I will have my new job starting from mid-March. To me, it is really the challenge as it requires working in foreign countries, like London, France... I didn't taken such kind of job before. My first job requested to go to China (In Hong Kong, we used to call "the Mainland") . Remember the first I went to the factory in Guang Dong together with my boss. I was so nervous that I couldn't say a word to my boss, and I felt tense throughout the trip. My boss came from Mainland and spoke in Mandarin (my mother language is Cantonese. Certainly I can't talk fluently in Mandarin). Arriving at the factory, all I had to say and think was Mandarin. Sometimes I didn't understand what my colleagues talked about. My symptom in social phobia would come immediately that made me more and more nervous. "Pardon!", the word always there from my mouth.
As far as I am concern, speaking in English might not be the problem. My upset is the understanding, listening to English, which are not the easy job for me. Probably I will use the word, "sorry" so many times within the conversation with the foreigners. And they might find uncomfortable to talk with me, loss their confidence, or even trust on me.