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Significant_Will7521
Hi, I am 31m. I want to speak english with British Accent. Can anybody tell me the resources, YouTube channels, websites from where I can learn British Accent?

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Pleasant-Engine6816•
Which one?
Ll_lyris•
Which accent from where?
Traianus117ad•
Reading the comments, you really should specify which British accent you want. I'm guessing that you want to speak with one of two: RP (Recieved Pronunciation) - This is what is often called "The King's English" and was seen for many decades as the highest class British accent. However, it is old, and people born today do not speak with it. SSBE (Standard Southern British English) - This is the evolution of RP spoken today by younger people. It may sound slightly less dignified, but it will also make you sound more modern and with the times.
Agreeable-Fee6850•
Use BBC learning English materials.
the_kapster•
You can try to learn an accent but it’s likely it will just come off as fake- accents are not learned behaviours, they’re acquired naturally after being exposed for a long time. You’d need to go live in London for 20 years..
Comfortable-Study-69•
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Received_Pronunciation Here’s the wikipedia page for received pronunciation. It’s by no means comprehensive and it’s very hard to perfect an accent, especially if it’s not your native language, but it’s probably a good place to start. I would also focus on trying to make yourself understandable rather than emulating an accent if you aren’t fluent already.
Dovahkiin419•
So here’s the thing, Great Britain has possibly the highest density of English dialects anywhere in the world. People will sound completely different just one town over, or in the case of London just depending on which part of the city they grew up in and in what class. There isn’t one British accent What you *might* be thinking of ā€œreceived pronunciationā€ or ā€œRPā€, which was the accent of Rich Londoners which then spread through it being thr one used by the BBC even to today.
ashleymarie89•
I don’t know of any resources for learning the accent, but I would suggest that you watch a lot of content made by British people to get a feel for it. Do you have any interests? What content do you like to watch on YouTube? Sky News is a professional British news station and they have a channel on YouTube. I watch that often myself. There’s a man on YouTube named Metatron. He’s an Italian man who learned English with a British accent, and he makes a lot of videos about language learning in general and about history. He’s amazing.
HannieLJ•
There are many different accents within the ā€œBritishā€ bracket. I’m from Bedfordshire and mine is an ā€œestuaryā€ accent because it acquires bits from all over the place. We have the dropping of T’s in words like butter and water which is quite an East End London type thing. If you want to be more like ā€œKing’s Englishā€ then you’re looking at a Received Pronunciation accent like older news readers but the BBC switched to more regional accents even on the national news.
JackEmptiness•
The best podcast for learning British English is Luke's English Podcast. The bloke is really funny and interesting and he lives in London and as well as pronouncing words very clearly himself, he interviews other Londoners.
Significant_Will7521••OP
Thank you so much to all of you for your kind responses. It will help me a lot to learn English Speaking. Thanks again
Kirillllllllllllllll•
А зачем тебе Британский акцент?!
OwlAncient6213•
What dialect
sqeeezy•
[LibriVox.org](http://LibriVox.org) has many good examples of audiobooks read in various English accents, all free to download. My favourite is Karen Savage, who reads in a clear RP English accent in Pride and Prejudice, for example. (She also does US English and Spanish and lives in the US : I don't known her nationality).
sqeeezy•
[https://wiki.librivox.org/index.php/Accents\_Table](https://wiki.librivox.org/index.php/Accents_Table)