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Accented

Here’s something interesting, the Speech Accent Archive. Hundreds of people were recorded reading the same paragraph of English text, and you can listen to them to get a feel for the accents of people from different parts of the world and with different levels of English proficiency. Pretty cool.

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2 Responses to “Accented”

  1. Mia Says:
    October 26, 2006 at 12:04 am | Reply

    That is super cool. If you listen to enough people read it, the nonsense paragraph starts to sound like poetry. Or maybe that’s just because it talks about blue cheese…mmmm.

  2. rebecca Says:
    October 26, 2006 at 11:35 am | Reply

    how fun! i listened to people in fl., ga., ky., and vancouver. what a difference!

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