{"id":826,"date":"2007-12-02T09:04:33","date_gmt":"2007-12-02T15:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/blog\/?p=886"},"modified":"2007-12-02T09:04:33","modified_gmt":"2007-12-02T15:04:33","slug":"losing-your-accent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=826","title":{"rendered":"Losing Your Accent"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"noadbriteinline\">\n<p>I recently had the opportunity to interview for a new position in the company that currently employs me.  I was relieved to finally get through the screening process.  I was very grateful for the opportunity.  I was both excited and apprehensive at the same time.  I hadn&#8217;t interviewed for anything in more than three years and my interview skills are not exactly magnificent.<\/p>\n<p>Then I wondered if my accent is still very pronounced.  Sometimes accents pose a communication barrier.  I know I have had to rely on Angie sometimes to translate me to other people because the words I&#8217;ve said form totally different words and phrases to my listener.  Angie is used to me so she can understand me no matter how fast I speak.  She also says it is a talent that she has developed.  Even when she worked at K-Mart, cashiers would ask her to assist when they received questions from foreign individuals who could and were speaking English but were difficult to understand.<\/p>\n<p>I prefer to convey my message without the aid of a translator or third party so I really wanted to work on losing my accent.  There wasn&#8217;t enough time before the interview, though.  Besides that there were a lot of other things I needed to work on.  Trust me.  My accent was the least of my worries.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eltlearn.com\/accentreduction.htm\" >accent training<\/a> is something that I would like to pursue down the road.  After all, I&#8217;m now an American.  I should sound like one.  \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently had the opportunity to interview for a new position in the company that currently employs me. I was relieved to finally get through the screening process. I was very grateful for the opportunity. I was both excited and apprehensive at the same time. I hadn&#8217;t interviewed for anything in more than three years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}