How to Get a British Accent
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Tell me I'm not the only one who searched "how to get a British accent" :/
nope
Same.I sound like.... well its too awful to explain. :p
Nou
55kJJ rat omg I did lol because I watch Harry Potter and I don’t wanna be a muggle lol😖😂
I literally said that
Your accent is great. It sounds mixed between British and Aussie, but very natural
Ohh aussie? That's cool haha! Thank you :-)
Not at all natural!
Adriana Gabriela doesn’t sound Australian at all lol more New Zealand because we(I am Kiwi) often get mistaken for being British just as much as we get mistaken for being a part of australia🙄 lol
You sound extreamily british
Thank you!
Laurie Robyn you have some slight twangs and it’s so cute!
You do know there are more accents in England cockney act
Extremly*
deleted my comment after seeing how good this one is
I'm watching this so I sound smart when saying everything.
Why am i watching this.....
i am british
Britan learn more from India
Your grasp of the English language is very good. From an American ear your English voice has a British accent with some other influence. Thank you for taking the time to make these videos. It's a pleasure watching you explain things from a Dutch perspective. Kudos.
It's incredible how Dutch people can speak English so good.
Right? Please, just tell me they have some kind of advantage/mental power and therefore the rest of us nonnative speakers are not just losers😂 I've been learning English for two bloody decades, for God's sake.
Daniel Matraia we have to learn English in school :)
I think that's because Dutch people begin to learn English at school at an age of 10. Also, we hear a lot of English every day, because lots of tv-programs and series we watch, are in English and because we live in a very tiny country, it's also really important for us to learn English because otherwise we couldn't understand most of the people in the world.
For example, I am 14 years old and I watch more English UA-camrs than Dutch UA-camrs and I am learning English at school since an age of 10 I think.
I think not every English sentence I made was good, but I hope you can understand me.
We are also one of the only countries in mid-Europe who mainly use subtitles for watching movies and tv-show's, instead of dubbing everything.
So "well" not so "good"! And I beg to differ.
As an English person, I can tell by your accent that you're a foreigner, but I have to say you speak English very well! Ga zo door!! Xx
Yea she always sounds like she's on TV, her accent is flat and carefully pronounced, not like someone having a conversation but rather like someone reading the news on TV :)
S Missions hahah couldn't agree more! X
Quite appropriate for both audio and video news casts, won't you agree? I think if Laurie'd settle in any part of England, she could easily blend in with the locals indistiguishably from them, language-wise.
How do you speak dutch? (Im 12 yo and Dutch so if my english is bad is thats the reason)
@@pienlommen3565 misschien google translate ;)
Why are Dutch people so good at English?
長谷川緑 Everybody gets English at school. And there even are bilingual schools in which we all have to speak English all the time, like me. We are good at English because we all have to learn English.
Liam Breebaart
Thanks 🙏
Adding to what Liam said, the Netherlands is a tiny country, so it's good to be able to speak English (as lots of people speak English too) in order to do business and things like that! 😊
To add onto this even further, there is a certain level of immersion in English that occurs in the Netherlands that doesn't occur for any language in the UK. An example is that there is substantial amount of TV programming is in English, with very limited dubbing (subbing instead.) At some times up to half the channels can be showing English language programming (at least on the TVs I've played around with)
Jasmijn
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My grandparents(of my mothers side)are Dutch but they have lived 15 years in England my mother was born in Birmingham, my father is native German just like his parents. And I'm born and raised in The Netherlands and speak all three languages quitte good in reading, writing and speech. But in general if i have to choose which language feels for me more as a native language then I rather choose English. Dutch at the other hand is my second native language.
As a Brit (born in London, living in Scotland) - well done! It's a very nice accent, I think. Good luck keeping it - there are definitely bits of Scottish creeping into mine now.
James Sutherland haha thank you!! I do love the Scottish accent though, just can't do it myself so I'd be better off sticking to "rp" 😂
It's so cute that guys try to learn Dutch because the Netherlands is a tiny land and not so popular so I like it! 🇳🇱❤️
I’m trying to learn Dutch! I really hope I can nail it like you’ve done with English
haha
You'll be having a hard time practicing. Most people in the Netherlands will be speaking to you in English. Even if you want to speak to us in Dutch, we just laugh, compliment you on trying and then proceed speaking to you in English. 😂😂
Ai A just got one question: why do you want to learn Dutch? Well, good luck!👍
heleen is right but do try though but it is hard
good luck! veel geluk!
I'm Irish, and if you told me that you were English by birth, i would have believed you. On certain words, you make non-english sounds. But really, you're accent is amazing.
Haha thank you so much!
Love the slight southern London accent. Clear and easy on the ears. Keep it up!
I grew up learning English from video games and PCs (DOS and Windows) in general, but I have been exposed to more American English begin spoken through TV and movies. I'm still proud of the fact that I was mistaken for a Canadian native by a Canadian native. :)
Ah that's good! Thank you for sharing :-)
Vow! It feels you are so authentic when you talk with your charisma and beauty
Thanks for the video! Loved watching this as it's exactly my story ..
Hi Laurie, nice south english accent , i think as i am from Schotland it has helped me pronounce Nederlands. Been in Zeeland for the last 20 years and visit home regularly. Keep doing what you are doing,as it will help a lot of students learning dat vrezeljke taal. Groetjes
Hi Laurie, I think you're doing great! I'm a Dutch native living in North England and local people can usually tell I'm not quite from their area, yet they can't place where my accent comes from. To me that is a giant compliment as they don't think I'm foreign :D
Wow! That’s great.
I want to ask you a question since you speak a good English like that
Can I be 100%undetectable
And local people can’t tell that I’m not from their area
It's just awesome.
The video is great and you are totally right 😉 Watching, listening and repeating really works! Thank you so much, your accent is wonderful!
Thank you, so sweet! Glad you agree haha :-)
I have found that most foreigners who learn English sound English because they learn English.
I know that sounds a bit weird, but it means that they are taught "proper" English, not the English "common tongue". As a result, many foreigners speak English _better_ than English and sound more English people do. Americans do not sound English because they do not learn English, they learn American English, which has different (and really stupid) rules when it comes to spelling and pronunciation.
Fun fact: In Britain, the local accent (and slang) changes noticeably every (approx) 25 miles and, as a result, two towns/cities that are 15-20 miles apart can have accents that are completely different, not just slight variations of each other - often to the point that they have difficulty understanding each other.
British english also have very stupid pronunciacion and spelling rules. In fact, i wouldn't say they are stupid. I would say both the american and the british varieties have maybe too many exceptions to the rules in general . English is a highly irregular language, only that native speakers usually don't realize about that for obvious reasons.
I'm starting to get English sounds at 28 years old, before it I was only focusing in vocabulary, etc. I don't really think that foreigners can't really get sounds of other language at all, they'll probably have more trouble, but they also still can get them with willingness and practice, I practice the whole day speaking/thinking even alone; I don't live in Britain but I still make everything possible to get used to the many ways of speaking English in Britain, as I don't consider the American accent difficult at all. But great video! I'm loving your channel, you are incredible. Thanks for sharing your experiences and knowledge with us!
Always wonder How Dutch people are so good English.The Dutch footballer Aryan Roben is the one that amazed me when I saw his interview, Great English , crazy accent
An English teacher is my dram job!💖
What helped me with acquiring an accent in a new land was so simple and it worked,I just pretended that it was music and I would mimic the sound rather than think of the words and i was commended on my good accent.
Your eyes are just fab.
Haha thank you!
I really liked this video and I totally agree with you.
I'm from Brazil, here we speak Portuguese but I'm learning English and I realize that as much as I watch British UA-camrs my English improves.
I found your channel right now and I really liked it, so now you're one of my favorite UA-camrs.
You have an amazing accent.
Congratulations!
Next year I'm going to study next to the U.K. and I hope to visit Scotland, there are amazing places like Glasgow and Edinburgh which is the capital. 👏🏻☺️
Ahh thank you, so sweet! Hope you get to visit Scotland too!
Yeah, thank you for answering me. You're really nice! 😊
I also like the British English. Your accent sounds very British and native in my ears!
Your accent is pretty fine, by the way.
Pls do more of this kind of video.. I want to learn the accent
you 'r borne to teach Miss Laurie please don't stop
brilliant, rp accent. i love it
Thank you!
Ik heb mezelf ook Engels geleerd, ik werd fan van One Direction, and that is how my British accent started! Ik was al snel goed in Engels en ik keek altijd video's van One Direction!
you are just perfect sweet pretty your accent is really clear soft and friendly think you
Aww super sweet! Thank you! :-)
Great tips 💓
Thank you for your comments! Glad you found it helpful!! X
Your accent is not forced, it's acquired and sounds purely British :) Which UK university are you attending? Is it in the southern England? (Just out of curiosity) I've studied in Reading for a year but that time was only enough to acquire a slight British accent, however, thankfully, watching the BBC news and some TV programs every day, made a huge difference.
I'm learning English about nine months and I think beautiful the British accent.
I hope to learn more in your UA-cam channel... thanks 🤗
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it.
She's really cute!!! 😱😱😱😱
You have a fascinating accent. A mix of London, Midlands, Southeast with a bit of Scottish thrown in! A tiny bit of a Dutch accent. What an achievement! Well done.
I am a college and university professor. Your R.p is more soft because of your Dutch background. Great inspirational post.... I will share it with my students.... Nice to meet you...dank je
Such a talent! I wish I had a British accent too.
Haha thank you!
i myself am from London and usually I can tell when someone is not English like when Americans do bad British accents but I would have thought you were english born your accent is really good
Ahh thank you!!
Hey laurie. You are so beautiful btw. Just commented to tell you that this video was really really helpful to me in learning the british accent.
Nikita Dhasmana thank you so much! I'm glad you find it helpful x
as a dutchy who wants to speak english on her channel.. this is soooo helpfull!
Great to hear you found it helpful! :)
Sweet
Gosh!You sound literally like Elizabeth Bennet from Pride and Prejudice.....what a great British accent(with a twist of a classical Georgian era English) you have!
Interesting point about you attributing your English accent to the malleability of your original accent. I'm from the furthers south-eastern corner of NL myself, live in Essex for some time now, and most people don't believe me when I tell them I'm not British. The really funny thing is that around 7 years ago, while visiting some of the same shops I do nowadays, I would mistakenly get identified as Canadian due to the accent I had at the time, but no-one's ever gone: "Ah-ha, I hear from your accent you're Dutch",,.
Haha ah I'm glad you're having the same thing! Always thought us Southerners could disguise it a bit better haha
Excellent
Thanks!
Well, you got me with your accent. Love the way you speak. Don't really know how to describe it but it goes well with your personality. Of the geographical location, thought that you just adapt to that accent and pick it up as you grow. Didn't know that you have to take courses later thereafter. But, it turned out beautifully as every word is fine to my understanding… It more than good. Thanks for sharing, Laurie, you're the best. Gonna good wurk on that accent... Wonder how this sounds in a British accent... kidding… Keep making great vlog, I…
-S.Lim
Im a native spanish speaker living in the U.S. My spoken english is not as good as yours. But my reading comprehension is good. You are a musician also like me and you have good ears, thats good for listening to spoken sounds.
you’ve got really wonderful accent keep it up 👍
Thanks
Hi Dutchie, you're so pretty. Have a good day ☺️
Your pronunciation is English but intonation is more like American I think.
And you sound definitely like a native :)
No her accent is not like America. Her accent is real British. You don't notice when she pronounces letter "T" is pronounced real T sound . American accent letter "T " is pronounced like D sound. For instance she pronounced word Better, later it is real British sound .
I'm Brazilian, is very normal to people here to learn English in an American accent. But that, for me, was very hard. The movements of the lip muscles, of the face, of the tongue, the intonation, basically everything sounded and felt so strange and artificial, not fluid. Then I started to pay more attention to the way Brits sounded, it was so fluid and easy to mimic, so I begin to imitate. It was easier and refreshing. Now I speak English with a very mild RP with traces of my native Brazilian accent. I really prefer to speak that way, I feel if I really sound like a Brit it'd break my identity.
wow this comment made my day!
Hi Laurie, heel knap je accent!! Ik ben op het moment mijn Britse accent aan het oefenen en hoop dat ik net zo kan klinken als jij. Xx
you're beautiful!!
leuke video👍 ik ben ook nederlands en ik spreek ook heel goed engels
The platitude is "good butter and good cheese make good English and good Friese," but there are enough differences there that no one should discount the enormous lot of hard work that went into your English sounding so effortless and natural.
This video was quite good
Yes. You got a tiny Scottish accent every now and then too. For example the "on" as you say it at 4:55. ;)
I'm also Dutch and I'm going to England for an internship in a few days.
Nog geen Hollander tegengekomen die zo fantastisch Engels spreekt! Echt supermooi!
I've been thinking about what you said about having a soft Dutch accent.
That makes sense actually; I've had similar experiences and I'm from as far south as you can go ;)
I don't think your accent is forced, nor do I hear that you're Dutch or Scottish.
Haha glad you agree! Thank you :-)
You are a great teacher.I like your style.
Sebastianus Yansen thank you!!
I sound british too when speaking english. I had that when I was young. Don't know how I got the accent. My parents are both dutch. So I didn't get the accent from them. I haven't studied in the UK and in the 70's and 80's we didn't have internet. And the game consoles and internet just came late 80's begin 90's.
Now I want to hear your Dutch accent. ;D
Good job there fella , i'm on mi way too , can you tell some movies or videos to wotch in orda to get british accent !
Hey! I like the way you sound in English. And you look like Angelica from Brazil 😋
Thank you!! :-)
i have the same accent as i am half dutch ,english
Hallo! Wat leuk dat je ook uit Nederland komt. Waar uit het zuiden kom je precies vandaan als ik vragen mag? Ik uit Limburg namelijk. Ik vraag dit vanwege dat je zei dat daardoor het accent leren iets makkelijker kon gaan.
You have a very nice British accent
i like your accent. it is so nice
Thank you!
Wow, ik woon al 15 jaar in Nederland (vanaf mijn 21ste) en heb nog steeds een Engels accent als ik Nederlands praat. Ik kom ook uit het noorden van Engeland en jij heb een betere (mooier) Engels accent als mij! Mooi man!
Ahh super lief! Dankjewel! :-) En Nederlands is nu eenmaal ook best moeilijk vaak haha!
Interesting video, I like your accent, it's British without being too British if you see what I mean. There is just a hint of another accent in there but if I didn't know you were Dutch I would struggle to place it. However it gives your voice an extra intonation and makes it definitely you, RP is somewhat dull so that extra bit sets your accent off nicely.
David Jackson thanks David 😊
aa bb. Received pronunciation. There is an excellent explanation by a knowledgeable lady who's originally from the north of England: ua-cam.com/video/nDdRHWHzwR4/v-deo.html
Hi i’m mexican, i think i can call myself a bilingual, because i can speak spanish and english, right now i’m learning dutch, i just wanted you to know that in Mexico less than a 15% of the population is bilingual, so it’s kinda sad, we have no good schools and neither good students.
I didn't focus on the content of the video.. I just noticed you have such wonderful eyes and a pretty face xD.
btw I loved the British accent thanks to you and I'm goin' to learn it
Simp
Hi! Now it's my first year in a linguistic institute, and I study to be a teacher of foreign languages as well (English and Spanish) (I'm Russian myself). I've got a question for you: when you started you first year at the university, did you revise all the grammar topics you had already learnt at school? Or did you start from learning how to teach from the first year? Since we Russians aren't generally as good at English as you the Dutch are, we are still revising all the grammar which I studied at school and at some extra-corricular language schools which I had been attending for 5 years before I went to the University, and we even learn how to speak. I wouldn't say I'm perfect at English, I still have mistakes, I might be sluggish while speaking and stuff, but anyway, I thought that it all will be different at the University. And did you have native English speakers as your teachers or only the Dutch? In my case, all our teachers are Russian, but sometimes some native English speakers (teachers or exchange students) might pop into our institute.
P.S. En ja, ik spreek ook een beetje Nederlands. Ik denk dat het een leuke taal is, als Duits die ik op school ook geleert heb, maar een beetje anders en bijzoender :)
I did repeat grammar rules as well as learn how to teach it too (kind of simultaneously). We started off at the start and then moved on to more difficult topics as we went along. We had separate classes for us practising grammar ourselves and actually practising teaching the topics, but it was done during the same period (if that makes sense).
We had mostly Dutch teachers and one native English speaker - although all of them always spoke in English in class.
Hope this helps! X
My parents are Dutch they moved to America, but by the time I was born they decided to just speak English at home so we wouldn't have a hard time in school. I really want to learn Dutch so I can communicate with other family members and know my native language! Do you have any tips?
Hey you're beautiful and awesome thanks a lot
Thank you!
I am from the netherlands
Well, picking an accent and a second language is easy for musicians and those that are musically incline cause we approach hearing and executing sounds differently.
that's so funny.. about 30 seconds into the video I thought to myself “she sounds a bit like Tanya (Burr)“ 😁
Haha really?? Love her so thank you haha!
Learning by hearing. Goed gedaan! Well Done! It s the age that matters. Learning when you are a teen differs from age 50. Still nice vid to stimulate ppl to improve
Thank you! I do agree that age matters, when you're young you're definitely more able to learn new things!
I had that comment as well with my accent, most people were confused where I was from 😂 as it “sounds british” but they know it isn’t. While some family/friends think it is forced, as they all have more ‘american’ accents. I absolutely do not force it, it is because I had an internship and eventually lived in the UK, you learn the best in the country they speak the language🤗 And you pick up the way people pronounce words, you learn new words and pronounce it as you learned it - if that makes sense??😂
Haha makes total sense to me!! I had exactly the same haha :) Thanks for leaving a comment x
Great English and accent! This was very interesting to watch :)
Thank you! Glad you found it interesting :-)
Ik spreek Nederlands met een "Kiwi" Nieuw Zeeland accent omdat ik daar geboren ben. Ik kan er niets aan veranderen en zelfs 6 jaar in Rotterdam heeft niet geholpen! Ik denk dat je heel knap bent met je Engels!
wow so lovely manner plzzz could you make some more videos??
You have no Scottish influences in your accent! I'm English, studied French and German at university and did Erasmus. Your accent is absolutely phenomenal. People who speak a foreign language as well as your are extremely rare :) Are you musical?! My theory is that people with a musical ear pick up accents better... Absolutely amazing!
TheSuda ahh thank you so much! So sweet!! I'd say I'm quite musical so maybe that could have something to do with it! :)
Süper 👍 teacher
You're very sweet. I hope you have allot of students.
you are so beautiful
dankje ik moet het echt leren voor een voice over van mmd :P
just say autumn all the time lol
you would be on of the prettiest English teacher :)
MD SHAHID KHAN RONY haha thank you!
I am learning Dutch and I went on Erasmus to Flanders. I was kinda forced myself to get the Flamish accent, since I like it a little bit more and it is also easier for me, because has some similar sounds to my native language. And I got a lot of comments (funnyly enough mostly from Limburgers), that I was not learning the “right Dutch”. It was so funny because I also had to choose between two pronunciations but I felt like I offended the other group. Do you have any similar experiences?
Hmm no not really actually! More so now from people that think it's weird I have a more English accent instead of a Dutch accent. I do get made fun of for having a southern accent in Dutch though. :)
Limburgs is funny, but it is nothing compared to either West-Vlaams or Poldernederlands :D Dutch accent in English is not really markable or easily recognizable anyway, as Russian for example.
Tilburg hiero 😂 ik hou van de engelse taal! Ik denk in het engels 😂 ik heb nooit lager dan een 7 gescoord en ik vind het zo’n fijne taal! Ik heb niet echt een accent maar ik vind de taal zo fijn, ik kom vaak ook beter uit in mijn woorden.
missmelis ja ik ben zelf ook vanaf de tweede van de middelbare school altijd gefascineerd geweest met de Engelse taal & cultuur! Zo leuk hihi 😊
Ik denk ook altijd in het engels!
Gaaf Laurie! Er zit een anglicisme in je zin.
Same here altijd die woorden die gwn niet in het Nederlands weet maar wel in het Engels
I am Kurdish born in Britain and sound American sooooooooo yeah