Quote Originally Posted by Kurando View Post
.
I can't co-sign that, fully. I speak multiple languages myself, and while I agree that's it's possible to mostly erase an accent with much practice and persistence, Hien and Yotsuyu should still have a different accent, particularly a Garlean accent as oppossed to an Eorzean one. And if we were to assume the Echo was a universal translator, it wouldn't explain why characters without the Echo are able to converse, despite being from foreign lands, which means that the language is the same.