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Episode: 0123 – How A Rat Can Help You Learn A New Accent
Description: 0123 – How A Rat Can Help You Learn A New Accent Unsurprisingly, you can learn other accents via mimicry: simply listening and accurately repeating how a native speaker speaks, including the subtle nuances. And there are some resources to help you do that. There are several short texts (including “Arthur The Rat”, “Comma Gets A Cure” and “The Rainbow Passage”) which are contain all of the phonetic constructs in the English language – every consonant and vowel structure, and when one sound moves into another. The stories are used for example by speech therapists when th...