Originally posted by UshgarakI have lived near Newcastle nearly all of my life, it's may be hard to understand if you're not used to it, but it's not harsh. Compared to the Manc, Scousse or even a lot fo the London accents it's as soft as a baby's bottom.
Err... very surprised to hear you say that. Famously hard to understand, often mocked (in Alan partridge, for example).
Fair crack, having lived in Northumberland we don't really see a negative view of the accent but if others do that's fine... I don't have it anyway. Thick Scottish accents are horrific on the whole, the broad Aberdeenshire accent I've been around for nearly 2 years now and I still can't understand a word of it.
I find the Geordie accent hard to understand and I´m English so it must be a nightmare for foreign students, mainly because they use very few actual understandable words, or similar pronunciation to the actual word someone would learn as a student.
I had to work with some Geordie bloke years ago, couldn´t understand much but one fraze which I´ll never forget was when he asked me to "pass the hammer over". Im not going to attempt to write it here but I found a link for it.
Theres other Geordie sound bite HERE If anyones interested.
Hmm, yeah, well, maybe he did mean to say that the accent is easy, not sure, reading over it again.
I'd just like to bring it back to which ones do you like or dislike 😛
Cause "hard" seems relative. I am sure if German's were taught Geordie accents we'd find them easy to understand, while other English accents hard, but since, I guess, most countries teach a sort of Northern American or a Queen's English accent, the ones that differ from that become hard to understand.
Re: What form of English are Euro-Students taught?
Originally posted by Grand-Moff-Gav
In schools across countries like France, Germany and Belgium etc. What version of English are students taught? British English or American "we can't spell properly" English?I assume nations will have national curriculum and thus the form of spelling used will be taught uniformly across the country but I guess different educational authorities may use different spellings...what's your experience of this if any?
British English? You mean blah blah blah spot of dick and so I tell the swamp donkey to sock it before I give her a trunky in the tradesman's entrance and have her lick me yarbles!