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فكر كنم الآن ديگه وقت آن رسيده باشه كه يكي درباره لهجه هاي انگليسي هم صحبتي به ميان بياورد. من به شخصه ديگه از اينكه اين همه آدم دارند درباره يك زبان كلي گويي مي كنند خسته شده ام؛ بهتره كه يكم عميق تر به اين زبان نگاه كنيم و چيزهايي بيش از چندتا قاعده گرامري و اصطلاح يادبگيريم.

در اين رابطه خيلي از زبان شناسان معتقدند كه يادگيري يك لهجه ي جديد (لهجه آمريكايي و...) براي كسي كه انگليسي زبان دومش است كار بس مشكل و تقريباً محال است...

ولي طبق شواهدي كه هست با تمرينات و شناخت بهتر لهجه زبان دوم مي توان اختلافات فاحش بين لهجه گوينده و لهجه اصلي زبان را كم و يا تا حدودي از بين برد.

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Ric Phillips در وبلاگ خود به نام Speak English Better ، درباره  تلفظ كانادايي ها چنين مي نويسد:

"I personally hear different English dialects here in Canada. I hear the standard “mid-west” accent that Hollywood and the media love to use, although it is split up into 2 accents. One is the ‘professional’ accent which you will hear in the big cities and in professional circles. The vowels are tighter, proper grammar rules are adhered to and the vocabulary is richer.

The other accent is the ‘relaxed’ English, which you can hear in small towns and in manual labour or “blue collar” circles. In this dialect, the people do not mind purposefully breaking some grammar rules, have a variety of rich and colourful slang and favourite expressions used, and sound more “American” in their pronunciation of longer, stretched out vowels.

There is also the distinctive French-Canadian or “Quebecois” accent (Think Georges St.Pierre from the UFC) which is quite different from accents from other French speaking countries. There is the distinctive “East-Coaster” accent, due to the previous immigrants from Ireland and Scotland (hence Nova Scotia – New Scotland) and finally there is the native/Inuit/aboriginal accent."

A few resources to study Canadian English Pronunciation:

http://www.accentoncanadianenglish.com/
http://www.lulu.com/content/e-book/3vc-accent-reduction-program-description/7349543
http://voicetoword.ca/index.html
http://www.voiceandspeech.com/
http://www3.telus.net/linguisticsissues/britishcanadianamericanvocabcanadianpron.html
http://www.ic.arizona.edu/~lsp/Canadian/canphon3.html
http://www.esl-guide.com/links/search.cgi?Country=Canada

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