International varieties of English aren’t ‘wrong’ just because they differ from native speaker English.
- Reader in Language and Education, University of Manchester
Accents are not inherently easy or difficult to comprehend. Rather, the lack of exposure people have to a variety of accents causes communication difficulties.
007 uses an English upper-class, ‘Received Pronunciation’ accent.
Konglish is widely spoken in Korea but rather than celebrating it as one of a variety of Englishes used around the world, speakers are often frowned upon.
Trainee teachers with northern accents are under pressure to speak ‘the Queen’s English’ in the classroom.
The recent torrent of complaints about the “inaudible dialogue” in the BBC’s adaptation of Daphne de Maurier’s Jamaica Inn have prompted a debate about actors’ speech. The cause of the problem was variously…
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