is to use a lot of intonation in how you speak

'yeah, I think that was probably the most daunting part of taking on this character so as a joke

I suggested to Marvel that I should go to a high school undercover

when Tom Holland speaks... it's kind of like he's singing

he kind of goes up and down and he pauses

and his pauses actually add a lot of meaning and depth to the sentence

it was great man, you know, I mean

I've always dreamed of being spiderman since I was a little kid

his dad is a stand-up comedian

(Tom) was taught from a young age how to present and how to time his words

can we just put on like ten minutes of clips of Tom Holland or do we actually...

Hi guys welcome to this video, my name's Mike I teach English and Arabic on YouTube

today we're gonna be spending this video looking at Tom Holland's accent

his mannerisms, talking about how much of a great guy he is

I love him, the world loves him, and I really hope you get something out of this

find it interesting or if you just love Tom just watch it and enjoy it

now the first thing you got to do if you want to sound like Tom Holland

is you've got to speak with a British accent

now Tom Holland, I'm not talking about the Peter Parker high school Queens kid

I'm talking about Tom Holland from southwest London [Kingston] who says things like

'well, yeah, they wanted me to audition for Billy Elliot. So I was like, alright fair dos'

like when he was a kid

he actually had a really strong cockney accent now as he's grown up

I mean when he was like 12/13/14 he was singing and speaking with a Geordie accent

♪ I can't really explain it. I haven't got the words ♪

♪ It's a feeling that you can't control ♪

Billy Elliot is set in County Durham where they have the Newcastle accent basically

Geordie accent... and then of course he was in films

he's in movies

he's been doing the American accent in spider-man

'Peter Parker here to pick up a passport, please'

and between you and me, I think...

Tom Holland, might have kind of forgotten what his accent is

I'm not going to go deep into the British accent and how to speak with a British accent

you can spend years and years literally studying every day how to speak with a British accent

and the other thing is there's so many different accents within the UK

it can get really, really complicated and very esoteric and very niche and...

I just want to share with you some very quick examples

so if you're for example learning English and you're learning it the American way

take these four words here:

turn

learn

farm

yarn

notice how when I say them I'm not pronouncing the 'R' in the middle of the letter

turn

learn

farm

yarn

now an American saying these would say:

something like...

turn

learn

farm

yarn

they would pronounce the 'R' in the middle of the word as a British speaker... British English speaker

you don't pronounce the 'R' in the middle of the word... you just say:

turn

learn

farm

yarn

again, similarly at the end of the word if you have a word like 'better' an American would say 'better'

so there's two differences there

they pronounce the 'T' as a 'D' and they pronounce the 'R' at the end of the word

whereas in England, we don't pronounce the 'R' when it's at the end of a word

we would say 'better'

harder

faster

stronger

we just end it in it like 'a' sound

whereas an American would say harder better faster stronger

so they'd pronounce the 'R' at the end of the word

he says things like...

as opposed to Michael and I think this is why Tom's accent is so popular

it's kind of that Cockney accent, but at the same time it's kind of quite a formal cockney accent

he's not like some geezer on a street corner

trying to sell you some watch from his jacket or something

he's just kind of like he's speaking quite well but he's got a very subtle cockney (accent) in there

I'm not even sure if Tom's aware of this but of course as he's gone through life... he's only 22, right?

he's been acting pretty much his whole life... he was on stage at 12 in Billy Elliot

and he was doing a Geordie accent for that

and then he goes to America and he's Peter Parker in spider-man, he's in movies

he's shooting films... by the way, he does say movie

auditioning for this movie was incredibly pressurising

because I wasn't just auditioning in front of the producers

I was auditioning in front of the whole world

that's an American (dialect) but he's picked that up and that's kind of an example

of the thing I'm about to talk about which is how his accent has become less British

less London, less cockney and more kind of international English

look at the way that Tom himself doesn't quite know how to say Atlanta

yeah, I mean on my last audition I was told to stay in Atlanta

I then left Atlanta after two weeks because I was like, well, I obviously haven't got it

Is that your water, or is that my water?

it was like rugby meets basketball meets UFC fighting

It was literally the worst day worst three days of my life

As someone who's kind of grown up speaking so many different accents

and has been a voice actor. He's been on stage

He's been in different films. He's interviewing in the States.

He's trying to use language appropriate words over there

So that the Americans aren't going 'who the hell is this guy? I don't understand where he's saying'

he has to be very careful about the words he uses so...

you know Tom Holland's accent is actually complicated

It's evolving and it does change day to day like on his Instagram...

if you watch his Instagram videos and his Instagram stories

He sounds a lot more 'London'

that was sick!

I am so excited and I've been trying to keep this a secret for so long and I now just can't I can't do it.

So I think one of the reasons why people love Tom Holland, you know...

... is that he's just such a down-to-earth guy, you know like and

He he has these characteristics that he uses when he speaks

So he he says for example, 'you know' quite a lot at the end of each sentence, you know

He's looking for that kind of affirmation - an agreement

and it lets the audience and whoever's listening to him kind of

feel like they're part of it, you know?

You know, you know when you revise for an exam and you feel like you crushed it

but the longer you wait for the results the more you think you kind of... [he's British, by the way]

Robert's great, you know, it's really fun to work with him and he came at the perfect time

We were making the movie and you know it's hard

you work 15 hours every day and he came and

brought like a whole new burst of energy, you know?

you know I think the best advice probably came from my dad, you know

Tom has a slightly higher voice than most people and I would say I probably do as well

I'm kind of speaking a little bit higher than I normally would right now to kind of imitate Tom Holland

But he definitely has a high voice

So if you were trying to replicate like the way that Tom Holland speaks

then just choose from where you would normally speak

I'd normally speak about down here

But maybe just go like a couple of tones higher

and you'll notice that Tom Holland's actually got a pretty high voice

No, they don't give anyone the script. I did read the script. Did you?

Yes - of course they're not gonna give you the script.

When he's in conversation with like another guy with like a much deeper voice

Sometimes you will pick up on the fact that he has a quite a high voice

Tom does a lot of hesitation when he

talks, you know and

he kind of

it's quite an endearing thing when you're particularly in the British kind of dialect and

the style of the British accent is to kind of

you know pause and make noises with your mouth and just

kind of reflect on what you're about to say before you actually say it and Tom does this quite a lot

Oh, yeah, man. Yeah, it's um

it's been a crazy crazy process for me because Civil War was such a rushed

you know...

movie for me because I literally was cast, came in, did two weeks and then left

Tom does this thing where he accidentally says a swear word

when he shouldn't and then gets really apologetic

I literally like ate sh*t

sorry Sony, I ate... I fell over

that's ******... sorry, that's disgusting

I kinda thought that maybe people would take the piss a little bit and mess around

sorry

I had strict instructions not to swear but I'm from England - it's what I do it's what we do.

His voice is constantly changing pitch

and he kind of goes up at the end and it kind of leaves you wanting more

because when you go up at the end...

you know there's more coming

I was kind of planning to move out here to LA

but now I'm only just moving five minutes away from my mum.

were you there when I threw water on Sam when he was sleeping?

Tom Holland is a fantastic storyteller

If you want to sound like Tom Holland, you need to learn how to tell a story

I mean this guy can make people laugh. He's like a natural comedian

he's always got a smile on his face, he doesn't take life too seriously

he's always joking about and that's I think why he's got 15 million followers on Instagram

and is just an amazing guy

and the world loves him

and then my little brother Paddy goes...

who's Madonna!?

He's like, he's really an amazing guy I really like him - big fan and if you're watching Tom

Hello. Love you. Okay, enough of that.

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