Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Recently, I asked the BuzzFeed Community which non-American actors they think can do the most convincing American accents.

For language geeks like me, accent reduction is a term used to describe losing a foreign or regional accent to adopt a more popular one (e.g., American). It’s an important part of a person’s identity, ...

This easy English listening lesson helps intermediate learners compare American and Scottish English in a natural ...

We often poke fun at poorly attempted accents. Brad Pitt in The Devil’s Own, for example, but it also goes the other way. Some actors from elsewhere try to do an "American" accent, but it just does ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. North Carolina has an extensive audio archive of local accents and dialects that contains thousands of recordings. Rhode Island, ...

Luc Haasbroek is a writer and videographer from Durban, South Africa. He has been writing professionally about pop culture for eight years. Luc's areas of interest are broad: he's just as passionate ...