Quote Originally Posted by kib View Post
Hi to everyone!
Here's a recording in English and I want to know if the announcers are native speakers. They speak pretty good and, I suppose, British English, but I heard some other recordings from the British council, and found that they are different from it. In addition to that a female announcer made a mistake in the words "salsa" and mixed up the stresses in the word "workaholic".

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English Listening | LearnEnglish | British Council | Series 03 Episode 01

I really need to know, whether the announcers are native speakers or not, so I would appreciate you very much for your help.
Grrrr.... Kib, I'm the one on this forum that Doesn't read write or speak any Russian so I'm having a really hard time downloading your link. I did however listen to the entire 10 minute Series 03 Episode 01 of Tess and Ravi and I didn't hear anything wrong with what they pronounced.

I also looked over the Website and as this is done by the BBC, my guess is that they would use REAL native British speakers. You have to understand that just like Americans... Brits have MANY different accents.

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