56. British Accents and Dialects

Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson

Luke Thompson

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🗓️ 16 November 2010

⏱️ 28 minutes

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First in a series of episodes about accents. Learn differences between accents from the UK. This is information that all learners of English need to know! http://teacherluke.wordpress.com/2011/10/12/british-accents-and-dialects/

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0:00.0	You're listening to Luke's English podcast. For more information, visit teacher Luke.
0:07.0	Podomatic.com.
0:10.0	Hello folks, how are you doing? I hope you're doing well wherever you are, whatever part of the world
0:18.1	you might be in listening to this, whatever you're doing, whatever time of day it is, I hope that you're well it's amazing to think
0:25.3	that I've got people all over the world listening to my voice on their computers
0:29.8	or on their iPod or something this week was quite a good week for the podcast. I've got
0:36.5	nearly 20,000 downloads just this month, in fact, in the last 30 days about 20,000 downloads which is pretty good
0:47.0	more and more people are downloading it all the time and all over the world as well
0:51.8	it's fantastic.
0:52.8	So if you're a regular listen to the...
0:55.8	If you are a regular listener to the podcast, then hello and thank you for downloading this. I hope it's useful for you. Now in this episode
1:06.7	I'm going to talk about accents and dialects and this is just the first, really the first podcast in a series of podcasts which I'm
1:18.3	going to do about different accents. I'm mainly concentrating on British accents here, but I will be talking a bit about
1:27.0	other accents that you find in the world.
1:30.0	So I'm going to do a series of podcasts about accents. In this particular one, I'm going to give you an introduction. I'm going to talk about what is an accent and what is a dialect. How many accents can you find in the UK and what do they sound like?
1:46.0	How many accents can you find in the world? And why is it important to be able to identify different accents in English?
1:57.6	So that's what you can expect from this.
1:59.5	So first thing is, in this podcast, Right, I've already done an episode about British
2:06.8	and American accents and you can find that if you look, if you're on the website, if you just scroll down down down down. There's an episode there
2:17.8	called British and American pronunciation. If you're listening to this using iTunes, which is a very good idea, then you can just search through the list of podcast episodes and find the episode called British and American pronunciation.
2:33.1	And in that episode, I talk about the main differences
2:36.9	between British and American English pronunciations.
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