Accents variety in the English language

Last year I visited British library with my foundation group and teachers from Queen Mary university. Besides general view of it I extremely liked the section where English language is the main focus. Once you enter that part of the library, you can see writings all over the walls. The same phrase was written in almost all existing languages. In this section I volunteered to be part of the experiment where you enter a telephone booth and listen to the instruction. Next, you are asked to read some simple text in front of you and you will be asked from what country you are and what's your major language. Basically, this experiment analyses your background and your accent and then this information is used in library's survey.

Another awsome thing I found in this section was a track of different accents in english. First, you wear big headphones and then you can choose what type of accent you want to listen. I particulary liked Irish accent;) I wish my participation in the exam will help them to add another type of accent.

 I've decided to write this post because I just found this video with 7,500,000 views of a british guy presenting 24 different english accents. He said he was asked to make this video by his friends and I can really say that this boy has a talent. He performed this in a phone talk way and both at the begining and the end of the video he makes ot clear to everyone he didn't want to offend people and made this video only because of friends' requests.You can watch this video by clicking on this link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dABo_DCIdpM

I liked this video because I am also passionate about accents and ai find it beautiful to listen how people change this language in the way they feel comfortable. I wish I could see more similar videos and obviously, I wish to be able to change my accent depending on who I speak to. Thanx for reading