Hello and welcome, everyone.
Firstly, please ensure that you have enabled captions on your Youtube player so that you
can read the words that I'm speaking on your screen.
This is a remake of my first British English accent training lesson. I want to make it
more concise and relevant, so please share this one and I have an update on the lessons
which are now on my channel (http://www.youtube.com/user/CJWorkman17).
The point of this video then is that I'm going to tell you about the 100 free lessons that
you can watch to learn English on my Youtube channel, then I'm going to help you pronounce
the alphabet, and finally I will guide you through other free resources that I post online
to help you learn English and British English.
A little bit about me: my name is Chris, I'm English, I have lived in England and Wales
all my life, in the south, and for a few years now I have been teaching British English free online.
The main resource that I offer are Youtube videos. I have my channel (http://www.youtube.com/user/CJWorkman17)
you can subscribe now or go to it to see all the other free lessons on there. There are
more than 100 and I am posting more very regularly.
The point of the lessons is to mainly focus on British English and my British accent,
so there are general English and British English lessons, there are accent training videos,
I also do material about idioms, slang, pronunciation and a special one recently about swear words
- that means rude or bad words and many more besides. There are at least 100, about ten
minutes each, so a great deal of material for you, please check it out, subscribe and
share if it's interesting. You don't have to do anything, it's all free, so please just
watch and enjoy and learn if you want to.
When we're talking about British English it's always worth remembering that there are many
differences. Like I said before I'm from the south, my accent is a particular type from
the south, a kind of standard, generic southern accent. Accents and dialects vary widely across
Britain so it's not that I'm teaching you THE British accent, I'm teaching you A British accent.
That is about my Youtube channel and lessons, now I want to help you with the alphabet.
I'm going to go through saying each letter twice, and then at the end I will go through
the whole one once quickly.
A B
C D
E F
G H
I J
K L
M N
O P
Q R
S T
U V
W X
Y Z /zed/
Very important, in British English we say /zed/ "zed". /zi:/ "Zee" is American - that is different.
Now, here we are, the alphabet all the way through:
a b
c d
e f
g h
i j
k l
m n
o p
q r
s t
u v
w x
y z /zed/
That was nice and easy, wasn't it?
Finally, some more about the other websites that I manage online. I've already talked
a lot about my Youtube channel. (http://www.youtube.com/user/CJWorkman17)
We have two things on Facebook. There is a group (http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_154326444624084)
and there is a page (http://www.facebook.com/BritishEnglishPage). The group is for English language, the page
is for British English specifically. On there, I'm sharing news, slang, text lessons and
quite a lot of visual pictures to help you learn.
You can find the links to these resources at the top of the Youtube description.
I have a twitter account (@UKEnglishTweets) you can follow so that you can pick up my lessons
there, I tweet them mostly daily whenever I post them.
There is the main website that I have, it's http://www.learnbritishenglish.co.uk/, and
everything that I post I will publish on there so that you can find all the resources in
one place.
I use Tumblr (http://www.tumblr.com/blog/learnbritishenglish) to post the videos and the pictures.
And I'm also on Skype: BritishEnglish_Teacher. You can add me and maybe we can arrange some
activities in the future.
Thank you very much then, but please remember that there are more lessons to come, so please
do check all of the ones which are on the channel already, and then subscribe so that you can
receive new ones in the future.
Once again my name is Chris, from England, thank you very much for watching, take care
and I will see you next time.