How do you fake a chinese accent?
957920
Yeah, do that, and drop all the 't's and 's's , the 'th' sound into a 'd'... There are I think some more, but I have to think about it. E- mail, me, I might come up with more later. I've imigrated to Canada as a kid and moved back to Hong Kong at like 9 and came back this Summer, so I have the Canadian acccent, though I can fake a Chinese accent good.
257108
My company (www.AccentMaster.com) has a website which offers products and services for accent reduction.  We also have a free newsletter filled with tips and advice for acent reduction.
202206
i speak chinese. and i'd like to help-if i can. how and what do you want to learn?
1155818
You can audition by submitting a video (see below)\n\nThere is a karaoke bar on the strip (imperial palace) where people passing by can hear you.
681616
Yes, why would you want to change your accent? Foreign accents is a part of America! Anyways, you can try practicing daily, taking speech courses online, and being around people that speak the way you want to speak on a daily basis, as much as you can.
19703
The easiest way is to use a text to speech voice synthesizer software. The link I am providing gives you an example of what i am referring to.\n\nhttp://public.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php
466635
I don't have an answer but I'd like to share with you my experience of this.I recently worked at a local building society and a co worker of mine was Chinese.He told me he was called Ben but that it wasn't his real name,He'd changed his name to sound more 'westernized '.out of 'feminine curiosity' I asked him his real name,expecting something UN pronounceable............"LEE", was his reply !!!!!
122087
Go to google and type in "flash" or "chinese symbols" and it should pop up. Good luck!
587268
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.
338384
Most accents are caused by only a few sounds within a language that are hard to hear or pronounce after years of speaking something else.\n\nFirst, listen to American English as much as you can...radio, tv, movies, etc.\n\nSecond, tape record yourself speaking. Listen to each word you say, and identify the sounds that are giving you trouble. Make a list.\n\nThird, find out the tongue and lip positions for each sound (these can be different between languages, even though the sound is named the same).  For example, make sure that when you say a word with "th" in it, you are very rudely sticking out your tongue from between your teeth, touching your top teeth lightly (that's one most of my students have trouble with, so we spend some time being awfully silly and sticking our tongues out at each other).\n\nFourth, pick sounds, one at a time, and make lists of words with those sounds. Practice saying the words in the new way, slowly at first, and then picking up speed. Then tape record yourself saying them and listen for correct production.\n\nIt takes time, but it can greatly reduce your accent.
1069756
You don't.  Chinese isn't phonetic, each symbol IS the word.  While you COULD get something that sounded vaguely like it, it might well mean something you hate.  For example, my name was Kathryn.  I was given the name Kai Ling.  And I can't remember what it means, even.
343372
No, I think you can take Chinese
474437
You can try those tutorial tapes. When you say you can already read and write alot of characters, do you also mean to say that you understand them? If you can read them then surely you know how certain words sound like. You'll just have to learn sentance structure etc. Maybe get a friend or someone who knows chinese and see if they can help you out. Sometimes speaking a language with others will help improve your pronounciation and such. Good luck.
540423
take up a beginner's course.\nsing (as you learn) along to some pop chinese songs, with your limited mandarin.\nhonest.\nhave fun, & good luck :)
56069
Although there are many different American accents (Boston, Southern, Western, Broklyn, etc.) it almost seems like all professional radio announcers were raised in the same town (Radio City, USA?) and have no pronounced accents.  You can hear this if you drive cross-country and tune in local radio stations where the news announcers will sound different than the locals (say local ministers on Sunday morning).\n\nI would suggest using a tape recorder to record perhaps a US news broadcast then repeat what you hear into a tape recorder and compare your accent with the newsperson's accent.  Try different broadcasters.  Pretend you are in a play where you must act the part of the broadcaster and check for details.  It may be easy or difficult depending on how strong your own accent is and how good you are at mimicking others.  In the early days of radio the main actors in a radio play had to also do other voices such as a New York cop or an Irish washer woman, etc. to add "realism" to the play.  You can do the same.  Good luck.
404903
Watch Austrailian movies or get Austrailian friends, that's the best way to do it. If you're around the accent long enough you'll pick it up naturally...it's contagious.
1186967
It is possible to teach yourself, believe it or not. I started out with 'Modern Chinese: A Basic Course' by The Faculty of Peking University. It's put out by Dover and has a CD with native speakers, both male and female, to accompany the text. Quite old, so kind of 'communist', but describes the sound system in detail, gives you a good foundation for the grammar - the basic sentence patterns.\n\nAnd a nice book on the writing system: Teach Yourself Beginner's Chinese Script, put out by Teach Yourself Books.\n\nLater on, I found a very nice (and free!) course on the Internet. Here's the URL: www.hanyu.com.cn/en/default.asp\n\nThis will give you more modern vocabulary, how to use it in conversation.\n\nAlso if you want you can learn Chinese characters, they have very nice animations which slowly take you through each character, like an invisible hand drawing them for you so you know the order and direction of the strokes (every detail IS important - if you don't get it right and you learn with the wrong order or direction, it'll come back to haunt you when you are writing the characters fast and they just 'don't look Chinese'...).\n\nI believe they also have a Japanese and a Korean version of this site - don't have the URL for it handy.\n\nFinally, a nice dictionary for beginners: Oxford Starter Chinese Dictionary.\n\n祝你好运气！Zhu4 ni3 hao3 yun4 qi! Good luck!