the best way to perfect any accent is to
learn the most important pronounciation
features with memorable words so today
we're learning cockney with the most
famous film characters there are welcome
to each new English if you have met
before my name is Tom and I teach fresh
modern British English so that you can
take your angers to the next level and
achieve your life goals wherever they
may be
now cockney is the traditional
working-class accent of London in
particular the East End of London two
important things to know about cockney
the vowels are very broad and often the
consonants are missed out so what Lane's
first up Harry Potter Harry Potter Harry
Potter in one name we have two of the
most important features of the cockney
accent
dropping of the h and the glottal
ization of the t let's start with the h
so on that first name there Harry it's
not Harry is re we lose that H so H s
are dropped with a cockney accent then
we also have pata pata there is a
glottal ization on that T you're not
hearing the full true T sound
- it's not pata it's pot pot glottal T's
I main feature / cockney accent they are
dropped in the mid position and when
they're at the end of a word as well so
to create the glass of tea when you're
going to pronounce that terse sounds you
hold the air in your throat and you
don't release it so it's pop pop knot
Potter they have released that T cell we
don't release it it's pop pop now
another name that drops the H and solo
and solo not han solo and solo it's
important to say right now guys if you
want to learn how to speak cottony then
practice with me okay so you can pause
the video repeat after me
if you need to rewind listen again and
then practice a four none
Ethan Ethan and here we have two
features once again we've dropped that H
so it's not hunt its hunt and the other
feature you'll notice there is the th
there now instead of saying
Ethan I said 'if fun so it's a firm
sound this is something called th
fronting and it's when that fur becomes
four so on Ethan is Ethan on thank you
is thank you
etc so Ethan an Ethan Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Holmes alright
again there's the H disappears not
Holmes Holmes Holmes now you've also got
the curve at the end of Sherlock also
disappears this is again an example of
glottal ization the cut sound can
disappear sometimes at the end of a word
or in the middle of a word so it's not
Sherlock it's Sherlock Sherlock Holmes
Batman Batman Batman alright here again
that T we're not saying bat man Batman
the t disappears it's gone alright guys
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c-3po c-3po c-3po c-3po not Threepio so
the word 3 has that th again but because
of the th fronting it's a foot says
c-3po c-3po c-3po c-3po c-3po Luke
Skywalker Luke Skywalker Luke Skywalker
okay here we've got they brought down at
the eye on sky so sky sky that's that
broad vowel sound that I was talking
about earlier sky and then on Walker you
haven't got that curse sound your
glottal ization on that curve so Walker
ropa Skywalker just like we had with
Sherlock so Sherlock its Skywalker
so that curse sound disappears and a
bull Lecter and a bull Lecter
aníbal Lecter all right here so first of
all you've noticed already I know that
that H disappeared this is not Hannibal
it's Anibal now this name displays
another key feature of cottony on the
end of the of Hannibal you've got an L
now it would be in receive renunciation
it would be a dark L Hannibal oh that
sound oh they're in cottony the dark L
is actually turned into a vowel sound
now there's debate about how you should
transcribe it phonetically personally I
think it sounds like a semivowel
war says Anna
and a bow and a bull now when I'm making
that sound
my lips are exactly the same as when I'm
making our war sound Anibal Anibal what
what Anibal that's how I see the sound
there are people who have other ways to
represent that sound but for me that's
that's how I see it
so as Anibal Anibal Lecter now we can
hear this same treatment of the dark L
turning into a vowel in lots of other
names so for example Elsa Elsa
you know the frozen princess right Elsa
because in receive pronunciation it will
be Elsa l that dark L Elsa in cockney
it's Elsa so with Elsa you just let that
dark hell go just let it go let it go
it's let it go what about buting the
Beast Belle so it's not Belle it's Belle
Belle and you can see why I perceive it
to be more of a war sound or at least
the shape of my my mouth forms that were
sound Belle okay this one isn't strictly
a film character to the children's TV
character but I like it for the
representation of this sound Peppa Pig
Peppa Pig in cockney Peppa Pig Peppa Pig
Peppa Pig here the / sound has glottal
ization on it as well so it's not pepper
it's pepper pepper same as if you said
like paper is paper paper so you're
dropping out that / sound how about this
one r2d2 r2d2 could be pronounced in
many different ways
maybe it's r2d2 possibly the t's will be
perhaps there could be r2d2 r2d2 so the
first T is pronounced with the true T
the second T is our glottal T so r2d2 oh
what possibly there's a glottal on both
so I do I do it depends on the speaker
in the moment at that time depends on
how they feel so r2d2 r2d2 r2d2 who
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