Accent

We always criticized other people on what their accents are..some people tend to immediately withdrawn others because they felt that they dont belong to their group. for an instance, tagalog people always had this prejudism against visayan people when speaking in english..so when i was reading some stuffs on the net today i found
some ways to change your accents which i got from: http://linguistlist.org/ask-ling/accent.html

Anyway, if you do decide you have good reasons for changing your accent, and you want to put in some effort these are some things to do.

* Identify the accent you want to speak.
* Expose yourself to the accent you want as much as possible.
* Try to get some friends who speak with the accent you want.
* Try to make sure you are not mixing with people who will criticise you for changing your accent.

Here is what is recommended as a method by one of our panelists, Suzette Hayden Elgin. If you do this, it is best to choose recordings of someone of your own gender.:

I suggest the following procedure, which has worked very well for many people:

1. Get a cassette tape of someone who speaks English with the accent that you would like to have, at least twenty minutes long.
2. Listen to the entire tape all the way through once or twice, just to become familiar with its content. Don't write it down or try to memorize it.
3. Listen to a brief sequence -- just a sentence or two. Rewind the tape to the beginning of that sentence.
4. Say the sentence aloud _with_ the tape. Don't repeat it after the tape as is done in traditional foreign language courses -- speak with the speaker. Don't worry about making mistakes, just do your best to speak simultaneously with the speaker.
5. Rewind to the beginning of the sentence and do this again, several times. (Ten times is not too many.)
6. Move to the next sentence and do the same thing.
7. Continue until you've worked your way through the whole tape speaking with your chosen model speaker.