2006-10-05 15:28:12 · 12 answers · asked by LOT of Questions 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
A voice coach may help you or you can use a complete system for an accent reduction like "Lose your accent in 28 days"
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But to be honest with you, I don't think that it's possible for someone to lose completely his accent, he can only reduce it.
2006-10-05 17:06:07 · answer #1 · answered by Beauty_Queen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't try to lose your accent!
I'm both a native Spanish and German speaker and English is my foreign language.
Although I personally think that I have a german accent when I speak English, americans keep asking me if I'm from New York - or they can't figure out where in the world I come from.
Germans think I'm from Austria. The Swiss think I'm from Germany. The Latinos think I'm from Argentina, Mexico, or Cuba.
I'm learning Russian now. Russians tell me I have "oh, very little accent but what accent?"
Keep your accent, it makes you soooooo speshuuuuul :)
2006-10-05 15:46:16 · answer #2 · answered by Ajayu 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
stay in the same environment for a very long time and your accent may start to adapt to the new accent. however, accents are sneaky little buggers.......at times certain words always seem to creep back in when you least expect it. it happens to me all the time and i've been in my "new environment" for 15 years now. i kind of like it tho because the people u are talking to perk up a bit when they hear an out-of-place british accent. they look all confused like they don't know if they really heard that right. lol
2006-10-05 15:35:03 · answer #3 · answered by D W 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't really know... but why would you want to get rid of your accent? I think it's neat to hear someone with a different accent.
2006-10-05 15:36:28 · answer #4 · answered by Amanda 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hire a voice coach. That is what actors do for movie roles when they need to get rid of an accent, or get one.
good luck.
2006-10-05 15:31:29 · answer #5 · answered by Just another nickname 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
DON'T!
be proud of who you are and where you came from! there's nothing worse than a homogenised society where everyone looks/sounds/acts the same! be an individual, be yourself, and don't be ashamed of where you came from!
i've talked to people who changed their accents as children to fit in, and now they regret it so much!
besides accents are sexy and make you interesting! :)
2006-10-05 15:32:59 · answer #6 · answered by bridge_song 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it will take time to remove your accent until you learn what language you what to speak
2006-10-05 16:01:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can't... Believe me, I speak three languages fluently. Accent does not go at least not entirely
2006-10-05 16:46:35 · answer #8 · answered by zap 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dont, but unfortunately i have an accent in spanish and im called "gringo" hehe
2006-10-05 15:51:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
practice enunciation
2006-10-05 15:35:40 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋