This is an all ears English podcast, episode 2590. Three tips to keep your accent and be understood

with Valerie Friedland. Welcome to the AllEars English podcast downloaded more than 200 million

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Do you ever worry that your accent is too strong?

Today, author Valerie Friedland joins us to share how you can have a heavy accent

and still be clearly understood in English.

You've worked for years on your English. Your grammar is solid, your ideas are sharp,

but somehow people still ask you to repeat yourself.

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You're not alone, and it's not your English knowledge.

It's the rhythm beneath your words.

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Welcome back, Valerie, to the podcast.

I'm so excited for all of you out there listening to hear from Valerie again.

She has been on the podcast,

but it's been a minute, right? It's been a couple of years, yes, but it was a lot of fun that time, and I know it'll be a lot of fun this time, too. Absolutely. It's funny how we say it's been a minute when we actually mean it's been a long time. It's been years. I guess sometimes the minutes are slow. Exactly, right? But I'm going to briefly introduce Valerie again, for those of you who don't remember her episode. She is the author of Like Literally Dude, arguing for the good in bad English, which is what she talked about last time she was here. Sometimes those fillers like are necessary and we shouldn't be so prejudiced

against them. But she's also a professor of linguistics in the English department at the

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