To all of you who want a British accent:  Although I've mentioned on this website that I've made a website of poems, with my clear English voice recording attached to them, and although since last year almost 24000 people have visited it from across the world, I have never heard from anyone in English Forums that they have found it useful.  Poems are fun, the language is varied, they are short enough to do one poem, listening to the words, checking meanings, noting spellings, reading it through copying my voice etc in only half an hour thoroughly.  A good idea then is to learn them and recite them.  Our children in Britain learn our language through poetry.  My three year old daughter, Jessica, knows lots of rhymes.  They are fun.  When you look at words such as:  cough/through/bough/though/enough etc - are you aware that there is no word which has the same vowel sound here?  Our spellings are notorious.  When you realize that rhyme an time; blue/too/through/few all sound alike, with the same vowel sound, you will then realize how much rhyming poetry can help with English.  This is a free website, you don't even have to buy a book, and between my husband and myself it has taken 2 years of hard work to make so that students such as yourself, and our own children in England can get help with spelling and pronunciation.  Write Josie' Poems on Google and you'll go straight to it.  Please let teachers andothers know of all this material.  I think, at the latest count, there are about 350 poems - some of them still waiting to go on.  I do hope your accents improve, not to mention your spellings too, and that you write and tell me you have had lots and lots of fun, for many of the poems are fun poems.  Josie

You have to be British to be in Harry Potter.  J.K. Rowling (the author) told the film makers to only let British people in the movies.  That's why everyone is British.  Sorry.

Abbie1948 wrote:

Or you could write to the producers and tell them that Hogwarts must surely have some non-English students!!! Maybe you could be on an exchange visit to the school.

The movies are based on the books and they can't do that.  They're not able to do anything like that.  They have to follow the books.

LanguageLover wrote:

I liked the idea Abbie. I do not remember the name of the young actor in the AI, The Sixth Scense, Bogus, Pay it Forward, Halley something! I love his acting, he's really someone special, with special talents. He was supposed to play Hary Potter when Spilberg was due to direct the series. Though I admire him, but I can't imagine an American speaking Hary, Can you?

Um, he was never going to direct Harry Potter, and Haley Joel Osment was never going to play Harry Potter!