Don’t worry. I am not going to talk about the voices in my head (just because they’ve been extremely quiet lately)
This is just a very simple post to talk about my favourite male voices in UK at the moment.
Needless to say, I love the British accent (especially the Home Counties one) having spent all my learning years in these places. I don’t particularly like the American one. The Australian I find interesting, and the New Zealand one I find very cute (together with the South African one, although I struggle to understand it more)
There are lots of different accents in the UK (same as in Spain, really) and out of the “famous” ones, I really like the Liverpool one (Scouse).
However, unless the accent is very pronounced and noticeable (like Scouse, Geordie or Glaswegian) I still can’t tell accents apart and wouldn’t know where a person comes from based on their accent alone (I can do it –roughly- with Spanish areas)
These are the three voices that I enjoy listening to the most in England at the moment (there are probably more, but these are the three that firstly jumped to me)
Tom Baker, of Doctor Who fame, but for me better know due to his voice over in Little Britain.
Alan Rickman, known to everybody as Professor Snape in the Harry Potter films, he is a very successful English actor who has played “the baddie” in many a Hollywood film.
Jimmy Carr, comedian apparently born in Ireland from Irish parents but raised in the UK.
I adore Stephen Fry´s accent, Alan Rickman´s and Tom Chaplin´s (Keane´s lead singer) since they all have the so-called Queen´s English, crystal clear easy to understand and because they all come from the South of England it is very ´´proper´´
I am surprised to read you like the Scouse accent; it is quite tricky to understand (as much as the Brummie accent from Birmingham) and my two friends from that area even went to speech lessons to get rid of their accents which they hated. One of them even had problems when attending job interviews as interviewers could not get a full grasp of her sentences.
De los acentos españoles ¡todos tienen algo especial! en especial para mí el canario y el andaluz porque suenan más cálidos.
Yeah, the Scouse accent is a bit tricky to understand, but I love how it sounds (we’ll I’ve never been to Liverpool, so I don’t know how it sounds on a day-by-day basis, but I like how it sounds coming from some people..)
Here’s an example: http://www.livingtv.co.uk/shows/bntm4/model_Charlotte.php
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