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I could understand the one from Staffordshire quite well until they started to speed up in their pronunciation.

But all in all I think the Norfolk was the easiest for me to understand and the one from Staffordshire as long as they spoke slowly, but the rest I really had trouble with understanding aside from a few words I could understand.

Pinky wrote: It is pretty different. Depending on where you are from in the UK, we all phrase things slightly differently.

The first time I heard a Yorkshire friend say 'Just run along up't snicket' I had no idea what they meant - they were telling me to go ahead up the alleyway, lol!


:wah:

Oh...

Do those of you from the U.K. find it equally as hard to understand some American dialects as well?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/recordings/ ... hool.shtml

Ester in clip 3 has an accent pretty accurately like mine.....

Pinky wrote: It is pretty different. Depending on where you are from in the UK, we all phrase things slightly differently.

The first time I heard a Yorkshire friend say 'Just run along up't snicket' I had no idea what they meant - they were telling me to go ahead up the alleyway, lol!


All these bloody foreigners, only us cockneys talk proper ( did i mention i get nosebleeds past watford );) :rolleyes:

Katy1 wrote: http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/recordings/ ... hool.shtml

Ester in clip 3 has an accent pretty accurately like mine.....


Those were alot clearer, but when they speed up to where I can't understand I have to wait until they finish the sentence to understand the right words that I have missed by incorporating what was most likely the word they used.

I love the yank and aussie accent:-4 makes me go weak at the knees.:-4



my old git sounds just like David Beckham - i like to close my eyes and wish............ i mean think ab .... .

Pinky wrote: No, I find most American accents pretty easy to understand! I think they all sound nice.


I can almost guarantee you would have trouble with some very thick southern accents, as I have a hard time myself.

K.Snyder wrote: Those were alot clearer, but when they speed up to where I can't understand I have to wait until they finish the sentence to understand the right words that I have missed by incorporating what was most likely the word they used.


D'you know I understand nearly all American accents, like Pinky. I think it's because we're bombarded with differing versions of US accents from birth over here. From Disney films to electronic toddler toys we get to understand the arrangement of the accent. It's dead interesting though.....

Yeah, America is extremely unexposed to foreign influence, even from the U.K...

all we have over here is BBC, which is only broadcast on digital cable.

Pinky wrote:

I wonder if anyone in the US has seen Coronation street?:D

(Not that I watch it..)


Never heard of it.

Pinky wrote: That's probably a good thing, it's a load of crap like most soaps are.:rolleyes:


God, I hate soaps.

Here are various accents spoken in English.

http://alt-usage-english.org/audio_archive.shtml

Pinky wrote: Me too! It really bugs me when I drop in to see people and they have to wait until whatever godawful soap is finished before they'll get up and make you a cup of tea! Sad or what?

I like to introduce my friends to the kettle first so they can help themelves - does that make me sad :rolleyes:

Pinky wrote: Me too! It really bugs me when I drop in to see people and they have to wait until whatever godawful soap is finished before they'll get up and make you a cup of tea! Sad or what?


What's sad is watching the soap to begin with, forget the rudeness. :wah:

K.Snyder wrote: Here are various accents spoken in English.

http://alt-usage-english.org/audio_archive.shtml


In Bother, father caught...

the first speaker from the USA is from the same city I am, but he doesn't sound anything like me....I have more of a Kentucky type soft accent, along with midwestern influence.

God, I hate soaps too. I'll join the club lol.

Actually, heres a large variety of accents from the USA...

There are some others from Australia etc., but mostly from all over the USA.

These are more accurate too.

http://accent.gmu.edu/browse_language.p ... ge=english

Pinky wrote: Excellent Katy! The anti-soap brigade!

K, when I was in Detroit I didn't hear anyone that sounded like that either!

What does a soft Kentucky accent sound like then?


Sounds a little like this womans accent.

http://accent.gmu.edu/browse_language.p ... akerid=487

Listen to when she says "snake"...there are faint traces of kentucky influence.

Listening to more Irish dialects, I have realized that Irish does resemble some English accents alot more than I had previously thought...I suppose I just happened to hear some that were extremely hard to make out, and had assumed that all Irish accents sounded the same. I was wrong.

So is this what our Clancy sounds like? ..........(swoon) :yh_battin

http://accent.gmu.edu/browse_language.p ... eakerid=82

I can identify a New York accent and also a Southern accent, but then all other American accents sound similar to my untrained ear.

On the way home from work tonight, I listened to an interview with Nils Lofgren. He said he grew up in Chicago and then Washinton DC.

I thought he sounded just like Earl Hamner narrating on The Waltons.

Check this out. The ending freaks me out. I'm playing around with mixing multiple tracks together.

Attached files alien_koan.mp3 (123.8 KB) 

koan;445526 wrote: Check this out. The ending freaks me out. I'm playing around with mixing multiple tracks together.






Frickin blasphemy ! Im am their leader !!! Stand down mutton chop !

Nomad;445533 wrote: Frickin blasphemy ! Im am their leader !!! Stand down mutton chop !


:wah: I'll fight you for them

Take turns, Nomad you need to record an "I am your leader" speech as well though if you are to be a credible leader, thats a basic requirement of any freaky alien leader if you ask me.

A Brummie goes for a job interview looking very smart in a suit

The interviewer asks "Kipper Tie?"

The Brummie says "Arr orroit. two sugars please"

oh without a shadow of a doubt IRISH! *faints* soooo utterly sexy, closely followed by american

Red;464292 wrote: oh without a shadow of a doubt IRISH! *faints* soooo utterly sexy, closely followed by american
Allow me to introduce myself, I'm Bucky O'Reilly

Uncle Kram;464295 wrote: Allow me to introduce myself, I'm Bucky O'Reilly


lol! was expecting sheamus o'fagan but ull do :p

Uncle Kram;464289 wrote: A Brummie goes for a job interview looking very smart in a suit

The interviewer asks "Kipper Tie?"

The Brummie says "Arr orroit. two sugars please"


:wah: :wah:



this brummie called lee



says to his pal my girl could be cheating on me she has bought this posh anti wrinkle cream



his mate says dont worry its got your name on it and it says she is smitten with ya see it says



OIL OF ULAY



ok maybe not spelled like that

ArnoldLayne;464308 wrote: Oh ! really ?
No...O'Reilly

(We're the Ant & Dec of FG Arnie :wah: )

which ones ant then?

Pinky;464379 wrote: LMAO!!! Does that mean you two will be doing your own weekend thread?


Yeah...Arnie & Krams Current Puns