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Dialect Blog

Friday's Featured Accent: The Amish | The Accent Lab In this series for The Accent Lab, we will be presenting an example each week (on Friday) of an unusual accent/dialect that speaks to the incredible diversity that can be found among native English speakers in how they produce the language. This week’s submission is from Amish Country (hat tip: Dialect Blog ) : Through his experience teaching ESL, as well as his efforts to learn foreign languages, Matt has developed a strong knowledge base in accent reduction. He created The Accent Lab to help students and teachers find great accent reduction information and resources. To get in touch, check out his Facebook page , follow him on Twitter , add him on Google+ , or email him from the Contact page . To check out another site that Matt Tschoegl has put together, head on over to Root Of All Money , a portal for people looking to learn how to monetize their WordPress websites.

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