How to Speak with a British Accent (FAST)

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Chapters
00:00 Introduction
02:00 Vowels
05:58 Consonants
09:25 Connected Speech
11:28 Stress
12:25 Intonation
14:03 Practise Advice
15:53 British Pronunciation 101

[FalcomScott]

Love British English here it's an amazing accent from people who were born here in England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ❤

[Ohhey_itsdre]

English is my first language but always had a fascination to learn various accents & this was incredibly helpful! You’re a great teacher. Thanks so much.

[phatcharinkhonnasee]

I'm from Thailand. Thank you for your kindness a VDO free it's make me improve English skill, if some day I'm better financial I'll pay you back, thanks a lot.

[nutapril]

You are. Clarity on communication is the first priority.

[wanderingokamikitsune]

when i was growing up, i lived not far from the UK sector in West Germany back in the mid 80s. I heard more of British accent and picked it up really fast, I was 3 at the time. After moving back to US, I kind of lost it... guess more like its mingled with the American accent. Now, I'm trying to get it back, the way I speak is mostly British grammar mixed with bits and blobs of American grammar. I always prefer British grammar over American grammar. Countless times, I have been corrected in American grammar, but I just blow a raspberry and go about my way xD. Love your videos, mate by the way. They're really good to watch.

[MissouriIsraelite]

I'm moving to England (London) for Cultural and Heritage Reasons (and study tbh) and your videos have been so helpful. Thank you!

[FranciscoRojas-lzeb]

Hi tescher Tom you are a good teacher. Thanks s lot for sharing us everything you know.

[robertmelgarejo]

I do luv' your videos!! It helps me a lot to get that British accent I am aiming for. Cheers and hugs from Asunción, Paraguay. ❤❤

[carolinarojas]

Thank you have beautiful British accent.
I’m beginner in English.
I speak Swedish because I live in Sweden, and Spanish because I’m originally from Chile.
Now I learn English my third language

[idacuconati]

I'm sharing this lesson with my students from a linguistic high school in calabria, south italy. Good job!

[idacuconati]

Excellent lesson, teacher Tom, really superb and awsome!

[UKBarca]

As a Chinese living in England, what I found it challenging for me to have a better accent in speaking English is that it is not too hard to imitate native accent pronouncing individual words. However, when it comes to a whole sentence, the intonation, rhythm, stress, I can tell my Chinese accent is really strong. Chinese we speak every single word equally strong whereas in English, there is weak form and connect speech, I really get struggled

[helener]

Amazing video, really interesting, thanks. I love hearing British accent, especially RP or modern RP, it's the kind of accent I am trying to have.

[zainabverdiyeva]

Hi👋🏻 firstly, thanks for such useful educational videos❤
I'm sounding to both American and British accent speakers🙋🏻‍♀️ using english as the second language, what do you think which accent I should choose to speak ? Which one is preferable and sounds cooler?

[nutapril]

I’m particularly interested in the glottal T restrained in some British English accents. I have noticed such omission of the tea in some words like what you have said ‘water’ as ‘war +ar’, but I could not spot what made the difference until you said it. Thx. Very interesting.

[raphmcafee]

Have you thought about doing a video on the Transatlantic accent? I think it'd be interesting to hear your take.

[PurnaRodman]

The aw sound in office, want, cough etc. is pronounded variously in the US, not identical to Britich but no a long ahh as you describe.

[nama]

3:42 I would say that southerners replace, because language of northerners is closer to Middle and Old English.

[bhami]

4:06 coffee: you misrepresent my American English. "office", "cough", and "coffee" start with the same vowel as "awe", not "ah". "wash" is different and uses "ah". I grew up in New Jersey and Pennsylvania and lived my adult life in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Salt Lake City, so I consider my speech pretty standard.

11:42 ballet: you misrepresent my American English. You're Americanish says "ballet" the way I say "belay", starting with a schwa. But I pronounce the "a" in "ballet". It's not a schwa, even though the accent is on the second syllable.

[mattiasandersson]

As a non native English speaker, , one of the most British words that i've noticed must be " innit" .