How you look, smell, act, and talk are instantly evaluated. These factors influence how you and the other person will react to each other. First impressions are based on superficial bits of information. Someone meets you for the first time, and that person senses who you are. You also, almost immediately, make judgments of whom you like or dislike.
Few people are immune from making first impressions.
Be conscious of the information you send and receive through first impressions. Whether your relationship with another person in business or social settings will be lasting is influenced by first impressions. You hear something, but do not understand it. You speak, but are not understood. The barrier may not be because English is your second language, but due to inattentive listening.