A Guide To Multicultural London English (Top Boy/Stormzy Accent)
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- čas přidán 4. 06. 2024
- This is an expert guide to the newest London accent - Multicultural London English (MLE). It's a mix of Cockney & influences of the main immigrant groups in London. It's spoken by Stormzy, Raheem Sterling, Little Simz and characters in Top Boy.
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00:00 Introduction
00:26 What is MLE?
01:12 The PRICE vowel /aɪ/
02:55 Free Book Offer
03:29 Goose Fronting /u:/
05:23 TH Fronting
08:24 The /h/ Sound
10:05 /ɑː/ Replacing /ə/
11:12 The Glottal T
11:58 /n/ Replacing /ŋ/
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The influence of Jamaican Patois is so very strong
Yeah massive! Especially with the vocabulary : )
I was think that same thing.
@@jackanorybigginsHe probably didn’t say what the original comment said
Bring back cockney
Great video! Definelitely the guide I was waiting for
Glad you enjoyed mate! There aren't many videos about MLE so I hope this did the job : )
I love little simz n her accent! Thx for pickin her up ❤
One of my favourite interesting linguistic facts is that "mandem" is a also a slang word used in Toronto, Canada. I believe its usage developed independently from the British usage, but both have roots in Jamaican Patois because of large Jamaican disapora in both London and Toronto. (Toronto also uses just "mans" as a singular pronoun).
I definitely hear parts of West African English accents in MLE, especially the "d" sound in "th" words.
That's a really cool observation. There's a further connection with Toronto-born singer Drake helping to make and produce Top Boy, a series about inner city life in London. All the characters use MLE and modern London slang and I remember hearing an interview with Drake saying how familiar it all felt to him.
Cockney in London is dying and I think that is a real shame. Cockneys were the heart of London. That said I love MLE I think it’s an exciting development in London English.
This is one of the few videos I’ve found about MLE. Very interesting and surprising in places!
Glad you enjoyed it mate. Yeah, there aren't many videos on the accent which is why I thought it should be given some attention.
Same. Been looking for almost a year. Since I started watching Top Boy on Netflix
@@lawrencebello6177 ah well thanks for watching this one mate : ) hope it was useful
British MLE is very similar to the Canadian Toronto slang, due to similar diaspora influences (Caribbean, South Asian primarily).
Very cool! Thanks for sharing : )
@@EatSleepDreamEnglish I'm a linguistics major in Toronto and there's actually research into what is indeed being called MTE (Multicultural Toronto English)
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Teacher Tom!!!!!!
Thank youuu!!!😩❤️
Hehehe my pleasure Eunice! Have you been waiting for this one for a while?
@@EatSleepDreamEnglish c’mon!!! Yes
I wrote it in the comment section in your last Brummie accent video!😅
And you did it! Thank you again!❤️🤭
I’ve indeed hear MLE before but didn’t pay specific attention to it (note* I’m a US anglophone so this is fascinating!)
MLE is just fun, bruv
This is so interesting!!! Subbed
Cheers mate! Much appreciated. Scouse accent video coming out really soon : )
I seriously love love love ur videos….
Hey! Cheers buddy! Thanks for watching
I'd love to hear about the Janner accent, it's not usually touched on in most videos.
I’d love to see a video like this about the Yorkshire accent!
It will be done! Thanks for the suggestion : )
Thanks so much for such a great analysis ! Do you also have that "price" feature in your own accent when you say "right?" ? I kind of hear a [aə] instead of [aɪ] at least sometimes
Ahh that's a good shout. I definitely do from time to time yeah. While I don't speak with an MLE accent, there might be occasional features that pop in when I'm speaking spontaneously.
MLE really depends on where you're from, Jamaican, Nigerians, Indians, Somalis and etc. You can tell the difference when you hear it
As a British born Indian who lives in London I usually can tell influences in MLE as it differs depending on the person I'm talking to, but it's a very subconscious realisation that I don't pay attention to. What does stand out to me is the characterisation of vocal chords if it's someone with a South Asian background. Not sure why it stands out so much, maybe just recognition from years of being around it.
@@TheChiraagG thats so funny I'm somali and I swear I can just tell when people are somali from their sound of their voice, no matter the accent
That's a really interesting observation. I used to live in Leeds and I could hear the South Asian linguistic influences on the local Yorkshire accent even in people that were born and bred in the city. I love how languages and accents spill over into each other and help individuals form their own unique way of speaking and expressing themselves.
@@TheChiraagG love that! I did a video on Zayn Malik's Yorkshire accent and it has that tightness you are referring to. One feature that really stood out was his use of a reflex /r/ sound which is a feature found in south Asian languages.
I'm not sure how it's described phonetically (glutaral stop?) but is the very distinct pronunciation of consonants at the end of words (the 'k' in 'think' (or 'fin - k'), the 't' in 'smart' ('sma - t'), also part of MLE, or is it older, 'Estuary English'?
Hi from Italy,generally speaking,is the glottal T stop sound more common in Northern accents?
MLE is, even if by accident, importing a lot of archaic aspects of English back to Anglo communities 🤣
every time you say "you can hear" and then produce two identical sounds I start crying ))
Ahhh really? I'm sorry to hear that! Are there any specific sounds that you struggle with?
Are you a native speaker of which British vernacular?
What is Central Cee’s accent ?
Im born and bred in south west london kingston upon Thames and round here we all speak with estuary london accnet almost cockney im 24 and most young people speak like me in sw London because its a predominantly white English area
I seem to jump between a Cockney accent and MLE accent. I don't have that dipthong pronunciation but I have other characteristics.
Interesting! Did you grow up blending these accents or have you learned them over time?
Thank you Tom ☀️
You are very very welcome Patty!
Could you do Geordie next please?
That's a great shout! I am a huge fan of the Geordie accent/dialect. Will def give it a look soon : )
interesting...
Make a vid about Central Cee
The [u:] sound sounds to my hears like a French [u].. Am I right?
They are very similar if not identical. I sometimes hear that same pronunciation in modern RP, too.
I fully understand young black men of London sounding like this and having this accent, but here in Essex I am noticing more and more young white men from middle class families adopting this accent and it is truly embarrassing. They sound ridiculous.
Same here in Cambridgeshire. Kids want to sound mean and “street”
@@serratusx it’s so bad
I'm from south London and speak with a normal london accent not black or roadman.i dont hear many white people speaking in this accent only ethinic minoritys and the rare few white geezers I hear speak it are putting it on to sound road
Picked up mainly from social media probably if they’re not raised near London
A common shared accent can be a good thing.
Britain is not as segregated as people say it is but you are all dodging the issue.
Allow me to educate you all.
I think its hilarious that Black blokes are systematically going round inseminating many chav White girls on poor run down council estates in Britain.
It makes me extremely happy that the Whites and Blacks indulge in a lifestyle that makes them happy.
What Whites and Blacks enjoy most is rampant interbreeding and the vigorous insemination of eachother BY eachother.
At least they are integrated which is what they always wanted.
The Asians keep themselves to. themselves, and as usual, own all the shops at street level across Britain
They are the most hard-working people I've ever seen but they do not speak English very well.
The Romanians form their own little communities and don't really interact with anyone as most of them do not speak English very well either.
The Polish people are very racist towards Blacks and they also form their own little communities.
The main problem is that all the various groups do not interact with each other.
It's mainly only Blacks and Whites who actually interact with each other with most of the interaction being sexual in nature.
Integration can only work when everyone speaks the same language.
If no one bothers to learn to speak English integration will never work.
The Polish people are very hard-working but they are very racist towards Blacks so intergration is not possible.
They are also White but they are not Anglo-Saxon so their behaviour is very different from the indigenous British.
The only two groups of people in the entire country of Great Britain that are truly integrated are indigenous British people and Black Caribbean people.
The interaction between these two groups is mainly sexual in nature.
We see this behaviour on poor run down council estates throughout Britain.
Whatever makes them happy is cool with me.
90% of White Girls on Council estates and 10% of White boys on Council Estates will probably be inseminated by a Blackman at some point in their lives.
Remember that Whites and Blacks ALWAYS wanted integration.
Well, they got what they wanted!
Deeper in Derbyshire maybe.
Hehe ah yes, I'll get to Derbyshire at some point Timmy : )
If you want to sound thick, this is the accent for you.
Is Central Cee in this list ?
I wonder if African Americans in the South do the Monophthong of two vowel sound AI?
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Accent of Manchester ?
Why doesn't an English cleaning lady at the hotel speak French or German?
literally every british advert uses a woman with this accent
I don’t know who named this multicultural London accent.
This accent is influenced mainly by jamaicans, cockney and a lil african.
Black people have spoken like this since the 80s. Although now its cool for asians, whites, plus what ever other immigrants to speak it, they have zero influence on the accent and they just copied how we speak.
A lot of the time it’s forced, its not even their natural accent (except small minority that actually grew with blacks)
This should be called a black London accent. Also what i find weird is that there are other working class accents but this accent constantly get negative things said, i believe a reason is because ali g parodied a lot of black people and our culture including our accent and made us look stupid and uneducated to the rest of England, when in reality we are just a bunch of people just trying to live our lives.
Ali G is supposed to be a Pakistani who thinks he's black. It's in the name.
Came back to your channel after 3 years and i found you are going grey... time flies
Hahahaha my favourite comment of the year! Yeah, life is tough when you hit 40 lol!
Not as bad as cockney. Much better than polished English which is the worst.
I can't hear the difference between dat and that.
To me MLE spunds very much like tne way the royal family speaks except they have a bit of a slured delivery
Just put on. No one speaks like this. It's London.
Why do jamaican heritage footballers who were born here in the 1950/60s talk with a proper english accent, yet 2 generational jamaicans speak like this
british Willem Dafoe
Haha I've heard that before...maybe it's true!
@@EatSleepDreamEnglish oh i didn't think you would reply, great content you make, cheers!
It's Jamaican
Im glad i didn’t grow up speaking like this 😂 no shade to those that did tho 🫡
Amy Winehouse
That's a great shout. I think my buddy Aly has done a video on her before - czcams.com/video/E2xQFKwmLoQ/video.htmlsi=F7R9slqrR4D9_ljV
This bloke has too much tongue gwan on in his ting.
It's not a good way to speak. It makes people sound thick.
No, you think people who speak with that accent are thick because you’re a racist and a classist.
People from outside the UK who don’t know what social classes and races/ethnicities speak which British accents tend to not have any special prejudice towards any single accent in particular
It's a horrible accent
Cockney is cool and it’s a shame it’s been replaced by whatever this is. That netflix clip made my skin crawl. Imagine audible selling audiobooks with that accent lol
cry
London isn’t English ,the true English who have regional accents and still enjoy English traditions moved out to the countryside years ago.
This accent sounds like it is the result of a speech impediment; and what's worse, is that it has become fashionable to speak like this - the more impeded one's speech is, the more cool they are...
Not really
Sounding posh and having crisp pronunciation has not been cool for a long time.
A common shared accent can be a good thing.
Britain is not as segregated as people say it is but you are all dodging the issue.
Allow me to educate you all.
I think its hilarious that Black blokes are systematically going round inseminating many chav White girls on poor run down council estates in Britain.
It makes me extremely happy that the Whites and Blacks indulge in a lifestyle that makes them happy.
What Whites and Blacks enjoy most is rampant interbreeding and the vigorous insemination of eachother BY eachother.
At least they are integrated which is what they always wanted.
The Asians keep themselves to. themselves, and as usual, own all the shops at street level across Britain
They are the most hard-working people I've ever seen but they do not speak English very well.
The Romanians form their own little communities and don't really interact with anyone as most of them do not speak English very well either.
The Polish people are very racist towards Blacks and they also form their own little communities.
The main problem is that all the various groups do not interact with each other.
It's mainly only Blacks and Whites who actually interact with each other with most of the interaction being sexual in nature.
Integration can only work when everyone speaks the same language.
If no one bothers to learn to speak English integration will never work.
The Polish people are very hard-working but they are very racist towards Blacks so intergration is not possible.
They are also White but they are not Anglo-Saxon so their behaviour is very different from the indigenous British.
The only two groups of people in the entire country of Great Britain that are truly integrated are indigenous British people and Black Caribbean people.
The interaction between these two groups is mainly sexual in nature.
We see this behaviour on poor run down council estates throughout Britain.
Whatever makes them happy is cool with me.
90% of White Girls on Council estates and 10% of White boys on Council Estates will probably be inseminated by a Blackman at some point in their lives.
Remember that Whites and Blacks ALWAYS wanted integration.
Well, they got what they wanted!
To me it sounds awful, I'm sure it doesn't to those that talk like it, or live around people talking like that. Just reminds me of drugs, gangs, crime, hoodies, white socks.
Can't stand MLE accent it's just cringe
Never liked the multicultural accent
Dumbing down of society and a lack of education standards
...because of an accent?
@@jasaa probably yes. I am afraid when someone of an education starts speaking like that, it will certainly a case of "oh my days" .. we are not there quite yet, which is reassuring.
@@scottblack9213Cry.
MLE sounds primative and is not a good thing for English culture.
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You’re not a good thing for English culture
Sounds horrid.
shut up fam
Dumbest thing I’ve heard
Sounds horrible like ali g or a plastic gangster lol
Sounds great
@@unlockedaccount you must not be white and english then am I correct