English accents - an interesting website

[F1r3]

Today I stumbled upon a very interesting website. Basically it's a huge database of recordings of people from all of the world - all the people were asked to read the same text extract and while they were reading it - they were being recorded. So this is a good way to listen to different accents and compare them, some of them are really funny
Here's an example.
First, the text being read by native speakers:
-USA
-UK
And the same text read by people from other countries:
-France
-Russia
-Switzerland
-Spain

(The French and Russian ones are the best )

[DHR_000x]

sssssss.... sssssss..... i dont know... scup

And the swiss one has a good english (UK) accent

Spain goes powned in english hihi:

E-store
E-Stella
E-spoon
E-spaña

Very funny



PS: E-Mail ???

[KIO]

O-m-f-g, that russian woman has to be ashamed... and shot.

EDIT:She is 68 years old...

EDIT:Man, I have listened to some other russian speakers.. even a girl, 23, lives in USA for 4 months - cant read... now i understand why turks on my holiday were surprised that I was a russian who can actually speak english...

[F1r3]

and shot.

lol

even a girl, 23, lives in USA for 4 months - cant read...

I don't think 4 months is enough, especially for a russian girl who, I'm sure, couldn't speak english when she moved in...

now i understand why turks on my holiday were surprised that I was a russian who can actually speak english...

hehe when I was in Tunisia this year it was all the same. You know these people at beaches who are always annoying everyone and offering tours/excursions? When one of them (a tunisian guy) came across some russians sitting next to me, he asked them: "from?", and they coudln't understand (started saying in russian: "wtf, what does he want?" - "че он прикопался? че ему надо?"), then he tried talking in french, italian, german... No response... When he finally understood they were russian, he was like: "omg.. why do you russians speak only russian?!". Well, unfortunately this is true, most people in our country have poor/no knowledge of english

oh and after that the tunisian guy moved to our spot, and I told him I was from USA And I think he believed me

[DHR_000x]

"omg.. why do you russians speak only russian?!"

[KIO]

Yeah, but thats true:))) Russians on holidays prefer to speak russian, coz.. well, i dont know:)))

[miti]

I uffff less evil that I recorded in my ears if not poor whom we hear is what you were laughing until my .... hahahah