Hi, all.... can anybody tell me how o learn american accent....plz provide me some good websites.... thanx?
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The best way to learn any accent or vocal imitation is to LISTEN - over and over and over again!  Get hold of as many recordings of American voices as possible and listen to them until you think you'll go crazy!  And then PRACTISE!!!  Repeat what's said and consider recording yourself and playing it back so you can really hear what you sound like and hear the areas that you need improvement in.  When you think you have some mastery of it, go out and practise with strangers - use it when you're out shopping etc.  Also... There are very different accents depending on various areas of America - what accent you need to learn will depend on what area you are pretending to be from!
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Hiya, I can recommend you a great site. It's http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish You'll find there a free course of Spanish for beginners. And if you put your speakers on you will be able to hear them pronounce words as well. It's a very good site. If you're interested in other languages as well, then go to www.bbc.co.uk/languages and choose a different language. Good luck with learning Spanish. That's one of the languages that I also would like to learn. As I find it cool.
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From your question and explanation, I can tell you that you have better english than half of the people who post questions on here. They make no sense, their grammar sucks and their spelling is horrible. If you want to improve your accent, well that only happens with practice. Speak as much as you can, and it will get better and better, but let me tell you that some foreigners keep their accents forever. Don't be discouraged though, accents are cute and can even be sexy :o)
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You want an american accent?  Well, which dialect?  It depends on what state you live in as to which accent you will hear.  I personally wouldn't bother copying an accent.
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you don't HAVE to move. that is one way. but you can just note the words you say with an accent and make a point to change the way you pronounce them. i come froma VERY country family and i'm not at all. its hard, but it works.
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You might want to try this website.  I'm trying to learn a little more Spanish so that I can use it.  It looks like a really good site.\n\nhttp://mylanguageexchange.com/Default.asp
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Since you are asking about British accents, you might really enjoy the article "Web Project shows developement of British regional accents" at:\nhttp://www.usatoday.com/tech/world/2004-02-11-brit-dialect-Web_x.htm\n\n\nFor a more complete treatment of the development of regional accents, Wikipedia has a good entry at:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_accents_of_English_speakers
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learn the language, that's what i did mein frauline. it also helps if you pronounce words in certain ways, ie. german would be cherman, the would be zee.\n\nlearning the language really is quite simple. would also help if you watched movies such as schlindler's list or monty python sketches where they do german accents.
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hi,\ni would advise buy dvds or cds from shops. because u never know what u r downloading. u can choose from a wide range if u go to a shop or a boookshop. i used to buy tapes and cds to learn french.\n\naccent can be improved by speaking and listening to people with your desired accent. if u talk to your freind who has a wierd accent, u might get his accent. watch news in tv, english progrrames are good. try speaking to yourself, or a trustworthy friend. i know how hard it is!
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I'm from Minnesota. I once went on a mission trip to St. Louis, and we were pretty much the only remotely northern youth group there. So we were the ones who had a funny accent XD (I distinctly remember this guy from Texas coming up to us, imploring us to "say 'Minnesota'!" Once we'd said it, he got all excited and was all like "DUDE! That totally just made my day!!"). And the pastor there once referred to one of my group leaders as "mah friend Kathy frum Minnesooooda" (imitating the famed Minnesota "O" sound). It was rather entertaining, I must say.\n\nI think there are drawbacks to that particular accent, though. First of all, when you're singing choral pieces you're supposed to have an open "O" sound, which, as a southerner, you naturally lack (no offense intended). I know of one conductor who was thoroughly frustrated with her choir because of this very thing. Also, sometimes it's a little difficult to understand when it's particularly heavy--though it's much more comprehensible than a heavy Scottish accent (sometimes it sounds like they're not even speaking English!). \n\nSo, in answer to your question, I do not have a southern accent, so I cannot be proud of it. But I think that that particular accent is a small part of America's charm.
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I just have to add..writte to him ( argentinian accent is really a nice accent!) I'm peruvian, but I think guys from argentina have the perfect accent for spanish , really.\nor you can try going to : www.friendsabroad.com there you can find someone who speaks spanish willing to teach you , have fun! :)
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I hate it when people put on a fake American accent. it sound like they trying too hard, or trying to be American. I can understand if they have lived there for a while, & start talking that way, but faking it, Oh no!!
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I completely agree with Eden that there are many accents in Britain, so it's difficult to say which British accent we are comparing to.  However, I think you could argue that the English spoken in certain regions of the Eastern United States, such as some Boston dialects, and the English spoken in the Southern United States have some important similarities to British dialects.
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When I lived in England, my friends mocked my American accent all the time.  It was all in good fun.  Now I work with two Brits; they mock our accents occasionally.  My "accent" is a kind of generic east coast one, leaning toward New York; some Brits I know can exactly duplicate it.  There are plenty of Brits who have traveled in the US, and they understand the regional differences.
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Loads of info here:\nhttp://linguistlist.org/ask-ling/accent.html
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Listen carefully to the type of accent you want to use (on tape or CD is probably best, as you can listen to parts as often as you need to), and practise. Try shorter sentences with different vowel types, as that's the main part of speech affected by accent, then build up to longer sentences. When you're more confident with these aspects, try working on speech inflections and the overall rising and falling pitch patterns and rhythms when you're more confident. Think of it as music, and listen to it as carefully as you would to your favourite CD.
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wow someone just said American accents are sexy?  Which ones?  I live here and can't say the same thing\n\nThere are about 12 in the Northeast I find them all annoying.\nThe South sounds like two steps shy of cocky, Mobile Rural/Alabama talks through their nose.  I might see The Texan accent attractive, mostly because its so free spirit....but I swear if I hear "that boy ain't right" one more time...I will lose it.Midwest all talk like cheesehead Fargo children, and the California/Washington Pacific Coast are accentless part of their charm.  I have yet to ever hear an Alaskan accent.\n\nSo which ones are sexy?