Cockney
accent, which is one of the many English dialects found throughout the country. This accent may be difficult to understand at first. To help you, I’ve prepared a lesson on the main features of the London-based Cockney accent as well as some of its non-standard grammatical aspects. We will look at pronunciation features along with vocabulary and slang found particularly in Cockney English. I’ll also tell you a little bit about the history and social context of Cockney English. After watching the video, you will have the tools you need to better recognize and understand this dialect.
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Thank you very much
Thank you for showing my mistakes.
Thank you Gill
Thank you! It’s so helpful for me to understand the UK movie.
thank you for this lesson. it was really valuable. And i’m looking for someone who would like to practice English with me.
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Hello Gill . Thanks for this lesson .
In question 7 do you mean that denno danno dinno and so on are standard way to say ” don’t know” ?
See you
Hi – no, those spellings (denno danno dinno) don’t exist – I invented them for the purpose of the quiz :-)
thank Gill, that’s a difficult lesson
Thanks Gill ..you make me now able to love British Accent.
You are a superb teacher,Gill. Your classes are always
interesting. Loved this one. I really dig all kinds
of accents.
Thank you very much.
Thank you for this lessons
But that’s difficult for me.
Thank you Gill. If I had known this 10 years ago my life would be easier in East London.
What a nice class! I can’t wait your next lesson. Thank you for teaching.
it was an interesting lesson to me I really enjoyed it and thanks to Gill :)
How do i know about cockney speakers? if i have never been in England
You can hear them on films and on the internet :-)
Great lesson . Happy with my quiz with 10! ;)
Thank you Gill, Your lessons are really interesting.
Thank you, Gill. This lesson was really interesting and helpful. Next time I go to London, it will be easire to catch local accents.
Thank you Gill.
It was a very interesting lesson . thank you
thanks for this difficult lesson .i have not heard before about cockney accent and just today i relaizd why i could not understand most of English people when they talk between them.
Thanks a lot, teacher Gill.
you are great Gill
I’m the one
thanks a lot, teacher Gill
Thank you a lot
Dear teacher.
your teaching make me inspiring my learning english.The ords fail me to say thanks you.May god bless you.
Hi Gill, thanks for the useful lesson. Actually, I ran into Are You Being Served? classic tv series on Youtube “Oh What à Tangled Web” episode. It cracks you up. Still, I’m having a hard time understanding Mr Harman (Arthur English) and his lines exchanges with Ms Brahm/ Ms Brahm’s lines. Could you help with their expressions? Fanks
Fun fact: Brazilian Portuguese speakers often make pronunciation mistakes similar to the first (replacing the “th” sounds with either a “t” or a “d”), third (replacing non-initial “l” sounds with a “w”) and sixth (replacing “ing” sounds with either “in” or “in-g”) items of that list.
Thank you very much Mrs. Gill. It was interesting.
such a wonderful lesson I’d mention something that the “STR” it might be of the “T” is pronuncing like “CH” sound for example street would be schreet… and thnx
Hi!
Thank you for this lesson
Do we find cookney accent at the listening test in the IELTS ?
Thank ye Gill for this amazing lesson
Thank you very much
thank you so much, Gill. Your lessons are brilliant. Greetings from Barcelona
Thanks Gill! Very interesting review. In Russia we also have a few people with sort of “cockney speech”. Though here it’s considered as rather serious and rare speech defect – replacement of sound “L” by any others, particularly by sound “W”. Defectologists call it paralambdacism.The main reason for this abnormality is the defective anatomical structure of the vocal apparatus, namely a short hyoid frenum.
thank you very much mrs. gill, i really helped with your video
Thank you for this lessons.
Hi Gill. I like your way of teaching. I wish i could be your student because i’d like to improve my english .
With you ,learning seems easy .
Dear Mrs.Gill , now I understand better what “Cockney” means. Thanks!