IT Courses in English recorded by Non-Native Americans

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Is it true that Americans don't buy IT courses (self-study) recorded by foreigners? They prefer courses spoken in native English and don't like (or don't buy) Europeans, Indians or Australians, right?

 

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Its generally a lot easier to understand native speakers, this is unfortunate for both parties, but yes it is what it is.

Indian and Spanish accents can be problematic. Depends on the individual.

Some people are fluent and their accent is not an issue, so maybe ask your foreign students and build up good reputation or provide free introductory lessons so people can decide if its for them.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanemaarek/

This guy is french and does excellent courses, so it is possible.

 

I don't know about Americans, but I'd be surprised if they are any worse than us English. For an entry level course where there's a whole bunch of the same stuff being taught to the same basic template by a bunch of people, you may as well pick whichever teacher has least effort accent for you the listener. 14 hour courses on AWS sysops admin are kind of all the same in all other respects, so why not?

But when you move onto the more specific stuff then the courses aren't all the same any more, so you should learn EKS from Stephan Maarek, or ELK from Bo Anderson, OpenStack from Kris Celmer (who pronounces key pair as "keeper" which is a bit confusing for a second), and Terraform specifically for GCP from Ankit Mistry.

I did once bounce on an AWS course because the Australian dude presenting it had that rising cadence thing that makes every sentence sound like a question, and 18 hours of that is actually quite distracting.