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"The UK is a rich landscape of regional accents and dialects, each evidence of our society' s continuity and change, our local history and our day-to-day lives. This site captures and celebrates the diversity of spoken English in the second half of the twentieth century." Includes 76 sound recordings and over 600 audio clips from the British Library archive o English Dialects.

Over 600 audio clips from the British Library Sound Archive collection. Would be useful for hearing how modern dialects actually sound; includes Minority/Ethnic accents.

If you were ever asked by your students whether they should learn British or American English, you'll be happy to find that we are getting closer together. There are many more Britishisms, but these were in the news.

"We add new recordings and text files frequently (see What's New). Each recording consists of a standard reading passage - Comma Gets A Cure, or, on our earliest recordings, The Rainbow Passage - and some unscripted speech, about four minutes in all. An analysis showing what countries/states/provinces are represented in the archive, and showing those still lacking a representative sample is available. We call it our Wish List. " A rich resource for studying the accents of English.

Site with language learning sites in dozens of different languages. Recommended by Richard Byrne and seen on Russell Stannard's videos for teachers.