How to Pronounce 20 British Cities

if you want to visit Britain then you need to know how to pronounce the places that you're going to go so today we're going to look at how to pronounce 20 British cities are you ready to go on a tour around Britain okay here we go before we do I just want to remind you that I'm teaching you the pronunciation in my accent which is a London accent there are many other different accents that might say these cities differently I can only teach you with my accent all right so just bear that in mind now as we go through these cities I'd like you to practice with me okay so when I'm saying London don't just sit there going because you won't know how to say it you're you'll think you're hearing it but when it comes to actually saying it you won't know how so practice with me if you find a quiet place to do that or if you want to do it on the tube or the bus or the train wherever you are just say with me London even stop the video and say it and then start the video again so London London stop it say it a few times you can even say in different ways you can say it very quickly London London London you can say it loudly London you can say it quietly have fun with your pronunciation otherwise it's going to be really boring okay have fun all right here we go the capital city of England London London stress is on the first syllable Lunn london london not london london the beautiful capital of Scotland Edinburgh Edinburgh stresses on the first syllable Edinburgh one more time Edinburgh two famous university cities Oxford Oxford Cambridge Cambridge again the stress is on the first syllable of both cities Oxford Cambridge one of the most famous seaside towns in Britain brighton brighton i say it one more time brighton now personally with my pronunciation sometimes I will not say the term sound I will miss out that so it sounds like brighton brighton this is a glottal ization so sometimes I will say brighton brighton sometimes i say brighton brighton i guess i'll do that in more informal situations conversational situations where I'm quite relaxed that I'm speaking more informally I'll probably say brighton without the T sound but if I'm trying to be a little bit more formal maybe I'm in class or something like that I'll say Brighton if that's just a personal thing it doesn't apply to everyone but it's just good to be aware of different pronunciations of a similar word so Brighton or Brighton you might hear both huge city up in the north of England famous for football and music Manchester Manchester again the stress is on the first syllable Manchester the second biggest city in England Birmingham Birmingham now I know the ham there looks like it should be Birmingham but actually when we have the ham at the end of a place is just um so burning um Birmingham so burning three syllables there Birmingham Birmingham the stress is on the first syllable Birmingham another big famous northern city famous for music that the Beatles the football team Liverpool the pronunciation is Liverpool Liverpool the stress is on the first syllable Liverpool a big city in the northeast of England Newcastle Newcastle my stress is on the first syllable now this is pronounced very differently locally in Newcastle where they stress the castle so its Newcastle Newcastle but I'm a southerner I'm from London so I stress the first syllable Newcastle you can do whatever you want a really popular city for English language students to visit is Bournemouth Bournemouth not Bournemouth like the mouth it Smurf Bournemouth stress on the first syllable in Bournemouth I really popular place to visit for the Roman Baths is buff buff you have the sound at the end of th bath now I think locally they might say bath with a softer a bath again my pronunciation is bath but very close to the bath in the West of England is Bristol Bristol stress on the first syllable Bristol Bristol back up in Scotland we have Glasgow Glasgow stress on again the first syllable I'm seeing a pattern here Glasgow Glasgow again that pronunciation is different from how they would locally say it my a there Glasgow is a very southern our instead of glass I think it further north and st. glass glass but I'm saying Glasgow because that's the position that I have Glasgow one of my favourite cities and where I went to university Leeds Leeds nice long e sound there Leeds Leeds so you really open up their mouth Leeds Leeds the capital of Wales Cardiff Cardiff like car diff Cardiff stress on the first syllable Cardiff a really popular city for tourists to visit in the north of England is York York set one more time York where Robin Hood was originally from Nottingham Nottingham again here we have for ham at the end just like we did with Birmingham so it's not Nottingham it's nothing I'm nothing so they say that one more time Nottingham stress on the first syllable Nottingham the capital of Northern Ireland Belfast Belfast stress again on the first syllable I think that's different from how the locals would say it where they would put the stress on the second syllable but my pronunciation it goes on the first so Belfast alright I'm including this one because it causes so many problems and also their football team won the Premier League a few years ago and there's a place in London with a similar name Lester Lester not lie sister Lester stress on the first syllable Lester and the last one Sheffield Sheffield stress on the first syllable again Sheffield why do I choose these cities well they're the biggest cities in Britain so that's the first reason secondly these are the ones that I found tourists and English students visiting the most so a lot of these cities have big student populations with universities or they're popular with english-language students who want to learn English or they're just famous for being big tourist cities as well so those are the kind of main reasons why I chose these 20 cities there are of course lots of other cities in Britain that I could have chosen but these are the ones I think that you would probably you're most likely to visit or you're most likely to need to pronounce

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Length: 7min 45sec (465 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 24 2017