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

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.

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

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

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

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

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