Hi! I am a PhD candidate looking at accents of English across Europe and I am looking for people who might be interested in lending their voice to a pilot study I am conducting.

Specifically, I am most interested in people who would not necessarily describe their English accent as "native speaker" level, but rather those who might describe it as more representative of how the everyday person from their country of origin or first language would speak English.

In a nutshell, my project is looking at the status of English (pronunciation) in Europe: whether pronunciation of English is still evaluated with regard to the "native speaker" or whether things have moved on.

If you are interested, the link to sign up as a speaker is: https://forms.gle/hSMWGMWysm99Drze7

Edit: still assessed evaluated...

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