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Well you guys are raising a very good point there, I can tell that having an accent does attrack people because they find you more interesting than, well accent-free persons. Yet there are two sides to this. On the one hand people find you "interesting" but on the other hand people tend to not...

Yes. I live in California, U.S. of A. I am a native speaker of American English. I'm also familiar with British English but I do not speak with a British accent! The accent and some of the vocabulary and expressions (especially slang) are about the only things different between the two.

A great site that will surely help you improve your American accent is www.englishbaby.com. Click in its Student Community for a different lesson each working day in these topics: Music, Eavesdropping, Movies, Slang and Real Life. Lessons are packed with slang and colloquial words and expressions...

Hi iverness, the site you linked to deals actually with foreign-language-accents. What I was talking about is rather special dialects, regional variants of a language within the language. Standard German is more or less a constructed language which is based on some middle-east German accents,...

They do speak German, yes - I was just referring to his nationality and I hope you don't see him as a philosopher. He might have impressed people while he was holding speeches, but: His speeches were simply built and structured, the reason why they were such engrossing was because he held them...

CHAPTER TWELVE, To Twist the Truth for Pride “Attention! Will the captains of the two crafts please slow their ships to a halt? Any attempts at escaping will not be overlooked.” Zack glanced out of the window. A massive Republican Penultimate-Class Warship loomed two kilometers away from them....