Developing a British accent

[tgchar21]

An (American) friend of mine wondered how easy it would be to develop a British accent when moving to England. I said "Harder than what it takes for a female-to-male TS to change his voice but easier than a male-to-female changing hers" (since I have some knowledge on TS issues I used that analogy; notice I even used pronouns correctly). What do you think? Accurate or not comparison with regards to difficulty?

[LordKAT]

Not accurate at all.

You will get the accent simply by the way people learn speech, listening and imitating.

Voice changes for transsexual people are based on hormones or practice.

[Cindy]

No difference,

You have to work at changing your speech patterns, which are the male/female patterns.  Accents you pick up by being in the community. I have been in Australia for 37 yrs' I still get what part of the UK where you from?

[Mahsa Tezani]

I have a British accent.

I blame the hormones and the fact that I want to be Mudunna.