How to Say Famous London Place Names

hey I'm Tom and welcome to eat sleep dream English now today I'm going to take you on a walk through London and teach you the pronunciation of some of the most famous places in this beautiful city so that when you come to visit you'll know how to say them just like a local so if you're ready let's do this [Applause] [Music] running through the heart of London is the River Thames now this is often mispronounced as Thames or as families now that th at the beginning the sound is actually turn not the turn and then at the end we have a sound so the River Thames [Music] easy to miss I've got a question for you what's the name of this bridge it's not London Bridge yeah power bridge now these two are often confused but they are different bridges London Bridge is down the river and this is Tower Bridge now how do we know is Tower Bridge because it's got two towers that's how we know so the procession Tower Bridge so when your next thing learn the bridges for land down you know that it's not this one it's the other one [Music] if you visit London and you love food then you'll probably visit this place bara market now the projection there is bar right the schwa sound and the stress is on the first [Music] welcome to Trafalgar Square this is where London comes to celebrate so it could be a sporting celebration or New Year's Eve this is where we come so the pronunciation Trafalgar Square the stress there is on the middle syllable Trafalgar Square [Music] the quickest and easiest way to get around London is to use the underground this is also known locally as the tube the tube it was a super popular place to visit in London for tourists is Greenwich now this is commonly mispronounced as Greenwich but there are two sounds grey niche grey niche Greenwich Greenwich guys I've come to East London and to hit up three very trendy touristy spots now the first one is sure Dench sure ditch and it's a pretty cool area lots of good cafes bars cool shops as well and the pronunciation sure ditch shortage not too difficult to sounds sure I'm on one of London's most popular tourist streets Brick Lane now it's not like difficult to save it if you're visiting London at any time you'll need to say Brick Lane it's a really cool Street it's got great food and trailer famous for its curry which is you have to try when you're here so yeah the name is Brick Lane [Music] you [Music] London is famous for its markets and we have so many market usually during the weekend this is one of my favorites this is little field market quite tricky to say little field it's really near Brick Lane and insured it's super popular on [Music] back in central London we've got Leicester Square Leicester Square not lie sister Leicester Square really popular with tourists next to Leicester Square we've got Piccadilly Circus ticketing Circus there are sadly no clowns it's not a circus just a lot of tourists Piccadilly Circus I'm walking towards the most famous residence in London maybe even in Britain do you know who lives there I give you a clue she wears a crown and she waves like this you got it that's right I'm going to where the Queen lives Buckingham Palace here we are at Buckingham Palace now commonly people mispronounce is Buckingham but actually it's them them so the H a.m. is it's very common in British English to hover at the end of a place name so Tottenham Clapham and Buckingham so it's at the st. Buckingham we take Buckingham Palace the stress is on the first syllable Buckingham Buckingham Palace now here's a little tip for you if you look at the top of Buckingham Palace there is a flagpole and if the flag is at the top that means that the queen is inside if there is no flag that means she is somewhere else maybe at one of our other houses she has a few or maybe she's on a state visit somewhere and that but today the flag is at the top of the flagpole so she's in probably playing on a ride pad you know Pokemon go whatever it is I don't know but yeah she's inside [Music]

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Length: 7min 5sec (425 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 04 2017