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  1. 11-18-2002, 09:59 AM #1
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    Help me learn a british accent!

    Okay...anyone got any links, books, resources for learning a british accent?

    I have to be Scrooge in a play at my church. So far the only thing I can get out is a Connery-style scottish accent.

    Actually...come to think of it...maybe I could post my lines, and one of you wonderful people in the UK could record it and post it?!

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  2. 11-18-2002, 10:12 AM #2
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    Can you learn an accent from a book? That sounds like too much work. You've got to hear it...
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  3. 11-18-2002, 10:22 AM #3
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    Well...any literature on pronunciation...coupled with hearing it would be a perfect combination.
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    LOL, I can't believe I found this on Google.

    http://www.antimoon.com/forum/posts/219.htm

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  6. 11-18-2002, 10:37 AM #5
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    I found that to...it comes up top every time!
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  7. 11-18-2002, 10:44 AM #6
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    you could do an interesting interpretation by playing scrooge as ozzy osbourne, he is british, and you can just watch the osbournes to get the accent down pat.

    "what the bloody BLEPING, BLEEP ofphans doing on my BLEEPING bloody door stop. BLEEPING hell, sharon, who the BLEEP is this transparent BLEEP doing in my bloody room. what the bloody BEEP i'm seeing things, damn bloody flash back. BLEEP"
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  8. 11-18-2002, 10:52 AM #7
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    LMAO!
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  9. 11-18-2002, 10:56 AM #8
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    to say "teach me a british accent" is like saying "teach me an american accent".

    There are numerous dialects. Scottish is different to English. The Yorkshire accent is different to Cockney.
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  11. 11-18-2002, 11:02 AM #9
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    Yeah, but it's Cockney that he wants, I dare say.

    Just watch some Michael Caine movies. Great entertainment and a great accent. I like 'The Italian Job', 'Alfie' and for sonething a little more recent, 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels'.
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  12. 11-18-2002, 11:05 AM #10
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    Just saw Dirty Rotten Scoundrel a week a go....great stuff.

    I'm thinking of watching my fair lady sometime soon..plenty of british accents there.

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  14. 11-18-2002, 11:23 AM #12
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    I knew a girl with a very strong cockney accent. half the time I had no idea what she was saying.
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  15. 11-18-2002, 11:30 AM #13
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    Originally posted by TallGuyLittleCar
    I knew a girl with a very strong cockney accent. half the time I had no idea what she was saying.
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