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English classes in Western Europe vary between two types: * non-U RP (a less formal variant of British "Received pronounciation") and * GA ("General American
by gilgoomesh 8y ago
English classes in Western Europe vary between two types:
* non-U RP (a less formal variant of British "Received pronounciation")
and
* GA ("General American", a blend of midwest and north eastern American accents).
The former is favored by Latin language family countries and the latter is favored by Germanic language family countries, simply because they better match the native language sounds.
In either case though... both of these are closer to "northeastern" than any other US accent.
- wirrbel 8y agoAt least in Germany, we started with a British pronunciation and then in our I believe 4th year of learning english we had one year where the textbook presented american english and we listened to recordings of american speakers. Overall I think our teachers spoke a mixture of american and english dialects (and remnants of a German accent) that you could probably not put on a map.