2012.8.1 单词 Learning Irish English-优快云博客

Oliver Lyons的天鹅学院吸引了大量国际学生，尤其是来自中东和中国的学生。今年，由于伦敦奥运会，许多学校报告业务增加。爱尔兰口音因其无特定阶级含义的清晰发音和友好语气而受到学生欢迎，尤其在英国广告业中被认为是吸引人的。学习爱尔兰英语的一个特征是其发音中的rhotic R，即有或无'r'的发音差异。

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来源：http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/2012/07/120731_witn_learning_irish_english.shtml

Learning Irish English

Oliver Lyons runs the Swan Institute, which has been a fixture on Dublin's main shopping street for the past decade. His school attracts around 4,000 students a year, from Europe and beyond, with more and more coming from the Middle East and China.

This year, many schools like Oliver's are reporting extra business, due, they think, to the Olympics in London. Some even suggest that reports of higher costs for accommodation and flights into the UK might have led more students to choose Ireland. And the Irish accent, rather than being viewed as a handicap, is actually quite sought after by students, Oliver says: "Irish English tends to be pretty clear in its pronunciation, easier to actually study. People have said that, for example, in the UK, in advertising agencies, the Irish accent is considered attractive because it's got no particular class connotation, and it's a warm, friendly, inflection and tone. I think people find that attractive."

And how do you tell if someone's studied English here or not? The clue is in what Oliver tells me is the rhotic R:

"In Irish English when we speak we simply put the 'r' - we pronounce it when it's actually there, when it's not there, we don't pronounce it."

"So give me an example - a difference between ..."

"Law. When we say 'the law', we don't say 'the law-r'."

So next time you meet an English language student, listen out for that 'r'. Apparently, it's a giveaway.

a fixture on

a part of

beyond

further

handicap

weakness or problem

sought after