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English accents - an interesting website
Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 7:00 pm
by 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:
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USA
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UK
And the same text read by people from other countries:
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France
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Russia
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Switzerland
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Spain
(The French and Russian ones are the best

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Re: English accents - an interesting website
Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 8:21 pm
by 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 ???

Re: English accents - an interesting website
Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 3:01 am
by 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...
Re: English accents - an interesting website
Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 5:03 am
by F1r3
KIO wrote:and shot.

lol
KIO wrote: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...
KIO wrote: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

Re: English accents - an interesting website
Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 6:23 am
by DHR_000x
F1r3 wrote: "omg.. why do you russians speak only russian?!"

Re: English accents - an interesting website
Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 9:37 am
by KIO
Yeah, but thats true:))) Russians on holidays prefer to speak russian, coz.. well, i dont know:)))
Re: English accents - an interesting website
Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 8:35 am
by 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