teed up to learn everything you need to know about the cockney accent spoken in London. Now as you know, I am a Londoner, but when I teach these lessons. I teach standard British English, which is what I'm talking now by the way, more or less anyway. But in London, we have our own accent is called cockney now cockney is a working class accent that originated around the city, the East End of London, but now you'll find it all over London and beyond. In the past, London is trying to hide their cockney accents when they try to rise the social ranks in polite society they were mocked and shunned and having an accent, a Cockney accent would hold them back, but not anymore. Now it's cool to have cockney accent, it's worn as a badge of pride and you'll find it everywhere in the media on the BBC in Hollywood, lots of famous people are aware Cockneys, for example, Adele, Jason Statham, Amy Winehouse, Russell Brand, Michael Caine, and many more. Now, I'm an English teacher, so of course when I teach English, I use standard British English or British English. Our P It's also called RP received pronunciation. Now this is the English you'll find in English textbooks and dictionaries, but today we have a little help from my cousin, Bob. Say Hello Bob. We're going to learn some Capponi. So if you're planning to visit London, speak to a Londoner, less than or just have an interest in the accent of this great city.
Hello and welcome to let them talk, and today we're going to look at the cockney accent. Now, to simplify this lesson, keep it relatively brief with as little linguistic jargon as possible. we're going to look at the accent three. For that, I have a great expense invested in a cocktail meter. Here it is. Every house should have one. You see cockney is not just one thing it's more of a spectrum of an accent. So level one is just the pronunciation of words and how they differ from our P. So here are some of the things to look out for replacing the t sound with a glottal stop the glottal stop is a sound made from the throat, rather than the T that comes from the front of the mouth. So, for example water becomes what our butter becomes butter. And currently we dropped the H sound entirely. So head becomes Ed hat becomes at Mia is on the edge, the unvoiced TH sound. That's when you put the tongue between your teeth, and blow in such words as thanks think Thursday. That's replaced by an F. Banks. Think first day. If it's a voice th, and it comes in the middle of a word, such as brother, whether it's pronounced like V sound, rather, whether the final l becomes a W above his new girlfriend. So here I am with my cousin Bob, and he's going to speaking cockney while I speak in Standard English RP if you like. We're gonna move the cockney ometer to level one.
Level one we're just looking at pronunciation changes taking into account that I already mentioned, so you should understand most of what Bob says, Are you ready. Yes, let's go.
Ah, cousin Paul, are you ready. Okay. Hello. How are you, oh my. It's a beautiful day, isn't it barefoot Diana. Harry Potter brought his new girlfriend to our house to meet my mother. Harry Potter for his new girlfriend to ask to meet my MA. I go to have a shower in Liverpool Street Station. I'm gonna have a shower in Liverpool Street Station. I can't go south of the river, My friends because I haven't been vaccinated up Congo south of the river might because I vaccinated. Thanks for the butter, but now I feel ill. I hope I'll be better by Thursday. Thanks for the bar, but now I feel you. Oh, I'll be better by first day. The weather in Hackney is lovely in autumn, the weather inaptly is lovely in autumn. Okay, did you get that interesting, just a few sound changes from standard British English, and you've done it. But I'm warning you, it gets more difficult because now we're going to move on cockney ometer up to level two.
