Have you ever wondered what a Korean person speaking English sounds like? What about a South African? Or someone from Mexico? Well, now you can hear hundreds of accents at the “The Speech Accent Archive” – an online database of native and non-native speakers of English.
The project is managed by the George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, USA. The university started collecting recordings in 1999 and it now has 1,300. Every contributor has to record the following paragraph: