Accents of the world
The same word, the same language, a different mouth. What a Glaswegian does to English that a Londoner does not; what Marseille does to French that Paris does not.
An accent is not a blur — it is a short list of rules. Each one moves one sound in one place, and a good imitator has simply learned the list. Every accent here is written as that list, in the same order the mouth applies it, over the site's own reference pronunciation. Both halves of every rule are synthesised, so you can hear the sound before and after it moves, slow it down, and type any word to see which rules it triggers.
For what your FIRST language does to a new one, see Accent.
English6 accents
Received Pronunciationreference
southern England; the BBC of the 20th century
General American
the United States, outside the South and the Northeast
Scottish
Scotland — the standard variety, not Glaswegian dialect
Australian
Australia — general variety
Cockney / Estuary
London and the Thames estuary
Irish
Ireland — Dublin and the general supra-regional variety
French4 accents
Spanish4 accents
Portuguese3 accents
German3 accents
Italian3 accents
Japanese2 accents
Mandarin Chinese2 accents
Vietnamese2 accents
Korean2 accents
Turkish2 accents
33 accents, 132 rules. Every example was checked by running its rules, and every sound was checked against the synthesiser before this page was built.