Accent Your Character - Standard British English

Dialect Training

By: Paul Meier

Narrated by: Paul Meier

Dialect training for roleplayers, storytellers, and other casual pretenders.

Add some kick to your characters with some quick and simple dialect training. Paul Meier has been training actors for over 25 years and now offers his experience to the casual pretender in these entertaining presentations. You will find accent tips, colloquialisms, and charismatic character concepts that will add to your storytelling, roleplaying, or cosplay.

Each presentation includes an overview of the common sounds you will hear in the dialect and exercised in several hilarious encounters you might find in your stories or games. Paul Meier is as entertaining as he is informative, making the program easy to pick up and listen to again and again.

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Very short and fast

They cram a lot in and don't go into elaborate detail. I think this will do well for people who have a grasp of the accent and need a refresher than those, like me, who are learning it like a foreign language... Accents don't come easy to me but I think once I grasp it, this will be of more help.

Basic, Helpful

There's an accompanying pamphlet to this (I wish audible had it on this page) but I found it at http://www.pulpgamer.com (mentioned in the beginning of this audio)

I have to take notes eg. don't pronounce the r's unless it's before a vowel, something like that--I have to rewind and write these tips down

Great intro for training

I am working on characters for my sketches and stand up and this is great

Ok. Not as much direction as the books by Paul Meier

I thought that this book would be a version close to the Accent and Dialogue Book.

Worth the price but don't expect actual training

Paul Meier riffs on Received Pronunciation or Standard British English, up and down the scales from Cockney to the King, and demonstrates nuances of class, profession, and fictional style. There are some good tips here about using different variations for historical and fantasy characters.

It's a fun listen, well worth the low price, and I think frequent re-listening might instill a bit of the rhythm and character of the dialect in an American speaker. But there are no exercises here, nothing to actually guide an actor or storyteller in developing this dialect. Don't mistake this for language training or coaching. It's not. That, you have to pay a lot more for.