Help me with my American Accent
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This is why we really need your reviews so that we can further learn how to properly speak using your accent. :)
***marie ram***
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You obviously could not understand my disdain for your post with my responses.
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Ahmm err sorry but you're wrong, it's really obvious :^) I'm just trying to be nice.
***marie ram***
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That's another thing I find infuriating; just because you can fake American you can get a better paycheck than a programmer? I want to say thing that are no longer appropriate.
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Well, I am sure that Indian call centre workers, on average, give a better return than Indian programmers do. I realise he's not in India, but I've worked with Indian outsourcing companies, and it was a joke.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. "Iam doing the browsing center project in vb.net using c# coding" - this is why I don't answer questions much anymore. Oh, and Microsoft doesn't want me to.
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That's another thing I find infuriating; just because you can fake American you can get a better paycheck than a programmer? I want to say thing that are no longer appropriate.
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Please don't. The real reason why we are trying to learn is because the American accent sounds professional to Asian ears, meaning our customers are not from America. Maybe that's why our American boss is hiring us because not only could we understand our fellow Asian's accents we could also (hopefully) sound professional to them. :)
***marie ram***
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I agree but I am not going to do business with an American company that obviously ships American jobs oversees.
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I agree with both of you. It's not the fault of the person who needs the job that it's been moved to where they are, but as consumers the best way to protest the movement of jobs offshore ( which you could protest because of the impact on local workers, or because of a drop in quality, I certainly hate talking to people who can't understand me ), is to let our feelings be known and take our business elsewhere. I know I buy milk that costs almost twice as much, in protest of the bigger groups who are killing the farmers. I think that's the only way to show you're serious about supporting paying a fair price for a fair product.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. "Iam doing the browsing center project in vb.net using c# coding" - this is why I don't answer questions much anymore. Oh, and Microsoft doesn't want me to.
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Ahmm err sorry but you're wrong, it's really obvious :^) I'm just trying to be nice.
***marie ram***
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Please don't. The real reason why we are trying to learn is because the American accent sounds professional to Asian ears, meaning our customers are not from America. Maybe that's why our American boss is hiring us because not only could we understand our fellow Asian's accents we could also (hopefully) sound professional to them. :)
***marie ram***
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*clap* *clap*
"And what is the purpose of music... simply to wake up from the very life we're living." -John Cage Stacey Student Part time programmer Musician wannabe
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I agree with both of you. It's not the fault of the person who needs the job that it's been moved to where they are, but as consumers the best way to protest the movement of jobs offshore ( which you could protest because of the impact on local workers, or because of a drop in quality, I certainly hate talking to people who can't understand me ), is to let our feelings be known and take our business elsewhere. I know I buy milk that costs almost twice as much, in protest of the bigger groups who are killing the farmers. I think that's the only way to show you're serious about supporting paying a fair price for a fair product.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. "Iam doing the browsing center project in vb.net using c# coding" - this is why I don't answer questions much anymore. Oh, and Microsoft doesn't want me to.
Well said, Christian. I, too, vote with my wallet. It's the only vote that counts.
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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oh big shock; another from the Ph :rolleyes: illipienes is in agreement.
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All she did was ask for help and then copped a load of shit for her nationality. Its things like this that have driven me away from CP lately
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oh big shock; another from the Ph :rolleyes: illipienes is in agreement.
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must you really define what i have to say based on my nationality? i don't see anyone else here saying "oh another american is in agreement!"
"And what is the purpose of music... simply to wake up from the very life we're living." -John Cage Stacey Student Part time programmer Musician wannabe
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I understand that, but when someone who has much less training that you gets your job for a fraction of the salary, you will understand my position.
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leckey wrote:
but when someone who has much less training that you gets your job for a fraction of the salary, you will understand my position.
That would upset anyone without doubt but its hardly this persons fault. Seems to me she's polite, well spoken and willing to work hard in her own time to get what she wants.
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Sorry, but after being laid off for so many months...plus I had to cancel two credit cards because I could not understand the accent of the customer service people.
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Hey, i know the feeling. As i've mentioned here before, one of the odd jobs i worked to put myself through school was a call center, and as shitty as the job was, it still hurt when they started farming it out overseas. That said, i took the call center job because i needed money and it got me out of an even worse job. I had, at the time, an excellent voice for it, but no love whatsoever - how then could i blame anyone else, any_where_ else, for doing the same as i did? As far as i'm concerned, if someone in India, or the Philippines, or Alabama, or any other god-forsaken corner of the world decides they can better their life by taking a job being moved there from somewhere else... then more power to them. I will not disrespect someone who strives to do their job well, regardless of nationality. As for the many, many companies who couple inexpensive labor with lowered standards for the job that gets done... i have nothing but disdain for them, and laugh a bitter laugh when their actions lead them ultimately to ruin. Far from being stolen, the jobs of which you speak have been sold by these short-sighted organizations, sold for a mess of pottage, and the beans are long ago devoured. I woke up this morning to a meeting notice. My employer announced more layoffs, plant closings. No idea yet whether it'll affect me or anyone i know; it's a global company, and so tough times may just as easily hurt the plants in China or India as those in Wisconsin or Texas. Things are bad all over...
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You're right. These facts that you've laid out totally contradict the wild ramblings that I pulled off the back of cornflakes packets.
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I understand that, but when someone who has much less training that you gets your job for a fraction of the salary, you will understand my position.
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Nganu ka oi.. Ingna lang gud nga wa kay swerte sa imong trabaho..
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All she did was ask for help and then copped a load of shit for her nationality. Its things like this that have driven me away from CP lately
Thanks. I really appreciate your concern. :)
mawi_ram
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leckey wrote:
but when someone who has much less training that you gets your job for a fraction of the salary, you will understand my position.
That would upset anyone without doubt but its hardly this persons fault. Seems to me she's polite, well spoken and willing to work hard in her own time to get what she wants.
Thanks man! :-O
mawi_ram
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That's another thing I find infuriating; just because you can fake American you can get a better paycheck than a programmer? I want to say thing that are no longer appropriate.
Blog link to be reinstated at a later date.
It's all about demand. If you have 1000 skilled programmers and only 10 skilled call center workers who are capable of doing the job, who will get paid more? Getting a call center position in the Philippines is highly contested. They're not just off the street bogans you appear to make them out to be.
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Hey big brothers and sisters (preferably Americans), could you help me in evaluating my American accent (not that I'm assuming I have one)? I'm trying to train myself to sound one so I could be a call center agent. So here it is. By the way, the script is from the American Accent Training book by Ann Cook. Thank you. :)
Mawi
Why in the name of the Lord do you want to sound american? Can't you choose a nicer axcent? Good old Brittish? Jamaican maybe!
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Hey big brothers and sisters (preferably Americans), could you help me in evaluating my American accent (not that I'm assuming I have one)? I'm trying to train myself to sound one so I could be a call center agent. So here it is. By the way, the script is from the American Accent Training book by Ann Cook. Thank you. :)
Mawi
Learn to speak with a British English accent rather than an American one. Oddly enough most Americans take a British accent as a sign of talent in the acting profession (as a call center worker you are a really an actor :) ) and are more inclined to listen attentively. See http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/fry-americans-confuse-british-accents-for-talent-441002.html[^]