Please help ! Looking for a native English speaker !

[Miralina]

Hello is there someone who have a perfect british accent ???Please i'm looking for help.
I need your help for my project . I don't have a good british accent because i' m used to speak with the american accent so i find difficulties in managing words while talking . They told me in the Institute to take by heart the weather forecast performed by laura tobin but in fact ,i can not capture all the words she said. I'm waiting for your answer as soon as possible.

[Torsten]

Hello Miralina. Can you please tell us what you mean by 'a perfect British accent'? Are you referring to 'RP -- Received Pronunciation'? Only about 5% of all British people speak RP so why do you want to adopt it? I think it's best if you post a voice recording here on the forum so we can evaluate your accent: http://www.english-test.net/community/index.html#How_can_I_record_and_listen_to_audio_messages

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[Miralina]

Hello Mr Torsten ! "so a perfect british accent" means that someone who speaks correctly and fluently . In the Institute where i study ,the professor asked me to record the weather forecast and to imitate laura tobin how she performs and talks . And really , i find many difficulties to do that because i'm not used to speak british english : I tried hard to memorize what she said but i failed .Please i need someone to help me to transcribe this audio track because she is too fast while speaking .

[Torsten]

Which audio track?

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[Miralina]

she speaks too fast so that i can't write any words from what she said "this is the link ": http://youtu.be/q2eSObPEDRc and sorry for bothering you

[Beeesneees]

Here are the first 35 seconds.

Hello there! Yesterday... yes, it was the hottest day of October on record. 29.9 degrees was our high.
Still a lot of warm, still a lot of sunny weather around in the forecast today, and a lot of dry weather as well. That is, in England and Wales. However, the north of England, the weather is changing through the coming hours. The sky is clouding over, outbreaks of rain, cooler here today, but south of here, for parts of the Midlands into Lincolnshire, for East Anglia and many southern counties of England, a beautiful afternoon to come.

Quite frankly, I think your professor is wrong to ask you to imitate any sort of an accent other than your own. As Torsten has already pointed out, there is no such thing as a 'perfect British accent'. I have lived in Britain all my life and don't sound anything like that weather reporter. (Incidentally, because she speaks informally, many of her sentences are broken in a way that would be considered incorrect in grammatical terms.)
What is important is that you can speak clearly using your own natural accent.
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[Miralina]

Thank you very much for answering my question . In the Institute where i study , they ask to talk with the british english accent perfectly while even the professors don't speak fluently. Sorry for bothering you.

[Cgk]

[Miralina]

Thank you Claudia . Hope so :-)

[Alan]

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Hi,

One of the words used by weather forecasters seems always to be pronounced in a strange way and often by women forecasters. And that's the word 'west'. So they talk about winds from the west, rain mainly in the west, later you can expect cloudy skies in the southwest and so on.

Alan
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[Luschen]

This is not received pronunciation correct? Wouldn't it be described as estuary? As an American, I wish I could pick out English / Australian / New Zealand accents better.

[Alan]

Hi,

I wouldn't call that 'estuary English'. That seems a bit harsh!

Alan
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[Luschen]

Oh, so is that a put-down? How about the Geico gecko - is his accent "estuary English"? I noticed that his accent changed about 2 years ago.

[Alan]

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Hi Luschen,

Not quite sure what you mean by 'put down' - who is being put down? The speaker or you? My feeling is that the recording you have added is too warm and friendly to be 'estuary'.

Alan
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[Luschen]

I was trying to ask if saying someone has an Estuary accent is a put-down. Sorry, I know you weren't denigrating me.