Cockney & Australian Confusion
I was contacted by someone who is struggling to nail the Cockney accent, and he keeps slipping into what sounds more like an Australian accent. This isn't uncommon at all!... Read more
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Northern Irish Accent Intonation
Here's an introduction to the upward lilt of the Northern Irish accent - maybe not what you'd expect from an Irish accent if you're used to thinking of the Lucky... Read more
Introduction to Accents 2: Phonetics
The International Phonetic Association created a system to represent the sounds of world languages. The Phonetic Alphabet is a useful tool for learning accents, too! Each symbol represents a single... Read more
Intonation in American Accents
An introduction to the primary intonation patterns in most American accents, especially focused on dropping off at the end of phrases, how pitches tend to follow a "stair step" speech... Read more
Introduction to Accents 1: Accent vs Dialect vs Idiolect
Part 1 of 6 - Introducing how to learn an accent. This session gives a quick overview of what the terms Dialect & Accent mean, and an explanation of how... Read more
American Southern: Soft-R Introduction
On my recent dialect recording trip to Nashville, I got to visit the home of President (and General) Andrew Jackson. Appropriately enough, a number of the folks giving the tours... Read more
Baltimore Is More Hon than Wire
I spent a week at the end of May 2011 "stealth camping" in my old 87 VW Vanagon in Baltimore. I made my way through quite a few neighborhoods, but... Read more
New Insights on Cockney Accents
I've just been working on Cockney accents with my BFA acting students, and they've been struggling... The good news, is that when something like this isn't working, I have to find... Read more
