How to Speak with an Accent
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Uploaded by uconn on Aug 26, 2011
UConn alumnus, David Alan Stern, from the graduating class of 1969 discusses his career as a voice coach and reveals his method of teaching accents and dialects. Before joining the UConn faculty, he taught accents to many critically acclaimed actors, such as Forest Whitaker, Liam Neeson, Olympia Dukakis, Julia Roberts, and Sally Field. Stern is professor and associate head of the dramatic arts department at UConn.
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Once again, a voice coach who can't do an Australian accent.
Instructional tape number 25.
If you're only going to fail that badly, you really shouldn't attempt it at all.
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Wow! i just read this in english 2 days ago. To let you guys in on something, most of the words used in the poem are not real. they are made up.
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That was not a Texas accent. i live in Texas, and this makes me wonder at the authenticity of your other accents.
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and BTW I'm from the UK.
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I'm sorry this guys a joke - cockney!!?? Have you been to London? Scotland? might be a queue of people waiting to get all Dick-Van-Dyke yo ass.
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cool
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Fantastic advice! The parrot technique - I love it! Learning an accent is so much more than just being able to reproduce the sounds. You have to completely get into the 'personality' of the accent and one of the first steps is to physically mimic typical speakers of that accent. That is, you need to see what they are doing with their face and at least the visible speech organs in order to begin to be able to replicate it.
accentgym 3 months ago
@accentgym glad you enjoyed it!
uconn 3 months ago
David Stern probably is a good voice coach, but what Forest Whitaker would have needed was proper acting coach to begin with. Boom.
LAThjalfi 6 months ago
@LAThjalfi Ouch, I'm sure I can find someone on campus to help him out there if you would like. But, Forest did win an Oscar for The Last King of Scotland.
uconn 6 months ago