That's a bad typing example of my poor British accent. ;) It sounds much better than it looks I swear. And it's so darn fun to do.
Today, a few classmates and I started goofing off with different Brittish accents and we found out some pretty cool things. First off, we didn't know how we sounded. We must have sounded funny because we made Sally laugh a few times. She proceeded to tell us that if we did go to the UK and decided to try and speak [the way we'd spoken today] people there probably would ask:
"Where exactly are you from?" with a skeptical expression on their face.
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| Are you sure yoor from round 'ere? |
And beacuse we'd never actually been to the UK [Sally has and her husband is from Wales!] we'd not have a clue as to how to answer. But it's the same thing here in America funnily. We could just as easily tell if someone were not originally from the States.
She eventually found a way to tie it into our having to learn IPA. Because she's rather brilliant. You see, IPA is all about sound, not spelling, so it can help with pronunciation of accents as well as names and foreign words. It's bloody brilliant if you ask me!
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| These are the IPA notes from the second half of class. :D |
Toodles.
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