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Celebration of Dialects and Accents, Vol 1 (The North Wind and the Sun)

Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers

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A celebration of all the wonderful dialects and accents found within the LibriVox community!

The goal being to record a 'phonetically relevant' text by as many volunteers as possible, and make this dialect/accent 'database' available to the world, by releasing the recordings into the public domain. (Summary by Délibáb) (0 hr 36 min)

Chapters

Flemish accent, slight

1:04

Read by Julie VW

Irish accent

1:14

Read by Padraig O'hIceadha

Australian accent

1:00

Read by Annise

English accent, RP ('no regional accent')

1:15

Read by Ruth Golding

Austrian accent (German)

0:53

Read by Elli

Hungarian accent

1:03

Read by Diana Majlinger

Dutch accent

1:00

Read by Anna Simon

American accent, 'Air Force Brat'

1:08

Read by Bellona Times

English accent, South-East London

0:57

Read by Peter Yearsley

Chinese accent, Taiwan

1:06

Read by Semantic Nuance

English accent, 'honed-off' Black Country Accent

1:05

Read by David Cole

American accent, Upstate New York

0:55

Read by Bridget Gaige

New Zealand accent, Central North Island

1:03

Read by Marianne Coleman-Hipkins

American accent, South Carolina

0:54

Read by Laurie Anne Walden

Australian accent

1:11

Read by Graeme Dunlop

English accent, mother tongue Dutch

1:09

Read by Ernst Pattynama

American accent, Southern California

0:52

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)

Chinese accent, Singaporean

1:01

Read by mezzogal

American accent, Minnesota

1:01

Read by TriciaG

Canadian accent, Newfoundland

0:54

Read by Sean Michael Hogan

German accent

1:09

Read by Jessi

American accent, Midwestern

1:08

Read by Alana Jordan

American accent, West Central Pennsylvania

1:07

Read by dullstar

Australian accent, cultivated

1:03

Read by Timothy Ferguson

Australian accent

0:51

Read by Magdalena

English accent, neutral, southern

1:08

Read by Stuart Bell

American accent, Southern Indiana

1:05

Read by Joy Easton

American accent, Texas

0:56

Read by Andi

German accent

0:57

Read by Sonja

American accent, New York City

1:12

Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)

Northern Ireland accent

1:06

Read by Délibáb

French accent

1:09

Read by Ezwa

Australian accent, metropolitan

0:58

Read by May Low

American accent, western

0:50

Read by Ben Gr

Australian accent

1:15

Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014)

Bewertungen

terrific!

(5 Sterne)

terrific! one can truly perceive the differences between the accents. great for english study and language enthusiasts.

(5 Sterne)

This was quite interesting. Thx librevox