Name: イギリスのアクセントと方言を学ぶ - Cockney, RP, Northernなど! (Learn British accents and dialects – Cockney, RP, Northern, and more!)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T06:28:33.000Z
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and today's lesson is about accents in the U.K.

Okay, so what's the difference between an accent and a dialect?

Right. Well, an accent, as you know, is to do with pronunciation, how you pronounce the

word. Dialect is when you have a word that only people in a certain area of the country

use; it's not a national word, it's a local word that maybe people from other parts of

the country, they won't even know what it means, so that's dialect. Okay. So, let's

just have a look through some of the accents that we have in the U.K.

The one that you're probably learning as you're learning to pronounce English words is RP.

"RP" stands for "Received Pronunciation". It's a slightly strange term. "Received" where

do you receive it from? Well, maybe you receive it from your teacher.

It's a slightly strange expression, but RP, it's usually referred to by the initials.

And it's the kind of accent you will hear if you're watching BBC Television programs

or listening to BBC Radio. Not everybody on the BBC speaks with an RP accent.

The news readers tend to be RP speakers, but not always.

But the strange thing is that in this country,

only a very small percentage of people do speak with this accent.

but they tend to be people in positions of power, authority, responsibility. They probably

earn a lot of money. They live in big houses. You know the idea. So, people like the Prime Minster,

at the moment David Cameron, he went to a private school, he went to university,

Oxford, so people who have been to Oxford and Cambridge Universities often speak in

RP, even if they didn't speak in RP before they went to Oxford or Cambridge, they often

change their accent while they are there because of the big influence of their surroundings

and the people that they're meeting. So that's RP. It's a very clear accent. So, it's probably

a good idea to either learn to speak English with an RP accent, or you may be learning

with an American accent, a Canadian accent, all of those accents are very clear. Okay.

And being clear is the most important thing.

Okay, so moving on. RP, as I should have said, is mostly in the south of the country; London

and the south. So, also "Cockney" and "Estuary English" are in the south. Okay. So, Cockney

is the local London accent, and it tends to spread further out to places like Kent, Essex,

other places like that. Surrey. There's a newer version of Cockney called "Estuary English".

If you think an estuary is connected to a river, so the River Thames which flows across

the country, goes quite a long way west. So anyone living along the estuary, near the

river can possibly have this accent as well.

So, just to give you some examples, then, of the Cockney accent, there are different

features. So, one example is the "th" sound, as you know to make a "th" sound, some of

you may find it difficult anyway, "the", when you put your tongue through your teeth, "the",

but a Cockney person may not use the "the", they will use an "f" sound or a "v" sound instead

, so the word "think", "I think", they would say instead of: "think",

they would say it like that: "fink", "fink", and the top teeth are on the bottom lip, "fink".

And words like "with" that end with the "th", instead of "with",

"Are you coming wiv me?" So that is one of the things that happens with the Cockney accent.

Words like "together" would be "togever". Okay?

The number "three", t-h-r-e-e is often pronounced "free":

"We have free people coming to dinner. Free people." So, there can be confusion there,

which has a meaning in itself, "free", but if you actually mean "three",

the number three, there can be some confusion. So don't get confused by "free people".

"Oh, they're free? They're free to come?" -"No, there are three of them.

Three people who are free to come." Ah, okay.

Another example, another aspect of Cockney is the glottal stop. Words like "computer"

with a "t" in it, the "t" is not pronounced. So, some... A lot of Cockney speakers will

say: "Compuer, compuer", I don't need to write it, because you can hear I'm missing out the

"t" and doing a glottal in my throat instead: "compuer", "computer", "compuer". Okay? And

the word "matter": "Does it matter how I speak?",

"Does it maer? Does it maer how I speak?"

So, that's for you to decide: Does it matter or maer how you speak, how you pronounce?

When there is an "l" sound in a word, like in the word "milk", the word "milk",

Cockney speakers tend to make a "wa" sound where... Instead of the "l".

So, instead of: "A glass of milk", they will say:

and they "wa", go like a "w". So... And the "mail", m-a-i-l,

they might say: "The maiwl, maiwl, maiwl", it's hard for me to say. "Maiwl", rather than

"mail", the "l" you make with your tongue, on the roof of your mouth just behind

your front top teeth: "mail, le, le", but "maiwl" is the Cockney.

And there's a place in the west of the country,

which I'm sure you've heard of... Oh, I'll put it by this one.

To the west of the West Country, the country called Wales, and you've

probably heard of the Prince of Wales, one of the royal family.

strong Cockney speaker, with a very strong accent tends to pronounce it like: "Wows",

not "Wales", but "Wows", which is like saying "wow" with an "s" on the end.

But it's actually "Wales". So these are some examples of that.

And one more aspect of Cockney is the letter "h"...

"Harry" would be pronounced "Arry", and "have" where you make the "h" sound "hu", "ave".

So, the Cockney speaker tends to miss off the "h". Okay, so okay that's just a few examples

of how the Cockney accent differs from RP.

Okay, so now we have a little bit more space, we'll move on a little bit further north.

And the Midlands is an area of the country about a hundred miles or more north of London,

the Midlands, which is in the middle of the country.

and the West Midlands. I happen to come from the East Midlands. So my accent is now, because

I now live in London and I've lived in London for a long time, my accent changed gradually

after I moved. But there is still a little bit of a mixture in my accent. For example,

I still say words like "bath" and "path",

which is the same as the American and Canadian

pronunciation. Lots of people say "bath" and "path", but the RP pronunciation of these

words is "baath" and "paath", so there are a lot of these words where the "a" is not

the "a" sound, but the "aa" sound. So that is one thing I have not changed in my accent;

I still say "bath" and "path", because to me it feels very strange psychologically to

talk about a "baath" or a "paath". It's just a step too far for me.

But other aspects of my previous accent I have changed.