Timeline for How to ignore a presenter's bad english?
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| Apr 9, 2021 at 4:35 | comment | added | kate | Kinda understand your frustration. But some people have speech difficulty, like stuttering etc. i know some of them, they work really hard actually to overcome that, which is not an issue of english but a very difficult issue on another level. can see that they prepare their materials very well too. i know it's frustrating but i feel for them too - it's a complicated feeling | |
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| May 7, 2020 at 9:18 | answer | added | Tom Kelly ケリー・トム | timeline score: 4 | |
| May 4, 2020 at 12:02 | answer | added | Stephen McKean | timeline score: 3 | |
| May 4, 2020 at 5:10 | answer | added | Poidah | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 3, 2020 at 19:33 | answer | added | Ben | timeline score: -3 | |
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| May 12, 2018 at 5:23 | comment | added | SSimon | @CaptainEmacs AMEN for that, a hard pill to swallow, I actually one time ask presenter to explain in French, since I knew he know it well. | |
| Feb 21, 2017 at 10:38 | comment | added | user25972 | @NZKshatriya that's only taking care of OP's frustration. It may still be difficult for them to understand the presentation. I've had similar problems even though English is my second language. Listening to my native language's sentence structures, very different from English structuring, being used with English words, was processing overload for my brain. Admittedly this happened with the least fluent speakers, I understood average speakers fine. (Using an "active listening" approach helped, as detailed in other answers.) | |
| Feb 3, 2017 at 4:15 | answer | added | rob | timeline score: 71 | |
| Feb 3, 2017 at 3:13 | comment | added | user0721090601 | One of the greatest scholars in my field (a part of Spanish literature) was British. And he was well known for having one of the most attrocious accents imaginable, effectively pronouncing every word in Spanish as if it were an English word. Don't let accent or quality of language dissuade you, as @NateEldredge points out, poor language skills don't mean poor content, which is the most important part. | |
| Feb 3, 2017 at 0:20 | answer | added | Pere | timeline score: 7 | |
| Nov 18, 2016 at 21:37 | comment | added | Pere | A lot of not native English speakers have the opposite feeling: the worse the English, the easier to understand. In fact, a lot of people can understand any speaker except those that are native speakers of English: bad English is usually simple English pronounced in the same way it is written, and therefore easy to understand. About twenty years ago, a professor of mine said that the problem with American and British speakers is that they are the only ones that don't speak English - that is, the only ones that don't speak the English other people understands. | |
| Mar 13, 2016 at 10:58 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAcademia/status/708970550383796225 | ||
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| Mar 1, 2016 at 9:31 | answer | added | Jouni Sirén | timeline score: 9 | |
| Feb 29, 2016 at 23:46 | answer | added | Wolfgang Bangerth | timeline score: 28 | |
| Feb 29, 2016 at 22:47 | comment | added | Captain Emacs | Among the worst speakers I have experienced in conferences were actually British speakers. Speaking a flawless Oxford/Cambridge English, but in a tone, volume and speed appropriate for a polite club conversation, not a hall with 400 delegates and bad acoustics, they were virtually unintelligible; and that, despite coming from the country of actors, plays, and Shakespeare. Not everyone is a gifted speaker, not everyone is native or has time to practice or talent to speak, not everyone has been properly coached. Be tolerant and accept these flaws as a lesson for yourself as to what to avoid. | |
| Feb 29, 2016 at 22:03 | comment | added | Massimo Ortolano | A note: sometimes there are speakers who come from non-academic environments (e.g. research centers) and are not used to speak to large audiences. | |
| Feb 29, 2016 at 21:58 | answer | added | Debora Weber-Wulff | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 29, 2016 at 20:55 | answer | added | blankip | timeline score: -1 | |
| Feb 29, 2016 at 20:31 | comment | added | Nate Eldredge | It seems that you're subconsciously committing the following error of logic: "One element of this presentation (the language) is bad, therefore the presentation as a whole is bad, therefore all elements of the presentation (including the content) are bad." Maybe noticing this error will help you avoid it. | |
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