Movie Accent Expert Breaks Down 32 Actors' Accents | WIRED

WIRED · 15.8M views · 2016-11-16 · 16:41

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Dialect coach Erik Singer analyzes how accurate the accents are of 32 well-known actors, including Brad Pitt and Will Smith, in WIRED's breakdown.

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HN finds Erik Singer's accent breakdowns informative and entertaining, and links them in discussions of accents and speech.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2017–2019

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caf · 2019-09 · Recommendation
Technique Critique - Erik Singer's videos on accent work in particular fall right into the 'informative and entertaining' basket for me, anyway. [VIDEO]
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m0nty · 2017-05 · Reference
Idris Elba and Dominic West both caught me by surprise, given that I'm English and I was convinced they were both American. Then I heard Idris in another production talking proper London ... Discussion of his accent here from a dialect coach, "This is amazing": [VIDEO]
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undershirt · 2017-04 · Reference
Would this be a good way to learn a language? Seems like a good way to show how to pronounce consonants/vowels that we may have trouble discerning from similar sounds. for example, I would love to be able to refer to this when watching Erik Singer describe accents: [VIDEO]
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