Pirate accent, dialect tapes?

[Gibbet Jones]

Anyone know of a pirate accent tapes for practicing the accent and dialect? To really get into character. I know Rosetta stone did a pirate accent program for talk like a pirate day but I can't seem to find it, or if it's even available.

I have been able to pick up accents rather well in the past but I had to listen to the accent several hours out of a day for a couple weeks before it became instinct.

[Blackjack Roberts]

Can't say if'n I do, Mate. thar surely be more'n I, wot kin help ye out ta be sure. I learned me own from watchin' old pirate movies, an' bein' an English Pirate type, old English movies wot had a few nere do wells such as meself in 'em.

Fair wind ta ye, though. I'd bet me cutlass thar be someone here abouts wot kin give ye a han'.

[Captain Jack Wolfe]

Read "The Pirate Primer" by George Choundas.  And watch LOTS of BBC TV programmes to find an accent you like.  Bristol is a good and easy one, though I do like a warm Northern accent.  Liverpool is a fine choice.  After that, it's practice, practice, practice!

Since my character is an Oxford drop-out (long story, best to start here, but there's even more in Pirates Magazine), I've opted for Estuary for his accent.

[Gibbet Jones]

This one is by far my favorite accent and dialect and sentence rythm. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1jZCde9pvE

[Molden]

Wot be thys? Dialextes an' all? Larn t' speak lyke wot I be?

*scratches 'is noggin'*

'tis a bi' like 'avin a Gravity Instructor t' keep us from fallin' up sez I! 

[Captain Jack Wolfe]

Molden, thank you for getting to the essence of it all.  Either it comes out of you naturally, as a synthesis of everything you've read and seen and internalised about pirates, born of your love for the life, or it doesn't.  There's no quick hit tutorial that will have you convincingly portraying a sea dog from the Golden Age of Piracy.  The best you'd hope for from any quick and dirty primer is a hopelessly hackneyed performance, of which there are far too many, even among the supposed die-hards.

Take your time, absorb, let it evolve, and revel in it.

[Molden]

Take your time, absorb, let it evolve, and revel in it.

Jonesy - Mad Jack speakes true 'ere. 'n MUCH more eloquently than I could!

Truly, dinna o'er thynk it. Be so - wi' confidence an' swagger. An' nary get hung-up if y' commits a faux paz, true genius be oft born from seeming error r' failure.

Enjoy yer journey Mate.

[Seamus Ex Machina]

Molden, thank you for getting to the essence of it all.  Either it comes out of you naturally, as a synthesis of everything you've read and seen and internalised about pirates, born of your love for the life, or it doesn't.  There's no quick hit tutorial that will have you convincingly portraying a sea dog from the Golden Age of Piracy.  The best you'd hope for from any quick and dirty primer is a hopelessly hackneyed performance, of which there are far too many, even among the supposed die-hards.

Take your time, absorb, let it evolve, and revel in it.

On the other hand, there is apparently a vacuum in the 'Talk like a Pirate'  CD genre....

[Blackjack Roberts]

Aye, Mate.

Mayhap Cap'n Slappy, 'n Ol' Chumbucket 'otter be informed 'a some plunder they seem ta have overlooked?

Aft'r all every bit 'o shine a man kin lay his mitts on helps keep the rum reserves where they 'otter be.

[dragongirl]

I picked up my "accent" from watching my Australian soap opera McCleod's Daughters, old british comedies like are you being served, and my father's natural Puerto Rican accent.  I worked for months with a tape recorder to ensure that I had the right patos and tried to make sure that I use period words and phrases.

[tiberiusflynn]

There's always listening to the patron Saint of talk like a Pirate Day himself....Good ol' Long John Silver. Plenty of his talk in Disney's Treasure Island, and the un official sequel "Long John Silver"

I usually just use a watered down scottish highland dialect which works well as when I get drunk it slips into full blown scottish