Learn These 5 British Accents | Louis Tomlinson, David Beckham, and more!

What's up everyone? Today we're learning 5 more  real British accents that you need to know!

In case you missed it, we made this lesson not so  long ago, which I highly recommend you watch if  

you haven't seen it, and I'll link it down in  the description box below to make it easy for  

you to find. Due to that lesson's popularity and  the many requests we've had today you're going to  

be learning the Yorkshire accent, the Queen's  English, the Cockney accent, a Scouse accent,  

which is from Liverpool, and also a Scottish one.  So first of all we're going to travel to South  

Yorkshire and in fact we're going to Doncaster,  or as they would say Doncaster, because they don't  

pronounce this long R sound like I do. And we're  going to be taking a look at the accent of Louis  

Tomlinson. Let's take a look at this clip and then  we'll talk about some more features of the accent. 

So the first interesting thing to note here is the  way that we pronounce his name. Because it could  

be pronounced in two different ways some people  might say Louis and some people might say Loo-ee,  

and that's how he pronounces his. By the way,  in case you're new here we help you to learn  

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There are some very distinctive parts to this  South Yorkshire accent which we'll hear in a  

moment with one of Louis interviews. However,  one thing in particular is the way that they  

connect some words, so they have quite a precise  connected speech in Yorkshire, where they link  

some words together. For example instead of saying  "I'm going to the shop," they'll say "I'm going  

to shop," and you'll hear Louis here as well  say something about when he was with the band,  

he doesn't say with the band, he says wit band. So this is quite an interesting part of their  

accent, so in this interview we hear the  reduction of the 'th' sound so instead  

of saying 'everything' or 'throw', Louis  actually says 'everything' and 'throw'. 

We also noticed the reduction of the H here,  which can be found in many British accents,  

so instead of saying 'he' he might say 'ee',  and instead of saying 'who' he says 'ooh'. 

In this interview we have further examples  of the reduction of the H and we also have  

the Glottal T. So the Glottal T is  when you don't hear the T in words,  

but instead the flow of air is stopped and  then released. So for example instead of  

saying 'butter' some people might say 'butter', so  there is a sound there but you don't hear the T. 

We also hear that shorter 'uh' sound here with the  U, so instead of saying 'bug', Louis says 'boog',  

and this is very typical of Northern accents. You may remember this from the lesson that we  

made on Harry Styles accent, so if you haven't  watched that yet, I highly recommend you do,  

and you can click up here or down in the  description box below to watch it later. 

Now the way he says this phrase is very  interesting. So he doesn't say 'have got them',  

so we have a reduction of the H sound  here, we have a Glottal T and we also  

have a reduction of the 'th' sound in them. So  instead of saying 'have got them', Louis says: 

In this clip we again have the reduction  of the H, that short 'uh' sound and the  

reduction of the 'th' sound. However we  also hear him use 'me' instead of 'my' 

So instead of saying "I think my mum did a good  job," he says "I think 'me' mum did a good job" 

And again this is very typical of Northern  English accents. We also hear a short E sound  

at the end of words that end with Y, so instead  of saying 'personally' he says 'personally'. 

So this is very common of Northern accents  in England, with words that end in Y,  

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box below to learn more and sign up now. So now we're going to travel a bit further South  

to London where the Queen lives, in  Buckingham Palace, and we're going to  

take a little look at how the Queen speaks. So the Queen has kind of her own style of RP  

which is Received Pronunciation, and this type of  accent is not spoken by a large percentage of the  

population. It's actually a very small percentage  and it's synonymous with class. So it's usually  

the upper classes that would speak this way and  also the BBC. It's known as the BBC English.

So you'll notice that when the Queen speaks  her jaw is very stiff, so there's not a lot  

of movement around her mouth and her  lips also stay quite close together.  

One of the best ways to understand natives is  by learning connected speech and many people  

are quite surprised to hear that even the  Queen sometimes speaks with connected speech. 

So you can hear here the way that she  says 'isn't' it is quite different and  

she links those two words together to  make it more natural as she speaks. 

We also have some linking here where she says  "wore it," so that final sound, that R sound  

links to it and it sounds like "wore it, wore it." Now one very distinctive sound that the Royal  

Family has, is the way they say 'off', the way  they say the O sound. So I say it like this 'off'  

or 'often', however they say it with an  Uh sound, so they will say 'oof' or 'ofn'. 

It's very interesting the way that the queen says  "yes" as well and there's this really funny clip  

where Olivia Colman, who plays the Queen in the  series The Crown, actually teaches someone how to  

say yes as the Royal Family, and as the Queen. If you'd like to learn English with Queen  

Elizabeth II, and more about her pronunciation,  then I highly recommend you check out this lesson  

we made by clicking up here or down in the  description box below. So now we're staying  

in London, but we're going towards the East of  London to learn more about the Cockney accent with  

David Beckham. So David Beckham was born and grew  up in an area of East London called Leytonstone.  

So he does have quite a Cockney accent. In particular we see the reduction of the TH  

sound again like we did in Louis Tomlinson's  accent and it sounds more like a F sound. 

So, in words such as 'father', 'with' and  'everything' we hear David Beckham saying it  

with more of a F or a V sound. We can also hear  again the reduction of the H and the Glottal T,  

which is very typical of the Cockney accent. Another sound that you'll hear with the Cockney  

accent is that at the end of words when  there's an '-ing' sometimes it changes  

to a '-ink' sound. So instead of saying  'everything' here David says 'everything'. 

As we've spoken about this before, natives  make mistakes too and this is a very common one  

so instead of saying were he  says was in these sentences. 

Now the very talented singer Adele is also  known for her very strong Cockney accent, so  

have a watch and see if there are any features of  the Cockney accent you can hear in hers as well. 

So now we're going to travel all the way up  North to Scotland, and in particular Perth  

where the famous actor Ewan McGregor is from. Now the Scottish accent is a rhotic one, meaning  

that the R sound is pronounced in most words. So you might notice that it sounds a little bit  

more like the way they pronounce the R sound in  American English as opposed to British English.  

The O sound as well is quite different in  his accent, it's elongated and it's more  

at the front of the mouth. So instead  of saying "I know," it has more of an  

elongated sound and is at the front of the mouth. There's also some connected speech here in the way  

that he says suppose. He shortens it to spose. So  instead of saying "I suppose," he says "I spose." 

Now Ewan McGregor is a very famous hollywood  actor and he's made very many movies there,  

so his accent has been influenced a little bit by  this and you'll notice that he does tend to use  

the tap tea quite a lot. So although he does also  pronounce his T's you'll also hear his tongue hit  

the roof of his mouth there with the American T. So now we're going to travel down just a little  

bit to Liverpool, and Liverpool has such  a distinctive accent. It's actually only  

around 30 miles from Manchester, but  the two accents are very different. 

So we are going to be taking an interview with  Stephen Graham, who is a famous Hollywood actor  

and you might actually not even realize that  he's from Liverpool because he often plays  

characters that are from America. And  his American accent is incredible.

So we call this accent the Scouse accent,  which comes actually from a dish a type of  

stew that was eaten by sailors down at the docks.  So their accent is also heavily influenced by the  

Irish because it's very close by, and  during the 19th and 20th Centuries  

there were many Irish settlers. So this can be  one of the most difficult accents to understand  

even for people from other parts of the UK because  there's a lot of connected speech involved.

The T's are quite distinctive, especially at the  end of words and they just link to the next words.  

So they do speak quite fast and it can be quite  difficult to decipher what someone is saying.  

You'll also hear the rolling of the R  especially at the end of words and then  

again that links to the next one. So instead  of saying 'our house' here he says "ourouse." 

So if you've never heard this before you  might actually not even understand what  

words he is saying at all. We also have the  reduction of the H again so as you can tell  

this is typical of many accents around the UK,  and when he says "right across here," that T  

at the end rolls into the next one, so just  have a little listen again to how this sounds. 

You might also notice that they have a very  distinctive K sound so it's very much at the  

back of the throat and it's quite coarse, so when  saying words like 'character' and 'back' it's more  

you have that coarse sound so "back." Of course I'm no expert and I'm not  

great at doing different accents, so  let's hear it again from Stephen Graham.

Another aspect of the Scouse accent is that  that G is dropped at the end of certain words

So of the accents that you've learned  today which one do you like the most?  

And are there any other British accents  that you would like to be featured?  

Let me know down in the comments below and don't  forget that I've linked a lot of lessons down in  

the description box below, that you can  check out next, which I highly recommend  

you watch. But now it's time to go beyond the  classroom and live your English. Aww yeah!!