In this video I attempt to learn a British accent ("Modern RP", or "Standard Southern English", to be precise) and speak convincingly with strangers from the UK. Can I pass as British? Special thanks to Molly Parker (voice and accent coach) who appears in this video: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjvwmz4BA8Yn5F6oJ4K7XfA An extended version of this video showing more of my learning process is available to Patreon members. Support Langfocus on Patreon: https://patreon.com/langfocus . Current patrons include these fine people: Aleksei AmateurTextualCriticism Atlasino Fuyusaka Bennett Seacrist Bill Walderman Brian King Bruce C Chris Meredith Chuck Davis Claudia Ramos Fiona de Visser Georgina Toland Irina Bruce Italy Made Easy Jacob Madsen John Moffat Karl-Erik Wångstedt Kirk Kirkpatrick M. Aizat A. Rahman Matthew Foster Michael Cuomo Michael J Synnott Mody Nobbi Lampe-Strang Rosalind Resnick Rosetta Stephens Ruben Sanchez Jr ShadowCrossZero Ulf Hermjakob Vincent David Walter A Moore Wolfgang Egon Schroder Abdullah Al-Kazaz Adam Vanderpluym Aitona Al Alana Kalinowski Alex Tsigdinos Ali Mametraimov Ali Muhammed Alshehri Alice Amittai Aviram Andrew Doehler Andrew Woods Anthony Peter Swallow Aous Mansouri Ashley Dierolf Bartosz Czarnotta Ben Benjamin Tipton bk Brent Warner Brian Begnoche Bruce Ian Danton Bruce Stark Carl Luca Hofmann chris brown Chris Shifman Christopher Lowell contumaciousCulimancer Cyrus Shahrivar Dan Haworth Darek David Golub David LeCount Desmond Drew Diana Fulger Diane Young Dina Trageser divad Donald Tilley Doug Edward Wilson El Capitan Nico Elijah Double Eliza McCoole Emilia Bruns Eric Loewenthal fatimahl frederick shiels G Bot grace Grégoire Le Corre Guillaume Brodar Henrik Flyvbjerg Herr K Howard Clark Hugh AULT Ina Mwanda James and Amanda Soderling James Lillis JAMES ORR James Wraith Jay Bernard Jaye Ferrone Jim McLaughlin JL Bumgarner John Gavin John Weiss Jonathan Hutchins Julie Sriken Kate Jensen Konrad Konstantin Bredyuk KW Laura Morland Leah Meredith Lee Dedmon Leo Barudi LEROY Lissette Talledo Malandro Manuel Rosales Marcos Rodes Margaret Langendorf Mark Mark Judge Mark Kemp Martin Blackwell Merrick Bobb Merrick Bobb Michael Regal MikAE Mike Frysinger Mohammed A. Abahussain Molly Fivian Mário Pegado Nicholas Gentry Nicolas Elsishans Niro Oleksandr Ivanov Ondra Patriot Nurse Paul Shutler Peter Nikitin Peter Scollar piero Piri JAKAB VON SZENGELICE Ploshtinska polyudnica Raymond Thomas Robert Brockway Roger Smith Roland Seuhs Ronald Brady Scarecrow Repair Sheila Perryman Simon Blanchet SJWS Stefan Reichenberger Steven Severance Tara Pride Theophagous Thomas Chapel Thomas Gijsbers tomas o dathail Tony DeSantis Vinicius Marchezini Warren McKenzie William MacKenzie William O Beeman Yagub Alserkal Yeshar Hadi Yuriy Vrublevskiy Yuval Filmus Éric Martin Вайзефакнот Creative Commons content that appear in this video: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPA_vowel_chart_with_audio License: CC BY SA 4.0 International license https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:RP_English_monophthongs_chart.svg Author: RP__vowel_chart_(monophthongs).gif: Ƶ§œš¹; derivative work: Moxfyre License: CC BY SA 3.0 Unported https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:RP_English_diphthongs_chart.svg Author: RP_vowel_chart_(diphthongs).gif: Ƶ§œš¹; derivative work: Moxfyre License: CC BY SA 3.0 Unported 00:00 Introducing the challenge 01:16 Learning process 01:48 Brit #1 03:06 Reflecting 03:28 Brit #2 03:45 Brit #3 04:11 Reflecting 04:41 Brit #4 06:35 Reflecting 06:52 Brit #5 08:50 Reflecting 09:08 Brit #6 09:56 Reflection 10:18 Accent Coach 11:03 Physicality and imagery 12:51 Brits #7 16:17 What I learned from this challenge 18:43 The Question of the Day