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Which accent in Britain is the best to learn for non-native English speakers?

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Original post by HenryJR
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Why do you need to learn the accent?


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Where do you plan to live? It would be pretty pointless picking up a Geordie accent if you end up in Liverpool or the Welsh Valleys!


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Welsh.
Richmond accent??? Is that even a thing? Haha, I'm from Richmond but I didn't know we have a distinctive accent. My accent isn't posh at all!
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Suppose that's a fair point. RP is supposedly always learned anyway.
yorkshire accent.
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For a non-native speaker. It depends where you intend live. However, if you don't intend to live anywhere in England, I recommend the London-English Accent, as that would be the most useful and normal.
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Midlands!
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Why do you need to learn the accent?


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Because I don't want to speak in Chinese accent and I want to speak English as close to the native speaker as possible, so accent seems to be important.
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Wow a lot of new words. So Richmond accent is more like a posh London accent but not cockney? Is the posh London accent close to RP.
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Original post by ackbar
Where do you plan to live? It would be pretty pointless picking up a Geordie accent if you end up in Liverpool or the Welsh Valleys!


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Yeah I guess you are right. I plan to take my university course in London or Yorkshire. But I want a accent hmmm.. More neutral which means everyone could understand me and it's also one of the British accents. Or posher xD
A London accent, rather West/SW London!
Bristol.
Definitely Glaswegian. It's universally understood. :tongue:
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Bristol.

Ha! I know a guy who speaks in that accent xD is that posh?
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Ha! I know a guy who speaks in that accent xD is that posh?


Youtube Justin Lee Collins and Josie Gibson.
The Edinburgh accent.

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