Learn the English Cockney Accent with Alfie Solomons!

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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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КОМЕНТАРІ: 861

@luminous4079 Рік тому

Alfie's accent is the final boss in English

@marcogiardi3737 Рік тому

I would say Ray Winstone

@demibasan1714 Рік тому

*Paddy im from shcoushe pimblett has entered the chat*

@stusyanirvana3088 Рік тому

Bo'oh of wo'oh

@blackbob3358 Рік тому

@@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 Рік тому

Bricktop has entered the chat

@bindair_dundat Рік тому

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

@foggy3025 9 місяців тому

Exactly

@n-9988 Рік тому

Hat becomes A

@darylpollock9043 Рік тому

I do believe you’re right

@ranchhandrandy3213 Рік тому

Well done.

@ApaYaa2nd Рік тому

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

@doniyordoniyorovich1994 Рік тому

😂😂👍👍

@ghost_inthewire 11 місяців тому

so damn true

@jeffmorse645 Рік тому

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 Рік тому

Favourite* 😉

@jeffmorse645 Рік тому

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

@lukegray2835 Рік тому

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

@ionelaandreea2476 2 роки тому

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

@Dostoprimetschatjeln Рік тому

Okay!😉🤣

@Makado14 Рік тому

Yes, I agree!

@Freesoul999 3 місяці тому

Yes please

@williamflaherty3168 2 роки тому

The most incredible English teacher ever!!!!

@islamaly4210 Рік тому

That’s highly correct

@deanosaur808 2 місяці тому

Shame we couldn't understand the Brummie accent 😛🤣

@andrewmize823 Рік тому

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.

@deanosaur808 2 місяці тому

Pete & Bas 😂

@thepurplesmurf 2 роки тому

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

@n-9988 Рік тому

Lmao

@jonhaslam3699 6 місяців тому

Really 😂😂

@paulrupright4694 2 роки тому

Alfie is one of my all time favorite characters.

@thekrachannnel 2 роки тому

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? 😂😂

@alial-saedi1819 Рік тому

Lol

@stephenleader3847 Рік тому

That's cos ya troyed too ard.

@chrisstewart3768 Рік тому

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

@hulakan Рік тому

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

@KeithPrince-cp3me 6 місяців тому

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.

@mikeverona6924 11 місяців тому

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

@DevelopYourEnglishwithEmma 2 роки тому

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 😂

@missrosirosya1459 2 роки тому

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

@1mustclick 11 місяців тому

Hai kak

@veroniquecourtat9833 Рік тому

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.

@lilmane1070 26 днів тому

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

@sierrahp Рік тому

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.

@timalysheva 10 місяців тому

G’day mate!!!

@evasanchezsaez8685 Рік тому

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 Рік тому

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 8 місяців тому

@@Lyrielonwind😂😂😂

@ashlynavarro9340 Рік тому

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

@BelieveSte Рік тому

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.

@shanegambit7424 Рік тому

Charismatic and engaging! Teachers need to be creative like you

@DepressedCapitalist Рік тому

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 Рік тому

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

@MrWhite-ip9hw Рік тому

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.

@themorethemerrier281 Рік тому

She's the reol deol...

@viktortrubaiev 9 місяців тому

Cause she's from Birmingham

@inddsdgcranberrieswolf 2 роки тому

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

@rootinteuton966 2 роки тому

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.

@joelmasamba6762 11 місяців тому

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

@kylee2275 10 місяців тому

Genius! You have delivered an extremely enjoyable lesson.

@randomfeller Рік тому

Love the attitude that accompanies the lesson! Beautiful!!

@smashingenglish Рік тому

Thanks so much!

@galymzhankuantayev4035 2 роки тому

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

@jimringomartin Рік тому

You are so adorabo! And very informed. Love this

@farouk6437 Рік тому

Love your energy, great video 😂

@jasonfernee6395 Рік тому

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.

@ExperiencesSharing_Walker Рік тому

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

@paryanindoeur Рік тому

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!

@daniyalanjum9941 Рік тому

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

@nexus6motorola203 Рік тому

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

@jannatulferdousaurin4575 2 роки тому

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

@azanmalikmoozan7145 Рік тому

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

@socat9311 Рік тому

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

@muratucak6689 11 місяців тому

Your are a natural talent. Great work👏

@stefanomuraro550 10 місяців тому

What a great lesson from you, Laura!

@stephanginther9051 2 роки тому

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 Рік тому

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 Рік тому

@@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.

@TheSimpy1997 2 роки тому

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.

@user-ck1bf7ci5e 9 днів тому

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

@DerThorwald Рік тому

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! 😊

@spatongue 2 роки тому

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

@owenjunker2393 Рік тому

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

@Mkkhalil645 Рік тому

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

@bangboombang1 2 роки тому

Outstanding performance. Thumbs up!!!

@Bati.Raad_221B 2 місяці тому

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

@juleslund1515 Рік тому

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

@whiskyyarn2234 Рік тому

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

@smashingenglish Рік тому

So glad!😄😄🇬🇧

@Bati.Raad_221B 2 місяці тому

You were the best cockney teacher I saw mate

@normancotterill7849 6 місяців тому

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

@evasuser Рік тому

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

@adrianfuegoscuro6308 Рік тому

Aye! Thanks for this! Love it!

@zeyadalqaisi4239 11 місяців тому

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

@smashingenglish 11 місяців тому

Thank you Zeyad!!☺️

@osamaAhmed-oi7km 9 місяців тому

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

@ztunelover Рік тому

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

@sophiablanco798 2 роки тому

i love this lessons so much it actually hurts

@jennifergirling6850 Рік тому

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

@azamuddinzulkifly6222 Рік тому

Love this. May god bless you.

@davideloi9176 3 місяці тому

You are an exceptional and exceptionally fun teacher!

@desudi5206 Рік тому

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

@ihogenhuis960 Рік тому

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

@user-yf1nk6tn6v 2 роки тому

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

@Andre_SuroboyoRek 9 місяців тому

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

@deon9175 Рік тому

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

@guruzzi Рік тому

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

@smashingenglish Рік тому

Thankyou!! ☺️

@pamelagraceatendido4369 Рік тому

I learned a lot, laughed, and was entertained.

@smashingenglish Рік тому

Perfect!☺️

@stankormy5717 2 роки тому

Laura deserves an Academy Award!

@corvuseditz3567 2 роки тому

Tom hardy learned English from her 🤣🤣🤣

@brucestark5546 2 роки тому

🤣😂🤣😂

@longnhat9456 2 роки тому

Yeah i would say that, she’s so gooddd

@emilianomendez4516 Рік тому

Hahaha I concur

@rezanadesian6652 Рік тому

Wkwkwkkwkw

@ThorOdinson13 Рік тому

@@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.

@hanafihansfi1050 Рік тому

She mimics well love her

@atamanboba 6 місяців тому

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

@oliverclothesoff5397 Рік тому

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!

@jerricknaylor9686 Рік тому

this video has been very helpful!

@Ag_paul Рік тому

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

@ishvara73 6 місяців тому

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

@ahmadkateeb3688 Рік тому

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.

@mohammedbouleguessa4865 10 місяців тому

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 10 місяців тому

Thank you so much! How kind!!☺️☺️☺️☺️

@chetosco Рік тому

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.

@abdullahussenemamudo938 6 місяців тому

This is my favourite, I love it!

@celsodejesusceledonsierra4144 10 місяців тому

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

@knndyskful 2 місяці тому

Haha love it, beautiful demonstration 👏

@johnparnham5945 Місяць тому

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.

@brunojostarpppppppz8888 Рік тому

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

@Freesoul999 3 місяці тому

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

@ErickCondecondeerick33 Рік тому

Amazing! Great video!

@farodopi5170 Рік тому

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

@JohnnyEganACTOR Рік тому

Totally awesome! ❤❤❤

@nanisdream 2 роки тому

I think you should make more like this videos I love itt

@tiagoschrodinger2515 9 місяців тому

*Your entry is fascinating!*

@mortiferum87 Рік тому

First time here and i like it. Thanks, you got a new subscriber.

@smashingenglish Рік тому

Welcome aboard!☺️🇬🇧

@ru_english 8 місяців тому

This is the best episode

@jo3hamilton Рік тому

I had to put on subtitles to understand Alfie lol! Cool video!

@petertyson4022 Рік тому

Am half cockney with proper English-speaking and a bit of patois from London. But I've got mates who sling a few cockney slang in. That even i have a had time understanding. Good show. Happy new year ✌🎅🎄🎂🎊