In this video, I'm going to teach you 12 words to learn the British accent.

Now, with these 12 words, you'll learn how to understand the British people better.

But not only that, with these words, you'll learn different sounds that we use all the time in British English.

And you will be able to apply these sounds to other words as well.

And with a little bit of practice and a little bit of time, you can too start sound British, if that's what you want.

I don't know.

Good luck with that.

Anyway, let's begin.

All right, guys.

So the first word that I want you to learn to sound more British.

British, is this word: brother.

All right.

You pronounce it first. .

Brother

OK.

Let me break down how British people pronounce this word.

The first sound is bro-.

I want you to imagine this sound is going up, bro-.

The second sound is -ther.

So we've got a voice th sound, and the shwa, uh, th.

Brother.

The first sound and the second sound are quite similar.

We've got an uh and uh.

So we have brother.

Have you got it? They're quite similar sounds but they are two different sounds in English.

Ok.

This is quite different to American English.

In American English, pronouncing the r, at the end of the word, there's this kind of a rounding of the "r" that we don't do in British English.

We leave it open.

My mouth is still open.

To practice this, you can just practice saying this word by asking, "Who are you?"

I'm your brother.

You're my what?

I'm your brother.

Really?

I'm your brother.

OK. If you say so, Reckon Stark,

Are you ready for your next word to sound British. You pronounce it first.

Where.

Now, as I said before, British people, we don't really like pronouncing Rs, unless they're at the beginning of a word.

So here, even though R is in the middle of the word, we don't really pronounce it.

So instead of saying where in American English, we just leave it open.

It's just one sound, the two vowels E and E joining together.

And we have this kind of long sound.

Also with this word, how do you pronounce it?

There.

Again, we have the th. OK?

Practice pronouncing that and similar to this, let's move on to the next word.

OK, so I just told you that we pronounce this word there.

So how do we pronounce this word?

No, in British English, you'd pronounce it here.

Again, we don't pronounce the R in the middle of the word, but it's two sounds.

So we've got, he, uh, here.

We're not pronouncing the R.

In American English, this would just be one sound and the R at the end here, here.

In British English, he uh here, it's also similar to this word, which has exactly the same pronunciation hear.

OK.

So the next word that you need to learn to sound British is this word.

How do you pronounce it potato?

Now, in American English, they pronounce the second t more like a d but in British English, we really want you to pronounce those Ts, OK?

TS with a fine tea practice your ts.

Nice.

If you want to speak very proper English, you want to very much pronounce your ts with a cup of tea.

OK?

So you'd pronounce it po ta to, to, not potato, potato, that's American.

It's got like a d sound, potato.

And this word, how do you pronounce it?

Tomato?

No, in British English we kind of change the pronunciation of the A it becomes tomato.

OK.

This is to do with how the language has evolved and we actually pronounce this using a an outdated pronunciation um rule.

Um So we pronounce potato but we pronounce tomato.

Ato ato OK.

Tomato, anybody who speaks British English will pronounce it tomato and not tomato.

That is American English.

OK.

So I was just telling you about pronouncing your teas if you want to sound British.

So you already know how to pronounce this word bottle, bottle.

Fantastic.

And this word water, water, not bottle and water like it would be in American English.

Now, let me tell you though, in Britain, not everybody always pronounces the T we have something called a glottal stop.

The glottal stop means basically you take away the T and there's like a little space in between the two vowels.

OK.

Instead, and this is very typical in the UK.

And uh it's very recognizable of something that is British and British pronunciation.

So instead of saying bottle, you'll say bottle, bottle, OK?

And instead of saying water, you'll say water, water.

So it becomes bottle water, bottle of water.

OK?

Practice that bottle of water.

Um What do you want?

Pick of a bottle of wire?

Now, don't you mean bottle of water?

Pick of a bottle of wire?

Oh You mean bottle of water?

Take it a bottle of wire, bottle of water?

I think he means OK, guys, we're getting towards the end of the video.

But if you want to learn the British accent, you must learn how to pronounce this word Tuesday, Tuesday, not Tuesday.

That would be the American pronunciation, but the British pronunciation is Tuesday with a Chuck ch chup sound Tuesday and this word tuna, tuna got it.

You're starting to sound British.

Let's put it to the test.

How do you pronounce this word brother and this word mother.

What about this one?

Where?

And this one? There?

And how about that one? Here?

And that one? Hear?

And how do you pronounce this word potato and that word tomato?

And how about that word, bottle or bottle?

And that word water or water?

And finally, how do we pronounce that word Tuesday and that one tuna?

Fantastic.

Hopefully you're starting to sound British and you understand more about British accent and British pronunciation.

Keep learning and I'll see you in the next video.

Bye.