Name: Can You Understand this Cockney Accent? | Improve Your Accent
Uploaded: 2020-04-23T19:34:28.000Z
Duration: 2 min 31 s
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I'd like to talk about the Cockney accent

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This is the traditional accent of working class Londoners

and many Cockney speakers have now moved out of the capital to places

One of my students recently showed me a clip

This is a soap based in the East End of London

and many of the characters speak with this Cockney accent.

I'll play it again twice, but in slow-motion:

If you want to listen again, then go back

because I'm now going to give you the answer:

“shout all you like, you ain't gonna see her”

"you can shout as much as you want, but you are not going to see her!”

Notice that the word “you” becomes "ya"

starts from a much further back place compared to in my accent

which is an informal way of saying "are not"

and we have the word “her” pronounced

Hopefully you can now understand what she's saying.

Have you ever had trouble understanding a Cockney accent?

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Can You Understand this Cockney Accent? | Improve Your Accent

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