coulda woulda shouda part II

[Tom Zurinskas]

Nik's Daily English Activities

Understanding Different English Accents
It is great that English is spoken by so many people around the world, but this can make it very difficult to understand, because there are such a range of different accents.
In today's activity we use a website called The Speech Accent Archive to listen to different accents and compare them.

Task:

Your first activity is to listen to this audio file and try to write down what you hear. This speaker is from the UK and has an accent from around Oxfordshire.


http://bit.ly/17Nj6x5


Tom Zurinskas, Conn 20 yrs, Tenn 3, NJ 33, now Fl 9.
See how English spelling links to sounds at http://justpaste.it/ayk








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> Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 07:30:14 -0500
> From: wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
> Subject: Re: coulda woulda shouda part II
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> > Sigh.
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> Wait till you start reading, "If the robber would of had a gun."
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> JL
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> On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 6:54 AM, David A. Daniel <dad at pokerwiz.com> wrote:
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> > Just heard Wolf Blitzer say (talking about a shop clerk foiling a robbery):
> > "If the robber would've had a gun..." I guess that's a pretty good
> > indication of its mainstreamishness. Sigh.
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