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Fun fact. We had a great friend from Glasgow that lived in Texas for 10 years. She had the thickest accent, but her husband was much easier to understand. He learned to slow down his speech. One day the friend was in an argument with a lady over the phone and she was riled up. She’s going off on the phone and all the sudden stops and says “ I’m speaking English! Do you not understand English?” Their daughters both had American accents. When we visited Scotland years later, both girls had thick Scottish accents. Love them to bits.
Because I've read that Andy Taylor of Duran Duran and Bryan Ferry have Geordie accents, I decided to find out what it sounds like. It seems that Sophie is from County Durham, just like Mr. Ferry. What a charming accent! It made me smile. Some of it sounded very reminiscent of a Scottish accent to me. I've studied American accents a bit (my accent is a flat Midwestern one, all hard Rs and flat vowels), so it's fascinating to learn a little about various British accents. Thank you for this interesting and charming video!
I hate appearing boastful here but, apart from being unable to understand more than one word out of twenty when I stayed in Scotland for three weeks one summer, I have the impression I am fluent at English. The worst of your ten conditions for me is being able to understand very strong accents without struggling, I do understand bits now and there or may even get the general idea but I do f*ckin' struggle 😂
@@EnglishLikeANative True, to native speakers as well, I remember I attended a scene on a train in North Wales, Welsh young people were chatting with Irish young people and they didn't understand everything they said, I couldn't believe my eyes and ears 🤣
I think I'm reasonably comfortable with most of these aspects, though...I'm a disaster at understanding implicit meanings and puns even in my own country, so if I were to move to the UK I'd be toast! 😬
Hi Anna, all 10 are actually true for me, so I Do consider myself fluent. Have been using English both in private situations, as well as work for close to 30 years, so that should be the case. Having said all of that, I'm humbled every time I encounter a cryptic crossword, for instance. I'm humbled watching Simon Anthony and Mark Goodliffe on the Cracking the Cyptic channel. For all my papers in what I know as a foreign English speaker, no matter how Fluent I am, I'm very far from being a native speaker in terms of vocabulary. There are So many words I come across as I try puzzles that I've never even heard of and just go ... huh? :-D
I'm going to use sarcasm as you suggested Anna, I can send my brain so you can put British English in it, and then give it back to me. But I want to speak just like you. Because you are remarkable, and you have poetry in your speech.🥰
Hello Anna, well...according to these points I'm definitely not fluent even though while listening to them all I answered with a sort of mix. I was said that my pronunciation is good but I must improve my fluency, finding native and non native who want to practice with you even with a language exchange isn't easy at all. I hope I will break that barrier which blocks me and then I'll be able to go! Thank you for your work! 🙏😊
Glad you didn’t mention Blackcountry accent LoL as an Italian moving to UK over 10 years ago I can tell you that early experience forced my ears to a massive training. From there, it was downhill for the rest of my time in UK
I just wonder, is there a way to get to understand scouse? It sounds like a totally different language to me, even with subtitles I just don't get the words. 😢
Thank you so much, this version of learning is one of the best. I can hear the clear pronunciation and read at the same time and the subject matter is also interesting. Nice to be here. ❤
I probably wouldn’t opt to use “ɫ” as it can be confused with the voiceless alveolar lateral fricative in many orthographies. I would likely go for “lˠ” as it expressed the palatilization so clearly.
I don't hear anything unusual about the way they pronounce the short a in words like bath and path. That is overwhelmingly standard here in the US even amongst people who use English as a second language. The way many Brits, especially East Anglians, pronounce those words sound annoying and pompous.
Glad I found this. I’m reading a book that used the word “snugly” and I thought the author misspelled “snuggly” I never knew they were spelled differently and I’ve spoke English my whole life.
