Acquiring an American Accent for Spanish & Filipino Speakers

This video helps Spanish & Filipino speakers identify key differences in their pronunciation as compared to native speakers of American English.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Accent Modification
• Accent Reduction
• American Accent
• Spanish
• Philippino
• Filipino Speakers

[rommelfernando]

I like your accent. It's really very american.

[rebeccalinquist]

@sirach Exactly! I'm so glad you "get it!"

[zmwaiting]

btw, those 170 that u mentioned are dialects

[zmwaiting]

Thanks! I'm a Filipino who's been learning American accent

[KevNSuraj]

Im Filipino Spanish Mixed! But I have a East Anglian British accent

[yujjinn]

@chargonchar Hey, you already have that snotty attitude so why not, right?

[chargonchar]

Why on Earth would anyone want to sport an American accent? I don't want to sound like Mickey Mouse chewing Wrigley's chewing gum all the time. If any, I would attempt a true ENGLISH accent.

[rebeccalinquist]

@jizzy2k Sorry, I think I was just trying to say it correctly, and probably didn't at that!

[iNESADRIenne]

Very good tutorial. I just wish the word "Tagalog" didn't sound/look so painful coming out of the mouth. ^.^

[redcomusic]

Everybody just please shut up...really! This video is an instruction on "acquiring and American accent for Spanish and Filipino speakers." It does NOT say..."how to speak English the right way" or "this is the best way to speak English." (The US itself has different regional accents; this video teaches what's called General American so it's really practical).

So stop arguing and attacking each other's personal lives or [distorted] sense of history. Yes, distorted...I went there, get over it.

[triggerman13]

@sirach Actually, Tagalog and Spanish have linguistic similarities. That is, we have TONS of borrowed words from Spanish. The Spaniards after all, colonized the Philippines for 333 years. Grammar-wise, however, it's way off. I know this because I speak both languages. :)

Phonetically, it sounds similar because Filipinos pronounce every letter in any word. We only have five vowels (a, e, i, o, u), e.g. ship and sheep are pronounced the same. There's no stress timing like in English.