I don’t mind her reading passages from ‘The Secret Garden’ before breakfast each morning , if only she didn’t go around the house the rest of the day speaking with a Yorkshire accent
*have you read ‘The Secret Garden’ or seen the film?
*when’s the last time someone read to you?
*what’s the most difficult accent you’ve had to contend with?
John Malone 
I have a dear friend with a Yorshire accent, I love it! But if she wasn’t from Wales, who knows whether I’d still find that accent so endearing …
I know at a friend, or maybe two of them, who have worked with actors, on particular accents, for acting jobs. It seems an interesting way to earn a wage …
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dialect coaches earn big money in the US teaching actors to speak convincingly in an accent that is foreign to them; when it is not convincingly done as in Meryl Streep’s butchering of the aussie accent in her role as Lindy Chamberlain we wince
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I love accents. I must admit I enjoy trying to imitate them too (at the risk of offending true speakers). One good book example is old Joseph in Wuthering Heights. I found I had to read that out loud to get any real drift of the content.
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I love accents but have a hard time understanding them depending…)
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I loved reading ‘Huckleberry Finn’: I loved the dilaect; I also loved Marilyn Robinson’s ‘Housekeeping’ which if I remember correctly was written with a Southern twang 🙂
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Listen to ‘the thirteenth tale’ read aloud – amazing
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good to hear from you:) I too like all forms of English that are non-standard; I love the richness of languages, their oddities and quirks, their asymmetries; woud love to hear you speak as Old Joseph; I remember now — one of the books I loved that was written in non-standARD Englsih was ‘Trainspotting’ written in a Glaswegian dialect: once I learnt how to read it, I was captivated 🙂
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Book no (although I read about half once)
Film yes
I can think in accents but I’m not so good at speaking them 😅
My accent is a West Country hybrid, sort of Gloucester/Bristol via my London parents and northern influences 😂 I think I can pull off most british accents, others not so much.
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that’s good; I envy those who can speak in a number of accents; sadly I am monolingual 🙂 I haven’t seen the film yet; we plan to see it next week when it comes on 🙂
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No
1946
The President’s Aroganese
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sorry: the Aroganese I get but not the date 😦 ?
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The last time someone read to me! Your three questions.
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thanks. I’m a bit thick in the morning. we must be a similar age. I was last read to as a child around the same date 🙂 Cheers
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1 I haven’t.
2 last year’s international loud reading day me and my girlfriend read a book on baby care.
3 Most difficult to understand: an Irishman. Most difficult to listen to: Texan accent ( no offence to anyone, but that is an annoying accent)
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thanks for joining in the fun 🙂 I wasn’t aware of an international Loud REading Day but now that I am I’ll watch out for it .And as for the Irish we came across one last week in a brief conversation; neither of us had much inkling what she was talking about 🙂
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Ha! This is sweet. I love a Yorkshire accent. And I loved the book The Secret Garden. :)) Thanks for checking out my blog, yours is lovely!!!
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thanks for commenting, Lia ; glad you liked it 🙂
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I love regional accents of all types and dialect words but I can’t stand that questioning up inflection that is do popular in the Uk and US because I never know if the person speaking is being ironic or not!
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we saw ‘The Secret Garden’ and my partner who grew up with the book was very disappointed they erased the Yorkshire accent along with a few characters, thus homogenizing the speech 😦
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I’ve found Australian accent difficult to understand. I am sure he found mine difficult because there was a lot of “excuse me”, “could you say that again” on the call! 😁
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I’ve heard that but because I’ve grown up with the Aussie accent I have no trouble with it — but the Indian and Filipino accent causes me some difficulty
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