15.8M views · Nov 16, 2016 · 16:41 · 1 HN recommender · 3 mentions · discussed 2017–2019
Dialect coach Erik Singer analyzes how accurate the accents are of 32 well-known actors, including Brad Pitt and Will Smith, in WIRED's breakdown.
Why Hacker News points people here: HN finds Erik Singer's accent breakdowns informative and entertaining, and links them in discussions of accents and speech.
“Erik Singer's videos on accent work in particular fall right into the 'informative and entertaining' basket for me”HN comment, 2019
“Erik Singer's videos on accent work in particular fall right into the 'informative and entertaining' basket for me”
Informative and entertaining accent breakdowns by Erik Singer.
Technique Critique - Erik Singer's videos on accent work in particular fall right into the 'informative and entertaining' basket for me, anyway. this video
“I would love to be able to refer to this when watching Erik Singer describe accents”
Dialect coach describing accents.
Would this be a good way to learn a language? Seems like a good way to show how to pronounce consonants/vowels that we may have trouble discerning from similar sounds. for example, I would love to be able to refer to this when watching Erik Singer describe accents: this video
“Discussion of his accent here from a dialect coach, "This is amazing”
A dialect coach discusses Idris Elba's accent.
Idris Elba and Dominic West both caught me by surprise, given that I'm English and I was convinced they were both American. Then I heard Idris in another production talking proper London ... Discussion of his accent here from a dialect coach, "This is amazing": this video
