Improve your British English Accent in 3 Steps

if you've been learning English for a while and you feel you speak with more of an American accent

or you feel your accents a mix between British and American and you'd like to change that and

speak with more of a British accent then in this lesson you will learn three ways to help you sound

more British when you speak English disclaimer by British English I specifically mean received

pronunciation and modern received pronunciation these two accents are considered the standard

form of English pronun iation in England although these two accents are considered the standard in

England they are not the only two accents to exist there are hundreds of different accents across the

UK as a whole so keep that in mind especially if you ever visit the UK If you don't want to change

your accent or you don't believe in changing your accent then you're very welcome to click off this

video and go and watch another one of my English pronunciation lessons where they're a little bit

more General and focus on articulation rather than replicate in a specific accent the reason why I'm

doing this lesson is simply because a lot of you have requested it that is all if you'd like a PDF

copy of today's lesson notes as well as an audio version of today's lesson to listen and practice

while on the go then click the link Down Below in the description let's begin with number one the r

sound British English accents tend to be non rotic while American English accents tend to be rotic

but what does this mean erotic accent essentially means that you pronounce the r sound when it

is written while in non- rotic accents like British English ones the r tends to be silent

if it is after a vowel or towards the end of a word so for example in British English the

word car is pronounced without the r however in American English they pronounce it as car

car here's another example hard hard hard hard and lastly mother mother mother mother so notice

that in American English we pronounce that R sound very strongly in British English we

don't pronounce it it's completely removed the rules to know when the r is silent in

British English are very simple if you have a vowel and then an R coming after it like in

car then you remove the r if you have a vowel an r and then a consonant sound coming after it then

you again remove the r like in hard if a word ends with e r o r a r or r e these also have a

silent R so mother is pronounced without the r the only time you pronounce the r sound is when

it's at the beginning of a word for example red or if it's in between vowels for example

around and arrow there is only one exception to this rule though if you know what it is then

comment down below if you don't then I'll tell you it's the word ion in the UK we don't say

iRun we say iron iron so listen carefully to this sentence and repeat I parked my car near

the theater I parked my car near the theater so notice that all of the RS are silent next we're

going to look at two very distinct vowel sounds a and o in British English we use the sound a it's

a very short and open sound like in cat imagine you're going to the dentist and you open your

mouth wide a cat while in American English it's more like a cat cat cat cat keep in mind that I

am not from the US so if my accent is terrible for the American English one too bad now the

second sound o in British English is very short and very round or hot while in American English

it's a lot longer and a little bit more open heart hot hot heart so let's practice the difference cat

cat hot hot now listen carefully to this sentence and repeat the cat sat on a hot pot The Cat Sat

on a hot pot now the final thing you're going to learn today is the flap T this is when you say