Three days ago I shared on my Instagram and my snapchat an invitation for you guys
to send me your best British accent, video or audio
I had loads of responses from all over the world
and what I want to do right now is actually go through... listen to them
and kind of coach you through your British accents to try and improve them
now first thing - before you jump in in the comments and (say) 'there's no such thing as a British accent'
obviously there's loads of different accents within the UK, you can move ten miles and have a different accent
but I'm just going to listen to what you've said to me and try and coach you
towards the way I would say it just as a typical British guy
please don't take this too seriously
I'm not a language teacher... well actually I am a language teacher, but not a very good one
so don't take this too seriously... it's just a bit of fun
and I want to go through your accents
talk about how you can make them sound a bit more authentic and genuine
YouTube is up...
I'm going to search for my video... Arabic Mike British Accent
there it is
just look, two hours ago... first up is this person here
'top of the morning to you', she says
that's an Irish phrase
... and it means have a great morning
I personally would never say that
I don't know you'd have to be maybe above 46 and rather middle-class
neither of which I am but...
you might say it, and I love the accent, it's a great British phrase
do you love me?
he's already sounding American
listen again
so slightly different isn't it
can you hear that?
he was good
I've always admired the British accent, it's one of the most elegant and stylish he says
okay couple things to say there
do you watch YouTube? do you like YouTube? I love YouTube we invented YouTube do you know that?
so this girl here... she also says 'in YouTube' she means 'on YouTube' just a little correction there English-wise
but.... fantastic accent and yeah...
thanks for the video. Let's go on to this guy...
okay... that's very accurate, lots of Brits would say, 'look at the weather, it's bloody awful'
nobody would quite sound this animated
when they talk I think but generally - he's got a really ...
great effort here
he's got a very comedy British accent but yeah top marks for effort
that's good... good effort
How's the weather today?
this is a common thing I think this guy's from Egypt? yeah pretty sure he is
whether the weather be fine or whether the weather be not
we'll weather the weather whatever the weather whether we like it or not
we don't pronounce the 'r's at the end of a word in Britain
thank you very much for the nice dinner meal... good
he just said dinner which is perfect
you're welcome... did I get you dinner... well maybe if I did I don't remember
again this guy is doing a similar thing to our friend from Egypt
and it's not an easy thing to do
I think one of the hardest things when learning English for any non-native speaker
is to pronounce this 'r' it's a very unique sound to the English language
'r' ... really... I know the Chinese struggle with it a lot of Asian languages struggle with it a lot
and in German if you live in the North....
so they pronounce it differently within the north and the south
in Arabic course it's... in French... isn't it yeah... and then we
say rah rah rah rah rah rah rah rah rah so if you wanted to take the Mickey
if you wanted to take the Michael out of Brits you could just say rah rah rah
Debbie did really well here
Debbie's a long long time follower
she's been following me for
years and years so thanks Debbie for that
and her accent's fantastic
the only thing that made me think that maybe it's not your native accent
is that the kind of hesitation around clotted
but no your accent was really good so I don't if you've been practicing but well done
this kid is very cute
and 'hello it's a jolly good day' that was spot on... well done
I want fish and chips now
I really do
yeah good very animated very good accent that's right
now if you two don't mind I'm going to bed before either of you come up with
another clever idea to get us killed or worse expelled
she's great this girl
...can you stop talking about food please I haven't eaten for 38 hours
no joke I literally haven't...
English is difficult because we don't say the words the way
they are spelt or written
but your accent's amazing I don't know if I've said that
you could be in like a 1940s movie
okay, I want to talk about Tamara... listen to this
she sounds like me could be like my sister or something
your accent is immaculate... I'm really being picky now
spot on... there's just... nothing to say there
I wouldn't say it quite like that but she sounds like she's from London
you sound like you're from London
really try really hard to replicate every rendition of the 'r' sound so that
when you're really red and ready to rumble you can say your 'r' without any
rectification upon the rea... I don't know even know what I'm saying anymore
across... across... to get it mid word is really hard
if you can do that you're fine but don't say
again, yes there are other accents within the UK
but this would get hella confusing if I was trying to describe and teach
twelve accents at once... I'm just teaching you my accent because
that's all I can do...
oh I love a crumpet
yeah I love crumpets too
it's going to be quite cold tomorrow
which you know it's just a little thing
it's not easy but practice it and eventually it will come
next week I will go to the shopping centre
we don't pronounce the 'rs' at the end of the word
until he said 'mate', it sounded like he was an American
'hey yo what's up'... we don't really say that I mean we might
but it's not like a typically British thing
yes good that's actually... there's something deeper there because
when you're learning a language it's very easy to just fall into the trap of not doing anything...
not speaking not talking not communicating not saying words and
and kind of hiding and waiting until you've got it perfect to speak
you're not going to be perfect... probably in ten years you won't be perfect
so you have to you have to fake it till you make it
so yeah wise words from Hamad
so yeah, this girl is from Saudi Arabia
and her accent's very good but she just said I have a problem with the R sound
very common she might say Saudi Arabia which most Arabs would say
but in England we would say Saudi Arabia
'even the rubbish isn't happy' and we do use the word rubbish
that's a British word so he's done well there
this guy Andy is from Indonesia but he speaks with a cockney accent
so it's different to my own accent but it's very good in it's own right... definitely
okay I think we'll leave it there
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thanks for watching leave a comment and until next time byebye