How to speak English with a BRITISH accent - Pronunciation tips (Modern RP)

How to speak English with a BRITISH accent - Modern RP
Many students often ask me this question online and I wanted to share with you a pronunciation tips and tricks for sounding more British.
In this video I focus on my own accent which is from the south of England, but of course there are many accents in Britian!
If you have any questions about the video, make sure to write them in the comments and i will get back to you ASAP!
Chris
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What is your favourite accent in Britian?

[@birox1__]

Does the British have 10 dialects?

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BUCCHIN a mammt

[@vintyvolt3621]

The queens English

[@imma5192]

Lady Diana's ❤️

[@manchestertart5614]

@@vintyvolt3621 You have forgotten to use punctuation and a capital letter. The Queen’s English

[@razeghi7852]

It was awesome teacher 👏

[@muhammadsaadmansoor7777]

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[@facundobelascoain6292]

Hello Chris! It's an amazing and very useful video! I love the glottal stop and the British accent! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤

[@manchestertart5614]

There’s no such thing as a British accent, there’s British accents.There’s accents from the countries that make up the British isles and regional accents,for example the Geordie accent from Newcastle (upon Tyne)or Scouse from Liverpool.

[@marylovesbook]

Hello! I speak in American accent. You helped me to improve my British accent! Thank you so much!

[@InstantEnglishUK]

No worries Mary

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As a teacher of English I often use your videos with my high school students, I really appreciate your bee's knees videos, Chris!❤

[@InstantEnglishUK]

Ah man! That is so so cool to hear! Thank you 🙏

[@imma5192]

How nice and relaxing when you say that there isn't a "correct pronunciation" 😊

[@InstantEnglishUK]

It’s true 😁

[@sylwiawajda9866]

I really appreciate your British accent... it is clear and sooo normal. I'm more used to American, so I'm even more surprised how nice it sounds to my ear. It's such a relief knowing British speak also this way... I mean without such heavy accent, which makes me so confused😅

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Good information mate, nice vid

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Cheers mate

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How smoothly and nicely he is speaking ❤️.... Student from Pakistan😊😊

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I love your accent and how you speak. Thank you so much for your videos 😊

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Thank you silvia

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Came from Telegramm, I feel 😂 when it comes to accent. 👍 it is very helpful, I would like to thank you for the video.

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I see your shorts everyday,you teach us so well that I understood how to say British accent Love from India❤️

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Nice teacher I should say👍 I really like British accent.

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Cheers, where are you from?

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Cheers

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Shadowing is practised by babies and toddlers in aquiring their native language. By doing so, they learn pronunciation, stress patterns, tunes, intonation patterns and also face mimic/facial expressions. Parents and surrounding environments are the main models for this "shadowing" activities. Because of them, various accents and dialects in a country appear. That is the power of shadowing in learning a language.

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For Malay people, accents are not problems. We can master them less than 5 minutes without explanation. Just listen properly. ☺

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Thumbs up! Thank you for an interesting lesson. Pronunciation is an essential and indispensable part of English. I have a question to you. How to learn to speak English in an environment where English is not spoken at all in public? I like how you pronounced the "water" and waiting" with a glottal sound. I appreciate that! Cheers!

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Thank you for your help

[@InstantEnglishUK]

You’re welcome ☺️

[@PoppySeverns]

The t in water is optional bc i am british and say the t

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Thank you Alice

[@spaceseesaw]

Im British but I don't really have an Accent, which I'm glad of because I hate people calling me 'bri'ish' on discord calls

[@Angharad329]

Thanks a lot !

[@InstantEnglishUK]

You’re welcome ☺️

[@ramamonato5039]

Not all medial /t/'s can be pronounced like /d/ in General American. Take "attack" and "retain". We still hear the "t"s there in each word. So, only medial /t/'s in unstressed syllables can be pronounced like /d/ or replaced by a glottal stop. If the "t" is located in a stressed syllable, however, the British people and the American people maintain the "t" in pronunciation.

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Thank you I love British accent and I wanted to speak it I’ll try my best to speak British

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English

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[@hichamchemaly]

Very useful. More of "what do you call this in English", if possible. Thank you!

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Sure Hicham 😄

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I live in Georgia, USA, and it's funny how a lot of these things apply to a southern accent. Hmm

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Thanks

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[@The_Pre]

Hey dude! I've a suggestion! Thiugh all ur videos are way too helpful but why don't uh start a series of teaching british accent!! Hope you'll consider it!

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Thank you

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Cheers mate

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Great thanks. Paletalization. Am I right? The video is inspiration. Speak like Eliza Doolittle.

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Your American accent is funny. In a good way.

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I've heard the glottal stop more in the North of England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@InstantEnglishUK]

It’s everywhere 😉

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i will have to chnage my accent :)

[@InstantEnglishUK]

Yeah? 😊

[@hugobenitez1441]

@@InstantEnglishUK yes, i love the british accent, I wish I could have it haha

[@EUGENIUS60]

American is a completely different language it’s not a matter of accent! I fail to understand why English and Americans insist on describing themselves as similar and together. The best recommendation for students is to adopt international English neutral in term of accent and certainly not American which in his pure form is not spoken anywhere except the US and the Phillipines.

[@vintyvolt3621]

Me who livs in africa and was taught British English since I was born: I WAS BORN FOR THIS!!

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Yes you were

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Hi Crish i love your eyes

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Thanks

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I personally prefer the American accent but the video was cool

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Thanks 😊

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Hello 👋

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who else is here because del was on the thumb nail

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He is a ledge

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Hi sir i don't know english very well, suggest me for how can I improve my English pls

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I offer private classes 😁

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"Let's get down to business" is it an idiom and what does it mean?

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Let’s start something 😄

[@Fabri70]

My English is more or less a melting pot between AE and BE who cares about the accent, I'm not a native English speaker.

[@InstantEnglishUK]

Sure

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Honey, do you know there's another language that communicates the best with whatever accent? The body language 😋😋😋

[@padmajaiswal7744]

Learning english is OK but learning certain accent will amount to code switching ,being inauthentic.

[@TheMissEuphory]

What does RP stand for? As in “Modern RP”

[@InstantEnglishUK]

received pronunciation

[@nevecenere]

did you really say Feather instead of THeater? is that correct?

[@InstantEnglishUK]

Nope

[@nayeemislam7266]

will listening to british people talking help me improving my british pronunciation?

[@InstantEnglishUK]

Yep 👍

[@birzulapatru4443]

Thanks for the video, but I don't want a British accent ,I'm happy to understand English and make people understand me .I just found out from another video, I'm level C3 !

[@InstantEnglishUK]

No problem

[@birzulapatru4443]

@@InstantEnglishUK No worries

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/r/ like in Spanish?

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What about it sorry?

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😂😃

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Hey 👋

[@yigitcanbaysal824]

Hi I'm looking for someone to practice and improve my English I wonder if you are interested in? :)

[@parkash9999]

Nice lesson, but what about Modern PR accent?

[@InstantEnglishUK]

What about it? 😁

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Allow me to share your video. Sir

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Go for it

[@laris8186]

I was speaking American english soo well, but now, when i start speaking, i sound like cat choking. Idk is it bc of pubertety or what??

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Who knows mate

[@Truthseeker24392]

Actually your accent is very british but can be undertstood easily like american.

[@InstantEnglishUK]

Oh really?

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Bro there’s like 20

[@InstantEnglishUK]

Hence why I wrote in the title RP

[@yura2424]

2:36 Your American accent is funny

[@mep6302]

I sincerely don't understand why you say this 2:47 When you pronounce the word "British" for example as "Bridish" 0:39 0:45 0:57 and so on. I also hear some British people pronouncing words like "whatever" as "whaddever" and "it" as "id". And here 4:21 you pronounce "pretty" as "preddy". I'm more confused

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You guys need to stop saying "american accent" because America its a continent not a country and in this continent, we speak many languages, the only country that speaks english is The USA.

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[@InstantEnglishUK]

Sorry I don’t understand