Is it normal it annoys me that foreigners skip speech training?

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I had speech issues as a child and they sent me to speech since I was little. I did not mind it but I had to go. Yet some how foreign doctors have accents none of the people in the country they work in understand.

Why is speech training not required for higher up jobs like doctor or teacher? I mean that ticks me off. How do they get an interview? I was always taught I had to speak well in a interview and write correctly. Yet apparently you can still speak terribly and pass. So whats the point of giving children speech training? When it obviously doesn't make a difference?

Slight accent is not a issue. In fact some people find a slight accent attractive. When its so bad people are just looking at you lost you need to take a speech class.

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  • jhudgins1101
    10 years ago

    If you are going to a country, you should learn the native language. If I were moving to an area where Spanish was the primary language, I would learn Spanish. It frustrates me when someone can't speak English fluently. Almost all official scientific reports, or anything really, are first published in English. All over the world. Not just in the US. English is like our modern day Latin.

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  • Shrunk
    10 years ago

    Accent =/= speech impediment... "what's the point of giving children speech training?" so that they can speak their native tongue properly..? I mean, maybe other languages do have speech training for those who have problems speaking their own language like you did. Have you ever tried to speak another language..? Maybe if you did, then you could appreciate the difficulty these "foreigners" are having... it really depends what you mean by "speak terribly". As long as all the words are there, I don't really see a problem... you just have to listen more closely.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      10 years ago

      Like I said a slight accent not an issue. If you can not speak well enough to explain something to your patient you should not be allowed to work there. They make everyone else speak properly they to should be held up to that same standard. I mean HEAVY accent not light accent.

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      • Shrunk
        10 years ago

        So did I. it doesn't matter how heavy the accent, the same still applies. they do not allow people to work in high positions if they do not understand what they're doing. You just can't understand what they're saying because you are too impatient

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        • Anonymous Post Author
          10 years ago

          Yes and if they can not explain to a patient you think that is a good thing? That is kind of needed. If you did not realize that yet. You think people should not know what a doctor is going to do, or what is wrong with them, or what they can and cant do before a procedure? You really don't understand how this type of thing works? A patient needs to be able to understand these things and most want to be told whats going on with them.

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          • Shrunk
            10 years ago

            They can explain. You just don't listen.

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  • [Old Memory]
    10 years ago

    Personally I think we talk good enough but I not really understand why you have to make issue. We come to you country for a better life not to be harassed by ignorant racists and xenophobe. Maybe it all the political correctness or whatever but you need to realize we little different than you and really that all I think need to be said on such things.

    So yeah, I hope I address you question in well fashion.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      10 years ago

      This from the white supremacist.

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      • dom180
        10 years ago

        He was mocking a foreign accent. He hasn't changed, and the subtlety of it made it kind of worse than normal.

        On topic: I think most accents are penetrable if you focus hard enough. I agree that people should speak the language well if they need to converse with people in it, but there's some burden on the listener too because they should at least give their full concentration. I've never been in a situation where I've been at a complete loss to understand what someone is saying in English and I've met a lot of people with thick accents, which is why I think most accents can be understood if you listen hard and ask them to repeat slowly.

        As a sidenote: "forcing" a kid with a speech impediment to have speech therapy isn't the same a forcing a foreign person to. Kids with speech impediments aren't legally mandated to have speech therapy, and if they were forced to go it was their parents doing the forcing, not the government.

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      • [Old Memory]
        10 years ago

        Who? I don't understand.

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  • Mersaphe
    10 years ago

    Yes no one should have accents because everyone should talk exactly the same. In fact Americans have absolutely no accents at all and everyone in the world wants to talk like Americans

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