Name: How To Sound BRITISH **6 tips**
Uploaded: 2018-08-27T00:14:36.000Z
Duration: 10 min 55 s
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Adverbs of manner

we're going to learn 6 ways of sounding more authentically British

Possibly the easiest way to sound British

is to put the word 'quite' in every sentence before you describe something

if you're describing something, if you're using an adjective, if someone says to you

don't say, 'yeah it was good', say 'it was quite good'

if someone says to you, 'How's Mike's Arabic?' Don't say, 'it's good'

'how are you today?' you'd say, 'yeah, I'm quite good, thanks'

always be polite, we like to be polite and say 'thank you'

'how was the circus?' 'oh, it was quite fun'

'how was bubble football?' 'oh it was quite fun, yeah I enjoyed it, it was quite fun'

'what's the weather like?' 'oh quite nice out'

'it's quite nice, it's quite sunny, it's quite hot, it's quite cold'

'it's quite big, it's quite small', just say 'quite'

and you will sound British. I don't think any other countries really use 'quite', quite as much as we do

'it's quite difficult, it's quite difficult'

'alright mate? how's it going? alright?' 'alright' means 'are you alright?'

and then 'mate is like 'friend', we use 'mate' all the time

'I wen't out with a few mates last night'

or 'pals' or 'buddies', we don't really say 'buddy'

we don't really say 'pals', although in the north they say 'pal' a little bit more

but 'mate' would be like a typical British thing to say

'alright mate? how's it going? yeah he's my mate, he's a good mate'

'really enjoyed that mate, thanks a lot mate'

always add 'mate' on the end of each word

just say it all the time and you'll sound British

'... and I will enjoy taking the piss out of him for that Time cover'

'what does taking the piss out of someone mean?'

now onto pronunciation, in the British accent, we like to pronounce our Ts

if you're speaking proper English like the Queens English

'water' in the British accent, we pronounce the 'T'

now if you're form London, and you speak cockney, or a bit like slang

the important thing is here in the British accent we either pronounce the 'T'

like 'water', that's how I would say it personally... water

now, the third way which you'd hear in other accents is to pronounce the 'T' as kind of like a 'D'

I did 3 random accents really, which could have been anything but

in some... in some accents, they might the 'T' as like 'D'

but in the British accent, the 'T' is a 'T'... water or not at all

or you might say if you're from London, you might say 'totally... ah it was totally awesome it's totally good'

'yeah it's totally good, yeah totally sick... totally sweet'

'it was totally good... it was totally amazing'

again they're pronouncing the 'T' as like a 'D'

for example in the American accent, they might say 'witty'

in British English we'd say, 'witty... witty... water... totally'

always pronounce that 'T' in the middle of the word

as a 'T', not as a 'D' or anything like that

4. pronunciation again, Americans say 'been... where've you been?'

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