I do. It is something called Pseudo Foreign Dialect [1], iirc. I basically have accent in every language I speak including native.

As an immigrant in the US, I don't find this affects me much. A lot of people just assume this is my accent, though some wonder why my accent is not same as others from my native country.

Growing up in my country, it was a bit rough, people including grownups & teachers loved to point out that I sounded funny. Sometimes, it was worse. I can guess it would have impacted my confidence & career significantly if I was professional back home.

I love it that people are more polite in the West especially in the US. Sometimes people have difficulty understanding me and they are very apologetic about it.

I try to speak slower and louder in business especially on phone. I might slightly exaggerate pronunciations. And if I see confused look on a listener's face, I would pre-emptively apologize for my accent and repeat or spell out the word. I find this is better for conversation than being defensive about my accent.

I have fear of public speaking but I am slowly working to overcome it. If I have to do presentation, I just slow down a lot, take a lot of breaks in between sentences to let audience process a new strange accent. Usually, my presentations are with my coworkers, so they are used to my accent.

If I was in sales or public facing position than it might have impacted me more. I am lucky to be a programmer.

Also I worked with someone stutter a lot. Everyone was super nice, and they would let him finish talking. If arguments started and he didn't get a chance to say much, my manager would step in and ask him direct question if he had anything to add.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysprosody

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