How to pronounce 10 TV Shows (Game of Thrones, Sherlock, Downton Abbey etc.)

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Today I'm going to show you how to pronounce ten of your favourite tv shows.

Our first one Game of Thrones.

Now a few key things here.

The of in the middle.

When of is in the middle of words, sometimes it becomes a weak form so we don't pronounce

it of we pronounce it of.

Now here I'm blending it into the word game and it's not even of, it's less than that,

it's game of, Game of Thrones.

'I love Game of Thrones'.

Now thrones, tricky one, that th sound, thrones, so you've really got to use your tongue and

top teeth and to blow out air.

Thrones.

Game of Thrones.

You try it.

Make sure you are trying it at home.

Game of Thrones.

So 'my favourite programme is Game of Thrones'.

Hugely popular this one, Sherlock.

So we've got two sounds here Sher.

So it's that sh, so you are blowing air out Sher-lock.

Now there's a ck at the end the/k/ Sherlock, actually when we say it we don't say that

ck, the /k/ there, we say Sherlock.

The stress is on the first syllable.

'I've just started watching Sherlock'.

Number three, The Walking Dead.

The stress there is on walking, The Walking Dead.

'Have you seen the Walking Dead?'

Ok, try and say that sentence 'Have you seen the Walking Dead?'

Ok, good job.

This next one is really popular in Britain Downton Abbey.

Now, it's not Downt-on, Downton so it's the schwa sound again -ton Downton Abbey.

And the stress on both words is on the first syllable Downton Abbey.

Ok, you have a go.

Ok, one more time Downton Abbey.

'I've never seen Downton Abbey'.

Next one, Modern Family.

This one is a bit tricky, now with the word modern we need our tongue to work a lot, ok?

So I'll do it really slowly mo-dern.

So the tongue is going down and up.

mo-dern , Modern Family.

It's not easy that one, it's quite tricky that sound, the tongue has to come down and

up again to create it.

Modern Family.

'I've watched every episode of Modern Family.'

This one, again with the of we don't give it the full sound we give it a weak form.

So it's not House of Cards it's House of Cards.

Of becomes of when it's in between words, so House of Cards.

Your turn!

House of Cards.

'I've never watched House of Cards.'

Ok, continuing to talk about weak forms we've got another one here How I met your mother.

Now your becomes ye How I met your mother.

So 'How I met your mother is super funny.'

Ok, your turn, good job.

Remember not your mother, your mother.

How I met your mother.

This next one is really interesting because I think I would pronounce it in two different

ways depending on how I feel.

So one way would be to pronounce the t's so pretty little liars.

Sometimes I wouldn't pronounce the t's.

It's something called glottalisation where we sometimes don't pronounce the consonant

sounds, in this case t's.

This happens in some British English accents.

So I might say pretty little liars.

I don't know why I vary my accent depending on how I feel, I don't know.

So, sometimes I'll say pretty and sometimes I'll say pretty, little liars.

You choose the English accent you want, I'm not going to tell you which one to choose.

Maybe you do both, so pretty little liars or pretty little liars.

It's up to you, I can only do my accent, of course there are many many many other accents

out there so there's no right or wrong.

It's your accent you say it the way you want to say it.

An American classic, Friends.

Now as you noticed there we don't actually pronounce the /d/ sound there.

So instead of saying friend z, ver hard, we just say friends.

"Friends is an absolute classic.'

And finally The Big Bang Theory.

So again The Big Bang Theory.

Theory has that /th/ sound, theory once again so The Big Bang Theory.

Have I missed any programmes out?

Tell me in the comments below which TV programmes did I miss out that you love and that you

want me to pronounce for you.

Let me know in the comments below and I'll make another video just for you.

And tell me which of these tv programmes do you watch.

Which ones do you love?

And which ones maybe haven't you seen that you'd like to check out.

Finally let's look at some vocabulary related to tv shows.

Now one tv show is called an episode, so one version of a tv show is called an episode.

So for example 'My favourite episode of Friends is when Joey wears all of Chandler's clothes'.

Now many episodes together is called, well in British English we call it a series, so

let's say Game of Thrones, there are ten episodes and then those ten episodes make one series.

In American English they say, instead of series, they say season.

So ten episodes makes one season.

Now in British English we are more frequently using season as well.

I'm hearing it more often with friends, family even myself.

I would say 'The new season of Game of Thrones is coming out' So a series and a season have

the same meaning.

One of them is British English, series, one is American English, season but now more commonly

certainly in British English we are using season as well.

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