76: 7 Strong Accents From the UK

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Improve your English listening skills as Isi tries to guess where these 7 strong accents from the UK are from...

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Intro

Mitch:
[0:22] Hiya everybody, welcome to the Easy English Podcast.

Isi:
[0:27] Hello.

Mitch:
[0:28] I'm overdoing my enthusiasm I feel, because we are in a low energy state. We've just come back from Berlin and we both caught the dreaded Corona.

Isi:
[0:44] Dreaded.

Mitch:
[0:45] So, we've been a little bit under the weather. So, I'm going to try to infuse some extra energy to the podcast, right Isi?

Isi:
[0:54] Please. I don't have it today.

Mitch:
[0:56] Aww... but before we carry on actually, because we have just come back from Berlin and we met lots of really nice people, it wasn't anything to do with Easy English we were actually there for the Easy German Summer School. But we met loads of you who were also Easy English Podcast listeners, so huge shout-out!

Isi:
[1:17] Shout-out to everyone. And we also did a new episode for Easy English.

Mitch:
[1:21] We also made an episode in Berlin, about Berlin, comparing um... cultural, culture shocks, that we noticed in our time there, the one week we spent, before we caught the dreaded (Co)rona. But that's not what we're discussing today. Today, a little bit of a follow-on from last episode, where Isi tested me on cultural slang words.

Isi:
[1:46] Yes.

Mitch:
[1:46] The reason she did that, was because, we like to play a game now, where she quickly, guesses the accent of a person, when we're in the UK. And she's on fire. She's on a hot streak of victories.

Isi:
[2:02] Well... God, you make me scared.

Mitch:
[2:06] So I searched online and found some... because Brighton is very southern, most of the time. Only rarely do you hear someone from the far reaches of the UK, so I went and found accents from the far reaches of the UK. So we're going to play a little game, maybe you can play along with us, and pause and try to guess yourself, where you think this person's from, and we're going to discuss little hints and tips as to why we think they sound like where they're coming from. Because there are some giveaways in all of these, because they're quite strong, regional accents.

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