This is one of the most common regional American accents requested of actors. 🤠It's an excellent one to master - especially if you're new to dialect work. ("rhotic" = we pronounce final "r"s)
💻 Learn alongside fellow student Maisie Merlock, as Amy Walker breaks down the basics and shares her secret sauce for how to go from sounding like you're "doing an accent", to sounding like you're authentically from the Southern region of the USA. 🇺🇸
Along the way, you will learn how to adapt and adjust the accent to be authentic to a specific time period, a particular character, and - most importantly - authentic to YOU. 🫶
🩵 Jump into the fun and fascinating intricacies of this accent, with Amy's innovative, multi-sensory techniques. 🩵
Your Instructor
After the viral success of her 21 Accents video in 2008, Amy Walker began offering free video tips on YouTube and coaching students around the globe through private sessions and workshops, with exceptional results.
Over the years, Amy has developed methods that are unique in the world, with multi-sensory, fun techniques that are adaptable to all learning styles. Even people who’ve worked with expensive coaches for years find that Amy’s approach helps them learn faster, with effective precision that helps them excel in business, acting, and their personal lives.
Amy is continuously deepening and honing her craft, with empowering methods for identifying and transforming blocks that have inhibited one's ability to express their whole being freely, in the ways they're called. She loves geeking out about the fun, detailed technical skills needed for accents, acting and performing and effective, authentic communication.
She brings everything she is and has cultivated into every session, to support you in the most optimal ways.
With over 40 million views online, the success of her work and videos landed her on the TODAY Show, NPR, Inside Edition, as Vanity Fair's Accents Expert and more.
To book private, one-on-one sessions with Amy, please visit 21Accents.com
Course Curriculum
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PreviewLessson 1: The "Schwa" (7:59)
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StartLesson 2: "A" Sounds - Part 1 (8:31)
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StartLesson 3: "A" Sounds - Part 2 (2:33)
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StartLesson 4: "E" Sounds (7:29)
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StartLesson 5: "I" Sounds (12:35)
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StartLesson 6: "O"s Sounds - Part 1 (12:57)
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StartLesson 7: "O"s Sounds - Part 2 (9:37)
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StartLesson 8: "U/Y" Sounds (2:37)