I Decided to Learn the British Accent and Here’s What Happened | British Accent Secrets

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English with Veronika Mark


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hello guys and welcome back to my  youtube channel today i decided  
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to make a really fun video where i'm  attempting to learn the british accent
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guys as you all know i'm trying to speak with  an american accent but when i was in school  
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i would start the british accent because this  is something we always learn in russia and i'm  
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really interested to know do you learn the british  english or the american english at schools so let  
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me know in the comments a lot of people have been  asking me why i chose the american accent guys to  
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be honest i just think the american accent is  easier than the british accent because first  
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of all it's just everywhere nowadays right when  you listen to music when you watch movies or tv  
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shows most likely they're gonna be in the american  accent so that's why i decided to challenge myself  
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and try to master the british accent obviously i  understand that i'm not gonna become good at it  
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in just like a couple of days because it took  me years of practice to achieve this level in  
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american english but to make this video a little  bit more fun i decided to use british humor here  
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so i'm gonna read some light-hearted  british jokes to make this video more  
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entertaining for you guys so let me start with  this first joke i haven't practiced at all this  
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is my first day trying to learn anything about  the british accent so guys please be patient with  
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me why is england described as being a wet country  the queen has rain the queen has reigned over over  
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over ah the queen has reigned over it for decades  so yeah guys it was pretty bad because honestly i  
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don't really know anything about the british  accent yet the only thing i do know is that i  
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shouldn't pronounce the letter r in the words over  and for and it's really really hard for me but  
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guys if you're interested in learning the american  accent i have a whole playlist on my channel  
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dedicated to helping you guys improve your accent  in american english because this is something i'm  
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familiar with and this is something i feel like  i can help you guys with and also i wanted to  
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let you guys know that this video is done in  collaboration with lingoda but more about them  
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later so guys as i told you i'm a complete newbie  in this and what i'm gonna do now is it's my first  
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day i'm just gonna go on youtube and google learn  the british accent fast so this is what i'm gonna  
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do today we are learning some secret tips to help  you achieve a prison tips it's so interesting like  
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it's already a completely different accent like  obviously i'm familiar with the british accent  
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and i know how it sounds but i don't know this  whole challenge is just really interesting for me
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okay guys i just finished watching my first  ever british accent video first of all guys a  
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really important thing that i i don't know why  like i haven't really thought about it is that  
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if you want to speak with a good british accent  you also need to use british words for example  
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instead of saying trash i'll have to use rubbish  all the time right and this is something i haven't  
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really thought about i guess obviously to really  have a good british accent i need to master  
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these three sounds first is the sound  the second one is r and the third one is  
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on so with the toe it is going to be a little bit  challenging because obviously i'm used to saying  
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this sound in an american way for example  in the word city but in the british accent  
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i have to say city also i have to get used to  not using rs all the time for example in the word  
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party instead of saying party i'll have to say  party last but not least here is the sound o  
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for example instead of saying hot like it's really  hot today british english i'll have to say hot  
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it's really hot today honestly guys i hope you're  not laughing too hard with my british accent i'm  
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just learning and it's a fun challenge for me you  just think of this video as something entertaining
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okay guys so today is the next day and officially  day two of me trying to work on my british accent  
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so honestly in my british accent journey  i actually decided to just like get myself  
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acquainted with the british culture more because  obviously i understand that this video is more for  
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entertaining purposes i know that i will not be  able to master the british accent in just one week  
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so today i decided to get myself acquainted  with the british humor and i watched quite a  
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lot of videos on youtube about the british humor  about how to understand british jokes because  
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i feel like people in the uk are especially famous  for their humor so obviously we all know how  
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sarcastic and ironic brits like to be so this is  actually one of their most popular characteristics  
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a lot of people when coming to the uk they notice  that sarcasm is a really big part of their culture  
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and especially when you make a sarcastic joke and  you say that was sarcasm another interesting thing  
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that i've noticed too is that british humor is  really witty or as british people might say witty  
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actually this is like a word that british  people use a lot even when they describe  
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books for example if a person's humor is witty  it's a really really good compliment next thing  
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that i've learned about the british humor is  that it's characterized by self-deprecation so  
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self-deprecation is when you're saying bad things  about yourself but obviously they're joking for  
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example we all know how bad the weather is in  the uk so this is a form of self-deprecating  
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humor instead of saying that your country is such  a great place to visit brits might say yeah you  
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know great britain is a great country if you like  bad weather if you like bad food for example this  
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way they're making fun of themselves so now i feel  like it's time for me to read another joke and  
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obviously try to do so with a good british accent  why doesn't england have a designated kidney bank  
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they have a liverpool honestly guys to me every  single time i try to speak with a british accent  
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i feel like it's a joke because obviously i'm very  very new to all of this so please don't be harsh  
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on me i'm trying really hard but i feel like i am  failing but i also feel like it's my second day so  
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obviously it takes time it takes practice and  motivation so yeah i'll see you guys tomorrow
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so guys today's the day when i'll be taking  an english class on lingoda to ask the teacher  
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for tips and help when it comes to improving  my british accent and also i'll be listening  
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to a lot of other students speaking english  because i'll be taking a group conversation  
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class you know is how i always tell you that  it is so important to dedicate enough time  
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to listening if you want to improve your  language skills and it's especially true  
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when you want to work on your accent and the  reason why i chose lingoda for my english class  
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right now hi hi hello yeah i'm doing great thank  you how are you today yeah so actually i had a  
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couple of questions about accent training  and i really really wanted to ask you some
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so guys i just heard my english class in lagota  and i think i'm ready to share all the things  
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with you so first of all i asked the teacher  about choosing an accent and she told me that  
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basically there are a couple of reasons why some  people choose the british accent or the american  
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accent and obviously the most common one is that  they just like this pronunciation right and so  
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sometimes maybe we don't even need to be logical  if you feel like you just like how this acts and  
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sounds maybe it's a good enough reason you know  maybe it's enough for you to start exploring this  
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accent to start learning more and more about  it and my second question was about actually  
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mastering this or that accent and so the teacher  told me that obviously the best thing to do is  
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listen for example if you do decide to learn the  british accent you should watch as many british  
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tv shows as possible you should listen to music  where the singer clearly sings with a british  
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accent and just you know try to immerse yourself  into this accent and obviously immersion is very  
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important and i completely agree with her and so  guys if you also want to improve your english in  
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small speaking groups and ask a professional  teacher any questions about accent training  
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okay today is the next day of my british  accent journey and honestly guys i think  
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i'm gonna finish this video on this day or else  this video is just gonna take forever because  
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obviously accent journey takes a long time but  today i actually wanted to share a cool technique  
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with you guys that i'm using myself right now  it's called shadowing shadowing is something that  
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i used a lot when i was first trying to work on  my american accent and i still use it like almost  
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every single time i watch a show or read a book  especially when i watch a show because shadowing  
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requires you to repeat after a speaker and so  i follow this really cool channel on youtube  
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called jack edwards jack makes book related  videos and as i love reading i love his content  
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and so right now i'm gonna click on his most  recent video and try to repeat after him and  
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this is what we call shadowing and he actually  something i forgot to mention he's from london  
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so he has a really good british accent so let's  try gorgeous gorgeous girls read books about love  
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even gorgeous gorgeous girls read books about  love so first of all i can already notice how  
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differently he says the word girls so instead of  saying this er girls he says girls no one loves  
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them no one loves them love is in the air right  now if it's like love and then the air right now  
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and so i feel like this is exactly what i'm  gonna do i'm just gonna try to shadow after him  
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and hope for the best because i believe that  shadowing can really improve your accent if you  
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actually use this technique so yeah guys i think  i'm going to finish this video on this note as you  
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can see during the last couple of days all i did  was work on my british accent honestly guys it was  
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quite a journey i learned a lot about the british  accent and i also learned a lot about the british  
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humor too i hope this video motivated you to start  working on your pronunciation or your accent in  
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english and i also really hope that you'll give  lingoda a try because on their platform you can  
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i'm a huge fan of their open conversation classes  again you can use my link below to check them out  
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and also guys if you're interested in other videos  about accent training i have a whole playlist on  
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my channel so you can click right here and keep  on watching and i'll see you guys in my next video
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