Accents

[Alan]

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Now, as you know there are many different types of English in the world and I have to tell you that there are many different accents of English in the UK.

I'll say that again in four regional accents. Which do you understand best and which would you take most notice of?

Here goes:

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[Alan]

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Hi,

Now, ten of you so far have listened. Any comments?

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Hello Alan,

They are all audible and intelligible and didn't cause me any problems, but to my ears accent #4 and accent #2 are the easiest to understand.
The hardest to understand is accent #3.
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[Yuri Yurinov]

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The hardest to understand is the third accent. Iam afraid to be not right... Is it Cockney? I heard that in this type of accent the "h" is not pronounced.
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I meant the "h" in the initial position...
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Hello Alan,

How do you do? I'm pleased to meet you here. This is Amy from Japan.

Thank you for posting interesting topic.
I do understand four accents in this order, 3/ 2/ 1/ 4.
As for me, the third accents bring me back memories when I was in Australia. I felt the second accent sounds like noble.
I am not too sure which is which region. I would like to know about it, please.

Cheers,
Amy

[Alan]

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Hi,

My accents weren't that good as they were mainly attempts and this is what I intended:

1) Scottish
2) Welsh
3) Birmingham
4) Liverpool.

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Hi Alan,

As usual I have missed the target (lol)

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[Cristina.ro]

Why, it's easy: your natural accent is the easiest to understand, Alan! :-) Then, to me it is #4 and #2.

[Alan]

Hi Cristina,

Thanks for your comment.

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[Kati Svaby]

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Hello Alan,

I've just bumped into this thread. I can say same that Christina said I am the most familiar with your accent. I hadn't a clue about the accents, probably the first was Irish.I didn't like the next three, but didn't recognize them at all. If I have to answer the question, then I would choose the the second and the fourth because those are the clearest and possibly nearest the original "Oxford" English which is very similar to your pronunciation.

Just now I've seen that the first was Scottish, so I've mistaken.

Many thanks that you performed for us different accents in Great-Britain.

Best regards:
kati svaby
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