Is it easy to fake an American accent?

[Brownie]

Southern ain't that tough - it's the slang that will get you.

Regional accents (Minnesota, Chicago, Boston) - them's tough.

The American problem with trying to pull off a British accent is we try to get all stuffy and it doesn't work. One thing I have noticed - Brits are generally very well spoken. No ums or "like". Americans are generally very poorly spoken.

Not going to even give LCAB-speak a try. The man is so brilliant he's created his own tongue.

Generally Americans try to do a southern 'British' (English really but whatever) accent, not realising that anyone that's not on the south coast or in the south east pronounces most words exactly the same as you lot do.

 

[Matt Damon]

Southern ain't that tough - it's the slang that will get you.

Regional accents (Minnesota, Chicago, Boston) - them's tough.

The American problem with trying to pull off a British accent is we try to get all stuffy and it doesn't work. One thing I have noticed - Brits are generally very well spoken. No ums or "like". Americans are generally very poorly spoken.

Not going to even give LCAB-speak a try. The man is so brilliant he's created his own tongue.

Its abit like regional English accents though. I can do Brumie or Geordie, but Scotch and Welsh comes and goes

Yorkshire, Cockney or "BBC English" isn't great at all.

If I tried an American accent I'd just sound silly. Australian is way over the top exaggerated but can pull it off pretty well.

I find Cockney/southern/Essex the worst sound ever created by man, think finger nails down blackboard.


I don't know what it is but some people naturally can do accents better. I don't fit in that category.

The alter ego Jason Bourne could do any language any accent. Tony Hibbert can speak Wool too!



Asking British to determine regions that American accents come from - demz is tough!!! Its because they're not common here. That is all.


LCAB talk is understandable, when you realise he writes literally how he pronounces .....

 

[ChicagoToffee]

Sadly, I'd say most Americans are totally ignorant of regional British accents. We presume all Brits to sound a bit like Michael Caine or Hugh Grant which is rightfully pathetic.

Not the Caine bit - he's complete boss.

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

The alter ego Jason Bourne could do any language any accent. Tony Hibbert can speak Wool too!

Toccy once said that the accent wools do at the match is bad, mine doesn't alter tbh, but when scousers try to do wool accents or wigan accents they are so far away from doing it right it's not true.
If you think we speak with an accent round our way, then that's nothing 'cos we can go into a lingo that scousers would think was from another land, equally you lot can go into a level of slang that is alien to us, yours is just the latest street/ lid talk though whereas ours is more from an age gone by.

For our foreign visitors, we are talking about a distance of 15 miles, with a couple of distinctly different accents inbetween.

 

[Matt Damon]

Toccy once said that the accent wools do at the match is bad, mine doesn't alter tbh, but when scousers try to do wool accents or wigan accents they are so far away from doing it right it's not true.
If you think we speak with an accent round our way, then that's nothing 'cos we can go into a lingo that scousers would think was from another land, equally you lot can go into a level of slang that is alien to us, yours is just the latest street/ lid talk though whereas ours is more from an age gone by.

For our foreign visitors, we are talking about a distance of 15 miles, with a couple of distinctly different accents inbetween.

Thats what its like here for our American cousins........ Reidy ain't lying. You can go 15 miles and the way people talk and the words used/meaning can completely change....

Not so I've found for our Yankie/Southern friends though. Words is words for them, its just pronunciation that changes.

Here, nope. The whole thing changes in 15 miles.

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

The reason many foreigners endd up speaking with a southern type accent, by this I mean those of other languages, is down to the Oxford Dictionaries. Some french were most amused by my pronunciation of 'sun' as their dictionary had the phonetic spelling as 'san', thus giving them a 'sathern' nancy boy accent.

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

Thats what its like here for our American cousins........ Reidy ain't lying. You can go 15 miles and the way people talk and the words used/meaning can completely change....

Not so I've found for our Yankie/Southern friends though. Words is words for them, its just pronunciation that changes.

Here, nope. The whole thing changes in 15 miles.

you can pretty much pick which town someone comes from when you know the 'peculiarities' in the accent/ words.

 

[spikeman]

There are 4 main accents in the US.

There is the average american, southern, Midwestern, and New York/Jersey accents. Someone add any if I missed some.

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

There are 4 main accents in the US.

There is the average american, southern, Midwestern, and New York/Jersey accents. Someone add any if I missed some.

would that be noo joysey ?

he'll hoyt you rocky, he'll hoyt you bad

 

[little curly alan ball]

We had a student teacher in our school from Belfast - Miss Ferguson ; A defo hotty , too , btw - and quite hit it off with the young L.C.A.B.

Her buzz , was getting me to say , " Yes , Siiiiiir . " My accent , again . My parents defo saved on the elocution lessons , it must be surrendered ;
it literally , killed her - poetic licence granted and applied - every time .
Mine ; was saying , in a school of 4 floors ; " How do I get to the toilet , Miss ??? - I was in 3rd year seniors - . "
She would then respond ; " You gu doyn and aroynd . " I would then kick me legs in the air , and off we'd go again .

I can do a Belfast accent .
The Falls Road area of Bailfast , is another schooldays fav' .

It is also my premier choice in hot accents for chicks within the U.K.

 

[bluebloodinmyveins]

There are 4 main accents in the US.

There is the average american, southern, Midwestern, and New York/Jersey accents. Someone add any if I missed some.

The Madonna.

 

[Desaparecido]

Youshe guys wunna play shtickbawl?

In my experience people from America will generally produce a South-East accent for 'English' which makes sense as it's probably the one that they're most exposed to. Can our US members enlighten me, do you have significant variations within small distances - eg. 40 miles?

 

[Hilga]

There are 4 main accents in the US.

There is the average american, southern, Midwestern, and New York/Jersey accents. Someone add any if I missed some.

Canadian

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

. Someone add any if I missed some.

spanish

 

[spikeman]

Canadian

As a hockey fan I listen to a lot of Canadians talk. They either have a heavy accent or a light one which sounds almost exactly like an American accent. I love when they say "aboot".