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spacemanspliff ►Wondering mate, in need of guidance, please show me the light, and so on; would it be possible for Asian to speak in an accent other than the Asian one? An example would be a dear friend of mine, a Chinese kid who speaks proper English tongue, or a Japanese who sounds very English; the two sound like Englishmen when they speak. Should I categorize their accent to be Asian?
Your explanation would be most appreciated mate.
Sankyuuu!
There is British Accent, but those are for the non British who lives abroad or stayed abroad for a very long time.
The thing with British accent is that it is not something you can learn by imitating, trust me when I say try speaking in British accent when you look asian and doesn't even remotely sounds like british will just humiliate you.
We called it Brits wannabe.
So, my advice is just practise clear and precise English, and whatever accent comes along is your identity.
There are many forms of English Accent, notably American, British, but we also have swedish, spanish, german, afrikan, chinese, Singaporean, Japanese accent.
It is the identity of certain race when they speak English.
I believe that 99% of Indonesian thinks that British is the only good accent and it is "OMGWTFSUPERKEWL" to be able to speak in pure British Accent, but let me tell you that unless you're born British or raised there, you will never be able to master the British accent.
So before you bother about accent, please just pay attention on getting your English correct first and foremost, your accent will come naturally as you go along.
There's no point worrying about "BRITISH ACCENT" when one can not even form a simple grammatically correct sentences.
Just like BULE will never be able to speak Javanese in a real Javanese accent, don't expect ourself to be British, because we're not. Unless that Bule was born / raised in Java then perhaps he can have that javenese accent.
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