This week I’ve been adding videos to some of the language pages on Omniglot. Many of them come from the Wikitongues, and others from the Endangered Languages Alliance or Easy Languages.
If you have suggestions for videos for other languages, do let me know. Ideally I’d like to have one or more on each language page to give a flavour of the language.
It would also be great to have videos in different varieties, accents and dialects. If you know of any good ones, or feel like making one, do let me know.
Here’s one of a guy from Glasgow who talks about different Scottish accents:
It is nice to have a english language videos, so that many people could understand what they are saying. English is the most common language in the whole world and use as a communication to other people.
You know this one, right? Warning: obscene, but pretty funny.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dABo_DCIdpM
This one has more varities of English, and they are genuine, rather than one guy impersonating them:
The accents from the west of England are pretty extreme. You’d have to search hard to find those in everyday life.. I have the impression they are “party pieces”: ” here’s me speaking in the local accent.”