Get rid of my accent

I have a thick Texas accent, and its not that I hate Texas or anything, but I want to water down my accent so that people will be able to understand me better and not look at me funny while I talk. I want to move out of state when I graduate so hopefully being away from Texas will help me with that. I have made some progress though, I am starting to pronounce my g’s at the end of ings, I have started pronouncing my I’s like I’s, and I don’t draw my words out as much.

I am a man from the South, and I have acquired an accent I never wished to have bestowed upon me. I am from Mississippi, and I speak like a cowboy from the Texas Ranger shows.

I wish to lose this accent, become… neutralized.

Please, someone help me.
I want to go into the entertainment business, but I can not if I am not clear, and understandable.

i have 5 years in the U.S and well i have an accent i would like to get rid of; this does not mean i’m ashamed of my culture or anything like that. I’m just tired of people laughing at my pronuciation on certain words.

I came to the US 2 years ago. I have a russian accent. I am trying to do my best but it is too hard to get rid og this accent. My friend he always makes fun of my accent and it makes me very mad.

I have an Asian accent….from my parents trying to teach me chinese at a young age which i can sorta speak fluently.
But I hate it when my friends make fun of me or the thought that the way i pronounce things bother other people. Maybe it’s just an insecurity.

I have problems pronouncing words like, bird or burger (or so i’ve been told since i can’t hear myself pronouncing them haha)
help?

I came from Venezuela to California and then moved Maryland 5 years later.

I know I have an accent, I was living in caracas Vez all my life, venezuelans speak way to fast sometimes cutting letters for ex: “Para ya” which means over there we use it as ” Pa’lla see. now all this affects me when I speak English because my tongue is use to move this way. I try my best eveyday to get rid of my accent but it’s impossible so far.I would like to be understood clearly and concise.
does anyone here knows a method ?

I come from the south… sadly! I hate so much! One day I started asking my friends if I had an Southern Accent. They all replied “A little bit”. So I then asked on of my other friends and she said the same thing except she added in “Yours reminds & sounds like Paula Dean”! I was like excuse me! How did I sound like Paula, I love Paula, but I hate Southern Accents! Also when your record my voice on a video camera or something similar I sound like a southern drug addict that just woke up and has a hangover!!!!!! SOMEONE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have an accent where my r’s and l’s get mixed up with my w’s. People say that it kinda resembles a southern accent, but I was born and raised in Chicago. I tried pronouncing the ends of my words more, and it worked a little, but it just was hard to remember to do that.

I’m thinking of getting a voice therapist, but I don’t know if that’ll help…

Now I am not talking about “improving one’s elocution,” I am in favor of doing that. It is important to be able to be understood. But as far as a true accent, everyone has one. I moved to Arkansas from California and my son-in-law moved to Arkansas from Australia. Both of us have accents here, and when we return to our places of origin, we are told that we have “Southern accents.” I think that the most one can do is to trade one’s accent for a more “popular” one and then by so doing you are denying your roots. Speak like who you are, and not like the man on the 7:00 o’clock news.

Has anyone gotten rid of their accents? If so let me know, I have THE worst american accent ever…and I’m not even american…I HATE IT someone let me know if there’s anything I can do, I’m tired of people asking if I’m american. Also, I don’t like it…