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Old 16-Apr-2005, 19:30
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My name is Salman and I'm from Pakistan. I can speak english very well. But so many times I feel guilty due to my accent. I would like to improve my accent and I like to speak a British people.

I hope you will reply me. I look forward to you.

Thanking you

Salman Farsi
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Make sure you're listening to a lot of the target accent, and practise different mouth positions until you can do it. Try recording yourself and comparing it to a British speaker recording. Check these out for sources:


http://www.usingenglish.com/links/Listening/
http://www.usingenglish.com/links/Sp...Pronunciation/
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Old 24-Apr-2005, 20:44
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Hello

My name is Salman and I'm from Pakistan. I can speak english very well. But so many times I feel guilty due to my accent. I would like to improve my accent and I like to speak a British people.

I hope you will reply me. I look forward to you.

Thanking you

Salman Farsi

try this program, they got a demo with live voice recordings where you could hopefully improve on your accent, good luck!
www.dm192.en101.com
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Old 28-Apr-2005, 22:25
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http://www.clube-de-ingles.com
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My name is Salman and I'm from Pakistan. I can speak english very well. But so many times I feel guilty due to my accent. I would like to improve my accent and I like to speak a British people.

I hope you will reply me. I look forward to you.

Thanking you

Salman Farsi
Hi Salman,

I totally understand your feeling of speaking good English but with some annoying accent.

It has troubled me for a long time and even now I am still not totally confident in speaking to the local people, but before I came to Australia from China no one has ever told me that I have an accent. I was over-confident with my oral English before & afterwards I am now under-confident with it. Why is it so hard for the local people (Aussie) understand me? Actually at the beginning, I couldn't understand them either.

So now I am insisting on watching TV everyday for at least 1 hour to assure that I am getting involved in this local environment in their language. So if you want to reduce your accent, my advice would be talking to Bristish People,or listing to some tapes & radio as the other guys suggested.

Take your time in doing it, but be aware that you will never get rid of your mother accent totally.

Lucy
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