There are four major accents/dialects of London, which Jim covers in this London dialect overview: Received Pronunciation or Standard British Estuary EnglishCockneyMulticultural London English Other accents of the British Isles Read more
The front vowels in Northern Irish accents tend to lower, having a cascading effect on the one that typically occurs below. When one vowel moves, it often pushes another... Read more
Jim Johnson covers four major intonation elements of classic Received Pronunciation (RP) or Standard British: These are not appropriate for contemporary London speakers (likely Estuary is what you're looking... Read more
When a vowel is followed by a nasal consonant, it's very common to nasalize the vowel and then completely drop the nasal consonant. We don't always notice because we hear... Read more
There are three nasal consonants that are common for English speakers, but often we carry over that nasality into vowels, especially the vowels that occur before a nasal consonant. Jim... Read more
What accent should you learn when it's not immediately demanded by a project? Coach Jim Johnson leads you through a list of which accents and dialects to work on as... Read more
Often there are little shortcuts or tricks that help you to jumpstart learning an accent. Here, Jim Johnson leads you through a number of possible elements that might help you... Read more
The [æ] sound - called the "ash" or the "trap" lexical set - is often problematic... [æ] tends to be much maligned... but that's because it tends to "flatten" or... Read more
