Ask HN: How to Do Accent Reduction?

Re:Ask HN: How to Do Accent Reduction? by torstenvl on Sunday August 01, 2021 @10:24PM (#28032261)

Accent is one thing, but mastering the language is helpful as well.

Nouns in English require an article unless they are:

     - proper nouns (names)
     - pronouns (he, him, her, it)
     - indefinite plural nouns ("nouns require...")
     - collective nouns ("pizza is delicious" "foliage is best viewed in autumn")

Avoid overusing ambiguous terms that are heavily context-dependent, like "got." Say what you mean: "have," "received," "was," "became," etc.

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Re:Ask HN: How to Do Accent Reduction? by torstenvl on Monday August 02, 2021 @07:11AM (#28035176)

Example rewrite:

I am _a_ brown guy._I have been in _the_ [US] for 2 years._One problem I have is that [I] [have] this thick south asian accent (and also _I need to_ [become] _more_ fluent speaking [E]nglish), because during _my_ internship, at the end, that's _the_ only feedback _I_ [received] from my manager, that "[Y]ou are [technically] sound, but you do lack communication skills." So _the_ reason for asking the question here is to get advice and resources to solve my problem _with communication skills. _:)

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