Scottish speech accent

Another UK accent 'Yorkshire Speech' is on @http://www.kaiwanoshima.co.uk Here enjoy lovely Scottish accents and watch annotation! East & West differences are briefly explained by Dr Dominic Watt, York University. To read his profile, go to the university web.

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[gmpdd86]

oh my god...im greek and i want to study in glasgow...oh my god!!i freaked out!!!

i can understand a thing!!!!

[kaiwanoshima]

@gmpdd86 Mr Robinson says - 1 - "RP is definitely the most appropriate model for a learner in terms both of listening (although no longer the exclusive voice of broadcast and teaching, it's still it's still the most widely used in the UK) and also as a target for a learner to try and imitate as it will be most widely understood both here and in any (British) English-speaking context. Of course, General American, might be more appropriate if a learner is more likely to encounter US English. "

[kaiwanoshima]

@gmpdd86 Mr Robinson says - 2 -, "Above all, anyone who has learnt any foreign language will know that trying to familiarise oneself with a variety of accents is excellent preparation for being in a native-speaking environment where you will encounter a huge range of voices and speech styles. There's plenty of this sort of thing available online now."

[kaiwanoshima]

@gmpdd86 The university itself is a very multi-national environment. So do not worry. Outside, you may face some challenging situation, eg when you phone a local call centre and talk to an employee who happens to have a heavy accent. But as Mr Robinson says, you CAN do some preparations. Then you CAN enjoy the challenge!

[SHeepSHagger301]

@smegnose What are you on about scots do roll rs(for the most part). Although we are probably the only english speakers to do so.

[segano1]

A'm fae North o' Fife, (Angus/Tayside area), hence I've got a mare North-East broad Scots accent, although I've had a few folk tell me that I just sound Scottish full stop like I take influence from all parts o' Scotland, without being able to make out exactly where in Scotland I hail from.

From this vid though, I sound closer to east coast with a hint more broadness to it.

[antgeo]

@kaiwanoshima Of course not. I love Scotland and its people! I stayed there for ten days and really enjoyed it! Cheers, Anthony.

[kaiwanoshima]

@antgeo An announcement on the train can be sometimes challenging even in one's own language, can't it? ...well, we just do not want to scare people coming to Scotland:)

[rmartin232]

@JoyousinJesus lol depending on where you're from you might find that people thicken their accents to make it harder to understand, its a weird part of the scottish sense of humour that we find it funny that people think we are some sort of savages and play up to that

[smegnose]

I'm so used to rolling my tonuge with the r's, now hearing an accent where they don't even use the r's is a shocker ^^ Beautiful either way ^^