This man is representing Europe.

[Kantor]

mrstickball said:

Kantor said:
He's really not that bad. You can't expect somebody whose second language is English to speak in a perfect posh Buckingham accent.

I don't think anyone would want him to have a Buckingham accent :-p

In fact, is there even an 'English' accent? The steriotypical American-English accent is a far cry from English-English accents. Even then, like the UK, we have about 20 flavors of accents similarly to the divide between Buckingham and Scottish accents.

I mean, growing up in the US, you meet and deal with caucasians that have a dozen or so accents that aren't native to England or Australia. So its kind of odd when someone argues 'bad' English accent when its merely a regional thing.

Not a Buckingham accent, perhaps, but if English is going to be the official language of the European Commission, it might as well be spoken properly. It would be ideal if his accent was lighter and more understandable, but he's made the effort to learn English at least.

And hopefully his English will improve, because looking at some parts of the video, he actually borders on non-understandable.