哈囉,歡迎來到我的部落格!許多學生問我是否有臉書。答案是我沒有,而且我也不喜歡Facebook!所以我製作了這個網站,要與大家分享我的興趣,以及我在台灣的生活。在這裡,我還會討論歌曲音樂、電影、字彙、文法、英文常犯錯誤與學習英語的小竅門。希望你們不僅覺得這網站很有趣,更能幫助你我,一起來創造一個好用的線上英語互動園地。

2011年1月22日 星期六

Accents

In Taiwan, most of the English you will hear is American. Check out this video to hear lots of other different accents.

The first three you will hear are British accents.
The first is a standard accent from the South of England, used by the BBC and most public broadcasts. This one is my accent.

The second is a London accent, spoken by people born and raised in London, usually working class.

The third one is a very high class British accent, spoken by the upper classes. This is the accent the Queen uses, for example.

Then you will hear Southern Irish,  Northern Irish, and then Scottish.

Listen carefully and try to hear what the differences are between them.



Amy also does some accents of Europeans speaking English, different kinds of American English, and Australian.

Listen and make a list of the cities and countries you can hear.

5 則留言:

  1. this is very qute!
    i think i might watched similar one on youtube by a little boy :p

    and I want to apologize that i was absent last Saturday because i got flu badly.
    I know that next time is the last class, so we will have a test, right? what's our HW?

    Megan

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  2. 1.South of England
    2.London
    3.London
    4.Southern Irish
    5.Northern Irish
    6.Scottish
    7.Italia
    8.Mexico
    9.Paris, French
    10.Sydney, Australia
    11.New Zealand
    12.Texas
    13.California
    14.Seattle
    15.Toronto
    16.Poland

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  3. Megan, sorry to hear about your flu. Hope you are feeling better.
    Next class will be a review of everything we learnt on the course, and then two practice tests.

    Dirac, that's pretty good. you got most of them correct, but there are still some more you didn't catch. Want to try again before I post the answers?

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  4. 1.London
    2.London
    3.London
    4.Ireland
    5.North Ireland
    6.
    7.Italy
    8.Berlin, Germany
    9.Prague, Czech of Republic
    10.Moscow, Russia
    11.Paris, France
    12.Sydney, Australia
    13.Wellington, New Zealand
    14.Australia
    15.Texas
    16.California, L.A.
    17.Seattle, Washington
    18.Toronto, Canada
    19.Brooklin
    20.

    Hello, Quentin. How are you doing?

    I took your courses one year ago in Apex and I scored high in TOEFL test.
    Thank you.

    BTW, some of the accents are actually hard to recognize, for example, the French one.

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  5. hi Hebe!
    Nice to see you here! Congratulations on your high TOEFL score! It's because you study hard!

    your list is correct!
    Number 6 is Scottish
    Number 20 is Transatlantic Accent, a kind of mix of British and American.

    Woohoo! well done!

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