Learn the English Cockney Accent with Alfie Solomons!

If you are learning English, you need to know how to understand different accents! Not everybody speaks the same! Learn how to understand a particularly difficult accent from the UK: London Cockney.
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Music: Danse of Questionable Tuning by Kevin MacLeod
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0:00 Intro
1:19 Consonants
4:25 -ING
5:05 Light L + Dark L
7:20 Vowels
11:13 Changing Words
12:38 Outro
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[@luminous4079]

Alfie's accent is the final boss in English

[@marcogiardi3737]

I would say Ray Winstone

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[@stusyanirvana3088]

Bo'oh of wo'oh

[@blackbob3358]

@@marcogiardi3737 Ya do'nt undestand the crack of the video, he is a facking cockney, u cant; that do'nt count. If ya not sure what i'm talking about, , look at Robert Carlisle playing a Tyke.

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Bricktop has entered the chat

[@bindair_dundat]

Teacher: "Don't worry. Listening at the exam will be easy." Listening at the exam: Alfie Solomons... at a crowded railway station...

[@foggy3025]

Exactly

[@lukegray2835]

Alfie has that perfect Jewish cockney accent too, honestly what brilliant acting from Tom

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I absolutely love these kinds of lessons. Please do more and more lessons like this.🧡

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Okay!😉🤣

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Yes, I agree!

[@Freesoul999]

Yes please

[@jeffmorse645]

As an American who's been watching British TV and movies my whole life the Cockney accent was always my favorite. I just smile whenever I hear it. Just seems so down to earth, friendly and fun and I can relate to that. RP kind of intimidates me.😄

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Hat becomes A

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Until you realize it’s actually “tit for tat”😂

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[@ghost_inthewire]

so damn true

[@andrewmize823]

Alfie is one of my favorite characters in the show. Equal parts funny and intimidating. Something about a cockney accent combined with a rumbly voice adds an extra dimension of menace to a hard geez.

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Pete & Bas 😂

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5:30 this has to be the most epic explanation/demonstration for language learners ever. 👍😂

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Lmao

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Really 😂😂

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The most incredible English teacher ever!!!!

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That’s highly correct

[@deanosaur808]

Shame we couldn't understand the Brummie accent 😛🤣

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That's cos ya troyed too ard.

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I think I like this. Anyone who uses Alfie Solomons to teach English is doing something right.

[@paulrupright4694]

Alfie is one of my all time favorite characters.

[@KeithPrince-cp3me]

She is brilliant, as someone born and lived most of my life in East London her accent is excellent, I now live in Norfolk, but listening to this has made me quite homesick.

[@lilmane1070]

I’m absolutely STUNNED at how you managed to sound *so* perfectly Alfie using just the word “so” at 11:37

[@chrisstewart3768]

A very in depth, extensive demonstration of these regional accents. A damn fine job, young lady. Thoroughly enjoyed this. Thank you for sharing.

[@veroniquecourtat9833]

You are so great Laura! It's my treat every day to watch your videos and I have a lot of catch up to do since I discovered your channel onlt a few weeks again only.

[@DevelopYourEnglishwithEmma]

Great lesson! So engaging! It’s so important to be able to understand different accents but not to copy them when learning English (unless the learner is living there and wants to fit in) as if the learner repeats it to someone who isn’t cockney they may get a few funny looks 🙈. If I spoke like this in the north people would ask me why I’m not talking properly 😂

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You just stole my heart with your pronunciation in this video! ❤ Been a cockney accent fan for years:)) More videos about this accent please!

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Charismatic and engaging! Teachers need to be creative like you

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The Alfie impersonation at the end was brilliant, exellent video, as always.

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Superb class. I've been trying to nail this accent for years. Now, at least, I do understand more how to.... Cheers from Argentina!

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Love it! Your videos always give a vibe of exciting suspenseful series

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Oh my gosh!!!! Thanks a lot my amazing teacher keep up the good work!!!!! I've been learning more from you

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She is absolutely marvellous💛beautiful, funny and with no doubt the best teacher🙏

[@BelieveSte]

Cockney ere, after 10 years of living in Czech Republic, I have been told that my accent has finally gone, it only gets unleashed during meet ups with my siblings. This was a nice watch to remember my roots, great video.

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Always love the way you present the material for learning British accents!! Love from Indonesia 🇮🇩❤️ I need more like this video. 😁

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Hai kak

[@sierrahp]

As, I guess, the closest thing to an Australian RP speaker, (thank you, mum and dad), I have traveled this wide, brown land extensively and have always found the regional dialects of Australia fascinating. I don't have insights into the minutia of our accent that you clearly have yours, but love listening to foreign accents as well. I'm getting pretty good at nailing down at least the rough area in the UK and the Americas from which the speaker harks. Thank you for your infinitely interesting videos which help me with my amateur studies.

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I watch your video over 100 times, but I’m never give up always luring something in you. Thank you for that.

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Very cool. I love Tom Hardy. My wife is from Cambridgeshire, so she has a soft Southern accent. She has lost some of it due to living in the Southern United States for the last eighteen years. My friend Steven is a Jordy. I also know people from Essex and Wales. My family is from Scotland and I still have family in Dundee. They tell me I am Scottish, but some Scottish people say I am not. I guess I will just say I am a Gael. I do speak a fair amount of Scots Gaelic.

[@MrWhite-ip9hw]

This is a great show to learn these accents. She's so good. I'd love to see her land a cameo on the show. The actors all talk about how the "Brummy" is hard to do even for English folk. She makes it look easy.

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She's the reol deol...

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Cause she's from Birmingham

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Adore your lessons!! So understandable, so wish you were my teacher

[@evasanchezsaez8685]

I've got the English C1 certificate (I'm Spanish) I lived in Benidorm (I'm sure you've heard about it) for more than 10 years. I had many British friends and I heard many different accents. When you say in the video that your accent is from Birmingham, I've just remembered that many British used to think that I was from Birmingham, when they listened to me. They thought I was British!!! From Birmingham!!!

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How lucky! I'm Spanish from Andalusia and I've learned English in USA. I was once told I sounded cockney 😂. Now I know why.

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You are so adorabo! And very informed. Love this

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Love the attitude that accompanies the lesson! Beautiful!!

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Thanks so much!

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The last part was the best of the best. Lovely.😂❤️

[@paryanindoeur]

Mid-Atlantic/Northeast American here. We definitely drop the g here to this day. I have London, Irish, and German ancestry, which is typical for the region, and some of the gestures and expressions you used here, but did not mention, I recognize in specific areas, like New York. Some of them got picked up by later Italian immigrants, and mixed with some of their cultural gestures to get the NY-gangster movie type from the 1930s-now. Interesting to know where specific pieces of the puzzle came from!

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I realize I've been dropping the wrong letters🤭. Sometimes it's hard to understand, but it's a matter of time! Great video👏!

[@jasonfernee6395]

Great lesson in how to 'unspeak' the English Accent. I am Hertfordshire bred, who had cockney parents, but can speak either full on cockney or RP with a cockney undertone.

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I love the cockney accent..please do more from this..I would like to learn..

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Very good indeed.. Love it ………..I’m Birmingham born………loved PB and Alfie was an incredible character. Well done🤗🤗

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I will go with my daughter to move to Britain from Hong Kong this year. Thanks for your interesting lesson. I like it very much.

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[@Andre_SuroboyoRek]

Although I don't fully comprehend, it's nice to know that there are thousands of languages/accents in the world.

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You were the best cockney teacher I saw mate

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[@DerThorwald]

To me, learning a good standard English with a proper and comprehensible accent is enough. But I love dialects, local slangs and accents in general. I only need to have a very good base before to learn them! 😊

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Thank you Zeyad!!☺️

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Blimey. This is a video i never expected me to get me this invested in learning the cockney accent

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My dad was a cockney, I'm Aussie but I notice a bit of a mix of both languages in our family!

[@stephanginther9051]

The Cockney accent is one of the most famous ones in America and the rest of the world remembers the famously bad one done on Mary Poppins. We had a good example in the character of Private Newkirk from the 60's sitcom 'Hogan's Heroes'. You may want to look that up. From what I've heard it isn't one that got played on British TV much but I've been told its been compared to McHale's Navy or Dad's Army. (which *_I_* haven't seen...maybe I'll look them up)

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Mary poppings didn't do a cockney accent, she did a very good/what is now being called R P English , it was Dick van Dyke

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@@bojansmf3673 I said on Merry Poppins as in the movie by that name not by Marry Poppins the character. Good info on R P English though, I didn't know what that was called.

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You can clearly hear the relation to the Australian accent. Fascinating.

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I'm using this for voice coaching. We are doing a play set in London in the fifties so this will be a good introduction.

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When you talk like Alfie you gotta use the "f" word a LOT more. I'm actually surprised you found sentences Alfie says without using the f word. Great content!