How to Understand UK Accents (Part 1)

An exploration of how UK accents differ and how to understand speakers from across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Get a free pronunciation lesson in my online course: 00:00​ - Intro 01:04 - Rhoticity 05:44 - H-Dropping 09:44 - Glottal Stops 12:27 - TH Sounds 14:27 - NG Sound 16:12 - Conclusion *Disclaimers* 1. Generalisations have been made. For example, I talk about rhotic and non-rhotic speech, but in reality some speakers will have variable rhoticity, or different patterning. 2. People living in a particular place will not always sound the same. Not everyone from a certain area will have the same accent feature (or the feature to the same degree) as those in the video. Accents vary according to factors such as socioeconomic background, age and ethnicity (among others). 3. I have not shown all the accents in the UK. 4. There are other consonant differences between accents in the UK that I have