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Me thinks you are a very British Bulgarian, or a bloody linguist, your diction is better than mine ever will be

Jack McH

 

I'm not sure if we can talk about "english pronounciation".
When everyone of one think about "english language" he immediately think about the two more significant people speaking this language: english people and americans.
American English and British English, specially as far as pronounciation is concerned, are two completelly different ball games.
Still, what about the english spoken from people coming from the different parts of England ?
I personally like the cokney accent made of "Hi mate !", "Yes luv !", "Here you are gov !"
They sound to me as genuine persons...
I'm also intrigued by such pronunciation of such words as "five" or "nine" pronounced as "foeve" or "noin" (as the germans say but they write it "neun"). Also "game" pronounced as "g-aim".
There is a football trainer: Roy Hodgson. He was born in south London (Croydon if I am not wrong). Fantastic ! The real "cocney"... .
Then there is the english spoken by all the others english speaking countries.
The english spoken by indians, pakistani, nigerians, jamaicans sounds like another language...
Not to mention the english spoken by foreigner people (like me).
German and french have some difficulties to pronounce the sound "th".
They pronounce it like "se".
I remember one speach in english by Pope Benedict XVI.
My Godness !
"I sink (I Think) sat (that) sere is (there is), etc".
Not to mention how he pronounces "Joy": "Choy".
And "Jesus": "Chesus".
And what about the spanish speaking english ?
Just try to make them say: "have".
They will say "Khaf" (nearly spitting by saying it).
On the other hand, we the italians will pronounce it like "avve" (for us the "h" is "optional")
"Yesse butte I finke thatte we must go homme" ("yes but I think we must go home" as said by an italian).
Italian air pilots and flight attendants speak like that (just try to fly an italian airlines...)

 

I'm not good at accents, but once you made the point, I can't resist posting this one.
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