English Rewind - People and Places: The Brummie accent

Do people speak with regional accents in your country? The Birmingham - or Brummie - accent is well-known in the UK. Some love it, others are not so keen. Learn more with Jackie Dalton while you improve your English vocabulary knowledge AND practise your English listening with this archive episode of the BBC Learning English programme People and Places. Do you have a favourite English accent? Tell us in the comments ????????????

Useful vocabulary:
✔️ a Brummie - someone from Birmingham, a city in the UK
✔️ it's part of his identity - it's part of what makes him who he is
✔️ endearing - pleasant, nice
✔️ middle-class - related to people who have a fairly high social status
✔️ lower classes - people with lower social status and lower incomes

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English Rewind is a collection of programmes from the BBC Learning English archive. This episode of People and Places was first published on the BBC Learning English website in June 2007.

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