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It just takes practice and listening abilities. If you spent time in those areas, watched TV series or listened to the radio you'd soon get used to it. I never have any difficulty understanding different accents no matter what part of the UK they're from.
Dundee and Aberdeen actually have pretty nice soft accents, Aberdeen is almost "posh". The Glasgow accent however, is absolutely awful. Cannot stand it.
Dundee and Aberdeen actually have pretty nice soft accents, Aberdeen is almost "posh". The Glasgow accent however, is absolutely awful. Cannot stand it.
Dundonian is a dialect of the Scottish language which is traditionally thought was created by the women in the Jute Mills to hear each other over the noise of the machinery.
Oh really? I thought so, my teacher is from north Lanarkshire and she sounds like that. The accent that my sisters baby has is nothing like the one that the man has.
Dundee and Aberdeen actually have pretty nice soft accents, Aberdeen is almost "posh". The Glasgow accent however, is absolutely awful. Cannot stand it.
People from Aberdeen definitely don't sound 'posh'.
I'll never forget traveling to Edinburgh from London via the Flying Scotsman a good many years ago, when as we were near York (or was it Newcastle?), a young lady attendant announced that "The boofy car-r-r is now oopen".
My fellow American traveling companion needed a translation.
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