And now for something completely different...

[drago]

I think you could compare welsh to english like switzerdütsch to german

If you think you could even try to spell the name of that city: Doule LL is pronounced like a "ch".

 

[AYE_inaktiv]

I have been to all countries of the British Isles. England, Wales and Scotland many times, most of them to visit native friends or to watch football there. So I know only the stadiums and a handfull of pubs in London, Liverpool, Glasgow and Cardiff.

I spent my holidays a few years ago in Ireland/ Northern Ireland with some friends in a mobile home. We started our tour in Dublin and travelled around the whole Isle. For the men we were, we stopped at every distillery and Brewery, which was on the way. I absolutely recommend Ireland, outstanding whiskey, good beer and cider, brilliant landscape (Ring of Kerry, cliffs of Moher, giants causeway etc) and very hospitable people there. The days we spent in Northern Ireland were very interesting, I've learned a lot about the historical roots of the Northern Ireland conflict by visiting Belfast, Londonderry and Portadown. It's very surprising to get stopped and checked by a military patrol in full combat clothes and automatic guns.^^

In Canada I spent holidays in the near of Kenora/ Ontario in a cottage at the lake of the woods. You like it or you hate it, but you can recover well and someone who likes fishing would be satisfied. It may sound like a stereotype, but only man and nature is definitely great, but maybe not that kind of holidays you are looking for.

Welsh, what can I tell about? I didn't understand a single word if someone spoke welsh to me, very strange.
The scottisch dialect is very funny (spoke the r rolling like russians do), but easy to understand. An english mate of mine told me that the best english is spoken in the area of Inverness/ Scotland. You could compare to the area of Hannover, where the best german is spoken.

 

[leech]

Don't get it wrong guys, Welsh ist not an "english dialect", it is a brythonic (=kind of celtic) language similar to Breton and Cornish, and has no real similarities to the English language.

 

[Riven]

Don't get it wrong guys, Welsh ist not an "english dialect", it is a brythonic (=kind of celtic) language similar to Breton and Cornish, and has no real similarities to the English language.

yep, and everyone who ever heard welsh will notice the non existent similarities, which are none, and none there are.

 

[Hansi der Kohl2]

Isn't that the village that has the longest name in the world?

I think you only say the first latters... would be "Llanfair"... but I'm not quite sure...

 

[Kage]

well fi you dont like american english (riven, what do you speak?) then canada isn't too great an option

 

[Riven]

well fi you dont like american english (riven, what do you speak?) then canada isn't too great an option

I speak british/australian english and am surrounded by americans and asians.

Some of the accents around here can get on your nerves after a while. long Island accent is pretty hard to undersatnd, because the the sentences turn into a goey mass and last syllables are simply swallowed in the conversation... Long Island turns into Lawn Guyland and so on...

 

[ni-kulo]

well the southern american acent sounds kinda funny,

"Im from Alabama!"^.



but overall i would say, that i dont like the american way of talking and pronouncing^.




ot: oh my god, im so pissed.
my stupid boss still owes me 500bugs, and I need to pay the shitty bills!".

 

[Riven]

well the southern american acent sounds kinda funny,

"Im from Alabama!"^.



but overall i would say, that i dont like the american way of talking and pronouncing^.




ot: oh my god, im so pissed.
my stupid boss still owes me 500bugs, and I need to pay the shitty bills!".

If you do not like the american way, then you use pissed wrong. pissed in the british means to be really drunk. And you do not get bugs, but bucks. Bugs are eaten by Timon and Pumba, but nobody else accepts them as payment.

I do not really like most of the american accents, but most people around me speak pretty good english in terms of pronounciation

 

[Kage]

We had a "cambrigde first preperation test" in school. should have taken us 120 minutes... I was done after 30.

the worst american accent is the "mideastcostkiddie" accent. cant understand a word they say (note: I'm american). partially because the voices are so high, but it rly is horrible.

 

[Chemiker]

I have problems taking people speaking with a north-London accent serious. As soon as I hear "darling", "mate" or "luv", I consider that person a complete idiot.

 

[Riven]

I have problems taking people speaking with a north-London accent serious. As soon as I hear "darling", "mate" or "luv", I consider that person a complete idiot.

Listen mate, watch were you going! Ever spoken to an australian? Mate is the standart name for anyone you can talk to and is so useful in other phrases as well.

so long

cheers mate

Riven

 

[Kage]

whereas australian sounds cool and "chilled out", I don't like london accent, partially cause I don't understand helf the things they say


btw: that with the car in the czech republic, did that happen to you?

 

[Riven]

whereas australian sounds cool and "chilled out", I don't like london accent, partially cause I don't understand helf the things they say


btw: that with the car in the czech republic, did that happen to you?

The accent you are probably talking about is cockney, and nobody likes that!

We parked our car on the way back from prague in theresienstadt on an unguarded parking lot, because we ran out of czech currency, wenn we came back a little later the car was opened and emptied...

 

[ni-kulo]

anyone knows Mike Skinner from the Streets?

i realy like the way he talks. thats the accent you're talking about aint it?

gn8 folks!

 

[leech]

anyone knows Mike Skinner from the Streets?

i realy like the way he talks. thats the accent you're talking about aint it?

I really like that one too *g*
I'm not sure that is cockney though.
€: just checked on wiki. Yeah, that's it, cockney! Love it

Oh, by the way, if you want to see a very good movie with a lot of different english accents in it you have to see Gosford Park.

Well, if you are used to what i would call "interesting" movies, and not some hollywood action bullshit. So this is not for everyone, it is quite "anspruchsvoll"

 

[AYE_inaktiv]

Cockney sounds pretty cool to me, maybe because a lot of bands I listen to speaking cockney.

First I saw the movie football factory in english, but it was hard to catch a word. Especially if the actors speak their cockney like they have towels in their mouthes and their heads in an aquarium.

 

[DeLaDragon]

I really have problems with describing dialects..but I do love Jeff from Coupling - the whole episode is worth watching, part 2 and three are found by Coupling S1E2.2 and Coupling S1E2.3.
The guy with the curly hair at 58s and on from there

 

[Mobbelsche]

I like cockney pretty much although I sometimes experience some difficulties in understanding it completely^^
I discovered that my own pronunciation somehow suffers when I listen to too much cockney^^ Not that I could ever sound like that anyhow

I must say that I really love a slight scottish accent. I met a guy from Inverness (wasn't that mentioned some pages ago?) in Japan 2004. He had such a nice accent, just barely noticeable. I sometimes find myself rolling the "r" that way. Sounds good to me; native speakers tend to smile when you do it

 

[drago]

it is quite "anspruchsvoll"

I just spent 10 minutes figuring out how you would translate that.
leo.org leads me to "demanding" or maybe "sophisticated", but both words
don't express the exact meaning as I think of it. All other words I found
are even worse.