hello welcome to this YouTube video
we're gonna learn six ways of sounding
more authentically British possibly the
easiest way to sound British is to put
the word quite in every sentence before
you describe something what if you're
describing something if you're using an
adjective like someone says to you how
is that movie last night don't say yeah
it was good say it was quite good if
someone says to you house mics Arabic
don't say it's good say it's quite good
or it's quite bad or it's quite nice how
are you today you say I'm quite good
thanks always be polite we like to be be
polite and say thank you
how was that movie last night yeah it
was quite good actually how was the the
circus I was quite fun how was bubble
football oh it was quite fun yeah I
enjoyed it was quite fun what's the
weather like oh it's quite nice out it's
quite nice it's quite sunny it's quite
hot it's quite cold it's quite big it's
quite small just say quite quite quite
quite always say quite and who will
sound British I don't think any other
countries we use quite quite as much as
we do it's quite disco that's quite
difficult
are you well mr. Darcy quite well second
words you can use is mate call everyone
mate alright mate how you doing all
right mate how's it going alright
alright means are you alright and then
mate is like friend we used mate all the
time yeah mate I went out with a few
mates last night I'm seeing some mates
later all right mate how you doing yeah
he's my mate she's my mate we could
mates
yeah we've been mates for years I
haven't got many mates I've got loads of
mates always say mates instead of
friends or pals or buddies we didn't
really say buddy
we don't really say pals although in the
north they say pal a little bit more but
mate would be like a typical British
thing to say ah all right mate how's it
going yeah he's my mate he's a good mate
I was good to see you mate
really enjoyed that mate thanks a lot
mate always add mate on the end of it
each word mate say mate just say all the
time in your son British and I will
enjoy taking the piss out of them for
that time cover taking the piss out of
him yes what is taking the piss out of
someone mean now on to pronunciation in
the British accent we like to pronounce
our T's if you're speaking proper
English like the Queen's English
or we like to not pronounce them at all
so let me give you some examples so word
water water in British accent we
pronounce the T water water now if
you're from London used to be like
cottony or a bit like slang you stream
now you're buff thing you might say
water what give it give us some water
would you give us some more what but the
important thing is is here in the
British accent we either pronounce the T
like water that's how I would say it
personally water or you just don't
pronounce it at all what now the third
way which you'd hear in other accents is
to pronounce the T as a kind of like a D
so water water water
I did three random accents really which
could have been anything but in some in
some accents they might pronounce the T
as like a D but in the British accent
the T is a T water or not at all mr.
Potter
totally we'd say totally another axis a
totally totally listen to that totally
totally the T becomes a caddy totally we
would say totally totally tuk tuk tuk
totally totally rather than totally or
you might say if you're from London you
might say totally I was totally awesome
was totally good yeah it's totally good
yeah totally sick totally sweet it was
totally good it was totally amazing
witty witty witty
don't be so witty again that pronouncing
the T is like a deed for example in the
American accent they might say witty uh
he's pretty witty in British English
roots a witty witty water totally always
pronounced that T in the middle of the
word as eighteen
was like a D or anything like that for
pronunciation again I can say been where
you been with in England we say been we
pronounced be like b een like the same
as we pronounce seen or spleen we would
pronounce been like b een where have you
been
have you been to q8 yes I've been to q8
have you been to Saudi Arabia no I
haven't been to Saudi Arabia so we in
Britain say beam we don't say bin like
bi n or B en we say beam we pronounce it
beam where have you been have you been
there
no I haven't been there have you been to
England no I haven't been to London have
you been to America yes I've been to
America been Americans would say VIN we
say beam easy way to sound more British
just say beam instead of bin now this
one's a little bit difficult to explain
but of something which is gonna make you
really stand out as speaking like the
British accent is if you say certain
phrases such as this one here now on a
first glance it seems grammatically
incorrect and it actually technically is
but it's so commonly used in the British
accent that it's kind of considered like
a British dialect and it's very widely
accepted certainly in spoken English to
say something like this I was sat on the
step I was sat on the step now if you're
British you're thinking yeah I was sat
on the step that's fine I was sat on the
bench I was sat at the bus stop where
are you I'm sat outside the library it's
so common that you will don't even think
anything of it but interestingly
if you're from a different country you
probably wouldn't say this it's a very
uniquely British way of saying something
now what's interesting here is we've got
I was and then which is already past
tense I was and then we've got the
Parsons verb sat so we got I was sat now
we've doubled up that those past tense
verbs I was sat now Americans would say
I was sitting Australians would say I
was sitting they wouldn't say I was sat
it's a very British common British
colloquialism to say I was sat if you're
teaching a class you might tell your
class to say to stay sat stay sat now
that's wrong English you know you can't
really argue that but it's so common in
the British accent that it's it wouldn't
even be noticed if you heard that stay
sat of course the correct thing to say
would be stay sitting don't move stay
sitting but we say stay sat doesn't
really make any sense but it's what we
say I remember exactly where I was that
I'm a sad
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we were sad upon our best friends whoo
other examples of this funny rule would
be I was stood I was stood again I was
stood not I was standing I was stood I
was stood outside a shop when I saw the
celebrity come out the door whatever I
wish to that side the shop when I heard
a gunshot I was stood outside the shop
and all of a sudden it just poured with
rain I was stood next to my car when
there was a collision right next to me
house I was stood next to the lake when
all of a sudden I saw 12 shooting stars
at once we were just sat out on the step
we were just sat out on the step maybe
of Jurassic five were a British not
American they might change their lyrics
we were sitting out on the step you know
I was stood at the bus stop when three
buses just drove right past me yeah so
we say I was stood now this is a unique
British thing so I'm gonna just put a
few phrases there these are phrases
which you would say in British accent
but you wouldn't really hear in other
languages do you have a moment to talk
about your lecture I'm sorry I've got
plans with my sister finally number 6
the arms the RS this is the kind of
Korea the most common one number six
going back to our key words we had
earlier like water in British accent we
would say this as water guitar cater
slower faster Tiger bladder refrigerator
actually we would never say refrigerator
anyway we would just say fridge cuz we
just say fridge translator see we don't
pronounce the R there's an R at the end
of all of these words but we just say it
as Tiger not Tiger translator
smaller bigger faster smaller bigger
slower we don't say or we say oh we just
end in an up water bigger faster slower
Tiger guitar translator so there you are
six ways of sounding more British very
easily
he's a major major major influence on me
now
and I feel terrible that stupid English
voice was that me unfortunately yes I'm
so looking forward to seeing your mother
again when I'm with her I'm reminded of
the virtues of the English but isn't she
American exactly
so there you have it six ways of
sounding more British when you speak the
English language if you follow these six
tips then I promise you you a sound
British I am Arabic Mike because I
normally teach Arabic today I'm teaching
English because I'm British and I can
kind of speak about that
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