Jumping between accents

saiteris · **Posted:** Wed May 21, 2008 5:07 pm

ah Ok i want just to tell and get ure thoughts ok im actually Lithuanian and I speak English and I speak with An American Accent but since im watching shows like Top Gear , Britains got talent I feel sometimes i want to say words in the British accent .....i wonder how should i keep my American One going ????

woutR · **Posted:** Wed May 21, 2008 5:17 pm

erm.. I don't think it will cause any problems if you pronounce certain words in a more english accent than an american accent.
Speaking english generally will do so I wouldn't bother with accents too much.

saiteris · **Posted:** Wed May 21, 2008 5:23 pm

well u know im used to speaking American THen I Pronounc it so strangly ;D i feel so ashmed...since people call me american

Pan_Raider(`_´) · **Joined:** Jul 2006 **Posts:** 4737 **Location:**

I wouldn't change to british, everytime i speak to Britsh they sound like the queen herself.
It's posh'ness is disturbing

dom · **Posted:** Wed May 21, 2008 6:05 pm

When i'm tired, drunk, or multi tasking (talking in vent + killing people in cs) I speak in English using French grammar - it comes out sounding weird =[

Midori · **Joined:** Mar 2007 **Posts:** 3425 **Location:**

you should live in america, it's the best way to pick up the accent (without you realising it).

infact the best way to pick up an accent is to move to the area where you want your accent comes from)

Doron · **Posted:** Wed May 21, 2008 8:31 pm

switching accents is great, I mean like, I can talk 10 minutes traight brittish (I love it posh) then I can talk 10 minutes straight english accentless, (just foa fun) and then I can speak southern USA-ish (Like they do in Ohio and Texas) just to order a KFC for fun...

but.. my problem is, that in the dutch accents I can't switch that easily..
I can talk 10 minutes straigh flat Den Haags, but then I want to change to Drents and it doesn't even looks like it.. or a Fries accent.. I just can't kick it off easily..

Tasdik · **Joined:** Jan 2007 **Posts:** 13206 **Location:** Life

X-Lax wrote:

you should live in america, it's the best way to pick up the accent (without you realising it).

infact the best way to pick up an accent is to move to the area where you want your accent comes from)

If you come to America don't get a Boston or a New York accent ... I hate them

DaZzY · **Joined:** Mar 2007 **Posts:** 1357

Well iam British and becuase i have talked alot on ventrilo with Americans sometimes i get asked by random people in ventrilo if iam American. even when iam out with my friends i sometimes sound American when i say things like 'sup' meh bad habbits die hard.

Sharp324 · **Joined:** Jan 2007 **Posts:** 4383 **Location:**

Dont really think about it but i often change mine but its not a habit accent. atm mines American with a southern accent. Can only imagine what ill have when im living in Australia, if it changes.

rek · **Posted:** Thu May 22, 2008 9:37 am

It will, luls. People say i have the strongest australian accent. I didnt even realise when i stopped speaking the filipino-english accent.

takolin · **Joined:** Jan 2007 **Posts:** 4238 **Location:** Life

On vent people who aren't from the UK think I am from the UK.
People who are from the UK realise I'm not from the UK though.

Anyway I just talk with my own accent whatever that might be.

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