The Vocal Bridge

Rebecca Williams, 42, has always been a mimic. When she was very young, she would unconsciously imitate other people’s accents, not to make fun of them, but more out of habit.

“So my accent has always been very fluid, depending on who I’m talking to,” she told Beijing Review. She never expected this habit to land her a dubbing job in China decades later.

At 18, Williams was an exchange student at the University of the Nations in Hawaii, the U.S. Like most new adults, she was pondering what to do with her life.

Then, a group of exchange students from China visited the