[00:03.60]Unit 19 Communication
[00:07.68]Lesson 2 Varieties of English
[00:11.13]Exercise 4 Listen to the dialogue
[00:14.46]and decide if these statements are true (T)
[00:17.66]or flase (F).
[00:20.53]Good day, mate!I'm Richard from Australia.
[00:23.48]You must be the new Chinese student.
[00:26.36]Yes, I am.My name's Liang Weimin.
[00:29.49]I hope you don't mind me asking
[00:31.57]but you don't sound English.
[00:33.19]What's your native language?
[00:35.63]Richard's native language
[00:36.98]is English but because he comes from Australia,
[00:40.66]he has a different English accent.
[00:43.09]I'm from America
[00:44.17]so I have an American Engish accent.
[00:47.63]By the way, I'm Pam.
[00:49.57]Nice to meet you,Pam and Richard.
[00:52.12]I thought that every native speaker
[00:54.10]spoke English like
[00:55.33]the BBC World Service reporters!
[00:58.39]Well I do.
[00:59.89]I'm Robert and I'm from England.
[01:02.71]People have different English accents depending
[01:04.95]on where they come from.
[01:06.80]For example, British people say "water"
[01:09.73]and "tomato" but Americans say "water"
[01:12.96]and "tomato"!
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