All About Accents
A podcast all about accents with linguist and accent coach Dani Morse-Kopp in conversation with her partner Lucas Morse, where they explore the wonderful world of accents.
Find out how to approach learning new accents, what it means to speak with an accent, what accent coaches do, and most importantly how beautiful accents are.
Produced by Dani Morse-Kopp and Lucas Morse, theme music created by Patrick Kopp.
- Update frequency
- every 54 days
- Average duration
- 24 minutes
- Episodes
- 12
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2024
Vampire accents 🧛🏻♂️
SPOOOOOOKY SEASON – In this episode, Lucas and Dani chat about where the stereotypical “vampire” accent might come from by taking a closer look at some of the most famous depictions of Count Dracula …
R is for Rhoticity
This episode is all about RHOTICITY and NON-RHOTICITY, or in other words: How some English accents pronounce every single R that exists in the spelling of words, while other accents skip some of thos…
Accents and constructed language in “Dune: Part Two”
In this episode, Dani and Lucas share their thoughts on the many accents, voices and languages used in Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune: Part Two”, including discussing Austin Butler’s amazing performance in…
Dialect design in historical dramas - "Oppenheimer"
In this episode, Dani and Lucas discuss Christopher Nolan’s latest work “Oppenheimer” by taking a closer look at the dialect and accent choices available when creating shows set in the past. They con…
How to make speech sounds - vowels
This episode is about how we produce vowels sounds with our speech muscles. Dani and Lucas make some more silly sounds trying to understand what our speech muscles are doing to produce vowel sounds f…
How to make speech sounds - consonants
In this episode we focus on how we produce consonant sounds with our speech articulators. Lucas and Dani make lots of silly sounds trying to understand what our speech muscles are doing to produce co…
The crux of accent work: pronunciation
In this episode, Dani and Lucas discuss how to approach new pronunciations of words when learning a new accent. They take a look at the sound inventories of different accents and highlight what tools…
The music of accents
Dani and Lucas talk about the music of accents and how different accent speakers use their voice in a wide range of different ways. They talk about how the music, rhythm and intonation vary between m…
Accent work in Pinocchio (2022)
In this episode Dani and Lucas wanted to highlight Guillermo del Toro’s wonderful 2022 retelling of Pinocchio and have a wee chat about the accent work in this beautiful film.
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Accent and your facial muscles
Join Dani and Lucas in this episode as they discuss how facial muscles are used in very unique ways in different accents and why changing how you use your facial muscles is crucial in getting an acce…
Accent and Identity
Dani and Lucas talk about how accents are intertwined with people’s identities and why this is an important aspect for actors to take to heart when approaching a new accent. Much of this episode’s co…
Welcome to the wonderful world of accents!
In this episode, Dani and Lucas tackle some of Lucas’ most burning questions about linguistics and accent coaching. Among other things, they discuss the difference between an accent and a dialect, wh…