By Speak english, American accents

Hi Eric, can you give me the Details of that book? I am a Filipino and i just moved here in the USA 9 months ago. Though i speak english fluently my accent keeps me from getting the job i wanted. Thank you so much

He sounds like a foreigner who learned to speak English in the US. He's not bad at all, but he couldn't pass himself off as a native of the US to someone else who is.

Hey Everyone, My Name is David Samson, I am going to Cebu here shortly, My wife is from there. I just wanted to say that there is no way to learn to speak English from a book. The best way is to listen to either someone speaking or a tape and mimic. A speech therapist would be best because they...

Doodles wrote:I don't see why anyone would want to speak with an American accent, unless you were from America. Why not speak English in your own accent? I suppose it comes down to the nationality of the person or people you were taught by, and their influence on the student. You could...

How fantastic! I have to try it immediately. One question: you have said me that the accent in Boston is very difficult ... what do you mean? I'm going to stay two days in boston and my friend doesn't speak english at all ... I'm a bit afraid! How do you pronunce " driver's licence"? Bye!

got suck at learning american accent cuz some vowel are difficult to pronounce........ need help here!anyone who's speak english in american accent plx give me some advice One more question,Do americans speak a little bit faster? Thanks

Englishuser wrote:What do you mean, Marvin? EnglishuserWell, in some ways, learning a different variety of English could be a good idea. If the lady I had met had learned English with a North American accent, I would most likely have realized that she was not a native speaker. But because she...

Hi there, I am a non-native English learner. I often visit Randall's ESL Listening Cyber Lab http://www.esl-lab.com/ to practise listening and speaking skills. I find this website very useful in learning to new American English expressions. Can you suggest any similar websites but in British...

hello cheesecake. i am american. i have lived in the philippines before and i can say that there is no other place in asia that is so americanized like the philippines. i didn't feel like i was away from the US when i lived there. filipinos speak with a very north american accent. they even know...

Hi Nona. We speak English at home even though our mother tongue is an Indian language. So frankly, I cannot remember the time when English, as a language, was new to me. Among the accents, I have always had an affinity for the American accent. The British accent comes across as very rigid and...