I love stage acting, so I'm always searching for something to improve on. For a while now, I've been looking for a place to learn different accents for theater through the internet or a book. I've had no luck yet. Can anyone help me out?
2006-12-05 13:52:10 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Theater & Acting
I recommend David Alan Stern's "Acting with an Accent" series, available now on CDs.
If you're serious about learning proper stage dialects (and NOT just be listening and imitating native speakers, which is imprecise at best), you should learn the basics of the International Phoetic Alphabet (you might be able to find that on-line), and then check into Stern's work, or pick up a copy of Jerry Blunt's "Stage Dialects."
2006-12-06 12:00:20 · answer #1 · answered by shkspr 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
what kind of accents? Traveling is always a great way to pick them up. I can copy any accent as I listen to it and I unconsiously pick up on people's accents as I talk to them. I'm a tour guide at a local caverns and I get people from all over Europ and I love listening to their accents so I can use them later on. Watch Movies. .. if you want a French Accent I recommend Gigi, or if you want an english accent I would watch The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe,Australian - The Crocodile Hunter or The Rescuers Down Under, or Crocodile Dun Dee, for a spanish accent Zorro and Zorro 2.
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most libraries carry language teaching tapes. Or you can buy them. Also. . .just sit and listen. Or you can hire a language teacher.
2006-12-05 14:40:10 · answer #2 · answered by moviestarsomeday 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
One thing I've liked is finding books on tape at the library. This is admittedly a sketchy method, but I've run into some real gems. A textbook won't really help you with this one, I'm afraid. It's hard to replicate a sound you only read about and never hear.
2006-12-05 18:31:43 · answer #3 · answered by Kyeth 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
attempt to seek audio clips on line. in my opinion i will do accents o.k. and that i credit that to watching an excellent style of television. and that i dont fairly comprehend what you advise with the aid of a "TEXAN" accessory. i'm a PROUD TEXAN and that i dont have an accessory in any respect, yet you may comprehend that Texas is larger than the united kingdom i think of, and how many diff accents have they have been given there. So your "american accessory" is probably universal Southern.
2016-10-04 22:38:10 · answer #4 · answered by banowski 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are many resources along that line at Joseph Beth Bookstores. Lexington, Kentucky is the closest to me. You could do an on-line search.
2006-12-05 14:06:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You learn accents by studying and listening to people. Not reading books etc.
2006-12-05 13:55:29 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
try you tube by typing in the city name and im sure youll get people on speaking
2006-12-05 14:00:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋