I feel like when I first lived in China and I didn't speak good Chinese at this point, and the job that I had in Guangzhou back in 2017, I was the only foreigner there. And something that I really struggled with linguistically was when people would ask me to do things in Chinese but they sound much more direct in English. So it's kind of like if you don't have somewhat of a good accent, you're completely like your other story. You're misunderstood. Being adopting the language means that you do have a different, I don't know because otherwise you can't communicate with people. You have to.

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