“Bowel?” I ask my client jokingly from across the table while pointing to my stomach. “Ha! No, ‘vowel,’” the client clarifies. While many clients are aware of the difference between...
One thing I commonly hear from people who were born and raised in India is that their difficulties being understood in the U.S. stem from their British accents. Indian accents...
Open the voice memo app on your phone (if you don’t have a smart phone, grab a handheld recorder) and record yourself saying these three words: cope, cop, cup. Listen...
People with foreign accents, people without… They all ask me the same question: “What’s the WORST accent?” To start, let’s go ahead and scratch the term “worst” from our discussion. People who...
One feature of every accent I have worked with is difficulty with voicing of consonants. What is "voicing" anyway? Well, we will get to that. To start, did you know...
A few weeks ago, one of my friends had an interesting post on Facebook. She was fed up with people asking her where she was from as they were obviously...