All about accents: what they are, where they come from, how they work, and all the secrets they have to tell us about who we are, what we're like, and what matters most to us
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Accent tip #7: anYbody, anYthing, everYbody, everYthing...
I tend to put this in the “fine-tuning” category. Today’s feature isn’t one of the first dozen or so things I’ll tend to teach an American working on an English accent or vice versa. It is, nevertheless, one of the most common “tells,” when...
Moroccan languages: Darija & Tamazight (teaser)
Trying something a little new. Full video in the works. Let me know what you think in the comments!
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Accent tip #6: Irish “slit” T
One of the most characteristic sounds of Irish English1 is the peculiar (to non-Irish folk) articulation of final T sounds, as in what, sit, fate. You can hear Saoirse Ronan use two very clear examples in the clip below, in out and that:
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R sounds are super weird
I was in Morocco last week, and I’m working on a long form video about Moroccan Arabic and the Berber Tamazight languages. It’s not finished yet, so in the meantime, here’s a two-parter about American R sounds from last year. (Continuing in...
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I'm a dialect coach for movies, and I write posts (and make videos) about accents, dialects, and language.
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W. Kamau Bell is a Peabody Award winning and Emmy award-winning producer, stand-up comedian, Celebrity Jeopardy! champion, podcaster, director, part-time activist, and full-time family man from Oakland, CA.
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