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

58. Scotland / Scottish Accent (with Leslie)

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

Luke Thompson

Pronunciation, Teaching, Learning, Comedy, Language, London, Grammar, Listening, Learn, Speaker, Podcast, Language Learning, Vocabulary, Uk, Accent, Education, British

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2011

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

An interview with a native speaker from Scotland. We talk about Scottish culture and stereotypes, and features of scottish accents. Use this episode to develop your cultural understanding of the English language, and to practise identifying and understanding different accents. FOR A FULL TRANSCRIPT FOR THIS EPISODE, CLICK HERE http://teacherluke.wordpress.com/2011/10/12/scotland-scottish-accent/

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0:00.0

You're listening to Luke's English podcast.

0:03.0

For more information, visit Teacher Luke. podomatic.com.

0:08.0

Hello ladies and gentlemen, you're listening to Luke's English podcast my name's

0:15.8

Luke it's my podcast that's why it's called Luke's English podcast the English

0:21.4

part of it is because it's for people who are learning English as a foreign language.

0:26.0

That's right, there's millions of you all over the world.

0:29.0

You're all desperately needing to improve your English.

0:32.0

Many of you live in countries where it's very

0:35.0

difficult to find native English speakers. So what you want is an authentic source of

0:42.4

real English.

0:44.0

You could listen to movies on DVD, but you know, all those movies are scripted,

0:50.0

it's not really natural English.

0:52.0

Let's see, you could listen to the news couldn't you

0:54.3

on the radio or on the internet but to be honest most people don't speak like that in

0:58.7

real life on the news they speak in a different way in a slightly unnatural way which is not

1:04.6

really the same as the way most people in their everyday lives use English for

1:09.4

example on the news for some reason on the news everything sounds like this. That's the way

1:16.7

people speak on the news. Obviously we don't normally talk like that do we? But so you want

1:22.4

you're looking for a great source of really natural conversational

1:27.1

English perhaps some British English because most of the English that you probably

1:32.3

come in contact with through TV shows and movies and so on is American English

1:37.0

and that's great. I love American English. More people speak American English in the world than British English, but I know that a lot of my

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