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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://www.englishforums.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Cultural Anecdotes, Similarities &amp; Differences</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/CulturalAnecdotesSimilarities-Differences/Forum19.htm</link><description>All topics related to cultural interaction. Please register if you wish to post here.</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>XMOD (Build: 3614.32638)</generator><item><title>Re: Accents</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/Accents/kjhh/post.htm#52150</link><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 12:57:09 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:52150</guid><dc:creator>nona the brit</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/Accents/kjhh/post.htm#52150</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments19-52150.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>There have been a lot of posts on this topic recently in the other sections, take a look through what has already been said then if you have any specific questions, post those.  Briefly though,  You will need to pick an English accent a little more specifically, as there are many variations.  Listen to native speakers in films and on tv and note how their pronounciation differs from yours.  It will be quite hard to pick up an accurate English accent without proper training, perhaps you should aim at adding a bit of English 'flavour' to your speech. One of the most obvious differences I can think of is that the English will often drop the sound of 'r', usually at the end of words but sometimes elsewhere.   For example, the above...</description></item><item><title>Re: Accents</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/Accents/kjhh/post.htm#51880</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:57:09 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:51880</guid><dc:creator>bubblegum</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/Accents/kjhh/post.htm#51880</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments19-51880.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>help me please!!!</description></item><item><title>Accents</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/Accents/kjhh/post.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:57:09 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:51857</guid><dc:creator>bubblegum</dc:creator><slash:comments>2</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/Accents/kjhh/post.htm</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments19-51857.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>hi everybody, this is my first post so i am not sure how all this works, but i am in a anne of green gables and i am supposed to be british, the director says. so could somebody out there give me a basic tutorial on how to speak with a british accent??? thanks!!!</description></item></channel></rss>