“The method of deciding, OK, I’m going to start out engaged on my American accent, and I’m not going to permit myself to sound Kenyan, so I’m monitoring and actually making an attempt to grasp my mouth in a technical option to make these new sounds. Making these new sounds in a context that wasn’t the classroom felt like betrayal,” she shared.
“You realize, I didn’t really feel like myself, and I cried many nights to sleep many, many nights,” she stated.