The participants were asked to describe how they spoke in their own words.
How do you describe your accent: "If there is one, I'd say that I have a Latin accent."
Have there been other influences on the way you speak: "I lived until I was 28 in Portugal, then I lived in Holland (1.5 years), London UK (1.5 years), South Africa (two years), returned to Portugal for about seven years."
Do you have skills in languages other than English?: Yes
Other languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch/Italian
It's a wonderful invention er for where - when you don't have anything to say, so it's actually the best way of keeping er some talk - for example sometimes, you know, when I get into a taxi and start to talk of something, usually the weather is the first thing, and it's er, and it's sometimes the best way of breaking to ice. Because everybody has something to say about the weather, and er in this country it's always changing so rapidly, and er today is snowing and er in the morning, in the afternoon it's raining, and at the end of the afternoon it's sunshine so you always have something to say.
