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Uploaded by on Jul 23, 2007

This tape consists of two parts. The first half is read by a man, and the last by a woman. To me, both are speaking in British accents, but not quite the same. Are there any friends from Britain? Can you tell what kinds of British accent they are speaking in respectively? Is one of them using the Received Pronunciation? Thanks!

The essay is excerpted from "Out of the Air" by Fielden Hughes.

It is adopted as one lesson in New Concept English 4, one of Longman's most popular English language textbooks, widely used in various countries for more than 2 decades.

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  • I don,t give a rats ass what the Americans think of our accent,stuff em.

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  • @Moschops42 Its arse!, not ass!

    Dont lower yourself to their dumb fuck colonial level!.

  • @Moschops42 which one?

  • @WarpedFlange Nah, the woman's Northern, not Welsh...

  • Both are speaking with "BBC" TV accents as they would have in the sixties. The man is speaking with a refined neutral english accent and the woman with a refined welsh one. (Wales is not England) You wont hear these accents for real.

  • They are both speaking "BBC" english as done in the sixties on telly.

  • @azpandaman Some do yes.

  • @azpandaman yes! id rather an american boy anyday

  • The man is RP, the woman Welsh.

    Both are not speaking/reading as you'd expect. This sound like software's been used, they'll have recorded words/phonetics then the software pieces them together.

    Same as if you write a text to landline and listen to it via vocal message.

    Listen to how he says 'fatuous' at 1:58, that's pieced together, no-one speaks like that!

  • Do British people like American accents as much as American people like British accents?

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