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It is sometimes easy to discertain different dialects during song. If a singer from say, Ireland, was to attempt an American song, he would surely sound at least a bit different. No matter how hard an English speaker tries, it is very difficult to impersonate a different dialect of the same...

hi deejay. nice to meet you. i'd gladly help if i could. see you soon :-) and jmanggah, i did share your anxiety. i told you already about my fear of using phone in london. yet later i realised that people there talk in so many different accents and dialects but miraculously they seemed to...

Hi everyone. I'm new here, and I'm really just trying to introduce myself to everyone. I wound up here searching for ways to maybe pick up another accent, rather than the one I have. I'm from from central-Kentucky, and carry the very thick accent and dialect of this area (partly southern, partly...

'Those of you who love a British accent might think again after you've heard mine! There's a "welcome" audio message here: http://www.satcure.co.uk/ And more stuff here: http://www.satcure.co.uk/audio.htm Just for the record, I was born and lived in Middlesbrough (North East...

I find this series of discussions interesting because the more we talk, the more confusing the "native" becomes. If we try to operationalize the concept of "nativeness", we will eventually figure out the concept itself can hardly be narrowed down to a clear-cut set of definitional criteria. In...

" So why do learners choose to learn a regional dialect? " - nonaTheBrit you were probably referring to me . I would like to say that I didn't really " learn " the cockey for years . My friends had that accent and I grew up in an environment like that . In other words , I naturally grew up...

Something I find a little strange is when English learners decide to learn an accent of British English (for example the poster who said he had learnt Cockney English for 4 years). Why would you do that? I've also heard that people are learning Estuary English. OK, very few people speak RP...

'I don't find that argument very convincing - what about language change? The English that was spoken 300 years ago is not the same English that is now spoken either in Britain or in the US - so even if you'd argue that 300 years ago, Britons exported "correct" English to the States, a time...

British, British, British and a thousand times more - BRITISH. I adore British accent, and it doesn't really matter whether it's regional official or anything; I think it's the most beautiful language, both in sound (i.e. pronunciation, and equally important - intonation) and richness, grammar,...

Well, once upon a time, BrEs would attract the attention of a group of fellow BrEs with a gauche inarticulate mumble, or simply a movement of the eyebrows. Seemed to do the trick; though sometimes you had to wait a while, till someone noticed you. As I say, 'guys' sounds fine in a non-BrE...