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I'm Egyptian and very interested in English I'm only 16 years and aim to speak English better than Americans. A very praiseworthy aim! However, you should remember that all native speakers of English speak it perfectly and you cannot improve on perfection. I expect you mean that you are looking...

KYsheeplover06 wrote:Has anyone else ever noticed that if someone speaks with a Southern American accent, people automatically think they're not as intelligent as they'd normally think. I know it's true in some places, because I speak with a thick southern accent, and it's almost as if some...

Sorry for disturbing u all here: I'd like to know why are u so interestend in American accent? I mean: we 're talking in English. Isn't English native language of Great Britain's people? And if so, is it right to say that real English is British English? Here in Italy, people from south speak a...

My goodness, thank you so much for speaking up for our American accents, YoungCalifornian. I have never met an American ignorant about accents from other countries, nor one that could not tell the difference between a New Zealander and Australian. On the other hand, I have never met a Brit who...

No offense Trevor, but your post comes off a bit insular, isolationist and ignorant. Why the heck would an American's inability to distinguish between British and Australian accents mean they have a different idea of what constitutes an accent? If anything, that should suggest that American's...

In answer to the original question: LOL I think there are heaps of English bands that don't sound American. All of Britpop for a start! And I'm a kiwi and I can only sorta tell the difference between some American accents(all though i can pick out the different British ones thanks to watching...