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	Australian accent	Country: Australia
	Australians generally elongate vowels, [ay] sounds are pronounced [ie], end sentences with a rising intonation so they sound like questions, and shorten words usually adding an [o] to the end. Afte...	Language: English
		Level: Advanced
		Views: 3055

	Canadian Accents	Country: Canada
	Canadians draw out the vowel sounds in words and emphasize them more than Americans do. Canadians tend to round "o" and flatten "a". They end sentences with "eh?"	Language: English
		Level: Advanced
		Views: 2013

	Birmingham (Brummie) accent	Country: England
	The Birmingham or West Midlands accent sounds quite depressing. 'All roight' to greet people. 'moine' intead of 'mine'. They put emphasis on the middle of the word. Video shows Stan Collymore, a re...	Language: English
		Level: Advanced
		Views: 2877

	Bristol accent	Country: England
	Bristol in a city in the South West of England and some say it's a pirate accent. These people pronounce "s" as "z" and say "he be" and "i be" instead of "he is" and "I am". Terry the oddjob man gi...	Language: English
		Level: Advanced
		Views: 2616

	Mancunian accent	Country: England
	A major feature of the Mancunian accent is the over-enunciation of vowel sounds. "Suunshiiiiiiiine" instead of "Sunshine" and "Tennuuuuurgh" instead of "Tenner"	Language: English
		Level: Advanced
		Views: 4608

	Newcastle (Geordie) Accent	Country: England
	Geordie from the North East of England has a rich vocabulary that includes words here such as our lass, gan, bairn, wrang, naebody, and dae, meaning respectively, ‘my wife’, ‘go’, ‘child’, ‘wrong’,...	Language: English
		Level: Advanced
		Views: 3244

	The Cockney Accent	Country: England
	This video, containing expletives, demonstrates the cockney accent. The cockney accent is used by natives of London. The man is performing both parts of a dialogue between a man and the woman. The...	Language: English
		Level: Advanced
		Views: 3053

	The Scouse Accent	Country: England
	Scouse, the accent from Liverpool, North West England, is noted for a fast, highly accented manner of speech, with a range of rising and falling tones not typical of most of northern England. Scous...	Language: English
		Level: Advanced
		Views: 2749

	The Yorkshire Accent	Country: England
	This video gives an example of the Yorkshire accent in use. Yorkshire is a large region in the North of England. This is a genuine West Yorkshire accent and can be characterised by flat and short v...	Language: English
		Level: Intermediate
		Views: 2641

	Jamaican Accent	Country: Jamaica
	Slow and laid back, Jamaicans drop consonants. So 'last' becomes 'las'. Man, brother, friend, or girl is a 'mon'. They stress 'THE' and speak in the present even when referring to the past. 'He dri...	Language: English
		Level: Advanced
		Views: 2362

	New Zealand (Kiwi) Accent	Country: New Zealand
	New Zealand differs from Australian accent in that Kiwis pronounce the letter i as u, they say sux instead of six for example, and say fush and chups. Video from One News report on how the New Zeal...	Language: English
		Level: Advanced
		Views: 3416

	Northern Irish accent	Country: Northern Ireland
	Whilst retaining many characteristics of the Irish accent such as the rolled 'r' sounds in 'farm', the Northern Irish accent is stronger. It is also similar to Scottish in that words such as 'good...	Language: English
		Level: Advanced
		Views: 2206

	Learn the Irish Accent	Country: Scotland
	Irish people speak with an almost musical delivery with tone and inflection. All vowels are soft, even though consonants are hardened. Video from The Horse Racing Ireland Awards 2008.	Language: English
		Level: Advanced
		Views: 2063

	Learn The Scottish Accent	Country: Scotland
	Scots roll their 'r's and say 'wee' to say small. Studies have shown they use 5 less vowel sounds then the English, so the words 'cot' and 'caught' should sound the same. Scots collapse words into...	Language: English
		Level: Advanced
		Views: 2759

	South Africa Accent	Country: South Africa
	Generally, South Africans have very short vowels. America goes to 'urmurica'. The accent is influenced by Afrikaans	Language: English
		Level: Advanced
		Views: 1782

	Boston Accent	Country: United States
	People from Boston pronounce their Rs as ah (Park the Car at Harvard Yard will become Pahk the Cah At Hahvad Yahd). They also pronounce Os like aw (Boston becomes Bawstun and Octopus becomes Awctap...	Language: English
		Level: Advanced
		Views: 2012

	Californian Accent	Country: United States
	Ian sets off to prove the everyone in California surfslives next to a movie star stereotype wrong. smosh.com http	Language: English
		Level: Advanced
		Views: 1816

	Midwest Accent	Country: United States
	Midwesterners emphasize the short "a" in words. "Law" becomes "lahw," "apple" becomes "ahpple" and so on. They also draw out "s". "Rest" sounds like "ressst," anything plural sounds like even more....	Language: English
		Level: Advanced
		Views: 2193

	Southern Accent	Country: United States
	Southern Accent. Georgia. Georgians tend to speak a sentence rather normally in speed but tend to drag out the last word in a sentence. Georgia accents tend to have a musical lilt to it. "S's" on t...	Language: English
		Level: Advanced
		Views: 1990

	Texas Accent	Country: United States
	Texans elongate all one-syllable words into two syllables. The word "big" is pronounced, "bee-yug." The word "pen" is said, "pee-yun." The word "cat" is said "ka-yut." Texans change the "i" to an "...	Language: English
		Level: Advanced
		Views: 2428

	The accents of the 5 boroughs of NYC --	Country: United States
	A tongue-in-cheek demo of New York City's varied accents by each borough: The Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and Manhattan. I explain not only how to make the sounds but more important...	Language: English
		Level: Advanced
		Views: 1869

	Welsh regional accents	Country: Wales
	The Welsh accent comes from the Welsh language in that every letter in the word is pronounced. The video shows various accents from Wales.	Language: English
		Level: Advanced
		Views: 2310