Learning a british accent?

[Patricia]

Any tips or tricks?

Wow, that's great that you want to improve the way you sound! I went through the British school system and was raised on "the Queen's English", although I've been here in USA for 20 years and so have lost most of my accent.

Are you going as far as saying "aluminium" (extra syllable in there) instead of "aluminum"? Some words are downright different rather than merely a difference in pronunciation, e.g. I still call it the "boot" of a car <--(pronounced without the "r" sound), and a "rubber" over there is actually an "eraser" over here.

I guess you could try tuning in to BBC.com and keep listening to it. But you really don't need to don a different accent to speak well and sound intelligent. For starters, saying "lie down" instead of "lay down" and using "well" instead of "good" as an adverb are 2 simple things right off the bat that will do wonders.