Learn the English Cockney Accent with Alfie Solomons!

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  • Опубликовано: 24 апр 2024
  • If you are learning English, you need to know how to understand different accents! Not everybody speaks the same! Learn how to understand a particularly difficult accent from the UK: London Cockney.
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    Music: Danse of Questionable Tuning by Kevin MacLeod
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    0:00 Intro
    1:19 Consonants
    4:25 -ING
    5:05 Light L + Dark L
    7:20 Vowels
    11:13 Changing Words
    12:38 Outro
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Комментарии • 875

  • @luminous4079
    @luminous4079 Год назад +670

    Alfie's accent is the final boss in English

    • @marcogiardi3737
      @marcogiardi3737 Год назад +4

      I would say Ray Winstone

    • @demibasan1714
      @demibasan1714 Год назад +3

      *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 +32

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

  • @n-9988
    @n-9988 Год назад +473

    Hat becomes A

  • @lukegray2835
    @lukegray2835 Год назад +43

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

  • @ionelaandreea2476
    @ionelaandreea2476 Год назад +354

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

  • @jeffmorse645
    @jeffmorse645 Год назад +35

    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. 😛

  • @andrewmize823
    @andrewmize823 Год назад +59

    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.

  • @Takeawayinataxi
    @Takeawayinataxi Год назад +159

    I love this from an authentic cockney still living in East London.
    My Spanish teacher said cockneys pronounce Spanish perfectly due to our accent and the way we speak 👍

    • @roccomp
      @roccomp Год назад +14

      I would´t say perfect, but yes, cockney vowels are more similar to our Spanish ones. Saludos!

    • @lukegray2835
      @lukegray2835 Год назад +6

      Hah that's interesting! My grandparents are cockney, bow bells n all, but I'm just a Londoner

    • @Takeawayinataxi
      @Takeawayinataxi Год назад +8

      @@roccomp Feliz Navidad.🙂

    • @Takeawayinataxi
      @Takeawayinataxi Год назад +2

      @@lukegray2835 👍

    • @JoaoVictor-rd9gz
      @JoaoVictor-rd9gz Год назад +3

      That's true, because your accent uses a lot of nasal sounds which almost all latin languages are made off not just Spanish. So for romance language speakers wouldn't be that hard to learn your accent as well.

  • @lilmane1070
    @lilmane1070 10 дней назад +1

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

  • @williamflaherty3168
    @williamflaherty3168 Год назад +27

    The most incredible English teacher ever!!!!

    • @islamaly4210
      @islamaly4210 Год назад +2

      That’s highly correct

    • @deanosaur808
      @deanosaur808 Месяц назад

      Shame we couldn't understand the Brummie accent 😛🤣

  • @thepurplesmurf
    @thepurplesmurf Год назад +81

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

  • @KeithPrince-cp3me
    @KeithPrince-cp3me 6 месяцев 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.

  • @paulrupright4694
    @paulrupright4694 Год назад +12

    Alfie is one of my all time favorite characters.

  • @hulakan
    @hulakan Год назад +12

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

  • @thekrachannnel
    @thekrachannnel Год назад +36

    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? 😂😂

  • @evasanchezsaez8685
    @evasanchezsaez8685 Год 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 7 месяцев назад

      ​@@Lyrielonwind😂😂😂

  • @MrWhite-ip9hw
    @MrWhite-ip9hw Год 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.

  • @shanegambit7424
    @shanegambit7424 Год назад +6

    Charismatic and engaging! Teachers need to be creative like you

  • @chrisstewart3768
    @chrisstewart3768 Год назад +6

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

  • @DevelopYourEnglishwithEmma
    @DevelopYourEnglishwithEmma Год 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 😂

  • @rootinteuton966
    @rootinteuton966 Год 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.

  • @veroniquecourtat9833
    @veroniquecourtat9833 Год 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.

  • @mikeverona6924
    @mikeverona6924 10 месяцев назад +13

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

  • @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!

  • @monicahoward7443
    @monicahoward7443 Год назад +1

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

  • @stephanginther9051
    @stephanginther9051 Год 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.

  • @ashlynavarro9340
    @ashlynavarro9340 Год назад +4

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

  • @joelmasamba6762
    @joelmasamba6762 10 месяцев назад +2

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

  • @missrosirosya1459
    @missrosirosya1459 Год назад +30

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

  • @sierrahp
    @sierrahp Год 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.

  • @BelieveSte
    @BelieveSte 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.

  • @kylee2275
    @kylee2275 9 месяцев назад +1

    Genius! You have delivered an extremely enjoyable lesson.

  • @jimringomartin
    @jimringomartin Год назад +1

    You are so adorabo! And very informed. Love this

  • @spatongue
    @spatongue Год 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👏!

  • @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! 😊

  • @corvuseditz3567
    @corvuseditz3567 Год назад +212

    Tom hardy learned English from her 🤣🤣🤣

  • @galymzhankuantayev4035
    @galymzhankuantayev4035 Год назад +11

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

  • @inddsdgcranberrieswolf
    @inddsdgcranberrieswolf Год назад +1

    Love it! Your videos always give a vibe of exciting suspenseful series

  • @Bati.Raad_221B
    @Bati.Raad_221B 2 месяца назад

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

  • @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.

  • @davideloi9176
    @davideloi9176 3 месяца назад

    You are an exceptional and exceptionally fun teacher!

  • @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.

  • @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!

  • @normancotterill7849
    @normancotterill7849 6 месяцев назад

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

  • @TheSimpy1997
    @TheSimpy1997 Год 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.

  • @nexus6motorola203
    @nexus6motorola203 Год назад +3

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

  • @muratucak6689
    @muratucak6689 10 месяцев назад +1

    Your are a natural talent. Great work👏

  • @whiskyyarn2234
    @whiskyyarn2234 Год назад +6

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

  • @Mkkhalil645
    @Mkkhalil645 Год назад +3

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

  • @azanmalikmoozan7145
    @azanmalikmoozan7145 Год назад +2

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

  • @bangboombang1
    @bangboombang1 Год назад +1

    Outstanding performance. Thumbs up!!!

  • @ishvara73
    @ishvara73 5 месяцев назад

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

  • @stefanomuraro550
    @stefanomuraro550 9 месяцев назад

    What a great lesson from you, Laura!

  • @evasuser
    @evasuser Год назад

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

  • @Bati.Raad_221B
    @Bati.Raad_221B 2 месяца назад

    You were the best cockney teacher I saw mate

  • @jannatulferdousaurin4575
    @jannatulferdousaurin4575 Год назад +1

    The last part was the best of the best. Lovely.😂❤️

  • @atamanboba
    @atamanboba 6 месяцев назад

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

  • @osamaAhmed-oi7km
    @osamaAhmed-oi7km 8 месяцев назад

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

  • @ahmadkateeb3688
    @ahmadkateeb3688 Год назад +1

    You are amazing 👏 ❤ I love languages and accent 😍, I do understand how much efforts you have done in this video, I've watched many of your videos, awesome 👌 😀 😊 well done sweetheart.

  • @daniyalanjum9941
    @daniyalanjum9941 Год 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

  • @Andre_SuroboyoRek
    @Andre_SuroboyoRek 9 месяцев назад +1

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

  • @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 Год назад +4

    Laura deserves an Academy Award!

  • @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

  • @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.

  • @johnparnham5945
    @johnparnham5945 Месяц 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.

  • @azamuddinzulkifly6222
    @azamuddinzulkifly6222 Год назад +1

    Love this. May god bless you.

  • @zeyadalqaisi4239
    @zeyadalqaisi4239 10 месяцев назад +2

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

  • @guruzzi
    @guruzzi Год назад +3

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

  • @farouk6437
    @farouk6437 Год назад +5

    Love your energy, great video 😂

  • @DanielZakatDusk
    @DanielZakatDusk 6 месяцев назад

    I love it. Can't do it. But had a lot of fun watching.

  • @albertodf1234
    @albertodf1234 8 месяцев назад +3

    You're so funny! Love your lessons

  • @ihogenhuis960
    @ihogenhuis960 Год назад

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

  • @brunobucciaratti3694
    @brunobucciaratti3694 Год назад +22

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

  • @abdullahussenemamudo938
    @abdullahussenemamudo938 6 месяцев назад

    This is my favourite, I love it!

  • @desudi5206
    @desudi5206 Год назад

    it's so fun! I learn a lot from here, thank you.

  • @riabuz_UTMAN
    @riabuz_UTMAN 6 месяцев назад

    I really love this video, because i really want to learn cockney accent. Thnx

  • @Mia77442
    @Mia77442 Месяц 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

  • @mohammedbouleguessa4865
    @mohammedbouleguessa4865 10 месяцев 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  10 месяцев назад +2

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

  • @Ag_paul
    @Ag_paul Год назад

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

  • @vanessaduca8171
    @vanessaduca8171 8 месяцев назад +1

    I love this lessons

  • @hilalilo79
    @hilalilo79 Год назад

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

  • @knndyskful
    @knndyskful 2 месяца назад

    Haha love it, beautiful demonstration 👏

  • @JohnnyBravo-se5gz
    @JohnnyBravo-se5gz 25 дней 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 🎉😂❤

  • @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!

  • @owenjunker2393
    @owenjunker2393 Год назад

    Your content is the best! I'll have Arthur round up more subscribers cuz you deserve em all

  • @Freesoul999
    @Freesoul999 3 месяца назад

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

  • @chetosco
    @chetosco Год 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.

  • @wojownicza12
    @wojownicza12 8 месяцев 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

  • @juleslund1515
    @juleslund1515 Год назад +1

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

  • @ztunelover
    @ztunelover Год назад

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

  • @pamelagraceatendido4369
    @pamelagraceatendido4369 Год назад +3

    I learned a lot, laughed, and was entertained.

  • @hanafihansfi1050
    @hanafihansfi1050 Год назад

    She mimics well love her

  • @sophiablanco798
    @sophiablanco798 Год назад

    i love this lessons so much it actually hurts

  • @tiagoschrodinger2515
    @tiagoschrodinger2515 9 месяцев назад +1

    *Your entry is fascinating!*

  • @ZAIRGAS_HAVEN
    @ZAIRGAS_HAVEN Год назад

    i love this lady..

  • @paulandsiantours
    @paulandsiantours 8 месяцев назад

    I aint larfed so much in ages.....fanks for doing this video. Luuuuved it! 🙂

  • @benjaminmoles3318
    @benjaminmoles3318 9 месяцев назад +2

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

    • @smashingenglish
      @smashingenglish  9 месяцев назад +2

      Glad you enjoyed it Ben!☺️☺️

  • @ru_english
    @ru_english 7 месяцев назад +1

    This is the best episode