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4 Ways to Sound More British

And everyone and welcome back to English with Lucy.

Today, I bring you an extremely highly requested video after the success of my video, three ways to sound more British. I bring you for more ways to sound more British. Yep, I’m going to teach you how to differentiate between an American accent and a British accent and how to achieve that perfect British English accent.

Now, when I say British English. I’m referring to received pronunciation, which is the British English that we tend to teach our students. American English well I’m talking about general American pronunciation which is the umbrella variety of American English. Of course there are so many other accents and dialects. but, let’s not overcomplicate things. Received pronunciation and general American, sometimes it’s really difficult to differentiate between received pronunciation and general American pronunciation. Have you ever wondered why some people are really good at imitating people and impersonating people and doing impressions of people? well, it’s because they have a fine tuned ear. They can hear the differences in valency ation. Especially and also consonant pronunciation.

today, I’m going to teach you those differences that you might not have noticed and then you can sound either more British or even more American if you fancy it. So, let’s start with the letter O or in received pronunciation. Ah, in general American you might say barks or Clark or dog. so, we’ve got aa and our sounds ah, in Clark and our as in dark in received pronunciation, it’s much more simple. It’s just a box clock dog to make this sound you need. your lips to be a nice round circle. Oh, oh and it’s a short vowel. not a long one like in general American other examples stop possible not. Right, let’s move on to the letter a we’re looking at longer vows. Here in general American you might pronounce this word as pass with an air sound in received pronunciation, we say pass with an R sound. Air pass are pass. more examples, dance, dance, giraffe, giraffe.

I apologize if my American accent makes you cringe. It makes me cringe. to the next one again we’re looking at the letter O. but it’s a different vowel sound. It’s actually a diphthong. Which are two vowel sounds together. in a word like this, Americans would say crow with an O sound. Crow, their mouth shape will be different. in received pronunciation, we say crow. So, it’s more a rather than a crow, crow. see the difference. it’s very, very subtle. But, if you’re an actor and you want to nail that British English accent, this is something you can really work on. Oh, American English. Oh, received pronunciation. more examples, no, no, no, no, go, go, go, go, it’s, so, so, subtle. It’s very easy to miss it’s all about the mouth shape.

And the last one, the last way that you can sound more British is, to avoid you’re dropping. you’re dropping is a phenomenon. I’m not going to go into. But, basically it’s this difference in general American. I would say new and in received pronunciation I would say new general American tune received pronunciation. tune, tune. general American, do, do. and receive pronunciation. Do, do. in received pronunciation, we include the yeah sound and we include it in certain environments after an new do tune. It’s actually the way that Americans used to pronounce things. But, it’s been dropped over time and Americans don’t always drop the yard, they still say oh. That’s cute. So cute. Is an example of a word that is pronounced equally in both Britain and America.

Right, that’s it for today’s lesson. I hope you enjoyed it. I hope you learned something.