Alex Brown: Actor and dialect coach in Los Angeles, California.

Great article you are completely right, actually living in a country really helps. I was born in the UK, my mother spanish from Galicia, so childhood holidays there. I also spent time with family en Cadiz, and lived in Mallorca and Ibiza, each have almost their own dialects themselves..when I moved...

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Mark Palmer

Thanks for sharing Alex. One of my goals this year was to perfect my UK, English accent. My Aussie, Irish, Scottish, general American and southern American is pretty spot on, even my French and Eastern European is pretty good, and my South African (especially the stereotypical one) is superb (ps: I...

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Haley Mary

Thanks for sharing, Alex! One of my goals for 2022 is to learn a British accent. I listened to British shows like Mr. Bean and Last Of The Summer Wine and British bands like Beatles, Spice Girls and A...

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Tasha Lewis

Perfecting an accent and foreign language can open doors in your career and new relationships. Actors who are multilingual have a competitive advantage. Alex took a skill and turned it into a career. The more he trains others the better he gets at his craft.

Tasha Lewis

Congratulations! A good resource for your continued language growth is Side by Side English/Grammar.

Anthony Osarfo

Tasha Lewis - - ohh yes. It can always get better.

Alex, I love what you say: “Many actors think an accent is simply a combination of sounds and melodic patterns, but it’s not; it’s a reflection of who we are and how we see ourselves.” This really resonates with what I see in working with actors. Loved reading your post. American is my second langua...

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Alex Brown

Thank you Mihaela! So glad this resonates with your work. :)

Richard "RB" Botto

Hi Alex. I'm RB, Founder and CEO of Stage 32. As a screenwriter, producer, actor and filmmaker, I know first-hand the challenges all creatives face finding work, landing representation, launching projects, securing funding and simply making the connections that will make a difference in their careers. That's why I created Stage 32. Since our launch in September of 2011, the community has grown to 1,000,000+ members representing every country on the planet making Stage 32 the social network uniquely populated with the most creative people on Earth.

This is a network for you, built by you. Like m...

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Amanda Toney

Hello Alex -

Welcome to the community! I'm Amanda Toney, the Managing Director at Stage 32. Since 2013 I've been proud to oversee Stage 32's Next Level Education, which provides you the most up-to-date tools necessary to become a better creative.

Over the years Stage 32 has worked with over 500 industry executives and professionals to teach online webinars, classes and intensive labs exclusively for you - our Stage 32 community. We bring you instructors who have worked directly on some of your favorite films, TV shows or theater productions to teach you in-the-trenches information that you won...

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