Sounds Good

Have you ever wondered why you almost inevitably have an accent when you try to speak a foreign language and what your true feelings about this are, why some accents you find endearing, whereas others turn you off? This post contains an assortment of ideas, some...

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You might be familiar with the poem written, I believe, in the 1920’s by a gentleman called Gerard Nolst Trenité and entitled “The Chaos”, ostensibly an aid to speakers of other languages attempting to get a grip on the intricacies of English sound-spelling relations,...