What to do when people give you feedback on your accent

14 Mar 2023 · 1 min

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A short YouTube advice video by Hadar Shemesh about how to handle feedback on your accent and pronunciation. The speaker argues that untrained feedback from people close to you can do more harm than good, emphasizes setting boundaries, and notes that feedback is most useful when it is requested and wanted (with some exceptions).

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When people who are close to you give you feedback on your accent and your pronunciation and they're not trained to do so, it could probably do more harm than good. And you need to set boundaries, especially if you feel that it's not helping you. Now, there are exceptions. For some people, it would be great. But I believe that when you give feedback on someone's pronunciation or speech, it's not enough to say, oh, this is how you say it, because it doesn't register when you get feedback. When you're trying to communicate, getting feedback is something that you need to want and to ask for it.