How fast can a person learn to speak with a British accent and does age affect this learning?”
To speak with British accent it takes about one year to speak fluently because it is little confusing. Any can learn British accent and age does not affect with the learning of British accent. The factors which affects the rate of learning are self confident and interest. Who has the interest and the self confident to learn British accent could learn it quickly the one who doesn’t have this. Certainly learning British accent will give advantage in society and in his career. British accent will serve as a tool to get the job opportunities. Sources: Its my opinion.
England is an interesting country in that one’s accent reflects one’s class. To a certain extent this is also true in the US–there are regional or cultural accents that reflect a lower class than the generic “newscast American English.” But this is more true in England. So, if you are wanting to improve your lot in life, you have to choose the highest-class form of the British accent, the kind that English schoolkids learn at home or in the British “public” schools (which are actually private, high class schools). In other words, don’t learn Cockney, although Cockney is a very interesting version of English, probably more interesting than high class British English. How fast will you learn it? Can you learn it at all? It really depends on how good an ear you have. When you were a baby, you were able to pronounce all the phonemes of all the languages all over the world–you could have been a speaker of Chinese, Egyptian, ancient Icelandic, Biblical Hebrew–whatever. But as you became a
