By Dialects, Scottish accents

First off, can I just say: Lmao to that video- pretty much sums up the majority of Scots; in the 'words' of the 'great' Kenny Dal: 'It's good tae mumble'. < This was from a mock TV interview of him from 'Only An Excuse', I think it was, though don't...

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...

This has been said millions of times here before but (a) Scottish accents are among the most hardest accents to learn and sound convincing (Mel Gibson in Braveheart is a great example of a poorly portrayed accent) and (b) there are loads of regional variations. I come from the East Coast of...

I am Italian, two years ago my father and I decided to visit a friend of him who is from Middlesbrough; we decided to spent some days in London, then visit the eastern Wales, stay some days vith this friend and then spent some days in Edinburgh. I am quite good at English, I can understand it...

And Oi loike Oztrai'jen English best - it just sounds keol. *** American English (resp. Western and Northern American accents) is pretty easy for me to understand while Southern accents and Eastern accents I find more difficult. British English sounds rather posh sometimes and depending on...

It would be rather silly to think that there is one scottish accent, they are all very, very different...people dont actually talk like rab c nesbitt..!!