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I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on accelerating startups. Opinions here are my own.

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    1. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 25 Oct 2019
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      Patrick McKenzie Retweeted Phil Freo

      There's a huge number of $100+ an hour tutoring businesses to be built, and plausibly some very large companies serving as demand gen, around this. The need isn't new, at all, but the addressable scale is.https://twitter.com/philfreo/status/1187485837631602690 …

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      Phil Freo @philfreo
      Any suggested ESL online courses/coaches for those wanting to improve their English, especially verbally? Wondering if there's a resource we could offer in cases where we interview really smart remote engineers where the biggest issue may be around ease of communication.
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    2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 25 Oct 2019
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      I know a relatively small number of Japanese professionals who paid "lawyer money" for either English practice or, from the one who was savviest, effectively just accent modification. (He worked in finance in NYC and his explicit goal was sounding "from nowhere in particular.")

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      Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 25 Oct 2019
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      (As long as we're doing storytime: I attempt to have my Japanese accent suggest "generic Tokyo salaryman, maybe a bit too polite" because when I let it drift into the accent/dialect that prevailed at my university or in Gifu people thought they were *hilarious* from a white guy.)

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        1. Daniel Molling‏ @ShreddedMoney 25 Oct 2019
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          Can confirm - the language school my partner works at has made a lot of money doing sessions for Japanese auto industry workers in the Detroit metro area

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        2. Christian Genco‏ @cgenco 25 Oct 2019
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          Something always feels remarkably strange to me when I hear someone ESL pronouncing vowels in the British or Australian way. My brain has neutral nets for parsing English spoken in one later of accent, but they break right now when exposed to two.

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        3. Michele Hansen‏ @mjwhansen 25 Oct 2019
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          While we're talking funny reactions to accents: in Denmark, people tell me I sound like the Princess when I speak Danish because she is Australian.

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        1. Taufiq Muhammadi‏ @waruboy 25 Oct 2019
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          I think that'a what people call gap moe? 🙈

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        1. Martha Lawton‏ @marthalawton 25 Oct 2019
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          I first learned Japanese in south Osaka-fu. Pure Osaka-ben. Back in the UK I picked up Hyoujungo from my tutors. Subsequent trips were all to Kanto, so that's how I stayed. Except around Osaka-jin when my accent reverts and I sound like an Osaka girl trying to talk posh.😆

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        1. Josh Lewis!‏ @joshlewis 25 Oct 2019
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          I’m not sure if it’s weird or not, but I’m a native English speaker and I also try to sound like I’m from nowhere in particular. I’ve spent most of my time in the Midwest, but I don’t want to sound like I’m from there, and I intentionally avoid it as best I can.

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        1. hack 🕴️2020‏ @hacklaw 25 Oct 2019
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          What’s wrong with hilarious? Dance gaijin dance!

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