Luke Thompson

But at the same time, I think we can

consider it to be a strength because of this, right?

So if you think, well, I'm trying to sound, I've been told, or I believe that I have to sound like a native speaker in order to be using this language correctly.

Not really, not really true.

Like English is much more of an open source language than you might think.

And the fact that there's so many different accents is a good thing because your accent is one of them as well.

So if you are

a Polish person speaking English, for example, then, you know, it's okay to have a bit of a Polish accent because, you know, welcome to the club.

We've all got some sort of accent.

Exactly.

There's loads of Polish people with a Polish-English accent.

Obviously, your accent shouldn't be so Polish that it doesn't sound like English, essentially.

It's got to be mostly English.

But if people know that you're from Poland or they can tell that you're from somewhere, that's not necessarily a bad thing because everyone's got something.

Everyone has... The variety of accents is a thing to celebrate and it's a thing to realise that having an accent

is okay.

English allows you to have an accent.

That's kind of part of what is great about English.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

And I guess if we're talking about refining our English, part of that is this code switching thing that you talked about, knowing when to adjust your accent or the form of English that you're using, the register, whether you're being...