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5 Ways to Listen Actively when Learning Accents (and why you need to)

Follow the path – become a better listener! So you probably realise the Australians don’t call out “G’day Bruce!” at every given opportunity. And you know the Irish don’t sing, “Top o’ the mornin’ to...

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Active Listening, Part 2: Oot and Aboot

Accent Learning: It’s a wilderness out there… This is Part 2 of 3 in Active Listening for Accents (see Part 1 here). Last time I promised more of a specific example of active listening when learning an...

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Active Listening, Part 3: Hair and There

This is Part 3 of 3 in my series on Active Listening for Accents. In part one we talked about why it is so crucial, and part two delved deep into a very specific vowel combination in the Canadian...

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Is Cockney Dead?

Is Cockney Dead? I spotted this scrawling a while ago on a wall in the East End of London. Now, I have no idea who wrote this – and like many good pieces of graffiti it doesn’t offer any explanation...

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How Cockney Are You?

How well do you know your Cockney Rhyming Slang? As a preview to my Finding Voices podcast, which will explore this fine East End tongue in detail, I've put together a little quiz. See if you can beat...

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The Day I Met Cockney Royalty

I probably should have tucked my shirt in … From Left to Right: Teresa Watts – Pearly Queen of Clapton, Terry Sadler – Pearly King of Tower Hamlets, Vicky Groves – Pearly Queen of Bow, Lorraine Sadler...

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France Has Changed 2,000 spellings … Will English-Speaking Countries Do The...

You may have seen this in the news recently:   A reform 2 decades in the making, it’s caused outrage among language ‘purists’, and circles partly around the removal of the circumflex accent, that...

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