Sentence examples for accent taught from inspiring English sources

Like Miss Brodie (or like Maggie Smith's impersonation, in the 1969 movie), my mother had a genteel Anglo-Scots accent, taught at a private girls' school, was forceful and opinionated, had firm ideas about education, and was clearly a wonderful presence in the classroom, filling the girls' heads with strange stories, historical gossip, unusual dates, nice prejudices, delicious facts.

I didn't see myself as someone with a slightly foreign accent teaching them how to read T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf.

Sim helped Cole lose his London accent and taught him comedy technique.

He translated her memories into songs written for her, while refining her coarse street accent and teaching her discipline.

It uses speech recognition to identify English words through thick accents and teach people to speak more clearly.

people with Spanish accents who teach kids with limited English.

"We do not hear ourselves most of the time," said Dr. Harish Malhotra, chairman of the department of psychiatry at Overlook Hospital in Summit, N.J., who for several years marketed accent-reduction lessons taught by speech clinicians to fellow immigrants from India.

He joked, "If you run into anyone around town speaking English with a Brooklyn accent, you know who taught them".

In perhaps his most spectacular coup, as he told the publication India in New York in 2001, Mr. Chwat taught "a Texan accent to a Tibetan actor in a commercial for a German BMW shot in English" by the Taiwanese director Ang Lee.

My friend John Pleshette taught me the Boston accent during MacBird.

While my theatre degree had taught me a cockney accent and competitive marching, it left me with very few real world skills.