I agree with you, Glasgow accents are horrible. I feel embarassed for us when Glasweigans are on the TV. Im from East Kilbride, its outside of Glasgow but my accent is more calm compared to the Glasgow accents. I was born in Glasgow, thank god I

Well, I assume that all British people know Standard English or the Queen's English as others call it. And what about the American varieties? I know there is a general American accent. But I heard there are also varieties of American English.

"You knew your brother did a bad thing, did you?" "You knew your brother did a bad thing, did you ?" Is the difference between those two an accent matter, or a pronunciation matter? Neither. The intonation is the key. You have

SillyMe wrote: There is no need to improve an accent. Sometimes some work on pronunciation is required, but no more than that. Everyone should just make sure that he could be understood and that is enough. I've seen a lot of people who thought

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

Ville_maddengurl wrote: i want to give American accent up and learn English accent to talk more intelligible...is it OK now, MrP ..? I'm sorry, VM, you're going to have to speak much more slowly. In fragments. Without verbs. And say

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

Hi nona the brit, You wrote: I guess non-British people would hear something a bit off with the cockney accent but not realise how awful that is either... What exactly is there that makes his Cockney sound awful? I think it would be

You should listen to his cockney, lol. The standard American doesn't sound awful to me but it still doesn't sound native either. I guess non-British people would hear something a bit off with the cockney accent but not realise how awful that is

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