Glottal T: - Vowel sound + T + Consonant sound - When a T finishes a word (but not when the sound before the end T is unvoiced) - When T didn't separate two vowel sounds - Vowel sound + T + Schwa sound + Consonant sound
People might think I'm crazy, but "uneducated" British accents are the ones I like the most out of ALL accents in all English-speaking countries. The "glo'al" T is the sexiest thing ever when I hear it!! Hahaha. Of course, when people overuse it, it sounds a bit bad at times... But when people use it as in this last video you've uploaded, but some words every now and then as the "lower-class" version, I love it. However, I wanted to point out that even some posh people (e.g. Cameron) pronounce a glottal T between two vowel sounds most of the time in certain words. Main example: Britain (Bri'ain).
I'm with you, man!! I LOVE the glottal T. I started to learn english through american english, then when I first heard a british saying 'exci'ed' I thought WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT AND WHY DOES IT SOUND SO SEXY I NEED TO LEARN IT!!!!!!!!!!! hahahaha.
Same here. I started learning English watching American series until I found about British accents with glottal T and now I pretty much refuse to watch any film or series without those accents!!!! xD
Hi! I got hooked on your pronunciation videos! They're amazing. I really enjoyed the video with 5 vowels (really, really helpful) and this one. I find it extremely helpful when you explain the context - what accent when, who would use it, what will sound naturally when and get into the details (like with the "t" in "absolutely"). Hearing different accents (for a foreigner) can be pretty confusing and you delivered great explanation in those two videos :) Great job, can't wait for more! :)
papa.. why its kinda different with your previous lesson.. you teach to pronounce bottle like bo'tle.. but this one you teach us to pronounce bottle like a normal bottle.. which one is true?
+TinyVania Vlog hey! The main thing was that in the previous lesson, we said you "could" say things like bo'le and wa'er, because you will definitely hear people say it. This lesson was to clarify when to use it and when not to use it if you want to sound more well-spoken :)
Thanks a lot for this lesson that is for me the sequence of the former glottal t lesson and absolutely not a correction of it. Thanks a lot anyway for all your lesson and good luck for what is coming next!
you should put all the links you mention also in the description because for those who watch you on mobile they're not accessible otherwise. Cheers! (and great lesson! ...as always 😉)
I'm so thankful for your seires!!! I speak mostly american english but i talk so sloppy that i just want to slowly learn and switch to brittish english.
glottal T: - vowel sound + T + consonant sound > absolutely -T di akhir kata like not, that tapi tdk berlaku untuk kata yg sebelum T itu ada huruf unvoiced kek taylor swi(ft) -T di awal kata selalu bunyi, true T - ketika T memisahkan 2 bunyi huruf vokal, misal better,water (true T) kalau b(o)tt(l)e? tetap true T - consonant+T+vowel, true T
Your lessons have been quite fascinating. I recently found myself inadvertently pronouncing words in a British manner. On a silly note, I wonder if my neighbors in the South Bronx will look at me even stranger if I intentionally speak with a British accent.
+Learn English with Papa Teach Me I'd love to, but sadly, in spite of being raised there, I feel I barely even know how to speak like them. It's as though I have been hard wired to speak contrarily to them. If I did a video on an urban type of accent, it may come out as a parody.
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They are talking about formal posh English.. I am an English learner. I like so-called lower-class accents and I practice them. So it's about preference. But yeah I think in really formal situations we shouldn't glottalize all the Ts.
I'm a native speaker but love the British accent, I'd love to change it to the British one but it's a lot tougher than I thought to try and sound natural without sounding like your just mimicking
I'm really with british accent,I can talk british very good but I came just for amuse And see how people learn accents😅,And u r really Wonderful teacher👍👍👍I'm a new subscriber
Hi, I really like your videos, they are useful and helpful. I love British accent although my poor background is American English because I live in Latinamerica, plis keep going with the lessons, regards from Panama.
@papateachme . Dear papa, I'm sorry to have to tell you that I disagree with you on the glottal t not being used between two vowel sounds. Louis Tomlinson doesn't say Twitter but Twi'er and Adele doesn't say tattoos but ta'oos and a random boy from Glasgow, whom I saw on the greatest dancer spoke about getting be'er and be'er instead better and better.
hey, papa. I know that in UK there are a lot of accents. And I mean it really lots of accent. Even the cockney accent varies from which side of England you were from. I knew a girl that learned from all the British accents that she could find, but in the end, she didn't speak British at all. Her accent was a mixture of all British accents she learned. It sounds British but I think not, in the view of natives.So! In my expedition to acquire the best and most natural accent, I decided to focus my accent discoveries, into one specific area of England. Do you have any suggestion on which area should I learned it from? An Area's accent that is often spoken in many movies and series? Not posh.. I really want to be natural not too Queen like.I know this is a LOT to ask but I really want to finish my errand and finally able to speak fluently. without a weird way to speaking in the view of natives.Thanks =)
Despite this comment being two months old and despite the fact that you asked for Papa´s opinion explicitly I would say that the South-East of England is a very good area to start with.
I now you have quite a few of these, but I'd personally love to have more US/UK pronunciations comparison videos :) I'm currently trying to mix things up and switch to a British accent (the perks of being a Slovak language speaker :)
just a cuestion for you mate when you say mountain not in the American sound wich separates the word in two, ,, I guess. .. now in the British sound do you pronounce the letter I in the part with the letter a or just pronounce the a but not the i what I really mean to ask is if pronounce both or just the a, , thanks in advance
Thank you for teaching! I'd like to ask you one thing, I am from South Korea it's one of Asia and If i speak glottal t sound to other english speakers like American or Australian this and so on, then can they understand me? or just through flow of the conversation? what do you think about it?
Gorgeous 👌 Can I ask you to introduce some lessons about phonetic phenomenon like: assimilation illusion and so the point is that we, non native English speakers, read a lot about that and we just can recall what we read but I think we need to get that into real life. secondly, I need to know more about intrusive "R" sound for example "be rr er" that is "better". Is that BrE or AmE? kindly inform best wishes 🌹🌹🌹🌹
Batman and bottle both have a vowel sound before 't', and the consonant sound after the 't'. But we say "ba'man" not "batmam" and "bottle" not "bo'le". Why?
Americans also have glottal T but with some difference. Words like botton mountain interview international internet always pronounced bo'on moun'ain inerview Inernational inernet
The guy asked me "have yo go(t) a Le'eah? " and finally i realized he asked "do you have a letter?" its kinda different grammar and londoners don't pronounce T sound let alone the teens always say : i wisay like dat fam. but properly is I will say like that fam/mate.
Thank you so much dude!😊 it's absolutely an amazing video!🌹🇬🇧 but papa you said in the previous lesson we can pronounce (water) with Glottal T but in this video you said not🌹
He said you could pronounce it like that if you wanna make use a cockney accent whose native speakers tend to use it all the time that's why talking to a cockney speaker is really hard.
+Mikle Owen the main thing was that in the previous video I said you "could" pronounce it "wa'er" and you might hear people pronounce it that way. This lesson was to clarify the rules of when to use it :)
Now, , with your lessons , I can understand what the british people say when I watch & hear their lessons on youtube (without subtitles) but I still can't understand any english movie without translation cuz I don't have much of a vocabulary in english language . Can you help me to increase my vocabulary :) ??
I came here because I saw you on a suit and I thought "curious"... hahahh Whatever, in my language we just have the true T sound, but I alternate it in english, idk why
Thanks -this is helpful. Working on doing a Brixton sound and I was wondering about glottalized t's. Would like this even more if you avoided judgmental language; why not lingual "t" as opposed to "true T" ? They're both intelligible as T sounds.
isn't the TT (double t) indicative of the fact that we have to pronounce the T clearly? just like it is in other languages, such as in German, with s (usually pronounced z) and double s (pronounced s), for instance.
It all depends…Do you want to sound like an upper class RP type…or blend in with 99% of regular people? I know plenty of folk who put glottal stops in just abaht evryfink….
so, can't we say wa'er? but in a video where you were explaining the difference between a glottal and a true T you were saying wa'er. or is this video only about formal british?
I think the difference is between "can" y "can't". In the first sentence "can" is pronounced with a schwa vowel /kən/ and is in an unstressed position, and in the second sentence "can't" is pronounced with the long vowel /ɑː/ so it's pronounced like /kɑːnt/ and it's in a stressed position. Obviously, my explanation only can fit in Standard British English. In American English they're pronounced slightly the same :S
Your point is impeccable according to the Longman´s Dictionary of Pronunciation. The thing is, /kæn/ may mirror both "can" and "can´t" ( with a dropped "t" before a consonant, but also before a vowel).
Yes, that happens in American English or even in Canadian English, it's so annoying. How can they notice the difference? Gosh!. Once I was talking to a Canadian man, and I told him to pronounce these two phrases: "I can move" and "I can't move". However, I couldn't noticed the difference, they practically sounded the same. I was thinking they have something we don't have in their ears to help them notice the difference. :'v
Is it different with Cockney? I recall you saying to replace the t's in bottle of water with a glottal stop in that lesson... Can you clarify this for me? I'm trying to get the Cockney accent down well.
Glottal T:
- Vowel sound + T + Consonant sound
- When a T finishes a word (but not when the sound before the end T is unvoiced)
- When T didn't separate two vowel sounds
- Vowel sound + T + Schwa sound + Consonant sound
I really love to hear the glottal t words when they are said. And i practice too. Thanks Jason. Your videos are awesome!
This video should be called, "Answering to snob's complaints."
I am pretty confident that after understanding this lesson i will be able to speak English better. Truly appreciate your channel. Thanks a lot.
People might think I'm crazy, but "uneducated" British accents are the ones I like the most out of ALL accents in all English-speaking countries. The "glo'al" T is the sexiest thing ever when I hear it!! Hahaha.
Of course, when people overuse it, it sounds a bit bad at times... But when people use it as in this last video you've uploaded, but some words every now and then as the "lower-class" version, I love it.
However, I wanted to point out that even some posh people (e.g. Cameron) pronounce a glottal T between two vowel sounds most of the time in certain words. Main example: Britain (Bri'ain).
+Alejandro Sánchez you're absolutely right!
I'm with you, man!! I LOVE the glottal T. I started to learn english through american english, then when I first heard a british saying 'exci'ed' I thought WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT AND WHY DOES IT SOUND SO SEXY I NEED TO LEARN IT!!!!!!!!!!! hahahaha.
Same here. I started learning English watching American series until I found about British accents with glottal T and now I pretty much refuse to watch any film or series without those accents!!!! xD
Hi! I got hooked on your pronunciation videos! They're amazing. I really enjoyed the video with 5 vowels (really, really helpful) and this one. I find it extremely helpful when you explain the context - what accent when, who would use it, what will sound naturally when and get into the details (like with the "t" in "absolutely"). Hearing different accents (for a foreigner) can be pretty confusing and you delivered great explanation in those two videos :) Great job, can't wait for more! :)
+Tasza thanks!! :)
papa.. why its kinda different with your previous lesson.. you teach to pronounce bottle like bo'tle.. but this one you teach us to pronounce bottle like a normal bottle.. which one is true?
He is being well-educated and middle-class person in this video. Thats the difference i think
Same I'm so confused
+TinyVania Vlog hey! The main thing was that in the previous lesson, we said you "could" say things like bo'le and wa'er, because you will definitely hear people say it. This lesson was to clarify when to use it and when not to use it if you want to sound more well-spoken :)
+Learn English with Papa Teach Me ahh. okay. now i understand papa! thank you so muach 😂😂
+TinyVania Vlog where r u from, girl?
Putting the 2 celebrities I dislike next to each other. Spot on! 😂😂😂
Fantastic teacher, great speaker, actor, creative gifted person, and just handsome men - Thank you!!!!!!
Thanks a lot for this lesson that is for me the sequence of the former glottal t lesson and absolutely not a correction of it. Thanks a lot anyway for all your lesson and good luck for what is coming next!
you should put all the links you mention also in the description because for those who watch you on mobile they're not accessible otherwise. Cheers! (and great lesson! ...as always 😉)
Man, You're the BEST! Brilliant tips... LOVED it, of course, cuz' I love this kind of gottal T thing. Really interesting. CONGRATS for the good job.
+Everton Sousa thanks for watching!
But I remember I watched a video about British accents and they said " be-er " íntead of " be-ter " for BETTER
This is the cokney accent
I heard that it depends on accent
Exacctly me too I've noticed that in the the first par of the video
Finally, I can't wait for the next video... This video makes me clear how the Glottal T rules are!! Thank you Papa...
+djcherlis glad you liked it! :) thanks for watching
I have improved my English skills by watching your videos.
+djcherlis because you're awesome!
So are you...
really love your vídeos! they are great! will follow you forever ! go on!!
I'm so thankful for your seires!!! I speak mostly american english but i talk so sloppy that i just want to slowly learn and switch to brittish english.
to be honest, i just discovered your videos. And i figured out many explanations about your language i had hard times by your lessons.
glottal T:
- vowel sound + T + consonant sound > absolutely
-T di akhir kata like not, that tapi tdk berlaku untuk kata yg sebelum T itu ada huruf unvoiced kek taylor swi(ft)
-T di awal kata selalu bunyi, true T
- ketika T memisahkan 2 bunyi huruf vokal, misal better,water (true T) kalau b(o)tt(l)e? tetap true T
- consonant+T+vowel, true T
but I've been to England recently (in the south of it actually) and they used to pronounce words like bottle without 't'
Yeah we do. I'm from the South East and I would say computer for example as compu'er
@@christopherdavis1066 same here
Your lessons have been quite fascinating. I recently found myself inadvertently pronouncing words in a British manner. On a silly note, I wonder if my neighbors in the South Bronx will look at me even stranger if I intentionally speak with a British accent.
+Edwin Camacho omg you should do a video on the Bronx accent. I would watch the shit out of that!!!!!! :)
I'd be interested as well!
+Learn English with Papa Teach Me I'd love to, but sadly, in spite of being raised there, I feel I barely even know how to speak like them. It's as though I have been hard wired to speak contrarily to them. If I did a video on an urban type of accent, it may come out as a parody.
Great videos Papa ! I like your videos and I'm looking forward to watching the next ones.
+Chris more coming!!
Hello Professor
Thank you so much for your help and advice,
i really appreciate your job. I wish you peace and happness under the sky of prosperity. All the best. Take care and have a good time.
the best video about glottal T. Thank you!
So many rules I'm sure I won't remember. Anyways, your sexy accent keeps bringing me back to your channel. Cheers!
haha just just normal t sound and you'll be fine in any case. Londoners won't judge you for not using glottal t.
I've heard many native English speakers say 'water' with the glottal T
They are talking about formal posh English.. I am an English learner. I like so-called lower-class accents and I practice them. So it's about preference. But yeah I think in really formal situations we shouldn't glottalize all the Ts.
I really needed to know this to clear all doubts.thanks a lot
I'm a native speaker but love the British accent, I'd love to change it to the British one but it's a lot tougher than I thought to try and sound natural without sounding like your just mimicking
I'm really with british accent,I can talk british very good but I came just for amuse And see how people learn accents😅,And u r really Wonderful teacher👍👍👍I'm a new subscriber
+RAA JAA thanks for watching!!
Why does Ricky Gervais use the glottal stop in the word water, better, bottle... etc? he literally uses that and i love it!!
Just love it!!! You are the best!!!
Hi, I really like your videos, they are useful and helpful. I love British accent although my poor background is American English because I live in Latinamerica, plis keep going with the lessons, regards from Panama.
+Jose Ortega hey in Panama!
I love these series, its different from what everyone it doing 💁💗✨
@papateachme . Dear papa, I'm sorry to have to tell you that I disagree with you on the glottal t not being used between two vowel sounds. Louis Tomlinson doesn't say Twitter but Twi'er and Adele doesn't say tattoos but ta'oos and a random boy from Glasgow, whom I saw on the greatest dancer spoke about getting be'er and be'er instead better and better.
Damn. The way you used Taffy and Kanye as examples😂💯. Anyways, thanks for the lesson❤
Wow, some people are very classist
aly, could u do another video about the "well adj" like well-balanced, well spoken, etc., please do it, i'll enjoy it!!
+Thanh Le Thi Minh interesting idea!
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hey, papa. I know that in UK there are a lot of accents. And I mean it really lots of accent. Even the cockney accent varies from which side of England you were from. I knew a girl that learned from all the British accents that she could find, but in the end, she didn't speak British at all. Her accent was a mixture of all British accents she learned. It sounds British but I think not, in the view of natives.So! In my expedition to acquire the best and most natural accent, I decided to focus my accent discoveries, into one specific area of England. Do you have any suggestion on which area should I learned it from? An Area's accent that is often spoken in many movies and series? Not posh.. I really want to be natural not too Queen like.I know this is a LOT to ask but I really want to finish my errand and finally able to speak fluently. without a weird way to speaking in the view of natives.Thanks =)
Despite this comment being two months old and despite the fact that you asked for Papa´s opinion explicitly I would say that the South-East of England is a very good area to start with.
Krisna Syahdanadarma Jason Statham's accent is quite easy to learn as he frequently appears on popular movies.
Thank you so much for this. I have been wondering about it for a while and this made it clear 😊👍
I now you have quite a few of these, but I'd personally love to have more US/UK pronunciations comparison videos :)
I'm currently trying to mix things up and switch to a British accent (the perks of being a Slovak language speaker :)
I love british pronunciation. good job.
Awesome as always!
Very useful english tips!Many Thanks,Jason Statham.
love it ❤❤❤ I want more about the British accent please
Could you please do a video on pitch and raising/falling intonations? :)
More videos like this one please they are so helpfull
+Santi Sánchez more coming!
just a cuestion for you mate when you say mountain not in the American sound wich separates the word in two, ,, I guess. ..
now in the British sound do you pronounce the letter I in the part with the letter a or just pronounce the a but not the i what I really mean to ask is if pronounce both or just the a, , thanks in advance
I seriously like the posh accent. But I like Glottal Ts too. I'll just speak the words comfortably . 😁
+Monique Pareja Monique you came back!!!
I did! I've been missing lots of your vids, will make sure to check all of 'em as soon as I can 😉
I didn't know that the glottal T was considered "lower class" 😟 that's sad, I personally love it!
as ESL we can use it for fun sometimes :D
Nonsense, it's the accent of a true londoner.
Just use it.. and have fun hahah
Only in words like wa'er does it sound uneducated (to those who are educated).
People all over the UK use this technique without thinking. Some words like "water" sound more obvious however.
I love your videos 😍
+Andrea Invisibx you know what? The videos love you too!
Could you please teach us some fancy words. It's harder to learn them since nearly no-one uses them.Thanks
+Cyril J. O. Šaroch interesting... 🤔
Thank you professor!
Thank you for teaching!
I'd like to ask you one thing, I am from South Korea it's one of Asia and If i speak glottal t sound to other english speakers like American or Australian this and so on, then can they understand me? or just through flow of the conversation? what do you think about it?
for some people yes ,but not all of them
When I was in London, I have heard waiters or store cashiers using glottal T for Bottle, Water and Quarter. Its a kind of London Accent??
Papa please make a video teaches how to pronounce the end of sound -t, -th, -d (like bat, bath, bad).
Yes Please!
Gorgeous 👌
Can I ask you to introduce some lessons about phonetic phenomenon like:
assimilation
illusion
and so
the point is that we, non native English speakers, read a lot about that and we just can recall what we read but I think we need to get that into real life.
secondly, I need to know more about intrusive "R" sound for example "be rr er" that is "better". Is that BrE or AmE?
kindly inform
best wishes 🌹🌹🌹🌹
+bb1611ful that's next week's lesson ;)
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Batman and bottle both have a vowel sound before 't', and the consonant sound after the 't'. But we say "ba'man" not "batmam" and "bottle" not "bo'le".
Why?
Americans also have glottal T but with some difference. Words like botton mountain interview international internet always pronounced bo'on moun'ain inerview Inernational inernet
you're amazing! Thanks a gazillion for this video
glad that i subscired your channel, good videos :)
Make more of these videos please!
Excelent video, keep the good work :)
Thank you so much.
can you make your example from litreture English because it so beautiful
I like this series😍
The guy asked me "have yo go(t) a Le'eah? " and finally i realized he asked "do you have a letter?" its kinda different grammar and londoners don't pronounce T sound let alone the teens always say : i wisay like dat fam. but properly is I will say like that fam/mate.
I love to using glottal T!
im from venezuela,i love english and i like so much your work,can you explain a little scouse please?
thank u for this video!! t letter is always related to Harry potter to me, maybe its cuz its the first british movie ive seen 🙈
+Neyney hah! :)
what about these words
fight, night, might, light, etc ?
Papa, it's weird to learn English now at least after getting to know the fluency devices.
Thank you.
Tha's sounds good please may you suggeste some books for that please ?
Lovely. It would have been a great aid if you had used IPA transcriptions along with the examples. Anyway, good job!
Papa could you tell if the Matthew Healy's accent of the band the 1975 is a good accent to try to copy? Thanks
Thank you so much dude!😊 it's absolutely an amazing video!🌹🇬🇧 but papa you said in the previous lesson we can pronounce (water) with Glottal T but in this video you said not🌹
He said you could pronounce it like that if you wanna make use a cockney accent whose native speakers tend to use it all the time that's why talking to a cockney speaker is really hard.
+Mikle Owen the main thing was that in the previous video I said you "could" pronounce it "wa'er" and you might hear people pronounce it that way. This lesson was to clarify the rules of when to use it :)
Now, , with your lessons , I can understand what the british people say when I watch & hear their lessons on youtube (without subtitles) but I still can't understand any english movie without translation cuz I don't have much of a vocabulary in english language . Can you help me to increase my vocabulary :) ??
but .. wouldn't a lateral plosion be more appropriate for a more "posh" accent (as in bottle, gentlemen, beatles)?
I came here because I saw you on a suit and I thought "curious"... hahahh Whatever, in my language we just have the true T sound, but I alternate it in english, idk why
+Bia Menezes haha cool! which language do you speak?
I speak Portuguese (br)... Btw, I love your channel :D
+Bia Menezes awesome! Obrigadoooo! 🤘😁
Thanks -this is helpful. Working on doing a Brixton sound and I was wondering about glottalized t's.
Would like this even more if you avoided judgmental language; why not lingual "t" as opposed to "true T" ? They're both intelligible as T sounds.
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Actually a great video it was.
Can you make a video about present perfect and present perfect continuous
Great!!! thanks mate!!
Thank You!!
You're awesome!!!
+Cinthya Souza YOU are awesome, Cinthya :)
isn't the TT (double t) indicative of the fact that we have to pronounce the T clearly? just like it is in other languages, such as in German, with s (usually pronounced z) and double s (pronounced s), for instance.
It all depends…Do you want to sound like an upper class RP type…or blend in with 99% of regular people? I know plenty of folk who put glottal stops in just abaht evryfink….
What about 't' after 'n'? In AE it's dropped, unless it's followed by a vowel, what about BE, is it glotalised?
so, can't we say wa'er? but in a video where you were explaining the difference between a glottal and a true T you were saying wa'er. or is this video only about formal british?
+Harry Potter as an example I said you "could" say it like that. I don't recommend that though
+Learn English with Papa Teach Me Ah, okay. thanks for replying 😊😊👍
I'm wondering when pronounce the glottal T like oh-ah and when eliminate it from the pronunciation at the end of the words!!
Papa, I'm 45 years old. Is it possible to pronounce the English words in the right way?
Jana Essam Thank you! 🙂
papa, london is in northern or southern england, please answer me as quick as u can, thank u
how do we pronounce Great Britain??
Great video! I subscribed!
Maybe it might've been less confusing if you mentioned that this video was gonna be about how to speak "posh", papa!
I still loved the video though 😎 now I wanna know about British English intonation!
Exception to exception in 1:16, "NEXT"!
Thx, keep up the good work! :D
Please, what´s the difference between "I can take it " and "I can´t take it"
I think the difference is between "can" y "can't". In the first sentence "can" is pronounced with a schwa vowel /kən/ and is in an unstressed position, and in the second sentence "can't" is pronounced with the long vowel /ɑː/ so it's pronounced like /kɑːnt/ and it's in a stressed position. Obviously, my explanation only can fit in Standard British English. In American English they're pronounced slightly the same :S
Thank you so much. I think the difference in American English lies as well in the vowel intonation. We do not need t´s, do we?
They drop the T's :'v
Your point is impeccable according to the Longman´s Dictionary of Pronunciation. The thing is, /kæn/ may mirror both "can" and "can´t" ( with a dropped "t" before a consonant, but also before a vowel).
Yes, that happens in American English or even in Canadian English, it's so annoying. How can they notice the difference? Gosh!. Once I was talking to a Canadian man, and I told him to pronounce these two phrases: "I can move" and "I can't move". However, I couldn't noticed the difference, they practically sounded the same. I was thinking they have something we don't have in their ears to help them notice the difference. :'v
Is it different with Cockney? I recall you saying to replace the t's in bottle of water with a glottal stop in that lesson... Can you clarify this for me? I'm trying to get the Cockney accent down well.