Being a non-native speaker is your superpower

2 Jun 2023 · 1 min

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Short motivational message by Hadar Shemesh encouraging non-native English speakers to see their linguistic background and immigrant experiences as strengths. She reframes challenges—moving countries, learning a language, starting over—as qualifications that make speakers uniquely capable and urges pride in one’s accent and journey.

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What you bring to the table as a non native speaker makes you unique. The challenges that you faced, moving to a different country, starting over, learning a new language, finding yourself succeeding, that's what makes you so qualified to handle other situations. So that obstacle that you think you have or that disadvantage is actually your advantage. Because you know things about the world, about people, about struggles that other people don't, which makes makes you super qualified and competent to do any job that you want. So instead of thinking of your accent and your English as a source of shame, wear it proudly. Acknowledge your journey and your worth.