Episode 1. Russian Accents

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This podcast series is about language learning, language teaching and language accents. I stumbled into my first podcast experience on the previous episode and have learned a little bit more about making them since then. This is a revised version of Episode 1 is about Russian Accents in English, and it now sports an Introduction, Music, Graphics, and even an Outro (woohoo). I've tried to make it a nicer experience for you! English learners and their teachers struggle, even at the advanced levels, with comprehensibility--being understood by native speakers. The features of one's first language form a filter for learners and get in the way of hearing and learning to produce certain English sounds. So pronunciation is all about becoming aware of those differences and then learning to make the new sounds and use them comfortably. Join us today as I talk about Russian accents with fluency teacher, Jennifer England. To learn more about Jennifer, go to http://english-laboratory.com or contact her at jennifer @english-laboratory.com Here are 3 ways you can learn more about me, Peggy Tharpe. 1. Crawl around my website at http://AmericanPronunciationCoach.com 2. Check out my YouTube videos--just put my name in the search bar, and choose the video that has a channel button under the title. 3. Read my pronunciation e-guides sold on Amazon.com; here's my author page--http://geni.us/2w21 You can join my email list and I'll write you when I learn of something cool or when I've finished a new pronunciation guide or course. Sign up at http://geni.us/sorry Be patient--it's going to take a little while to learn how to produce beautiful sound tracks. Hope to see you in the next episode. We'll be looking at how another language bumps up against English and causes problems for English learners' pronunciation. Oops! Almost forgot...that catchy little jingle at the start and end of the episode is from bensound.com; it's called JazzyFrench.