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Movie Accent Expert Breaks Down 32 Actors' Accents | WIRED
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Dialect coach Erik Singer analyzes how accurate the accents are of 32 well-known actors, including Brad Pitt and Will Smith, in WIRED's breakdown.
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HN finds Erik Singer's accent breakdowns informative and entertaining, and links them in discussions of accents and speech.
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Technique Critique - Erik Singer's videos on accent work in particular fall right into the 'informative and entertaining' basket for me, anyway. [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗Would this be a good way to learn a language? Seems like a good way to show how to pronounce consonants/vowels that we may have trouble discerning from similar sounds. for example, I would love to be able to refer to this when watching Erik Singer describe accents: [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗Idris Elba and Dominic West both caught me by surprise, given that I'm English and I was convinced they were both American. Then I heard Idris in another production talking proper London ... Discussion of his accent here from a dialect coach, "This is amazing": [VIDEO]
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