Do you have British Accent?

Everywhere I go, people say that I have a British Accent. This should not be surprising because back in China the official accent taught at school was British accents. Even though I have adopted as much American accent since I came to the states, most notebly the "er" sound, the Americans can still detect my British accent and ask if I learned English in UK or Australia. I told them that it is what I learned in China at school, but they do not buy it. And I see why: most Chinese from China do not have the accent that was taught in school.

Now my question is: do you have a british accent if you first learned Engilish from China? If you do not, why???

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• 谢谢aPasserby分享。 -婉蕠- ♀ (243 bytes) () 05/06/2010 postreply 08:20:07

• Thanks for the reply -aPasserby- ♀ (47 bytes) () 05/06/2010 postreply 10:36:11

• yes,we did. having some british accent is my long-term goal -23731241- ♂ (0 bytes) () 05/06/2010 postreply 10:40:34

• 我会有中国口音。因为学习的方式不同，发音的部位也不太一样。 -^3.1415926^- ♀ (110 bytes) () 05/06/2010 postreply 11:27:45

• 看到你真～～高兴！ -小千...千与千寻- ♀ (39 bytes) () 05/06/2010 postreply 12:55:33

• 瞎玩儿，还是这里有意思的。 -^3.1415926^- ♀ (0 bytes) () 05/06/2010 postreply 16:09:39

• 回复：我会有中国口音。因为学习的方式不同，发音的部位也不太一样。 -aPasserby- ♀ (541 bytes) () 05/06/2010 postreply 13:19:53

• 这些老美很有意思，我刚来的时候，他们说我说的不是中国口音是。。。 -^3.1415926^- ♀ (147 bytes) () 05/06/2010 postreply 16:08:29

• According to my experience, the native English speakers are ver -aPasserby- ♀ (271 bytes) () 05/06/2010 postreply 19:24:09

• 可能是。 -^3.1415926^- ♀ (210 bytes) () 05/06/2010 postreply 19:59:53

• This is funny but curious -aPasserby- ♀ (184 bytes) () 05/06/2010 postreply 22:00:31

• 这个有意思，不晓得是声音像还是发音像，这是不同的。 -^3.1415926^- ♀ (252 bytes) () 05/07/2010 postreply 09:34:56