Learn David Beckham's British English Accent (Cockney or Posh?)
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- čas přidán 1. 02. 2019
- David Beckham is a British icon so I wanted to look at his English accent and show you how it has changed over the years. We start with an interview in 1994 and move through 2000 to the present day. I pick out the accent changes, interesting British slang vocabulary and how his pitch has lowered over the years.
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I think Beckham's English (now) is a lot more understandable to me as non-native English speaker, compared to his young age English.
Yan Arroyyan It’s possible he still speaks the way he used to but knows that for media (especially foreign media) it’s much easier to speak something closer to RP.
@@fsruiz64
That's right.
Agree..
I got somewhat of a regional accent and have to repeat myself in RP when the other can't understand
Thé same
Great speech analysis of pronunciation. I'm from Wembley originally, so I have a NW London twang to my accent. Over time, through travel, work and now teaching English, I have modified my accent to try and speak more clearly to non-native listeners. As a result, I too have gone through similar pronunciation changes. Mind you, whenever I'm talking to my old friends from London, then within seconds the colloquialisms, slurring of words and the odd Cockney rhyming slang come out ;-)
Man, the cockney accent is very hard to be understood. U know, even tough I am a native Portuguese speaker, I have a hard time when I talk to Portugueses, especially some people from specific parts of Portugal.
Cheers Mark, really appreciate your comments. I'm exactly the same, with old friends in a pub I'll go into full blown cockney lol! I wonder why we do that.
which accent is most clear to non native listeners? modern RP or just pronounce words clearly using your own accent. cheers
@@brucetsai7732 RP
@@EatSleepDreamEnglish can you say or pronounce new as "nu" too like knew?
He's becoming a role model and public speaking is an essential part of his celebrity so he's enunciating .
Watching many footages of yours, I'm beginning to get the hang of Londoners' accents and I'm chuffed. Cheers!
You outdid all the other English lessons with this.
Really amazing and modern.
So unique!
Thank you so much for all of your lessons. Keep up the good work for us, please.
Your videos are great! I've been watching all of them. They allow me to go beyond the barriers of the normal structure of the language. Well done! 👏👏👏👏
Tom that was a brilliant video. I am also an accent geek, I enjoy this kind of videos so much I could be listening to them for hours. Thank you so much !
I really really really really enjoyed it! Thank you so much and I hope you make this kind of videos more
Love that kind of videos! Absolutely fascinating, you're right!
Really helpful, as usual, Tom! Thanks for this lesson! 😄
He’s posh because he’s married to Posh Spice! Ha! 🙌🏻
I can't find examples of posh accent. How does it sound?
@@iangillan1296 BBC/Queen's english
😆😆😂
Awesome analysis Tom! I really enjoyed this video, and I realize I’d have never ben able to understand young David’s speech without your help.😉 Thank you👍
Wow, I’ve just gone to back to watching your channel and I’m very impressed how it developed. Your videos are very interesting & helpful and they are of very good quality. Keep on doing your work, I keep my fingers crossed 😉👌👏
I love this Cockney dropping T sound!
Glottalisation
Hehe cool. It occurs in many accents, not just cockney.
And I love polish xDDD (łukasz is a Polish name)
@@alwaysdreaming9604 yes of course it is!
I haven’t just enjoyed it, I absolutely loved it Tom!
You are a brilliant teacher and I’m thrilled you have teamed up with Aly in a couple of videos one of which is still to be released isn’t it?!
I adore these series of videos on accents! Thanks 😊
Awww Alice, that's very kind of you to say. There will be many more accent videos over the next few weeks. Any requests for people? As for a video with Aly, we have got a few planned but not recorded....yet.
Eat Sleep Dream English I’ve got into the Scouse accent recently but I reckon you’ve kinda covered the northern accent with Paul McCartney . What about Keira Knightly?
i really love these videos where you introduce accents!
please make more
Really love this channel. Thank you for sharing about how to know more about British English Accent
This video is really interesting and I hope you'll do more of these!
lovely video! I love it a lot! I particularly like the details (about the change of his accent) you got in this videos! Keep up the good work!
Awesome! Glad you liked the video Moon Lamb
Brilliant! What a master class! Tom, you have there an original English class about accents, pitch, intonation, all that stuff
Glad you appreciated the video Uyen : )
I believe everyone’s accents evolved throughout the years, and it’s fascinating to discover this through your analysis. He’s been living in many parts of the planet, so I think he picked up little pieces from every place he’s been to. I hope someday I can develop my British accent, not perfectly but good enough to feel myself comfortable with it. I’m working everyday to achieve that personal goal, thank you Tom for your support, your videos are really inspirational to many people around the globe.
Great video Tom! I loved how you analysed David Beckham's accent.
Fascinating video! Well-done!
Cheers for this one, pal!
Really enjoyed this video! We really need this information as non-native speakers! And your changes of pronunciation really explains a lot to me! I also noticed this change talking to English friends and then seeing them talking to their compatriots, couldn't understand why they do it! Pretending? Trying so hard for us? It's really fascinating! Probably comes subconscious
These videos are so helpful and interesting!
A great piece! Thank you Tom!
This lesson is really interesting. Please make others like that.
Great video brother. Very helpful.
Congratulations Teacher Tom
You've got 200k subscriptions now ...keep it up .
Love that video 😍😍
What a pronunciation lesson
Thank you so much Hassan : )
Fascinating video. There's always something to learn and improve ourselves from content like this. Love from 🇮🇳
Fascinating! Thank you!
Thanks Tom for one more astounding lesson ♡
You are so very welcome Mamy : )
It is amazing could you show us more this kind of change accent it is fascinate. 🤗
I like the video, thank you for posting it.
Very interesting now I kinda understand features of cockney accent as a non native speaker, I like your celebs series so much, keep up the great work 👍
I love your channel. I come from Switzerland, in the UK for 2 years and as I'm an actress I'm really interested at learning accents. (I've spend a year in Hampstead and a year in Hastings) I might say I can already see a mix of received, multi, Cockney and Southy showing up in addition to my french accent who I'm trying hard to make disappear . (It is useful to flirt ahahha not to work though)
Cheers mate. Great work. Really helpful.
Take care
N.
Tom, fascinating video! I loved it! Do you know, when I started watching English CZcams videos to support my listening skills, I started with videos having to do with baking and cooking, because that's what I'm interested in. I came upon Jamie Oliver's "FoodTube", and there I met some great different English accents! I most of all love Cupcake Jemma, I can understand every single word she says because she speaks so fabulously clearly. Then there is Donal Skehan with his adorable Irish accent (but one that is easy to understand). I love those two. In some older videos there is a Londoner called KerryAnn Dunlop, and she has such a strong Cockney accent! It's so funny to me when she says "toma-oes" for example! :-) And my last example are the Chiappas, they are from Wales, but their family is from Italy. Such a cute accent! And I must really say, it helped me a lot watching all these videos! I would recommend it to everyone: watch videos about a topic you like! (By the way, I learned the word 'chuffed' from a guy called Andrew who was a contestant in the "Great British Bake-Off" a few years ago. He used it all the time, and so I looked it up and found out what it means.)
Great video!
A similar analysis about Gallagher brothers (Oasis) and the lads from The Grand Tour would be awesome..
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Would you do a video on Charlie Hunnam? His accents seems to go in and out. He too, has spent a lot of time in America. Love your channel.
New subscriber today, Tom. Thanks for the interesting vid. :)
Amazing! Welcome to Eat Sleep Dream English Susan : )
Regards and blessings everyone!! Awesome mait!! 🌺
Great lesson,thanks Tom!!!
My pleasure Francisca
Really great video!!!
Using Glottal T / Stop is very easier. I love it!
Nice analysis Tom!
Accent changes as you move place to live, change people you mingle with I guess. Great video, anyway!
what a great lesson, I am sure you had a good time reviewing the films and finding the differences. I wonder if everyday people evolve their accents based on their modern day exposure to global media
Thanks Martha, yeah it's a good question. I think certainly in terms of our vocabulary choice we are influenced by the films, TV, music and books we consume and I think to a certain extent that is also true of our accents. Do you think your accent has evolved?
Beautiful British accent. I love it 💞
It was very interesting to see how his accent changed 😄
Thanks Tom for sharing 😊
P.s: Yeah, I think I'm a language geek, too 😄
thank you Tom very cool video as always!🇮🇹🥰
You are welcome Nila : )
Interesting video. Just to add, I also grew up in North London and do speak similar to Becks how he did in his younger days but I know others do this too and adjust the way they speak, depending who they are talking to. In a more professional type of situation like a job interview, speaking to a bank manager or someone with authority I do really clean up the way I speak and switch it up almost RP like, not quite the same but sort of.
With work friends and family I just revert to type and have that North London twang. Same like If I go on holiday, I have to clean up the way I talk so I'm better understood. Becks has lived in the states a good while and he wouldn't really be understood all that well if he spoke in his usual way. So it's likely he's had to polish it up a bit to be better understood out there.
I wouldn't be surprised if he kinda just goes in and out of the two and depending who he's talking to, rather than an actual change to a more posh way of speaking.
interesting point of view --- would be curious to see if there are recent videos of him speaking like mid '90s
thanks teacher!!!👏👏✌️✌️
All british accents are amazing!
True!
Indeed!
Not really, some is low class and the accent isn't good.
i agree
My Glaswegian friend is happy about your remark
Great video mate
You are definitely a talented language teacher.
I've always thought the similarities between the accents in the Southern United States and the london accent were pretty funny. I mean we use different slangs and dialects obviously, but the connotations in which they're used is extremely similar. Especially in the Appalachian areas of the South. You should look into those accents and do a comparison video. Lol
Great video.Thanks👍👍👍
Tom! You're awesome and your video is also fantastic!!!💓I love it💋Thanks you for your amazing videos🍭🍭🍭🍭🍭🍭
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A fellow language geek says, "Great analysis, Tom."
Really interesting ! Thanks Tom
Glad you liked it Stephane : )
David's life changed greatly in the run of time and made him change his accent from the player in the pitch to a true gentleman received at the Royal Circle. Great example!
Hello, Tom
I am from Egypt learning a lot from you with enjoyment
Hope you make an episode about Ronnie o'Sullivan accent ,he comes too often on TV.
And if you could get him with you it would be great attraction
Thanks a lot
Well that's interesting .Ronnie's accent is quite strong . I wouldnt like to comment myself . I've heard the genius speak. But not in real life only on interviews .
Nice video!
I love his 2018 accent , i guess its mixed and not related to any uk region ?
Great video!
Great video, I'm awfully grateful
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If you know each other (over). You missed that one towards the end). L into w in well wew called l vocalisation.
Great job thanks for sharing.
Love this video 👍👍👍
The dropping of the h depends on the speed of the sentence being spoken most of the time, the quicker the speed the more likely the h will drop.
I love this video. thanks for sharing, it could sound posh in the sense of he is speaking more properly the words and obviously if you start living or sharing with more people first of all they are not going to understand all of the things you are telling, and you are going to adopt some different ways to say the things.
You did a great job! It's fab!
Thank you Gabriela : ) Which version of Beckham's accent do you prefer?
@@EatSleepDreamEnglish the last version.
I like to hear people talking in cockney accent even though it can be hard for me sometimes ! Thanks Tom.
In 2018 he still uses the Cockney accent feature pronouncing V instead of voiced TH at 11:53 : each other -> eachova
Really interesting!!
So good!
David Beckham mixed a lot in my head. I started learning English in the early 90's and had no idea about accents. I couldn't understand why he'd spoken differently than in school.
Very interesting video.
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Very interesting analysis... l believe our English change or evolve due diferente circumstances
I'll wait for your next video with Grace 😍
Hopefully we'll do one in March Wulan : )
The change in his pitch may be filters, EQ etc. Or different microphones, maybe with more basier frequencies or whateveryou call taht stuff. These sorts of things can really change the sound of a voice significantly.
I did enjoy watching this video👍
Awesome! Glad you enjoyed it Farah : )
These Beckhams have noticeably different position of their heads.
The young one raises face up. In this position the throat is stretched forward and become tight, thus the higher pitch.
The old one raises nape up. This makes the spine be more straight, and throat become wider, thus the lower pitch.
You can try it yourself easily :)
I've just recently learned it in my voice classes.
The latter straight position has many benefits like voice strength and less tensions, but younger people tend to have screaming/yelling position.
Oh my God! I wish you'd do something like that with David Sylvain's accent. But I'm afraid that only few people remember him 😔
Your eyebrows are mesmerizing!
Brilliant!, I only have a doubt, I thought "There's a few benefits" was ok because after the "there is" we have an "a", so, is it really wrong?
We pronounce the word 'Like' as 'Lite' as well and use the glottal stop and drop the 't' when saying it lol You hear Becks do this right at the beginning.
thank a lot mate
can you do a video and london accents the types
Tom - just wanted to point out because your video seems to suggest otherwise - dropping the final 't' is by no means unique to Cockney; I'm from Birmingham originally and we would do exactly the same but with a Brummie accent. I think it's just a common feature of regional, non-standard English.
Not just the final t mate, almost all 't's except may be at the start.
At 11:11 my ears hear u-vuh for other which is how a cockney would pronounce it. Im surprised you didnt mention it.
thank you...love beckham...
I think here 11:12 the way he pronounces "other" /ʌvə/ is way more noticeable than the way he pronounced "well". Can't help loving the Londoner accent!!
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Beckham used to sound so jarringly "working class" or "low class" that it belied his good looks. His way of speaking has noticeably improved.
A surprising example of changing accents is actress Michelle Dockery, who plays Lady Mary in "Downton Abbey," with her posh accent. In "real life" she has an unexpectedly "working-class" accent (to my American ears). I don't quite understand why she doesn't fully adopt the posh accent, as it is so much more pleasing to the ear, but I suppose she would think it sounds phony.
I grew up (Alaska) saying the word 'often' with a strong 't' sound. I was severely corrected from someone from the East Coast. So I dropped the 't'. Is it considered more posh, or upper class to drop the 't' sound? And say of'en?
We can say that he has spiced up his life with a posh one
👍👍👍 super interesting
Thanks so much dear Teacher Tom for clarifying on the grammatical mistake of using ‘there’s’ referring to plural nouns in sentences . It’s so much used by American English speakers. There are girls at the party’ NOT ‘There’s girls at the party’. 🙏🏽