Do you have a favourite accent??

[brianthainess]

A Surrey accent, Irish, Welsh. Soft Cockney. 

[Denim]

 

 

 

Edited September 29 by Denim

[simon43]

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...A funny story about that riding a train in Italy as a 15 year old talking albeit rapidly

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As an aside, I teach 300+ young students whose first language is not English.  They all have the same view about 'Americans' (meaning from the USA).  Americans speak English much too fast!  I find this a constant problem when searching YouTube for short, relevant science videos for my online lessons.  The video content is good, but I have to reject it because the narrator is from the USA and speaks too fast.  British narrators seem to mostly speak at a more acceptable pace, (and science videos don't seem to use Brummies or Scousers!).

 

Apart from fast-speaking Americans, I reject many videos because they are spoken by Indians with a very strong accent.  (Yes, I could use a wide range of narrator accents in my lessons, but time is short and my students' English abilities are still at a lowish level!).

 

In the UK, I like the West Country accent, also soft Scottish 🙂