By Paragraphs, British accent

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....

You bring up so many points in your message Colombo. The grammatical points I will leave for someone else to answer since I am not very hot on grammar as you will see from my spat with the Gurus some time ago. I am quite good at conversation though and would like to hold a discussion with...

Felt I had to jump in here with my 2c. worth...... I am British, I was educated at an expensive school in Cheltenham in Gloucestershire so I tend to speak that way. Although I have lived in The States for almost 20 years, most of it in The Deep South, I am married to an Englishman and have lost...