That what I call a "British accent that doesn't sound awful, affected, formal", so an accent that I like. Good choice! The good thing I noticed right away was his glottal stops instead of T's. And T's are not pronounced at

I've heard British singers who tap their t's, pronounce the o's in "not, god, etc." like the "a" in "car", ect. Is that because they want to imitate an American Accent, then? Robbie Williams sings that way, he's British, so what kind of British

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

For the most part I agree. When a person here speaks in a Boston accent (for example) I would not consider their speech wrong unless they were trying to speak with something other than a Boston accent. Two of my favorite examples of accent

Anonymous wrote: Hi guys, I have been living in London since January 2003. Hoping that I would have got rid of my strong and terrible Italian accent after 2 years, I have now lost all my hopes.Could you suggest me any diction courses or

I'm a native of Brooklyn who is currently in California. I've been told that I have an educated, sort of upper-class Roosevelt-esque accent. But my vowel in "hot" is very open, broad, and hard-sounding as opposed to slightly closed upper-class

No offense Trevor, but your post comes off a bit insular, isolationist and ignorant. Why the heck would an American's inability to distinguish between British and Australian accents mean they have a different idea of what constitutes an accent? If

If you tell me the name of the program, I can tell you how PROnounce is different. Almost all the major language learning PC software titles use template-based pronunciation analysis. Such systems often score people worse for missing the exact

On 21-Aug-2004, Mxsmanic (Email Removed) wrote in message (Email Removed): ?? Every description I've ever read of French pronunciation for ... /d/ and /n/ are dental, unlike their alveolar English counterparts. These consonants are more

I think that the British people sound somewhat "American" when singing because when they speak, their consonants are much more harder than in the American accent(s) but when singing you just have to somewhat soften the consonants... I'm neither