Americans! Ever wanted to know how to speak British? Nows your chance!

[Zur]

Everyone should learn to speak like John Cleese.

 

[Jackal]

I get enough of that crap from Kal on TS.

 

[T2A`]

Why have these videos been rated so poorly? Is she doing it wrong? D:

 

[Igoy]

...yes. :|

 

[Kantham]

Looks like they just pretty much replace A's with O's most of the time. BRAYTEICH ACCENT ,,, lol

How would we know which is red and which is blue?

One flag CTF.

 

[Selerox]

Magna Britannia

I wish Americans would stop trying to do British accents, they (with a few rare exceptions) suck at it. Dick Van Dyke is going to hell...

There's no such thing as Great Britain.

Riiiiiight...

 

[shadow_dragon]

I wish Americans would stop trying to do British accents, they (with a few rare exceptions) suck at it. Dick Van Dyke is going to hell...

I largely agree with you but Dick Van Dyke is god and you shall be judged unworthy!

 

[Zur]

Someone should send her an e-mail to ask her how to pronounce bollocks.

 

[Igoy]

BOW-locks. Plus lots of blinking and raised eyebrows.

 

[Firefly]

Now, THIS is what I want to learn. American cursing is dead easy but mastering British cursing, especially the lower class cursing, I don't even know where to begin.

The never bettered Vinny Jones doing what he does best.

Some funny insults

 

[Firefly]

Another one

 

[dragonfliet]

Eh, I don't see the fuss. She exaggerates the words, yes, which doesn't work for actual conversation, but for the point of getting across the basic differences in pronunciation it works great. They seem like helpful videos for actors to get started with (even if it isn't a perfect be-all, end-all solution).

~Jason

 

[Igoy]

Well no, because even if you speeded up her pronounciation, we still don't talk like that.

 

[Firefly]

it doesn't sound English though.

She's trying too hard and just sounds daft.

sounds bollocks

 

[Firefly]

One of the best English comedians ever
al murray having a go at you guys across the pond

 

[Big-Al]

pft to anyone who is not french!!!!

 

[IronMonkey]

Eh, I don't see the fuss. She exaggerates the words, yes, which doesn't work for actual conversation, but for the point of getting across the basic differences in pronunciation it works great. They seem like helpful videos for actors to get started with (even if it isn't a perfect be-all, end-all solution).

All of which might be helpful if there were such a thing as a single British accent or dialect. That isn't even remotely the case.

Anyone who tried (even toned down) to speak in the manner that this woman does would be laughed at from Land's End to John o' Groats because she has no consistency of accent - it is a discordant mix of accents and dialects that do not belong together. There is something for everyone to laugh at.

Her inaccuracy is so frequent (not least because she has clearly failed to understand that there is more than one accent to be found under the heading of "British accent") that she has failed in the task of,

...getting across the basic differences in pronunciation...

Going slightly off-topic, I always thought James Marsters and Alexis Denisof did pretty good examples of British accents on Buffy the Vampire Slayer (especially early on). Equally, I've heard some bloody awful American accents from British actors.

 

[Igoy]

Hugh Laurie does a fantastic American accent though.

 

[Zur]

Talking of accents, isn't there some place in the States where people actually sound like they're from the UK ?

 

[M.A.D.X.W]

New England?