About pronunciation and accent
This week I am ill and I spend my time with English learning videos.
I was watching many videos about differences between american and british english. What do I think about these differences and my english pronunciation?
First I noticed that my pronunciation is the mix of british and american english (spiced with huge hungarian accent). This can be because in the school "standard" english was learnt (in my opinion this isn't exist) and our teacher also didn't know that the pronunciation is british or american or neither of them. :-) I hope I can learn the differences and can use only one type in one time.
Second I think differences are not so huge. Hungary is a small country but we also have differences in the language inside this country. For example I grew up in North Hungary and my boyfriend came from Budapest (this is only 100 kilometers distance) and sometimes we cannot understand each other because of the differences of used words. :-) In many cases we also use different pronunciation but it is not a problem.
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About pronunciation and accent
This week I am ill and spend my time with English learning videos.I was watching many videos about the differences between American and British English. What do I think about these differences and my English pronunciation?
First I noticed that my pronunciation is a mix of British and American English (spiced with a strong Hungarian accent). This is perhaps because in the school "standard" English was learnt (in my opinion this does not exist) and our teacher also didn't know whether the pronunciation was British or American or neither :-) I hope I can learn the differences and can use only one type at a time.
Second, I think differences are not so huge. Hungary is a small country but we also have differences in our language. For example, I grew up in North Hungary and my boyfriend came from Budapest, only 100 km away, and sometimes we cannot understand each other because of the differences in our words. :-) In many cases we also use different pronunciation but it is not a problem.
Very well written!
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And it is interesting what it is in the beer that makes a person speak American English?
Anyway that part of the beer that is responsible for American accent is very tiny. Someone needs to drink more than 8 pints of beer to get enough of that part. Scientists should try to extract that substance and sell it in the pharmacy. I guess people would willingly buy it!
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Sounds a great way to speak American English, I will try it! :D
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For people who speak British English(or any other language) the American accent isn't a problem at all. In order to speak with an American accent a person just needs beer, lot of it. Here you are how it works:
1 pint of beer - no change to your English. 2 pints of beer - your English goes up a level. 3 pints of beer - your English goes up two levels. 4 pints of beer - You become very fluent in English and you start mixing English with your own language. 5 pints of beer - You discover that you can sing in English, and are brilliant at karaoke. 6 pints of beer - You suddenly know a lot of taboo words in English(and fortunately to you nobody seems to understand them) 7 pints of beer - You become silent(can't speak any English and even your mother tongue). 8 pints of beer and more - You start speaking American English.
I took this advice from a book and I don't know if it works or not. But it sounds easy.
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