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How To Master The British Accent Fast And Effectively by Jazzomoney(m): 6:57am On Jul 11, 2018
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How to Speak in a British Accent

This article focuses on "Received Pronunciation" (RP), the stereotypical British accent mainly spoken in the south of England, and exaggerated by the upper classes, sometimes described as "the Queen's English". There are greatly differing accents across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and for a more regional or "authentic" accent, it's best to choose one particular area, and try to learn how to mimic that accent instead. Adopting British mannerisms while speaking will also help for authenticity. This study of RP is concerned largely with pronunciation, while study of the standard language is also concerned with matters such as correct grammar, more formal vocabulary and style.

1. Start with the Rs. Understand that in most British accents, speakers don't roll their Rs (except for those from Scotland, North umbria, Northern Ireland, and parts of the West Country and Lancashire), but not all British accents are the same. For example, a Scottish accent varies greatly from an English accent. After a vowel, don't pronounce the R, but draw out the vowel and maybe add an "uh" (Here is "heeuh"wink. In words like "hurry", don't blend the R with the vowel. Say "huh-ree".
In American English, words ending with "rl" or "rel" can be pronounced using either one or two syllables, completely interchangeably. This is not the case in British English. "-rl" words like "girl", "hurl", etc., are pronounced as one syllable with silent R, while "squirrel" is "squih-rul", and "referral" is "re-fer-rul".
Some words are easier to say in a British accent. For example, mirror, which sounds like "mih-ra". Do not say "mirror" like "mere"; British people almost never do that.
Some awkward pauses in sentences are also removed by the addition of "r" before a vowel. For example, "I saw it" becomes "I saw-rit", to avoid the pause between the words 'saw' and 'it'. Another example is "Bacteria are small", pronounced "Bacteria-rar-small".

2. Pronounce U in stupid and in duty with the ew or "you" sound. Avoid the oo as in pronounced ; thus it is pronounced stewpid or commonly schewpid, not stoopid, etc. duty would be pronounced dewty or more often jooty. In the standard English accent, the A (for example, in father) is pronounced at the back of the mouth with an open throat—it sounds like "arh". This is the case in pretty much all British accents, but it's exaggerated in RP. In southern England and in RP, words such as "bath", "path", "glass", "grass" also use this vowel (barth, parth, glarss, grarss, etc.). However, in other parts of Britain "bath", "path", etc. sound like "ah".

3. Enunciate on heavy consonant words. Pronounce that T in "duty" as T: not as the D as doody so that duty is pronounced dewty or a softer jooty. Pronounce the suffix -ing with a strong G. This way it sounds like -ing rather than -een. But sometimes it is shortened to in as in lookin. The words human being are pronounced hewman being or yooman been in certain areas, though it could be pronounced hewman bee-in.

4. Sometimes drop the Ts. With some accents, including cockney accents, Ts aren't pronounced in words where Americans use D to replace it. However, there is usually a short pause or "hiccup" in its place. So "battle" might be pronounced ba-ill but it would be a rare occasion to find someone saying "Ba-ill" catching the air behind the back of the tongue at the end of the first syllable before expelling it on pronunciation of the second syllable. This is known as the glottal stop. use glottal stops, too, for words like "mittens" and "mountain". It's just that British use them more often.
People with Estuary English, RP, Scottish, Irish and Welsh accents do consider it lazy and rude to drop the Ts, and this feature doesn't exist, but in almost all accents it's accepted to do it in the middle of words in casual contexts and almost universal to put a glottal stop at the end of a word.

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Re: How To Master The British Accent Fast And Effectively by forreelinc(m): 6:59am On Jul 11, 2018
angry na this long thing you want make we read? You dey craze

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Re: How To Master The British Accent Fast And Effectively by Jazzomoney(m): 7:05am On Jul 11, 2018
forreelinc:
angry na this long thing you want make we read? You dey craze
It is because of people like you who refuse to read and improve that is why Africa and Nigeria is still underdevelop....
Re: How To Master The British Accent Fast And Effectively by Nobody: 7:48am On Jul 11, 2018
A video will do.

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Re: How To Master The British Accent Fast And Effectively by forreelinc(m): 10:53am On Jul 11, 2018
Jazzomoney:

It is because of people like you who refuse to read and improve that is why Africa and Nigeria is still underdevelop....
And its people like you who type long dry "articles" that stop africans from reading
Ps: you dey craze
Re: How To Master The British Accent Fast And Effectively by Jazzomoney(m): 8:17am On Aug 13, 2018
forreelinc:

And its people like you who type long dry "articles" that stop africans from reading
Ps: you dey craze
It is obvious you are an illiterate. If you passed through the university then you should have read articles longer than this.
Re: How To Master The British Accent Fast And Effectively by forreelinc(m): 8:02pm On Aug 13, 2018
Jazzomoney:

you should have read articles longer than this.
Yea longer but more interesting

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