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Thu, 07 Oct 04 07:58 AM
Thanks Robertson for all your thoughts I was thinking along the lines of a norm. Most can relate to The English of Australia or Canada. The same can be said of America. What the majority cannot relate to is unduly heavy accents or dialects. I still maintain English is now what Latin used to be a universal way of communicating. I find it very easy to communicate with foreigners that is my job. So we agree clarity is essential.
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acromel
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Thu, 07 Oct 04 09:53 PM
Hi Jason,
I'd agree with bunkadelic: RP and Estuary.
I'd also agree with the cited examples of Ms Paltrow and Zellweger. In addition, I was most impressed with the efforts of James Marsters (Spike in Buffy) who gave a very convincing example of an Estuary/South London accent. It was also a good to hear him get away with some delightful British profanities that slipped under the network's radar. Continuing in this vein, Anthony Head (Rupert Giles) illustrates the slightly overdone RP accent. Not as impressive a feat for him as he is British. And if you were ever tempted to try an Irish accent I'd recommend careful study of David Boreanez (Angel) so that you know what to avoid!
Most of the Bonds use RP - unless it's Sean Conery. An actor that manages to make Russian sound remarkably similar to Scottish.
Feel free to post some mp3/wav files of your efforts.
Good luck. :o)
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jason
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Sat, 16 Oct 04 12:05 AM
Interesting place to hear dialects (via paulmeier.com): "You can listen to hundreds of recordings of real-life dialect speakers on the IDEA website
( http://www.ukans.edu/~idea/index2.html.) These are provided at no charge in the interest of dialect research."
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Guest,
5 yr 17 days ago
I've heard about accents and honestly it is something that native speaker and no native speaker should really care about it( at least i do !) I'm English teacher and I live in brazil, and I've already had the chance to run into some British speakers, and they told me that I've got a gorgeous accents,also they said I speak like a British one, no one would know that I am Brazilian. Is that possible? I think so. I've been researching a lot about that.
Back to the question, I'd rather the BBC accent, it is so smooth and charming, it is not so upper class, but it gives us the impression that we had good background in the past. I love it. I can't deny that. Give me opinions!!!!!!!!!
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fireblonde
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Sat, 06 Nov 04 01:42 AM
It would be rather silly to think that there is one scottish accent, they are all very, very different...people dont actually talk like rab c nesbitt..!!
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Anonymous,
4 yr 91 days ago
well, as someone has already said- its hard to get things right on. But, I really do believe that I've mastered dialects pretty well. And, seeing as I live in the South (of the USA, so everyone can get the picture in their head that I am one of those people who marries their cousins, has a father who sits on the porch in a rocking chair with a gun to scare off all of my boyfriends, and who always says 'ya'll' and things like that (though I hardly do or have any of these things, its just the stereo)), again, seeing as I live in the south and have to fight myself to speek normaly anyway, and that I have done so well, I think that you will be just fine. ^^ Good luck!
Anonymous,
2 yr 25 days ago
I agree that Standard British and Estuary are the most used these days--but the dialect you need to learn really depends on your purposes. An actor certainly needs to work on Cockney, just because there are so many productions of Christmas Carol that demand it every year. Learning something like a Yorkshire accent is certainly becoming more and more desirable these days. Beyond that, we start to get into other locales on the British Isles: some kind of Scottish, Welsh, and Irish variations (at least Dublin and Northern, if not also Galway with so many plays by McDonough).
I am whole-heartedly biased, but I suggest you check out www.accenthelp.com. Our collections are growing. The IDEA website mentioned earlier is a fabulous resource, too.
Anonymous,
1 yr 352 days ago
The results of americans or australians trying to do a cockney (east london) accent is always horriffic. It forced , too strong and sounds terrible. Its bareley recogniseable. Theres a chap in this australian soap my sister watches, I saw it and commented it was very progressive for them to have someone with a speech impeding handicap as a main character. I was rather bemused when I found out he was not deaf or a suffer of cerebral palsea, but supposedly a "British." Also, there is the fact that cockneys are a dying breed. London has changed so much in the past ten years, the price of an apartment in east london being a £million or so, the "common" folk are dissapearing. It is only the older folk who have the proper cockney acent anyway, the common kids speak in a radically different accent which is something between comedienne catherine tates fictional teenage girl "lauren cooper" and East Londons Grime Scenesters. Most standard phrases being "yeh get me?" and "trast mee" But yeah, the areas just full of 30yearold hipster media types.
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