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Picking up other accents

inadvertently pick up other people's accents very easily so speaking now there's no particular accident that you could say okay he's from glasgow or he's from liverpool birmingh...

Course: Accents and language differencesSection: Favorite British accentsSubtitles: en

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i tend to

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inadvertently pick up other people's

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accents very easily

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so

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speaking now

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there's no particular accident that you

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could say okay he's from glasgow or he's

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from liverpool birmingham

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it it's it's quite bland

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um but even

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generally regional generally it's it's

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i i can pitch high and low and i do a

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lot of presentational work but there's

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nothing that tends to someone will say

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okay he's from such and such an area

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because it it's it's quite a i wouldn't

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say boring but it's quite a steady

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yeah

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which comes in handy when you're doing

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presentations um from work um but

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sometimes it lacks the um spice

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of having a regional accent that i can

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be so proud of otherwise having

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i i traveled to newcastle quite a bit

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right and

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i find that people very friendly yeah i

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think it's not an aggressive accent yeah

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yeah so

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i associate it with

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a fun place and fun type ah this is

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interesting

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it's kind of got reminiscence to it yeah

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okay so but it's also quite like a nice

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sort of rounded

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i would ask you to

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