Voices

You can listen to examples of British regional accents at BBC's Voices.

Go to Voices and choose one of the recordings by clicking on a dot on the map you can find in Voices Recordings, in the top left-hand corner, right under the banners, and then do the following:

1 Click on the name of one of the speakers under 'More clips from this interview'.
2 Read 'About the interviewee'.
3 Read the transcript.
4 Listen to the recording and read the transcript.
5 Some clips have a section on 'More about the speech in this clip'. Read this focusing in particular on information about pronunciation. Some dialect words, which you may not find in the dictionary, are explained here.
6 Do the same with any other 'More clips from the interview'.
7 Go back and listen to the 'Voice clip(s)'. These don't have transcripts.
8 Do the same with accents from other parts of the UK by clicking on other dots on the map.

Activity suggested by English Pronunciation in Use Advanced, Cambridge University Press