By Paragraphs, Accents

Hello there,Would you take a look at this paragraph? My question is about the last sentence: Can a person actually learn a new accent? Many people feel that after a certain age, it's just not possible. Can classic musicians play jazz? If they practice, of course they can! For your...

Anonymous wrote: Hello, I am just trying to find out if you put a comma before all quotes???? According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the EHR is, “a longitudinal collection of patient-centric healthcare information available across providers, care settings,...

If you are curious about how others might think of your accent, you can get some feedback from Kantalk.com. At its recording page (http://www.kantalk.com/recording/), you can record a funy paragraph, which is used by linguists to study human accent. After you've done it, others can rate your...

You can record a paragraph at http://www.kantalk.com/recording/. The text was written by a linguistic professor who studies accent. After you recorded it online, others can rate your accent and give you feedback how to improve. Some native speakers recorded it too. It's very interesting.

Hi, this is interesting, it reminds me of something I read in a book for improving pronunciation (the famous "American Accent Training"). The title of the paragraph is "Spoon or Sboon?" She (the author) say: "Say spoon. Now say sboon. Hear how they sound the same?" This is similar to your p/b...

To tell you the truth, I've never heard any foreigner (unless they learned English when they were very young, or had lived in an English speaking country for at least a decade, and had extensive, and personalized accent coaching) ever be able to pull off either an American or British accent....

You bring up so many points in your message Colombo. The grammatical points I will leave for someone else to answer since I am not very hot on grammar as you will see from my spat with the Gurus some time ago. I am quite good at conversation though and would like to hold a discussion with...

Felt I had to jump in here with my 2c. worth...... I am British, I was educated at an expensive school in Cheltenham in Gloucestershire so I tend to speak that way. Although I have lived in The States for almost 20 years, most of it in The Deep South, I am married to an Englishman and have lost...

I just happened to visit a TEFL site and read this article "Are you Tefl material?", dated September 27, 2004. I am really interested in teaching abroad, and would love to take it up as a profession. Currently I am working as a Communication Trainer (American Voice and Accent) for American...

You know, if they had a larger database .... But it is still interesting. I also was looking for the Irish accent that I like, Day Lwis in In the Name of the Father, it was close to strabane, but still different! If you go to the accent page, you'll see different nationalities, whose second...