Do you prefer some accents over others? Within the UK, I adore Irish, Durham, and Welsh accents, outside of it I love Arabic and French they even make English sound beautiful! (Don't like Scottish at all, I'm sorry!)
And do you have the type of accent people find hard to understand? I'm a west-midlands girl so it can be pretty strong, people either love it or hate it, lol. I've received a lot of compliments on the way I speak but on the other end there are those who can barely understand what I'm saying - meaning I have to repeat myself 2-3 times .
I do not speak English in daily life, but I speak Bahasa(language) Indonesia, a language which actually is variant of Bahasa Melayu that spoken by Malaysian people. In official form the difference between two languages is very very few. But there is different intonation between Indonesian and Malaysian people when they speak Indonesian/Melayu. Indonesian intonation is flat, while Malaysian intonation is melodious.
Yes, I love to hear Malaysian accent. They speak like singing.
I used to have a brummy accent but it changed to london when i went to school in Bangladesh, i think the london accent is better and more usable ibternationally, sunderland and liverpool make me smile though, those people can stretch their words for miles.
Accents fascinate me. I think it's amazing that England is such a tiny country and yet we have so many different ways of speaking. To the extent that a Midlands and Liverpool accent are mutually unintelligible (from bitter experience,).
Most people from abroad understand the London accent, they seem to think we all speak in received pronunciation - so they find it a bit of a culture shock when only a fraction of the UK's population speaks an English they understand.
Well................. Idk I like a English accent. Idk what it is called tho.. It is old school. Not too posh, but a mix of 'posh' and 'street accent' kinda thing..
Indian people in my city (Bandung, Indonesia) speak English among them. But from what I have heard, they speak English like British, without Indian accent like Indian people in India. Maybe it's because the daily language of Indian people in my place is English, not Hindi.
I speak somali and English but can fake a British accent it's quite fun to annoy people with your non existing accent I also like Scottish for some odd reason
In mid of 90's when fax (facsimile) was still common, a phone call from Japan came into my fax. I picked up the phone and I heard someone said "fax" to inform that a document sent to my fax. However, since he was Japanese, so the "fax" that he said sound like "f**k" in my ear. I was shocked and replied with "what??!!". Silent for few seconds, then that Japanese said again, slower, "facsimile".
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they even make English sound beautiful! (Don't like Scottish at all, I'm sorry!)
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Too many to name tbh. But some London accents are a cut above the rest. Specially the one Dawah man and Ali Dawah do.
it's quite fun to annoy people with your non existing accent
I also like Scottish for some odd reason
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