806. PERSEVERANCE, POSITIVITY & PRACTICE with Santiago Ruiz de Velasco from Oxford University Press
Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson
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The Importance of Having an Accent
English is a very broad church, and English is for everybody. So we can think of it like this, if you're from Liverpool, then you're going to speak with a bit of a Liverpool accent such as that. If you're from Spain, then you's going to speaking with the sort of Spanish flavor of English. In Spanish, the not bad is not, you don't say not bad. You say, Oh, I'm fine. Thank you. How are you? The way people express different things in different countries has a cultural element to them. My daughters who go to a bilingual school already have a much better accent than I do. But they will be speaking with not
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