How to get american accent

I’ll just add that the best American accent is worthless if your syntax is poor. As it is in your post.

If you’re trying to perfectly emulate a General American accent, that’s going to be really difficult, especially for an L1 Arabic speaker. There’s not going to be a fast or easy way to do it. Lots and lots of practice plus possibly speech classes or something to that effect. If you just want to try to loosely follow American English phonology, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_American_English Attached is the Wikipedia page for General American English, which outlines some of the basics of American English and its derivative/co-evolved accents.

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Repetition doesn't have to be boring, but is a key part of practising any skill. There is no way you will be able to learn an accent without repeatedly making your mouth form the words and sounds you want to make, and listening to both other speakers and yourself speak will help you learn sounds that may be unfamiliar in your native language and how to make them and improve your accent. I would also add, and I meant this in the kindest way possible, that if your speaking is at a similar level to your writing then practice is needed. Your goal might not be to sound like a native speaker and what you mean can be pieced together when written, but there are quite a few grammatical mistakes that would likely cause issues when speaking.

I’m a native speaker of American English, and I went through a period where I was ashamed of my own accent (Minnesotan and on the lower end of the socioeconomic scale). I regret my attempts to disguise that, and while I’m sure you’ll get some helpful tips on how to do it, I think as long as your English is intelligible that you shouldn’t try too hard to sound like an American. We have so many accents that any one you pick is going to sound out of place somewhere else in the country. But I also get annoyed at frequent questions that are prompted by my rather ethnic name, so I also understand why someone might want to sound like a native.

Find an actor or someone like that and copy their accent. Literally just copy it. I did the same with Spanish and now I have an unshakeable yeísmo.

Watch a bunch of American TV with English captioning.

Where are you? Either come to the US for a year or so and live life (note: now is not the best time for this), or watch a shit-ton of American TV with the English subtitles, as others have said. If you find a couple series you can get into, it won’t even feel like work! Practice words/phrases that sounded weird or hard to understand, or whatever works best for you. Good luck!

How do you intend to learn and emulate the accent without actually learning it? Boring and repetitive exercises is how you better your accent, unless you’re some kind of prodigy. I consider myself an advanced English learner but even I sometimes have problem pronouncing some words because I haven’t had to say it out loud before.

I might suggest narrowing down _which_ American accent you want. The generic Central Midwest/Ohio accent is fairly boring. If you pin down a specific accent, you might find one that’d be easier to shift into from your native one. Like one of the dozens of Southern accents, or the drawl of the lower California accent?

Majority of the time it’s very easy to know someone isn’t a native speaker. No matter how hard some people try to put on an accent there are always give aways. What’s wrong with just using your natural accent? As long as people understand you that’s the main thing.

If anything, not having an American accent would be a help while you're still working on grammar and usage, especially if you're traveling to the US or another place where you'll be speaking English. If you had a perfect American accent but were using a lot of incorrect grammar and strange phrasing, people might think you're poorly educated/not very intelligent. Whereas if your accent indicates that English is not your native language, not speaking it with native fluency will be more understandable and people will cut you more slack.

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My college roommate, who had a thick Southern accent like I did, after he moved up north to work for Abbott, spent hours just saying certain words over and over in an American accent. Why did he do this? Back then (this was mid-2000s) they thought a Southern accent was "uneducated".

Live there... I the 80s I lived in Houston. I was 16-18 Im from Canada. I mean, it is the quickest way to pick up pronciations and accents!! My first yr in Canadian Army at 19, everyone called me Tex!! Thing is .. I went to Texas with an Anglo/French (Franglaise) Accent!! I know, not much help before you get there.. But youre not gonna shake your native accent for a while.. BTW.. There are many American Accents. From Boston, to El Paso... Good luck! Just keep trying, you'll do OK.

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I'm a fellow Arabic speaker, and I can confirm that achieving such a thing is not possible without constant repetition. This isn't to say that my American accent is perfect, as there are still some areas I need to improve on, but watching movies and listening to English songs are what helped me pretty well.

When you read, consider an audiobook with someone who has an american accent. Listening a LOT will be important. Slower accents tend to be Midwestern and southern, West is fairly slow. East tends to be faster and viewed as more "abrasive"

What do Americans sound like when they speak Arabic and haven't practiced?

Are you musical? If so, I’d start learning some songs and sing along with them. I’d also pick some movies you really like, watch them with the English su titles on a few times, and speak along with the actors.

Just watch American TV...? I don't understand how you want to do something but want to put in zero effort in doing said thing.

I would focus on your grammar and syntax first, otherwise you’re just putting icing on a cake that’s not stable enough to support the weight. You’re going to need to do the boring stuff, sorry to say.

>Without boring repeating or learning pronunciation rules .....No. It's going to take work in any event. Think how many hours you spent practicing learning to make the correct sounds in Arabic. It may not have felt like work, but it was. Children are talking all the time but still usually have some kind of problem with pronouncing some phonemes until they are 6 or 7 years old. As an adult, you can pick up a lot of things more quickly than a child would, but it still takes a lot of work. That being said, I would suggest you try doing the below. 1. Listen to a native speaker saying a target sentence. 2. Try to repeat exactly the sounds in the sentence. Don't think about the letters or the meaning of the sentence, just try to exactly repeat the sounds. 3. Record yourself and listen back. Usually even if you can't make the sounds perfectly, you will still be able to hear that it's not quite right, and so by practicing recording and playing back you can improve how close it sounds. By doing the above, you not only can improve your ability to mimic English sounds, but also pick up on ways that native speakers tend to speak which are different from how the words are written. For instance, most English speakers say "chree" instead of "tree" and "jrag" instead of "drag." They may not even realize they do it. Native speakers learn to speak before they learn to write and spell. But second language learners typically learn writing and speaking simultaneously or may even learn speaking after writing. This can interfere with perfect pronunciation since the spoken and written language are never quite the same. In addition to the above, there are helpful diagrams online about tongue position for various phonemes in English. Sometimes, you may realize that the English speakers are doing something totally different with their mouth than you are to make the "same sound." For instance the Spanish D and English D are formed with the tongue in a completely different location. In reality, the Spanish D is pretty close to the English TH (like in though) and the English D is sort of like a very hard Spanish R. Finally, if you are the kind of person who enjoys material that is about 50% educational 50% entertainment, there is a lot of good content on this channel. [https://www.youtube.com/@DrGeoffLindsey](https://www.youtube.com/@DrGeoffLindsey) Watch a few videos and I can almost guarantee you will find something to make your English sound more natural.