Amazon.com 'Acting with an accent - british received pronunciation' (about 30 dollars) with a CD by David Alan Stern - the best course ever but if you think it is going to be easy - I am telling you it is not ;)) warning: he teaches the

That doesn't mean you have to post 18 times. You shuda combined them into a single post. Since we're preaching up proper English here, please, don't post "kind-of-chat" language here. I don't belong to the set

AJ Hoge's "effortless english" is a waste of money. I made the mistake of buying it for a friend who doesn't speak much English and she doesn't even use it. I don't blame her because it takes a lot of effort to learn with

Hi Ivan I can't say whether or not your first sentence is accurate, though I imagine there are linguists who think that way. It's hard to agree or disagree with your use (twice) of the word "many", since that word is fairly

Many linguists consider accent to be the indicative of someone's nativeness. I mean people who live in Scotland are certainly natives but they speak with a distinct accent which is hard to understand even by many native speakers. On the other

hi, this is rehan from bangalore. i work as a trainer, i teach uk accent for a call centre. wht do u do.

Also, be careful that you don't try to mimic their accents, but you pay attention to word choice. For example, if someone wrote down a transcript of a stand-up routine by Bill Engvall, and compared it to a stand-up routine by Dave Chapelle,

I struggle with giving each of my characters a unique voice and while I realize there are books and articles covering this, I don't feel like my characters have a great voice. Can anyone offer any tips or insights? It's very easy to become

I actually disagree with you on that issue. I think tongue position is actually very vital, because it facilitates smooth, fluent motion of the tongue in your mouth, Well, that's actually true. What I was saying was I would avoid spending too

I only know there's this website. It's supposed to be for American English though. http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/english/frameset.html Anyway, as long as you don't put your tongue in a completely different place (and