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<blockquote data-quote="Mark Hope" data-source="post: 3135868" data-attributes="member: 27051">An old Norwegian friend of mine studied English at school in Norway and did very well in class, apparently.&nbsp; He used to read the Sherlock Holmes stories in English as a way of improving his command of the language (of course, this lent his English a certain Victorian flavour).And then he came to Manchester in northwest England to study computer science.Poor guy.&nbsp; For those unfamiliar with the Mancunian accent, here are some relatively tame examples:<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/recordings/group/gmr-salford.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/recordings/group/gmr-salford.shtml</a>Needles to say, poor Sven found his quaint, Holmesian turns of phrase did him no good whatsoever, nor could he understand anything that the locals were saying to him.&nbsp; Eventually he settled in and developed a way of speaking that was a highly bizarre mix of Nordic-influenced Victorian Madchester.&nbsp; But not before he went through a bout of extreme homesickness and depression first.&nbsp; Manchester, so much to answer for...I don't find the Welsh accents on Torchwood a problem at all.&nbsp; But then I'm from the northeast of England, with Scots and Irish relatives througout my family.&nbsp; Living in Cambridgeshire, anything with a vague dialect to it is a welcome change <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mark Hope, post: 3135868, member: 27051"] An old Norwegian friend of mine studied English at school in Norway and did very well in class, apparently. He used to read the Sherlock Holmes stories in English as a way of improving his command of the language (of course, this lent his English a certain Victorian flavour). And then he came to Manchester in northwest England to study computer science. Poor guy. For those unfamiliar with the Mancunian accent, here are some relatively tame examples: [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/recordings/group/gmr-salford.shtml[/url] Needles to say, poor Sven found his quaint, Holmesian turns of phrase did him no good whatsoever, nor could he understand anything that the locals were saying to him. Eventually he settled in and developed a way of speaking that was a highly bizarre mix of Nordic-influenced Victorian Madchester. But not before he went through a bout of extreme homesickness and depression first. Manchester, so much to answer for... I don't find the Welsh accents on Torchwood a problem at all. But then I'm from the northeast of England, with Scots and Irish relatives througout my family. Living in Cambridgeshire, anything with a vague dialect to it is a welcome change :D... [/QUOTE]

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