FORVO is a project that bills itself as the largest pronunciation guide in the world. Users can contribute their own pronunciations, and listen to those of contributors around the world.
Tips to Learning a Dialect
1) Listen during your commute
2) Listen while you work-out
3) Listen as you drift off to sleep
4) Listen while you work... during your late spring cleaning?
5) Listen in lines... if you're planning on visiting the DMV anytime soon.
6) Listen while you relax... if anyone is planning to lay out and catch some rays.
Play some online digital DIALECT LANGUAGE GAMES! Fun!
You can also search geographically and can read along with a paragraph on this website.
**Fun Fact: A dialect is spoken by someone by a different region in the same native language; an accent is when native language habits influence the speaking of a new foreign language. That being said, these words are constantly misused interchangeably, as evidenced by the websites above. Nevertheless, they may help!
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