Lindsay McMahon

I could transcribe.

I can understand.

But then another speaker who would have a much lighter accent, they may be using inappropriate word or syllable stress.

not having those features of connective speech or just not enunciating clearly.

And I would have a lot of difficulty understanding.

And all of that is learnable, right?

All of this, the word stress, the phonemes, everything that will make your speech clear is really unrelated to your accent in your first language and more about the features of speech that can be learned.

Right, exactly.

Okay, I think we're ready for your tip three.

I'm very excited.

I love the first two tips already.

You're definitely preaching to the choir.

I am the choir.

Absolutely.

So true.

I really love the way you're coming at it from a linguistic sort of scientific background so that people can understand there is reasoning behind this.

It's not just someone saying, but I like accents, so it's fine, right?

There is a reason for all of this.

And I'm excited for listeners to check out your book to get all of those details because I think that's going to give a lot of confidence, a lot of understanding to have all of that background.

They're a unicorn.