English actors get this WRONG when they do American accents

This video has been kindly sponsored by the browser Opera. You can download Opera for FREE from my link: 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 @MrSpelling1/videos Jade Joddle - Speak Well Joel Goldes the dialect coach Accent Help My blog with lots of ’intrusive r’ audio clips: