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Be happy for this moment, this moment is your life😃😇

برای همین لحظه خوشحال باش، همین لحظه زندگی توئه😃😇

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OK so that is a YES
Before we begin, please ask yourself:
“Why are you learning the British accent?”

Here Are Three Quick Truths:
• It’s NOT a superior accent and it doesn’t sound smarter
than other accents.
• It’s fine to have a preference for an accent, but it’s just
weird to believe in accent superiority. Don’t be weird.
• Your accent is your identity and it makes you
interesting, and let’s be honest, accents are hot!

At the end of each unit of this course, I’ll give you three
sentences to try to pronounce using what you’ve learned,
sounds from the unit which you can choose to change will
be bold and underlined!
I will also do voices for you to understand better because it might be alittle hard just to learn pronounce by Reading!
If you had any problem you can, tag and ask me in the group. @IamZarvan
Cool. Ready? Let’s begin!

Lesson 01: The Glottal T

The most common thing people say when you ask them to do a British accent is something like this…
"can I have some wa'er"

Here Are Three Quick Truths!
• We don’t ALWAYS use the glottal T.
• It’s not “stupid” to use the glottal T. It’s just a style.
• Even “posh” politicians, and the Queen uses it.

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You should know that it’s always best to use a mix of Glottal Ts and True Ts in your speech to give you a natural speaking style. Remember, accent is all about STYLE!
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The Sound

Say “UH-OH!”.
Ok, that middle sound, feel how your throat closes the airway, and that stops any sound coming out?
THAT’S the sound which will replace the T a LOT in British pronunciation.

It’s VERY common to glottalise the T sound at the end of words:
• Hot
• But
• Not

Some T sounds will NEVER be glottalised!
• Taylor SwiFT
• Kanye WeST
Also we NEVER glottalise the FIRST!

BUT with the word “Italian” NO ONE would ever glottalise THAT T! Everyone would agree that it would
sound weird. Confusing, no?

Same with:
Photograph (Fine)
Photographer (No)
Strategy (Fine)
Strategic (No)

You can kind of see a pattern here: A T between two vowel sounds and the second vowel sound is stressed, it’s sort of universally understood that it sounds weird and no one glottalises those.

ALSO! What used to be considered purely American pronunciation - when we change the T sound for a D sound - is now pretty widespread in British English, so it won’t sound TOO American if you sprinkled some D sounds in there, like with the word “better”, pronouncing it like
“Bedder”.

Ok now try THESE sentences, try using a MIX of glottal Ts and True Ts, see how it feels. Develop your own style!

1) “It’s hotter than a wet Augus night in Toronto!”
2) “It’s an absolutely great photo of a turtle”
3) “A better water bottle for the environment”

Guys I'll do a voice explaining it tonight.

I can't rn I have something to do