| Let me preface this by stating that I am fully American.
So my buddy and I had some fun this spring break by putting on fake accents while on vacation. He can speak in a natural British accent as his mother is from there and speaks with an accent, although he's total American. In a matter of just a few hours, he was able to teach me how to do it, but with my southern-american voice, it came out a bit more Australian, which actually worked better for me because of my last name of Foster. We had no real reason to do this other than for fun, but quickly realized that it was an amazingly effective technique in picking up women.
Now back in real life, we've gone out and practiced this a bit more and its just awesome and I have to say that it is THE MOST effective pickup technique I have ever used. Here's why:
1) Talking in a different voice is essentially method acting. You become your character and can basically become anyone you want. This provides a great way to overcome shyness and any personal insecurities you may have. My friend is very shy as himself, but with the accent, he becomes a total alpha male. It becomes fun to interact, just to hear yourself talk. Its like playing with a new toy.
2) Everything sounds better in an accent. The things I say to girls are no different than what I would say in my normal voice, but for whatever reason, the response is completely different, for the better. I can't tell you how many times a girl will tell me that my accent makes her melt. It ridiculous.
3) Its a built in automatic opener. Often I just go to the bar and order a drink, and a nearby girl will hear it, and just start talking to me. Even if I approach them, the first interaction is ALWAYS the same. The girl asks me where I am from of course. Its ALWAYS the same. At first I would indulge the question by giving a story about how I've moved around, etc. but now I've changed it. If I really did have an accent and was asked that all the time, I'd get so sick of it. So now I simply say, "Do you know how many times I've had this conversation? Every girl I meet always says the same thing. I thought you would be different." Fantastic disqualified. I said that this weekend to an older woman who was a good 8.5 and she instantly replied with, "Okay forget that question, do you have a girlfriend?" Not 15 seconds into the conversation and she's practically asking me out.
4) In America, an accent is unbelievably disarming. I'm not just talking about with girls here. Using the accent, I can walk right into a mixed set with several guys and just start hitting on the girls. The guys do NOTHING. Its so weird. Most guys in fact, just want to be your friend. Its as if they just want to say, "hey man, we americans are cool guys too. We like foreigners." Kinda how white guys try to show black guys, that they're not racist even without a reason. Just this weekend, I literally had one guy storm up to me while I was gaming his girls and ask me if I had a problem. In accent, I said "No problem at all" and he stops and asks if I have an Australian accent? I say "Well I am from there." and he says "Oh thats so cool, I was about to kick your ass." He shakes my hand and introduces himself.
Now I know that using a fake accent can complicate things too in many ways. Its all good for one night stands but good luck in keeping an LTR with it. On spring break, my buddy hit it off with a TOTAL 9.5 if not 10 instantly with the accent. Turns out, she lived very close to him and they actually ended up dating over the summer. He came clean to her about the act, and she felt humiliated. It definitely fucked up any chance he had with her long term and actually was heartbroken because of it.
Because of this, I have come up with several ways to avoid these problems, none of which I have tested yet. Mainly because I only use this technique for one night encounters. But if needed, during the pickup, give a story about how you moved here when you were 13 and you can speak American too and usually do when you are around your friends, but you sometimes still use your accent when you are out because the ladies love it. Believe it or not, they don't get offended, in fact they don't blame you at all. Now you can go back and forth through accents freely.
Another one I thought of, that works for me, is towards the end of the night, I tell them I don't have an accent at all and that I'm just preparing for an acting role. Apologize and tell them that it shouldn't even matter. Hell, they should apologize to you if the accent is all they cared about. This works good for me, because I work in film, but you could spin it almost anyway you want.
Anyways, I'm anxious to hear the communities thoughts on my tactic, good or bad.
Later,
Foster
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