Steal a Voice

Find a two-minute clip of someone with a distinctive way of speaking — a documentary, a podcast, a neighbour overheard. Play one sentence, pause, and copy it exactly: not the words, the MUSIC — the rhythm, the vowels, where the pitch rises and falls. Loop the hardest sentence until your mouth finds the shape, then try a fresh sentence in that same voice. Accents and vocal characters aren't learned from a list of rules — they're stolen by ear. This trains the listening that lets you catch a way of speaking and wear it. And even if you never do accents on stage, it sharpens the ear that hears how a real person actually sounds, which is where truthful character voices come from.