Need an American Accent for school production..

[mike475]

My schools doing back to the 80s and i've got a fairly main role in it (Billy) - however I've been told often I've got a strong posh accent, and that I dont drop my vowels or something.

Basically I need to know how to get an American Accent?

Any ideas would be welcomed!

[GhostFace-]

watch some american programs and try to immitate the person thats the only thing i can think of

[Leetzgirl]

speak like goege bush!

[mike475]

speak like goege bush!
now thats a good idea!
cheers

[Virgin Mary]

Yuck, being forced to diverge. Pronounce the letter T as D and slur your vowels.

[Metric1]

lolz, we don't have an accent.. you do! hahahha

[Wootzeh]

search youtube

[Hazza]

You can't just 'find an accent' you can either do it or you can't really - If you've sorta got one practise does go far?:rolleyes: Well, I suppose you could practise the accent to get it, if your that sad. Personally, I've got quite a good accent and I'm quite good with a northern ones:P I've been in many 'american' musicals etc. and my accents never let me down (e.g. Bugsy Malone, most probably one of the biggest speaking parts ever, it all worked out:P)

[stickwitu]

if you wanna be really stereotypical american say ya'll and wear a cowboy hat :P

[Stevehere]

Can I come watch

[FlyingJesus]

What kind of American accent? They have different accents in different regions :S

[splatttt]

watch films and shizzle :)

[lew!]

new york often put w's in words such as
chwaclot.
dwag
waaking
cwoffee

[FlyingJesus]

Yeah except he put the w's in the wrong places

[Digital]

Red neck style :D Just watch loads of youtube videos and practice

[Mitch4?]

I've had to put on a few american accents haha.
when i starred in Fame, i had the worst one ever, i just can't do typical american.
Then when i was in west side story, i had to do another. It was a lot better by then,

dunno how to actually say how to do it.
haha
just, keep experimenting and hope for the best

[Disaronno]

new york often put w's in words such as
chwaclot.
dwag
waaking
cwoffee

And they are Italian Americans not New yorkers

Lol.

Umm BASIC american accent, its hard to explain, like a devon accent but more farmer style. When you say R asin Sports Soccer say SpoRts SocceR exaggerate the R?

[Sabbath]

I dont get what an american accent is. Now the British, they definitely have an accent.

[Virgin Mary]

Howdy ya'll am from the unided sdades oh say can yew see i wand macdawnulds

[Disaronno]

Howdy ya'll am from the unided sdades oh say can yew see i wand macdawnulds

Thats just a pathetic stereotypical view from someone that obviously doesnt go or hasnt been to the states. Ive been 3 times and everyone there is very welcoming and up for a laugh. Sure a few are fat but so are English

[Pyroka]

Search Ebay would be something of an idea.

[Eamonn]

Look at youtubes of Michelle Ryan in Eastenders and then her in the Bionic Woman, her American accent is really, really convincing, aim for something like that.

[Loqo]

American Accents are not that hard to talk. Watch some american shows..

[Virgin Mary]

Thats just a pathetic stereotypical view from someone that obviously doesnt go or hasnt been to the states. Ive been 3 times and everyone there is very welcoming and up for a laugh. Sure a few are fat but so are English
GED AWAY FROM MAH PROPERDAY YA'LL

[Markness.]

^ Thats a hillbilly , not all americans say "ya'll"

[Virgin Mary]

^ Thats a hillbilly , not all americans say "ya'll"
Who cares? That's dialect not not accent.

[Mint]

lolz, we don't have an accent.. you do! hahahha


I dont get what an american accent is. Now the British, they definitely have an accent.
Every place in the world has an accent, countries even have certain areas that have a different accent to others e.g north england and south england. So to America the English will have a different accent and to the English the Americans have an accent. Anyway the best way to sound american is to talk to someone american and then just talk like them or if you don't know an american then just watch american videos/films or even songs.

[Independent]

Watch a few youtube videos to get the idea, I can do a good american accent ;)

(I'm english)

[RedStratocas]

You can't just 'find an accent' you can either do it or you can't really - If you've sorta got one practise does go far?:rolleyes: Well, I suppose you could practise the accent to get it, if your that sad. Personally, I've got quite a good accent and I'm quite good with a northern ones:P I've been in many 'american' musicals etc. and my accents never let me down (e.g. Bugsy Malone, most probably one of the biggest speaking parts ever, it all worked out:P)

actually even adults can change an accent if they are in a foreign area for an extended period of time. my dad told me about one of his college friends who went to england for 6 months and came back with a slightly different accent. that stuff makes an impression on you.


What kind of American accent? They have different accents in different regions :S

true dat. like people from britian always get mad when americans sound posh when they do a british accent. there's many different american accents, it even varies from state to state.


I dont get what an american accent is. Now the British, they definitely have an accent.

i dont get how people don't understand accents. EVERYONE has an accent. you only think british have an accent because you're used to the american accent.


anyway, i come from connecticut. we dont have much of a distinct one. the only thing we really do is not pronounce the T in a lot of words, ie groton. instead of saying "grot-ton", we say "gra-un"

[GommeInc]

Howdy ya'll am from the unided sdades oh say can yew see i wand macdawnulds
That's quite a good way to do the accent, t's are d's!

[-Soph-]

I moved to America 15 months ago and I've been trying to ditch my accent for a while, so I've been kinda paying more attention to their accent.. anyway, I'll shoot


Enthasize your "a", not TOO much but just a little, and if anything has a slight 'ar' sound to it, most of the time you take the 'r' sound out and replace it with a 'h',
ex...
'h-ar-f' (half) into
'ha-ah-f'

also, replace t's with d's if it sounds like it'll work like that

[Ugawa]

Watch alot of american films?

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