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Learn the English Cockney Accent with Alfie Solomons!

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2022 ж. 7 Мам.
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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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  • Alfie's accent is the final boss in English

    @luminous4079@luminous4079 Жыл бұрын

    • I would say Ray Winstone

      @marcogiardi3737@marcogiardi3737 Жыл бұрын

    • *Paddy im from shcoushe pimblett has entered the chat*

      @demibasan1714@demibasan1714 Жыл бұрын

    • Bo'oh of wo'oh

      @stusyanirvana3088@stusyanirvana3088 Жыл бұрын

    • @@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.

      @blackbob3358@blackbob3358 Жыл бұрын

    • Bricktop has entered the chat

      @TheSteadfastOne@TheSteadfastOne Жыл бұрын

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

    @bindair_dundat@bindair_dundat Жыл бұрын

    • Exactly

      @foggy3025@foggy30258 ай бұрын

  • Hat becomes A

    @n-9988@n-9988 Жыл бұрын

    • I do believe you’re right

      @darylpollock9043@darylpollock9043 Жыл бұрын

    • Well done.

      @ranchhandrandy3213@ranchhandrandy3213 Жыл бұрын

    • Until you realize it’s actually “tit for tat”😂

      @ApaYaa2nd@ApaYaa2nd Жыл бұрын

    • 😂😂👍👍

      @doniyordoniyorovich1994@doniyordoniyorovich1994 Жыл бұрын

    • so damn true

      @thatselperson@thatselperson11 ай бұрын

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

    @lukegray2835@lukegray2835 Жыл бұрын

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

    @ionelaandreea2476@ionelaandreea2476 Жыл бұрын

    • Okay!😉🤣

      @Dostoprimetschatjeln@Dostoprimetschatjeln Жыл бұрын

    • Yes, I agree!

      @Makado14@Makado14 Жыл бұрын

    • Yes please

      @Freesoul999@Freesoul9993 ай бұрын

  • 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.😄

    @jeffmorse645@jeffmorse645 Жыл бұрын

    • Favourite* 😉

      @34kbro@34kbro Жыл бұрын

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

      @jeffmorse645@jeffmorse645 Жыл бұрын

  • 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 👍

    @Takeawayinataxi@Takeawayinataxi Жыл бұрын

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

      @roccomp@roccomp Жыл бұрын

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

      @lukegray2835@lukegray2835 Жыл бұрын

    • @@roccomp Feliz Navidad.🙂

      @Takeawayinataxi@Takeawayinataxi Жыл бұрын

    • @@lukegray2835 👍

      @Takeawayinataxi@Takeawayinataxi Жыл бұрын

    • 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.

      @JoaoVictor-rd9gz@JoaoVictor-rd9gz Жыл бұрын

  • 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.

    @andrewmize823@andrewmize823 Жыл бұрын

    • Pete & Bas 😂

      @deanosaur808@deanosaur808Ай бұрын

  • The most incredible English teacher ever!!!!

    @williamflaherty3168@williamflaherty3168 Жыл бұрын

    • That’s highly correct

      @islamaly4210@islamaly4210 Жыл бұрын

    • Shame we couldn't understand the Brummie accent 😛🤣

      @deanosaur808@deanosaur808Ай бұрын

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

    @thepurplesmurf@thepurplesmurf Жыл бұрын

    • Lmao

      @n-9988@n-9988 Жыл бұрын

    • Really 😂😂

      @jonhaslam3699@jonhaslam36996 ай бұрын

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

    @hulakan@hulakan Жыл бұрын

  • Alfie is one of my all time favorite characters.

    @paulrupright4694@paulrupright4694 Жыл бұрын

  • 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.

    @KeithPrince-cp3me@KeithPrince-cp3me6 ай бұрын

  • 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? 😂😂

    @thekrachannnel@thekrachannnel Жыл бұрын

    • Lol

      @alial-saedi1819@alial-saedi1819 Жыл бұрын

    • That's cos ya troyed too ard.

      @stephenleader3847@stephenleader3847 Жыл бұрын

  • Tom hardy learned English from her 🤣🤣🤣

    @corvuseditz3567@corvuseditz3567 Жыл бұрын

    • 🤣😂🤣😂

      @brucestark5546@brucestark5546 Жыл бұрын

    • Yeah i would say that, she’s so gooddd

      @longnhat9456@longnhat9456 Жыл бұрын

    • Yeah Tom is a West Londoner

      @Takeawayinataxi@Takeawayinataxi Жыл бұрын

    • Hahaha I concur

      @emilianomendez4516@emilianomendez4516 Жыл бұрын

    • Wkwkwkkwkw

      @rezanadesian6652@rezanadesian6652 Жыл бұрын

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

    @chrisstewart3768@chrisstewart3768 Жыл бұрын

  • 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.

    @veroniquecourtat9833@veroniquecourtat9833 Жыл бұрын

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

    @mikeverona6924@mikeverona692410 ай бұрын

  • 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 😂

    @DevelopYourEnglishwithEmma@DevelopYourEnglishwithEmma Жыл бұрын

  • Charismatic and engaging! Teachers need to be creative like you

    @shanegambit7424@shanegambit7424 Жыл бұрын

  • 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.

    @MrWhite-ip9hw@MrWhite-ip9hw Жыл бұрын

    • She's the reol deol...

      @themorethemerrier281@themorethemerrier281 Жыл бұрын

    • Cause she's from Birmingham

      @viktortrubaiev@viktortrubaiev9 ай бұрын

  • 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!!!

    @evasanchezsaez8685@evasanchezsaez8685 Жыл бұрын

    • 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.

      @Lyrielonwind@Lyrielonwind Жыл бұрын

    • ​@@Lyrielonwind😂😂😂

      @Battle_One@Battle_One7 ай бұрын

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

    @lilmane1070@lilmane10704 күн бұрын

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

    @inddsdgcranberrieswolf@inddsdgcranberrieswolf Жыл бұрын

  • You are so adorabo! And very informed. Love this

    @jimringomartin@jimringomartin Жыл бұрын

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

    @ashlynavarro9340@ashlynavarro9340 Жыл бұрын

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

    @missrosirosya1459@missrosirosya1459 Жыл бұрын

    • Hai kak

      @1mustclick@1mustclick11 ай бұрын

  • Love the attitude that accompanies the lesson! Beautiful!!

    @randomfeller@randomfeller Жыл бұрын

    • Thanks so much!

      @smashingenglish@smashingenglish Жыл бұрын

  • 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.

    @sierrahp@sierrahp Жыл бұрын

    • G’day mate!!!

      @timalysheva@timalysheva9 ай бұрын

  • Genius! You have delivered an extremely enjoyable lesson.

    @kylee2275@kylee22759 ай бұрын

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

    @joelmasamba6762@joelmasamba676210 ай бұрын

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

    @monicahoward7443@monicahoward7443 Жыл бұрын

  • 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.

    @BelieveSte@BelieveSte Жыл бұрын

  • 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.

    @rootinteuton966@rootinteuton966 Жыл бұрын

  • Your are a natural talent. Great work👏

    @muratucak6689@muratucak668910 ай бұрын

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

    @DepressedCapitalist@DepressedCapitalist Жыл бұрын

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

    @whiskyyarn2234@whiskyyarn2234 Жыл бұрын

    • So glad!😄😄🇬🇧

      @smashingenglish@smashingenglish Жыл бұрын

  • What a great lesson from you, Laura!

    @stefanomuraro550@stefanomuraro5509 ай бұрын

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

    @galymzhankuantayev4035@galymzhankuantayev4035 Жыл бұрын

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

    @Andre_SuroboyoRek@Andre_SuroboyoRek8 ай бұрын

  • You are an exceptional and exceptionally fun teacher!

    @davideloi9176@davideloi91763 ай бұрын

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

    @ExperiencesSharing_Walker@ExperiencesSharing_Walker Жыл бұрын

  • Outstanding performance. Thumbs up!!!

    @bangboombang1@bangboombang1 Жыл бұрын

  • Love your energy, great video 😂

    @farouk6437@farouk6437 Жыл бұрын

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

    @nexus6motorola203@nexus6motorola203 Жыл бұрын

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

    @Bati.Raad_221B@Bati.Raad_221BАй бұрын

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

    @Mkkhalil645@Mkkhalil645 Жыл бұрын

  • You're so funny! Love your lessons

    @albertodf1234@albertodf12348 ай бұрын

  • 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)

    @stephanginther9051@stephanginther9051 Жыл бұрын

    • 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

      @bojansmf3673@bojansmf3673 Жыл бұрын

    • @@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.

      @stephanginther9051@stephanginther9051 Жыл бұрын

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

    @jannatulferdousaurin4575@jannatulferdousaurin4575 Жыл бұрын

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

    @osamaAhmed-oi7km@osamaAhmed-oi7km8 ай бұрын

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

    @normancotterill7849@normancotterill78495 ай бұрын

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

    @spatongue@spatongue Жыл бұрын

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

    @owenjunker2393@owenjunker2393 Жыл бұрын

  • Love this. May god bless you.

    @azamuddinzulkifly6222@azamuddinzulkifly6222 Жыл бұрын

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

    @zeyadalqaisi4239@zeyadalqaisi423910 ай бұрын

    • Thank you Zeyad!!☺️

      @smashingenglish@smashingenglish10 ай бұрын

  • 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! 😊

    @DerThorwald@DerThorwald Жыл бұрын

  • Aye! Thanks for this! Love it!

    @adrianfuegoscuro6308@adrianfuegoscuro6308 Жыл бұрын

  • Haha love it, beautiful demonstration 👏

    @knndyskful@knndyskful2 ай бұрын

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

    @atamanboba@atamanboba5 ай бұрын

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

    @mohammedbouleguessa4865@mohammedbouleguessa486510 ай бұрын

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

      @smashingenglish@smashingenglish10 ай бұрын

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

    @benjaminmoles3318@benjaminmoles33189 ай бұрын

    • Glad you enjoyed it Ben!☺️☺️

      @smashingenglish@smashingenglish9 ай бұрын

  • Laura deserves an Academy Award!

    @stankormy5717@stankormy5717 Жыл бұрын

  • 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.

    @ahmadkateeb3688@ahmadkateeb3688 Жыл бұрын

  • You were the best cockney teacher I saw mate

    @Bati.Raad_221B@Bati.Raad_221BАй бұрын

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

    @deon9175@deon9175 Жыл бұрын

  • this video has been very helpful!

    @jerricknaylor9686@jerricknaylor9686 Жыл бұрын

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

    @guruzzi@guruzzi Жыл бұрын

    • Thankyou!! ☺️

      @smashingenglish@smashingenglish Жыл бұрын

  • Very interesting! You are great!

    @user-jg9nl8pn3r@user-jg9nl8pn3r8 ай бұрын

    • Thank you! Cheers!☺️

      @smashingenglish@smashingenglish8 ай бұрын

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

    @socat9311@socat9311 Жыл бұрын

  • *Your entry is fascinating!*

    @tiagoschrodinger2515@tiagoschrodinger25158 ай бұрын

  • 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!

    @paryanindoeur@paryanindoeur Жыл бұрын

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

    @desudi5206@desudi5206 Жыл бұрын

  • 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.

    @jasonfernee6395@jasonfernee6395 Жыл бұрын

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

    @azanmalikmoozan7145@azanmalikmoozan7145 Жыл бұрын

  • I learned a lot, laughed, and was entertained.

    @pamelagraceatendido4369@pamelagraceatendido4369 Жыл бұрын

    • Perfect!☺️

      @smashingenglish@smashingenglish Жыл бұрын

  • Just found your channel and immediatedly subscribed. I am an Anglicist. Love from Germany ❤

    @rosedewittbukater4203@rosedewittbukater42037 ай бұрын

    • Welcome!! 😍😍😍

      @smashingenglish@smashingenglish7 ай бұрын

  • 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

    @daniyalanjum9941@daniyalanjum9941 Жыл бұрын

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

    @evasuser@evasuser Жыл бұрын

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

    @ishvara73@ishvara735 ай бұрын

  • I love this lessons

    @vanessaduca8171@vanessaduca81718 ай бұрын

  • This is my favourite, I love it!

    @abdullahussenemamudo938@abdullahussenemamudo9386 ай бұрын

  • 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!

    @oliverclothesoff5397@oliverclothesoff5397 Жыл бұрын

  • 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.

    @TheSimpy1997@TheSimpy1997 Жыл бұрын

  • Excellent video👍 thanks

    @lorenzomaggio5297@lorenzomaggio5297 Жыл бұрын

  • This is the best episode

    @ru_english@ru_english7 ай бұрын

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

    @juleslund1515@juleslund1515 Жыл бұрын

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

    @paulandsiantours@paulandsiantours7 ай бұрын

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

    @JohnnyBravo-se5gz@JohnnyBravo-se5gz19 күн бұрын

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

    @ztunelover@ztunelover Жыл бұрын

  • Extraordinary video!

    @elreyAlito@elreyAlito Жыл бұрын

    • Thanks so much☺️

      @smashingenglish@smashingenglish Жыл бұрын

  • Amazing! Great video!

    @ErickCondecondeerick33@ErickCondecondeerick33 Жыл бұрын

  • You rule. Thanks for this

    @randomdudeyoudontknow@randomdudeyoudontknow8 ай бұрын

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

    @ihogenhuis960@ihogenhuis960 Жыл бұрын

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

    @brunobucciaratti3694@brunobucciaratti3694 Жыл бұрын

  • Totally awesome! ❤❤❤

    @JohnnyEganACTOR@JohnnyEganACTOR Жыл бұрын

  • 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.

    @chetosco@chetosco Жыл бұрын

  • Haven't seen you for two weeks, you are finally here. :)

    @user-yf1nk6tn6v@user-yf1nk6tn6v Жыл бұрын

  • You made me laugh a lot the way you explain. You’re great!

    @celsodejesusceledonsierra4144@celsodejesusceledonsierra41449 ай бұрын

  • Thank you. For that way.

    @pingburner@pingburner8 ай бұрын
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