Benezir Bhutto: Former Prime Minister of Pakistan

[Tom]

Hi

I would like to know if anyone has ever heard Benezir Bhutto, former Prime Minister of Pakistan, deliver an English speech! If yes, how did you find her? Is she good at language?

Tom

[Torsten]

Hi Tom,

I haven't heard Benazir Bhutto speak so I can't give you an opinion on her pronunciation but I have heard Pervez Musharraf give press conferences a few times. He has this distinct accent of Indian born people who speak English as a second language. Clearly he has been using English on a daily basis for quite a while so he can express any of his thoughts fluently.

Come to think of it, his English probably also has been influenced by Pakistan born English speakers because Indian born might have a slightly different intonation.

I'd be interested to read what our distinctive team of ESL professionals have to say on this...
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[Yankee]

Hi Tom

Benazir Bhutto speaks excellent, clear English. She has a mild accent - which I assume comes from Pakistan - but it makes her English all the more beautiful and interesting, in my opinion.

Amy

[Tom]

On second thought, has anyone of you heard Imran Khan speak English? By the way, he is the former cricket player of Pakistan? Studied in the UK and famous for his English here!

Tom

PS: Amy, have you heard him also?

[Yankee]

Hi Tom

Sorry, I don't know much about him.
It seems I should, though, seeing as according to Wikipedia, he was once voted as the "Sexiest Man of The Year" by Australia Magazine Oz.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imran_Khan

Americans tend to know absolutely nothing about cricket.

I remember once asking a British friend to explain the game to me. I ended up even more confused.

Amy

[Jamie (K)]

Tom, you and I have talked about our youthful crushes on Heddy Lamar, and I hope you're sitting down when I tell you this. When I was younger (or more accurately, when she was younger) I had a very bad crush on Benezir Bhutto!

Her English, from what I've heard of it, is nearly perfect. She has that Pakistani accent, but a Hindi or Urdu accent is considered one of the ordinary accents of near-native English, as long as it's not too thick.

[Tom]

[Jamie (K)]

[Spencer]

Hi All,
Hey you native speakers!
What do you think of Arnold's English?
Like it?
Spencer

[Yankee]

Hi Spencer

The Governator's English was pretty bad when he first moved to the US. His English was better by the time he made his first film, but his accent was still so heavy, that he wasn't easy to understand and his lines had to be dubbed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_in_New_York

Nowadays, he still has a German accent, but it's not as "thick" as it once was and he's easy to understand. His command of English is excellent. I like his accent.

Amy

[Jamie (K)]

Arnold still has the heavy Austrian accent that made him perfect for playing robots in science fiction movies. However, his grammar and command of idioms and collocations is so perfect that if you didn't hear the accent, you generally wouldn't know he was an immigrant. But oddly, despite the quality of his English, when he's talking off the cuff, instead of "with" he says "mit" most of the time. That's his only real mistake.

[Torsten]

[Che Gevara]

I think the person ,who killed the Prime Minister of Pakistan is not a good persob,but I'm moreinterested,why did he decide to become a terroris ?!
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[Jamie (K)]

[Tom]

Hi

It can be spelled both ways, Torsten. For example,

Ahmed or Ahmad

Umer or Omer

Aysha or Ayesha

PS: The interesting thing is that there is a typo in your "typo".