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8 diffrerent English pronunciation-mp3

Lonelymelody — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:36:01 GMT

There are many different English accents spoken throughout the world. Some of them are very difficult to understand for an English learner who has been taught the Standard English.

However, not only is being familiar with different accents fun, but it helps better communication and understanding. It will also help to know speakers background culture and thier interests.

I have always been curious to pinpoint a speaker accent to theire hometown city, but it has not been easy task.

Here is a link to an Mp3 file, with 8 different sentences, spoken by 8 different natives. Pleas someone who is familiar with these accents localize these people towns. Please be specific and just don't say American, say their town or state.

Please clarify what features in their accents is distinquishable.

Because of the size of Mp3 file I put it somewhere else.

Please Follow the below link bellow, then on the bottom of the page one the file section, click: public>mp3>8 different english accents

http://shahireyessky.spaces.live.com/

Thanks in advance

p.s. here go the sentences:

1. Sheâs a writer of romantic novels
2. Read about it in news papers.
3. She went to hospital because she had heart problems.
4. We watched TV and then went to bed.
5. I want to thank you for your help.
6. They were jailed for robbing this bank.
7. With a bit of luck, weâll win this game.
8. Can you hold the umbrella when I get my keys out?

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Re: British Pronunciation vs American Prononciation

Peter85 — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 16:42:13 GMT

I like both of them but I'd like to be more specific:

American: It isn't as nice as British accent but I think is clearer than British accent (at least for spanish native speakers,like me) as It has a stronger pronunciation of the R,a very common letter in Spanish language.The only american accent that I don't like is the one from deep america? I mean Alabama etc...

British:Of course I think the best british accent is the one from the famous triangle London-Oxford-Cambridge,although,obviously, not everyone living in that area has a good british accent.Like Nona said It depends on the background and education of each person.In the other hand,we find Midlands,Northern (england) and Scottish accent.The one spoken in Midlands is not bad (except Brummie accent from Birmigham,It's funny,though).Some accents from Northern england(Geordie,liverpool,Yorkshire) as well as Scottish are a bit difficult to understand,specially if you're not accustomed to them.

We shouldn't forget other accents like Australian,South-African,Irish,specially Irish accent as I think It's rather clear.

Cheers.

Re: URGENT :I am Looking for a Free British Pronunciation Software

Anonymous — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 05:45:26 GMT

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Re: How can I learn to talk with a British accent?

Anonymous — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 08:39:02 GMT

To all of you who want a British accent: Although I've mentioned on this website that I've made a website of poems, with my clear English voice recording attached to them, and although since last year almost 24000 people have visited it from across the world, I have never heard from anyone in English Forums that they have found it useful. Poems are fun, the language is varied, they are short enough to do one poem, listening to the words, checking meanings, noting spellings, reading it through copying my voice etc in only half an hour thoroughly. A good idea then is to learn them and recite them. Our children in Britain learn our language through poetry. My three year old daughter, Jessica, knows lots of rhymes. They are fun. When you look at words such as: cough/through/bough/though/enough etc - are you aware that there is no word which has the same vowel sound here? Our spellings are notorious. When you realize that rhyme an time; blue/too/through/few all sound alike, with the same vowel sound, you will then realize how much rhyming poetry can help with English. This is a free website, you don't even have to buy a book, and between my husband and myself it has taken 2 years of hard work to make so that students such as yourself, and our own children in England can get help with spelling and pronunciation. Write Josie' Poems on Google and you'll go straight to it. Please let teachers andothers know of all this material. I think, at the latest count, there are about 350 poems - some of them still waiting to go on. I do hope your accents improve, not to mention your spellings too, and that you write and tell me you have had lots and lots of fun, for many of the poems are fun poems. Josie

my accent?

Saska — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 21:44:56 GMT

The recording is about 50 seconds long. And I know it's of crappy quality.

Could any/some English speaking people help me out? For long I've been wondering about my pronunciation, but we never ever talked about that in class (and now my school no longer offers English as subject), so I would REALLY appreciate if you could listen to the audio piece, and let me know how it sounds. I myself know nothing about accents, in most cases I can hear the difference between an american and a british accent, but I can't hear the difference between lets say an australian and a brit, or a canadian and an american. Er, and at times I have mistaken an american for a briton ... I've been asked about my dialect and find it embarrassing when I myself don't know what accent my language most resembles.

Thanks in advance

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http://www.soundupload.com/download/mj2dibi37l3ek85 (1.14MB)

oh and you are more than welcome to critisize me, but if you do please give me tips on how to improve rather than "u suck" ^^

Re: British Accent - How to speak in a British Accent

Anonymous — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 00:04:51 GMT

I have always been fascinated by the British pronunciation of "you". Any pointers on how?

Need your Help... Pls pls pls

Sushi* — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 00:06:28 GMT

Dear everybody:

I have a very sticky rpoblem and I need your help.
I am a student in the department of English Literature. My native tongue has always been Arabic. I, everyday in the college, learn new words and vocabs. The problem is, I CANNOT REMEMBER ALL OF THEM. I mean, after I learnt them all by heart. When it comes to either speaking or writing, and I want to recall a spicific word, it just doesn't come across my head. Other times, I get stuck when i want to know the English word for a word in Arabic.
Putting all of these aside, my pronunciation is a huge thing I have to deal with. I can speak American and British accent, but which is which, I cannot serttle on any of them.
Lol, It's too long sorry

Re: How can I learn to talk with a British accent?

Brunate — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 10:32:04 GMT

I have mentioned this before on this website, but I hope it will help you. I am poet who has made available freely about 240 of my own poems on the internet, but I have also added my clear English voice to each poem to help both overseas students studying the English language and especially children of our own country who are struggling with reading. When you read words like: cough; through; though; bough and dough - you may not realize that they all have completely different vowel sounds, so listening and reading at the same time is an excellent way of improving both your pronunciation and spelling. Even the English realize that our language is difficult to others. I have been a teacher all my life, and for many years I have taught ESL students. My voice is clear and, as far as English people are concerned, I do not have a strong accent, so listen to the poems and read them at the same time, noting the spellings. Then eventually just listen to the words without the text and pronounce the words at the same time. I know that my poems are being used by ESL students from all over the world. I hope you will recommend them because I have spent hundreds of hours composing the poems and making the website without payment, and all I want to do is to use it for the enjoyment and help of others. The website is: www.whiteheadm.co.uk - - and then you click on Josie's poems and you'll find hundreds.

Re: How can I learn to talk with a British accent?

Brunate — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 11:12:01 GMT

Dear -----------------------

I am Josie and I have just made something which should help you a great deal to improve your accent. (For a start, stop using words such as "wanna" which really are not English). Try to speak your English, pronouncing each word fully and clearly, giving the words a lot of thought. I have been a teacher all my life, (business studies) and for many years I have taught overseas students English. I have a good clear English accent. I have just produced a website which contains 230 new poems for children (but not all for children). At the request of local children, and to help them with their reading, I have added my voice recording to the poems. Overseas students tell me that this helps them greatly with their pronunciation. I hope it might help you also. You would need to read the poems with me, noting the differences in the way that you and I are saying the words. Do try it and let me know if it helps. There is a guestbook at the end of the website: http://www.whiteheadm.co.uk/html/josies_poetry.htm
I hope you enjoy the poems too, and all the very best with your future success as an actress (actor)? Josie

Re: Have a question about British accent.

Anonymous — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 22:50:20 GMT

Xam0 wrote:
There is definately an upstate NY accent. The vowels in the middle of some words are either changed or pronounced as dipthongs. Ill put the normal spelling of some words followed by the upstate NY pronunciation.. and then the north jersey pronunciation (where im from) which is fairly neutral compared to upstate ny.

Dog -- dwog -- dog
Frog -- frohg --frog
Cat -- keeyat -- kat
Mat -- meeyat -- mat
Walk -- wooawk -- wahk
Map -- meeyap -- map
Hat -- heeyat -- hat
Creek -- crick -- kreek
Water -- wuohdr -- wahdr
Ball -- bowul -- bahl
Fall -- fowul -- fahl
Hair -- hayer -- hare
Fair -- fayer -- fare
Have -- hyav -- hav
Has -- hyaz -- haz

Also, upstate NY, like NJ does not make a distinction in pronunciation between "Mary, marry, and merry"

Its not a very stong accent.. but its noticable.. hope that helps

------------------------------ whoa. i am from central ny (for those of us who know that upstate is not anything above westchester). we definitely do not have the accent or use any of those pronunciations that you mentioned. i've never heard anyone speak like that, unless they were extremely uneducated people, or old and from the country (and may i remind you that it is not all farm country up here!).