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Re: Chinese learning English: msg#00075

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Subject: Re: Chinese learning English


>From: sheila swanson <swanny_girl_7-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>Can you(or someone) record some of these differences and share them with
>the rest of us? This would make for a good expanded unit on differences in
>pronunciation, listening classes. Maybe glean some of the Internet
>workings of the BBC,also Australian sites? Anyway, it would be
>interesting!



Here are some sites to hear accents:

Type in sentence and it can be spoken by many accents
http://www.cslu.ogi.edu/demos/ttsdemos.htm

Accents in the USA
http://students.csci.unt.edu/~kun/

Voice files from spots all over the british isles UK
http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/recordings/index.shtml

British accents ? voice files
http://www.hi.is/~peturk/KENNSLA/87/VARS/HappyT.html


Tom Z







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