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B1 Intermediate English 6:02 Educational

Accent Expert Explains How to Tell Accents Apart | WIRED

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Learning Stats

B1

CEFR Level

5/10

Difficulty

Subtitles (139 segments)

00:00

hi my name is Eric singer I'm a dialect

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coach you may have seen me here before

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talking about accent performances and

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movies but at Texas accents and South

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Asian accents have in common

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the answer is retroreflection so today

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I'm going to offer you some quick and

00:12

easy ways to tell one accent apart from

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another when those two accents are

00:17

pretty similar in a lot of ways can you

00:18

ask somebody to say a simple phrase to

00:21

try to tell whether they're from say

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Australia or New Zealand

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I'm originally from Sydney Australia

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Lily pa New Bedford Massachusetts number

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one how to tell an Australian from a New

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Zealand er we can use the kit foul in

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Australia there's a realization that is

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not too far off from my own American

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accent for instance something like an e

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sound an Australian might say that's

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something like this myth myth myth New

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Zealanders tend to centralize this sound

00:56

so instead of the tongue being arched up

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a little bit towards the front of the

01:00

mouth it's relaxed down a little bit

01:02

towards the middle of the mouth and you

01:03

get something closer to a schwa the good

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