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Bldudas: 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...

You should find this wiki article on British English accents and dialects usefulYep, 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....

accent: 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...

Hello, 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...

Some of the examples are of the form "all the sudden attention". The BBC entries seem to be blog and forum postings (with other grammatical errors) rather than anything produced and posted by the BBC proper. I'd be cautious of using this: I think it would be easy to hear 'of a' unintentionally...

Kooyeen wrote:I have a question. How to pronounce "plectroclinth" with a Scottish accent? I would like to see the answers to that one... MrP

Thank you Well, for example, what I continuously see are sentences like these: I'd like to learn English in this forum. My pronunciation is not good, so how to improve it? He doesn't want his troops to get out of Iraq. Then, how to avoid another three thousand deaths? I have a...

Ahh...if you do know English fluently this would be easier than if you didn't (obviously ). It depends on where you are coming from as to how you can rid you accent. I knew someone who came from outside Moscow, and after a year he dropped his accent. I also know people who came from Russia but...

For a good scottish accent just watch Trainspotting or just constantly listen to Robert Carlyle speaking!

Anonymous wrote:okay, I know this site is dedicated for learning English and stuff, but I really would like to be able to use a Scottish accent. Or using Irish accents are cool too. Do you guys have any tips? Maybe a site you know that goes over the basics of Scottish or Irish accents? I think...