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No. 5361
Anonymous
8th July 2014 Tuesday 9:39 pm
5361
oi u lot oi've sumfin 2 ask
I want to learn a perfect Received Pronunciation (and after that, a few regional British accents), and I'd like your help. It's not hard to find samples of British English on the internet, but I need feedback on my attempts.
I'd appreciate it if you could post a vocaroo sample of yourself speaking in RP (or your local accent, if you want), which I will then painstakingly analyze and imitate before posting a vocaroo of myself repeating it, which could then be commented upon/mocked and derided.
Reasons:
My grades are too poor and my motivation too low to go for graduate school in my field of study, linguistics (unless I want to end up at some bumfuck state university in flyover country). I'm considering accent coaching as a possible career, as there's opportunity for good money, and it lets me make use of my linguistic knowledge.
I'm a native speaker of American English, but a lot of places and people prefer to aim for a British standard, and being able to teach that would be a great help.
And as for non-RP, as an enthusiast of historical linguistics, I have a soft spot for oddly conservative/unique dialects (especially north England dialects).
I won't lie that there isn't some appeal to the idea of being able to pose as a Brit (or later on, a Yorkshireman or super-chav) at will, but I promise that I will use this power only for good.
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