Wow, this is my first time writing a blog so sorry if i do something wrong!I decide to put here for you classmates a short movie that show 21 differents english accents (like we studied in the first week - this will be an opportunity also for those who werent in the class too)!
Local accents are part of local dialects. Any dialect of English has unique features in pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar. The term "accent" describes only the first of these, namely, pronunciation.Non-native speakers of English (This refers to us classmates haha)tend to carry over the intonation and phonemic inventory from their mother tongue into their English speech.Among native English speakers, many different accents exist. Some regional accents are easily identified by certain characteristics.Further variations are to be found within the regions identified below; for example, towns located less than 10 miles (16 km) from the city of Manchester such as Bolton, Oldham and Salford, each have distinct accents, all of which form the Lancashire accent, yet in extreme cases are different enough to be noticed even by a non-local listener. There is also much room for misunderstanding between people from different regions, as the way one word is pronounced in one accent (for example, petal in American English) will sound like a different word in another accent (for example, pearl in Scottish English).
Distribution of the English language in different countries of the world:
Like the picture shows,English language is distributed over all or planet earth!Our challenge is to understand what the natives speak and communicate with them well!Good luck everyone.. xx
Amanda
Very useful!
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