By British people, Accents

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 ended after a while but for some time I had to...

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 'flapped d', but it seems that British people...

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. So, are those varieties great when compared to the...

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 cut off you 'h's. Hello becomes...

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 you that some people keep saying "like" in every...

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 is true is that as an spaniard I am not able to...

"You knew your brother did a bad thing, did you?" "You knew your brother did a bad thing, did you?" Is the difference between those two an accent matter, or a pronunciation matter? Neither. The intonation is the key. You have used an intonation stress to emphasise those...

SillyMe wrote:There is no need to improve an accent. Sometimes some work on pronunciation is required, but no more than that. Everyone should just make sure that he could be understood and that is enough. I've seen a lot of people who thought they were fluent in the language enough to imitate a...

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 - there are some super-talented actors who...