Language Question?
Young adult student from (I'm pretty sure) India. Writes good English. Speaks what I assume is good Indian English, but it's very, very fast and very different from my (U.S.) English. To the point I often can't understand. (And I'm reasonably linguistically aware.)
This is a problem. It would be bad enough if it were a case of a student who needed to work on their spoken English skills, but I would have some idea how to have that conversation. But this person seems to speak very fluent English. Just not in a way that I can understand it.
(As I assume most of you know, Indian English can sometimes be very different from other varieties.)
Any advice on how to handle this? I want to be kind and respectful, but having a student I can't understand is not a tenable situation.