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Monday, January 17, 2011

Resource of the Week: Online Shakespeare and the International Dialects of English Archive

Hey - since I was sick last week, there was no resource of the week.  So for this week, two of them.

1. http://shakespeare.mit.edu/ - all of Shakespeare's plays are online here.  The punctuation can be a little wonky, but the words are there.

2. http://web.ku.edu/~idea/ - the International Dialects of English Archive or IDEA is a resource for recordings of native and regional speakers.  Just choose a continent, then a country, then a state or region, and you'll see a list of recordings with a short biographical note about the speaker.  Each recording begins with the speaker reading a passage that linguists constructed to contain every sound made in English, and then has the speaker talking a little bit about themselves or their life.  Whenever I need to learn a new dialect for an audition or project, I always start here, and pick someone to sound like.

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