Have you ever wanted to speak clearly and have a British or American accent, if yes then you need to understand that it will take you time to learn.
I will share alot of tips that can help you on this thread that I am starting, I will also attempt to get you to watch how I do this practically on my YouTube channel.
Now let's get started.
If you want to improve your speech or speak like a native one of the things you can do immediately is to
1. Start listening to foreign speakers in the accent you want to have. What I mean here is that if you want to gain a British accent you need to Listen to a British speaker and continue listening to British speakers for at least two month. When you want to speak you try to imitate them.

2. Expand your Knowlege of sound and it's production.
You can decide to expand your knowledge of English sounds and how to pronounce certain letter combination.
Understanding these can be very difficult but I have put a training together on YouTube that you can watch free of charge, I am taking it but by bit so you can digest it. You can check it out.

3.Expand your vocabulary.
A great bank of vocabulary will really help you to be fluent when you are speaking. So take some time to learn vocabularies. On my Whatsapp status I share a word of the day everyday from 8- 10 am so you can save my number which will be in the signature section so you can join us to expand your vocabulary.

4.Understand what stress patterns rhythm and Intonation is all about.
I will be talking about all these in these thread, so please if you are really interested to learn English and speak like a native bookmark this. See you in the next thread.

Why would I want to sound like oyibo? No matter how good my English is, and how much British I sound, I can never be English. They will always require you write IELTS, or toelf or any other English test because English is not our mother tongue.

We listened to actors in black panther and loved it. It's time for us to be proud of our accent.

It's not a matter of being proud of our accent or not it's a matter of speaking clearly so you can be understood by people.
You would agree with me that there are places you would want to work, if you don't speak clear and expressive English no one may even look at you.
For example there are some part of Nigeria that pronounce the letter R as L
There are other part of Nigeria that pronounce N as L and vice versa. There are also those who have a very thick accent that has prevented them from even learning other language. Don't you think it would be nice if they learn to overcome the mothertongue interference?
We are simply here to help sir. It's not a matter of being proud of our mothertongue or not.
Even talking about the IELT and TOFEL you would agree with me that you must pass those test before you are given access to those countries, so please let's try and improve ourselves.

I'm currently a tech presenter, and I'm mandated to learn British accent, since it is the standard broadcasting language

mrpoul:
I'm currently a tech presenter, and I'm mandated to learn British accent, since it is the standard broadcasting language

This is exactly what I was saying sometimes it's not because we are Nigerians or Africans it's just because that is the way it is. English Language is not our language and so we need to learn how to speak it well. It can make or Mar you when it comes to certain areas of Life and endeavour.