我係比 love actually 同 America's got talent 的英國主持，引導我認為英國音在美國受歡迎，唔知啱唔啱。

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It goes much further back than that, if we watch old US movies, especially those made before the 1950's, we would discover that most of the posh and cultured characters talk with Brit-like accents. This phenomenon occurs in old Disney cartoons too, e.g. Snow White (1937), Cinderella (1950), Alice in Wonderland (1951), Sleeping Beauty (1959) etc, all the kings and queens and nobility and gentry sound very Brit.

Nowadays Americans may no longer associate Brit-like accent with nobility, but it still carries a certain exotic quality. In North America, orientals speaking with local accents (or oriental accents) are a dime a dozen, but a Brit sounding oriental really throws people off, just like we would be thrown off by a gwailo talking Cantonese with a ChiuChow accent (think 李嘉誠), it would be an amusing quality that might make an employer remember a certain applicant better.

Good to see this thread going back to discussing accents.

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Like the difference between Regina and Audrey's accents.

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Regina's accent is very Hongkong, she is like a grammatically correct version of Mr Chai (our breast) :lol

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I am thinking the same!! And always wonder why her English accent/pronounciation is so Hong Kong.

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Regina had a very Hongkong education, went to Hongkong University, and many adults can't shake off an accent they devrloped in their childhood, assuming she wants to shake it off {:1_1:}

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A person brought up and educated in HK having English as good as Regina's is an achievement. Her accent is very HK but she has nothing to be ashamed of. Just how Audrey acquired her accent is a mystery to me.

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我就不認同、以我記憶中REGINA有留過学、留左幾耐就不記得了。　其実只要早年多留意別人（NATIVE）的発音、就不難改変的。　REGINA比我感覚是個好主観的人、所以没想到需要改自己口音JE.　我都係係香港受大部分教育、ALTHOUGH我不是在香港讀大学（也不是在西方国家）、我都無香港一般LOCAL口音。　我不是説我有過人之処、最主要我較早発覚NATIVE同香港人的発音不同之処、多加留意、改善等等。

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That was after 2003 she went to Standford for a year or two. That did not count because she was over 40 when she went. Did you ask some native English speakers to comment on your accent? If you did not study in an English speaking country and yet you really lost your HK accent and did not pick up mainland or Taiwan accent, that is a very good story to tell and I am sure many of us want to hear. American speak with American accent and the Brits have various British accents. People in China has mainland accent and those in India have the unmistaken Indian accent. Why should someone be ashamed of themselves for XX accent because he/she was brought up and educated in XX country or city?

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