In Dialects^x, Accents^x

Good luck trying to learn British accents - if you succeed you'll be one of a very few American actors who've managed it. The best recent example was Gwyneth Paltrow in Sliding Doors; not only was her accent flawless it was also very well-observed because although her character was quite a...

I'm an actor, I'm going to start learning some accents just so I have them in my bag of tricks. I was going to start with a single British one, then move on to other countries/accents, then just keep learning more. What would be a good general British one to start with? Is there a dialect...

Which play is it? Is it contemporary, set specifically in an Afro-Caribbean community, or what? I grew up in Brixton and agree with david. It is an incredibly mixed area, particularly famous for its West Indian/Jamaican/Black British community which makes up well over 50% of the population in...

Hello all! I'm an American actor who wants to speak in a British Accent, currently doing a play that is set in the London suburb of Brixton. I was wondering if anyone could give me any pointers on speaking in the type of dialect used in this area specifically, or in a British accent in general....

You are entitled to your opinion but most want to speak a language well before resorting to slang. English is used in many parts of the world and we all want to understand each other. That is what the forums are about. I would not say that speaking the language well is speaking the language...

There are many different British accents so it is quite possible for two British people to meet and barely understand each other. Some are notoriously difficult for 'outsiders' to understand. We also have a lot of dialect words used in different parts of the UK, which can also cause a blank...

Good post, jcp!!! just had to something, anyway, we'll just wait for someone to reply. And i got another thing with some accents in america: Since there r TONS of spanish speaking people in america, is/should the spanish accent be apart of america's dialects/accents? i heard somewhere (i...

In regard to the comment on Americans not having the variety or plethora of accents present in the UK, I have a mixed response. Part of me wants to be angry because that is a pretty ignorant statement, but another part wants to agree with you for some strange reason. I will start off by...

Neither one is more correct, although dictionaries of American English usually provide phonetic transcriptions of the so-called Standard American English (Eastern American English). In the Western dialect, the "au" sound does not exist as a separate sound. Wherever the Eastern dialect uses...

Hi I am an Englishwoman from London. There are numerous dialects here. The people in the South East of England speak properly i.e (it used to be called the Queen's English) so you can understand them, but there are so many different regions. In the north of England there are different accents...