Sunday, November 2, 2014

A Brief Exercise in Mutual Intelligibility

I wanted to take a break from my walls of texts to just give you all a listen to a couple of gems I found and showed to my students. The following two clips are recordings of people speaking variants of English that are on the cusp of mutual intelligibility. See if you can determine where the speakers are from and what they're saying.

Sample 1

Sample 2

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