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There are numbers of products for teaching non-native English speakers. If you are an Asian speaking English as 2nd language, can you recommend a product or a company that has taught them the American accent the QUICKEST (ideally in about in about 3 months but THE QUICKER THE MORE DESIRABLE).
If you have succeeded in American accent training, what tips can you suggest as to the amount of time you need to devote for training, how to change your speach habit and etc. Can it done by oneself with audio CDs? How much the age and personality affect the sucess rate of training?
In the American Accent Traing from Barrons, it says Americans move lips and jaws less than the rest of world. So if you bite your teeth when you accent train, you will sound more like a native English speaking American, and less like Chinese, Korean or Japanese. I'd like to get some tips like this based on your experience if you've succeeded. Some say accent training is a life-long practice particularly if you are

2006-08-26 16:18:47 · 6 answers · asked by brit hk1997 dimsun 1 in Society & Culture Languages

an adult. Some never succeed despite accent traing, and a good number doesn't care or just learn to live with Asian accent.

2006-08-26 16:20:15 · update #1

To clarify my question, I'd like to learn "Standard American Accent" or Midwestern accent as American Linguists say. (Of course, I know American is not a language otherwise I would not be typing in English alpahabet.) As for the regional accent variation, I think the variation is mostly in pronunciation, but to my knowledge the speech music/intonation is pretty much the same acorss the entire country.

2006-08-26 16:32:50 · update #2

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Chew large pieces of gum and get the attitude that you are the best in the world. Also, forget any grammar you have learned, particularly the present perfect tense. Americans do not know what that is nor how to use it.

2006-08-27 10:39:37 · answer #1 · answered by Two Lips 4 · 2 5

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What's the fastest way to learn American accent?
There are numbers of products for teaching non-native English speakers. If you are an Asian speaking English as 2nd language, can you recommend a product or a company that has taught them the American accent the QUICKEST (ideally in about in about 3 months but THE QUICKER THE MORE DESIRABLE).
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2015-08-16 11:19:10 · answer #2 · answered by ? 1 · 0 0

American is not a language. The language of the USA is English and you can find a lot of different "accents" there. The English accents in San Diego, Atlanta or Boston are different. What American English accent do you want to learn?

2006-08-26 16:28:32 · answer #3 · answered by Lost. at. Sea. 7 · 0 0

The 100% guarunteed way is to move to upstate New Jersey, you can be the person with the strongest asian accent in the world and still speak like dude whos lived their entire life in Jersey in about 6months.

2006-08-26 16:25:39 · answer #4 · answered by barneys_assasin 4 · 1 0

If you immerse yourself in the language and also work on phonetics and tongue placement for certain sounds I believe that you will have more success.

2006-08-26 16:37:57 · answer #5 · answered by Melanie L 6 · 0 0

practice .

2006-08-26 16:24:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

watch TV...

2006-08-26 16:49:47 · answer #7 · answered by sandia 2 · 1 1

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