Okay, I know this will sound like a complete affectation, but I’d love to be able to speak with a Scottish accent.
Where/how would one go about picking that up short of moving to Scottland and living there for a few years?
Visit, and bring one home with you.
Short of having real Scotsmen point and laugh at you every time you open your mouth, the only way to get one is to actually move and live there. I’d suggest staying away from Northern Scotland if you want anyone else to be able to understand you though.
Also, you can eat lots of transfats or smash yourself about the head with a ballpeen hammer. You may not get the accent you want though.
Um, well, I could clone myself and you could have a copy. 
Would that help?
Nah, I think you have to come here for a long visit, really. Then you’d have to choose which Scottish accent. Just don’t choose to imitate Billy Connolly - his accent is very strange!
I have no idea how to get that accent, but it reminds me of an incident. I once was stuck riding a bus from Athens to Munich. Next to me was a nice couple. She was from Ireland, he was from Scottland.
I was travelling with another American and we couldn’t understand a damned word from the guy from Scottland, and he was getting pissed off because he thought we were joking. He could understand us perfectly. His girlfriend literally had to “translate” his English to us.
Some of those Scottish accents are sooooo sexy! Maybe you could watch a lot of John Hannah movies:
I saw “Rebus” for a while but don’t know if it’s on any more:
http://www.bbcamerica.com/genre/drama_mysteries/rebus/rebus.jsp
BTW: I spent New Year’s in Edinburgh. There is a variety of “Scottish accents.”
Cheers!
Or you could watch a lot of “Star Trek” reruns. Never mind the fact that James Doohan (Scotty) is actually Candadian.
OMG if you only knew how weird it was to see this thread today!! I made a new friend recently, he was visiting my area for work purposes but has since gone back “up north”. He’s originally from Scotland however and I LOVE his accent. I always tell him he should not e-mail me but call and read the e-mails to me over the phone.
He’s a right sexy bastard!! lol!
IF IT’S NA’ SCOTTISH, IT’S CRRRRRRAAAAP!!!
See, it’s all in the aggression. That way people won’t notice if you don’t have the actual sounds just right.
[COLOR=Blue] When I was in Scotland in 2002, up near Nethybridge, my accent was mistaken for American (I am Australian). And we find their accents difficult to understand!
Sounds like an excuse to watch lots of Ewan McGregor movies?
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ah the scottish accent is mighty fine! When I was in Africa they loved it too. Theres no other accent I would rather have! Im sure if you did a web search, some wierd website would come up selling tapes which teach you to speak with a bonnie scots accent! If I find one ill let you know!
No idea. Those of us who do it naturally, do it naturally.
dons comedy Scots accent d’ya no’ ken how, Jimmy?
Watch ‘Trainspotting’ and the entire backcatlogue of ‘Rab C Nesibitt’ and ‘Taggart’ (infact though I’m being slightly tongue cheek here, all three of these are based in Glasgow, but you can hear quite a variety of Scottish accents, from, Rab C Nesbitt’s caricutred working class accent, to the more-middle class accents of the detectives in Taggart).
Trainspotting is based in Edinburgh.
What about Groundskeeper Willy?