learning accents

[r3dl3g]

sorry if this doesn't belong here, but my girlfriend thinks it would be hot if I learned the british english accent, and she would learn it also, does anyone know where I could find any resources for this, I've tried google but I didn't find much.

[Englishkid]

lol you mean like the differant pronounciations of tomato and stuff or like the posh accent which would seem a bit strange. Which one?

[WelshLad]

umm as a guy from britain i'm a bit insulted you'd generalise us that way. there's no such thing as a british accent. There are dozens of accents:
Kent, Northern, Scottish, Welsh Valleys, Liverpudlian, Birmingham, Yorkshire, Lancashire, Northern Irish, Cornwall, Cardiff, Herefordshire, Leeds etc. etc.

London has a few accents itself from the "British accent" as americans know, the way posh londoners talk, to Cockney, the way common Londoners talk.

I don't think you can actually learn an accent online, you'd have to spend time with someone who had the accent.

[redcar]

accents, i hate the way accents are portrayed. i was watchin an american programme, the other day and they were ''visiting'' ireland, and it was a joke. the actors tried to speak with an irish accent, absolute joke!

[r3dl3g]

I'm sorry for afending anyone, I just wanted to learn because both me and my girlfriend think english accents are hott, we where not mocking accents at all, I apolagize

[Pink-Floyd]

Lol ok..., If you know what it sounds like or whatever, just try and sound like that, Other wise u'll probly have to live in Britain for a couple of years

[DouggyO.o]

why dont u listen to some tape and learn

[ThePhantom]

listen to BBS (what is the last letter? i know it is BB_) radio online .. that helps

[redcar]

its BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation)

[ThePhantom]

ahh thats it thanks alex

And anyways that would be like a british person saying they want an english accent. Do they want the gangster accent, the hick accent? The preppy accent? The minnisota accent?