VIDEO: David Beckham picks up new accent
Perhaps taking a cue from ‘Shteve’ McClaren’s cringe-inducing Dutch accent, David Beckham adopted a mysterious foreign accent when he was interviewed after scoring his first goal for AC Milan, on Sunday.
Watch the clip below:
Experts in speech patterns will realise that Becks is simply conforming to the basic rules of speech accommodation, where you mirror the vocal mannerisms of the person/people you’re talking to, to fit in.
Since we’re no experts in speech, we can only say he sounds like a very silly boy.
As a bonus, watch his first goal below:
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January 27th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
my dad does that when he speaks to someone who can’t speak english
January 27th, 2009 at 11:38 am
what a complete plonker