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| Thread ID: 110425 | 2010-06-16 21:55:00 | How do I get rid of my accent? | Renmoo (66) | PC World Chat |
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| 1110827 | 2010-06-17 01:14:00 | An elocution school may help. Very good idea. Know the story of "My Fair Lady"? Shows that it can be done. Be yourself and dont worry about an accent. Excellent advice. My Irish Colleen has been here 36 years and there are still times when I ask her what she said! But we laugh at it because it is a part of her and I would not want her to change. One of the biggest problems I have found when trying to understand someone with a foreign accent is their speed. So my advice is to keep your accent, but slow down and enunciate your words distinctly. In that way you get to keep your attractive accent and be understood at the same time. Easy. |
Roscoe (6288) | ||
| 1110828 | 2010-06-17 01:19:00 | Take a job in an outbound call centre. | sam m (517) | ||
| 1110829 | 2010-06-17 01:28:00 | Six long years, and yet the thick accent still persists up to now. My mother has had her accent for 54 years now. Remember we ALL have an accent, yours stands out because the majority here sound the same, but if we go elsewhere we stand out. Don't worry about it, I like accents. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1110830 | 2010-06-17 01:33:00 | Listen to "Lyn of Tawa"...................www.youtube.com or.... you could try a Billy T James accent....www.youtube.com |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1110831 | 2010-06-17 01:37:00 | Very good idea. Know the story of "My Fair Lady"? Shows that it can be done. Excellent advice. My Irish Colleen has been here 36 years and there are still times when I ask her what she said! But we laugh at it because it is a part of her and I would not want her to change. One of the biggest problems I have found when trying to understand someone with a foreign accent is their speed. So my advice is to keep your accent, but slow down and enunciate your words distinctly. In that way you get to keep your attractive accent and be understood at the same time. Easy. Reading the above,I still say lessons is the way. Nothing wrong with speaking properly. If I went to a foreign country,I would take lessons and not just mangle their language. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 1110832 | 2010-06-17 01:56:00 | Yeah just stop speaking Japanese to your friends and try to hang out with some maori kids a bit more at school and you should be alright. | roddy_boy (4115) | ||
| 1110833 | 2010-06-17 02:10:00 | I worked with a 100% white European guy whose parents had a dairy farm out of Whangerai, he runs it now. His name was Pedro. He went to a rural school nearby and spoke just like a maori, he only dated maori chicks and drove a mk111 Zeph. He even did the maori body language thing like billy t jame. |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 1110834 | 2010-06-17 04:43:00 | On a sidenote, I have *just* (yay) been employed as a retail assistant at a pharmacy in Auckland. I will use this as an opportunity to build-up my communication confidence. :) | Renmoo (66) | ||
| 1110835 | 2010-06-17 04:46:00 | On a sidenote, I have *just* (yay) been employed as a retail assistant at a pharmacy in Auckland. I will use this as an opportunity to build-up my communication confidence. :) Congratulations, Jamuz. That's great news. |
Marnie (4574) | ||
| 1110836 | 2010-06-17 04:54:00 | Good one. :) | KarameaDave (15222) | ||
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