+400 It's weird how in movies, actors with British accents are able to speak without one so easily, yet it is hard for people in the U.S. to try to speak with a British accent, amirite?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Haha I was gonna post the same thing the other day. :]

by Anonymous 13 years ago

hey genius...umm, theyre ACTORS

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It takes skill to speak with a British accent, other ones are piss easy

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It's not a british accent.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

What does that even mean?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I think they mean there's no such thing as a "British" accent, because Scottish, Irish, Welsh and English accents sound nothing alike.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It doesn't refer to a specific area in Britain, just an accent in Britain. Same with an American accent it just means they have an accent from America. A british accents means an accent that would be found in Britain.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

People from Texas, Lousiana, New York, California, Arkansas, Georgia, etc. have significantly different accents. Europeans call them American accents (the stereotypical accent tends to be from Texas). I'm sure that we tend to target a specific accent (particularly one in England). America is far, far bigger than Britain. We have SO many accents.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Technically, it's a dialect of English. So it cannot be called an accent, and the proper term is "English dialect"

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Random people might not be able to but a speak in a good British accent, but trained actors/ actresses can, that isn't weird at all. It makes sense.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

well actually in the tudors torrance coombs is from canada and he can speak easily with a british accent

by Anonymous 13 years ago

WHY HELLO GREGORY HOUSE!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

My first thoughts were Hugh Laurie, Anna Friel, and Gary Oldman :)

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Well Robert Downey jr has an American accent, but he did Sherlock Holmes pretty damn good

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Why does it have to be people in the U.S.? People in China can't have a problem speaking in a British accent too?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Thats because asian countries are mostly taught the british median when speaking and learning english.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

They have dialect coaches for actors.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I think that in the UK we hear more genuine American accents than Americans do English accents. It just depends on how familiar you are with the sounds and rhythms of the accent

by Anonymous 13 years ago

We're just better.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

um, no. No one country or race of people is better than another.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Apparently Australian accents are more difficult though? I wouldn't know, I'm Australian myself, but people always say how hard it is to imitate our accents!

by Anonymous 13 years ago