Maps: 1,000 dialects and 6,912 living languages
Last week we had Mara interviewing the Dialect Doctor, who claims to cure accents and strengthen dialects. Well, now here is databank of roughly nearly 1,000 speech samples: Native and non-native speakers of English all read the same English paragraph; the recordings are collected and listenable over at the speech accent archive. [...]
Of words, wudz, dialects and accents: The “man of a thousand voices” speaks in tongues
Actor/dialect coach Robert Easton as the Klingon Judge in Star Trek VI
Click here to hear the interview with the dialect coach Robert Easton (mp3 - right click to download)
Robert Easton has been working in Hollywood and all over the world for over 42 years “strengthening dialects” and “curing accents”. Ever wonder how Al Pacino [...]
