Learning American Accents: Tom Michalek on Southern Drawl

0:00 intro about our previous meetings; 0:50 the workshop by an ESL material writer Dorothy Zemach in Minsk; 2:30 teaching writing in an american vs Belarusian highschool; 4:20 as a youngster, Tom took both SAT and MRE; cramming never helps; 6:15 there should be a followup: students gotta make the vocab they learn their daily routine; 7:40 Belarusians are hardly as outspoken as their American counterparts; 9:00 the value of an American speaker for Belarusian learners: Tom has Slavic roots; 10:30 newly migrated always go to New York or to California; Tom tells a story about his Uni professor; 12:10 what is Standard English and if it s spoken lately; 13:20 Standard British vs Newly Developed American language after the Revolutionary War; 15:00 the contribution of European freedom fighters to the American independence; 17:00 different ethnic background of early American settlers; 18:15 Belarusian things are often considered Polish in the United States; 19:35 top dates of US history