How to Get a British Accent - Lesson One - "The Glottal T and the True T"

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So... the key to sounding like a proper brit is choosing the right tea?

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João Sampaio Us English people ARENT CRAZY ABOUT TEA AND CRUMPETS WE SOUND JUST LIKE USA PEOPLE

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[@euricequeen842]

i said bo'le and i sounded like saying butthole update: 2 years later i still laugh when i say bo'le.

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[@francomarini560]

I've come across your lessons right this afternoon.....congratulations!!!!!!! I like the way you deal with glottal stops, reductions, etc. Keep on teaching like this in a natural, informal way. Ciao!

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[@cameronpierce7143]

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[@-Baba_Yaga-]

Not to be immature, but would saying bo'le confuse bottle, and butthole?

[@daviddiaz-clifton4898]

Nicholas Aaron never thought of it 😂😂

[@lisa-mariemessadia4497]

Glad I'm not the only one to have thought about it haha

[@emc5190]

They can differentiate it since they pronounce "H" in butthole clearly. And the "L"; it depends on the accent cause some pronounces their 'L's like how W sounds. For example world became wold or wald.

[@pliforov7586]

Nicholas Aaron i say it like butthole

[@ibyul7]

Nicholas Aaron we don't forget out T's pleas we say bottle it's just 10-11 year olds say wa-er accept water :P

[@GLUKHAR]

i decided to find lessons of british english because i'm tired of american glottal pronunciation. so ironic...

[@nehefatou4230]

Hi! First of all I wld like to appreciate the great job u guys are doing to assist non natives like me improve our fluency. Next to mention a embarrassing point on ('in' I guess) this lesson and the British accent series 2: Glottal T. Here you said the British people usually don't pronounce the 't' in water, they say: wa'er ( uh oh) the t is stopped, the same goes with 'bottle' and 'button', whereas in the British accent series u came up with a totally different explanation. To illustrate this u started a rule based on the word absolUteLy, with a vowel before and a consonant after the 't' its ok to use the glottal stop, then you continued with the true T followed with other words like 'BETTER' and said it can't be pronounced be'er (or with glottal 't') because the T separates two vowel sounds. Same with twitter, hotter, WATER... and ended with "BOTTLE" at 2:32 on the video: before the T there is a vowel sound, and after the T a consonant L, that if someone was to say "bo'le" he would sound uneducated! All this is pretty confusing. I'll be very grateful if u could clarify this much more. Thanks PS: I won't mind you correcting my sentences structures as well as my vocabulary or grammar in case they aren't well written.

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I have the thickest Czech accent ever and your video is helping me speak with British accent, I love it! I live in the States, however, I cannot at all make my American English sound without any accent

[@Jake_Eyes]

Thank you so much for pointing this out! I was having the hardest time pronouncing "matters" in a convincing English accent for one of my YT videos until I saw this. I was just about to export it, too. I had given up trying to sound more convincing and was about to just accept that I couldn't do any better. The timing could not have been more perfect. The funny thing is, I actually did it right when I said "later" earlier in the video. I didn't realize what I was doing wrong with "matters" because I thought it had something to do with the vowel sounds.

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[@boyuansun4115]

I just came from the "Advanced TH pronunciation + Connected Speech" lesson, and I notice that at 2:11 you pronounce "a mix of the two" as "a mix a the two" haha😎

[@Ryan1993uk]

why am i watching this? i am English XD and BTW i usually pronounce the T's

[@davisfontanes]

Love this video. I go to london once or twice a year and stay a month I def have heard this. And I fancy the lingo lol.. I am told my british accent is getting quite good

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[@carolinalisboa2156]

I loved it! Unfortunately here in Brazil the schools often teach american accent. I'm looking forward to go to the UK and learn more

[@escricmeryut3550]

thank you for all your videos, i´m getting better so fast.

[@roraio]

Lived in London for three years as a non-native speaker. I wish I'd come across your channel when I lived there! But hey, never too late to polish off your Bri'ish accent! ;)

[@papateachme]

Better late than never ;)

[@MoniquePareja]

This is the first ever LEWPTM's video I stumbled across. I've been too enthusiastic then with RP accents, and still is the case up till now.

[@rogogreentooth5691]

You’re so funny mate! I really enjoy watching your videos, boring contents become fun with you

[@bachusito]

I do like your accent:) I like glottal stops at the end of words like, for example, "but, it, that, what" etc, it sounds sooooo nice (don't know why but it really does)... Greetings from your Polish subscriber:)

[@alexmunoz2504]

I reaaly like your lessons of Britsh accent , please go ahead, I never had seen videos something like that and I think your channel is great and perfect to learn British accent , Grettings form Mexico and I hope you can teach us more about British accent , I really want to get a British accent , see you soon and Greetings form Mexico again.

[@englishdetectives8764]

I am really enjoying your typical British accent and learning for real though I am not an English native speaker !! Cheers,bruv ☺

[@salaheldin00]

Thanks a lot . You really made the Glottal T very easy to be understood. God bless you teacher!

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[@jijifujijixxx]

You' ve been working out a lot lately :-p love the new series

[@1965gd]

My friend, I don't want to sound arrogant but the sound you are teaching is called Glottal Stop ...mind you...I think your term makes it easier for learners to understand...well done...I liked the lesson...

[@drashoksengupta2115]

At 1:04 in your captions, RE: "sometimes represented by an apostrophy," is that a London spelling of "apostrophe?"

[@BRdouglasisrael]

Hey, Thnx so much for sharing it with us - For a foreing like me it is really hard to have a real British accent... Pls keep this amazing project ;-) Greetings from Brazil

[@papateachme]

Muito obrigado! :)

[@tommyg.6542]

why does everybody hate American accents? Do we really sound dumb and lazy?

[@papateachme]

+Tommy G. Haha no! we love American accents, BUT we love taking the piss even more ;)

[@li_tsz_fung]

There are tons of people who love to imitate American accents. Mainly because of the American pop culture. Actually, American accents are evolved from the old British Accent. The British accent was a lot different from the Received Pronunciation before it became the standard. But some American English lovers are so ignorant. One of my English tutor: "Oh my god. Stop saying aluminium. Say it after me ALUMINUM." One of my Science teacher: "Have you ever watch Sesame Street? X Y Zee. It's Zee." And the standard in my place is British English. Those people make me want to learn British English more.

[@aileenrese6206]

Maybe just because it's too easy? haha Most Germans automatically speak the American accent because it's closer to the way we pronounce things. But I think the British accent sounds more 'extraordinary' and also kind of more melodic, but however that's how I see it, I bet there are many people who prefer the American, or the Australian accent

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yeah british accent is just so rich and good

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Music Inventory What do you mean by rich?

[@fungmountcity9277]

I was watching a British TV show the other day and I noticed that the way u people say "bottle" "cattle" or "beetle", that "tle" sound, like u suddenly have a big tongue or something, sounds really nice. I can't do that tho, I can do both glottal "T" and the true "T", but that "tle" sound I've got absolutely no clue. Super cool lesson anyway.

[@y_p7]

U r awesome m8!!!

[@papateachme]

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[@johnnycolon8408]

Funny thing is I'm a first generation American of Puerto Rican and Salvadoran descent in my family because my parents immigrated to the US and then later on had me and my siblings so now I can only imagine if they instead moved to the UK, I would be first generation British of Puerto Rican and Salvadoran descent in my family speaking with the British accent. I also speaking Spanish so either way I would speak it. My dad even prefers the British accent over the American one but my mother is ignorant of the differences simply because she never heard the British accent before until recently.

[@AnnRose142]

Hey I only got the opportunity to speak with inhabitants of London once in my life. I have spoken to people in the National Gallery and in the Shaftesbury Theatre. Both times I got positive feedback. So thank you.. now I know why most of the people don't pronounce the "t" in some words..... so I can just begin to practise a little bit more.. Greetings from Germany.

[@refatanyone3983]

Can you speak English with British Accent ?

[@AnnRose142]

I do my best and I practice a lot.

[@ft6755]

Can I just say that usually 'missing your ts' is a sign of being worker class and uneducated, however it's perfectly acceptable to miss your ts in words like mate, great, late, alright etc where the lack of the t is less prominent.

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[@dweina1735]

would it be awkward if I suddenly started talking British ( IF ) infront of my friends?

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they would probably be impressed

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I do that lol

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Thanks for these videos, it's so much easier to learn with them:)

[@EnglishwithDanielX]

Great lesson!

[@AlwaysSomewhere3]

Thank you so much for such an interesting informative video! I'm not a native speaker, and it's really hard to pronounce it right, but i madly love british accent and i'll try my best in speaking as natural as it's possible :)

[@mickybyrne60]

The majority of Brits don't have a London accent though... Also I use a glottal stop whilst saying "mountain".

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Dying to get a British accent. Finally!!!! Thank you!!!!

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i always wanted to learn british accent i love it !! it's adorable !!! thank you so much for sharing ! ill try my best !

[@Loganberrybunny]

Harry Potter isn't from London either, y'know. He's from Surrey. :P

[@eq5450]

I said that too!! Temporarily concerned that no one picked that up ;)

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Erin Quigley Loganberrybunny Massive fail on my part :( I sincerely apologise to Potter fans everywhere!

[@leebradshaw8854]

surrey is part of London, dipshit

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Space Cow My goodness, really? I'd better let my friend in Guildford know immediately that his job at Surrey County Council doesn't actually exist, then. (Amusingly enough, he does *work* in London, since Surrey's County Hall is in Kingston upon Thames, which was transferred to Greater London from Surrey in 1965. But Surrey is still not, and never has been, "part of London".)

[@leebradshaw8854]

Loganberrybunny Surrey is a different county. With some falling into London, the part where harry potter is from

[@mozihouse]

Thank you for this useful and interesting lesson!

[@Nasser7n]

i'm from Saudi Arabia and i'll improve British accent as soon as possible , you'v my word

[@RTNFlacko]

Who laughed at stuck in the throat

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me

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[@kaitjensen1618]

I laughed so hard when you said "never use the glottal T in mountain. It sounds horrible" I'm from Canada, and that is literally how we pronounce mountain all the time lol. I don't think I have ever pronounced the "t" in mountain before lol. Also I find it hilarious that over here, we pronounce a lot of our "T" sounds as "D" sounds! Water = Wadder. Accents are hilarious.

[@noraboros1827]

Hello! Thank you for this video, it really helped me a lot on understanding and using British accent. Unfortanately English is not my native language but i am doing my best to learn this wonderful language and i'm getting on very well so far. Sorry for any grammar mistakes.

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Excellent Teaching! thank you so much for your posts

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Thank you for that tutorial. Really helped :)

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thank you very much , it's really very good lesson to improve the accent . I really find it useful . thanks a lot for that , and keep going

[@RomanMoskva]

hey I am so glad I know how to sound like a British now. Greetings from Canada!

[@DarkRavenFilms]

Lol I live in Utah and we have the "Utahn accent" here. We don't pronounce our T's very well so this lesson wasn't very "hard" lol. But we NEVER pronounce the T in Mountain xD. We always say Moun'ain. So according to Utah, saying Mountain without the T isn't stupid lol.

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Then how do you Guys say "Utah" 😂😂😂 u'ah? 😂😂

[@Ginnocently]

So interesting! I'd noticed the two types of "t" but never knew when one was used or not. Thanks! :-)

[@annacp5840]

The whole T thing is the same in Vermont (which is in America) we don't annunciate our t's.

[@linafati4380]

Although i am good in British accent, I still feel confused sometimes because the accent has no special rules,it is just some conventions by a group of ppl living in a particular city or region talking the same language . For example i can't know whether i use the glottal stop with every T or some Ts or i just choose randomly,moreover, there are some consonants which are pronounced so weird like "bother" where the "the" in bother is pronounced "v"... Anyway thanks for your lesson... I loved it...

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lina fati Interesting you should say! We're releasing a new video soon about the cockney accent which has a few things you mentioned in your comment :)

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Learn English with Papa Teach Me well, i can't wait to see the video...:)

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ههه ليس من واقع تجربتي بل من تجربة ناس وتجربتي اصلا انا كنت اعلم من قبل ان مرآة اغلبهن هادا العصر ينضرن للمادة والمظهر سلام عليكم لست غاضب لا شيء بل شخص لا يحب تغطية شمس بالغربال قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم سكتكون على أمتي سنوات خداعة. ...الخ الحديث يعني أن الزمان ينقلب يتشبه رجال بالنساء والنساء بالرجال تنقلب الكلمات ويصبح المظلي يصدق والصادق يكدب تنقلب موازين يكثر نساء اكثر قيمة ن رجال للاسف الحقيقة دركا طفلة. تقلها ماهو حلمك تزوج واحد عندو دار طمبيل يشبه لمهند ههههه رانا نكدبو مرناش نكدبو معليش الاخت بصح نصيحة نصحك ادا كان في بروفيلك معازف ومسيقى وصور نساء احدفيها نصيحة من اخيك لان سبحانه تعالى قال (ليحملوا اوزراهم كاملة يوم القيامة ومن اوزار الذين يظلونهم بغير علم), السلام عليكم رحمة الله بركاته اسف على الازعاج. ههه متقليش لانكم نساء ديمة تقلقوا كتلقاو فتوى انتقد افعال اكترية نساء ههههه سلام وعليكم

[@aishasantana3922]

I need more examples like those , please do more videos of this topic , thx

[@masn9997]

Thank you so much, I can finally pronounce it as you do. It took me a while, I have to say.

[@ceciliaalves5552]

I like your video, it's very instructive. I'm learning a lot. Thank you very much!

[@missnewhope6385]

Suddenly I found your channel Nice to see u

[@chermoutimohamedislam184]

it's all about the beauty of the sound

[@SG-pc4sv]

American accent is the easiest among all! Its the British accent that's been a real challenge to me . I'm sure these lessons will help me out!

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Really you are awesome Sir... Now I started to Love english alot... 😍

[@TyKnox00]

You're awesome, thanks for the lessons!!

[@HBChannel01]

awesome lesson

[@verymozart]

I live in London and l hear from British natives, both the words with T pronounced and mute.... it's not always mute at all... actually l don't like very much the mute sound... very east London, l mean when is always mute... it's lovely when is pronounced indeed.. anyway thanks for your videos!!

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This helped SO much!! Thanx!😊

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hi i'm sebastian l have to say your English lesson is interesting and allow us know beyond of accent, thanks a lot cheers from Chile

[@KipperJasmine]

It's amazing! I always want to learn British accent.

[@joelmasamba6762]

Thanks a lot My teacher I've been expecting the cockney accent coz I do like it

[@gregored]

you great teacher man! wish i could be in London now.. let's go for a beer!

[@sambarton4284]

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[@yazmin3990]

Beautiful explanation.

[@fra-kolpanzer]

That so great man! Such a simple advice and such a huge impact on how you sound like. I'm gonna be practising this now a lo'! Wouldn't mind though if you gave us some further advice as to e.g. how informal is glottal t really - I don't think you did really answer that one. :) Also some basic rules might come in handy - I'm sure it's all about usage and not rules, but maybe there are some general directives? BTW is "glottal" a word where you can use the glottal T? Anyway, thanks a lot for this video!! Very educative.

[@AB-cr4rx]

actually, not everyone leaves out the T in their words. But I think it's cool that you're trying to teach people how to do a London accent

[@ailemaoo6020]

love it

[@apsDrugs]

Thx bro It helps me in improving :)

[@otherhalfofthegun]

Amazing lesson, thank you! :-)

[@syalinda111]

how do we know the words that are suitable to use glottal T and the words that aren't suitable?

[@papateachme]

Great question! We're making a new series of videos to answer this!

[@syalinda111]

Thank you! can't wait for that video :)

[@northunderworld7314]

+Learn English with Papa Teach Me Please answer me. My mother language is Portuguese and i'm still learning English so i wanna acquire British Accent(It's so cool) so i learning English and i don't know if there are diffrents words, Phrasal verbs or idioms, i wanna know if that will bother me cuz' i wanna speak with British accent :)

[@papateachme]

Mostly it's all the same, and because of music, tv, movies, blah blah, British and American English are becoming more and more similar. There are however a few different words we say of course and different ways of pronouncing things. But these things we'll cover in future lessons :) For now you should watch our British English Vs. American English video! :)

[@northunderworld7314]

Learn English with Papa Teach Me Ok, Thanks a lot.

[@Saw_sari]

wow😍 i really enjoy listening to British people

[@g3istgrl]

I came here as a Swedish person trying to learn how to not be identified as a tourist when I moved to London. I ended up forgetting the videos, and now I come back to say that after I lived in London, I started speaking the accent automatically

[@nifras0005]

Thanks aly sir I love your channel and you too

[@michaeldoss7527]

Is there any chance you can upload some more because I really need to pick up on an British accent for my role as Billy idol in the wedding singer for my high schools musical......

[@papateachme]

Nice!! Yeah! new videos should be up real soon!

[@ParashuRamMychannel]

I like your teaching way.... now i'm rocking ... thank you...

[@papateachme]

rock on brother! :D

[@chcolatechip7927]

So much sense! Now i can fully say my sentences! Thanks

[@NattSza]

wonderful! but what about heavier accents like the cockney? do they pronounce "hotel" like "ho'el", "theater" like "fea'a", or even for them it sounds stupid? and what about the same sound twice, "photo" pronounced as "fo'o", "it is" as "i'is", is that natural? and in a sentence like "it is not at all', would it be natural to pronounce as "i'is no' a' all", with all glottal Ts? thanks! ps: glad to have found your channel, dude! you explain great and your accent is gorgeous! (I'm a big fan of accent range, even in my natural language, and I'm truly passionate about the british ones.)

[@papateachme]

Hey! We've got a video on that! Right here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z4jZeqqhgZ2igsU

[@lovelyladycarter3687]

I am having such a great time with your videos!!! By the summer im going to stay talking this way permanently!!! Idc what anyone says!!! #Honestly i appreciate you taking the time to explain this to the entire world!!! I made sure to subb and i hope you post frequently!!! La'er dear!!! «««« i tried it look i may be wrong!!

[@papateachme]

Thanks! and hey we have the same last name! :D

[@garythistlethwaite7720]

La'er dear sounds daft. You'd use later. And you don't often call anyone 'dear' unless you're in your eighties!

[@drdonutdonut]

Could you do Craig Fairbrass accent? He plays Ghost in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Im just wondering what his accent is....

[@sintija1757]

I just love the British accent, I mostly speak with the British accent and spell the words like that too, but sometimes, the American accent sneaks in and I can't help it.

[@fatimanatoza42]

fav teacher 👏❤

[@edwarda.casimiro9808]

Great job, except...well, here in these United States, the glottal T in "mountain" is more common than you think. The T is pronounced if you're talking about a lot of something, like "a mountain of dirty laundry," but I've noticed particularly in the eastern part of the U.S. that it's generally a glottal T.

[@Alo-rv4dt]

Your lesson and your presentation is really great , I like your teaching , go ahead mr.Londoner, 😅

[@qwiglydee]

Where do you put your tongue when pronouncing final glottal t? I ended up putting it in normal position like for true t, but without actually using it. It sounds more t-ish rather than q-ish. But sometimes it falls to american flapping t.

[@AufaRafif]

I would like to ask a question. Do we pronounce the "t" as glottal sound in the Received Pronunciation?

[@fernandachua1701]

This is awesome. Thanks a lot. Greetings from Mexico.

[@papateachme]

+Fernanda Chua Gracias weyyy!

[@joudabusharar3015]

Thank you for your video , it affected me in a way that I started using the Glottal T even in Arabic , and that's bad because there's another letter in Arabic which sounds like the Glottal T

[@papateachme]

+Joud Abusharar hahaha

[@polashbhuiyan2818]

it's so awesome ! idk y (few) people hate or dislike the video but i find it interesting....thank u for teaching me this accent. i want to learn this accent only becaz of One Direction....:) Could u do a video of how One Direction speaks in British accent ? i'm asking not commanding ..ur wish ..if no thn plz reply ...Lots of love....thank u again :D

[@foxdroad]

Since everyone in Mexico speaks with American accent because they learnt English on USA my only way to stand out, besides it sounds so elegant. Thanks for the Vids

[@Preppy-b2j]

Did you know that you are amazing actor!!