Ville_maddengurl wrote: i want to give American accent up and learn English accent to talk more intelligible...is it OK now, MrP ..? I'm sorry, VM, you're going to have to speak much more slowly. In fragments. Without verbs. And say

Hello Mike in Japan- Arguments claiming American English to be a “dumbed down” or “lazy” version of British English are based on the erroneous premise that American English is a perversion of British English. Any real linguist will tell you