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170 - Do I Need to Speak without an Accent?

RealLife English: Learn and Speak Confident, Natural English

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Learning to Accept Something, Uh, Without Planning

I've been very conscious of my accent for a long time. And I, um, I did try to change it. My ex-husband gave me as a birthday gift, which you may consider a very passive aggressive birthday gift. A dialect coach, uh, for two weeks to follow me around and give me notes. She would put diff thong symbols on Dr. Seuss books. By the end of it, I was paralyzed. Learn to embrace something. Learning to accept or to really enthusiastically do something. Just a couple more. Spontaneity is do something spontaneously without planning. If something weighs on you, it means that it's causing you stress or, um, discomfort

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