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Do you have an accent when you speak English and aren't happy with it? Then the Accent Journey Podcast is for you!
Every week, host and American English accent coach Steven Nelson discuss topics to help non-native speakers improve their communication skills and sound more natural when expressing themselves in English. Join our community and see the transformation within yourself. Brought to you by accentfirst.com.
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In this episode of The Accent Journey, we look at two-syllable words that change their stress depending on whether they are used as nouns or verbs.
You’ll learn why we say REcord as a noun but reCORD as a verb, PREsent as a noun but preSENT as a verb, and SUSpect as a noun but susPECT as a verb.
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In this episode of The Accent Journey, we take the dark L from the previous episode one step further and look at syllabic /l/—the L sound that can actually function as the center of a syllable.
You'll hear it in common words such as:
little
bottle
middle
candle
people
simple
table
possible
comfort…
In this episode of The Accent Journey, we take a closer look at the American English dark L /l/ - the version of L you hear in words like milk, feel, cold, and help.
Many English learners are familiar with the clear or “light” L at the beginning of words like lip and lake, but the L sound can chang…
As we've discussed previously on the podcast, in natural American English not every word receives the same amount of stress.
Content words usually carry the main message, while small grammatical words such as to, for, of, than, and as are often reduced and spoken with less prominence.
This episode …
The American English /r/ can be one of the most challenging sounds for English learners — especially if your native language uses a tapped or rolled R.
But here's the key: the American R isn't made by touching the roof of your mouth.
In this episode, we break down how to build the American /r/ from…
In this episode of The Accent Journey, we explore post-focus compression - the tendency for speech after the main focus of a sentence to become quieter, flatter, and less prominent.
The goal isn't to make the rest of the sentence disappear. Instead, reducing the prominence of the words after the ma…
When your English word stress sounds "off," the problem may not be the location of the stress. You may simply be missing one of the ingredients that makes a stressed syllable stand out.
In this episode of The Accent Journey, we take a closer look at four important cues that contribute to English st…
Why does did you sometimes sound like didja? Why can could you sound like couldja? And why does don't you sometimes sound like don-chu?
In this episode of The Accent Journey, we continue our exploration of assimilation in connected American English. We look at how neighboring sounds influence one a…
Why does have to sometimes sound like haf-ta? Why can supposed to sound more like suppose-ta?
In this episode of The Accent Journey, we explore the first of two episodes on assimilation in connected American English, the natural processes that cause neighboring sounds to influence one another durin…
Why do words like to, for, of, and can seem to disappear when native speakers talk? In this episode of The Accent Journey, we explore weak forms—the reduced pronunciations of common function words that give spoken American English its natural rhythm.
You'll learn the difference between content word…
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