"Accent Doesn't Just Go Away by Itself" - Interview with Storm Chaser and Accent Student Dominik
The Accent Journey Podcast by Steven D. Nelson
Episode notes
In this episode, we have an interview with another accent modification student, Dominik!
Dominik, a native speaker of Slovakian, is also an amateur storm chaser who seeks out and documents dangerous weather in the "Tornado Alley" region of the United States. Dominik tells host Steven Nelson about what it's like to follow this kind of lifestyle, and he shares his experiences of putting himself in the middle of dangerous storms over the past eight years.
Dominik then talks about his why he feels accent training is important to him, what he’s done to make his accent closer to a native speaker of American English, and he also gives advice to other non-native speakers of English who want to change their own accents.
At the end of the interview, Steven gives him some specific feedback on how he could make his accent sound more natural ...