How to Fake a British Accent FAST 

Eh? Wassat? Write more slower innit? Actually I've been a southerner for 65 years and had never heard of SSBE.

Wrongly*

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You sound like my mum from Hull. She moved to London the minute she could get out of Yorkshire. She says things like if it was pronounced "barth" it would have an R in it. But this is easily countered by one word: "Though". Checkmate, now get back to powering the South, ya slackers... Don't get me started on "pikelets"...

@@ajaxlewis7664 hull is a crazy accent. errrr nerrrrr. serp on a rerp.

Fantastic

Wena machucao

That’s so funny! Aquí también de Chile, pero con niñez en Londres. Saludos!

😅😅 and when someone says speak the Kings english you may ask, which one 😅

Great story…I was born in Cheshire, grew up in Leicestershire, my father was from Banffshire…Scotland, one Grandad from Llandudno…Wales…mother from Oldham, Lancashire…a rich choice of accent and dialect…but none spoke like this ‘diamond geezer’…yea, I live in ‘Landun’ now and this fella speaks British English, to quote my Irish wife ‘in my hole’ 😂

I read the news every day with concern. Power to our sisters in Iran.

@@LetThemTalkTV Very many thanks, it does mean a lot 🌷☘️🌷

I think the word you intended to use is ANGLOPHILE. " Phile from Greek mea ing " lover of".

@@robertaschultze3684 Yeah like 'paedophile' 😅, -maniac for the sake of more emphasis 🙃

@@NarsFromMars You would NEVER hear that here.

We used to watch a lot of "tele-matches", the voice over was in English, the counting in German, 1,2,3...? What is that English accent,.sounds posh enough.

Auch ein international-schooler wa? Mir hat mal ein Ire gesagt „You speak some sort of twisted mish mash of scottish, brittish, american, german and latin accent. Where the hell are you from, mate?“ :‘}

Most Europeans learned English in school and kept their own accents. These days, more learn it casually and from television and movies and more and more young Europeans seem to end up with an American sounding accent as a result. As a native English speaker (I’m Irish) I find this quasi American accent grating on the ears. I much prefer hearing people speak English with a German, French, Italian, Spanish etc. accent. Sounds nicer and is an easier way to identify where someone is from.

Reading comments out loud is exactly what I did with your comment😂😂😂 You made me laugh so hard thank you

@@Dreyno I must say I do enjoy hearing English spoken in various European accents as long as they’re not so heavy as to make the speaker unintelligible.

I have a British accent and this does not describe my accent at all. It is very much "English" rather than "British".

Letowski sounds polish?

@@starchamberproductions3903 well, yeah, “Southern” British English. So, London, basically. All other bits of Britain are conveniently ignored.

@@EternalShadow1667 He said it was Standard Southern British English at the beginning, right?

Sounds pretty cool. It's much more interesting to have an accent basically unique to you instead of one that's the same as everyone else's. People who have lived in many different countries often seem to have an interesting accent too, like a big mishmash.

That's the Transatlantic accent (?)

I was once returning to Chicago from Indiana on a small twin-prop feeder plan and I was one of only two passengers and so naturally we chatted a little across the aisle. I was born and lived in Urban Yorkshire until I was twenty and then moved to London, first to study and then to work. I married an Italian girl and moved to Italy and found work with international organisations around Europe and especially connected with the U.S. I became pretty much bilingual English/Italian. I still live in Italy. After just a couple of minutes my fellow passenger asked me "Where did you get that fantastic accent?" I am a very, very clear speaker. (which is unusual for someone native of English).

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The transatlantic accent was developed north of the Blue Ridge mountains @@cik9272 and is devoid of a lot of the Scots-Irish flavor that makes American pronunciation what it is. But our southern accents in America, like what you'd find in Texas or Tennessee, have preserved a lot of those Scots-Irish characteristics, and have even embellished them further.

Hello! I’m from Chile as well and I went to Europe once, it was really funny to fake that accent when I spoke with them. They didn’t laugh, so I don’t know if that was a good thing or not lol

@@mariomunoz390 😂😂

foreigners in english? wow

@@TheDohped Geen hoofdletters? Klootzak! Combien de langues étrangées parlez-vous? Probabilmente non ha nemmeno ottenuto un buon GCSE in inglese.

​@@TheDohped he coached foreigners, in English. the foreigners were coached in English. "Foreigners in English" is not being used as a phrase in and of itself

@@Caroleonus and you missed the point by a long way! my issue with the phrase is the use of medieval words to describe people, which is typical of his obviously upper middle class wannabe a real posh person elitism.

@@TheDohped Please stop reiterating this social justice nonsense. By "foreigners in English," he means people who are not native to a primarily English-speaking country (hence 'foreign'). Coaching "[foreign people] in English" means that he taught non-native speakers English. It has nothing to do with elitism.

He described the Australian accent - everything except the Ts not being Ds - which just goes to prove we don't have an accent ;)

@@Ausecko1 to me, as a non native speaker, the Australian accent (yes, you do have one ;-)) sounds quite "broad" (similar to London cockney) in the sound of A like in, for instance, name, late, fate etc

so the Bostonian accent must be pretty pleasant to hear

I’m from the south shore ( of Boston) and was thinking the same thing.

boston where?

Thanks for stopping by even though you don't really need this lesson

I'm 66yo, Norfolk born and bred. I still have the accent but the dialect is fast disappearing. Time moves on and changes take place, but I do miss very much how it used to be.

I am from Eastern Europe, Kyiv. I do pronounce it all right. But it is true for the most of us🤷 Many was learning from teachers with wrong accent, or in best case, kinda american pronounce

but I guess you have a perfect accent in some foreign language you obviously speak in;)

@@dorotapawowska8995 HAHA! I like your comment. What is a ''wrong accent'' anyway? LOL.

My son's French teacher in high school apparently spoke English with an Irish accent because that's where he learned his English. He still insisted that the kids use standard European French! The kids, mostly, French-Canadian, laughed at him whereas a generation or 2 ago, The educated French-Canadians would have aped his pronunciation and his vocabulary.

This is hilarious! Love it.

@@nicimie thanks mate. You can imagine, every intent to flatten out my accent is pretty demanding, I don't even know where I should start 😂

my sister-in-law has german and hispanic decent. Her mother was obviously german, her father was hispanic only in his decent, he spoke Okie accent southern okie! was raised in southern Oklahoma and yet my sister in-law has a minnesotan accent. I have no idea why.

That "got' (how much I got from the Canadian side) is typically Canadian apparently. Other Anglophones would say "how much I received . . . ", although Gideon has a whole video on the use of "got" so, maybe, we don't use "got" more than the Brits do.

I noticed that british people have less severe accent in german than americans/canadians

it is NOT great....British and English are not interchangeable...

I'm an American who has lived in Canada for almost 20 years, my accent is so messed up. To Canadians, I sometimes sound American, to Americans I sound Canadian.

@@t.metcalf2080 I recently watched a really cool "tour" of the US by accent. It was also very interesting to hear where the influence comes from as well as our similarities.

American and Canadian accents are both descended from mixes of UK accents, but Canadian might have more Northern and Scottish influence than most American accents. Not to mention the different regional variations (like the Maritimes, New England, NYC, the Great Lakes, the US south, etc) I assume it's a lot of dialect levelling mixed with influence from major early immigrant groups. As traits get fixed it becomes harder to eliminate them. There's also leftover traces of people's ancestral languages, like the double-negatives typical of AAVE and other Black dialects or the tendency for Irish, Scottish, Newfoundlander and Maritime English to not use 'yes' and instead use a construct like 'I did'.

@@skaldlouiscyphre2453 not quite. There are as many people from other countries than their art people from the UK. Canada exists because there were enough American who remain loyal to the British crown.

@@bradavon I'm familiar with our history. Founding populations exert larger influence on the development of an accent than latter populations because latter populations are assimilating into the existing accent compared to being part of the accent levelling that's typical in environments with several distinct accents. Recent immigrants tend to have the largest impact if they form relatively isolated communities, but then the impact is largely limited to those communities. While in the long run that might lead to accents merging (like MLE/MUBE), it can also lead to the development of distinct ethnic or other caste accents (like AAVE).

I m not english, but when a person tries to speak with certain accent it sounds so forced and unpleasant, my opinion - own your accent and speak freely

@@bambinaforever1402 I don't really agree. Someone who is quite hopeless at any accent accurate to a language can sound awful even hard to understand: 'oh, that's what you meant!'. The whole point of these breakdowns is to allow people to get the mechanics underneath so it doesn't sound as forced. This is an economical guide. Listen to a British person trying to speak French without any attempt at a French accent. That sounds really awful. There is a questionable stage early in one's learning.... but as with so many skills. One should aim at the fundamentals in the right order. Trying over hard with selected flourishes while neglecting more basic mistakes does sound forced, but this guy is focussing on basics first.

Thank you for brightening my day!

@@artgreen6915 For some reason, the British were not taught to master the French way of speaking French. I remember in my first summer school that there a very advanced French speaker taking the course (he understood Québecois French very well and spoke standard French very well, but with a strong British accent). I read later that the British were not taught to imitate a French accent at all, but to use their British accent when speaking French. Very strange, isn't it? Maybe, it's different today when France is right across the channel, although Gideon doesn't speak French and he lives in France.

I’ll be damned if I speak like other Dutch people usually speak English, it does not sound good or charming in any way lmao

I am sorry you had to go through all of that and made felt once and again that you were not enough! Not true!

Some people are ignorant (and badly brought up!). Your correct speech will be an asset to you in life : people who speak nicely are always appreciated when it matters (professionally for example). But always try to remember there is only one 'correct' voice and that is yours because it belongs to you and you are unique. 🤗

I’m autistic and growing up was tough! It did get easier after I learned how to fight. I’ve also got awkward memories of reading aloud for performances. Even though I was an advanced reader, it took years and tons of practice before other people liked to hear me read aloud. In your case, it seems like every intervention that is used to “help” folks on the spectrum is fraught with side effects and drawbacks. Thanks for sharing your experiences!

@@thesincitymama I knew an young man on the autism spectrum who taught himself the Lord's Prayer in Middle English. I enjoyed listening to him recite it. People should learn to appreciate different gifts and talents.

@@kareine4317 There's no such thing as correct speech though, only accents are that viewed as possessing more prestige. Accents that lack prestige aren't incorrect, uneducated or evidence of lesser intellect, although because those assumptions are commonly made it's understandable why people who speak with those accents are sometimes touchy about those judgments. Not that anything Mike did warranted their aggression. I'm glad I unlearned the notion of 'proper English' while I was young enough to benefit from the insight. I was a bit arrogant of my 'more proper' speech until I had the realization it wasn't inherently superior, it was just viewed that way by people who's approval wasn't even desirable to begin with.

‘International phonetics’ don’t work simply because of regional dialects

@@alucylu9714 that’s the specific thing the IPA exists to help with tho…

I do my best thanks

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I agree. I'm italian and I find it's so frustrating to watch american or English tv series! At least, it's important to understand each other!

@@fenderosa please don’t be! I was there ( and still partly is). It’s really hard to decode.

I am a born and bred Australian, from Australian parents and I speak this way, I did have and do have very well spoken grandparents & parents, I do occasionally get mistaken as some one from the UK that is an expat.

There's no way people in America or the UK are confusing your French Accent. They know.

They're lying to you.

I can help you correct your English.

How often do people mistake your accent for Quebecois?

A lot of English popular music gets the 'silent R' sounded because we're so used to Americans singing that way. Lennon was always faithful to his Liverpool accent, though. Cheers.

Bare in mind a lot of the other prounaciations in this video would be very diffent for someone from Liverpool. The A sound is often very different for example

In contrast the Stones sing in American English. So much that it came as a shock to hear Mick Jagger speaking with an English accent.

Stick to the Spanish-American accent, or else find out what's happening in Gibraltar lmao. The Spanish-British accent and intonation is hilarious. Living there I always think how much cooler Mexican English speakers sound in the US

@@admintutorial Yeah Americans always seem to pronounce the T as a D lol. Like "Utter" and "Udder" sound the same

@@rambi1072 As an American, we do pronounce "utter" and "udder" the same (or practically the same), but it's not because we pronounce the T as a D. Instead, we pronounce both T and D between vowels as a flap. It's basically the same sound as the single R in Spanish (ex "pero," "héroe"). I also want to point out that many English speakers from the UK seem to have unusual (to my ears) pronunciations of T, and I'm not talking about the glottal stop. To my ears, many UK English speakers pronounce the T more like a 'ts' sound. I've also heard this from Irish speakers.

I'm Californian and even though English is my native language, I need some good working knowledge of Spanish just to get good food. But pronunciation messes me up. It's mainly the "R" sound, when to roll it, and how much to roll it. The short R in "pero" is different from the longer R in "perro" (dog) and different from the even longer R in "perro" (a fart). So I might always speak Mexican Spanish with a gringo accent.

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Hell…,just tell them you’re from Arizona.,or Montana,,or Colorado or Idaho, they all sound the same pretty much..and three of those are pretty red states! 😁😉

I'd be proud of the fact you're automatically assumed to be better edumacated.

#Ukraine is fighting for the fundamentals of what the West has stood for since WWII. Support Ukraine and stand with Ukraine in the fight against evil. Speak up. #StandWithUkraine

Thanks for the story. I guess in Ukraine there are bigger problems than improving a British accent right now.

@@LetThemTalkTV exactly, but for many of your Russian students fake British accent is crucial now.

@Lota Rygiel Thanks, I am sitting in the city Zaporizhzhya (Zaporozhye) 40-50 km from the battlefields. Not so bad, but a lot of companies suspended the business activities. My company sells graphite powder. Before the war we sometimes sold graphite to Italy and the UK, but now a lot of European companies are afraid of business with Ukraine during the war. Though we need business operations now ! :-)

@@frankgradus9474 To be honest, we (the citizens of Ukraine) try to improve our lives and cooperation with the EU, UK and the US seems to be beneficial for both parties, while Russians want to drag us back to their Oligarchic pseudo-"Leftist" Empire. In fact, Ukrainians are "Russians" who understand the real Russia and don't want to be its part again :-) Ukrainians speak Russian language better than actually Russians :-) But I am deeply sad and sorry that a lot of people in the West and in the East support Russia even without getting understand WHAT do they support.

I am a teacher of English in Senegal 🇸🇳 . I definitely agree with your remarks..!

Only non-rhotic varieties of English insert the R and while I know it's not universal you're in the most famously rhotic part of England.

"Saw" rhymes with "door". The same long ɔː. So in "I saw a man" an "r" sound fits perfectly there.

Australians make the linking "r" sound too, actually a lot of what he explained was tranferable to Australian English as well. Apart from the "t," unfortunately in a bunch of words we've picked up the American habit of pronouncing them as a "d."

@@beatsg Yep, Australia is non-rhotic too. Why is the Australian pronunciation of the t "unfortunate" and what makes you think you picked it up from America?

Lol I teach phonetics in Australia as I'm a primary school teacher. The "spelling mastery" lessons never mention the fact that unless you are speaking non-rhotically none of it would make sense. I always wonder how the irish, Scottish and American teachers in Australia do it without being spelt out the American/English variations. The phonemes man! Your poor students.

@@anaussie213 Are there a lot of Irish, Scottish & Ameican teachers in Australia? Kids learn language variations very easily. My "youngsters" in Hatchet Cove, T.B., Newfoundland and Labrador used a spelling series called Spelling in the Language Arts. The words they were taught to spell were words that an Ontario student might have trouble spelling. The tricky words in Newfoundland English were not taught. Some Ontario people say, "are house" not "our house". Newfoundlanders would say, "hour 'ouse"--they would put an non-existant "h" on "our" and take it off "house". Newfoundlanders would also say, "Dear Mother", "Dear they go!" for "There they go!" and "deer in the field". I made sure when I dictated the words that the kids understood the context of each "dear", "deer", "there". I did often wonder how these youngsters would ever become fluent in Canadian English because their accent and vocabulary was so far away from the standard Canadian English vocabulary, tenses and pronunciation. Probably, as Newfoundlanders received more schooling, their regional accent just faded and in a generation or 2 will disappear altogether.

Like pronouncing jaguar as “jag-you-are.” It’s probably to make up for dropping all the syllables in words like Gloucester and Cholmondely. 🤭

They really do have a ton in common, many differences between ssbe and Australian are more down to the cadence and emphasis aspects rather than just pure accent

yeah this guy almost sounds australian. he has a wierd twang to him

Isn't Australian a mishmash of Hiberno-English, Scottish English and Cockney, with a small veneer of RP on top?

@@ethnicalbert It's his london accent coming through eg cappuccino

@@wezdog1 Im london born and raised, its not a london accent ive ever heard. Or rather there is a component that is definitely not from london

Blame It On The Bossa Nova ...

/ˌbɒsə ˈnəʊvə/ ...

When you see an R the instinct is to pronounce it. It takes some time to view it differently

i'm brazilian too. 2 years in London and yet i can't clearly see the difference between 'o' and 'a' in some words like 'hat/hot', 'down/dawn' etc. The only way i can difference between these words is by the context. 'today is very hot', for exemple, 'hot' can't be 'hat'

Br tbm mas eu aprendi o inglês britânico acho mais fácil, difícil é pronunciar o r igual americano faz Lol.

Me too. i was brought up to speak quite 'precisely' and learnt that inserting an 'r' sound was sloppy. I think people like me usually use a little glottal stop instead. (Very sad that this sort of thing is so bound up with our class system - don't judge!!!)

If you think that's a fun one go visit uhlanna, I mean Atlanta.

Or “Bal’muh”. (Baltimore)

Same as an Arab myself, people either speak American English or Arabeesee (English is pronounced Engleesee in Arabic 😁)

Yes, it is very much describing an "English" accent rather than a "British" one.

I'm a victorian in SA, and found mostly the same apart from some long a sounds. The South Australian accent is closer to british, and I know plenty of South Australians who have been mistaken for British. Also We have high rising terminals in the Australian accents, so our pitch goes up towards the end of our sentences. There's still probably tons of subtle differences, but it's probably actually easier to mimic if your accent is further away from what you are are aiming for.

@@MrZanderson "Also We have high rising terminals in the Australian accents, so our pitch goes up towards the end of our sentences." Something shared with some Canadian accents.

@@skaldlouiscyphre2453 Yes, but even an educated Australian accent would not sound like a Canadian accent, right?

@@dinkster1729 No, that's a shared trait but you'd never confuse the two. The vowels aren't the same, rhotic vs. non-rhotic, etc.

"Soaked up" is the expression. It's a phrasal verb.

Even I learnt SSBE being an Indian for the same reason like you, I’ll tell you our issue, it’s because our English teachers taught us to speak English in the same accent we speak Indian languages, and it so happens that our script (Devanāgari) pronounces letters exactly like how they are written, meanwhile Latin script languages pronounce letters differently from how they are written sometimes (sometimes silent), so that’s why our English sounds odd because we are speaking it like our native languages

Because you British not real britt

@@suniljoseph5888 what?

U love watching this, innit?

👍😊

😂😂😂

or bloody... Depending on the context of course! 😅

I love listening to American accent, but I strive to speak the SSBE. In vain. Almost heaven, West Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River Life is old there, older than the trees Younger than the mountains, growin' like a breeze Country roads, take me home To the place I belong West Virginia, mountain mama Take me home, country roads.

@@frankgradus9474 You picked the right example to defend your position. I agree, it's warm and friendly. John Denver, right?

@@robertbushee Righto!

Not just a bit, but a damn kilogram of it. In Slavic languages you never get an extra H after a consonant outta nowhere, so it was extremely hard for me in my school days, trying to master saying not just "TIME" but "T-HHYYME"

That's why they say that you need to speak as if you have the hot eggs in your mouth when you do British English.

My two MCs are British and Italian Canadian, so I know what you're talking about. I'm Canadian with British parents, so my accent is a mix of theirs, the Canadian school system and American TV. I have trouble keeping my Canadian from lapsing into Briticisms. And lets not get into the different words for the same things. :) Jon in rural BC, Canada

@@JonTanOsb MCs? I'm Canadian from Ontario, but what is an MC? Yes! Some Canadians use British terms even if they speak like other Canadians. I remember one friend always said "hoover" for "vacuum". I never asked, but I took it that one of her parents must have been British or one of her grandparents.

@@dinkster1729 MC = Main Character WIP = work in progress. That last one is a bonus answer. :) My problem is using British terms for my other guy, as they come naturally to me. Jon

Like Sen'ence? With a stop where the apostrophe is? Skipping the T at the end of the word.. like "I bent the knee." Is just "I ben the knee?" Or "I spent 20 dollars" is like "I spen 20 dollars" kinda deal? Words are weird. People are weird

I'm British northern and we often miss our t off at the end haha. And also skip the middle too. But that varies by individuals to be fair. 😁 I would say the word 'often' like 'offun' and say 'what's the matter?' like 'woss the ma' ah' We like to miss the t out in the middle and end a lot haha

I love his wide accent awareness, which he showed off by pointing out the vast difference in North American accents.

RP is only a British accent within the UK. Outside there is only the British accent. Most people is unaware of variety of those throughout the UK.

Yes, indeed there are dozens of accents in Britain. It's a fascinating subject

British accents are English, Welsh, Scottish, and Northern Irish; but they each sound completely different, so to say someone has a 'British accent' is a misnomer and makes no sense. Which 'British accent'? Is their 'British accent' English, Welsh, Scottish, or Northern Irish? Also, is the British person English, Welsh, Scottish, or Northern Irish?

@@pussypostlethwaitsaeronaut8503 English accents sound very divergent too, so "an English accent" doesn't make sense either by the same logic

Yet when French people speak English they do so in a French accent. In fact, native English speakers are the only ones who attempt to take on the accent of any foreign language they are speaking. Why should we ditch our accent when that is never reciprocated?

@@diddybopper2052 everyone has his accent. I am not criticizing that. As long as people understand you i don't see any problem. Sometimes it can lead to funny situations, that's all i say.

@@diddybopper2052 it's because of the vowel shift mate, the big vowel shift in English that happened not that long ago.

@@diddybopper2052 that's simply not true

@@k.umquat8604 what is simply not true?

Mancunians skip the T too

@@rogueuniversities6866 Oh.. That's some top tip mate, thank you! I now remember he was a huge ManU fan.. Case probably closed I guess. Didn't find him or his sister anywhere on social media so I can't get no verification sadly.

Some Scottish accents skip the T as well I believe.

@@rogueuniversities6866 Not all of them do . It depends.

@@hannahdyson7129 Most do. It's a common Mancunian habit. Of course there are people outside Manchester that claim to be Mancunians who don't (e.g. maybe some people from Sale - Karl Pilkington, for example, Stockport, Salford, and other places in Greater Manchester, not the same as Manchester) but most Mancunians absolutely drop the T.

thanks