Here is a fascinating site which features recordings of people around the world, reading the same small paragraph in English.
The broad range of accents is interesting. My favorites so far are from Brooklyn and Scotland.
The link is here: The Speech Accent Archive.
h/t to Mental Floss.
That is the coolest site ever. The Brooklyn one made my skin crawl. But did you hear the Arkansas one? Ah, that sounded like HOME…
Who is Stella anyway?
That is way cool.
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That is SO interesting! I love to hear the different accents
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Okay, wow. I could play with that website all day! I wish they had one from Georgia — it’s my favorite Southern US accent. One thing I noticed about the Southerners — we have a tendency to say “Wednes-dee” rather than “Wednes-day.”