Accents

Non-native speaker English accents

1. What are the differences between the sounds of English and the sounds of your first language? 

2. Does any particular sound cause problems for you?

3. What sounds in your first language might cause problems for non-native speakers? 

An accent can be an asset

 Watch:

One Woman, 17 British Accents


Ways to describe and identify different British accents


____  - middle class BBC
Heightened ____ - upstairs cast of Downton Abbey
L_____ - recognisable outside of Britain
East Anglia - _____, boggy
West Country - rounder, ____ Gamgee
Cornwall - "p______y"
Southern Welsh - s___-s_____y
Northern _____ - b____thier, thicker
West midlands, Birmingham - n____l
Scouse (the city of L_______l) - the Beatles
Lancashire - D______s cast of Downtown Abbey
Yorkshire - _____er than Lancashire, ___ off a lot of words
Geordie - _____ Eliot
Edinburgh - soft and a little _____ty
Glasgow - much ______er - ____ off a lot words
Scottish ____lands - Robert Burns
Northern Ireland - all about the ______, Liam Neeson
Southern Ireland, City of D_____ - not actually in Britain, a lot of assonance







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RP  - middle class BBC
Heightened RP - Downton Abbey
London - recognisable outside of Britain
East Anglia - flat, boggy
West Country - rounder, Sam Gamgee
Cornwall - piratey
Southern Welsh - song-songy
Northern welsh - breathier, thicker
West midlands, Birmingham - nasal
Scouse (Liverpool) - the Beatles
Lancashire - Downstairs of Downtown Abbey
Yorkshire - flatter than Lancashire, cut off a lot of words
Geordie - Billy Eliot
Edinburgh - soft and a little snooty
Glasgow - much thicker - cut off a lot words
Scottish Highlands - Robert Burns
Northern Ireland - all about the vowels, Liam Neeson
Southern Ireland, Dublin - not actually in Britain, a lot of assonance