How to speak with a "British" accent

[Egan]

Originally Posted by MGR1

You can always tell if someone's fae Torry! There's a few others as well.

But you can aye tell a weegie when ye hear one - "There's been a murrderrr!"

Taggert and Rab C have a lot to answer for. Though I did find it funny that they put subtitles on the latter when they screened it south of the border!

Shetlanders have an interesting accent as well - fower, not four, for example.

Mike.

Naw naw naw. Those wee guys are pure heroes an that, but. Ah dinnae ken whit yur talkin aboot, yuh mad rocket. You're a pure dafty fur thinking that, by the way; wee Taggart's gallus.

I love broad Glaswegian. It's one of the most descriptive dialects I've ever heard - totally on a par with full bore Italian regional dialects in terms of sheer fun to listen too.

I lived in Aberdeen for a couple of years and found in utterly impenetrable on more than a couple of occasions. Loons and Quines and thats about as far as I ever progressed.

It's funny, my natural accent is Badenoch/Strathspey-Inverness and it usually takes about 30 seconds for it to come flooding back whenever I visit my parents. As soon as I get back to Glasgow it evaporates and I'm back to Weegie again. I love accents. My Manchester, Geordie and Cockney are pretty good, and my northern Irish is ok but not quite there.

As for subtitles, I remember watching some episode of Eastenders years ago and was simply unable to understand what one of the characters said. If they need subtitles they should definitely be two way.

I like the Shetland accent too. Also always found the Orcadian to be very interesting.

[nikimcbee]

American tourists:

[nikimcbee]

Then there's Northerners.....
(Mr Buna in his younger years, when there was hair.)

[papa_smurf]

This shows a few of our native accents (done brilliantly by Jonathan pryce)

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by Seth8530

LOL dont worry, it will never sound as funny to me as a German speaking English with an ENGLISH sub accent lol. I mean it made me smile everytime i heard it lol.

That's pretty much the entire English audio track of Das Boot.

[Happy Times]

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?

[Platapus]

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

[DarkFish]

Originally Posted by Happy Times

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?

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

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

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Happy Times

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?

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.

[Buddahaid]

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

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl

He's not the only thing that is "almost" English, my heavily accented friend Speaking of which, whatever happened with that goalie of yours? Did he turn out to actually be an American or what?

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

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

Then there's Northerners.....
(Mr Buna in his younger years, when there was hair.)

Hey!...I resemble that remark

[STEED]

How to speak with a "British" accent

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.

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by STEED

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.

[STEED]

They stoled it from us.

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by STEED

They stoled it from us.

Bastards.