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Velocipedaler
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| coledavis wrote: |
| Unfortunately, Russian assessors of English tend to have rather fixed ideas about pronunciation, which is perhaps reflected in the students' idea of 'not having an accent'. In one case in Siberia, in a British English teaching context, they marked a boy down for poor vowel pronunciation; in fact, he had lived for a while in the north of England and was speaking authentically, but because the assessor had learned the usual southern pronunciation, the poor lad was made to resit and speak southern. |
Just this past weekend a Scottish acquaintance and I were approached in a club by two Russian dyevs who wanted to practice their English. When they learned that he was Scottish, one said, "Oh, you no good speak on English," and they both walked away! |
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maruss
Joined: 18 Mar 2003
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Location: Cyprus
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| Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 9:29 pm Post subject: What miserable b******! |
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| As if they could have told the difference anyway!I actually knew one well-known Glaswegian teacher in Moscow who sounded like Billy Connolly and he had prestige students who told the firm they only wanted him because of his accent!! |
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