understanding them, but this is something that you just get so used to when you live in a diverse society, it’s not a big deal.

Italians have the funniest accent, they sound like talking in Punjabi when they speak English.