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NORTHERN vs. SOUTHERN accents

Hello and welcome back to English with Lucy.

I’ve got another video with my friend Anna from English life a native Heather. and today we’ve got a pronunciation video for you. Now Anna is originally from Roy from from Manchester. Which is in the Lancashire area. So, I have a Lancashire accent naturally. yeah, so, it’s a northern accent and we’re going to talk today about the difference between my accent and anna’s accent. Now you might notice that anna actually speaks with received pronunciation. but, this wasn’t always the case whether it wasn’t always the case which is why I know it’s very possible for any person with an accent to change it and speak naturally with any other accent they want. So, if you’re learning English and you want to sound more English. then this is very possible for you to achieve. Yes, so, anna is living proof that you can change your accent, but, today we’re going to be focusing on the difference between mine, which is a pretty standard British accent and her original exome, which was the northern one.

So, from now on, I’m going to speak with a northern accent. alright, I love the way you can change like that. So, this video is going to be divided into I’m going to do the first four differences and then Anna on her channel is going to talk about four more. So, when you finish this video head over to Anna’s channel by clicking on the link in the description box.

Okay, let’s get started. still it so, four words are going to magically appear on the screen. well, okay, so, I’m going to read them with my accent and then I was going to read them with her. so, the first one is bath.Bath. then, we have grass. grass and then we have laugh. laugh and then the final one after. After. Okay, so, when I say ah. Anna says ah.

So, this is one of the biggest differences between my standard British axe and as northern accent it’s also important to note if you learn English via an American source then you’ll also be using this vowel the vowel instead of the are vowel. Because Americans they say bath. last after and grass is a bath. Last after and grass cause we have the accent Queen. right here or is it the oxen quickness. Okay, so we’re going to have four more words appear on the screen and talk about the next vowel sound changes.

So, the first one cup. cup. Love. The love. Money. money. and above. above. So, you might be able to hear that when I say ah, Anna says oh, so, we’ve got ah, oh it’s quite supple. But, in a sentence it’s very, very obvious. It’s very noticeable. Yet so, it is a very subtle difference and I know many students will say it sounds the same. It doesn’t ah or it’s the shape that we make with our mouth our is more of a smile ah, it’s very light you can feel it on the top of the mouth ah and all it feels like it’s made more in the throat there’s more space in the mouth and the lips are slightly rounded. Oh, oh. I always think about a monkey here. oh bring myself to do that. So, I’m going to try the knot on one then cook love above is that good that’s very good.

Thank you. On to the next one then another vowel that changes I say, oh, and you say oh. I say no, no, and we also have don’t, don’t, and go, go. so, oh, no, don’t, go, becomes oh, no, don’t, go, Oh. Okay, so, this Oh diphthong changes - oh yeah I’d say oh, and you say oh, so, it’s almost like it becomes one sound in the north where as in standard English it’s one vowel sound moving into the second vowel sound. Yeah, oh, if you’d like more information about the O sound I have a video all about it it will be in the description box. Okay, lastly, we have a couple of words that change, they get shortened. so, I would say, I wear Anna would say ah, so, I would say I go home I go home I go home.

So, that up instead of an eye, Anna uses the word I in two different ways sometimes uses the schwa up and sometimes she makes an ass sound as well, sometimes it would be at and sometimes up. Okay, and the second word is my and this becomes Matt or me yep so I would say I love my mum. I love me Mom. me more eyes and sweet I love my mom. I love me Mom. so, I would say I Drive my car. I Drive my car. Yeah, so quite different. Right, so, if you enjoyed this video head on over to Anna’s channel where part two is waiting for you.

So, Anna’s going to talk to you about some more vowel sounds and also some more consonant sound that are different to standard English.