Hi Bluealbatross, I live near Newcastle, and answered your similar question in the thread entitled: "Received pronunciation and mid Atlantic English" ...but I've pasted it here in case anyone wants to continue on this thread: I don't

I don't think I'd recommend learning the Newcastle accent if you want to learn a British regional accent. Its often reckoned to be one of the most difficult of accents to understand - not only for non British, but for many British themselves!

Hi hello!!! I guess you are a British native speaker!! I'm from Mexico and I'm delighted with British English mainly the southeast England accent...but wait a couple of days ago I watched the film Millions by Danny Boyle and I had a crush on

Hi, I need some advice regarding ESL instruction. I don't have any formal ESL training or certification, but I do tutor some foreign students in English - mainly written English. I've been approached by a Russian student who wants to

' Ow, eez ye-ooa san,is e?' 'Oh, he's your son is he?' The Shavian spelling rather over-emphasises the Cockney pronunciation, although some linguists maintain that there are only dipthongs and no "pure" vowels in Cockney. To some ears Cokney

There are a number of variations within the British accent. Here are some suggestions on how to improve your accent: 1. If you have any close British friends or acquaintences, speak with them as often as possible while imitating their

To continue..... I think the sound quality is an important difference between the two languages besides the pronunciation. The Americans tend to drone in the middle tone, wheras the English have a more lilting quality and the Welsh more so; but

When I came to live in the States I joined a singing group. Not a band, more a choral society. I was told when we were singing Shenandoah not to sing "water" with an English accent, it was meant to be sung with an American pronunciation where the

I must be slow this morning, but I got there in the end. You are not the only one, even I did not get it straight away. As John seems to have noticed, in day to day life I am John Lawler. But when I first started posting to this group and

Anonymous wrote: An interesting tidbit here, I think, is that the short " i" vowel in "bird" has no phonetic purpose: A "silent" vowel. Take the vowel out of "bird" or any of those "vowel-r" examples and you can still correctly pronounce