Re: What language is easy and what is difficult?
@Rdf, I don't think I'd heard Brian Johnson speak before, though that is certainly a Jordy accent albeit a rather mild one, quite often people from other parts of the country end up getting completely lost, and really if you went to the center of Newcastle there are times you'd think people weren't speaking English, ---- at least until your used to it.
Interestingly enough though, it's not an accent that transfers at all. Despite living up hear in Durham and hearing that accent every day, I've never picked it up even in the slightest, indeed a friend of mine who's wife is Jordy is the same. Similarly, as you heard with brian Johnson, it's a very stubborn accent, sinse though it gets less, it never goes completely. Sometimes my mum will run into someone somewhere else and say "oh your from Newcastle or Durham aren't you!" .
It's not an accent you heard
As to the rolling r's, I would guess Ramachandran is Indian? It's quite common when indians speak English I've noticed. I don't know if it's because we associate it often with large stage acting like shakespear, but I will agree on drama in the rolled r's, although I do tend to find if the voice is too forward as is the case with a lot of upper class (or trying to be upper class), english accents it can sound more pretencious than dramatic, though that might well just be personal opinion and I freely admit having had a very irritating teacher at special school who's favourite phrase was "it is the rarrarrarrarrules" probably didn't give me the best impression of the practice .
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