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SureshK
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Any suggestions on American English

Post by SureshK » Wed, 30 Oct 2013 6:09 pm

Hi

Am an Indian working here in Singapore for a year now. Am looking for any suggestions for a better place to learn American English here. Am fluent in English but i wanted to speak more like a native American. I try it sometimes but you can realize in no time that am faking. Please can you help me with this.

Before posting i actually looked for any related posts, but haven't found any.


Appreciate if you can suggest/help me on this

Thanks

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Post by sundaymorningstaple » Wed, 30 Oct 2013 7:39 pm

My biggest question is WHY would you want to sound like a Yank? Is that a Boston Yank, A New Yawker Yank, A Balmer Yank, a Yank with a southern drawl, A Texan, a Coonass? All sound extremely different. What is wrong with sounding like an Indian speaking English?
SOME PEOPLE TRY TO TURN BACK THEIR ODOMETERS. NOT ME. I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW WHY I LOOK THIS WAY. I'VE TRAVELED A LONG WAY, AND SOME OF THE ROADS WEREN'T PAVED. ~ Will Rogers

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Post by nakatago » Thu, 31 Oct 2013 6:49 am

One case would be so that he can be Dave from Cleveland instead of Gupta from Mumbai.

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Post by sundaymorningstaple » Thu, 31 Oct 2013 10:50 am

^ +1
SOME PEOPLE TRY TO TURN BACK THEIR ODOMETERS. NOT ME. I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW WHY I LOOK THIS WAY. I'VE TRAVELED A LONG WAY, AND SOME OF THE ROADS WEREN'T PAVED. ~ Will Rogers

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Post by JR8 » Thu, 31 Oct 2013 11:10 am

Watch American TV, and repeat what you hear them say. Or radio, or download podcasts onto an MP3 player.

I'm not kidding, my sister mastered the basics of a complex foreign language by doing this, simply watching TV, especially news programmes where the subject is often visually cued in parallel, and the delivery slow and precise, (and that was a language she picked up, not just an accent)

Try National Public Radio http://www.npr.org/ which you can stream online.

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Post by nakatago » Thu, 31 Oct 2013 11:13 am

"A quokka is what would happen if there was an anime about kangaroos."

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