Why accents are important and how to improve your own, with polyglot Alex Rawlings

People often worry about their accent when learning a new language, but should they? In this episode we talk about how accents develop, why it’s important to think about it when learning a new language and give some top tips and exercises on how to improve your pronunciation. Joining Alex to help us with this is founder of the business ‘Improve Your Accent’ Luke Nicholson, who has helped people from over 85 countries work on their English accent, and Dr Will Barras, a lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Aberdeen. All listeners can also go to https://www.rosettastone.co.uk/podcast/ to receive special offers and start your own language learning journey today.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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You can now vote for More Than Words at the People's Choice Podcast Awards! Just click the following link, quickly sign up and select ‘Rosetta Stone – More Than Words’ in the 'Education' and 'People's Choice' sections if you loved our podcast! https://www.podcastawards.com/app/nominations The More Than Words podcast, brought to you by Rosetta Stone UK, is back for series two, where we meet fascinating people and experts in the field of language and linguistics, answering your most pressing questions about learning another language.  Our host, polyglot and writer Alex Rawlings, speaks to a range of guests. From neuroscientists like Thomas Bak on the best way to learn a language, to Susie Dent speaking about vocabulary, and US Memory champion Chester Santos on how to remember it all.  We also have the UK’s favourite German comedian Henning Wehn talking about slang and where to find it, and 2 phonetic fanatics discussing accents and how to improve your pronunciation. In our final episode Alex and special guest Susie Dent will be answering YOUR questions on language learning. So if there’s something you’d like to know, please tweet @RosettaStoneUK for a chance to be selected.  Subscribe to ‘More Than Words’ on your favourite podcast channel, so you don’t miss an episode. All listeners can also go to https://www.rosettastone.co.uk/podcast/ to receive special offers and start your own language learning journey today.