What would you do if a college professor had a strong accent and you could not understand him or her?

What would you do if a college professor had a strong accent and you could not understand him or her?
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I think you should learn how to construct a sentence with a subject and a verb (!) before you criticize the way someone else talks. then when you’re done with that, you should read English with an Accent, by Rossina Lipp-Greene.
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