Estuary English Accent – LondonEstuary is a rather new accent term for the contemporary London sound that is a blend of RP and Cockney - it's sometimes called Mockney! It tends to sound like either a relaxed Standard British or rather posh Cockney. It's even spoken by Prime Ministers and members of the royal family! |
Contemporary Estuary Accent Learning Materials
- The Estuary accent materials include recordings of AccentHelp coach Kate DeVore guiding you through learning the accent, using the text, as well as a number of recordings of native speakers. Jim Johnson gathered these recordings over the course of the last few years - bringing the experience back to you in this download.
- You'll get four versions of the written materials: a PDF file to print or read on a standard computer, a large-format PDF for portable reading devices, and MOBI for Kindle and EPUB for other portable readers.
- This accent is appropriate for productions of Arcadia, Closer and other plays. You also hear it from people like Ricky Gervais and Jude Law.
- Estuary began to be recognized as a specific accent in the mid-1980's. It's commonly considered a fairly hip accent, using many elements of RP along with some Cockney vowels and a number of elements of American speech.
Audio files (60.6MB, 60 minutes)
- Introduction to Sound Placement, Intonation, and Helpful Hints for Estuary accents (4:17)
- Consonant sound changes for learning an Estuary English accent (8:21)
- Vowel sound changes for learning this contemporary London accent (5:35)
- changes to Diphthongs in an Estuary accent (3:08)
- Alternate Pronunciations for words when speaking an Estuary accent (2:59)
- Wrap up to Estuary accents for actors (1:32)
- Twickenham Male conversation (3:07)
- London Male Teacher reading (:53)
- + his conversation (3:43)
- London Female Student reading (:58)
- + her conversation (3:46)
- Estuary Male DJ reading (1:35)
- + his conversation (5:10)
- London Female reading (1:33)
- + her conversation (almost St Brit, but a bit Americanized) (2:44)
- Canterbury Male reading (1:04)
- + his conversation (3:24)
- Estuary-accented Actress reading (1:06)
- + her conversation (5:56)
Most of these recordings are made "in the field" so you will hear such things as birds, cars or other people in the background. A transcription of the conversations is included to help you follow along.
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