
Accents
The Why Factor
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How Easy Is It to Teach Someone to Do an Accent?
How would shakespeare's hamlet ha delivered that famous line, to be or not to be? The b, for example, would be ba, so that it'd be tobe instead of to be. It sounds a bit like southern irish. How easy is it to teach someone to do an accent? Depends on the person. Some people can pick it up easily. Other people can't. When k russell eyliff's accent changed following a migrane, she had an identity crisis. She went from sounding very english to being treated as a foreigner her home country. Four years on, she has met and married john.
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