The Voice Cafe Blog
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Taking a break. Do English accents love or hate HIATUS?
Tuesday, December 17, 2024 - 18:19
English language speakers often avoid a HIATUS by bridging it with a connecting consonant sound. For example, we don’t say ‘a afternoon’ but ‘an afternoon’. We put an ‘n’ there to separate the vowels and link them together via a consonant. But certain accents of English, such as Modern British RP (Received Pronunciation), will go further to avoid any type of HIATUS between vowel sounds. 
Not All Old Habits Die Hard: My Experience of Learning the Modern British RP Accent as a Czech Native Speaker
Friday, February 09, 2024 - 18:01
Learning the modern RP accent has been quite a journey; one that I'd go on again any time. To introduce myself as a learner, I initially spent around 3 years learning Standard BE on my own, during my university studies for teaching English. While I used textbooks explaining general pronunciation rules of, mainly, individual sounds, the recordings I followed were of more traditional RP speakers, whereas my goal was to learn modern RP. 
