Day 23. Speaking (Edited: Day 24) I've wondered for a long time that why many people wanted to speak like a native speaker. Every time I saw some discussions on italki like, "Do you choose a native speaker as a teacher? Why she put her level C2, she can't speak like a native speaker", I fed up with those discussions and close the computer. Teaching skill should not be estimated by its speaking level even if they are native speakers. I saw many native teachers really can't teach. They just talk in their mother tongue, English, in the class and get money. Personally I don't think that students are able to speak like a 100% native unless they are bilingual by nature. Even if they lived for ten years in English spoken countries, they still keep their own accents. You don't notice the difference of accents if the students speak at high level English, but if a fellow countryman listens to it, they catch their mother tongue accent quickly. I don't see any problems in speaking with your own accent if you make understood yourself. I think speaking with your accent is even attractive and I see it your own beauty. I like to listen to people who speak with French or Spanish accents. They are very exotic and it sound like nice music to me. I doubt if my English with Japanese accent would be nice music. Some friends of mine would say to me before, it sounded like a robot. Oh, my goodness! I might have speaking talent like AI. Thank you.