SuddenlyNinja
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Dear co-creators, I have an interesting question to pose to you, something that I've been wondering and playing around with for some time now.
Let me first state that my native language is not English although I do seem to have a knack for "foreign" languages and thus have been speaking it for almost the entirety of my 25 years. As most of the boys my age I learnt the language primarily from movies and videogames, and later found out that I have a passion for teaching it to other as well. A few years ago I decided to get formal teachers training and enrolled in a course that would train me to be an English teacher, which resulted in me switching my accent from "American" to "British" (or Received Pronunciation, if you're into that).
The problem that exists now is, seeing as I can fluently switch between the two, that I cannot decide on one or the other. I've made some videos speaking "American" and some speaking "British" and both have their good and bad points. I cannot for the life of me decide which I should hang on to while filming videos, and I often find myself switching between the two during filming.
Help me solve this dilemma of mine. What do you think sounds more attractive for a Youtube-creator to be speaking, "American" or "British"?
*I've put both American and British in brackets because I know there's no such thing as "speaking American" or "British" and there's a load of different accents and dialects to both, just go with it...
Let me first state that my native language is not English although I do seem to have a knack for "foreign" languages and thus have been speaking it for almost the entirety of my 25 years. As most of the boys my age I learnt the language primarily from movies and videogames, and later found out that I have a passion for teaching it to other as well. A few years ago I decided to get formal teachers training and enrolled in a course that would train me to be an English teacher, which resulted in me switching my accent from "American" to "British" (or Received Pronunciation, if you're into that).
The problem that exists now is, seeing as I can fluently switch between the two, that I cannot decide on one or the other. I've made some videos speaking "American" and some speaking "British" and both have their good and bad points. I cannot for the life of me decide which I should hang on to while filming videos, and I often find myself switching between the two during filming.
Help me solve this dilemma of mine. What do you think sounds more attractive for a Youtube-creator to be speaking, "American" or "British"?
*I've put both American and British in brackets because I know there's no such thing as "speaking American" or "British" and there's a load of different accents and dialects to both, just go with it...