I think you can ask him or her to speak slower and I agree with daviddontpc that it's a good chance to practice understanding English with accent and I think you can understand the Vietnam student soon don't frighten yourself you can do it ^_^ ※ 引述《davidontpc (炮彈發射熊)》之銘言： : ※ 引述《bethe (木神同學控)》之銘言： : : There is a foreign student come to our lab today. : : He has a very heavy accent that me and my friends can recognize : : only a few words he say. In fact, althrough my English is not so : : well too, I think his English is more poor than me. This make us : : hard to have conversation for more than two minutes.... : : I think many people may have already met this situation before, : : so I'm here to ask any positive suggestion. : : Thanks a lot. : : ps: although it is the first time we met each other, we have used : : pen and paper to "talk"..... : Which country does he come from? : I've met someone the same as yours, : at the very beginning..., I can't totally fall on the ground about : what the hall is he talking about.. : But sooner or later, you will get used to it, : on the other hand, why not taking this chance for kinda experiance of : knowing different accent, you can not only know the people live in the : states are hearing various accents of all countries, the point is, : getting used to the accent you are not familiar is better than being : scare of talking to them. : ---------------- : Wish to be able to HELP you!! --

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