hello everyone and welcome back to love English today we're going to be looking
at exploring the Manchester accent how to understand it how to understand its
key features and also how to do it it hasn't evolved it's still the same keeping it real I
am Manchester City news we all want a bit mad with it [Music]
but you're just a fan of British accents and that you enjoy trying them or you could even be
an actor trying to learn to do these accents now a good place to start is of course by listening
to the Manchester accent as much as possible some key personalities that have come out of
Manchester are of course the band Oasis as well as Carl Pilkington is very famous for
lots of funny TV shows called An Idiot Abroad or there is also Michelle Keegan who was very
famous on Coronation Street in fact the whole TV show Coronation Street is set in Manchester
so that's a good starting point if you want to hear it more a good starting point is that the
pitch of the Manchester accent is lower than lots of other British accents so if you think about a
modern RP accent the pitch being about here are but a Liverpool accent the pitch is higher most
liver pudlians talk in a higher pitch it would be more like this is of course for a female on a male
voice will be slightly different but you'll still have this kind of range of whereabouts
um the accents sit now with the Manchester accent it's slightly lower uh it's actually down here so
you'll normally find you have to lower your tone so I would normally say these words in a higher
pitch but speaking in a Manchester accent I tend to take them a bit lower and you'll also find
that the Manchester accent has a much more nasal quality a lot of the words and much more from here
so you'll find that you need to compress your mouth a little bit more to get this more nasal
feature now we're going to look at how the vowels and consonants change with a Manchester accent so
in most of southern England the why on the end of words is said as an e funny pretty really in the
Manchester accent this is said as an air Fritter realer angra just try practicing those funny
Fritter realer angra is really funny she's really pretty did she really like it a pie is meant to be
with Graver and I find the emotion side and drama easy in comedy but I really enjoyed doing comedy I
couldn't read so we we ended up with shaving foam once instead of cream for our jealous the next key
feature is that normally when you have the ing at the end in the Manchester accent this is dropped
so they would say walk in talking running we're in watching I was watching the teller I was watching
the Telly I was walking to work I was walking to work waiting meeting watching I've got a meeting
in five minutes the next feature is the dropped H sound at the beginning of words so for example
happening would become happening Happy would become happy you might have heard Carl Pilkington
say I'm not happy also house would become house helpful would become helpful how come would become
outcome how come you don't like it it weren't very helpful so I love the skinhead would you go about
that again see that yeah the next feature is a very key feature from the point of view of the
vowel changes this is going to be something you'll need to spend time working on if you want to do
the accent and you'll also need to work out where exactly you should make this change basically in
modern RP British English we have two vowels for the uh sound we have come which is an uh sound
come up done is all and then we have uh for book and look and put and full now with a Manchester
accent these are actually they become merged and mostly the uh sound is gone mostly the uh as
income is gone and is replaced by an even slightly Fuller version of uh for example come becomes
come shut becomes shut lovely becomes lovely cut becomes cut up becomes up something would become
something nothing would become nothing so your your cheeks come in a little bit oh and the sound
comes from deeper down in the throat shut shut the door yeah it's really lovely lovely it comes from
deeper down here he's really lovely crazy isn't it yeah no I do I love it and Cat becomes cut
she's got a cut on her finger cup becomes cup can you pass me that cup where did the fashion
come from I know you were always fashioned but did someone that comes from Victoria some of
it come from external advice we've got two more features to go so the next one is that with the
Manchester accent we contract contractions even more this is very confusing if you are a foreign
student and you've moved to Manchester or you're somebody that speaks English as a second language
you might actually not recognize these words so first of all normally we would say doesn't but
actually in Manchester they shorten that more and that becomes don't don't you like it you didn't
like it wouldn't might even become wouldn't it wouldn't go it wouldn't go practice saying those
you don't like it she wouldn't go to the party I was acting like a baby that was a depression
wasn't it that's how it made you feel notice as you're doing this accent this compression in the
mouth to allow for more air to be passed through the nose once I wouldn't like it I won't try that
because I wouldn't like it the last feature is saying me instead of my my brother my sister
my hair me sister's getting married me sister's getting married me mom's just coming back from
the hairdressers what do you think of me here my hair is dead dry excuse me Posh ones as well but
let me get you a drink I've always my mom always said I was an old baby so those are some of the
main features that you'll find yourself being able to easily do to find a way into this accent it's
full of character and it'll be great for you to understand if you come to England or if you're an
actor looking to add more accents to your resume we look forward to seeing you more on love English
and tell us Below in the comments what do you think of the Manchester accent are you not for it