Multiple Choice
Tasha is a spy who must interact regularly with people from many different parts of the world. Most of her contacts speak English, but they often have heavy accents that make communication difficult. What strategy should she use to become better at comprehending strangers with unfamiliar accents?
A) She should go to subtitled foreign movies to absorb sounds without necessarily trying to comprehend them.
B) She should seek accent-specific training, exposing herself to speakers of each new accents she might encounter.
C) She should expose herself to a number of talkers who each have unique accent, thereby improving her skills at understanding all accents.
D) She must try to obtain recordings of the actual individuals she hopes to be able to understand.
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