284. Hear Me Out: How Understanding Accents—Ours & Others—Improves Communication
Understanding the accent you didn’t know you had. Whether communicating in our mother tongue or practicing a new language, we all speak with an accent. But that’s not all, says Valerie Fridland — we hear with an accent as well. Fridland is a professor of sociolinguistics at the University of Nevada, Reno, and author…
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