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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)

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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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