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“Behind every accent, there may be hours of effort you never saw.” Learning English as an immigrant is not just about memorizing words, practicing verbs, or completing lessons on Duolingo and YouTube. Sometimes it means spending hours at home studying after work, while everyone else is resting, simply so you can understand a question, answer your coworker, ask where the bathroom is, or say hello without freezing. Then you finally try to speak and hear, ‘What?’ or ‘I don’t understand you.’ You mix up the past and the present, forget the word you practiced all night, start to stutter, and suddenly feel embarrassed for trying. The conversation may last only a few seconds, but the shame can stay with you for hours. So the next time you hear an immigrant coworker speaking with an accent, remember this: that accent is not a lack of intelligence. Being able to understand you, answer you, and communicate in another language may represent hours of invisible effort that happened at home, long after the workday was over. An accent is often the sound of someone trying, learning, adapting, and finding the courage to speak again.

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