How to speak with a "British" accent

[Happy Times]

In Finland there are several dialects but almost everyone can speak Finnish as it is taught in school.
Sometimes it seems some Brits can speak only their dialect, am i wrong?

[DarkFish]

Originally Posted by Happy Times

In Finland there are several dialects but almost everyone can speak Finnish as it is taught in school.
Sometimes it seems some Brits can speak only their dialect, am i wrong?

In the Netherlands, historically it was not hard to hear from what village someone was coming, let alone from which part of the country. These differences are slowly disappearing, but our provinces still have quite differing dialects.
Though I've grown up in Arnhem I never really got the hang of the "Èrnems" dialect (Èrnem (IPA: "ɛr-nəm") as opposed to Arnhem ("ɑːrn-hɛm")). Now that I live in Eindhoven however, I do slowly adopt a certain Brabandish tongue

"Hedde wel es Broabants geheurd?" instead of "Heb je wel eens Brabants gehoord?"

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Happy Times

In Finland there are several dialects but almost everyone can speak Finnish as it is taught in school.
Sometimes it seems some Brits can speak only their dialect, am i wrong?

It depends, sometimes if you're born in one place in Britain and then move somewhere else then you pick up the new places dialect, for example my father was born in Scotland but has spent most of his life in South London and Kent, he does not have a Scottish accent nor does his brother.
I think a lot of it is the influence of the people around you, hearing them speak. It's all English after all (well...in most places) but it's just a different way of saying things.

[Buddahaid]

All I got from her lesson was that that accent was more just pronouncing the words like they're spelled.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl

He's not the only thing that is "almost" English, my heavily accented friend Speaking of which, whatever happened with that goalie of yours? Did he turn out to actually be an American or what?

The jury is still out but I've heard a rumour he may be standing against Obama at the next presidential election

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

Then there's Northerners.....
(Mr Buna in his younger years, when there was hair.)

Hey!...I resemble that remark

[STEED]

How to speak with a "British" accent

Dead easy, all you got to do is put lots of "F" word in what your saying, and if your really bold the "C" word.

Your soon pick it up by jumping on a bus full of school kids.

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by STEED

Dead easy, all you got to do is put lots of "F" word in what your saying, and if your really bold the "C" word.

Your soon pick it up by jumping on a bus full of school kids.

I though that was the american accent.

[STEED]

They stoled it from us.

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by Dowly

I though that was the american accent.

You're thiking of New Jersey