Learn about the COCKNEY ENGLISH accent & dialect
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ต.ค. 2018
- Whether you watch British TV or are travelling throughout England, you have likely heard the Cockney accent, which is one of the many English dialects found throughout the country. This accent may be difficult to understand at first. To help you, I've prepared a lesson on the main features of the London-based Cockney accent as well as some of its non-standard grammatical aspects. We will look at pronunciation features along with vocabulary and slang found particularly in Cockney English. I'll also tell you a little bit about the history and social context of Cockney English. After watching the video, you will have the tools you need to better recognize and understand this dialect. You can test your knowledge with the quiz: www.engvid.com/cockney-englis...
Next, watch this video about the RP accent (also known as BBC English): • The RP English Accent ...
TRANSCRIPT
Hello. I'm Gill at engVid, and today's lesson is about an accent-and it's an accent that we hear a lot in the U.K., especially in the south of the country-and it's called the Cockney accent. And it's centered around the London area, London and the southeast, so it spreads quite a long way out from London as well. And I don't know if you've ever heard of these actors: "Michael Caine, Barbara Windsor - they are actors whose natural accent is the Cockney accent, because they both grew up in the London area, so they grew up speaking the Cockney accent.
So, the Cockney accent is like a regional accent, really, it just happens to be the regional accent for the capital city of England. So, that's just like any other regional accent; you could have a Yorkshire accent, a Liverpool accent, a Birmingham accent, London has its own regional accent as well. So, rather than RP, Received Pronunciation, which is the accent that English teachers usually teach people who are learning English, if they're teaching them British English, that is. Of course, American teachers will teach in an American accent, etc.; Australian teachers will teach in an Australian accent; but if I'm teaching English, because I'm in the U.K., I would teach the RP, Received Pronunciation accent.
But the Cockney accent, it's very useful to know about because if you happen to be in London, or you may be watching a film or a television program where people are speaking with this accent, and you may at first have difficulty understanding what the person is saying. I had a student a while ago who was from Italy, and he had started working in a company, and he told me: "I can't understand my boss very well when he speaks to me. I can't... I have to keep asking him to repeat, and it's getting embarrassing." So I sort of guessed his boss might have a Cockney accent, and said: -"Well, does he do this? Does he do that?" -"Oh yeah, that's what he sounds like." So, I said: "Okay, he's probably speaking with a Cockney accent", so there are lots and lots of people in the London area who speak with this accent.
Traditionally, it's been associated with a kind of working-class accent, but nowadays it's much more complicated than that; there are people working in very professional jobs who also have Cockney accents. I had a Chinese student at one time from China, and... But I noticed she had some sort of... She sounded a little bit Cockney when she spoke English, so I asked her about that-and she worked in finance, I think in investment banking-and she said: "Oh, my boss... It's my boss, he's Cockney, so I sort of hear him speaking and it influences me." So someone in a sort of very high professional job could have a Cockney accent, so there's no difference, really, nowadays. But the thing is: If your boss speaks with a certain accent, there is a tendency to try to speak like them just to be able to relate to them well in your work, so that does happen. Depending on who you're with, your accent can change. So, it happens to me as well. Okay. So...
So what I've done here, I've just chosen six aspects or features of the Cockney accent just to explain what they are and to demonstrate how they sound, so that when you do hear a Cockney speaker, even if it's just in a film or a television program or on the radio, you will know what you're hearing and you'll think: "Ah, okay, I know what that should be. What that word is", because you know how the Cockney accent changes some of the consonant sounds, and makes some of the little changes to what we would call RP, the standard British pronunciation.
So here's a little summary, then, of the Cockney accent and some of the main features. So, first of all, the "th" sound, which a lot of people... If you're learning English, you may not have "th" in your own native language, and so people have difficulty pronouncing: "th", "th", "th", like that. […]
When should you stop using the glottal stop? Learn how to put the "t" back in your pronunciation in my new video: th-cam.com/video/GSzlXjA2SYk/w-d-xo.html
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Dear Lady, Thanks for this lesson, this is pure gold. Quality information, easy to understand, clear pronunciation! We need more teachers like you! ❤
A lot of other people miss some stuff or just go through it so fast, but this is quality right here. I need to learn Cockney for the school play and I think this is gonna help so much.
Agreed, and proper English subtitles as well!
Fanks a lo'
Wiv respecto the "th" sound, we have got two types
1. the voiced, such as in mo"th"er, and this to be turned to V sound, so mother becomes mava.
2. the unvoiced "th", such as in no"th"ing, and this to be turned to F sound, so nothing becomes nofing.
A bonus tips : the "R" is non rhotic in Cockney as well as the RP. Thus, mother was turned to mava as we don't pronounce the "R" at the end.
Cheers,
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Thx mate
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Fanks a lot mate I'm not cockney n I'm learning yorkshire but it's almost the same innit?
I hope you always have good health and release useful information lessons for us. I have gained a lot of knowledge via your video. I love your accent ^^
I totally agree with you !
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I'm American, but I've always used "sh" for "s" in some words. I never noticed I did it until watching this. Much of my speaking mirrors my dad's speach.
I'm a Brazilian girl who loves the English language and the British accent (I was a little kid when I first watched the 1968 film Oliver Twist and immediately fell in love with their accent). I'm currently an English student at my local University and I'm extremely glad I found this channel. Thank you!!!
oh, hi! I am from Russia, Moscow. Where are you from exactly in Brazil? From which city I mean? Have you already finished your study in University? What the specialization have you got/what is your profession? You know, I adore brazilian variant of portugues language:). And don`t like portugues people speak in Portugal. Adore your brazilian movies, novelas, music (Ivete Sangalo, Rita Lee, Marilia Mendonca, Pitty and etc.), like your country, although I've never been in Brazil yet). So, do you also like british accent?) If you want and if you have time, we could speak with you about anything you want, I would be glad to have conversation with you. So, let me know if you want to communicate with me.
All your classes are amazing
I genuinely love all of your lessons, dear Gill. Thank you, once again. I have learned a lot with you. Much love from Brazil! ✨❤️
Her class is simply to digest, love her.
The best teacher ever.Thank you so much for your videos!
Your lesson is really easy to understand, very helpful. A thousand thanks!
Thank you so much for teaching us. Gratitude for posting
I'm Brazilian and I spoke cockney accent in my entire life and don't knew! LoL loooooove you teacher
didn't know
That was cockney grama.
Lol.
Definitively I love her. I´m serious. I´m learning a lot here. The best videos, teacher and heartwarming person. Word by word.
You are the best teacher in TH-cam. Love and Greetings!
Love your videos Gill, very instructive. Keep it up!
Here again. And the closed caption or subst´s are very well. Great content at all!
yaaaaay a new video!! thank you soo much for your efforts. you are very lovely!!)
You are a wonderful teacher. Thank you!!!!
Thank you, very much Gill. If I had known all these before I started to live in East London.
Ma'am, I did enjoy this video and found it so useful. I wish you would release more videos in line with the Cockney Accent. Thank you ma'am :)
I love learning English. Many thanks for your videos.
Gill covers the topic of accents in a very succinct and clear way
Thank you so much. I'm living in Southeastern of London and this video helps me a lot.
I surely say that this lady is the best teacher in the world. It's never been that good and pleasent to watch videos on english ! My number 1!
Thank you very much Gill, I always enjoy your videos, thank you for what you do, bless
I find various English accents incredibly interesting. As a non-native speaker I often get confused about the characteristics of dialects but your explanation has just clarified "Cockney" for me!
Great video, much appreciated.
Ms.Jill, you have the most beautiful English that I' ve ever heard.
This is interesting to know anyway, thank you Jill!
Gill*
You are just amazing! I love your teaching style! Greetings from Turkey!🇹🇷♥️
Thanks a lot grandma for teaching your childreen arround the world to knows British Cockney accent and very appreciated
Simply the perfect English teacher.
Watching all of your videos again, because I love the way you teach
Thank you very much for this lesson. It is really useful for me because I love how Cockney accent sounds but it is very difficult for me to understand it well. Greetings from Argentina!
Très intéressant! Merci beaucoup Gill😗😗😗
Thanks for your lessons...
We appreciate a lot
That is an amazing class! I could be talking about it hours and hours without stopping, I really love know it.
Most of us, Brazilians, speak exactly like this, meanly in numbers 1, 3, 4 and 5, so we weren't speak it wrong, we were speaking it with cockney accent.😂
The number six is exactly like Brazilian accent from Rio de Janeiro .
Exactly:) esse sh é muito carioca e um pouco paraense tbm
Kkkkk aham!
So Portugese is cockney?
The first lecture seeing about this . was really useful .. thank you Gill
I love your videos!
Your English is perfect clear!
This is amazing. I admire your peace. Blessings.
what a lucidity.. awesome. Thanks a lot.
Great lesson! I see ain't, naffing, somefing, etc often in lyrics. I love songs, so I wanna be able to understand them more.
Thank you so much, Gill to introduce me with such an interesting topic on 'Cockney Accent', thank you once again, God bless you, and love from India.
Hello Gill, thank you for your lesson. Fascinating and very beneficial for us.
you are the ideal teacher!
I really love your videos Ms. Jill, i enjoy watching it. I like the way how you teach accents. More videos Ms. Jill, I'm from Philippines.
this helped me so much omg exactly what I was looking for !
Brilliant lessons!! Thank you so much
I love you soooo much , fanks a lot to the lesson , i hope you will give more information about cockney accent , I’m really enjoying, perhaps I will replay this lesson again again
that`s really interesting! thank you Gill!
I like the way you present the lesson...Your English is very clear and understandable....Greetings from Algeria
This is an interesting class, excellent explanations and very useful notes. Thank you
you are brilliant Gill!
Great teacher,I really love her videos.
thank you so much for this lesson!!!
Thank you so much for this lesson ^-^!!
I absolutely love this so cool I could watch an hour of this
It's a secret which l hadn't knew for a long time! You are a kind fairy who helps us to understand magical native people!
Thank You very much!
trust me , theres nothing magical about us
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Such a marvelous, fantastic teacher nothing fancy coming direct to the point b'cause of teacher like her we are able to learn impossible things in minutes...
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Love the way she teach n her clear English. i indonesian n I have learned a lot from her video. Love you.
Brilliant explanation (coming from a cockney speaking Lundoner fru and fru). You got it completely right.
Hi Gill 😊 I love your lessons, you're a wonderful teacher. Can you make a video about northern U. K. accents (such as Geordie, Lancashire, Scouse, Mancunian etc...)?
Thank you very much granny. You helped me a lot.
I loved it! Thank u.
Finally I could forgive myself for not getting what British people speak but still need to learn more English in it’s spoken forms…..thank for Gill’s enlightenment. A Great teacher and lovable mentor!
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Thank you million time man
you're better teacher continue.
You are helping more student's in the world
Keep going maaam
You probably mean _'mam'_ , not _'man'_ , don't you? :)
Very nice class, Gill ! Cheers from Brazil ! 🌺💋
Love watching videos on my accent, they are very entertaining.
Amazing knowledge
Hi, Miss Gill, I'm Ayya from Indonesia, southeast Asia. I really love the way you teach. Love you much 😘
Wonderful explanation!!, thank you so much for your help, is very traumatic for me not to understand this kind of accents. Thanks a million!!
So pleasant to listen to ❤
thank you teacher !
really helpful...Enjoying that daily
Thank you for this lesson it is verry clear really like the accent thanks for that
Thank you for this video
A wonderful lesson, once again.
Filled up a lots of blanks, even in US English
Thank you so much for things lesson!
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I've listened some teachers said /free/ instead of /three/, now I have the explanation. Thanks you so much.
My 6th grade teacher corrected a kid for that.
Glad you mentioned Michael Caine up front. Americans would instantly recognize that accent. Besides his movie characters, he's also famous for his cokney jokes on late night talk shows in America.
Ive only just watched this one :) Super interesting as always!
Not sure if you realised, but the str becoming shtr is what we do in standard german - even if it's spelled Straße - it is pronounced Shtraße, same goes for almost every S + consonant in the beginning of the word :)
Thanks a lot i did like the sounds of your pronunciation
Thank you very much, very interesting lessons, easy to learn, bacause of your good (clear , ordered) comunication.
Your explanation made me more understand about Cockney Accent. fank you so much, Gill. :)
Thank you Gill
Epic. Thank you ma’am!
7:15 so cute I can't
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It's interesting for me. I understand you a bit but I learn English very intensively. I'll watch this video when I'll understand you better.