How can I get rid of my Midwest accent?

Question

My boyfriend swears I talk like a Canadian/Wisconsinite. I hate that I say no with a big emphasis noooah.... How can I get rid of this crap? I am moving to Texas and don't want people to think I'm a cheesy Midwesterner. (I hate the Midwest by the way)

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Listen to a lot of country music. Watch "The Dukes of Hazzard" tv reruns on DVD. Pretty soon, you will be talkin like a southerner. It won't be long, either! A friend of mine i grew up with moved from California to Arkansas back in the 70's. The next time i saw him, about 4 years later, he was talkin like a true southerner. Then, from Arkansas, he moved to Alabama, and his drawl got deeper!

I think it would be funny to know someone with a deep New York accent to move to the south, and pretty soon lose the "pahk the cahr in hahvahd yahd" type of accent to that of a deep southern one.

This comedian who is from Boston was talkin about the way people talk in both the south and the east. He did a GREAT southern impression, using terms where there are r's where they shouldn't be, like "open the winder!" ("open the window")

Answer 3

you get an accent by being around people who have an accent like say you live in midwest and move to kentucky after about a year you will began to talk like them.

i do agree with you i don't like midwest seeing that i live here gosh i hate it.

the only way to get rid of an accent is either go to a speech therapist, and or move to a different town

Answer 4

Go to Barnes and Noble and get a copy of "Southern Accent
for Dumbies"

Here is a sample. Hay thar hunny. Can yooou git ma a glayas
uf nace aas T?
Hey, ya'll want sum gritz? Yah'll *** back now yahere.
Bubba! Hay Bubba whyen ya gonna ficks that thar truck of yo's?
But daaddy I luv him so.................
Pretty cheezy but as an authentic southerner I can get away with it. You could tell people that you are thinking about becoming a nun and that you have taken a vow of silence.
That'll give you time to read that book I was talking about.
See ya'll later!

Answer 5

I thought the midwest were the only ones without an accent?

Answer 6

I was born in Pennsylvania and have lived in Texas for 30 years. My family in Pa. say I sound just like a Texan. You will too after you are here for awhile.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

I don't think you'll want to sound like a Texan either... Try imitating accents on TV. They're pretty standard American most of the time.

Answer 9

And I thought I had a problem with my valley girl accent.....(being black and all) People make fun of me outside of California.....and I'm like, oh well....I wont be buying books on how to talk like a Southern girl.

Answer 10

i didn't know that there was such thing as a wisconsin/canadian accent, but if you are really desperate, you can go buy a tape at like borders and buy a learning to speak english tape

Answer 11

well, i can say that constant, right practice can change everything. it only takes a while to change what you don't like as long as you're really willing to change. but i'm just wondering why change the things that you already have? it is what makes you different from others. it tells you that no one can do it except yourself.
sorry about that. =)