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Title: "English" lessons
Post by: jim360 on March 14, 2010, 08:21:51 AM

Good for a laugh anyway, though not if you want to learn how to speak English.

http://www.youtube.com/v/iGTPWbLvrz8&hl=en_GB&fs=1&rel=0
http://www.youtube.com/v/drKtozox34M&hl=en_GB&fs=1&rel=0

Title: Re: "English" lessons
Post by: MrT© on March 14, 2010, 09:33:48 AM

:XD: British dialect / American language :XD:
Lol she blinks during the English bit tons.

Title: Re: "English" lessons
Post by: BFM_JANE on March 14, 2010, 02:32:05 PM

Now I've listened to him a lot, and MrT doesn't sound anything like that woman. Well, maybe a little.  :P

Title: Re: "English" lessons
Post by: MrT© on March 14, 2010, 03:04:32 PM

Quote from: BFM_JANE on March 14, 2010, 02:32:05 PM

Well, maybe a little.  :P

!!!!! What?!

Title: Re: "English" lessons
Post by: BFM_Shivrz on March 14, 2010, 04:32:55 PM

I agree with Jane ^^

Title: Re: "English" lessons
Post by: BFM_Ðragons on March 14, 2010, 04:51:57 PM

how did she got bobbie out of barbie?

and that is so not right! well i dont talk like that!

haha xD

Title: Re: "English" lessons
Post by: BFM_Kiwi on March 14, 2010, 09:33:13 PM

She says coffeh funneh, innit?

Title: Re: "English" lessons
Post by: jim360 on March 15, 2010, 03:10:43 AM

As a bit of background information, this video was made by one of those "how-to" companies. The person hosting the video on YouTube is some randomer. It appears that the company took the video down after the barrage of video responses by English speakers saying what codswallop it was. :P

Title: Re: "English" lessons
Post by: BFM_Mil on March 15, 2010, 04:13:11 AM

I definitely learned something... Just learned not to talk like that :P

Title: Re: "English" lessons
Post by: BFM_Hlao on March 15, 2010, 09:29:43 AM

LOL! That's one of the most epic fails I've seen for a long time. :XD: Nice finds!!!

Title: Re: "English" lessons
Post by: BFM_Kiwi on March 15, 2010, 09:33:23 PM

This may have been posted before, but this is Amy Walker (an actress) doing 21 different accents. She's kinda scary, but most are pretty good. 

http://www.youtube.com/v/3UgpfSp2t6k&hl=en_GB&fs=1&rel=0

Title: Re: "English" lessons
Post by: BFM_JANE on March 15, 2010, 11:28:17 PM

Creepy! She's really good. And her teeth are very white.

Title: Re: "English" lessons
Post by: MrT© on March 16, 2010, 11:48:29 AM

I've seen this before and it is so strange.

Title: Re: "English" lessons
Post by: Marty on March 17, 2010, 10:29:01 AM

I love how she doesn't even know that she means a British Accent, not Dialect. And since when did Britatin have just one accent??? Let's explore that idea, shall we?

Cockney (London - origin of the Australian accent, probably)
Yorkshire - quite frequently divided from one valley to the next. Someone in Barnsley sounds nothing like someone in Bradford, although they're just 30 miles from each other.
West Country - places like Cornwall, Devon, etc.
Welsh - divided into broad and standard
Scottish - comes in huge variety! Particularly from Glasgow, where it's entirely unintelligible.
Newcastle area
Manchester area
Liverpool area (Scouse)
Kent area
Ireland
Recieved Pronunciation (RP - spoken by the Queen).

And each one of these subdivides MANY times. Fail.

Title: Re: "English" lessons
Post by: jim360 on March 17, 2010, 11:50:56 AM

Regional pronunciation? You must mean "received".