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This serves a duel purpose. Most important one is trying to help 
RhubarbCub, who can do a brilliant posh English accent, learn more about the rougher accents over here. Secondly, though, I'm trying to actually learn the accent myself. I know exactly what it sounds like, but replicating it is a little harder, as most British people listening to this can probably tell. I drift slightly into Welsh, Scottish and even Pirate at various parts, but it's accurate enough for a basic 'lesson', I think.
Basic rules of farmer;
DON'T drop your Rs. In fact, exaggerate them.
Also exaggerate most vowel sounds.
Drop Hs at the beginning of words, and Ts, Gs and Fs at the end of words.
ALWAYS start conversations with the time of day ("Mornin". "Afternoon". "Evenin" etc)
RhubarbCub, who can do a brilliant posh English accent, learn more about the rougher accents over here. Secondly, though, I'm trying to actually learn the accent myself. I know exactly what it sounds like, but replicating it is a little harder, as most British people listening to this can probably tell. I drift slightly into Welsh, Scottish and even Pirate at various parts, but it's accurate enough for a basic 'lesson', I think.Basic rules of farmer;
DON'T drop your Rs. In fact, exaggerate them.
Also exaggerate most vowel sounds.
Drop Hs at the beginning of words, and Ts, Gs and Fs at the end of words.
ALWAYS start conversations with the time of day ("Mornin". "Afternoon". "Evenin" etc)
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best thing i can suggest is don't lay the accent too thickly. you wanna hit that sweet spot between average accent and pirate without sounding to obviously pirate.
your getting there though so keep up the good work
I would never pretend this is passable as a real accent, but I find it's best to learn the exaggerated version and then learn to tone it down.
There's also a surprising lack of source material for this accent, even though it's so well known. I searched on Youtube for ages trying to find genuine accents like this (As you say, Devonshire, and also places like Gloucestershire) but there's hardly anything D:
Still, thanks. I'll try toning it down and not being a pirate ^_^
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btEpF334Rtc
it would be interesting to hear ya do a yorkshire accent, the west-riding variant is more challenging ^^
This is my first step towards doing that I guess, and I don't suppose there's any point stopping. I'll see about doing Yorkshire ^_^
i find it amusing that Americans struggle with it lol
I'm apparently a Yank!
When I was actually in Yankee territory for school, I was informed on a regular basis that I was actually from the Deep South, even though my state is actually third up from the southern border and in the geographic center.
Okay, time for my own voice clip!
And yeah, my voices aren't fooling anyone any time soon, but I think I'm getting better. My Australian is starting to get pretty good, I think. And I also love wacky voices. Fancy recording some and putting them up on here? You've got me interested now...