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Podcast: Get A Better Broadcast, Podcast and Voice-Over Voice
Episode: 0081 – Articulatory Differences in Language And Accents
Description: Not every language makes use of all the potential articulators. You may know people personally or maybe a celebrity whose first language is not English and who perhaps has difficulty pronouncing the letter ‘L’. As an English speaker you will no doubt have trouble with some of the more back-of-throat sounds that our French, Spanish and German friends pronounce like natives (!). Even within a language there will be places where natives pronounce words differently (think of the dialects of a New Yorker, or someone from Yorkshire). It’s to do with the how and where we are brought up and th...