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Geek Culture / How to do a British accent?

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Eminent
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I have to learn one for Drama so I've been trying to learn to do one. Most of the videos on Youtube teaches you the stereotypical posh accent that sounds fake as hell. I know lots of you guys here are British so I was wondering if you guys know any tips for speaking with a British accent. Or if you notice things in the way you speak that could help me.


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Well there isn't really a British accent because there are just too many dialects around. When people think of an English accent they generally have cockney (London) in mind. That would be the best accent to research and practise.
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Cockney? Why practice to talk like a southerner when you can talk like a Northerner . Look up "Scouse" on youtube.

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Basically, theres an accent for nearly each city in england =p

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I've heard that if you have a severe head injury, in rare cases the injured party finds themselves involuntarily speaking in a foreign accent. I saw it on House once, so it must be true.

I would recommend balancing a sledgehammer on top of your bedroom door before you go to bed. You'll forget about it by morning.

Hope that helps.

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i like british accents sometimes i find myself trying to talk with a british accent but since i already have a russian accent, my british accent sucks

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There's probably 20 distinct variations in accent across the whole of Britain. You'd be better off checking a few British actors, and see which voice your best at imitating, then practice that. It's easiest to mimic accents closest to your own - what sort of accent do you have already?

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Quote: "i like british accents sometimes i find myself trying to talk with a british accent but since i already have a russian accent, my british accent sucks"

I dont know which i love more, english or russian accent? XD


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yeah by my russain accent sounds retarted

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You pick up accents better if you actually converse with dudes with accents. Maybe you can find a ventrillo server somewhere where some brits would be willing to talk to you.

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only 20 vanb? there is a different accent every 10 miles!

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David R
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Quote: "I saw it on House once, so it must be true. "


The weird thing is, it actually is true - there was a woman on BBC news a few months back who had it. It's actually called 'foreign accent syndrome' (no joke)

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Quote: "only 20 vanb? there is a different accent every 10 miles!"

Yeah I can tell pretty much what town someone is from by their accent.
It actually bothers me if I can't tell where someone is from by their voice lol.


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Yeah, but people looking for British accents aren't interested in absolutely every different accent. In Scotland for instance you'd have Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dundee, Glasgow, and highlander as the main ones - anything more than that is only of interest to people from Scotland. I said Distinctive, so I mean only accents that someone might actually want to mimic, nobody cares if people from Newquay sound a bit different than people from Cornwall, it's a cornish accent and that's it .

I'm sticking to my guns, about 20 distinct accents across Blighty - accents that most people would recognise, most people in Britain, not your home county.

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I'd like to try a Cockney accent. My accent is Canadian, since I've only been here almost all my life.


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oh dear, be careful with that accent

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You could try mimicking David Bellamy.
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