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I didn't necissarily switch accents... But I spent about two years in London for work and in about the first three weeks I started having difficulty pronouncing words. I'd trip over my tongue often and started chopping off syllables. It ended after a while but for some time I had to...

There are many different British accents, but if your American and doing the show in America, then the easiest thing to is talk to you director and find out how the accent should sound. Tipically, you can (for low class 1790s British citizens) is cut off you 'h's. Hello becomes...

You have to be British to be in Harry Potter. J.K. Rowling (the author) told the film makers to only let British people in the movies. That's why everyone is British. Sorry.

Not wishing to offend, but there's little more cringingly funny than someone who thinks they're speaking with a perfect upper-class British accent - unless it's someone who thinks they're speaking with a credible cockney accent. Don't get me wrong - there are some super-talented actors who...

Not wishing to offend, but there's little more cringingly funny than someone who thinks they're speaking with a perfect upper-class British accent - unless it's someone who thinks they're speaking with a credible cockney accent. Don't get me wrong - there are some super-talented actors who can...

hi harish this is sharon from kerala i read your mail i understand your problem while speak with british people..if u were in kerala i could have heleped u a lot cause i ve got a teacher who was trained by british teachers..take some movie dvds and watch with the help script..u should watch part...

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.

RP, or what is know to foreigners as "British English", sounds just fine to North Americans. Whereas we can have problems understanding some of the regional accents in Great Britain, we have no trouble understanding RP. In fact, the only *noticeable* differences is that they leave out their r's...

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....

Anonymous wrote the following post at 20-01-2006 11:03 PM: It is incredibly idiotic to critisize the US for not having as many different accents as the UK. The US has a lot of accents considering all the factors. Accents don't develop overnight. Colonists didn't start settling here until the...