- Hello, how's it going?
Alright.
My name's Sarah Valentine and I'm Accent Coach
and today I'm talking with a Cockney accent.
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Alright guys, how's it going?
So what I thought I'd do, is do a little video
of me Cockney accent
'cause I got a lot of really gruff voice today.
I don't know what's happened actually to be honest.
I woke up this morning and I sound like Barry White.
So I was like, right, I'll give it a go
on the old Cockney accent.
So, one of the things I love about this accent is,
it's like real rough, and you find that a lot of people,
like in the movies, let me think about it, it's,
oh that really handsome fella.
I've forgotten his bloody name, innit.
Oh, what's wrong with me brain?
Oh, you know, the one that's, oh he looks really hot,
he just did that movie with The Meg,
and he's got a really hot body, drives cars really fast.
Come on people, help me out here.
Anyway.
I'll have a think about that,
'cause I can't think of his bloody name.
Oh my God, like Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
I love that movie,
Guy Ritchie give it like a large one on that one.
So, one of the things about this accent,
I will remember his name I promise.
I gotta look it up now.
Jason, Jason Statham, that's who it is.
Or Jason Statham, I don't know how you pronounce his name.
But he likes to give it a large
and be all like, you know,
like, what, baby how's it going?
I don't know what I'm doing with me face at the moment
'cause when I do an accent
I tend to move me mouth a bit different.
But I think that's one of the things
about doing an accent is that your whole mouth
and your whole demeanor changes.
'Cause you gotta get the right sense.
So, going back to the accent,
a lot of the people that talk like this, they, with Cockney,
they have a thing called Cockney rhyming slang.
And if there's any Cockneys out there, listen to me.
Don't give me grief, like, I'm just giving it a bash.
You know what I'm sayin?
I'm just giving it a really good bash.
So you can't really have a go, alright.
But, they say like funny words.
So like there's different,
like their words,
is English to them, but it ain't English to no one else.
So like struggle, so if you go, oh me f,
well I can't swear, 'cause that'd be bad.
I should actually do, a Cockney,
like one with swear words in it,
'cause every Cockney I ever met uses the f word
like it's sugar in a cup of tea innit?
So,
the struggle is a wife,
like struggle and strife, wife.
I don't quite know how it works.
Apples and pears, stairs, so they go,
I'm just gonna go down the apples.
They wouldn't say apples and pears,
'cause that'd just be stupid.
What's the lager?
I don't know if that's actually a real one.
'Cause it seems a bit stupid really.
But they say, what's the lager?
Meaning, what's the time?
Because like, what's the lager and lime, time.
(laughs)
I don't know.
What else is there?
I had a boyfriend once and he used to be like,
it was so mad, like he would say things like,
"Babe, babe, get in a jam.
"And have you got any money on ya?
"I got a cockle and a ching in me pocket."
And when I first met him, I was like,
I was like, I beg your pardon, darling?
(laughs)
I don't, I don't, what am I doing?
So like, he'd say, "Get in a jam."
Which means get in a car.
'Cause your jam jar car.
And a cockle is 10 pounds.
10 pounds.
So, like, cockle is,
cockin' in 10.
I mean, how they come up with this stuff,
I got no idea.
But I have created a Cockney accent bundle
which I'll be releasing soon
and it's got loads of different bits in it.
So, all about the accent, some practice words.
I'll probably have a swearing bit in there as well,
because you gotta get your swear words down.
And once it's up and runnin',
I will pop it up on me website.
But at the moment, I just thought I'd
give you a little video, little bit of a taster
with some Cockney rhyming slang
and a little bit of a chat.
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You know like, if you want us to do another accent
or something like that, just pop it in the comments below
and I'll just, you know, get it out.
Get it happenin'.
That sounds a bit rude.
I don't mean like, get it out.
Anyway, I digress.
Not that I would say that in a Cockney accent
'cause that sounds a bit stupid.
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and I'll catch you next time.
Alright, see ya.
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