How can i get a better american accent!!?

Question

How can i get a better american accent?

i was born and raised in detroit...but i have a spanish accent !!!...im not even spanish/hispanic !!.im native american,but live around ALOTTT of mexicans (hence the name...mexican town)

but im tierd of the "are you mexican" or "where are you from" questions !!..i dont look mexican,but am oftern mistaken for puerto rican...but how can i have a better accent?...also...when im mad..it gets REALLLLLY bad..and i add E before S...so when i say stop it comes out "estop" when i was younger i used to add an E befor S no matter what,and i can control that now..but i really want to sound like im from here...what can i do?..i cant change where i live,but how do i change my accent? (without classes..im 15 and my mom wont pay for 'em.lol)

its not fake either..its really how i talk/sound

Answer 1

jaja wish i culd help u bt i kinda hav da same thing lol n i am mexican lol gud luk jaja lol sry homeG =]

Answer 2

You could watch a lot of movies and listen to the way Americans talk, once you expose yourself to regular American accents you will begin to talk like one. There are so many American dialects... good luck! =] There are also voice websites to help you pronounce words and you pronounce the word back it makes you repeat the word until you get it right and I believe that it's free.

EDIT: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/whadja-say-...

Answer 3

oh i'd LOVE to help!!! one thing.. i took spanish 1 and 2 both in HS and college.. i hardly remember anything.. but i understand how the accents work and stuff.

for instance, spanish speaking people tend to not enunciate as much as english speaking people..

yo- i written on paper..

in spanish it's pronounced like "shjo" or just "joe" but with a lighter tounge on the J almost like a SH sound.

in english.. it's pronounced with more of an "Eeoh" sound.  

i think enunciation has a lot to do with tounge placement and mouth shapes. i notice a lot that you can't hardly read spanish peoples lips because they hardly move when they speak.. please let me know if that helped. i'd love to chat with you more about it!! i'm 19 (almost 20) and i'm from florida. strangly enough i've been asked once in my life if i was spanish.. lol but i'm as white as can be.

steph

Answer 4

Try something online maybe, Sometimes there have free videos that will help you or if you have some extra money try some tapes or cds. Their probably not that expensive and you could pay for them yourself without your parents help!

Answer 5

just do u dont try and be something ur not!

Answer 6

just think before you speak, but i would just be yourself,. you will sound phony otherwise