Dear students,
The following links will provide you with several websites that contain audio samples of different English dialects and accents.
http://web.ku.edu/~idea/dialectmap.htm
The International Dialects of English Archive provides audio samples from all over the world. This will be your best resource. In addition to the audio files, it provides the reading passages "The Rainbow Passage" and "Comma Gets a Cure" on the right hand side of the page.
http://www.soundcomparisons.com/
This website has single word examples, primarily from the UK and the US, but also from Singapore, Nigeria, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, and India.
http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/sounds/index.html (only PC)
This is a collection of recording of people throughout the UK. Good for British and Irish English.
http://accent.gmu.edu/index.php
The Speech Accent Archive. A variety of accents from all over the world.
Happy listening!
Trey
