This is why your British accent sounds OFF

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   Your British accent sounds bad, a bit off, but you don't know why.

   你的英国口音听起来不好，有点不对劲，但你不知道为什么。

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   Here are my best British dialect coaching tips that I give to my clients.

   以下是我给客户提供的最佳英国方言指导技巧。

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   This means that the R at the end of words like car, far, more, they're soft.

   这意味着像car、far、more这样的单词末尾的R音是柔和的。

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   So in American pronunciation, this sounds like thirty-four weird farts.

   所以在美式发音中，这听起来像三十四奇怪的放屁。

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   You can hear it, but in British pronunciation, it's not there.

   你能听到它，但在英式发音中，它不存在。

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