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Where do accents come from?

11/1/2015

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Everyone speaks with an accent.  When a child learns to speak, he or she mimics the sounds of the language of adults.  When an adult learns a seconds language, the patterns and sounds of the first language can influence how he or she speaks the second language. Recently, a language scholar has posited that the Australian accent arose because the adults were drunk so often that the children grew up speaking with slurred sounds and dropped syllables, even the teetotalers! Click here to read more.
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If you have an accent that is not influenced by alcohol, and would like to learn to speak with a more standard American accent, contact Clearly Speaking today.
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Clearly Speaking can help you speak with a standard American accent, offering training in accent reduction, accent modification, correct English pronunciation, prosody, vowel sounds, and consonant sounds. We are located in Portland, OR and provide services to the greater Portland area.
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Brenda Nuckton's stage direction creates lively, story-driven opera productions.  She offers coaching in dramatic interpretation of songs and arias, role, audition and competition preparation, and lyric diction