All non-native speakers of English try to work on their accents to sound as natural as possible. We usually choose to be more American or more British. Incidentally, there is no such thing as ?American accent? or ?British accent? as each area is in fact comprised of various regional phonetic systems. Therefore, we can learn to speak Standard English, so a dialect of the language as employed by the national norm. The standards Each language has a standard phonetic system which delineates the correct manner of pronouncing sounds, words and sentences. For Great Britain, the most well-known standard as Received Pronunciation (RP). According to some researchers, only a small percentage of native speakers employ that ? majority speaks with an English, Welsh, Scottish or Irish accent (bearing in mind they are internally diverse). RP is most often taught to non-native speakers. In the USA, we call it General American. The
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