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| jradetzky Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom geocities.com/jradet Joined 7016 days ago 521 posts - 485 votes  1 sounds Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2, GermanB1 | Message 1 of 30 20 March 2005 at 11:00am | IP Logged |
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The British Library has made available its collection of recorded interviews with native speakers of English:
English Accents and Dialects Very useful and interesting collection indeed. Of particular attention are the accents of Liverpool and Tyneside. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| jradetzky Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom geocities.com/jradet Joined 7016 days ago 521 posts - 485 votes 1 sounds Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2, GermanB1 | Message 2 of 30 04 April 2005 at 5:20pm | IP Logged |
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I remember a Paul Gascoigne (a famous Newscastle upon Tyne-born English footballer in the 80s and 90s) interview on British TV that was subtitled because of his thick Geordie accent. Some say that Geordie is closer to old Norse than to modern English.
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| heartburn Senior Member United States Joined 7016 days ago 355 posts - 350 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 3 of 30 04 April 2005 at 10:05pm | IP Logged |
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After college, I worked for a Dutch company (océ) in their New York City office. I went to lots of technical meetings with people from all around Europe. I could understand the English of everyone from The Netherlands, Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, Austria, Belgium, Scotland and Ireland. But the one person that I could never, ever understand was from Wales.
The guy from Scotland had to translate for me. Edited by heartburn on 05 April 2005 at 12:15am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ElComadreja Senior Member Philippines bibletranslatio Joined 7047 days ago 683 posts - 757 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Portuguese, Latin, Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew, Cebuano, French, Tagalog | Message 4 of 30 05 April 2005 at 9:24am | IP Logged |
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I had used to work with a guy from scotland (don't know which part). It must have taken me a month to understand him. 'make' sounded like 'mack' 'book' sounded like 'boo-k' etc.
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| jradetzky Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom geocities.com/jradet Joined 7016 days ago 521 posts - 485 votes 1 sounds Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2, GermanB1 | Message 5 of 30 12 April 2005 at 9:49am | IP Logged |
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Listen to this Scouser (native of Liverpool, UK) talking about his childhood in a very thick accent. What about this Geordie (native of Newcastle, UK)? Very cool accents indeed.
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| Thomaskim Groupie Joined 7078 days ago 84 posts - 85 votes | Message 6 of 30 13 April 2005 at 3:27am | IP Logged |
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But the one person that I could never, ever understand was from Wales.
The guy from Scotland had to translate for me.[/QUOTE] Can you understand Anthony Hopkins, Catherine Zeta-Jones or Shirley Basset? They're Welsh. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| heartburn Senior Member United States Joined 7016 days ago 355 posts - 350 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 7 of 30 14 April 2005 at 2:07am | IP Logged |
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I think Tom Jones is Welsh too. And of course I can understand them. If I couldn't understand them, I'm sure I never would have heard of them. You won't sell many tickets if you don't make yourself understood. But that guy I worked with certainly wasn't selling any tickets in New York.
I didn't mean to suggest that the Welsh were unintelligible in general. I just think it's interesting that the native speaker of English was harder to understand than the non-native speakers. I can understand the first speaker in this recording, but I can't understand the second. Edited by heartburn on 14 April 2005 at 10:46pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| delectric Diglot Senior Member China Joined 6990 days ago 608 posts - 733 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: German | Message 8 of 30 15 April 2005 at 7:17am | IP Logged |
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Isn't there a movement to make Scots English a seperate language?
It would be interesting to find out if Scots English was as different to 'posh' queen's English as Norwegian is to Swedish. I also think the Australian and New Zealand accent are interesting as they sound like a working class British accent. I think perhaps it's a mixture of working class British accents. Sometimes when I meet an Australian I think they're from East London. Whereas, I know some American accents get mistaken for Irish. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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