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Originally Posted by Phi  Today native English speakers have an advantage in most international negotiations... |
Not necessarily. I am not a native English speaker, but I have lived and worked a little in the US and travelled to a lot of English speaking countries. I consider I have a fluent level and almost cleaned my accent (by French standards at least
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And as I am now working -in English- with Chinese, Indian, Malaysian, Japanese people, etc., I can assure you that my level of English plays
against me. People who mumble this soup called International English (where pronounciation and grammar are simplified and approximative, vocabulary poor, etc.) will understand each other better than if one of them has a really good level.
But I certainly am not sure it's for the best...