I want to change my accent - help!!

[Opar]

Well, basiclly, after much thought (umm... 2 minutes?) I've decided to drop my annoying Yorkshire accent. Basiclly, I dont like it. Simple as. Its too.... too.... um... rough? I mean, wtf does 'ee bah gum' mean anyway? And I dont like how we miss letters of the ends of words!!!

So basiclly, im ditching my evil accent for something more 'civilised', I guess.

Any suggestions on good accents? Or tips on how to 'ditch' an accent? Im pretty good at putting on voices/impressions, but I doubt that will help.

If Patrick Stewart can do it, so can I!

PS - Dont laugh ^_^

[INFERNO22]

im laughing with you here not at you ROFLMaO Oo


Um... maybe you could listen to your voice on a recording and then listen to somone elses voice ( with a diff accent Duh..) and listen to how they end there words and prenounce them :)

[Tratos]

Go live somwhere else for a while :) heh

Went to austraila for 6 weeks you may not think thats very long but bloody hell i sounded odd when i got home, rofl

Although your about the same age as me so moving somwhere else isnt really an option O_o

Ermm..... Just keep doing impressions and shiznit

[Opar]

My voice scares me. I'll get scared if I listen to a recording of myself......

[P4mp3rk3]

get a scottish accent... I love scottish..

[ufora]

if some one hot had liz hurleys accent i would want to fuck her all day long

[cRazy2003]

speak scottish, it involves the following words, sounds and phrases:

'HAG'
'ACH!'
'COONT'
'AROOT THEE NOO'
ACH AYE THEH NOOO'
'GARG'

so on and so-forth, unfortunatly.

[INFERNO22]

get a scottish accent... I love scottish..

My God the nightmare on comms.................... we have lots of accents on our comms its quite interesting to listen to them cos theres scottish ones irish ,sweedish,finish ,(GB) down south ones ,different types of american ones

[ufora]

My God the nightmare on comms.................... we have lots of accents on our comms its quite interesting to listen to them cos theres scottish ones irish ,sweedish,finish ,(GB) down south ones ,different types of american ones


its worse on vent when proxy, mallo, punisher, starman, skelly, swelly etcetc are all speaking their whacky european languages

[COLD]

find a teamspeak or vent. server with some of us hicks from the Southeast part of U.S. and try to mimic us. I find that alot of Northerners find our accents mildly amusing. ;)

[Opar]

I dont want an American accent. No offence ^_^

I want to completely get rid of Yorkshire accents. Except when it comes to sports. When im playing Rugby and watching soprts on the Tele I want my yorkshireness to shine through ^_^

[FuzzyDuck]

Aparantly 93% of people that move to Vancoover come back with the accent.

(And no, American accents are not the same as Canadian).

[Dribble Joy]

My voice scares me. I'll get scared if I listen to a recording of myself......
I hate the way I sound.
Last time I was on TS I got told I sounded like Mr. Bean :(.

[jiga]

You should adopt my accent. It's an Oxford/Danish accent :P.

[Tratos]

speak scottish, it involves the following words, sounds and phrases:

'HAG'
'ACH!'
'COONT'
'AROOT THEE NOO'
ACH AYE THEH NOOO'
'GARG'

so on and so-forth, unfortunatly.
And not forgetting

'ah ye' fa' bassa'

roughyl translated to

Ah you fat bastard, lol

Oh and Canadian accents rule!, eh, cough

Just get on some sort os teamspeak, or get me, mumblyfish and Crazy to talk at you continuously and you'll be a geordie in about 10 mins

[Clownst0pper]

The best way is to make a conscious effort to avoid the yorkshire slang.

As im from the country, alot of people find my accent refreshing, they find it more approachable and chatty.

If im going to an interview however, I just speak RP and drop my accent completely.

Its context based, but takes practice.