In Finland there are several dialects but almost everyone can speak Finnish as it is taught in school.
Sometimes it seems some Brits can speak only their dialect, am i wrong?

The United States of America and the Kingdom of Great Briton - Two great allies separated by a common language. :D

In the Netherlands, historically it was not hard to hear from what village someone was coming, let alone from which part of the country. These differences are slowly disappearing, but our provinces still have quite differing dialects.
Though I've grown up in Arnhem I never really got the hang of the "Èrnems" dialect (Èrnem (IPA: "ɛr-nəm") as opposed to Arnhem ("ɑːrn-hɛm")). Now that I live in Eindhoven however, I do slowly adopt a certain Brabandish tongue:hmmm:

"Hedde wel es Broabants geheurd?" instead of "Heb je wel eens Brabants gehoord?":O:

It depends, sometimes if you're born in one place in Britain and then move somewhere else then you pick up the new places dialect, for example my father was born in Scotland but has spent most of his life in South London and Kent, he does not have a Scottish accent nor does his brother.
I think a lot of it is the influence of the people around you, hearing them speak. It's all English after all (well...in most places) but it's just a different way of saying things.

All I got from her lesson was that that accent was more just pronouncing the words like they're spelled.

The jury is still out but I've heard a rumour he may be standing against Obama at the next presidential election :DL

Hey!...I resemble that remark :stare:

Dead easy, all you got to do is put lots of "F" word in what your saying, and if your really bold the "C" word.

Your soon pick it up by jumping on a bus full of school kids. ;)

I though that was the american accent. :DL

They stoled it from us. :haha:

Bastards. :nope:

One thing I've noticed is the "r" pronounced if the word ends with an "a".

Idea(r)

Or something else.. "Issue" is pronounced "is-you".

:)

It must be "bloody" bastards!? That´s one thing i noted during my time in York :D

And some nice handsigns showing other people how they drive their cars... bloody ******* :haha:

And apprees-iation?

You're thiking of New Jersey:haha:

Question for Americans, do you guy still say..."I'm going to bust your ass."

Indeed, you'll learn a whole new vocabulary when on a bus full of school kids:D

(woot! 1300 posts!)

or I will....break your bottom!!

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Fracture your fanny

break your bum

ruin your rump