>>One thing to keep in mind (I don't know why nobody mentioned it yet), you will have to learn to speak English here <gr&d>
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>Oh.....well...that kind of blows it out of the water then....thanks for letting me know, sheesh. It's all over, thanks to everyone for their help anyway...sob :P

Nah... you can pretty much keep your British accent - it would bring you a few positive points here. The trouble is that you need to completely re-train your ears. The more south you go, the fewer consonants are pronounced, specially around the last syllable. And those that are pronounced get softened and melt somehow into each other... often I hear "tode" when they said "tote"... so it's not that you need to learn speaking, but rather to ler howa lisn...