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I have a highly educated Japanese student who speaks fluent English but has trouble understanding English when it's spoken with French, Spanish, and a variety of other accents. Where can I find video's of people speaking English w/ foreign accents and English subtitles on screen? Or any other suggestions. Thank you!

Youtube.

Sally Olsen wrote:Youtube.

Hi Sally,

I spent a lot of time searching youtube before posting my topic. I was able to find people, acting coaches for example, describing how different accents are produced, but not what I described in my question. Do you have any links to subtitled youtube videos of "foreigners" speaking English with an accent? Thank you.

Hard to get subtitles. He can do that and you can check if he is right. Any good news organization from a country that normally does not speak English will provide short news items that you can subtitle.

I used to get the news printed out from major radio staions. They have a kind of shorthand- tho for though - and so on. Then the students would listen to the short newscast - one minute or so and then read the news and then go back and listen and read and finally listen. It provided lots of discussion points as well. I understand some of the major tests take their new vocabulary from the British news.

Thanks very much. I'll pursue that avenue.