The free class complements the library’s Talk Time (7 to 8:30 p.m. Mondays), during which people of all languages and backgrounds gather to speak and learn English with a trained volunteer.

The Library is inviting people to have their voices recorded as part of a project to chart the way English pronunciation and accents are changing.

Visitors to the Evolving English exhibition, which opens Nov. 12, will be able to record themselves in sound booths, and others can submit audio clips on the library's website, www.bl.uk.

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Visitors to the Evolving English exhibition, which opens Nov.12, will be able to record themselves in sound booths, and others can submit audio clips on the library's website, www.bl.uk.