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Originally Posted by Livia
I agree. If you're going to employ someone to speak to people from all over, they need to be quite easy to understand. I've struggled with people on the phone sometimes. I like regional accents, they're colourful and interesting... but sometimes they're hard to understand and in a professional enviroment I'd say it could be a disadvantage.
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Yeah, I'm not saying the accents are bad, you can still speak in your accent but be understandable. I remember when I was working in Boston years ago, I had to slow my voice down by around 5 times to save having to repeat every sentence 74 times
I didn't lose my accent while doing that though