Language Learning Info

One who speaks two languages is bilingual. 

One who speaks three languages is trilingual.

One who speaks only one language is American.

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Why do people have accents?

As phonologists like to say, "a person without an accent would be like a place without a climate."

Accents are the result of exposure to different cultural and ethnic linguistic groups geographically and/or socially distant from each other.  When people are isolated, stresses and peculiarities start to develop.  

The stresses and peculiarities of a somewhat close group start spreading to each member and new member.  

Accents are caused by the early training we get -- the sounds we learn to make before we reach puberty.  However, with work, accents can be reduced greatly and sometimes even erased.

If you have ever wanted to learn another language our range of language courses in Accent Language:

ESL

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Italian

Japanese

Chinese (Mandarin)

Indonesian

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