Saturday, April 17th, 2021, Deb is going to talk about an example of authentic English spoken in the USA and uses the author Mark Twain as her reference. Her topic supports the fact that accent is not a hinderance or problem to speaking English as a foreign language.

In this episode you might hear phrases and words such as:- slang, jargon, factors that influence speech and vocabulary, authentic language, translation , and the effect a parent or instructor's pronunciation has on the learner's ability to hear good articulation.

Deb will tell you a “tall tale” about the weather in the US, Arizona.

Following the first half of the program, please stay and listen to the next episode of the special conversation between Douglas Habecker and Deb. The goal of these conversations are to provide you, our listener, with authentic, largely unedited, conversations, some outside, some inside the beautiful NER recording studios. That is realistic as most conversations are conducted in environments with interesting sounds around one!