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Accent Amazing!

Accent Amazing!

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Do people misunderstand you when you speak? Are you annoyed by questions about where you’re from? You’ve come to the right place! Make your accent amazing is a podcast about accents, language, and linguistics. We’ll talk about what makes your pronunciation and accent sound non-native and how to improve it. While this podcast mainly deals with the English language, we will also talk about how your mother tongue influences your pronunciation and may even touch upon how to pronounce the sounds of other languages!Copyright 2025 All rights reserved. Foreign Language Audiobooks
Episodes
  • Part I. Language Families: How Languages Are Related (ft. Linguistics Professor David Wilson)

    Part I. Language Families: How Languages Are Related (ft. Linguistics Professor David Wilson)
    Oct 8 2026

    Are languages more similar than they are different? In this episode, we sit down with linguist Dr. David Wilson to explore how language families and your first language interference can shape the way you learn and speak your second languages. A Chinese speaker may carry over tones. A Slavic speaker may bring over familiar consonant clusters. An Arabic speaker may approach English vowels differently. These patterns are a big part of what makes our English pronunciation and accents different.

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    40 mins
  • Part 2: Vowel Shifts and The Great Vowel Shift (ft. Linguistics Professor David Wilson)

    Part 2: Vowel Shifts and The Great Vowel Shift (ft. Linguistics Professor David Wilson)
    Aug 4 2026

    This is part 2 of my chat with Professor David Wilson, where we get into the Great Vowel Shift and why English spelling is such a mess for second language learners. We also cover mergers like cot-caught and merry-marry, univerbation, why words like bury and won't are spelled the way they are, and how English vowels (and German ones too) have been shifting for hundreds of years.
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    27 mins
  • American Dialects: The Mid-Atlantic region (featuring Linguistics Professor David Wilson)

    American Dialects: The Mid-Atlantic region (featuring Linguistics Professor David Wilson)
    Jun 15 2026

    Did you know that there isn't just a single "American English" but several? In today's episode, I talk with Dr. David Wilson, a former Linguistics classmate of mine during undergrad who has since gotten his PhD. We talk about various dialects of the American Mid-Atlantic region and how they differ from dialects around the country and the world.
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    24 mins
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