By British accent, Consonants

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 the end of a word either. The other consonants are...

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 accent does he have?All singers sort of lose their...

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: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 whatsoever to pick up the pure British accent. I know...

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 one. I am not fond of the mainstream American...

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 anything, that should suggest that American's...

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 British nor American so I can be telling rubbish....

A very interesting question. I am an American, and when I took some private singing lessons several years ago, the instructor made me alter my pronunciation when singing, explaining that the pronunciation used when we talk is distracting in music and is often difficult to understand. The way he...