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Pratique du shadowing : Why is it "Bo'o'o'wo'ah" in a Cockney Accent?

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  1. How to pronounce bottle of water like a British person.0:00
  2. Now I say British, but really I mean like me.0:03
  3. A boring, standard London person.0:07
  4. Not posh, not cogney, just standard.0:10
  5. So first, this T can be replaced with a glottal T.0:14
  6. What's a glottal T?0:18
  7. Say the words uh oh, uh oh, uh oh.0:20
  8. Notice your throat closes in the middle.0:24
  9. When your throat closes, it stops the airflow, stops the sound coming out.0:26
  10. That stoppage replaces the T sound.0:31
  11. In some words, some of the time.0:36
  12. Practice with me.0:39
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  1. Bottle, bottle, bottle.0:41
  2. Are you saying bottle or bottle?0:43
  3. You need to have that stop to get the glottal T.0:47
  4. Bottle, bottle.0:50
  5. Now me, boring man from London, I say the true T.0:52
  6. Bottle, a cockney might glottalise this.0:55
  7. Bottle, but I do something that cogneys also do.0:59
  8. And that is replace the L sound at the end of words to a uh sound.1:04
  9. So instead of bottle, notice my tongue taps the front of my mouth.1:11
  10. Bottle, my tongue doesn't touch anything.1:16
  11. Bottle, bottle.1:20
  12. Say it with me, bottle.1:22
  13. Cockney, you can do glottal T all.1:23
  14. Bottle, bottle.1:26
  15. Say it with me, bottle.1:28
  16. Nice, me, boring man.1:30
  17. Bottle, also totally fine.1:33
  18. Bottle.1:35
  19. If you want to be very posh about this, change this to a plosive.1:36
  20. The sound comes out the side of your mouth, like this.1:41
  21. Bottle, bottle.1:44
  22. The front of your tongue is touching here.1:47
  23. And the air almost explodes out the sides.1:50
  24. Bottle, cull, cull.1:53
  25. Bottle.1:56
  26. See, you try it.1:58
  27. Bottle.1:59
  28. So let's break this down.2:00
  29. Posh, bottle.2:02
  30. Me, boring.2:03
  31. Bottle, cockney.2:05
  32. Bottle.2:06
  33. Now when we talk about glottal T's, it's very important to emphasise that you probably don't want to glottalise the T when it's between two vowel sounds.2:07
  34. So here, war, ta, two vowel sounds or a.2:19
  35. War, you can, it's very cockney and it's fine.2:24
  36. Boring London person, water.2:29
  37. Posh, definitely water.2:31
  38. Posh people do not glottalise this.2:33
  39. And posh people might emphasise the schwa a little bit more, like this.2:36
  40. Water.2:41
  41. Normal, water.2:42
  42. Do you hear the difference?2:43
  43. It's very slight, but it is there.2:44
  44. A cockney, however, they will up the schwa like this.2:47
  45. Ah, war, ah, war, ah.2:51
  46. Water, water.2:54
  47. War, ah.2:56
  48. You can also put a schwa here of, there's one more element to this.2:57
  49. That's connected speech.3:02
  50. Because this ends in a consonant sound, that next word begins with a vowel sound.3:03
  51. This is now like the L has moved to the beginning of the next word.3:10
  52. Not the end of that first word.3:16
  53. Well, I do have the option, I could say bottle.3:18
  54. A bottle of water, a bottle of water.3:22
  55. When I'm drunk, I think I say that.3:25
  56. Usually I don't.3:27
  57. Usually it's just bottle of water.3:29
  58. Notice also, the cockneys use catination too.3:31
  59. We all do.3:35
  60. This is British pronunciation.3:36
  61. This is connected speech.3:38
  62. He still uses the glottal T, bottle of water.3:40
  63. Yes, he can remove the F altogether, bottle of water.3:43
  64. But you still have the l here, bottle of water.3:48
  65. Bottle of water.3:52
  66. So in the means when you hear bottle of water, no.3:53
  67. Now you know how to say it.3:58
  68. In cockney, standard boring London man and posh.3:59
  69. Bottle of water, bottle of water.4:03
  70. Bottle of water.4:06
  71. So I think of British pronunciation on a spectrum, where all these characteristics of British pronunciation live.4:07
  72. Glottal T's, changing L's for words, the schwa and how big we pronounce it.4:15
  73. It's all on a big spectrum of everything, like life.4:21
  74. But the one thing I need you to understand about today's lesson, one pronunciation style is not better than another.4:25
  75. So posh is not better than my accent or a cockney accent.4:34
  76. That's just classism dressed up as linguistics.4:39
  77. It's a lie.4:43
  78. If anyone tells you that the posh accent is like the correct one or the perfect one, don't buy any of their courses.4:44
  79. Don't let them be your teacher because they're lying.4:53

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