Where do accents come from?

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.
​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.