By American English, British people

Nona The Brit wrote: Less than 5% of British people speak RP. Stephen Fry, for one ("Jeeves").

This is a bit of a myth. There was never a single British accent for American to be 'nearer' to. The short a sound still features in a lot of English accents. Less than 5% of British people speak RP.

Thank you for your advices and helping me to fix my mistakes MrP... MrPedantic wrote: And say "er" and "um" and "right?" a lot. And 'er' ,'um' ,stuff (i think i should not use stuff to be kind...)... Why are they important for British people? Thank you again...

Ville_maddengurl wrote:i want to give American accent up and learn English accent to talk more intelligible...is it OK now, MrP ..? I'm sorry, VM, you're going to have to speak much more slowly. In fragments. Without verbs. And say "er" and "um" and "right?" a lot. And add quite a few...

Hi Kooyeen, then American English should sound very natural to British people Yes, it does. British people can understand mainstream American English very well. I guess there's less British English in the US than American English in the UK, nevertheless it seems that British English sounds...

This is interesting. Anyway, we haven't get an opinion from a British English speaker yet. But if I get it right, when Americans watch British movies, they watch them in British English (that is, they watch the original movies, as thet were made). And British people watch American movies in...

No, I've never heard of a movie being dubbed into another dialect. That would seem rather ludicrous to me. (Ok, so I've always wanted to use the word ludicrous.) You have to remember that North Americans usually understand most dialects of British English just fine. RP and General American...

To tell you the truth, I've never heard any foreigner (unless they learned English when they were very young, or had lived in an English speaking country for at least a decade, and had extensive, and personalized accent coaching) ever be able to pull off either an American or British accent....

As we're talking 'Linguistic Imperialism', I thought this might be relevant to the discussion... It's an excerpt from something I wrote a few years ago regarding the British Council and its role in ELT... “A knowledge of English gives rise in its turn to a desire to read English books, talk to...

Hi Anon, You wrote: My Oxford dictionary says that WANNA is american english word (or contraction), GONNA also is AmEn, but AIN`T isn`t. Which Oxford dictionary are we talking about? There are dozens of them. 'Wanna' is found in the British National Corpus. I wouldn't go as far as to say that...