Nice video , very educative. I am watching this video because people have mistaken my daughter, my brother and myself for Australian, New Zealanders and even South African! More than once this has happened and we are from North West London, which my brother explained to me is an accent which is getting lost nowadays, and we are rare! Talking about the North London accent , surely it would be the other way round ; the Essex accent has been affected by the North London accent? If you bear in mind the spill over and general population flow of Londoners is, with each generation, one step further away from the centre of London. Thanks for everything John. 🙂

@BritishNativeSpeaker

5 ай бұрын

Interesting comment, thanks!

Love the Tower ‘Amlets spoken in a perfect Dorset accent

Even the black bruddas from east sound cockney. Wiley, Dizzee rascal, Crazy Titch are good examples of artists with this bow accent

Ah. I finally understand what a North London accent is.

@BritishNativeSpeaker

Жыл бұрын

Cool.

Most interesting! Thank you for sharing.

I’m from north London, I don’t say norf but I admit I say it as lifestylewww 😂😂😂😂

@BritishNativeSpeaker

5 ай бұрын

Nice one.

I grew up in North London (Tottenham/Edmonton) in the 90s around a bunch of cockneys but also lots of different cultures. As a result my accent is this blend of pretty much everything you described. This accent is probably best represented by artists such as Wiley and Dizzee Rascal. My sisters accent (10 years younger) tends towards MLE more than mine which makes sense.

Spot on. Very interesting. Geographical accents in London are fascinating including the South East London accent (New Cross / Blackheath) which is very distinctive, I can't describe it apart from saying its higher pitched and somehow clearer but still with the glottal stop.😆

@BritishNativeSpeaker

8 ай бұрын

Cheers for the insight. Good to know.

@blazertwofour

8 ай бұрын

...and dahnt ferget propah Banglish wot is spoken by the Traders on markits in Newum and Taaaher amlets. Cockney mixed up with Bengali and Urdu. Amazing!

East London / Essex - nailed it!

Awesome ❤

With the MLE accent sometimes people use the word “man” as first person pronoun in place of “I” ( or gyal if a girl!) you also generally drop out the word “the” as well. You also use the surfix “dem” to pluralise a noun. The confusing bit is that sometimes it’s in place of an “s” and sometimes it’s as well as an “s” not sure if there is a rule to this?! Cool accent though 🙂

Interesting take. As SE londoner with one parental line from the east end, i get some of what you say. Two things about SE london accent: a lot of east enders were relocated here after the war, which had a big impact, and 2, the East Kent accent: all my family has my move to east Kent and I have to say that it is a unique accent which, once you get your head into it, you realize is what makes the SE london accent so unique from the rest of london

@BritishNativeSpeaker

4 ай бұрын

Interesting. Cheers.

I'm from Hounslow, and I do not agree with the influence of RP. The way to pronounce Hounslow would be 'Ahnslaahr or 'AOwnslow - depending whether you were Brentford or Heathrow side.

North East London as well

even though im from north east london essex i have a very west london accent (the posh one) but my sister has a mix of the cockney and essex accent(s)

@BritishNativeSpeaker

9 ай бұрын

Cheers for the comment

@alexanderpostings7208

3 ай бұрын

But true for every part of London, probably most people in Essex don’t have an Essex accent, though north east London is close to Essex, for example Chingford and Woodford

@BritishNativeSpeaker

3 ай бұрын

Sure

I can't see much difference between Essex, Cockney and Saaf Landan tbh. They seem very similar and mixed up.

@BritishNativeSpeaker

7 ай бұрын

That's because they are.

I would also say London has a general south east england accent and also Estuary

@BritishNativeSpeaker

2 ай бұрын

Yes you are right so I included them on my new video 'h dropping in 4 London accents'. Thanks.

Don’t forget about Estuary English.

@BritishNativeSpeaker

Жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/eXyf1KWQl5zFhKg.html already covered it

Love Hyde park

@BritishNativeSpeaker

Жыл бұрын

Guess you would!

Yes some of the accents in England sine people cannot pronounce their th ,s

And a bit of rp bruh mines all Mixed

What accent do people in Sutton normally have?

@BritishNativeSpeaker

7 ай бұрын

Probably a south London twang to their accent

@peterburton2909

Ай бұрын

A sort of posh south London...

Tower Hamlets

I am just a friggin' giant mix. My general London accent rules: Got a H at the start? No it doesn't. Got a T in the middle? No it doesn't. Got a G on the -ing end? No it doesn't. 'anin' the 'at on the 'ook is easier without the bo'le of wa'er in you 'ands. Bonus points if TH in the middle is replaced with a V sound and the ER and the end sounds more like an A.

Do Cockneys change that l sound to a w before vowels by any chance?

@BritishNativeSpeaker

Ай бұрын

Yes for example you could change pole to pow(l) or something to that effect

What accent do you have? That seems like a weird question 😅 sorry I am just curious.

@BritishNativeSpeaker

Жыл бұрын

No, fair point! I speak SSBE or standard southern British English, which is the accent spoken across the south of England.

@LadyVenVen

Жыл бұрын

@@BritishNativeSpeaker Thank you! I’m going to write a book that has a character from London. I don’t want to write anything stereotypical, but I also want to be realistic so these videos are helpful.

@BritishNativeSpeaker

Жыл бұрын

Good luck!

Mines northeast London+MLE+bit of cockney😂

@BritishNativeSpeaker

3 ай бұрын

A true Londoner no doubt

@Snipe_BLOX

3 ай бұрын

@@BritishNativeSpeaker could say that grew up half my life here😜

where do you live

It should be hindu, polish, german, french, african and jamican accent if we talking about Londons accents :D

@siriuslybooked

Жыл бұрын

what’s a Hindu accent💀💀💀

@kaenv

Жыл бұрын

@@siriuslybooked You call it "indian" maybe. But indian also means completly diferent ppl. So Hindu is more precisious.

@BS-lq8gm

Жыл бұрын

@@kaenv You're on something, mate.

@pazthepole2814

Жыл бұрын

German??? I have never met anyone who knows a German in my 17 years of living In London. Matter of fact in my first 4 years, living on the border of Germany I never knew of any Germans. Or French? What French man live in London bro

@kaenv

Жыл бұрын

@@pazthepole2814 And that information, that you never met say something more that you never met?

yaass da'y - this is my polish accent, guess what i am sayinn mon

@BritishNativeSpeaker

Жыл бұрын

Where are from in Poland?

@user-ko6fg4db4n

9 ай бұрын

is it yes darling?

ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ ನಾನು ಭಾರತ ದೇಶದ ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ರಾಜ್ಯದಿಂದ ಬಂದಿದ್ದೇನೆ ಮತ್ತು ನಾನು ಇಂಗ್ಲಿಷ್ ಭಾಷೆಯನ್ನು ಕಲಿಯಲು ಇಚ್ಚಿಸಿದ್ದೇನೆ! ದಯವಿಟ್ಟು ನೀವು ಅದಕ್ಕೆ ಸಹಕರಿಸಿ 🙏

@Theozenith

Жыл бұрын

Ay de gha mi soo

@Blackisciple

6 ай бұрын

This is for advanced English speakers only you are a beginner so you have to start off with basic standard English before you start learning London English

So you live in a castle with no fixed abode.

@BritishNativeSpeaker

8 күн бұрын

Ha ha yes of course

Is it an actual accent where people have 'r' sounds that subtlety sound like 'w' sounds? I heard someone talk like this and I recognized she was English but her speech reminded me or Peter Cook's very exaggerated accent as the "Impressive clergyman" the way he says "Marriage .... is what brings is together.... in holy matrimony". Is this an affected way of talking a speech impediment or actual accent. I didn't want to embarrasse this lady.

@BritishNativeSpeaker

10 ай бұрын

Yes it's more of an articulation disorder called rhotacism. Thanks for the comment, I'm going to work at Radley College soon where Peter Cook was a former pupil btw! He was certainly brilliant at manipulating words and sounds.

Seems to me that f instead of th is common to just about every part of the country. It's a sign of laziness and degeneracy and symbolises everyfing this once-great country has become. The dropped h is heard almost everywhere too.

@BritishNativeSpeaker

9 ай бұрын

Fair enough

@misstinwhistle1

8 ай бұрын

That's pretty insulting. People get their accents from the society they grow up in. It's not laziness.

@jasperz3135

7 ай бұрын

I mean, it can be. Or it's just the way they've heard other people talking and, much like the personality traits, mortals, or quirks of those greatly loved around someone, have slowly started to subconsciously intergrade it into their own mannerisms. Can just be as simple as speech impediments, hearing issues, or mixing the sounds, too. Bit harsh, man.

@ChrisCypher

6 ай бұрын

I feel like there's some class snobbery at play there. If the rich/upper class were to do it, it'd be seen as optimizing or efficiency, but if poor/working class folks do it, it's because of laziness or some degeneracy.

@LessAiredvanU

14 күн бұрын

It is well known that Yorkshire folk and West Country people spoke like " ladies and gentleman " until the 1960's... you muppet!

i love ssbe rp from India

@BritishNativeSpeaker

Жыл бұрын

greetings!

What about the road man accent that has sprung up over the last 20 years

@rhys61

10 ай бұрын

thats just Multicultural london english or just more broadly multicultural british english

@brandon236

9 ай бұрын

That’s north