Here's what you could do to start off! 1. Speak Slowly ( we naturally speak pretty fast which poses a problem for Americans to understand us ) 2. Sing English songs and try to imitate yourself as an American. 3. Open a dictionary and try to pronounce the words according to the dictionary ( how many of us can pronounce alligator just like an American can? ) 4. Get over this loser crap. The most important thing is being able to convey the message correctly and ensuring that your message is well understood. Look at Arnold. How many years has he spent in the U.S. ? Has his accent changed? 5. Don't be a hypocrite. A lot of us Nepalese tend to be hypocritical. There are instances and occasions when we're better off talking in Nepali but great hypocrites we truly are, we NEED to speak english regardless of our accent and grammatical errors. 6. Grammatical corrections. Try to make sure that you are grammatically correct. Work on it! An average makes more grammatical errors while writing than a good Nepali student but when it comes to speaking, the difference is clearly seen. If you make grammatical errors while speaking then the listener perceives that you have poor English and everything that goes off your lungs after that seems ununderstandable from the view point of the listener. It's the mindset. Imagine an American trying to speak to us in Nepali. No matter how good/fluent he is, at first or if we prejudge that he can't speak clearly then we're going to have hard times understanding him. Keep an open mind! 7. Be yourself. We're not Americans. By trying to "Americanize" ourselves, we're doing nothing but making fun out of ourselves! 8. Last but not the least, MAKE SURE that there are limited grammatical errors. " They doesn't want to eat.. " , "Did he went .." are some absolutely shocking grammatical errors that we Nepalese tend to make! Like I mentioned, emphasize on conveying your message correctly. Your accent will improve gradually. We're not native speakers so there's no need to feel bad. Some of us are gifted and pick up accents pretty fast while some of us have hard times! Hope that was helpful enough! I just spent 15 mins of my quality time ( 1 final down, 4 more to go ). Hope it doesn't go down the drainage. Print it off and try it. You won't lose anything for trying! Peace-O Balbhadra!