Lindsay McMahon

And I was letting it keep me from, you know, the self-awareness of that, the lack of confidence, because I knew I was making that mistake, kept me from connections and opportunities.

And I finally had to just accept that I struggled with that sound.

I was working on it, but I knew it wouldn't always be perfect.

And I had to choose just like I'm still going to have conversations and just hope the people I am talking to don't really care.

Just don't say it.

Yes.

And we'll do our best, but we're not going to say it perfectly every time.

And, you know, everyone we're talking to just has to accept us for who we are.

So yeah, give us the second tip here.

I'm excited.

I love this first one.

It is so true, right?

And being aware of the sounds that are problematic in English, what you're replacing them with is the first step in being able to improve that for clearer speech.

It might always still be there some, or it might be a little more subtle.

The people you are connecting with understand.

That's the goal, as long as they understand and you can have a good conversation.

Okay.

This is so true because I will be speaking with someone who has a very heavy accent and can understand them perfectly because they're using correct word stress.

They're linking correctly.

And I have no problem.