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Improve your British English Accent in 3 Steps
Improve your British English Accent in 3 Steps
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7:22 · Jan 31, 2025
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if you've been learning English for a while and you feel you speak with
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more of an American
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accent or you feel your accents a mix between British and American
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and you'd like to change
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that and speak with more of a British
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accent then in this lesson you will learn three ways to help you sound
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more British when you speak English
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disclaimer by British English I specifically
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mean received pronunciation and modern
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received pronunciation these two accents are considered the standard form of English pronun iation
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in England although these two accents are considered the standard in England
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they are not the only two accents to exist
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there are hundreds of different accents
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across the UK as a whole
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so keep that in mind especially if you ever visit the UK
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If you don't want to change your accent or you don't believe in changing
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your accent then you're very welcome to click off this video and go and
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watch another one of my English pronunciation
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lessons where they're a little bit more General and focus on articulation
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rather than replicate in a specific accent
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the reason why I'm doing this lesson is simply because a lot of you
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have requested it that is all
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if you'd like a PDF copy of today's lesson notes
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as well as an audio
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version of today's lesson
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to listen and practice
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while on the go
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then click the link Down Below in the description
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let's begin with number one
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the r sound British English
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accents tend to be non
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rotic while American English accents tend to be rotic
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but what does this mean
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erotic accent essentially means that you pronounce
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the r sound when it is written
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while in non- rotic accents
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like British English ones
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the r tends to be silent
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if it is after a vowel
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or towards the end of a word
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so for example in British English the word
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car is pronounced without the r
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however in American English
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they pronounce it as
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car car here's another example
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hard hard hard and lastly
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mother mother mother mother
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so notice that in American English
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we pronounce that R
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sound very strongly in British English we don't pronounce it it's completely
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removed the rules to know when the r is silent
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in British English are very simple
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if you have a vowel and then an R coming after it like in
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car then you remove the r
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if you have a vowel an r and then a consonant sound coming after
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it then you again remove the r
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like in hard if a word ends with e r
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o r a r
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or r e these also have a silent
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R so mother is pronounced
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without the r the only time you pronounce the r sound is when it's
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at the beginning of a word for example
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red or if it's in between vowels
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for example around and
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arrow there is only one exception to this rule though if you know what
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it is then comment down below
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if you don't then
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I'll tell you it's the word
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ion in the UK we don't say
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iRun we say iron
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iron so listen carefully to this sentence and
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repeat I parked my car
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near the theater I
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parked my car near
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the theater so notice that all of the RS
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are silent next we're going to look at two very distinct vowel sounds
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a and o in British English
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we use the sound
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a it's a very short
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and open sound like in
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cat imagine you're going to the dentist and you open your mouth
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wide a cat while in American English
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it's more like a
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cat cat cat cat
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keep in mind that I am not from the US so if my accent
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is terrible for the American English
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one bad now the second sound
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o in British English is very short and very round
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or hot while in American English
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it's a lot longer
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and a little bit more open
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heart hot hot heart
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so let's practice the difference
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cat cat hot hot
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now listen carefully to this sentence and repeat
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the cat sat on a hot
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pot The Cat Sat
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on a hot pot
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now the final thing you're going to learn today is the flap T
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this is when you say the T sound
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almost like a du
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it said very very quickly
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like so City sounds like City
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and this is more of a feature of American English
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so you have City
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where we pronounce the T more clearly in British English
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and city city which sounds more like a du sound
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but this is actually the flap T it's not City
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it's not a strong du it's City
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and this is more American English
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so words like better
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sound like better in American English
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we don't pronounce that t as a r
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we pronounce it as a t
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sound and we don't pronounce the r at the end
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so better better water
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water water water later
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later later later now listen carefully and
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repeat it's better to drink
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water later it's better
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to drink water later
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as a side note although Brits don't tend to use the flap te in
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say say things like water
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better or water better
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which sounds more Australian
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what we tend to do is use the glottal
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T instead so this is when you pronounce the T here
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instead of in your mouth
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so better sounds like better
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water sounds like water
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and later sounds like later
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so the sentence it's better to drink
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water later sounds like it's better to drink water later
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so if you hear someone speak speak like that then they probably are from
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the UK and that is the end of today's English pronunciation
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lesson to help you improve your English pronunciation
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faster and remember the rules that you learned in today's lesson
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you can download a free pdf
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version of today's lesson notes
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as well as receive
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a free audio version of today's lesson
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to listen to and practice
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while on the go
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remember to subscribe to my channel if you'd like to see more videos to
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help you improve your English PR iation
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and hit the like button if you have learned something new today
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thank you very much for watching and I will see you in the next
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lesson bye-bye so let's practice in a sentence
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I will say it first in British English
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and then I will say it in a really really bad American accent
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