| Mother tongue influence | | | | funnier. Especially in the business of call centers in |
| | | | India people with MTI are not even considered for |
| What is mother tongue influence? | | | | a job. Now this I think is the most demoralizing |
| It is the effect of a person’s mother tongue | | | | factor for most job aspirants. It hits there self |
| on any other spoken language. At large this is | | | | confidence levels just to think that they cannot |
| concerned with the English Language. This term is | | | | speak proper English. I would want to clarify this |
| mostly used in call centers and BPO industry. | | | | here that every region, every country has its |
| In a broader sense MTI or mother tongue | | | | own accent and way of speaking English. Indians |
| influence is sometimes treated as a disease in call | | | | have a MTI just like French, Germans and Italians |
| centers. This however is not a disease but a | | | | do. But they get away with it because of their |
| minor glitch in a person’s habitual speaking. | | | | strong economies and since they don’t have |
| This can be rectified like any other ailments in | | | | call centers setup in their countries it hardly even |
| speaking by practice. There are certain set of | | | | matters. In my personal experience I have come |
| people which are not native English language | | | | across Americans who have difficulty in |
| speakers, for these people to pronounce words | | | | understanding an Indian from the word go. But |
| and speak sentences in the way a native English | | | | however, if he/she spends some time on the |
| speaker would is quite difficult. When they try to | | | | phone or in person with an Indian they will |
| do it, it sounds a lot different and to some even | | | | understand what is being spoken. |