Learn the English Cockney Accent with Alfie Solomons!

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  • Опубликовано: 24 ноя 2024

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  • @luminous4079
    @luminous4079 2 года назад +702

    Alfie's accent is the final boss in English

    • @marcogiardi3737
      @marcogiardi3737 Год назад +4

      I would say Ray Winstone

    • @demibasan1714
      @demibasan1714 Год назад +5

      *Paddy im from shcoushe pimblett has entered the chat*

    • @stusyanirvana3088
      @stusyanirvana3088 Год назад +9

      Bo'oh of wo'oh

    • @blackbob3358
      @blackbob3358 Год назад

      @@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.

    • @TheSteadfastOne
      @TheSteadfastOne Год назад +7

      Bricktop has entered the chat

  • @bindair_dundat
    @bindair_dundat Год назад +53

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

  • @jeffmorse645
    @jeffmorse645 Год назад +40

    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.😄

    • @34kbro
      @34kbro Год назад

      Favourite* 😉

    • @jeffmorse645
      @jeffmorse645 Год назад +4

      @@34kbro Take it up with Noah Webster. 😛

  • @ionelaandreea2476
    @ionelaandreea2476 2 года назад +358

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

  • @lukegray2835
    @lukegray2835 Год назад +55

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

  • @n-9988
    @n-9988 2 года назад +502

    Hat becomes A

  • @hulakan
    @hulakan Год назад +15

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

  • @lilmane1070
    @lilmane1070 7 месяцев назад +4

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

  • @paulrupright4694
    @paulrupright4694 2 года назад +17

    Alfie is one of my all time favorite characters.

  • @KeithPrince-cp3me
    @KeithPrince-cp3me Год назад +4

    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.

  • @williamflaherty3168
    @williamflaherty3168 2 года назад +31

    The most incredible English teacher ever!!!!

    • @islamaly4210
      @islamaly4210 2 года назад +2

      That’s highly correct

    • @deanosaur808
      @deanosaur808 9 месяцев назад

      Shame we couldn't understand the Brummie accent 😛🤣

  • @thepurplesmurf
    @thepurplesmurf 2 года назад +80

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

  • @thekrachannnel
    @thekrachannnel 2 года назад +38

    I am from Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 🇸🇦, So I'm a Native Arabic
    Did you know how many times I bit my tongue trying to imitate you? 😂😂

  • @shanegambit7424
    @shanegambit7424 Год назад +7

    Charismatic and engaging! Teachers need to be creative like you

  • @DevelopYourEnglishwithEmma
    @DevelopYourEnglishwithEmma 2 года назад +59

    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 😂

  • @chrisstewart3768
    @chrisstewart3768 Год назад +7

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

  • @andrewmize823
    @andrewmize823 Год назад +62

    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.

  • @MrWhite-ip9hw
    @MrWhite-ip9hw 2 года назад +48

    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.

  • @missrosirosya1459
    @missrosirosya1459 2 года назад +31

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

  • @mikeverona6924
    @mikeverona6924 Год назад +14

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

  • @sierrahp
    @sierrahp 2 года назад +21

    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.

  • @DepressedCapitalist
    @DepressedCapitalist Год назад +6

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

  • @3StonePoker
    @3StonePoker Год назад +2

    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.

  • @Bati.Raad_221B
    @Bati.Raad_221B 9 месяцев назад

    Especially the technic of repeating some sentences and slangs makes people learn without they know
    it's just superb

  • @rootinteuton966
    @rootinteuton966 2 года назад +7

    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.

  • @ghyathhallak4281
    @ghyathhallak4281 5 месяцев назад

    I admire your way of pronunciation and clarity you try to give.

  • @evasanchezsaez8685
    @evasanchezsaez8685 2 года назад +18

    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!!!

    • @Lyrielonwind
      @Lyrielonwind Год назад

      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.

    • @Battle_One
      @Battle_One Год назад

      ​@@Lyrielonwind😂😂😂

  • @Andre_SuroboyoRek
    @Andre_SuroboyoRek Год назад +1

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

  • @DerThorwald
    @DerThorwald Год назад +5

    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! 😊

  • @oliverclothesoff5397
    @oliverclothesoff5397 Год назад +3

    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!

  • @stankormy5717
    @stankormy5717 2 года назад +5

    Laura deserves an Academy Award!

  • @monicahoward7443
    @monicahoward7443 Год назад +1

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

  • @veroniquecourtat9833
    @veroniquecourtat9833 2 года назад +8

    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.

  • @ihogenhuis960
    @ihogenhuis960 Год назад +1

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

  • @guruzzi
    @guruzzi Год назад +4

    I like your teaching method very much. It is an absolutely different presentation.

  • @spatongue
    @spatongue 2 года назад +13

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

  • @whiskyyarn2234
    @whiskyyarn2234 Год назад +8

    Omg I love this video. Making language fun. Thank you.

  • @ashlynavarro9340
    @ashlynavarro9340 2 года назад +4

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

  • @corvuseditz3567
    @corvuseditz3567 2 года назад +213

    Tom hardy learned English from her 🤣🤣🤣

    • @brucestark5546
      @brucestark5546 2 года назад

      🤣😂🤣😂

    • @longnhat9456
      @longnhat9456 2 года назад +1

      Yeah i would say that, she’s so gooddd

    • @emilianomendez4516
      @emilianomendez4516 2 года назад

      Hahaha I concur

    • @rezanadesian6652
      @rezanadesian6652 Год назад

      Wkwkwkkwkw

    • @ThorOdinson13
      @ThorOdinson13 Год назад +1

      @@AkihabaraWasteland Tom is from the most Cockney sounding Borough in London. It's in West London It's called Amasmifff also known to those non Londoners as Hammersmith.

  • @pamelagraceatendido4369
    @pamelagraceatendido4369 Год назад +5

    I learned a lot, laughed, and was entertained.

  • @stephanginther9051
    @stephanginther9051 2 года назад +6

    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)

    • @bojansmf3673
      @bojansmf3673 Год назад

      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

    • @stephanginther9051
      @stephanginther9051 Год назад

      @@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.

  • @rachidmoujarab
    @rachidmoujarab 6 месяцев назад

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

  • @joelmasamba6762
    @joelmasamba6762 Год назад +2

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

  • @chetosco
    @chetosco 2 года назад +4

    I don't know what Hollywood is waiting for. This is a masterpiece. You may want to know that the "peopow" thing also is typical in Portuguese and Polish languages. Or you may not.

  • @randomfeller
    @randomfeller Год назад +1

    Love the attitude that accompanies the lesson! Beautiful!!

  • @ExperiencesSharing_Walker
    @ExperiencesSharing_Walker Год назад +1

    Every time when I meet you, I will give you a thumb up. Your program is so wonderful.

  • @jasonfernee6395
    @jasonfernee6395 Год назад +1

    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.

  • @galymzhankuantayev4035
    @galymzhankuantayev4035 2 года назад +11

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

  • @daniyalanjum9941
    @daniyalanjum9941 2 года назад +2

    Very useful video for those who want to learn or Wanna know about British accents. Hats off to your content from Your student from Pakistan

  • @paryanindoeur
    @paryanindoeur Год назад +2

    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!

  • @jennifergirling6850
    @jennifergirling6850 Год назад +2

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

  • @juleslund1515
    @juleslund1515 Год назад +1

    this is the coolest thing to come up in forever..

  • @farodopi5170
    @farodopi5170 Год назад +1

    i absolutely love tom hardy job with that character. what an amazing actor with Cillian murphy

  • @kylee2275
    @kylee2275 Год назад +1

    Genius! You have delivered an extremely enjoyable lesson.

  • @JJHurst
    @JJHurst Год назад +3

    As a south london lad , she's farkin nailed this....sounds like my family at the rub a dub...

  • @Bati.Raad_221B
    @Bati.Raad_221B 9 месяцев назад

    You were the best cockney teacher I saw mate

  • @normancotterill7849
    @normancotterill7849 Год назад

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

  • @evasuser
    @evasuser Год назад

    She's talented, gifted, intelligent and all that, I subscribed. Ty for the inspiration ma'am.

  • @brunojostarpppppppz8888
    @brunojostarpppppppz8888 2 года назад +22

    You are really brilliant Laura ! Please keep blessing us with videos like this one . Have a nice day Brumi haha

  • @nexus6motorola203
    @nexus6motorola203 Год назад +3

    Nice job! Great idea) Really engaging delivery of material. Even for not English speaker

  • @socat9311
    @socat9311 Год назад

    Difficult to do these vids and not be cringy, i would totally mess it up. You nail it, you are a natural

  • @aishaabdalsalam7709
    @aishaabdalsalam7709 2 года назад +5

    Alfie? some examples please! She's really amazing.
    The best Coceny accent lesson ever!

  • @johnparnham5945
    @johnparnham5945 8 месяцев назад

    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.

  • @zeyadalqaisi4239
    @zeyadalqaisi4239 Год назад +2

    Your technique is the best ever, you made it fun and easy ❤

  • @humildehomem
    @humildehomem Год назад +2

    Can you make a video explaining Welsh and Scotish accents?

  • @azan7145
    @azan7145 Год назад +2

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

  • @muratucak6689
    @muratucak6689 Год назад +1

    Your are a natural talent. Great work👏

  • @ztunelover
    @ztunelover Год назад

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

  • @Ningishzidd4
    @Ningishzidd4 Год назад

    As a dutchie, I like this channel and these kinds of lessons, makes me want to go out and buy a suit and some english shoes and go fer a stroll with my umbrella.

  • @atamanboba
    @atamanboba Год назад

    Great lesson! It motivates me to learn more around ways to speak English

  • @Freesoul999
    @Freesoul999 10 месяцев назад

    Yes please do more like this, take a character and then teach us around that character

  • @osamaAhmed-oi7km
    @osamaAhmed-oi7km Год назад

    Thanks so much every time comes to watch you i feel good

  • @TheSimpy1997
    @TheSimpy1997 2 года назад

    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.

  • @NyoGR
    @NyoGR Год назад +1

    8:00 if you happen to care the correct pronunciation of Diphthongs is with a F since it resemble more the original. Just remember Photograph it starts and ends with an F.
    This was a lovely video btw thank you so much🙏🏼

  • @age01
    @age01 Год назад +1

    U R a very funny lass I'm glad to find you here !!

  • @sijos8927
    @sijos8927 10 месяцев назад

    I'm having trouble understanding complex accents. Hope this channel helps me.

  • @jimringomartin
    @jimringomartin Год назад +1

    You are so adorabo! And very informed. Love this

  • @Nakrawedzi12
    @Nakrawedzi12 Год назад +1

    Nice, I love your accent and your teaching skills, as a Polish I speak a bit like this accent - replacing 'th' sound a f

  • @farouk6437
    @farouk6437 Год назад +5

    Love your energy, great video 😂

  • @Mkkhalil645
    @Mkkhalil645 Год назад +3

    Thank you very much
    It was really a useful lesson..
    Keep going best wishes👍💐😄

  • @benjaminmoles3318
    @benjaminmoles3318 Год назад +2

    Great video. I enjoyed it very much. Also very useful. Thanks

  • @Eowyn187
    @Eowyn187 Год назад +1

    ELIZA DOOLITTLE. My Fair Lady.
    You mention cockney and childhood memories of her adorable accent ringing in my head. Maybe she's why I'm so into learning to distinguish between diff English accents, all these years later. Heh heh

  • @JohnnyBravo-se5gz
    @JohnnyBravo-se5gz 7 месяцев назад

    Laura, going for the record for most watched by a a Canadian learnin' Cockney. Figure it's approximately a dozen times watchin' this video 🎉😂❤

  • @davideloi9176
    @davideloi9176 10 месяцев назад

    You are an exceptional and exceptionally fun teacher!

  • @bulbizarre2726
    @bulbizarre2726 2 года назад +1

    I'm looking for Tom Hardy's comment in the comments section congratulating her for the remarkable impression she made of his own character.. 👀 She did it so well ..
    Thank you for the lesson 💐

  • @jerryadams4449
    @jerryadams4449 Год назад

    The name Alfie saands mow like Awt- vee like too silly baws angin toogevva by a lii -aw 'uh' saand,skipping not seamlessly across the dipfong, but awmost . I live in Wales now and in Welsh the uh sound is written as a y, so the place I live betws y coed is said bettus ah co edh, said with a slightly perceptable lispy tounge hitting against front top teeth..I love accents and I change over when speaking to some quite subconsciously at times..love the peakys a treasury of wonderful characters but Tom hardy is epic with his Alfie, amazing🙏❤️

  • @ishvara73
    @ishvara73 Год назад

    Pure revelation. Much obliged indeed. Now I need to get practicing. Ta.

  • @TroyTempest777
    @TroyTempest777 2 года назад +5

    If you want a good modern example of an authentic Cockney accent, watch pretty much anything with Danny Dyer in..then you'll hear the real pronunciation and speed etc of the accent😎👍

  • @Bu-Aljoory
    @Bu-Aljoory Год назад +1

    Tom Hardy is just great with accents. Thank you very much. Tata.

  • @eggpoutine
    @eggpoutine Год назад +1

    Nothing really shocked me, sin❤ce english is my second language and I learned it in Canada. For me, Cockney is more of a slang, which we also have in quebecois french. Colloquial expressions or prononciations are usually not used on the news bulletin on the official state tv (equivalent to the BBC)
    I guess being able to understand defferent accents is the key to meet people when you travel 😄

    • @Joanna-il2ur
      @Joanna-il2ur Год назад

      As someone who lectures in linguistics, I can tell you that you won’t find the word slang anywhere. We describe, we don’t prescribe. We avoid value judgements.

  • @deon9175
    @deon9175 Год назад

    DANG!!.. You absolutely nailed it babycakes!!
    You're somethin' else alright!
    This is my new favorite RUclips channel, and you're my new favorite RUclipsr, nuff love girlfriend.

  • @willymontana
    @willymontana 2 года назад +1

    It is because of you, I feel so liberated and civilized.

  • @tangomantactical
    @tangomantactical Год назад

    I'm married 29yrs and raised 2 kids, one a US Marine and the other a Artist. Love me wife but, I've got a glasser for this lady.

  • @hilalilo79
    @hilalilo79 Год назад

    I absolutely love the way you speak o may God loved 🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

  • @kamalziani9071
    @kamalziani9071 Год назад +2

    U are the most hilarious 😂 teacher I've ever seen 😂😂

  • @Mia77442
    @Mia77442 8 месяцев назад

    I’m rolling laughing hard! You are a killath gangster. Love every gesture you make with you mouth and your demeanor of speaking you should be cast in the movies. I’m on. Kudos from New Orleans

  • @Ag_paul
    @Ag_paul Год назад

    I can watch her all day, she's amazing 😍💯

  • @mohammedbouleguessa4865
    @mohammedbouleguessa4865 Год назад +1

    You're the best .. i just discovered your channel now .. I'll be a big follower and fan of you .. thank you so much

    • @smashingenglish
      @smashingenglish  Год назад +2

      Thank you so much! How kind!!☺️☺️☺️☺️

  • @jhondavid7301
    @jhondavid7301 2 года назад

    I've been looking for a brummie teacher here for a long time, never thought that I'd find her on a video about cockney accent lol

  • @merdufer
    @merdufer Год назад +1

    "Alfie" is actually his nickname. He's very health conscious, so his friends call him "Healthy Solomons".