learn an Irish accent

Every one need to learn it because it impresses the french and it’s hard to impress the french

I firmily believe that anyone might be able to learn the irish accent in 6 months or less if only he/she really wants to do that!

First up, you have to realize that there are a lot of Irish accents. The stereotype is the Cork accent—that’s what you hear in all the old movies and what everyone copies. That’s in the far south. It’s very different in the north, in Donegal and Northern Ireland.

For learning any dialect, listening and training your mouth and ear to coordinate are the most essential things. (The first new accent is always the hardest.) Now I coach a variety of accents and formed http://www.accenthelp.com/ with a couple of other professional coaches. You can hear native speakers and there are recordings and booklets that teach a wide variety of accents and dialects. The intro on the site should help you to understand the concept of learning accents/dialects better: http://www.accenthelp.com/intro.html. Another great resource to check out is the International Dialects of English Archive for more recordings of native speakers: http://web.ku.edu/idea/.

In addition to teaching tools and listening to native speakers, the most essential tool is a recorder so that you can record yourself “imitating” the speaker’s accent. The only thing that would be even better is working with an actual coach—Check out the Voice and Speech Trainers Association to find a coach in your area: http://www.vasta.org/.

I talk to myself in my horrible Irish accent all the time when I’m walking alone. I’m sure I sound completely like a crazy person to anyone nearby who happens to hear. It must be getting better, though, because it slips out when I’m drunk and people think I am Irish, or apparently sometimes English. Of course, the judges of this are other drunk people so it’s not too much of a compliment, but it’s still lots of fun. The other night I was at a party, and some guy I hadn’t talked to at all that night came over to me.

HIM: So, where are you from?
ME: From here
HIM: No, what about before that?
ME: ..Still from here, haha
HIM: What! No! You have a thick English accent!

And I had not at all been aware of doing any accents. My UK alter-ego just comes out when I drink, har har.

I have an Irish blood, so I am trying this out.Very much wantt o learn an Irish accent.

Hi, I guess I can do this because I am Part Irish? But it is loads of fun to just walk into a place you have never been and just start speeking with an Irish accent. It brightenss peoples day. Ha, Ha.

I took Accents For Actors out of the library but found it very hard to get anything out of. All those rad people were reading their passages in their lovely accents and I just couldn’t keep up. I was half hoping it would be like a cheesy language tape-type deal where you repeat the sentence after they say it.
Also lacking motivation. Har har. Most of me just wants to sleep or read instead of listening to this crazy tape and going, ”..wait, what?”

I had to learn an Irish accent for a play I was doing and what I found really helped me was this Irish dialect cd called “Accents for Actors” By David Alan Stern Ph.D.
It’s really good if you’re serious about learning it. You might be able to take it out from your local library…the guy is really good, he’s supposed to be this excellent speech guy and has a lot of other cds on learning other accents.