By British accent, Jokes

My friend Gogi Shevchebadze (he is Georgian) talks me that he's speaking English as good as American. He is a lamer and he talks me that then he taked gashish. It is not a joke!

>> No actually I wouldn't say she speaks very clearly. Some of the extreme RP pronounciation is quite odd. It is so clipped that some words are hard to understand. If you think it is beautiful, that's fine. But this accent is the butt of many jokes. It is an extreme upper...

Nona The Brit wrote:No, USA natives don't learn British English and British natives don't learn American English. Only if you are an actor or you are messing about with an accent for a joke or something - and I have to say that 95% of American attempts at British accents are appalling! I'm...

Tallulah Tam wrote:I feel that Alan Jay Lerner was not so concerned about his own grammar when he wrote the song, he insults the intelligence of the audience by using the word "hung" incorrectly, especially when putting the words into the mouth of Professor Higgins who as I said, should, and...

I've got a proplem and that's why I feel depressed.It started when I was in kindergarten during which my love for English started.My teachers taught me using the British accent and I think that now (23 yars old) I'm good at English.I even took a cource in the British Council here in Saudi Arabia....

yeah water is one of the more difficult words to say with an american accent because the brits say it as "war ter" the americans... i think its "wha tuh" there arent many british sounds like that, its like the russians they use lots of sounds that just dont exist in english as do the chinese...

A couple of points. 1) I have a suggestion as to the reason why people from the u.s. think they have an enormous variety of accents, but no-one else does. This could be due to the typical u.s. insular, isolationist attitude which means they are often ignorant of the outside world in a number...

Dear CalifJim, Thanks for the comment. Casi and some of the friends here reminded us that of some communities that would learn the British accent easier than the American. Actually, it depends on their first language to feel more comfortable with one of these, rather than the other. For example,...

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That's too close to the truth Woody. Sometimes I hear a slightly Aussie accent reflected in the speech of my students, especially the strong Aussie AY sound ... pay may, day etc. I don't worry too much about this though because it is usually a sound that most Japanese have difficulty making. I...