Questions for accent class

Questions we will try to answer in this class: 1) What is an accent? What is the difference between a foreign accent and a regional accent? 2) Why do foreign speakers have trouble with certain sounds? Are some sounds more difficult to pronounce than others? 3) Why are similar sounds more difficult to hear and learn than new sounds which are not in your own language? 4) What differences exist in how babies learn a new language and how adults learn one? 5) Does your native language have consonant clusters? Examples: Spirit School Scandal Spanish Spanish, for example, has these sounds (sp, sk, st, etc.) but NOT in the initial position. Not at the beginning of words. Espiritu Escuela Escándalo Español