so you want to learn how to sound like
you're from birmingham
well i'm sure i can help with that
follow me and now fighting
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right let's keep this quick if you want
to be a pre-cube blind do you have to
sound like one
so listen very carefully say it only
once
but if you want you can replay the video
to make sure you've
learnt everything but i will say it only
once right
let's start with the vowels very very
important vowel in the birmingham accent
is the u we don't say that
cut we say put butt and cut
it's an o sound
like a monkey don't be tempted to say
under
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is under clear good listen to this
example
together ah shut up shut up
shut up good let's carry on
now let's talk about diphthongs right so
you'll notice
in a word like this game the a
moves it goes like this i
i game nine
fine it's a lot less of an a
and it's more of a i so it's actually
more like you're going from an
i to an e rather than an i to an
e listen to the difference name
nine let's move on so in words where in
rp you might say this sound oh
in birmingham we say ow
ow it's wider it's actually a lot closer
to london so
instead of saying float we say
float can you see how i'm going from a
wide eye
ah it's like r
doubt know listen to the difference
again
float flout have a look at this example
he knows better words right
he knows oh all right let's move on
i sound now in rp you might say things
like
quit fit bit however in birmingham we
say quit
beat fit do you see how i'm making an
e sound rather than an e it's a lot
more forward beat e it's closer to an e
it's closer to e then anything else
really
e it's in the nose brought quit
beat feet listen to this example whose
duty it is
whose duty it is it is it
is moving on in rp you would say words
like
bath grass and pass so that
a becomes an r however
in birmingham we say bath path
grass fast past
all right it's an a sound rather than an
r so in rp when you would say r
replace it with an ah like it about to
say apple
all right and finally
the vowel sound y when words end in a y
like funny money or
i can't think of another word penny
thick
birmingham accents will pronounce the y
as an uri penoie
monoi it's like a diphthong at the end
it's like you put a u in it
you're saying
move your tongue from laying flat to
moving upwards and it'll block the
passage of air a little bit to help you
go mono
just listen to this zombie
it's complex but i'm sure with practice
you'll get there all right let's move on
to consonants
birmingham like a lot of accents in the
uk is non-rhotic now
non-rhotic means you don't pronounce the
r if it comes after
a vowel so for example the word first
first it's actually closer to what we
call a schwa
which is a neutral sound that requires
nothing going on in your mouth it's an
uh uh so words like first
first first is open it's an open sound
first
it's not first it's not first alright
first it's open first when you get words
that end
in er like mother father however
instead of going uh we actually release
it into more of an
a sound like you would say apple mother
father however and there's one more
thing you need to know about the letter
r
in a birmingham accent all right if an r
is
followed by a vowel so
if a vowel comes after an r
a lot of the time people from birmingham
will roll the r
give it a bit of a tap now this might
seem strange in an accent from the
british isles but i promise you i'm
telling the truth
i wouldn't say roll your eyes on every
single eye you'll sound a bit ridiculous
it wavers between being a and just a tap
for example listen to that for example
furry example i don't really say
for example you can if you want but if
you're proper bromine
for example so these are need to have a
bit of a tap and the way we do a tap is
our tongue the tip of our tongue
uh taps on what we call the alveol
or what we call the alveolar it's very
hard to say
the alveolar ridge all right so
tip your tongue that's your alveolar so
your teeth are there uh a bit of skin
above your teeth that's the alveolar
ridge so you want
uh up there all right so all right
it's like you're saying it's like you're
saying
all right
okay so we've got that little bit of a
tap water now let's hear some examples
from the boss
my boys it's not
your all here yuroli yuroli
birmingham is a tricky one to understand
because we do link our words quite a bit
all right you're all here
you're only it's not you're all here
you're all here all right notice that
that tapped out you're all here sorry
do anything to embarrass her to
embarrass her
to embarrass embarrass
now this is not a proper embarrass it's
just a little tap
last example your cousins your horses
your horses and that example leads me
very well onto my next consonant which
is
h and very often in birmingham we drop
our ages so we don't say them all right
so i'm noticing
ursis we don't say your horses we say
your horses
almost like the word horse starts with
an o okay
final consonant the letter t you'll
notice that t's in the birmingham accent
are quite delicate
so for example if i said the words you
put push
push you'll notice that the t is quite
weak put a bit bet
it's like the the the teeth don't quite
close in a way
but bet you know we actually make the
tea more with our tongue
rather than closing our teeth together
which is what a lot of people do
so i bought pet bit beef
there's a little gap in my teeth all
right and i'm tapping the alveolar ridge
bit it's like it's a breathy t breathy
it's kind of unvoiced all right a bit
it's like you're whispering the end of
the word okay
here's a very good example similar to
the one described in that report
in that report
it's like a whisper at the end of the
word in that
report now let's talk about the town all
right
the town now in birmingham we do tend to
go down
at the end of our words quite a bit so
most of our sentences
in birmingham do end on a down alright
so we'll finish our sentence and end it
on a down
okay i think i've taught you all i know
so
we're gonna do a practice sentence all
right let's see how you do
our practice sentence goes like this
this place is now
under new management by order of the
peaky blinders
let's go through it this place
this remember our e sound when we've got
an eye
this place plays remember place
this place is
management all right pretty much the
same under new management
by order of see how we link those words
order
off for the rub the little tapped by
order of the
pico blinders have a go are practicing
that every now and again you should be
all right thank you very much for
joining me i hope this has been useful
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with another video
uh not me obviously it'll be uh the
other lady that
uh runs this youtube channel but uh it's
been a pleasure
and just remember there are lots of
accents in the uk
and birmingham is only one of them but
it's wonderful birmingham is a city that
extends far beyond the peaky blinders
it is a vibrant lively and down-to-earth
city
so if you're ever in the uk paid a visit
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