Tips for British accent - Foreign Accent Cup

[TrouserSn4ck]

na, its pretty spot on. - not to 'posh' sounding either, its good.

[Moonmanhasa]

is she serious? her accent is off

[oowen2784]

This type of English accent is actually called Received Pronunciation, and it is also currently known as Queen's English.

[trytoshuthefuckup]

make a spanish accent video please!

[skkaan11]

Ten points to griffindoorr !!

[tomothy61]

Pretty accurate for what it is, but you don't hear many people talking like that. You'd hear a fair bit of it in top private schools and those circles but that's about it.

[teamswitzerlandx2]

Thats only in london mate

[Yabipopx3]

She does not have a great accent . But where i used to live they did not sound like that .

[OwnageBrosInc]

nigguh say wud?

[jamesaellis]

Would love to see you do a Welsh accent. ;)

[TheArtemZ]

Why does she pronounce T in often?

[vikulya78]

@TheArtemZ Because that's how it should be pronounced! In standard British English.

[CutieBxx]

People in England don't sound like that. Especially not where I live!

[MyStuff8712]

Lmao "budder"

[GTASynch]

Teabag bitch get back in the kitchen. Sandwich. Now.

[QsMattyCeeDk]

im half gordie, northern english, probably the hardest accent to learn in the world... true fact

[takashijoh]

You sound just like my ex-girlfriend! scary - but in a nice kind of way ;p

[sdurgefafd]

The Force is strong in you Walker..

[zomgseriosuly]

The top comments are the best comments I've ever seen. lmao xD

[ApacheDemon]

ah im english and whenever i meat twats who speak like this i generally give them a good beating this is a food 'posh' accent but not standered.

[Djdwaynedlivecom]

she made me blush....

[mrAZcardinal]

LOVE IT. I want to move to Britain some day. :D Leave this junky pit hole called Utah. >_<

[killerrrr35]

@mrAZcardinal just cause america isint at its best doeint mean you got to hate...who am i kidding, IM MEXICAN(true)

[donkrlitz]

@mrAZcardinal agree. utah is terrible

[MarvellousMuffin]

Talking about a British accent is like talking about an American accent.

[MarvellousMuffin]

@MarvellousMuffin

Except there's even more depth considering the number of countries there are in the UK.

[Cybopath]

That be Inglis! There isnae a Breetish accent.

[1912jackdawson1912]

please change the title from "british" as im sure you know there are several accents in britain especially in england! you may want to say "posh english" instead!!

[tensorbundle]

@1912jackdawson1912

It's neither a posh accent. Posh is not spoken so quickly.

[ApacheDemon]

@tensorbundle nah, hes right she sounds posh, maybe thats cause im a london boy but still its posh not standered

[jamboy711]

That's standard british? The only people I hear speak with that accent are from the rich parts of London :S

[sugar1001000]

English is a language. American people speak English. England is 4 countries, Northern Ireland, Wales, Scotland and Britain, therefore you're british when doing this accent, not English.

[gothiloli]

@sugar1001000 Actually, you've got Britain and England mixed up. Britain is the group of countries and England is one of the four countries with in it.

[sugar1001000]

@gothiloli I live in Britain, it's the UK, Britain, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. All together, England or the UK (which ever you like to call it)

[NiblehimeLockhart]

@sugar1001000 The proper title for the UK is "The United Kingdom of Great Britian and Northern Ireland". Great Britian referes to Scotland, England and Wales. I have lived in England my entire life, which is a part of Britian, not the other way around. Gothiloli is correct. Also, Ireland itself is not part of Britian, only the Northern segment.

[jamboy711]

@sugar1001000 Ireland is it's own republic. You're thinking of Northern ireland which is apart of The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. As the name suggests, Northern Ireland isn't apart of Great Britain, just England and Wales and soon hopefully, it will exclude Scotland. I will move to scotland one day when they get independence! :D

[The0RGIN]

@ monthenmaw

England is in Britain, therefore anything English is British.

There's no such thing as a standard British accent. That's the equivalent to a standard Australian accent, or standard American accent. It doesn't exist.

[monthenmaw]

That's not a British accent, that's an English accent.

[GroubTOYOTA]

This is original English language, not like the Americans

[spindrift1]

Actually, that's an outstanding British accent, better then Renee. Also, I'd like to jizz on your tits.

[ben9DB]

@tompom44 South Yorkshire, Rotherham, near Sheffield. And you?

[tompom44]

Haha that is not very common at all , when you said butter not many people talk like that, I live in Yorkshire and we would say butter like buher but the h is just a breathing sound? It is impossible to describe.

[ben9DB]

@RacingStarShips like me, I'm from Yorkshire. We say bu--er, daugh-er, 'avin instead of having. Not many English people sound like her at all tbh :)

[tompom44]

@ben9DB

Haha I just commented that saying pretty much that without realising! I am also from Yorkshire! north south east or west?

[MrJamieb18]

I am so glad i don't sound that posh, i've never heard anyone except for the rich or priviledged speak like this

[Motrellik]

DO TIM CURRY'S ACCENT PLEASE!

[RacingStarShips]

Some British accents are the opposite of "clear" like instead of pronouncing the t's in butter they do like a little pause in the middle, like bu-er.

[vybeschoo]

where are you actually from!??? i cant tell now!???

[MonsieurRibah]

I loved her accent. Amazing!!! XD

[NeonLyfe]

Good, quite upper class however.

[RudiL94]

Haha that's so bad... she has no idea what shed talking about.

[starholder5]

She looks like a leprechaun... ><

[yelome04]

@starholder5 OMG!! I COULDNT STOP LAUGHING AT YOUR COMMENT

[ZHLodhi]

@starholder5 ...except that she's hot ;)

[SexyJ1991]

@starholder5  lmfao!

[qiovanni]

@starholder5

yes a really hot Leprechaun hahaah!

[louis27195]

wow shes pretty good :)

[khanteechit]

@xReqaah i believe she's from Seattle.

[yaffanato]

BBC.

[codeworddope66]

0:15

Lool what about chavs?

[ROFLyaz]

this is like the fuckin high class british accent hahah , i want the manchester one :)

[CorrsCorrsCorrs]

didn't quite sound english at the beginning but by the end it was pretty perfect :) and yeah you can't call it a british accent, it's english, that's broad enough. i've never met anyone scottish or welsh that talks like that.

[Kay170312]

Kate Middleton's possible double? haha.

[supagreencake]

hahahaahahahaah budder

[mrtundra45]

fuck the queens english. lol

[woodsliving]

i am english and she is close but she has talent but its just not right

[234Ayla]

there is such thing as a english acsent

[OoohAPurpleTurtle]

very higher class english accent just so you know

[katrinawithfanta]

this is so true i'm British

[nomdesouris]

Damn, Amy Walker, props to you - you're pretty versatile, and your advice on all these little clips is simple and practical, offering a good way into approaching the business of learning accents. I mean, it's not QUITE accurate (it wouldn't convince a Brit because it's too generic - pretty much everyone has some flavour of regional accent, regardless of social strata) but it's about a zillion times better than that silly, earnest woman from the How To vids who thinks we all say "coffehh".

[Thekeanefanable]

LOL

[MrCarrottoppings]

to be honest of all the people that attempt the british accent on here she definitely isn't the worst :D well done by the way :)

[miticailly]

everyone are own english accent!! ahah

[BanananaGuy]

I'm from Scotland, last time I checked, that was still part of Britain.

[mnosugi]

@danhebson123 i find it funny how you think all americans think you talk like that...not ALL americans think that just as not ALL of 'you' talk like that.

[danhebson123]

i find it funny how all americans think we talk like this

[MoonschoolGamer]

Non of us from Birmingham speak like this ...

[usmcvmi1992]

Amy... I would kill to meet you!! I love the different accents of the world and you have mastered them beautifully!

[LadyMerc25]

Try and do a true Scottish accent, complete with lingo.

[EdinburghTiger]

American accent is rather close to low class accent and very very cheap I think

[CelisseCazzola445]

Download the audio from this video at speedyconversion doht cohm.

[jamesrobtonyadams]

There's no such thing as 'Standard British English accent' - it's called Received Pronunciation...

[SEzzar3110]

WILLY WAGGLE

[slimshadow175]

I don't get what shes on about with the O's

[DirectHamster]

Sounds like my British Grandmother XD Scary...

[EndlessEyesOfFate]

You sound like a BBC news reporter! LMAO!

[GinaHardstyleBaby]

@EndlessEyesOfFate Exactly what I thought when I seen the 1st 2 seconds xD

[Avgvstvs619]

What your saying is true but the population of England south of Birmingham is more than 2% of the population of England. I think it's fair too say that this accent is mainly spoken around the home counties area.

[emily2u97]

JULIE ANDREWS , ok sorry i feel better now , so im going to watch mary poppins now bye !

[jokermethis]

This is the best English accent I've heard from an American, it's not overly posh, she kind of sounds like Julie Andrews or the BBC before the 70s. I'm from the south of England and I hear a few people talking like this, mainly lecturers though.

[LOVxxE]

Still AMAZING THOUGH... i know so many who speak like this...

[LOVxxE]

HAHA, i dont say my 'T's' in some words lol This is a really posh British accent to me, we dont all speak like this... haha

[ThePonicar]

@KennsReview

She has a pacific northwestern accent, grew up in seattle haha

[idleswine]

harn wok..solly was tie pin in the drak.........

[idleswine]

Amy Walker has a phenomenal gift for accents, and must have put in some very harn wok. It certainly has paid off " t-Top hole old spoon!"

[teresa77rivas]

i nailed the british accent but the russian is hard!

[andiejanefisher]

Was it just me or did she say, "The conTinents are generally crisp and clean"?? Slip of the tongue I guess. Doesn't really give a phonemic explanation with ambiguous words like "pure" and "round" but as a demonstration it is pretty spot on.

[sohailsiadat]

more British pleaease!

[yulichish]

what nationality is this girl?

[malloryt19]

@yulichish i think she's from seattle, washington

[mcelpott]

briitian is a good country

[Whamesl0l]

@mcelpott not anymore its not

[2k7friends2k7]

..i never knew you wanted to talk like the queen :l

[dragonwalls]

lol dont sound anything like ngish beaucse i am from the uk :) lol

[mcelpott]

thatamazingbut but we are not this posh

[atfatw]

@mcelpott

and you never will be. you wretched woad-swampies are stupid, brutish, myrmidons fit only for work and nothing else. you must be kept from voting and let others make crucial and ordinary decisions for you!

[fydyh]

i like that, clear and crisp

[kururujang]

i want to learn the accent the series "skins" used. esp. cooks one.

[atfatw]

brits suck Amy!

[Banziafy]

@atfatw your face

[atfatw]

@Banziafy

well, well, well, another insane stupid british wretch. your kind

is an effeminate, crepulent, pusilanimous tranny. a brutish subhuman fit only for work and nothing else. and they let you vote.

[Banziafy]

@atfatw well why do brits suck?

[peace244556677]

Okay i love you and everything but it is real offensive when people think we talk like that coz only about 5% of england actually speak like that

[xThatBirdx]

u sound like my prof at oxford (i.e. really posh). if u really want to blend u need to drop the "t" and sometimes "d" in the middle of words. example: instead of "better" ud say "be'er" or insted of "hurdle" ud say "hur'le". If u tlk posh like u did in the video in Liverpool for ex., ppl will know ur not genuinely english, bcuz no 1 really tlks that proper. u need to incorporate the slang. Even in america ppl surely dont all talk like a professor; they use slang too, id wager.

[THODNA]

@xThatBirdx Quite right about dropping the t's and d's, but when you say no one really talks that properly, I beg to differ. I know of quite a few people down around Surrey that really do talk like that, and hell, I sometimes find myself slipping into that sort of accent.

[Tcreature358]

I've seen you do Irish really well, but could you do Scottish?

[thelethaface]

she makes a sex face after every video lol

[SamuraiJack031]

@thelethaface YEAH MAN, BRO I SUPPORT YOU GOOD FOR YOU BRO!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sonitaaaz]

Wow shes really good. All her videos are good as!

[legendarybloodfang]

do a chinese accent XDDDD

[daisydropper]

She has some wobbles, but it's pretty good :P

[X3crazyidiot]

Good Standard English, but it's an English accent, not a British accent. There is no 'British accent', the general accents in England, Wales, (Northern) Ireland and Scotland are all vastly different.

[theKoKo32]

don't you just hate the way they generalise the 'British' accent? as if there is only one!?

There's probably 10 within 1000 square metres haha

[noemina15]

@theKoKo32 well, that's the same i think for every accent in the world....she just cant know each of it!

[Holyfiremolotov]

Please do a South Yorkshire accent, that would be so ace, no one ever does it very well and I imagine you'd be very good at it. :D

[juspat2]

please do the two Irish (north and regular) accents!

[Kishwick]

it sounds so fancy

[psychoticIndie]

Amy, i really like you but i should hate you for saying your accent is British. Britain has 3 countries. Wales, England and Scotland. Each 3 countries has got thousands of different accents and the British accent is a term the BBC used to use. They got rid of that term because 99% of the UK got pissed.

[GabbyGenevieve]

@psychoticIndie You do realise that people do the same for the US, right? Might not be several countries, but it's several times the size of the UK and people still say "American" accent even though there are many accents, and they're really probably just talking about a Midwestern US accent, though most of the population speaks nothing like that. It's just a matter of generalisation and it's not really a big deal....

[new2hackin]

@psychoticIndie

She said standard british english, not standard british.

[memuver]

Not standard British at all, accent of British aristocracy (done very well though).

[LilDP]

For some reason I really like when you switch from a British accent to a US accent.

[FreedomOfTheUSA]

@LilDP *American accent.

I'm assuming you're one of those people who try to say we aren't "Americans" because "America" is a continent. Fuck you.

[LilDP]

@FreedomOfTheUSA LOL... wow. So much unwarranted hate. I'm not sure why. Fine Americans...yeesh. Much love to you too...

[LilDP]

@FreedomOfTheUSA PS...assuming...just makes an ass out of you, and you alone in this case. Lighten the hell up and live a little.

[KaylaHere]

@FreedomOfTheUSA I get pissed when people say that lol.

[dragonwalls]

lol just sounds normal to me beaucse i am from the uk lol :P

[inchaoswetrust]

that's not standard...not in Hackney anyway :-)

[darkpal123]

i love britsh womans accents, i think its very hot :)

[DaveLowe28]

Great ... if you wanna talk like the queen or about 2% of the population.

[darknesswithinu]

@DaveLowe28 sooo true...

[tashlentine]

@DaveLowe28 yeah or Julie Andrews 40 years ago lol :)

[roxie218]

@DaveLowe28

I believe that is why she said standard, of course there's differences in region dialects.

[DaveLowe28]

@roxie218

But that couldn't be considered standard. A more average british accent would be somewhere around the Yorkshire accent. This is only standard to Americans who expect this because of TV and film. It's not an insult but the stereotype does annoy me.

[roxie218]

@DaveLowe28

Have you ever thought about asking her who she studied when learning the accent? Don't you think that it's better telling the person in an actual message helping them if you feel that strongly about it, and tell her why she's wrong. Instead of having to hear another video of her accents since the stereotype bugs you. It'll be a win win.

[einootspork]

@DaveLowe28 Or if you want to talk like people who read the news, I guess :P

[lotsofcooki3s]

@DaveLowe28 Or if you want to pronounce the language like it was intended to be spoken.

[Avgvstvs619]

@DaveLowe28 I talk like that, and alot of people I know, it's not as uncommon as some English like to make it out to be.

[DaveLowe28]

@Avgvstvs619 You're obviously in the 2% I mentioned. It's regional variations but I promise barely anyone further North of Birmingham talks like this. It's stereotypical of me to assume that only posh Southerners talk like this but I bet that's you and the people you know.

[regelemihai]

@DaveLowe28

Oh knock it off! 2% of the entire English population use the standard English accent? It's like saying that a small fraction of Americans use the standard American accent. If this were true no one could ever spot an English person or an American.

[DaveLowe28]

@regelemihai

A British accent is certainly recognisable no matter what part of Britain you are from, but, this is just one of hundreds of regional dialects. They all have a certain ring to them but they're all VERY different. Are you trying to say that a Texan and New Yorker sound the same? But I bet everyone would know they're American.

[regelemihai]

@DaveLowe28

Exactly! That's my point. They sound different but so different as to make them foreign to one another. Even an outsider will recognize the difference in the accents but he'd still know that both are American. In the same token you cannot say that only 2% of English people talk like English people. The many varieties don't override the pervasive standard accent that is relegated with that specific country. Texas or NY, they are still more American than anything else.

[DaveLowe28]

@regelemihai

I get what you're saying. She is most certainly using a British accent. My problem is that this is not a standard for Britian and only a small minority actually speak like this. I'm not saying she's wrong at all, but rather this accent is considered standard by everyone apart from British people due to the media.

[regelemihai]

@DaveLowe28

You're the Brit here so I'll take your word for it, but it still seems a bit odd to think that a minority of the population speaks with a standard british. I can't think of many English actors who are not Posh. But anyway...

[DommesTemp]

@regelemihai I think that's exactly the problem - foreigners are far more likely to see someone like Hugh Grant, Hugh Laurie, Kate Beckinsale, Prince Charles etc. on their TVs. But the original poster is right - very few people actually talk with that kind of pure British accent. In fact, I think I've met about 4 and I've lived in England my whole life.

[regelemihai]

@DommesTemp

Listen, I'm not saying that all use the accent to that degree of perfection and "poshness" like the one we hear in movies. But regardless, the accent is still an English one overwhelmingly, wouldn't you say? Otherwise, as I said before, no one would ever recognize a Brit if the majority of Englishmen speak with totally different accents than the standard one.

[regelemihai]

@DommesTemp

Listen, I'm not saying that all use the accent to that degree of perfection and "poshness" like the one we hear in movies. But regardless, the accent is still an English one overwhelmingly, wouldn't you say? Otherwise, as I said before, no one would ever recognize a Brit if the majority of Englishmen speak with totally different accents than the standard one.

[regelemihai]

@ DommesTemp

In other words, it would be the same as saying that the accent spoken by Brad Pitt, Ryan Seacrest, and Barak Obama are not representative of the majority of the population. It's silly.

[slantedseven]

@regelemihai Each region of Britain has its own accent. The Scots are British - they clearly don't speak with the accent shown here, 'Received English'. Look up Scouse, Scottish, Yorkshire, Cockney, Somerset and Devon accents - these are all spoken individually more commonly than Received English. Everyone on the BBC world service used to talk like that though, which I think is where the rest of the world gets the idea we all speak the same.

[BanananaGuy]

@slantedseven even the regions you mentioned have dozens of separate accents, the UK is the world's most diverse country in terms of accents.

[rohit270794]

@BanananaGuy i hope you are saying that only with respect to english accents....coz in india,we have far more accents for our languages than any other country.....

[BanananaGuy]

@rohit270794 I'm sorry if I caused any confusion. I know India speaks many languages as a nation but I meant on terms of one language.

[DommesTemp]

@DaveLowe28 Right, but you're actually affirming what the poster himself said. If an American woman created a YouTube video of herself speaking in a New York accent and said "this is how Americans talk", wouldn't you say "wait, that's only how a small percentage of us speak"?

[DommesTemp]

@regelemihai see my response to DaveLowe28 for an explanation.

[rys456]

@DaveLowe28 i'm british and i really do talk like that. i'm not posh or anything it's just that i'm not an illiterate chav who can't speak properly

[anthosaur]

beautiful!