We’re happy to welcome six new subjects to IDEA: Bangladesh 10, Bangladesh 11, Bangladesh 12, Bangladesh 13, Ethiopia 4, and Lebanon 3. The Bangladeshi subjects are courtesy of…
Congratulations to our associate editor for Bangladesh, Amin Rahman, on the publication of his third book, An English Pronunciation Dictionary for Hindi Speakers. It’s available on Amazon at…
We’re proud to welcome the African nation of Eswatini (formerly known as Swaziland) to the IDEA family of nations. Eswatini 1 is a 68-year-old woman from the capital…
Please welcome Amin Rahman, our new associate editor for Bangladesh. Amin has already assembled an impressive collection of subjects from Bangladesh, and that collection continues to grow. Bangladesh…
We’re proud to introduce our first Kurdish Syrian subject. The subject, a 30-year-old man from the Al-Hasakah region of Syria, submitted the sample to IDEA himself. To learn…
Please welcome Bangladesh 6, Bangladesh 7, and Bangladesh 8. They are courtesy of IDEA contributor Amin Rahman.
IDEA’s Arkansas collection — most of which is courtesy of IDEA Senior Editor Ben Corbett — has always been geographically and culturally diverse. Now it’s becoming more racially…
Thanks to IDEA contributor Amin Rahman, IDEA has its fifth subject from Bangladesh. The subject is a 36-year-old woman from Dhaka.
Please welcome our 24th subject from the U.S. state of Michigan. The 41-year-old man, who submitted his own recording to IDEA, has lived most of his life in…
Thanks to a new self-submission, IDEA’s Illinois collection now numbers 27. The latest subject, a 28-year-old woman, has spent most of her life on the north side of…
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