My 2013 American Accent Experiment with Sinatra and Idahosa Ness
Watch Benny’s 2013 accent discussion with Idahosa Ness and a Sinatra experiment, with unverified third-party audio removed.
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Benny explores American English phonetics and sentence rhythm to see how pronunciation training can support his other language projects.
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