http://www.englishforums.com/English/EnglishAudioSpeechPronunciation/Forum22.htmBritish, American, Scottish accent or using super-fantastic-high-tech software, we'll help you with pronunciation.enXMOD (Build: 3614.32638)http://www.englishforums.com/English/LearnVariousAccentsDialects/vlzdb/post.htm#390684Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:14:23 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:390684Sushi*0http://www.englishforums.com/English/LearnVariousAccentsDialects/vlzdb/post.htm#390684http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments22-390684.xmlThanks a lot.. it helped me really well SPECIALLY, if your teacher needs a teacher himself i'm a student only, so i need this help thanx againhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/LearnVariousAccentsDialects/vlzdb/post.htm#389924Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:14:23 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:389924Bldudas1http://www.englishforums.com/English/LearnVariousAccentsDialects/vlzdb/post.htm#389924http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments22-389924.xmlBldudas: thanks so much. I'll def. check them out. I've been staying up all night browsing the web for sites that can help me. You cannot recognise US accents? Where are the people from you hear? You should be able to recognise New York and Boston. Maybe not Philadelphia. Well, I might recognize that the accent is a US one, but not anything more specific than that. The american accent is the easiest to recognize. I'm having a hard time telling the difference between for example Australian Eng and Brit Eng. I can't even tell the difference. And Scottish, I don't even understand what they're saying. I watched "Green Street Hooligans" (lovely lovely film) but I didn't understand half of what they were saying, same goes with "This is...http://www.englishforums.com/English/LearnVariousAccentsDialects/vlzdb/post.htm#389809Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:14:23 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:389809Anonymous2http://www.englishforums.com/English/LearnVariousAccentsDialects/vlzdb/post.htm#389809http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments22-389809.xmlYou should find this wiki article on British English accents and dialects useful Yep, already finished that one yesterday. I don't know how many different English accents there are. Some areas have their own accent and even some cities/towns have their own accent. I thought you only had a few. Like I said I suck at accents. I don't even know what accents we have here where I live! So what are the major accents? And how can I distinguish them from eachother? Scottish (two t's) - again there isn't a single Scottish accent. Well you learn something new every day. I honestly though that in Scotland, there was one accent and it was Scottish. Proved me wrong, which I noticed when browsing this site for 3 hours during my all nighters,...http://www.englishforums.com/English/LearnVariousAccentsDialects/vlzdb/post.htm#389746Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:14:23 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:389746nona the brit3http://www.englishforums.com/English/LearnVariousAccentsDialects/vlzdb/post.htm#389746http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments22-389746.xmlaccent: a way of speaking typical of a particular group of people and especially of the natives or residents of a region dialect: a regional variety of language distinguished by features of vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation from other regional varieties and constituting together with them a single language Dialects need a greater variation from the 'standard' or other varieties, whereas accent is more about pronounciation. You should find this wiki article on British English accents and dialects useful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_English I'd disagree that RP is the standard English accent - only about 2% of us speak it. And certainly the other dialects did not develop from RP - they developed over hundreds if...http://www.englishforums.com/English/LearnVariousAccentsDialects/vlzdb/post.htm#389650Sun, 24 May 2009 12:14:23 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:389650Bldudas4http://www.englishforums.com/English/LearnVariousAccentsDialects/vlzdb/post.htm#389650http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments22-389650.xmlHello, here are two websites I found dealing with different English dialects. http://web.ku.edu/idea/index.htm , http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/dialectsofenglish.html Since I am a native speaker, I can definitely tell when people speak a different dialect than myself. You cannot recognise US accents? Where are the people from you hear? You should be able to recognise New York and Boston. Maybe not Philadelphia. Sorry, but I do not really understand most of what someone with a Scottish accent is saying. I know they roll r's, which is one reason why I cannot understand them. RP stands for Received Pronounciation. It is the standard English dialect that all other dialects are based upon.http://www.englishforums.com/English/LearnVariousAccentsDialects/vlzdb/post.htmTue, 24 Feb 2009 13:14:23 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:389624Anonymous5http://www.englishforums.com/English/LearnVariousAccentsDialects/vlzdb/post.htmhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/comments22-389624.xmlSo hey people, I am new to this forums, and I hope to learn a lot during my time here. I wonder if I could get some help on accents. Recently my interest in them has grown, but I also suck at it! I can't hear the difference between accents, may it be someone from Wales, UK, Scotland or Australia who speaks. I would also like to revise my own pronunciation, and learn to keep myself to ONE accent, and not mix, lets say Am english / Brit English. I'd love to get some tips on how to achieve what I wish. Maybe some links to sites where audio is available? Anything that could help Furthermore I have a few questions, - what's the difference between accent and dialects? - How many "British" accents are there? And what's the difference?...