of the Ultimate British Pronunciation course.
The free e-book for this course is on my website,
Have you seen the show, "The Boys"?
You know the character Billy Butcher?
Now yes, he looks like John the Cockney English teacher.
But also, listen to his accent.
with her ass in the harbor that says different.
Spank the bastards when they here alive.
- The actor is from New Zealand.
But, this is what I imagine happened when they cast him
- So listen, Karl, Butcher is from London, right?
- I think I can do a bit of Cockney!
- Yeah, like way more. - Like, ridiculously more.
- Well maybe something like this, geezer!
- I'm a proper Cockney lad from London Town!
- Well, I am having palpitations.
- I know, like, where are we right now?
- I can wear a leather jacket and everything!
- All right, so like this, but all the time.
Stick on the custard and jelly!
A bit of Dicky Dirt, Bob's your uncle!
- Don't get me wrong, I love the show.
Everything is amazing about that show.
But, they definitely didn't consult a dialect coach
because his accent doesn't sound natural at all.
One of the main reasons is this characteristic
of British pronunciation, which I'll show you today.
It's changing the 'th' sound for 'f' or a 'v' sound.
Changing the 'th' for a 'f' or a 'v',
But, when people are learning British accents,
and it sounds really unnatural and a bit weird.
I'm going to show you how we use it, when we use it,
and which accent styles use it more often.
So, this characteristic is way more common
in Cockney and Northern English accents.
But, if you want to get an RP, a posh British accent,
But, I recommend that you learn it so you understand it
Well, 'f's offer unvoiced 'th' sounds.
Wait, what is an unvoiced 'th' sound, what?
Example, in the word everything.
Everything, 'th'.
do it with me, but put your hand here.
When there's no vibration when you make that sound,
that is called an unvoiced sound.
So this, that's an unvoiced 'th'.
And those 'th' sounds, that the unvoiced ones,
you can replace for 'f' sounds.
And it doesn't matter where in the word the 'th' is.
Beginning, middle, end, doesn't matter.
For example, thank you, everything, bath.
first normal and next we'll change it.
Bath.
Say it with me. Repeat with me.
Bath.
The other 'th' is the voiced sound.
in words like these, those, clothes, leather.
Again, make the 'th' sound, put your hand here.
This time, you can feel the vibration, right?
vibration, 'v',
You can change those two 'v' sounds.
With.
when the word begins with a voiced 'th' sound,
don't change it to a 'v' sound.
That's not a style and no one uses that.
All right, let's practice that pronunciation together
This is the Thursday that three thugs
in leather jackets danced together.
Personally for me, again, if you ask about my accent,
I'm just very standard London.
I'm just somewhere in the middle.
There's nothing special about my accent at all.
And personally, I would pronounce all the 'th's normally.
I wouldn't change them for 'f' or 'v'.
But, remember what doesn't sound natural is changing
Just like in that show, "The Boys",
that just doesn't sound natural.
And if you want to change the 'th' sound, it's important
to learn it because then you can understand it
This is the Thursday that three thugs
in leather jackets danced together.
And yes, you do have to look angry when you say it.
But yeah, it of course sounds really weird
if you change everything all the time.
So my advice, like always, is to use a mix.
Sometimes use the Fs and the Vs.
Think of it like putting salt on your eggs.
You don't want too much everywhere.
That's weird and it ruins everything,
All right, this is kind of fun, actually.
we're going to change all of them just so you can feel
how it sounds, so you understand when you hear.
Three Thursdays ago, I met my father.
Can't live with you, can't live without you.
Either that leather jacket goes, or I go.
Okay but also, sometimes we drop the 'th' altogether.
- All right, these two jackets are really old.
Do you want to throw them, keep them?
So, she wants to know the action.
Remember sentence stress and intonation,
weak forms, this is kind of related to that.
We can drop the 'th' in some words,
like pretty much just the word them,
But anyway, after important verbs,
when we focus on the verb, then we can drop the 'th'
in them, like in this example.
- Or?
- Oh.
- Put them on eBay, sell them.
- Okay.
- Throw them, have them, sell them, kiss them.
Now in writing, you'll see this as 'em.
That just means they removed the 'th'.
In those examples, the verb is the focus, so it's okay
But, don't drop the 'th' in them
Now we're focusing on the pronoun, not the action
because we're contrasting two different things.
Everything we've learned today and in previous lessons,
with these three example sentences.
Remember, this course is about building
and developing your own unique British pronunciation style.
So, plan how you want to say them.
Try a few different ways if you want to.
I'll give you how I say it as an example.
So, the first one is my mother's a doctor,
Notice that the schwa is just everywhere.
My mother's a lawyer, my father is a doc.
My mother's a doctor, my father's a lawyer.
But, the 'th' sounds in that sentence,
Do you want to change them for Fs or no?
The second one, thanks for the leather jacket.
I don't change the 'th' for Fs and Vs.
So for me, yeah, thanks for the leather jacket.
I do use the glottal T, though, leather jacket.
You choose how you want to say it.
There's a little bit of connected speech.
We'll talk about connected speech in a later video.
How's your, we could connect it how's your, how's your.
And remember, if you haven't already,
make sure you download my free e-book,
the "Ultimate Pronunciation Guide".
You can get it from my website, PapaTeachMe.com.
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