and everyone and welcome back to english
with Lucy today I bring you an extremely
highly requested video after the success
of my video three ways to sound more
British
I bring you for more ways to sound more
British yep I’m going to teach you how
to differentiate between an American
accent and a British accent and how to
achieve that perfect British English
accent quickly before we get started I’d
just like to thank the sponsor of
today’s video it is Skillshare they are
an online learning community with
thousands of classes of all different
topics you can learn about marketing
languages cooking crafts skills the
world is your oyster there are lessons
for absolutely everyone there are loads
of free classes and you can also sign up
for Premium Membership and that gives
you unlimited access to high-quality
classes from experts working in their
field if you follow me on Instagram you
know I love cooking I am always posting
about what I’m cooking on my stories and
there are some incredible cooking
classes on there my poor fiancé is going
to be praying for fish and chips by the
time I finished my cooking classes
I’m joking he wouldn’t dare complain I’m
making restaurant quality food here but
to find out more you’ll have to sign up
to Skillshare and it’s actually really
affordable way more affordable than most
other learning platforms an annual
subscription is under $10 per month
and since Gill share are sponsoring this
video they have given the first 500
people who click the link in the
description box at first two months for
free so click on the link sign up claim
your free two month membership and
really there are loads of English
courses and language courses and things
you might genuinely be interested in and
most importantly let me know how it goes
right let’s get on with the lesson now
when I say British English I’m referring
to received pronunciation which is the
British English that we tend to teach
our students American English well I’m
talking about general American
pronunciation which is the umbrella
variety of American English of course
there are so many other
accents and dialects but let’s not
overcomplicate things received
pronunciation and general American
sometimes it’s really difficult to
differentiate between received
pronunciation and general American
pronunciation have you ever wondered why
some people are really good at imitating
people and impersonating people and
doing impressions of people well it’s
because they have a fine tuned ear they
can hear the differences in valency
ation especially and also consonant
pronunciation today I’m going to teach
you those differences that you might not
have noticed and then you can sound
either more British or even more
American if you fancy it
so let’s start with the letter O or in
received pronunciation ah
in general American you might say barks
or Clark or dog so we’ve got aa
and our sounds ah in Clark and our as in
dark in received pronunciation it’s much
more simple it’s just a box clock dog to
make this sound you need your lips to be
a nice round circle oh oh and it’s a
short vowel not a long one like in
general American other examples stop
possible not right let’s move on to the
letter a we’re looking at longer vows
here in general American you might
pronounce this word as pass with an air
sound in received pronunciation we say
pass with an R sound air pass are pass
more examples dance dance giraffe
giraffe I apologize if my American
accent makes you cringe it makes me
cringe to the next one again we’re
looking at the letter O but it’s a
different vowel sound it’s actually a
diphthong which are two vowel sounds
together in a word like this Americans
would say crow with an O sound crow
their mouth shape will be different in
received pronunciation we say crow so
it’s more a rather than a crow crow see
the difference it’s very very subtle but
if you’re an actor and you want to nail
that British English accent this is
something you can really work on Oh
American English Oh received
pronunciation more examples no no no no
go go go go
it’s so so subtle it’s very easy to miss
it’s all about the mouth shape and the
last one the last way that you can sound
more British is to avoid you’re dropping
you’re dropping is a phenomenon I’m not
going to go into but basically it’s this
difference in general American I would
say new and in received pronunciation I
would say new general American tune
received pronunciation tune tune general
American do do and receive pronunciation
do do in received pronunciation we
include the yeah sound and we include it
in certain environments after an new do
tune it’s actually the way that
Americans used to pronounce things but
it’s been dropped over time and
Americans don’t always drop the yard
they still say oh that’s cute so cute is
an example of a word that is pronounced
equally in both Britain and America
right that’s it for today’s lesson I
hope you enjoyed it I hope you learned
something don’t forget to check out
Skillshare the link is in the
description box and remember
the first 500 to click the link will receive two months free membership
with Lucy today I bring you an extremely
highly requested video after the success
of my video three ways to sound more
British
I bring you for more ways to sound more
British yep I’m going to teach you how
to differentiate between an American
accent and a British accent and how to
achieve that perfect British English
accent quickly before we get started I’d
just like to thank the sponsor of
today’s video it is Skillshare they are
an online learning community with
thousands of classes of all different
topics you can learn about marketing
languages cooking crafts skills the
world is your oyster there are lessons
for absolutely everyone there are loads
of free classes and you can also sign up
for Premium Membership and that gives
you unlimited access to high-quality
classes from experts working in their
field if you follow me on Instagram you
know I love cooking I am always posting
about what I’m cooking on my stories and
there are some incredible cooking
classes on there my poor fiancé is going
to be praying for fish and chips by the
time I finished my cooking classes
I’m joking he wouldn’t dare complain I’m
making restaurant quality food here but
to find out more you’ll have to sign up
to Skillshare and it’s actually really
affordable way more affordable than most
other learning platforms an annual
subscription is under $10 per month
and since Gill share are sponsoring this
video they have given the first 500
people who click the link in the
description box at first two months for
free so click on the link sign up claim
your free two month membership and
really there are loads of English
courses and language courses and things
you might genuinely be interested in and
most importantly let me know how it goes
right let’s get on with the lesson now
when I say British English I’m referring
to received pronunciation which is the
British English that we tend to teach
our students American English well I’m
talking about general American
pronunciation which is the umbrella
variety of American English of course
there are so many other
accents and dialects but let’s not
overcomplicate things received
pronunciation and general American
sometimes it’s really difficult to
differentiate between received
pronunciation and general American
pronunciation have you ever wondered why
some people are really good at imitating
people and impersonating people and
doing impressions of people well it’s
because they have a fine tuned ear they
can hear the differences in valency
ation especially and also consonant
pronunciation today I’m going to teach
you those differences that you might not
have noticed and then you can sound
either more British or even more
American if you fancy it
so let’s start with the letter O or in
received pronunciation ah
in general American you might say barks
or Clark or dog so we’ve got aa
and our sounds ah in Clark and our as in
dark in received pronunciation it’s much
more simple it’s just a box clock dog to
make this sound you need your lips to be
a nice round circle oh oh and it’s a
short vowel not a long one like in
general American other examples stop
possible not right let’s move on to the
letter a we’re looking at longer vows
here in general American you might
pronounce this word as pass with an air
sound in received pronunciation we say
pass with an R sound air pass are pass
more examples dance dance giraffe
giraffe I apologize if my American
accent makes you cringe it makes me
cringe to the next one again we’re
looking at the letter O but it’s a
different vowel sound it’s actually a
diphthong which are two vowel sounds
together in a word like this Americans
would say crow with an O sound crow
their mouth shape will be different in
received pronunciation we say crow so
it’s more a rather than a crow crow see
the difference it’s very very subtle but
if you’re an actor and you want to nail
that British English accent this is
something you can really work on Oh
American English Oh received
pronunciation more examples no no no no
go go go go
it’s so so subtle it’s very easy to miss
it’s all about the mouth shape and the
last one the last way that you can sound
more British is to avoid you’re dropping
you’re dropping is a phenomenon I’m not
going to go into but basically it’s this
difference in general American I would
say new and in received pronunciation I
would say new general American tune
received pronunciation tune tune general
American do do and receive pronunciation
do do in received pronunciation we
include the yeah sound and we include it
in certain environments after an new do
tune it’s actually the way that
Americans used to pronounce things but
it’s been dropped over time and
Americans don’t always drop the yard
they still say oh that’s cute so cute is
an example of a word that is pronounced
equally in both Britain and America
right that’s it for today’s lesson I
hope you enjoyed it I hope you learned
something don’t forget to check out
Skillshare the link is in the
description box and remember
the first 500 to click the link will receive two months free membership
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