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Much is made of accents. If you speak English as a second language, you will likely have had the dismaying experience of being misunderstood or being told the obvious: "You have an accent!"


I am here to affirm that we ALL have accents. The way each of us speaks is our accent. Never mind whether you have a native accent or not, your accent is valid, expressing your lived experience and identity. Here's an affirming short on the topic.



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At the same time, it's painful to be misunderstood. Similar to someone pronouncing your name incorrectly, or worse yet, asking if they can shorten or change your name for their own convenience, being misunderstood disconnects us from the people we're talking to.


It's very difficult to change these things without support. I learned to speak different accents in my acting training at RADA in London. We worked intensively in small groups with an internationally renowned teacher. Everyone needs an outside ear and specific guidance regarding how to use the lips, teeth and tongue in speaking. By the age of 12, our language and accent centers are set.


As Bob the Canadian mentioned, it can be very helpful to record yourself on your phone when practicing pronunciation. Identify a word you usually struggle with, and find a tv show, movie or YouTube video where a native speaker uses it in a sentence. Listen to the pronunciation a few times, and then record yourself speaking it. Some people also find it helpful to practice in front of a mirror, where you can check to make sure the shape of your mouth and lips are correct.


Listening skills are also critical for learning pronunciation of a new language: you need to listen to native speakers and pick up on their speech patterns. Podcasts are great for getting familiar with English as it is really spoken. They are so often recorded by people in bedrooms and studies, speaking to their friends in a completely natural way. Some applications and websites, like YouTube, enable you to listen at half-speed, which is a great way to really focus on the sounds you are hearing, and understand the accents in detail.


This phase will be easier if you slow down your usual pace of conversation, giving yourself extra time to think about the new rules you have learned. Whilst speaking slower will probably be a bit frustrating, giving yourself time to consciously choose the more accurate pronunciations you have studied makes them more likely to stick in the long term.


If you would find it embarrassing to ask your English speaker friend for pronunciation help, then try booking some sessions with a Preply tutor. They will have coached other students through the same errors before and can produce a program of exercises customized to your own needs.


And if each accent could go with any of the other 8, and those combinations with any of the remaining 7, that's 504 combinations.

Sticking to colour a, colour b, colour c in any intensity there are 27 combinations.


To me it is a matter of which colors, values, saturation, contrast look good on YOU. While I like the different palettes on paper, I can't imagine anyone looking equally good in both a deep and a pale accent.

My accents are all bright and saturated (Red, bright pink, blue, kelly green), and while I would not wear them together (except for the blue, which might be more of a neutral), they all work the same for me.






I wear Black & Navy all the time. Dark wash "navy" blue jeans and a Black sweater or tee. Or black skinny pants with a navy & white striped top. I could not find a way to eliminate one or the other from my capsule. I also wear lots of blues and grays. It is a bit of work finding complimentary blacks and navy. It's hard to match blacks or navy's so together is a real challenge. I would love to see Janice try this combo.


This is interesting. In general, pastels don't look good on my, so my choices are vivid vs muted. I find that I like some colors better in either. That bright blue in the navy grouping is one of my accents, but I always choose the vivid. I also have a dark pink (like berry) as an accent color, but I always choose muted. The vivid berry reminds me too much of the 1980s (been there, done that).


I actually love "clashing" accent colors, especially in the examples you provided where one of the colors is only found in the shoes. I think two major colors (pants/top) with a hint of a seemingly random third color is chic, but it's definitely a matter of the right proportions of the color for me. The more "correct" palettes you presented would feel too coordinated on me.


It's definitely a personal choice, not something that should be prescribed by the fashion experts of the day, so this is very helpful to those of us who dress to the beat of our own drummers. In spite of my color analyst's best efforts, I have both brights and muted tones in my closet, but they are mostly in the tops and accessories. Generally my skirts, trousers, and shoes are in neutral tones so I don't run into an issue with my accents fighting each other in a single outfit.


I love the black with mixed bright accents as it is essentially my wardrobe. I can't give up those three colors. I occasionally wander into the muted purple or red but never into the pastels. I would love to see a wardrobe built around them. I regularly wear any 2 of the accents together since the values are similar.


Have you ever stopped and listened to people around you? They probably all sound a little bit different, even if they speak the same language. People may sound different because they come from different parts of the country. Some people sound like they are from another country. They all sound different because of their accent.


However, accents can sometimes make it hard for you to talk with other people. People may not understand your accent. You may get frustrated because you have to repeat yourself a lot. People may focus more on your accent than on what you say.


These problems can make work, school, or other activities harder. You may feel that if you had a different accent, you would be able to talk to people more easily. You may decide that you want to change your accent, a little bit or a lot.


With hard work and practice, you can learn how to change the way you say words. Changing your accent is also known as accent modification. It can be hard to change your accent on your own. A speech-language pathologist, or SLP, can help. SLPs work with:


The SLP will ask you to read words and sentences. The SLP will also listen to how you speak in conversation. It is also important for the SLP to know what communication problems you have and what your goals are.


Insurance companies will not pay for services to change your accent. This is because an accent is not a speech or language disorder. You will need to speak with your SLP about how you can pay for services.


More recently, Tony Blair and George Osborne took their own accents in the opposite direction, introducing more working class "mockney" inflections in their upper class speech, in an attempt to enhance their perceived approachability. With such obvious changes to their accents, they were roundly mocked for lacking authenticity.


Some professionals whose regional accents are deemed non-standard by their employers, like these trainee teachers from the north of England, can find themselves under pressure to tone down their native accents to improve their job and progression prospects.


There are some workplaces, such as call centres, that even offer accent training programmes for their staff. Some promote regional accents that are widely seen as more trustworthy, calming or pleasant, such as Scottish English or Southern American. Today, it is not as simple as moving your speech patterns up the social ladder to boost your career prospects.


Thanks to this kind of bias, accents can be a shortcut that allows us to "linguistically profile" others based on the stereotypes of their regional backgrounds, class, gender or ethnicity. Without even realising, we can use this to discriminate. This can make it hard for marginalised and minority speakers to find a job, gain an education, or even in find a home.


In one study, John Baugh, a sociolinguist at Stanford University, made repeated phone calls in answer to newspaper advertisements for apartments, using different accents, and recorded how many of those apartments were available or unavailable, depending on whether he used African American English, Chicano English or Standard American English accents.


These findings can have a major impact on our working lives and careers, especially if you speak with a non-standard accent. A recent ITV/Comres survey on UK language attitudes found that over a quarter of Britons feel they have encountered accent discrimination. The more people change their accents to fit in with prevailing attitudes and stereotypes, the more those views are reinforced.


English spelling hasn't evolved much over time, but how we pronounce words has. This makes pronunciation a real challenge for language learners. But good pronunciation is not just 'how words and letters sound'; there are other equally important features to consider, like intonation (how the tone of voice changes during a sentence, going up or down), stress (which words and syllables have more 'weight' when we are speaking), and connected speech - how words can sound different when they are joined together in natural speech. All of these features contribute to good pronunciation - but don't confuse them with accent.


In the UK, the USA and other English speaking countries there are many, many different types of accents, but people with those different accents can all be considered to have correct pronunciation. When you are learning English you don't have to sound British or American. Good pronunciation means being understood; not necessarily sounding like you were born in New York or London. In fact, many native speakers love hearing English spoken with a Spanish, Italian or French accent! So, how can you work on your pronunciation so that people from all over the world can understand you easily, even if you retain your native accent? Here are six top tips for you to practice and perfect your pronunciation.

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