One feature of every accent I have worked with is difficulty with voicing of consonants. What is "voicing" anyway? Well, we will get to that. To start, did you know that there's a difference in pronunciation between the words "bus" and "buzz," between "place" and...
A few weeks ago, one of my friends had an interesting post on Facebook. She was fed up with people asking her where she was from as they were obviously racially profiling her. When someone asked her where she was from, she would tell them...
Have you been watching “The Bachelor” this season? Have you ever wondered what it is about Juan Pablo’s pronunciation that makes him sound so different from a standard American English speaker? Prepare to find out! First check out this video to hear Juan Pablo speak and...
Say “day” and “they” out loud… Do the words sound different? If not, you have a feature of accented English that is common across people from many different language backgrounds. Each language has its own set of sounds. You may find that while there are many...