Stop Worrying About Your Accent
WHAT you say and HOW you say it matters more than your accent.
100% of the people who currently come to my sessions are French. 50% of the them worry about their French accent. 100% of them shouldn’t.
Good pronunciation and accent are amplifiers - of good and bad impression respectively. If your talk is great, good pronunciation will increase the positive vibe. However, if your talk is so-so, even the greatest pronunciation will not save it, and accent will make a bad impression worse.
So let’s stop worrying about our accent and focus on WHAT and HOW we are going to say.
Take a look at this TED talk. With no slides to show and with a French accent that would make an English teacher faint, Philippe Starck totally captivates the audience with his ideas, great stories and unique style. Why wouldn’t you?
Image source: https://www.starck.com/portraits