Confidence and your voice: Your accent

This month is friendship month, and building on last week’s blog and video about confidence in your voice, this week we’re talking about confidence in your accent. A lot of people that I talk to, both within my singing or speech lessons, and generally in life, say to me that they hate their accent. And I think that's really sad. Accents are brilliant. They are what make us as unique as we are. And the fact that we're starting to lose some of these regional dialects and regional accents is sad.

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Music and sound: Accent

People often tell me that I sound posh. Anyone who knows me knows that’s not the case. If you really listen to me when I speak, you’ll notice an accent. It’s not a specific accent because I’ve lived abroad and moved around so I’ve picked up different habits from different places. There are, however, some definite northern ‘twangs’ in there because that’s home to me.

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