Many students are concerned about reducing their accents, but how much reduction is possible? I always tell my students that eliminating a foreign accent is really impossible because, to be honest, all native speakers have accents. So instead, the goal should be to reduce your accent. One way is to learn how to do word reductions (remember the 'schwa''?) like, "I wanna go ta tha party taday."
Of course, you have to make sure you know under what situations reducing is desirable, but you should at least become aware of this.
With this in mind, I posted some videos to provide a resource for students to check how different accents can become even within the same country.
Below, you will watch different videos from the same person, a native British speaker, saying exactly the same things but using different accents. You will find more samples from him on youtube. I've just selected a few of them for you.
It goes like this:
1. RP pronunciation (the one you'll find easier to understand), 2. Cockney (accent in some areas in London), 3.Irish, 4. Scottish (notice the pronunciation of the 'r'), 5. Aussie (from Australia), 6. South African, 7. Manchester
In all these videos he talks about a gig (concert) he went to, and he mentions some films where you will find those accents.
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