AEE 2590: 3 Tips to Keep Your Accent and Be Understood With Valerie Fridland
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This is an All Ears English podcast, episode 2590. Three tips to keep your accent and be understood with Valerie Friedland.
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What are the three tips to keep your accent and be understood?
Do you ever worry that your accent is too strong? Today, author Valerie Friedland joins us to share how you can have a heavy accent and still be clearly understood in English.
You've worked for years on your English. Your grammar is solid, your ideas are sharp, but somehow people still ask you to repeat yourself. You know what you want to say, but your message doesn't always land. You're not alone, and it's not your English knowledge, it's the rhythm beneath your words. That's why we just created Global English Pronunciation, our newest course. You'll discover the sound patterns that make native speech flow. You'll stop overthinking every sentence and start speaking with ease, clarity, and competence. The course is available now, and this week only, you save $50 off the normal price. Plus, you get multiple opportunities to speak and practice with teachers and students every week.
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Welcome back, Valerie, to the podcast. I'm so excited for all of you out there listening to hear from Valerie again. She has been on the podcast, but it's been a minute, right?
It's been a couple of years. Yes, but it was a lot of fun that time. And I know it'll be a lot of fun this time, too.
Absolutely. It's funny how we say it's been a minute when we actually mean it's been a long time.
It's been years. I guess sometimes the minutes are slow.
Exactly right. But I'm going to briefly introduce Valerie again for those of you who don't remember her episode. She is the author of Like Literally Dude, Arguing for the Good in Bad English, which is what she talked about last time she was here. Sometimes those fillers like are necessary and we shouldn't be so prejudiced against them. But she's also a professor of linguistics in the English department at the University of Nevada, Reno. She writes a popular language blog on Psychology Today called Language in the Wild and is a professor in the Great Courses series. Welcome back, Valerie.
Well, thank you. I'm so happy to be here.
And you have a new book that I'm very excited for you to talk about because it really is right up our alley. We talk about accents a lot. We have a lot of students ask us, how do I improve my accent or fix or change or remove my accent? And chatting with you, I've seen that what you write in this book and what you have discovered is very much aligned with what we believe here at All Ears English.
Absolutely. So this book is called Why We Talk Funny, The Real Story Behind Our Accents. And it's all about accents. And its goal is really to help people understand how they came to have the accents they have.
Why do people worry about their accents?
Like what's the science and the history behind all the accents that we have, whether it's a different native accent or a second language accent. And by understanding what causes accents, We can really help ourselves both accept that an accent is a beautiful thing and then also be more efficient and effective at working on the things that will help us be better understood.
Yes, absolutely. You have heard this from us before, listeners out there, and we recently – released our pronunciation course. And it wasn't about imitating the American or UK accent. It was more about learning how to make sure your speech is clear with whatever beautiful accent you have. Those features of connected speech, the phonemes that might be problematic from your first language. There are things you can do to make sure your speech is clear, but you should keep your accent. Your accent is beautiful. I don't know about you, Valerie, but most Americans I know love an accent.
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