"You Need to Pay Attention to How You Speak!" - How Marceli Marcinkowski Acquired an American Accent
The Accent Journey Podcast by Steven D. Nelson
Episode notes
Today accent coach Steve is joined by English instructor Marceli Marcinkowski, known as "Pan Angielski" in his native Poland, on a wide-ranging conversation about language acquisition and accent modification.
In this conversation, Marceli shares with us:
- how he got obsesssed with English and has devoted his life to teaching it to others
- his methods and techniques on how to teach English to children
- why the Polish education system does not succeed at teaching real-world English
- how his children learned to speak English despite never having had a formal lesson
- what he did to attain a natural-sounding American English accent
- his advice to others on changing their own accents
At the end of the episode, M ...
Keywords
accent reductionamerican accentinterview