One thing I've heard (all?) British people do is say a long "O" like "eh-O", as in words like "no" spoken "neh-O." Australians always say long "O" with an "ah" or "ae" sound

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

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

Hello. I'm a student from Korea (South) trying to learn English based on received pronunciation. And it's kind of hard because everyone here tries to learn American English. Here goes the questions: 1. I reckon Americans often use

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.

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

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.

How is the generic Canadian(like from Vancouver, Toronto..) accent different from the generic US accent? I think the way Hayden Christensen speaks is very rythmic, could anyone comment on his accent so that I could try and learn that? Does it bug

I do not have any problem to speak my English in front of anybody, I believe specially British people are really bad to speak foreign languages properly (too many years listening to the tourists in Spain lol). Don´t care about that Krishna. What