Help! I want to learn British accent!
Hi everyone!
I'm a girl student from Beijing doing Translation in Beijing International Studies University. I'm going to Swansea University(Wales, Great Britain)to complete my current study in the coming September. I'm interseted in history, politics,culture, fashion, entertainment and of course, languages!
My American English sounds ok but since I'm going to Great Britain, I would like to meet people from Great Britain to teach me British accent and I'll teach you Mandarin in return.
I used to be a part-time tutor teaching Chinese to Korean and Japanese sudents.
If you are serious in learning or just interested in Chinese culture, please contact me by msn. British are most welcome!
My msn: fayeshan@live.cn




wave
Re: Help! I want to learn British accent!
Before I offer my services you must answer this question.
Do you spit or swallow?
Sometimes the same is different, but mostly, it's the same.
Jamie Shorter 13
Re: Help! I want to learn British accent!
She wants to improve her oral skills Wave.
Of course she spits.
taoqibao
Re: Help! I want to learn British accent!
fairy777, you sure about that?
I mean, you do realize you'll be sounding like a fag, don't you?
"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
- VP
Jamie Shorter 13
Re: Help! I want to learn British accent!
Haha, she wants to sound like a fairy, just like Count Zero does.
wave
Re: Help! I want to learn British accent!
I think you should watch Snatch a few times and you will be fine. If you can understand what they are saying you will have no problems once you arrive in GB.
Godspeed
Sometimes the same is different, but mostly, it's the same.
wave
Re: Help! I want to learn British accent!
See.
Religion and drugs go together just fine.
I said so myself.
Sometimes the same is different, but mostly, it's the same.
Herbz
Re: Help! I want to learn British accent!
There's nothing more fake than someone putting on a perceived accent and it makes the speaker look fake as a person.
Be yourself
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taoqibao
Re: Help! I want to learn British accent!
Or Sexy Beast.
Or Nil by Mouth.
Working class English, now that's fun to listen to.
Anything but Hugh Grant's snooty Oxford/Cambridge sh*t.
"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
- VP
fairy777
Re: Help! I want to learn British accent!
Last summer when I visited the US, some American even didn't reconize I'm foreign because I sound soooooo American. But when I was in England, people didn't buy it and a BA flight attendant was even trying to correct my accent! T_T.....
I don't care sounding like a f** or whatever. Learning an accent can be fun especially going back to the oringin of the language.I do watch tons of british series or films and can understand most of the lines but listening alone doesn't work. I should try to converse with someone as well I presume.
taoqibao
Re: Help! I want to learn British accent!
Try Herbie, he'll teach you British accent, and if you're lucky you'll also hear all about Alex Jones and the New World Order.
"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
- VP
fairy777
Re: Help! I want to learn British accent!
Thank you all!
kiwuk
Re: Help! I want to learn British accent!
Herbie has the best advice, an assumed fake accent is not cool. Be yourself.
However you could profit from some practice in English idiom which is not as direct or crude as American, plus a few words have quite different meanings.
eg.
f a g
f a g g o t
fanny
knock up
Just to mention a few.
Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me: the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent anything that tends to laughter, more than I invent or is invented on me.
wefrucar
Re: Help! I want to learn British accent!
I was under the impression that american accents were preferred most places (where english is not the primary language, in which case it's ugly and bland)
You'll probably pick up some form of a british accent simply by living there. Why do you need to start faking it beforehand? No one there will care if your accent is Chinese, American or Chinese-British. They will be annoyed if it sounds like you're trying to force a british accent, though.
Sometimes I feel it is maybe unbearable always be traditional Chinese girl.
Monkey King
Re: Help! I want to learn British accent!
To be fair, it's only British men that sound gay. I think fairy777 is a woman; for them a British accent is kind of pleasant.
Happy New Year 2Bi! I hereby grant you early release for a month of good behavior.
Don't violate your parole though, naughty naughty!
alex the droog
Re: Help! I want to learn British accent!
Actually, I think you'll find that the American accent is way gayer.
All that stretching of vowels.
'Oooooh, thaaaaaaat is, liiiiiiiiiike, soooooooooo cooooooooool, duuuuuuuuuuuude'.
f-ing benders.
Go walk around any council estate in Manchester telling men they sound gay.
There is no such thing as the 'British accent' anyway. I think youy're just thinking of the Hugh Grant type thing. Which probably 1% of people speak like.
Don't try to sound British. It's patronising and unnatural. People will think you're taking the piss.
taoqibao
Re: Help! I want to learn British accent!
"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
- VP
Monkey King
Re: Help! I want to learn British accent!
Everyone who spoke in that clip must be in that gay 1%.
Happy New Year 2Bi! I hereby grant you early release for a month of good behavior.
Don't violate your parole though, naughty naughty!
Jamie Shorter 13
Re: Help! I want to learn British accent!
Mikey is gay. It is a fact.
TheIncredibleEgg
Re: Help! I want to learn British accent!
Hello!
I'm American and i'm moving to UK in 6 months.
Can anyone teach me a British accent?
TheIncredibleEgg
Re: Help! I want to learn British accent!
Jamie Shorter 13
Re: Help! I want to learn British accent!
lesson 1 - Common English expressions:
Eh yup?
Whatcha?
Auurright?
Slapper.
Know what I mean?
Herbz
Re: Help! I want to learn British accent!
We don't have an accent, you do! If a Chinese person learns English and says all the letters correctly, they sound......English.
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