Start with:
“THE. RAIN. IN. SPAIN. STAYS. MAINLY. IN. THE. PLAIN.”
My Fair Lady
Pronunciation scene:
Is this where Madonna picked up her insane accent ?
Love ya, Rooster, but as someone born in NYC, spent her entire working career in NYC, I still could not tell you the difference between a NY accent and a Jersey accent until we get down to around the Philadelphia area. Oh! How I hate that Jersey/PA accent!
This might interest you.
I’m amazed by how some actors/actresses can keep a credible “foreign” accent during a performance.Every time I try to mimic a British accent I sound like an Aussie.
Nice. An opening for me to post these...
How to speak like a true Londoner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2xQFKwmLoQ
Meghan Markle doesn’t understand Prince Harry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxWeWbrzqA8
My parents and aunts/uncles all grew up in Boston and I grew up in Greater Boston and have lived my entire life in Eastern Massachusetts.However,if I had a nickel for every time I've been asked if I was from New York I'd be living in Beverly Hills right now.
I love accents and dialects. Can’t watch video right now but I will save for later.
I grew up a “valley girl” but without the accent. my mom was an audiologist and very well spoken so that helped. There was at my high school a big surfer contingent which also had a local accent (think Spiccoli, Sean Penn’s character in Fast Times at Ridgement High). And there were many, many NYC accents in my neighborhood. Lots of transplants.
I had to learn the Swiss German dialect and it took about 5-6 years of heavy listening and copying to do it.
At one time I would have found this appealing. Now I ask have to ask, wh6?
Lived there for a number of years and love the regional accents and individual slang. Hubby is a Brit and can call the region sometimes better than he.
When I came back.....people said I had a bit of an accent but that went away pretty quickly. It’s just what you hear all the time.
My time in the Army trained my ear to various accents from the military mixing bowl. One of my best friends was from Boston with typical “pahk the cah” accent which was somewhat jarring as my name has a hard “r” that he just couldn’t do, I had a couple guys from Philly with the “youse guys” accent. Of course, there were plenty of the variations of a Southern accent that were interesting to try to place.
After the military, I was involved in the construction industry because the manufacturing company I worked at sold our products to be installed in new construction. I spoke to jobsite superintendents on a regular basis. I could almost always depend on encountering a Cajun accent when the jobsite was anywhere on the Gulf Coast, from Houston to the east.
In another construction/manufacturing job, the company made cabinetry and store fixtures for a NYC fashion house that were put into high-end department stores. The store planning staff in NYC were either from NJ or Lawn-Guyland and both accents were jarring to my Southern ears. Throw in that they just couldn’t be satisfied and I didn’t last long in that job.
Love those British detective shows as well. But so often we turn to each other and ask, “What did he just say?”
When are the British going to learn to speak correct English? Like us.
Learned them all by watching BBC Northern Ireland when I was a kid in the suburbs of Dublin.
What is an “RP” accent?
British u = oo
US rubbish== ruh-bish
UK rubbish== roo-bish
US Facebook= Face-buhk
UK Facebook= Face-booook
US lieutenant== loo-tenant
UK lieutenant== lef-tenant
US schedule== skeh-dyool
UK schedule== sheh-dyool
Heard a British radio announcer say Michigan as Mitch-i-gan
not Mish-i-gan
British u = oo
US rubbish== ruh-bish
UK rubbish== roo-bish
US Facebook= Face-buhk
UK Facebook= Face-booook
US lieutenant== loo-tenant
UK lieutenant== lef-tenant
US schedule== skeh-dyool
UK schedule== sheh-dyool
Heard a British radio announcer say Michigan as Mitch-i-gan
not Mish-i-gan
I can tell most of the prominent English dialects — Cockney, Estuary, Mancunian, Tyke, Liverpudlian, Brummie, West Country, Geordie, etc — but darned if I can tell Aussie from Kiwi.