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Hey I'm Tom and welcome to Eat Sleep Dream English. Now today I'm going to take you on
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a walk through London and teach you the pronunciation of some of the most famous places in this
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beautiful city so that when you come to visit you'll know how to say them just like a local.
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So if you are ready, let's do this.
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Running through the heart of London is the river Thames. Now this is often mispronounced
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as Thaymes or as Thamez. Now that th at the beginning, the sound is actually t not th
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t and then at the end we have a z sound. So the river Thames.
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Eat Sleep Dreamers I've got a question for you, what's the name of this bridge? It's
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not London bridge, yeah it's Tower bridge. Now these two are often confused but they
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are different bridges. London bridge is down the river and this is Tower bridge. Now how
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do we know it's Tower bridge? Because it's got two towers! That's how we know. So the
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pronunciation, Tower bridge. So when you next song 'London bridge is falling down' you know
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that it's not this one, it's the other one.
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If you visit London and you love food then you'll probably visit this place Borough market.
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Now the pronunciation there is Borough, it's the schwa sound and the stress is on the first
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syllable Borough market.
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Welcome to Trafalgar Square, now this is where London comes to celebrate. So it could be
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a sporting celebration or new year's eve, this is where we come. So the pronunciation
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Trafalgar square. The stress there is on the middle syllable, Trafalgar square.
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The quickest and easiest way to get around London is to use the underground. This is
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also known locally as the Tube.
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A super popular place to visit in London for tourists is Greenwich. Now this is commonly
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mispronounced as green which but there are two sounds, Greenwich.
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Guys, I've come to East London to hit up three very trendy touristy spots. Now the first
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one is Shoreditch. It's a pretty cool area, lots of good cafes, bars, cool shops as well.
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The pronunciation Shoreditch. It's not too difficult, two sounds Shoreditch.
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I'm on one of London's most popular tourist streets Brick Lane. Now it's not that difficult
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to say but if you are visiting London anytime you'll need to say it Brick Lane, it's a really
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cool street. It's got great food, it's very famous for its curry which you have to try
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when you are here. So yeah, the name is Brick Lane.
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London is famous for its markets and we have so many markets usually during the weekend.
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This is one of my favourites, this is Spitalfields market. It's quite tricky to say Spitalfields.
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It's really near Brick Lane, near Shoreditch, super popular on
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a Sunday.
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Back in central London we've got Leicester square. Not Leisester, Leicester square. Really
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popular with tourists. Next to Leicester square we've got Piccadilly circus. There are sadly
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no clowns, it's not a circus just a lot of tourists, Piccadilly circus.
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I'm walking towards the most famous residence in London, maybe even in Britain. Do you know
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who lives there? I'll give you a clue. She wears a crown and she waves like this. You
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got it? That's right, I'm going to where the Queen lives, Buckingham Palace.
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Here we are at Buckingham Palace, now commonly people mispronounce this as Bucking ham but
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actually it's Buckingham. So the ham, it's very common in British English to have that
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at the end of a place name so Tottenham, Clapham and Buckingham. So instead of saying Bucking
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ham we'd say Buckingham Palace, the stress is on the first syllable. Buckingham Palace.
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Now here's a little tip for you. If you look at the top of Buckingham Palace there is a
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flag pole and if the flag is at the top that means that the Queen is inside. If there is
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no flag that means she is somewhere else, maybe at one of her other houses, she has
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a few, or maybe she's on a state visit somewhere. But today the flag is at the top of the flag
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pole so she's in, probably playing on her iPad, you know, Pokemon go, whatever it is
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I don't know, but yeah she's inside.