You need to learn to speak from scratch, as if you were a child. That means you should start to learn the vowels and the consonants, then put them together to create phonemes, then connect them to form words, then learn to join words and say short

Am really struggling with my accent...English people can't really understand some words what am saying...So any body advice me how to change my accent? You might need an accent reduction course. Learn the sounds, learn how to connect words,

Welsh people speak English with a distinctive lilting accent that is often described as "sing-song". Hi, I had never heard of that expression, and it's just perfect! I've known some people from South Wales (Swansea and Cardiff,

I don't think it's called intonation. It's allophonic vowel length: vowel phonemes are realized as longer vowel allophones before voiced consonant phonemes in the coda of a syllable. This is found in all dialects of American English. Some American

Hi, Americans use different intonation for vowel sounds in one-syllable words, according to the final consonant (whether it is voiced or unvoiced). Examples: Bit - Bid (the vowel in "bid" sounds different, it is on two levels of intonation) niece

Wow, what a lot of nonesense. Is American English simply lazy English with disregard for the fundamentals of the language, or is it a valid simplification of an overly complex and irregular language? Huh? What are you talking about? I was

They do have very similar usage in spoken English in this area (dialect) of the United States. However, "weird" would be considered more familiar and less formal in my opinion. Further, they both tend to have a certain degree of

Yes; "dialect" relates to vocabulary, grammar, syntax, and accent. Accent relates partly to pronunciation, and partly to intonation. MrP

I agree with davkett. Suppose there's a wall to paint and a can of paint beside it. You wouldn't point to the wall and say "You have to paint it ". You might point to the wall and say "You have to paint that ". Similarly for the paint:

The monotonic quality of the standard (flat) American accent (my own) makes me long for the intonations and inflections of British (or Celtic) English. Much more amenable to dramatic or poetric expression. In the hands of the right speaker, music.