That's how Finnish people speak, yes I understand it can be annoying because they normally don't convey much emotion with their tone (I've worked with plenty of Finnish people, all have been awesome people to work with) but you get used to it and not care since they are fluent. I tried learning Finnish myself, no easy task, so be thankful.
Unless you have some idiotic reason to nitpick on people.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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Sounds like a robot doing the demo.
She's Finnish, the *thick* accent is really noticeable. I guess she knows her stuff - otherwise I would get someone who speaks English fluently.
She does speak fluent English, she just has an accent. Seeing as you can't speak Finnish, perhaps you should be grateful?
The accent is not the problem; the problem is that the demonstrator failed to grab our attention by speaking tonally (dynamically?).
Just to clarify that I meant "by *not* speaking tonally".
That's how Finnish people speak, yes I understand it can be annoying because they normally don't convey much emotion with their tone (I've worked with plenty of Finnish people, all have been awesome people to work with) but you get used to it and not care since they are fluent. I tried learning Finnish myself, no easy task, so be thankful.
Unless you have some idiotic reason to nitpick on people.