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• Part 1 of 6: The letter R.
• Part 2 of 6: The letter U
• Part 3 of 6: Heavy consonants
• Part 4 of 6: The letter T.
• Part 5 of 6: Verdict
• Part 6 of 6: Listening and repeating
• Tips
• Necessities

There are major differences between the English spoken in England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. With a little practice, you can learn to speak English with a natural accent. In addition to pronunciation, there are certain ways you can learn to make your accent look real. In particular, the instructions below describe the so-called Queen's English or the Received Pronunciation (literally RP) English, which is spoken in Southern England and Wales, and which you hardly ever hear in the UK today, but it describes the stereotypical British way of speaking as seen by foreigners . This study of RP English mainly focuses on pronunciation rather than grammar, vocabulary or style.

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Part 1 of 6: The letter R.

1. Start with the different pronunciations of the letter R. First, you should know that most British accents don't have a rolling R (except Scotland, Northumbria, Northern Ireland and parts of Lancashire), but not all British accents are the same. For example, a Scottish accent sounds very different from an English accent. Do not pronounce the R after a vowel, but say the vowel and perhaps something like "uh" (for example, Lord becomes "heeuh"). In words like "hurry", be careful not to mix the R with the vowel. Say "huh-ree".
   • In American English, it doesn't matter if you pronounce words ending in "rl" or "rel" with one or two syllables, both are correct. This is not the case in British English. Words ending in '-rl' such as' girl 'or' hurl 'are always pronounced as one syllable with a mute R, while' squirrel 'is pronounced' squih-rul 'and' referral 'as' re-fer -rul '.
   • The pronunciation of some words is easier in English with a British accent. Mirror, for example, which sounds like "mih-ra". Do not pronounce "mirror" as "mere"; British hardly ever do that.
   • In certain words that end with a W, it is often pronounced with an "r" at the end. For example, the word "saw" can be pronounced "saw-r", which in a sentence sounds like "I sawr it!"

Part 2 of 6: The letter U

1. Speak the YOU in stupid and in duty out with a ew or "you" sound. Avoid the American oo sound; so the verdict is stewpid or often also schewpid, and not stoopid, etc. The word duty is pronounced as dewty, or more often as jooty. In the regular English accent, the letter becomes a (as in father) pronounced in the back of the mouth with an open throat-making it sound like "arh". This is true of almost all British accents, but in RP it is exaggerated. In Southern England and in the RP, words like "bath", "path", "glass", "grass" are also pronounced with this vowel (barth, parth, glarss, grarss, etc.). In other parts of the UK, words like "bath" and "path" sound more like "ah".

Part 3 of 6: Heavy consonants

1. Emphasize words with heavy consonants. Speak the T. in "duty" also looks like one T.: and not like the American D. as in doody, thus making the word duty as dewty sounds or slightly softer, like jooty. Speak the suffix -ing with a strong G. out, making it rather like -ing then if -a sounds. But sometimes it is also abbreviated to in as in lookin.
   • The words human being are pronounced as hewman being or yooman leg, but the pronunciation hewman bee-in Also occurs.

Part 4 of 6: The letter T.

1. Sometimes it is better not to pronounce the T. In some accents, including some Cockney accents, the T. not pronounced in words in which Americans replace the T with a D. Instead of the T, you usually hear a short pause or some sort of hiccup. For example, the word "battle" may sound like ba-ill, but you will hardly ever hear someone pronounce it as 'Ba-ill', where the speaker holds his breath and holds it in the back of his mouth at the end of the first syllable and then blows it out again when pronouncing the second syllable. This is also called a glottal stop. Americans also use this when pronouncing words like "mittens" and "mountain", but the British do it much more often.
   • People who speak Estuary English (literally 'river mouth English') or RP, people with a Scottish or Irish accent and people from Wales find it really lazy and rude not to pronounce the T and pretend it doesn't exist, but within the for most accents it is no problem in an informal context to put it in the middle of a word, and almost everyone uses a glottal stop at the end of a word.

Part 5 of 6: Verdict

1. Some words are pronounced just as you write them. The H sound should be heard in the word "herb". The word "leg" is pronounced "bean" rather than "bin" or "ben". Within the RP 'Again' and 'renaissance' are pronounced as' a gain 'and' run nay sänce ', with an' ai 'sound as in' pain ', and not as in' said. 'Words ending in' body “pronounce them as you write them, such as“ any body ”and not“ any buddy. ”But make sure you have a short, British O sound.
2. The letter H. is becoming not always spoken. The letter "H" in the word "herb," ​​you pronounce, while Americans erb say. But in many British accents the letter becomes H. often not pronounced at the beginning of a word, as in many accents from Northern England and in the Cockney accent.
3. Speak the word leg out as "bean," and not as "bin". Americans often pronounce this word as bin. Is within a British accent leg a common pronunciation, but "bin" is more likely to be heard in normal parlance when the word has no special emphasis.
4. Words with two or more vowels in a row often have an extra syllable. For example, the word "road" is normally referred to as rohd pronounced, but in Wales and in certain parts of Northern Ireland it may sound like ro.ord. Some people even say "reh-uud."

Part 6 of 6: Listening and repeating

1. Listen to the "music" of the language. All accents and dialects have their own musicality. Pay attention to the intonation of British speakers and find out where they put the emphasis. Note whether the sentences have ascending, flat or descending intonation. How much does the intonation vary within a typical sentence? Intonation varies greatly by region. For example, in British pronunciation, and especially in RP, the intonation usually varies much less than in American English, and usually the intonation is slightly decreasing at the end of a sentence. But this does not apply to Liverpool and North East England!
   • For example, instead of `` is he going to the STORE? '' It is better to say `` is he GOING to the store? '' Ask the question with a falling intonation rather than a rising intonation (rising intonation is more common in American or Australian English ).
2. Ask a Brit to say familiar phrases for you like: "How now brown cow" and "The rain in Spain stays mainly on the plain" and listen carefully to the pronunciation. The sound of vowels such as in "about", which are pronounced with a round mouth in London, is usually flatter in Northern Ireland.
3. Immerse yourself in British culture; this means dealing as much as possible with people who speak British English and who work and live in it on a daily basis. This is without a doubt the best way to quickly learn to speak with a British accent. You will soon find that you can naturally apply the variants discussed above in your pronunciation. Anything you do with speakers of British English helps - listen to the BBC (online you can watch and listen to the news for free), music sung by British singers or films with British actors.

Tips

• In addition to the accent, try to pick up slang as well lads or blokes, for boys or men, birds or welds (in the north of England and in Scotland) for women. Loo means toilet, but bathroom is a bathroom where you wash.
• As with any accent, listening to native speakers and imitating them is the best and fastest way to learn it. Remember, when you were little, you also learned a language by listening and then repeating the words and imitating the accent.
• You learn accents more easily by listening to people. A formal British accent can be heard on the BBC news, where it is widely used. Formal British is more emphatically and articulately spoken than American English, but as is always the case with newsreaders, this effect is deliberately exaggerated on radio and television.
• Pronounce the words "at all" as "a tall", but with a British accent.
• The RP accent is not called Queen's English for nothing. Just listen to Queen Elizabeth II's statement. You would do well to listen to her at the State Opening of Parliament, where she always delivers a long speech. An ideal opportunity to hear how she talks.
• Don't try to learn more than one accent at a time. Estuary English sounds very different from a "Geordie" accent, and you would soon get mixed up.
• There are hundreds of different accents within the UK, and it would not be entirely correct to include them all under the heading "British accent"; wherever you go, you will hear an incredible variety of sayings.
• Be creative and have fun. Apply and experiment with what you have learned. Try out your British accent on your friends. They can tell you whether you are doing it right or not!
• When you are in England, remember that the universities of Oxford and Cambridge are some of the last strongholds to still speak with classical accents like RP and Queen's English. But nowadays, of course, there are more and more students with accents from other parts of Britain and around the world, and people from the surrounding cities and regions speak their own local accents, which often sound very different. They might be offended if you say they speak with a "stereotypical British accent"; do not make the common mistake of thinking that an Oxford or Cambridge accent is the same as an RP accent.
• Speak clearly, don't forget to articulate each word correctly, and pause between your words.
• You can perfect your British accent with the standard course "Learn the British accent- FAST!". This course is available online and is used today in many schools around the world.
• A child's hearing is better able to process different sound frequencies, making it easier to distinguish and reproduce the sounds of the languages ​​spoken around you. To effectively learn a new accent, you need to increase your hearing proficiency by listening to examples of the accent over and over again.

Necessities

• A CD player and a few CDs with a British accent.
• Also check out BBC Learning English.
• Pick up the British accent and play it slow with Windows Media Player. Thus, you will master the accent faster.