Part 2 working with CJ on Welsh - start with part 1 below!
Part 2 working with CJ on Welsh - start with part 1 below!
Working on Welsh with CJ! CJ listened to a bit of Welsh via the AccentHelp download, and this is our first session to work on it - Part 1!
Someone designed a game to test your IPA skills. (You should realize that it’s broad transcription, so the R’s are right-side up, for example.) My only problem was actually spelling the words correctly in normal human spelling! If only English had followed Shaw’s lead to simplify spelling!
You think saying “He must have hit her in her artery” in a Cockney accent is hard, try talking about the Icelandic volcano…
Proper Glaswegian Scottish!
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I’m actually even more interested in the responses than the article itself. One of my favorite responses is the comment that no one ever gets a Boston accent right in the movies, even from actors who are from Boston.
Commenting on a question about the “Flat-A” sound and why even good speakers from NPR often default to this.
Great clip of Shirley Manson on the Craig Ferguson show. Both are Scottish and talk about accents—they have pretty mean American accents, and Craig’s Michael Caine American rocks! And she’s quite the sexy couch.
(I get a ton of these clips & links from Vastavox—from the Voice and Speech Trainers’ Association listserv. Yeah, I’ve got nothing original to contribute, but I steal from the best…)
Here’s one person’s less-than-a-minute version, anyway…
