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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 don t flap d sound as much as...

Nona The Brit wrote slum prudery Interesting turn of phrase It s from My Fair Lady Nona The Brit wrote I think it is pretty true that a lot of British people don t consider us as part of Europe in quite the same way as other Europeans Politically yes I think the British people scared to embrace...

slum prudery Interesting turn of phrase I think it is pretty true that a lot of British people don t consider us as part of Europe in quite the same way as other Europeans Politically yes But geographically no We are happy to talk about going to Europe I m sure it seems peverse to outsiders but...

Hi everyone this thread is cool Yeah it s cool because I was just thinking of that updating and I thought it would be funny Americans receive updates from England Grammar Geek is at her computer and sees a pop up Your database is pretty old your vocabulary may not be up to date Oh my she says and...

Nona The Brit wrote Less than 5 of British people speak RP Stephen Fry for one Jeeves

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

Hi Kooyeen then American English should sound very natural to British people Yes it does British people can understand mainstream American English very well I guess there s less British English in the US than American English in the UK nevertheless it seems that British English sounds natural too...

This is interesting Anyway we haven t get an opinion from a British English speaker yet But if I get it right when Americans watch British movies they watch them in British English that is they watch the original movies as thet were made And British people watch American movies in American...

No I ve never heard of a movie being dubbed into another dialect That would seem rather ludicrous to me Ok so I ve always wanted to use the word ludicrous You have to remember that North Americans usually understand most dialects of British English just fine RP and General American defined here...

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 British...