How to Pronounce 20 London Underground Stations

a visit to London would not be complete without a trip on the London Underground locally known as of the tube so today I'm going to show you how to pronounce xx tube stations just like a local all that is coming right up [Music] hello EC dreamers how's it going for anyone that's new around here my name is Tom and I teach fresh modern British English so that you can take your English to the next level and achieve your life goals now today we are looking at how to pronounce 20 London Underground Tube stations and why are we doing that because you guys have asked for it you sent me so many messages asking for this lesson and I get it guys I get it British place names are sometimes totally confusing I get it guys don't worry I absolutely understand and London Underground Tube stations are equally difficult to pronounce and that's why I'm here to guide you through these names so the next time you come to London you can say them just like a local where'd you want to go Mike John corridor Leicester Square okay maybe not that local but you know why I mean now before we start I want to mention two things firstly I'm going to teach you how to say these words in my accents now my accent is a London accent there are other accents out there that probably say these words differently or certainly with a variation this is my accent I can only teach you how I pronounce these words secondly I've chosen these 20 words for two simple reasons they are the ones that cause visitors most problems and also they're the ones that visitors go to most now I could teach you how to say theta boys but you're never going to go there so why would you need to know how to say it so these 20 stations are the ones that I think you'll probably visit when you come to London and you'll need to pronounce properly all right that's all said that's all done let's get on with number one all right let's get this one done straight away Leicester Square it's a really popular tourist the nation and it's really commonly mispronounced the real pronunciation is Leicester Square Leicester Square Leicester Square number two Tottenham Court Road this is a station at one end of Oxford Street which is one of the main shopping streets in London now Tottenham is a tricky word because it has a lot of syllables but actually we don't pronounce many of them it's top numb Tottenham the stress is on the first syllable Tottenham Court Road now at the end of that word ham you've got ham you'll see this in a lot of British place names I think traditionally it means like farm or village and there are a lot of London place names that have ham at the end of it now the pronunciation there it's not Tottenham its top none and that Pam is we pronounce it as own so another tube station is clapping clapping and it's not clap ham it's clapping so whenever you see the ham at the end of a British place name you'll know how to say it just like the main city Birmingham burning them it's not Birmingham its Birmingham alright so one more time Tottenham Court Road Tottenham Court Road another popular shopping area Piccadilly Circus Piccadilly Circus the stress there is on the third syllable Piccadilly Circus Piccadilly Circus now before you go there and think there's going to be a circus there you'll be disappointed because Circus is another word for roundabout so it just means the kind of traffic system that is there but Piccadilly Circus sadly there are no circuses but there are plenty of shops and fun things to do and in fact let's go to another circus Oxford Circus Oxford Circus it's in the middle of Oxford Street and it's basically the centre of London's shopping it's the place you want to go if you want to buy clothes this is the place to go Oxford Circus Oxford Circus now when you arrive into London you might fly into Heathrow Airport so let's perhaps he throw it together Heathrow Heathrow now if you separate it it sounds like he throw he thrown so if you just put it together he thrown he thrown the stress is on the second syllable then he throw so where are you flying from I'm flying from Heathrow where you fly from I'm flying from Heathrow now let's look at some of the train stations that you might go into so we've got Houston Houston to trick you on that one the pronunciation is very different from the spelling Houston Houston station and then we've got a classic one here Marylebone now this one is mispronounced so often I see as Mary Lou bone that's the classic mispronunciation which I like I quite like st. Mary Laverne I think that's almost a better version than the real one but the real pronunciation Marylebone so three sounds there Marylebone Marylebone Marylebone station next one we've got Paddington famous for the bear Paddington Bear it's also a very important station Paddington Paddington it's not Paddington its Paddington Paddington I write this station is in the West End it's quite near a lot of the theaters and musicals that you might visit Hoban homeland now it looks more complicated than it actually is it's actually two very simple sounds home but home boom then you just put the stress on the first syllable hoping hoping I'm gonna hope all right joven if you're going to one of London's famous musicals then you might also go to Covent Garden tube station Covent Garden I don't really pronounce that T very much there so it's not Covent Garden its Covent Garden world famous for being the beginning and end of time is Greenwich now this is often mispronounced as Greenwich but it's not it's Greenwich - sounds great nitch gret nitch Greenwich Greenwich three of London's biggest museums are located in South Kensington you've got the Natural History Museum the VNA and the Science Museum and they are all in South Kensington so I think we should learn how to say that so Kensington the stress is on the first syllable Kensington Kensington no rather helpfully locals actually just say south ken south ken you don't even need to say Kensington you can just say I'm going to south ken and they will know what you're talking about how wonderful is that so let's all go to South Ken this station is on the south side of the river and it's located next to mi6 which features in one of the James Bond films now the way to practice is raxil Vox raxil so two sounds Vox all voxel stress is on the first syllable voxel voxel station possibly the world's most famous shop haratz is located in Knightsbridge Knightsbridge so if you want to visit Harrods you'll probably go to Knightsbridge station so let's say that together Knightsbridge Knightsbridge so the stress is on the first syllable there Knightsbridge one of London's most popular markets is Borough Market and it's located in the area of bura bura so there is a station called Barra now the pronunciation is different from the way it's spelt so it's actually much easier to say than it looks so it's two sounds bar right but right stresses on the first syllable Barra although actually if you're going to borrow market your best bet is to go to London Bridge station because it's literally right there so go to London Bridge it's probably a much easier walk if you're visiting the River Thames and particularly the London Eye you might want go to embankment station embankment station three sounds and Bank month now the T at the end there the T you should probably browser embankment embankment in reality when I'm I'll drop that team embankment embankment I'm going to embankment of Cu embankment the stress is on the second syllable embankment embankment now the clue of the location is in the name an embankment is a bank of Earth that stops river flooding so it's up against the river to stop it from flooding so embankment is next to the river embankment yeah sometimes English makes sense just south of the river and really centrally located is Southwark Southwark not South Walk Southwark sir the Southwark if you love shopping you will also want to go to London's biggest shopping centre Westfield now there are two West fields one is in Stratford Stratford and the other one is in Shepherds Bush shepherd's bush so let's get that pronunciation again Shepherds Bush let's finish this off with two more major train stations the first one Waterloo Waterloo the stress there is on the last syllable Waterloo Waterloo okay and finally Kings Cross some Pancras this was made famous by Harry Potter he used to get his train from Kings Cross so we have Kings Cross Kings Cross and then sunk pancreas some pancreas now it's one tube station cleans across some pancreas but when you get out at Kings Cross and pancreas there are two different mainline train stations you've got Kings Cross which goes up north and you've got some pancreas which you can get the Eurostar and go to Paris or Brussels or wherever so so it's a pretty busy train station to go to Kings Cross some pancreas all right Easter dreamers how was that I'd love to know in the comments below which one do you find the hardest to say so write that in comments below and write down any other train stations that you like me to pronounce er I can do a part two maybe to this video so let me know which tube stations would you like me to pray for you guys remember to check out my facebook page and my Instagram account I put daily English content on this so that you can learn English every single day how good is that and also remember that I input new videos out every Tuesday and every Friday helping you take your English to the next level this is Tom the chief dreamer saying goodbye

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Length: 11min 20sec (680 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 10 2017