One of the main things about Cockney is, you speak at twice the speed as Americans. Americans speak very slow.
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Americans aren't good at accents, but the English are because their accents change. You go five or six blocks and the accent is different, so they are used to hearing different pitches. In America, you gotta travel maybe 10 states before you can really hear a difference.
To be honest, it's easier for me to speak with an American accent.
My accent gets more pronounced when I've been talking to people from Derry.
My family are from Liverpool, so I have some twang there - I have a Midlands accent, and I was raised about an hour north of London, so my voice is a mess. Although, to American ears, it sounds like the crisp language of a queen's butler.
Well, American dialects have been studied for a hundred years or so.
I'm a New Yorker, so I speak really fast, naturally.
I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is.
In England, we're around so much American culture and TV anyway, so it's an accent that's always in our ear.
I had a dialect coach to get an American accent, and then another dialect coach to come off it a bit. There is something deep and mysterious in the voice when it isn't too high-pitched American.
Don't let the American accent fool you. I am British.
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