English teachers all over the world never tire of arguing that there is no need to be shy about your accent. But this does not mean that you cannot improve yourself or try new things. If you've always wanted to speak like Lady Mary of Downton Abbey or Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's, go for it! Choose with which ...
The American began speaking with an "uncontrollable Irish accent" after he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. However, he has never been to Ireland. The BBC published more details. A 50-year-old man from North Carolina allegedly developed foreign accent syndrome (FAS). Because of…
“Americans almost always accurately identify a Russian person after talking with him for a short period of time. And even our compatriots who know English very well, as a rule, quickly “reveal” themselves in certain words,” writes the author of the blog Made in...
Many Americans worry about how they sound when traveling abroad, Travel+Leasure writes, according to a new study. But they shouldn’t worry - most often the American accent is perceived as friendly, unlike the Russian one. Although, for example, in Italy the accent of the residents...
“What if, because of my Russian accent, they don’t understand me?” - oh, well ... Let's sort this whole thing down properly. The accent is just a "dialect", as we call it, peculiar to people living in different regions of the same country ...
English teachers all over the world never tire of arguing that there is no need to be ashamed of your accent. We at Bright Side absolutely agree with this. But this does not mean that you cannot improve yourself or try new things. If you've always wanted to talk ...