If you speak with a foreign accent and not sure it hurts your career or job prospects, I have a good news for you.
如果你說話帶有外國口音，但不確定這會影響你的職業生涯或就業前景，我有一個好消息要告訴你。
Except for the Queen, everyone speaks English with an accent, either one of the regional ones or foreign ones. These days it is no big deal.You do need to be careful if you misspronounce sounds completely.
除了女王，每個人說英語都有口音，不管是地方口音還是外國口音。如今這沒什麼大不了的。除非你的發音完全錯誤，你才需要小心。
For examples, Russians sometimes pronounce 'deal' as 'dill'. If you have a problem like that with the sound E, do not say"peace on you ", it may not go well..
例如，俄羅斯人有時會把deal讀成dill。如果你對發音E有這樣的問題，不要說“peace on you”，它可能不太好。
When I started as a new CTO in one of previous companies, within a week an employee came and said he does NOT want to work with Jews. I had heard all kinds of requests previously. Someone had wanted to bring his grandmother to Bring Your Daughter To Work day. Another had wanted to bring his 4-foot python snake to the office. But this one, about Jews, caught me off guard. There were a few long seconds where I was searching for a proper response. And then I realized - he is talking about a project Zeus, and he is mis-pronouncing Z. I asked you don't want work on project Zeus? He said, right, not on Jews.
當我在之前的一家公司擔任新首席技術官時，不到一週就有一名員工來找我，說他不想和猶太人一起工作。我以前聽到過各種各樣的請求。有人想帶他的祖母、帶他的兒女來上班，也有人想把他的4英尺長的蟒蛇帶到辦公室。但是這一個，關於猶太人的，讓我措手不及。我驚呆了有那麼幾秒鐘的時間，在尋找合適的回答。然後我意識到，他說的可能是宙斯計劃，他把z發錯音了，我問：你不想參與宙斯計劃?他說：對，不是針對猶太人。
Long ago, accents were indeed a problem when native speakers were not accustomed to foreign accents. Back then, I lived in North Carolina. It did not matter what the first sentence out of my mouthwas, the first sentence was never understood. I sometimes said, hello, my name is Micky Mouse.
很久以前，當以英語為母語的人不習慣外國口音時，口音確實是個問題。那時，我住在北卡羅來納州。我嘴裡說的第一句話是什麼並不重要，第一句話從來就不被人理解。我有時說，你好，我的名字是米老鼠。
But these days it is great. If you speak with a strong accent like I do, it is like wearing glasses, makes you look even smarter.
但現在一切都很好。如果你像我一樣說話帶著濃重的口音，那就像戴眼鏡一樣，會讓你看起來更聰明。
Accents are no longer a problem. Outside of work though, they say that the Russian accent is scary. So if you are like I am- 6'6'' tall and speak with Russian accent, do not ask strangers for directions in a dark street.
口音不再是問題。工作之餘，他們說俄羅斯口音很可怕。所以，如果你和我一樣——6英尺6英寸高，說話帶有俄羅斯口音，不要在黑暗的街道上向陌生人問路。
But，You do need to be careful with taking expressions out of one language and into another. I learned the hard way.
然而，你確實需要小心把一種語言的表達變成另一種語言的表達。我為此曾醜態百出。
In Russian language Golden Shower means something really really good.
在俄語中，金色的雨意味著非常非常好的東西。
When I took my first job in an American company my English was full of holes.
當我在一家美國公司找到第一份工作時，我的英語漏洞百出。
I was invited with a group of other new hires to a breakfast with a 3rd line manager, a big boss. He went on for 10 minutes about great culture, benefits and opportunities, all good stuff. He then stopped to catch his breath. He asked for feedback looking right at me.
我和一群新員工被邀請去和一個第三線經理，一個大老闆共進早餐。他花了10分鐘談論偉大的公司文化、好處和機會，所有這些都是好東西。然後他停下來喘口氣，並盯著我尋求反饋意見。
I said that in my opinion the company is giving it's employees the golden shower.
我說：在我看來，公司是在給它的員工金雨（黃金雨---指妓女，男妓對嫖客臉上小便）。
The moment later I knew I said something terribly wrong. The manager turned red to the color of red tomato. Everyone else turned absolutely white. The manager mumbled something. He cut the breakfast short and left.
那一刻，我意識到我說錯了什麼。經理的臉漲紅了，變成了紅番茄的顏色。其他人都臉色煞白。經理咕噥了幾句。他匆匆吃完早飯就走了。
An hour later when I got called into my immediate manager's office I knew what I had really said. I expected the worst.To my amazement, I found my manager and his manager in the convulsions of laughter. One of them was laughing so hard, he slipped out from his armchair.
一個小時後，當我被叫到直屬經理的辦公室時，我知道自己說了些什麼。我做了最壞的打算。令我吃驚的是，我發現我的經理和他的經理都笑得前仰後合。其中一個笑得太厲害了，他溜了出去
Thus, I learned that I do not need to speak the Queen's English - to the the king of my own professional destiny.
因此，我知道在我自己的職業命運的國王面前，我並不需要使用女王般的語言對待它。
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