Search results for 'tag:Speak english tag:American accents' matching tags 'Speak english' and 'American accents'

Re: American Accent Training!

Spidergirl — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 02:19:03 GMT

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

Re: listen to this awful American accent... and why?

GL2 — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:50:14 GMT

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.

Re: American Accent Training!

Anonymous — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 18:19:08 GMT

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 will teach you correctly from the beginning. I wanted to ask anyone there if they know any Good English Speaking Filipinos, because I am going to hire someone there in Talisay, Cebu Shortly. If anyone knows anyone who speaks as good as the Filipinos that works at the call center

Good Luck Everyone,

David Samson

Re: American Accent Training!

Anonymous — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 08:15:05 GMT

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 always learn to speak proper English, like wot I do ;-)

I'm interested in learning how to speak with American accent because i work as a telesales agent in an American Company and i receive many calls a day and although i understand americans perfectly well sometimes the customers have a hard time understanding my accent because they say is very strong and sounds like broken english according to them.

C ya

Re: I WANT AN AMERICAN ACCENT!

Gaia74 — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:00:03 GMT

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!

American accent

Jeffrey714 — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 17:14:20 GMT

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

Re: Can a L2-learner become a native speaker?

Marvin A. — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 21:25:00 GMT

Englishuser wrote:
What do you mean, Marvin?

Englishuser

Well, 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 had learned English with a British accent, I actually thought that she was a native speaker. Thus, in order to receive "native speaker status" (and by this I mean that people assume she is a native speaker of English.), she could get away with speaking less than perfect British English, whereas she would have to speak with an absolutely *perfect* North American English accent in order to be thought to be a native speaker here. Since learning a fairly good British accent is *much* easier than learning an absolutely flawless North American accent, foreigners from countries that are known to be able to learn to speak English with a fairly good accent, for example, Denmark and the Netherlands, might consider opting to learn the opposite accent from the country they are planning to visit. I have heard many non-native speakers who have learned English when they were older, who have had to my ears a native-sounding British accent, but very few who have had a native-sounding North American accent--there are always certain things that give it away.

I wonder if it's the same on the other side of the pond? Do you more often mistake foreigners who have a North American accent for native speakers, than foreigners who have an accent that is a closely approximated, but not quite British accent?

Re: British Accents

Ruttonjee — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 03:43:43 GMT

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 English because I want to learn new expressions used in Britain. By the way, are the expressions in the above websites also used in Britain? If yes, it is strange if I use them in conversation with British accents since I speak English with British accents instead of American accents.

simon

Re: accent reduction

Anonymous — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 14:48:38 GMT

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 more about the US than some americans (myself included). ask filipinos about the american states and they will tell you that washington is in seattle and is not the same place as washington d.c.

i can say that filipinos are native speakers of english too. you speak english in your country. it is in fact the lingua franca in your country. go down south and people will not understand you when you speak in taggalog. they will ask you to speak in english. i have studied a little about filipino history. taggalog being your national language was a desperate attempt of your government to create a national identity. there are just too many dialects in your country but you would speak with someone from another city or region in english or spanish. your grandparents speak spanish and/or english alongside their own dialect. your parents and you speak english alongside your own dialect.

i lived in cebu city and i know for a fact that cebu people don't recognize taggalog as a national language simply because it is not spoken there. other regions feel the same.

anyway, you may not speak english with an american accent nor a british accent but that is not important. what is important is that people understand you and you understand them too when you communicate with them.

english is english. it is but natural that there are so many variations of english the world over. count how many countries there are and you get the picture.

Re: What does English sound like?

benita — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 13:42:37 GMT

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 stern (no offence intended here).