ELT Podcast - The Teachers' Lounge

This is the second episode of ELT Podcast - The Teachers' Lounge.

Today's panel is:

• Bill Pellowe, Kinki University Kyushu School of Engineering, and ELT Calendar.
• Robert Chartrand, Kurume University.
• Kevin Ryan, Showa Women's University, the University of Tokyo and kevinryan.com.

Today we discussed accents, starting with a look at an online quiz that can accurately place your accent to a region of the USA with only 13 questions.

• www.gotoquiz.com/what_american_accent_do_you_have

During the conversation, Bill mentioned a website that has compiled recordings of a wide variety of accents of English; he couldn't remember the name of the site at the time, but here it is now: International Dialects of English Archive (web.ku.edu/idea).