Howdy everybody! Hi from Kyrgyzstan! I'm a translator and a teacher of English. I've been working as a translator for over 20 years. We run a Translation center in Osh. I'm a follower of your UA-cam channel. I appreciate your teaching work.
This was super helpful. I am a British college student and we are putting on a musical where I need an American accent, I was struggling but this has made it so much easier!
It's a wonderful lesson ! Lessons as such are helpful to try to speak 🗣️ closer to the native English speakers! Anyway, it is hard but could be achievable. Teacher Wes thank you for your help!
I'm a Call Center Agent in a BPO Company, sometimes customer don't wanna talk to me because of my accent. They want to talk to Americans who can speak better english. So i am thankful for this lesson, because it will helps me to speak a better english ❤
The basic knowledge that is very helpful to get better understanding of an American Accent. Still practicing on making my conversation flowing. Thank you for the video, appreciate it a lot.
I love this video,so helpful! I wanted to have an american accent without having to go to the US.😅 i used to work in a call center as a customer service rep where I get to talk to native english speakers and practice my english. I always watch Wes' video for phrasal verbs, daily expressions, idioms that native English speakers use. The only way I knew I improved my english was through my customers not noticing that I am not from the Us as they are having a hard time talking to people with accents.😊 Wes really helped me a lot! Thank you so much sir. 🥰
I have always had an American accent (don’t ask why I’m watching this) and you made me notice things that I never realized were there that I have been speaking this whole time…
Speaking I was getting ready to go to the walmart, I took a deep american breath and asked my american friends : "Im Gonna-go-tuh-duh Walmar-Chzew need sumpthin?" They're pretty much impressed by my accent now 😂 Appreciate your lessons. Love from NJ ❤
Another one to point out is the way we say "do you" which can sometimes come out sounding more like "dju". Or we drop the O like you talk about in other words so it sounds like "d'you"
Hello teacher...I always try to speak in American Accent becuz I love this accent...thanks to you for sharing this video😊❤Lots of love from Uzbekistan🇺🇿🇺🇿
I am a native speaker who has trouble speaking quickly since I tend to speak slowly and enunciate. This is probably more the case with introverts. This is good practice even for me to let my words run into each other.
Hi Mr Wes.....I'm Italian, and I've lived in England for a long time....but I like the American accent much more than the British one..... well, fortunately I have lots of relatives who live in the States, and thanks to them I'm starting to sound more American and less British 😅😅 Your videos are really interesting and helpful, and they're gonna help me to abandon the Queen language....no doubt about it 😂😂
I work for one of the tech support agencies and I don’t blame any American for being so rude to me when ever they don’t understand my accent however I took some of the customers angry words are as my gifts apparently I have start talking to local Canadian people and i am not fully ready with the accent but I am up there like 40 percent of it. Although I am trying to learn one of the customer scolded me you don’t know English you are talking like a espanic accent. This is the reason why I have searched for this topic and your videos are on top five. Thanks for backing up with this kind of videos this is going to help in building my accent ❤
As a language enthusiast, i find your vids very interesting and helpful. I pretty much like learning variety of english accents. I think you missed somethin here. While its very common in most BrE accents, not in american accents but i noticed that AmE speakers too, use T glottalization in words like shorten (which i noticed you used it in this vid), kitten, button, mountain etc. so far as i know, this aint a feature in General American accent, is it? Will you explain more about glottal stop in AmE accents? Thank you in advance.
Hello teacher Wes, I want to say thank you so much for this class. I think you are very pro. Congratulations and so on in your successful way. Sorry for my English, I am learning
Born and raised in So Cal. and when I traveled to other parts of the states I was asked where I was from because I had NO accent. It wasn't until 10 years ago I learned my accent was called "Standard American". Didn't know it was a thing. People back East and overseas coined it the "Newscaster Accent". 😅
I would just like to say that I have been listening to a lot of videos that teach the American accent and this is the best so far. I’m trying to learn the American accent for my acting career (I’m British). Thank you so much for making this content, Wes. I really appreciate it 😊❤
I'm an actor, and this really helped me practise, not only the strong R consonant, but the differences in vowel sounds to my native Australian accent. Some of the vowel sounds are very different to my accent, and some are subtle in variation to my accent, which can be difficult to get a handle on, without specific practise. Ta!
New England, is a place where all British people used to stay for a while or live for a long time. The region has deep English roots so they pronounce a little bit close to their ancestral.
English is not my mother tongue but I love it very much since childhood. In school days I never missed English period .❤❤❤❤ I belong to village here in India nobody speaks English in Villages.
I’m not an expert when I say any of this, but I am an American with a slight southern accent. I think linking is leaning more into a southern accent than a standard one. I also think that the “for” pronunciation you are talking about leans more on the Southern side rather than standard.
I’m English so I’m a native speaker but learning an American accent because I want to get into acting 🎭 and thought it can come in handy when playing certain roles.
Regarding t-flapping, to Spanish speakers (at least Mexican Spanish to the best of my knowledge) and Korean speakers, t-flapping is the sound of single r’s in Spanish (as in ‘para’) and ㄹ in Korean (as in 알았어). Regarding schwas in English, honestly just consider it a form of “lazy pronunciation” of vowels. Schwas occur a lot in unstressed syllables (especially auxiliary/helper words). So in casual speech, you can easily pronounce ‘has’ with a schwa in a sentence like “he has gone to the store like five times already” (although ‘like’ in this context is probably more of a West Coast mannerism).
I always said: "Bottle of Water" is how I write. Now, this is a new way for me to speak: "bodul-lohv woder fer dad." Practice, practice, practice... bodul-lohv .... fer dad... Thank you for teaching me to sound like an American! Changing a Korean (South!) to an American! 👋👋👋 We love America and Canada! Our Allis!! God bless them! Please read John 3:16 in the Bible. Save yourself. 🙏🙏🙏
I really like your lesson . I am living in NY about twenty years I went to school for long time .but when I talked with native speaker I still don't understand
Yes the standard North American dialect is very, very similar to the Irish dialect. I also say the English language came to North America and it was perfected and made better. Ireland and Cornwall have the very best and most accurate English speaking dialect in all of the UK British Isles and Ireland. The rest of England and Wales have the worst English dialect, Scotland is better and Ireland is the best. ~~But outside of that, other than that, “worldwide”:: New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, and some minority parts (‘New England’ and south) of the USA have the very worst dialects. The very best English dialects are in the rest of the USA and Canada.
It was posh English makes in elite schools who invented posh imperialist pronunciation (PIP) English nearly at the onset and after the American Revolution. Before that event, travelers seldom remarked on any difference in speech. It was elites in England who changed how they spoke and the vocabulary they used, preferring words of Latin and French origin over Anglo-Saxon for classist reasons. They liked autumn instead of fall and it became the fashion to stop looking forward to mulled wine in the fall.
i'm an american native english speaker, but for some reason videos like this have me in a chokehold right now. maybe because it makes me feel better about struggling with german pronunciation, lol.
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As an American, this was very helpful.
Native or Latino?
@@MrBitterman75 American
The american accent is so bad
@@natel42069 Which one? Southern? Midwest? California? New York?
@@Wihf
bro I really like the Texas accent
I'm from Ethiopia but seriously I get alot of benefits after I join ur channel. Thank you so much
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good luck in learning English!
Im Ethiopian too😂
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As an American this is very helpful for non native speakers
Your are right
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Hi from Kyrgyzstan! I'm a translator and a teacher of English. I've been working as a translator for over 20 years. We run a Translation center in Osh.
I'm a follower of your UA-cam channel. I appreciate your teaching work.
This is wonderful content even for us who english is not our first language. THANK YOU
This was super helpful. I am a British college student and we are putting on a musical where I need an American accent, I was struggling but this has made it so much easier!
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It's a wonderful lesson ! Lessons as such are helpful to try to speak 🗣️ closer to the native English speakers! Anyway, it is hard but could be achievable. Teacher Wes thank you for your help!
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I have a standard American accent and I never really understood how it sounded to non American accents. Thanks for a great video!
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I love pronouncing the final Rs, using the flap T and mastering the schwa sound. Shadowing used to be my middle name 😊.
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I think I don't pronounce all the final r especially when I'm speaking a little bit faster but I like them too.
Speaking! Thanks mate. Aussie actor here, this has been very helpful as an introduction into the standard American accent 👌
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Remember over pronunciation of the Rs.
So "Remember", really pronounce the R at the end.
We have a very Dry Accent, it's Rough and Unpolished
Also we pronounce our Ts as Ds
AUSSIE ACTRESS IS HERE TO!
NZ actor here lol
Listen to native speakers and practice. That's how I am practicing sir.
You are really awesome.
Keep it up! You're doing great. 😊
@@InteractiveEng Thank you so much.
SPEAKING. I'm British and in amateur theatre. I need an American accent for a role. This is very helpful, thank you.
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Thanks for the American accent video.
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I'm a Call Center Agent in a BPO Company, sometimes customer don't wanna talk to me because of my accent. They want to talk to Americans who can speak better english. So i am thankful for this lesson, because it will helps me to speak a better english ❤
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Don't forget about practice, I found American UA-cam channels to be very helpful in getting understanding of the American accent.
@@ildar5184 what are they?
The basic knowledge that is very helpful to get better understanding of an American Accent. Still practicing on making my conversation flowing.
Thank you for the video, appreciate it a lot.
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I love this video,so helpful! I wanted to have an american accent without having to go to the US.😅 i used to work in a call center as a customer service rep where I get to talk to native english speakers and practice my english. I always watch Wes' video for phrasal verbs, daily expressions, idioms that native English speakers use. The only way I knew I improved my english was through my customers not noticing that I am not from the Us as they are having a hard time talking to people with accents.😊 Wes really helped me a lot! Thank you so much sir. 🥰
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I have always had an American accent (don’t ask why I’m watching this) and you made me notice things that I never realized were there that I have been speaking this whole time…
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As an English teacher, I found this video incredibly helpful. It'll help me explain these rules way way better than I do right now. Thank you!
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Trying to get into voice acting/voice overs as a brit. This is useful!
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I was getting ready to go to the walmart, I took a deep american breath and asked my american friends :
"Im Gonna-go-tuh-duh Walmar-Chzew need sumpthin?"
They're pretty much impressed by my accent now 😂
Appreciate your lessons. Love from NJ ❤
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Another one to point out is the way we say "do you" which can sometimes come out sounding more like "dju". Or we drop the O like you talk about in other words so it sounds like "d'you"
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Hello teacher...I always try to speak in American Accent becuz I love this accent...thanks to you for sharing this video😊❤Lots of love from Uzbekistan🇺🇿🇺🇿
I am from El Salvador and your class is good, here in my country whithout money is dificult learn english.
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I am a native speaker who has trouble speaking quickly since I tend to speak slowly and enunciate. This is probably more the case with introverts. This is good practice even for me to let my words run into each other.
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Hi Mr Wes.....I'm Italian, and I've lived in England for a long time....but I like the American accent much more than the British one..... well, fortunately I have lots of relatives who live in the States, and thanks to them I'm starting to sound more American and less British 😅😅
Your videos are really interesting and helpful, and they're gonna help me to abandon the Queen language....no doubt about it 😂😂
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I’m an Scottish Actor who has struggled with the American accent for years and just watching this there’s hardly any difference
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Sir I m Niaz I Am Working In A call Center And Your Videos helped Me Alot in improvement of my English speaking
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Tysm for the video,you’re brilliant person and I understand your accent and everything what you say in this video❤
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As an American who's just curious, this was cool
speaking,....thanks brother for helping improve my accent,i respect you sir
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as an Aussie with a British accent.. this was very helpful.
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I work for one of the tech support agencies and I don’t blame any American for being so rude to me when ever they don’t understand my accent however I took some of the customers angry words are as my gifts apparently I have start talking to local Canadian people and i am not fully ready with the accent but I am up there like 40 percent of it. Although I am trying to learn one of the customer scolded me you don’t know English you are talking like a espanic accent. This is the reason why I have searched for this topic and your videos are on top five. Thanks for backing up with this kind of videos this is going to help in building my accent ❤
As a language enthusiast, i find your vids very interesting and helpful. I pretty much like learning variety of english accents. I think you missed somethin here. While its very common in most BrE accents, not in american accents but i noticed that AmE speakers too, use T glottalization in words like shorten (which i noticed you used it in this vid), kitten, button, mountain etc. so far as i know, this aint a feature in General American accent, is it? Will you explain more about glottal stop in AmE accents? Thank you in advance.
You a good narrator, no noticeable accent, right speed. Movies teach a lot, depends on what one learns.
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Hello teacher Wes, I want to say thank you so much for this class. I think you are very pro. Congratulations and so on in your successful way. Sorry for my English, I am learning
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Born and raised in So Cal. and when I traveled to other parts of the states I was asked where I was from because I had NO accent. It wasn't until 10 years ago I learned my accent was called "Standard American". Didn't know it was a thing. People back East and overseas coined it the "Newscaster Accent". 😅
Where were you born?
@@reinilla The old non-accent that boomers use is gone in SoCal.
As an American this was very useful thanks buddy
Thank you very much! I'm not an English native speaker, but I like the American accent very much!
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Interesting. As a US born english speaker, this is indeed how I pronounce things. Well done.
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I would just like to say that I have been listening to a lot of videos that teach the American accent and this is the best so far. I’m trying to learn the American accent for my acting career (I’m British). Thank you so much for making this content, Wes. I really appreciate it 😊❤
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Thank you Mr.Wes. Your instructions are clear and concise and so very helpful. Cheers!
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I'm an actor, and this really helped me practise, not only the strong R consonant, but the differences in vowel sounds to my native Australian accent. Some of the vowel sounds are very different to my accent, and some are subtle in variation to my accent, which can be difficult to get a handle on, without specific practise. Ta!
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New England, is a place where all British people used to stay for a while or live for a long time. The region has deep English roots so they pronounce a little bit close to their ancestral.
Speaking. You got an actor from Bulgaria. Thank you!
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Thank you Mr. Wes . Your information is wonderful, and very helpful.
God bless you .
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Thanks Mr.Wes ! This video helped me a lot. In School I wasn’t able to make friends because of my accent. I am thankful for your video. 💓
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Honestly, anyone who avoids you because of your accent is the wrong person to be your friend.
Thank you so much ❤
I'm learning it clearly, and gaining my confidence.
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wow. you made a mix up from your former lessons. thanks, it was great
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@@InteractiveEng thanks
English is not my mother tongue but I love it very much since childhood. In school days I never missed English period .❤❤❤❤
I belong to village here in India nobody speaks English in Villages.
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I like the standard American accent.
I'm from Canada, and in my area, the accent is almost valley girl.
In some parts of the UK like Northern Ireland,Scotland and Southwest England the r is pronounced.
Really? This is so interesting! I had no idea!
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I’m not an expert when I say any of this, but I am an American with a slight southern accent.
I think linking is leaning more into a southern accent than a standard one.
I also think that the “for” pronunciation you are talking about leans more on the Southern side rather than standard.
Dear Wes, I’ve been watching your videos as well as your live lessons and I’d like to become a member. How is it possible? Thank you.
Water with a soft D sound for T.
Not according to the Simon & Garfunkel song ''BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER''.
This is the “I don’t have an accent” accent
YOU TO COMICAL THIS YANKEES ARE CRAZY YES YOU ARE CORRECT , THERE IS NO SUCH THIN AS AN AMERICAN ACCENT IN THE LENGUA OF THE ANGLOS . SALUDOS
@@pavelavietor1 Get a girl or something and stop being cringe
Yes you are correct I need to stop cringe 😬 after reading all this primitive comments. Saludos mis negrito britanicos
@@pavelavietor1 Cry about it.
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Super and I just started learning English
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Super ! Thank you
Guys, you can make the speed lower to understand each sound too :)
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I always carry a bottle of water before going to Airport.
THANKS A TON! ❤❤❤
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America 🇺🇸 and Canada 🇨🇦 is nicest country in the world. 🌎
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i really love this type of videos cuz i looove american accent. its the best accent in the world
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Wish you did "out' since that's a big one for Canadians.
Thanks, Wes! A very informative video!👍👍
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I’m English so I’m a native speaker but learning an American accent because I want to get into acting 🎭 and thought it can come in handy when playing certain roles.
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Very very helpful and informative, thank you.
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It’s a little hard but I like it and I began to say these roles In my life and speech with people thank u so much 😊
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Such an excellent lesson. Thank you very much!
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As an American, I'm very confused
I'm from DRC, i wanna know american accents. Your lessons are wonderful.
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THANK YOUU SM i need to an audition with american accent and i was dying until this 🙏🏼 🙏🏼 ❤️
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TH (voiced or unvoiced) is very challenging for most non-native speakers.
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im trying to practice the American accent but i keep switching to an Australia accent even though my original accent is an English accent 😭
Really great, you’re a great teacher. Thank you.
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I'm from Philippines! I'm not doing great to speak English thank you can I got a learn new words in English
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I really appreciate the way you teaching ❤
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Im fluent in English but not in accent so i hope this video works , havent watched it yet
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Regarding t-flapping, to Spanish speakers (at least Mexican Spanish to the best of my knowledge) and Korean speakers, t-flapping is the sound of single r’s in Spanish (as in ‘para’) and ㄹ in Korean (as in 알았어).
Regarding schwas in English, honestly just consider it a form of “lazy pronunciation” of vowels. Schwas occur a lot in unstressed syllables (especially auxiliary/helper words). So in casual speech, you can easily pronounce ‘has’ with a schwa in a sentence like “he has gone to the store like five times already” (although ‘like’ in this context is probably more of a West Coast mannerism).
I am Malaysian, you are really good teacher❤
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I like the standard American, it's the best English accent imo. Greetings from Sweden.
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Love this video!! Thank you so much!!
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Thanks a lot for this video, very helpful 🙏
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This is the video I was looking from a long time. Thanks
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How is your accent now
The lesson was awesome and I hope I will improve having English my second language.
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MICROSOFT REFUNDING CALL CENTER should watch this video 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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I always said: "Bottle of Water" is how I write.
Now, this is a new way for me to speak: "bodul-lohv woder fer dad."
Practice, practice, practice... bodul-lohv .... fer dad...
Thank you for teaching me to sound like an American!
Changing a Korean (South!) to an American! 👋👋👋
We love America and Canada! Our Allis!! God bless them!
Please read John 3:16 in the Bible. Save yourself. 🙏🙏🙏
Im German but everyone always says I sound american when i speak english so this really helped me get better at my american accent 😆
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Wow, this lesson is quite helpful … thanks a lot 🙌🏻
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It's really helpful for understand to pronunciation class.
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Thanks for this! Super helpful as an Australian actor :)
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Hard Rs, remember that
I really like your lesson . I am living in NY about twenty years I went to school for long time .but when I talked with native speaker I still don't understand
8:19 great!
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The American accent somewhat derives from the Irish accent because the Irish were amongst the first immigrants to colonize America.
Yes the standard North American dialect is very, very similar to the Irish dialect. I also say the English language came to North America and it was perfected and made better. Ireland and Cornwall have the very best and most accurate English speaking dialect in all of the UK British Isles and Ireland. The rest of England and Wales have the worst English dialect, Scotland is better and Ireland is the best.
~~But outside of that, other than that, “worldwide”:: New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, and some minority parts (‘New England’ and south) of the USA have the very worst dialects. The very best English dialects are in the rest of the USA and Canada.
It was posh English makes in elite schools who invented posh imperialist pronunciation (PIP) English nearly at the onset and after the American Revolution. Before that event, travelers seldom remarked on any difference in speech. It was elites in England who changed how they spoke and the vocabulary they used, preferring words of Latin and French origin over Anglo-Saxon for classist reasons. They liked autumn instead of fall and it became the fashion to stop looking forward to mulled wine in the fall.
i'm an american native english speaker, but for some reason videos like this have me in a chokehold right now. maybe because it makes me feel better about struggling with german pronunciation, lol.
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Very informative ❤ love this
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Damn, this tutorial is simply the best.
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Thank you so much for this amazing class. 👌❤☺
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Hi Mr I'm gonna buy your speaking course mind you How to buy it pls gimme information
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SPEAKING, This has really helped me ready for a theatre practice tomorrow night, I'm British so this has really helped
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Great lesson , very helpful , cheers !
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