Valerie Fridland
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 30 Mar
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But there's even a chapter in there about sort of the sexiest accent.
So we have a lot of I would also say New Zealand for that one.
We have a lot of positive love for accents.
And I think Americans in particular, because we all come from somewhere.
And my parents are accented speakers with a second language background.
And so I think most of us have a story of our family and the people we love.
And their accents remind us of beautiful things and warmth and love and friendship.
So I think that we need to realize that accents are a beautiful thing.
And that really will help us help us in our own journeys.
Absolutely.
And I think all my tips sort of go to this idea we've been talking about, about accents being a good thing, a positive thing.
And my first tip would be, if you really want to be a successful and confident communicator, the first thing you should do is embrace the accent you have rather than the one you want.
And that will free you up to be a lot more open to doing the things you need to do to become a better communicator in that new language.
So I think one thing we don't understand a lot of times is why exactly we have the accents we do.
But if you look at it from a linguistic perspective of how we come to have the accents we have, it's because of the miracle of child language acquisition.
So when you're a child, you don't think about picking up a language.
It just happens.
It's no effort.
And it's actually pretty remarkable because parents everywhere would fail at that test if they had to teach their children language.
Instead,
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