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Cockney (London East End) Accent

The Cockney accent is also known as an East End accent. It's the accent you hear in Guy Ritchie films and from stereotypical working-class London characters, such as Liza Doolittle in My Fair Lady and Fagan in Oliver. This includes two full volumes of recordings of native speakers from London!
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London Cockney Accent Learning Materials

  • The Cockney materials include recordings of AccentHelp coaches Jim Johnson and Carolyn Johnson guiding you through learning the accent. Jim will also lead you through a monologue in a Cockney accent.
  • You'll get two volumes of recordings of native speakers, along with PDFs of transcripts of their conversations so that you can follow along.
  • You'll get a PDF of the teaching materials, plus three more formats of the book: a PDF file to print, MOBI for Kindle, and EPUB for other portable readers.
  • This accent is appropriate for productions of My Fair Lady, Oliver, Pygmalion, Christmas Carol, Sweeney Todd and lots of other plays. You also hear it in films like Alfie, Shaun of the Dead, and Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels.
  • All of the sound files are in MP3 format so that you can play them on your computer, load them onto your phone, or burn them to a CD - click the icon on the left to see a listing of all of the sound files.
  • You'll receive a link via email so that you can download all of the materials as ZIP files directly to your computer.
  • You'll also get future updates for free! (last update: 2019)

5% of all profits from these materials go to diversity scholarships for actors at the University of Houston.

Listen to a Sample!

Audio files in Three Volumes (238.3MB, 310minutes)

Cockney Vol 1: Learning the Accent

  1. Sound Placement, Intonation and Helpful Hints (14:12)
  2. Consonant sound changes (25:55)
  3. Vowel sound changes (14:25)
  4. changes to Diphthongs (6:53)
  5. Alternate Pronunciations (4:30)
  6. Practice Sentences (3:13)
  7. Text Practice on Sounds (17:44)
  8. Intonation & Placement Practice (10:00)
  9. Monologue Examples (1:23)

Cockney Vol 2: Native Speakers

  1. Male from Romford reading (1:00)
  2. + his conversation (2:17)
  3. Female from Upton Park reading (:55)
  4. + her conversation (2:40)
  5. Female from Leytonstone reading (1:21)
  6. + her conversation (1:56)
  7. Male from London reading (1:02)
  8. + his conversation (2:30)
  9. Female from Ashford reading (1:29)
  10. + her conversation (5:49)
  11. Male from London reading (1:33)
  12. + his conversation (8:52)
  13. Female from London reading (1:05)
  14. + her conversation (3:53)
  15. Female from Tottenham reading (1:09)
  16. + her conversation (2:18)
  17. Male from Enfield reading (1:28)
  18. + his conversation (7:19)
  19. Female from Essex reading (1:08)
  20. + her conversation (5:02)
  21. Male from Wapping reading (1:04)
  22. + his conversation (9:40)
  23. Male from Hackney reading (1:13)
  24. + his conversation (5:36)
  25. Female from Leytonstone reading (1:00)
  26. + her conversation (4:28)
  27. Female from Whitechapel in conversation (8:09)
  28. Male from North London reading (1:03)
  29. + his conversation (9:12)
  30. + his conversation continued (10:01)

Cockney Vol 3: Native Speakers

  1. Female from Bow reading (1:24)
  2. + her conversation (6:27)
  3. Female from Lambeth reading (1:22)
  4. + her conversation (9:33)
  5. Male from Bow reading (:56)
  6. + his conversation (2:14)
  7. Female from Ilford reading (:55)
  8. + her conversation (4:38)
  9. Male from Walworth reading (1:14)
  10. + his conversation (5:49)
  11. Female from Stratford reading (1:42)
  12. + her conversation (4:14)
  13. Female from Aldgate reading (1:30)
  14. + her conversation (5:50)
  15. Female from Dagenham reading (:57)
  16. + her conversation (6:34)
  17. Male from Stepney reading (:50)
  18. + his conversation (2:21)
  19. Male from Bermondsey reading (1:11)
  20. + his conversation (2:16)
  21. Female from Romford reading (1:30)
  22. + her conversation (6:33)
  23. Female from Plaistow reading (1:13)
  24. + her conversation (5:03)
  25. Male from Bethnal Green reading (1:06)
  26. + his conversation (4:36)
  27. Female from Mile End reading (1:09)
  28. + her conversation (4:52)
  29. Male from Edmonton N London reading (1:07)
  30. + his conversation (9:10)
  31. Male & Female from Bethnal Green in conversation (7:02)

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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