By Accents

Re: Berlusconi's English

While learning languages I have watched that: 1) Some people have very stiff tongue that they even can not pronounce properly even their own languages.2) Some people cannot adopt other languages except the languages they had to start learning from early age.3)Some people do not have any aptitude...

Re: Posh accent!

English has many different accents. It seems that a 'correct' accent is often seen as "posh". This means that people who speak with correct grammar and what is known as 'received pronunciation' (BBC English) are deemed posh. In general it makes certain sounds unheard...

Re: Berlusconi's English

[Video] I didn't understand everything that Slovakian minister said... it even took me a little to figure out that "vee veel" was supposed to be "We will", lol.

Re: AE Accent in Video Presentation??

Yes, but everyone wants their new product. Everyone wants their patents and their copyrights. Everyone wants to further complicate badly designed systems instead of simplifying them. Everyone wants to invent something new, no matter how useless, dangerous, meaningless or crappy it is. Everyone...

Re: AE Accent in Video Presentation??

Hi Jim, you're definately NOT naive, on the contrary, we're simply caught in the middle of the different software vendors fighting to promote their format .. standards are merely decided by a survival of the "fattest" process .. be interested to hear your opinion on the...

Re: AE Accent in Video Presentation??

Geez! How many different formats are there for videos?Every time I turn around these days, it's fifteen more downloads to play anything.Isn't anyone standardizing this stuff?(My question may reveal how naive I am about these things.)CJ

Re: Berlusconi's English

The surprising thing I think, for those of you who are not native speakers of English, is that these men can be understood.They don't have the best accents -- that's obvious -- but if you can speak English with at least this degree of faithfulness to the standard accent, you will be...

Re: Please HELP! I want a British accent.. NOW!!

 OK, I've been watching <i>way</i> too much Doctor Who, and now sound like Rose.You can try that... ~Aria 

Re: Berlusconi's English

Berlusconi and Bush! Listen to Berlusconi's English, that's a good accent, isn't it? Whahahah whuahuahuha, oh, geez, I hope the Italians find this funny If Mr. Bush had to speak Italian ,Italians would laugh at his Italian pronuncuation.

Re: Is American English lazy English?

All I know is that British accent sounds better but surprisingly...however, I'd rather to speak the American one because words come out easier regarding the pronounciation..of course sometimes when I watch some American movies is unavoidable to dislike some colloquial expressions...some used...