英会話クラス——イギリス人講師と英語を話す練習を
英会話クラス——イギリス人講師と英語を話す練習を
流暢さと自信のための英会話クラス
英会話クラス——イギリス人講師と英語を話す練習を
イギリス英語 方言コーチング 私は俳優のオーディションや役作りをサポートし、自然なイギリス訛りを身につけるお手伝いをしています。クラスはあなたのニーズに合わせて調整し、学んだことを維持できるよう、一人ひとりに個別プランを作ります。私の目標は、あなたができるだけ早く「私を必要としなくなる」ことです！
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What happens in a British dialect Coaching session?
You send me your sides, the character breakdown, and — if you have one — a reference recording of the accent the production wants. Before we meet, I listen to your current speech and work out what's actually giving you away. It's usually four or five specific things, not fifty.
Then we spend the hour fixing those things in your text. Not in a vowel chart. In the actual lines you're going to say on camera.
You leave with:
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A marked-up script with the changes where they fall
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Audio of me reading your lines in the target accent, to drill against
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A short list of your personal danger words — the ones that will break the accent if you don't watch them
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A clear answer on how far to push it before it tips into caricature
Which British accents do I coach?
Contemporary RP / Standard British
Period drama, prestige TV, classical stage, and the corporate and villain roles that still get cast this way.
Estuary / modern London
The default "British" of most current film and TV. Younger and softer than RP, and far more commonly what a casting brief actually wants.
Cockney / traditional London
Period London, crime, and working-class London characters.
Northern England — Yorkshire, Manchester, Liverpool, Geordie
Regional drama, soaps, and gritty contemporary work.
Scottish, Welsh and West Country
Region-specific casting. Brief me early so we can pin down the exact locality — "Scottish" covers a lot of ground.
If the breakdown says "British" and nothing else, bring it to the session. Picking the right accent is half the job, and getting it wrong is the fastest way to not book.
"British" is not an accent
This is the single most common problem I see, and it costs actors roles.
There is no such thing as a British accent. There are dozens, and they carry very specific class, regional and generational information that a British casting director hears instantly. A 25-year-old from Peckham and a 25-year-old from Kensington are two miles apart and sound like they're from different countries.
Three questions decide the accent before you say a word:
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Where is the character from? Not "England" — which town, which side of it.
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What class are they, and what class were their parents? British accents encode this more than American ones do. It is often the actual point of the scene.
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What year is it? RP in 1955 and RP in 2026 are not the same accent. Playing modern RP the way it's spoken in Brief Encounter reads as parody to a British ear.
We answer those three in the first ten minutes, then build from there.
What gives American actors away
Even strong British accents tend to break in the same handful of places. These are the ones I fix most often:
The T. In American English the T in water, better, matter becomes a quick tap, close to a D. British English does not do this. Modern RP keeps a real T; Estuary and Cockney replace it with a glottal stop — a catch in the throat. Pick one and be consistent. Sliding between the American tap and a British T mid-sentence is the loudest tell there is.
The R you dropped, and the R you forgot to add. Standard British accents don't pronounce the R in car, hard, mother. Most actors get that. What they miss is that the R comes back when the next word starts with a vowel — "far away" keeps its R, "far off" keeps its R. Drop every R indiscriminately and you sound like someone doing an accent.
The BATH trap. In southern British English, bath, ask, dance, laugh and can't take a long "ah" vowel. But maths, gas, hand and ant don't. There's no rule you can apply — it's a word list, and actors who guess overcorrect and end up saying "ahnt" for ant. I'll give you the list for your script.
The dropped Y. British English keeps a Y-sound in tune, duty, news, Tuesday — "tyune", "dyuty", "nyews". Americans usually don't. It's small and it's constant.
Word stress. Advertisement, garage, schedule, privacy, vitamin, leisure — all stressed or pronounced differently. One of these in the first line of a scene undoes an otherwise good accent.
The music. The hardest one and the last to arrive. British English uses a wider pitch fall at the end of statements and lands emphasis in different places. This is what people mean when they say an accent is "technically right but sounds off," and it's most of what we work on once the sounds are in.
Frequently Asked Questions about Dialect Coaching
How many sessions do I need for an audition?
It depends, but usually one is enough for a self-tape or first-round audition, a single hour focused on your actual sides is normally enough to get the accent clean on the page. Roles you've already booked need more. I'll train you to live with the accent so it feels real to you, not something you're "putting on". Typically three to six sessions across the rehearsal period works. If long-term dialect coaching is needed for your project, I'll develop a full program for you.
Do you coach actors outside the UK?
Yes, actually more often than actors inside the UK! Sessions are online, and most of the actors I work with are in the US, Canada and Australia. I'm on UK time but I can usually accommodate American and Australian time zones — tell me your availability when you book.
Can you help at short notice?
Often, yes. Short-notice audition work is a normal part of what I do. Book the earliest slot that's showing and send your script straight away so I can prepare before we meet.
Which British accent should I use for my role?
Bring the character breakdown and we'll work it out in the session. "British" in a casting brief almost never means RP — it usually means contemporary Estuary English. Getting this decision right matters more than the technical work that follows it.
Do I need to know the IPA or phonetic symbols?
No. I'll use them if they help you, and I'll leave them out entirely if they don't. Plenty of actors work faster from imitation and description than from notation, and either route is fine.
What do you need from me before the session?
Your script or sides, the character breakdown (where they're from, their age, their class background, the period), and a reference recording of the target accent if the production gave you one. Send these when you book.
Is this the same as accent reduction?
No. "Accent Reduction coaches" profit from people's insecurities about their accents and I'm deeply against this practice. Your accent is your identity, and if people can understand you when you speak, you're doing it right! These sessions are only for actors preparing for auditions and roles where a British accent is required.
How is this different from your free British accent course?
The free British accent course teaches the sounds of British English in general and gives you the tools you need to develop your own natural sounding British accent. Coaching sessions with me apply them to your script, guide what you're doing right, what sounds wrong, and develop your character's accent and your specific needs with someone listening to you do it. Honestly, do the free course! It will REALLY help our sessions!
How much does British dialect coaching cost?
£100 for a one-hour 1-to-1 online session. No package required, no consultation fee, no minimum commitment — book one session and see whether it's useful.
Sessions run over video call, so it doesn't matter where you are. I'm on UK time; if you're in Los Angeles, New York or Sydney, tell me your window when you book and I'll work around it where I can.
1時間
100英国ポンド