Julia Haberland is a graduate research assistant for the TGDP. She is a second-year PhD student in the Germanic studies department at UT Austin. Her interests are in L2 speech perception and production, pronunciation teaching, and language pedagogy. Julia is from Germany and grew up in a small town near Frankfurt am Main. An exchange year in high school in the United States initially got her interested in other languages and cultures. After high school, Julia completed her undergraduate degree in Global Studies and graduate degree in Second Language Acquisition/TESOL at Missouri State University. As a Germany native, Julia was surprised to hear about a distinct German Dialect in Texas and is excited to now contribute to its preservation.