How to Fake a British Accent FAST

As a Northerner this was a great help in coming to understand how the South speaks English wrong.

Well, thank you sir. I learned "Oxford-English" as a boy in school (in Germany) but never got a "British Accent". I must say though, that it's incredibly funny to practice your lesson by reading all the comments here out loud. Although I catch myself switching between dozens of different accents all the time. Can't keep one straight for too long :D

As an Anglomaniac from Iran, this is the only thing I have the motivation for watching at 2:20 am to help allay my palpitation caused by all the disturbing news around me. Thank you, and tears. For real.

This confirms some of my suspicions. I was born and raised as an American, of the southern US variety. Yet southerners think I'm from the north, and vice versa. Part of this is when I was learning how to speak, I learned it with alphabet sounds from a British teaching tool. This caused me to learn from a mix of both, and as such, some of these I do naturally in certain words, and others I do in the more American way. Language is interesting, and I've since accepted that my accent is uniquely mine. I've trained myself to speak not "the proper way", but "the way that most will understand"

I'm from Chile, I learnt English because when I was younger my family had a lodge and most of the tourists were from UK, so I spent my entire childhood trying to realise how to pronounce some words properly. So there I was, a 10 years old kid, in July I was speaking with a London accent, in August someone from Manchester came and told me "no, that R is pronounced like this...", then someone from Leicester, then a Scottish... so, well, nowadays I'm not quite sure about what kind of accent I have, but every time I speak English with a British person, I can see how confused he is because he can't recognise from which part of UK I'm supposed to be, at least until I commit some grammar mistake and he realises I'm from Chile hahahaha.

Excellent video! As a linguist who has coached foreigners in English, this covers lots of difficulties for European learners of English.

As a non-native english speaker, I must admit that during my learning process, I decided to experiment with the british accent, working long hours in front of a mirror, repeating some sounds that I could relate to the british way and in doing so, I think I became quite good on pretending to be a brit. By the way, I'm from Chile and I've never been to Europe. You are certainly one of my favourite English teacher, all of your lessons are pure gold. Thanks for your work. Cheers!

I'm British. Why am I watching this!? 😂

It's so interesting to hear someone talk about how to do your own accent.

I wish the whole world would speak with this accent! Lovely, clear, delightful!

As a Bostonian, it was interesting to find how many similarities we have with standard British English, especially the non-rhotic, linking Rs, long As, short Os, etc. It was easy to match your pronunciation of most of your practice sentences. Fun lesson.

I really love this channel! My friends told me that I have a British accent and I wanna continue to practice more through this channel. Thank you so much:)

I am from Bristol in England and I like these videos. I had fun pronouncing everything wrongly like I was from Eastern Europe.

I am a German who had quite a lot of my several years of English lessons done by native speakers. One of them being from Cambrigeshire, the other an Australian from Sydney. Though my last lesson has been more than 45 years ago, your pronunciation comes very, very near to what I can remember was taught. Though how I would speak now (I am not that good at it, reading / writing suits me better) would be quite corrupted by watching too many American movies. It definitely is a pleasure to hear you perform perfect British English. BTW my Australian English teacher warned us not to copy his own Aussie accent (sometimes telling stories he slipped back into it). I especially remember his „wrong“ pronunciation of „moon“ being more like „müün“, even after ~ 50 years. RIP Mr. John Slinn.

Brilliant video! All main British English pronunciation specifics gathered together and given in a clear and concise way! Thank you a lot!

This was super simple and engaging! You are wonderful at teaching and the words on the screen were super helpful for following along!

What a great video. I have an English mother, and I’ve been traveling back and forth to London from Toronto regularly for 25 years and have never heard this explained so well. Well done sir 👍

I've been a v.o. artist most of my adult life. This was an outstanding tutorial. Kudos to you, sir.

Love how the subtitles at the start give a summary of the entire video in just 1 paragraph!

I was a volunteer in East Sussex once and it was amazing how easy you could distinguish between the native speakers and the mixed English of the other foreigners 😄 I was curious how the real English could speak like this, now I will try some of your advices, thank you for this video!