This experience can be even more challenging if you're new to a country and speak with what is perceived to be a "foreign" accent. An accent can often impact how we are viewed and judged by others.
Try words for babies or friends, happy, sad, tired, lucky. Just like accents, people speak differently across the UK, and so a dialect is neither right nor wrong. Narrator (referencing the burp ...
some are taking extra classes to learn to speak with a polished British accent. It is the long school vacation in Nigeria and Elizabeth Stephens' regular students - the children of Abuja's rich ...
A stroke victim who started speaking with an Italian accent after initially losing her speech for three months has said it feels like someone is “impersonating” her. Althia Bryden, 58, a medically ...
It has always struck me as absurd that actors in English-language films set in other times or countries speak in accents. After all, the ancient Romans, Greeks, Israelites, Gaels or whatever other ...