English actors get this WRONG when they do American accents

From Dr Geoff Lindsey.

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People talk about ‘intrusive r’, but what does ‘intrusive’ actually mean? The video includes practical advice for actors from England, Wales, Australia and New Zealand!

0:00 Introduction & rhoticity
1:37 Examples of unwritten r from around the world
4:31 Baffling people & the YouTube captioner
5:22 The Opera browser
6:52 Why I hate the term ‘intrusive r’
9:14 Why non-rhotic speakers can’t spell
9:57 Linking R in detail
11:46 Genuinely intrusive R #1
12:04 Intrusive R in foreign languages
13:43 Intrusive R by performers doing accents
15:37 The 3 danger vowels for actors
17:50 Genuinely intrusive R #2
18:46 The mistaken rule & hypercorrection
20:46 How non-rhotic speakers interpret letter ‘r’
22:34 Even great actors get it wrong…

Check out these teachers and coaches:
Mr Spelling https://www.youtube.com/@MrSpelling1/videos
Jade Joddle – Speak Well https://jadejoddle.com/
Joel Goldes the dialect coach https://www.thedialectcoach.com/
Accent Help https://www.accenthelp.com/

My blog with lots of ‘intrusive r’ audio clips: https://www.englishspeechservices.com/blog/linking-r/