Hi Everyone,

I am learning english. But i want to speak english with american accent. Do you know about "free american accent learn" web site ?

you can watch any american movie and adapt the accent easily. But if you ask me i think the british accent is much clearer.

I don´t know if I´d agree with that. I guess it depends on what you´re used to. When I went to the UK I had serious problems understanding the people, even on TV. Which is odd, I have no problem understanding the actors in British movies.  To me the American pronounciation seems more crisp, unless you speak to somebody from the South or somebody speaking "ebonics". I used to love the British accent, I still do in many ways, although it increasingly sounds to me as if the person speaking had a few spoonfulls of mashed potatoes in his or her mouth .

Yes thats right. But i don´t understand british accent. I understand american accent. Hence i want to learn american accent. Where am i find web site about that?

I have no problems with British accent but  am more comfortable with American accent when listening.

I think if you go to Google and search for "american accent training" you´ll find many resources.

And I agree with previous suggestion too, watching movies and imitating people who use it would probably help as well.

Unfortunately apparantly I don´t need no training  - Though I´m British I sometimes sound American apparantly and not-one of my friends/family has trouble pointing that out

I have to agree that sometimes American accent is easier to listen to, mainly because when I speak with my "american accent" many of my foreign friends say it´s easier for them to understand me than most people they know that are British.

As for American accent training here is a site that looks very good, I only looked at it briefly but it seems to cover alot.

http://www.americanaccent.com/

P.S. I didn´t look to see what type of American accent training it gives out as Americans have more than on accent, southern accent which is more on the high pitched level where as New York is on the Lower Pitched level.

off topic my dear, and if not, I might as well add the latest news about Obama:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=5&article_id=98991

 Oh welcome back Kai!!    - how did we manage without you!! 

 How is she off topic though Ros?  The thread is called ´American Accent´ 

Meaning waht LIR? just trying to be helpful!

You can find great free resources in the form of podcasts. If you don´t have iTunes on your computer, you can download it for free here:

http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

Under podcasts you should be able to find multiple ones for learning English, a lot of them free of charge. For example, one that caught my attention was called American English Pronounciation Podcast from Seattle Learning Company.

No offence to any brits, because I do love your accent very much, but I find it difficult to understand at times.  Not on TV, or in movies, but in person.  And English is my first language. But it does sound lovely!!!

I would second (or third) the recomendation to watch American movies and try to immitate that accent.  I mean, I can feign accents within English well enough, but I couldn´t really describe to someone how to speak American.  Just listen and immitate, I suppose. Best of luck to you!

Your first language is English and you find it difficult to understand at times?

No offense to Scots. But how about Scottish accent? That should be more difficult then.

I heard that sometimes British movies are dubbed in USA to help the viewer understand the [script] better.

 Because of the strong regional accents and regional variations on the English, some British people are very difficult to understand.  I come for Norfolk but dont have a strong accent, but I find it hard to understand someone from the North (Geordie) or someone from Glasgow.  Most others I am OK with.  Some accents I can´t stand, Liverpudlian (from Liverpool) and a strong Essex accent.

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