Speak English With A British Accent
Hosted by Alison · Alison Pitman
4.5from 270 ratings
- 181
- Episodes
- 115
- Transcribed
- 270
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2015
- First episode
- 5M
- YouTube views
About Speak English With A British Accent
Would you like to speak English with an RP British English accent. This podcast provides pronunciation practice and tips and tricks to improve your spoken English.
- Publisher
- Alison Pitman
- Category
- education · education
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 17 May 2015
- Latest episode
- 18 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
115 of 181 episodes have a transcript.
18 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Secret Life of the Schwa: Britain's Hardest-Working Sound - How to Sound Interested Without Saying "That's Interesting" - Has It All Gone Pear-Shaped? 10 British Idioms for When Things Go Wrong - The Most Useful British Expressions Nobody Teach
11 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
"It Says It's Been Delivered… But It Hasn't!" — What Would You Say? - British Office English- Especially or Specially? - Why British People Ask Questions They Already Know the Answer To
4 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Why do Brits say Cheers! when there's nothing to celebrate? - The Hidden Music of British English: Why Some Words Almost Disappear - Say It Like You Mean It: How Sentence Stress Changes Your Meaning - Phrasal Verbs with BREAK
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The Secret Life of the Schwa: Britain's Hardest-Working Sound - How to Sound Interested Without Saying "That's Interesting" - Has It All Gone Pear-Shaped? 10 British Idioms for When Things Go Wrong - The Most Useful British Expressions Nobody Teach
Published 18 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Meet the schwa. It's the little uh sound. And it's arguably the hardest working sound in English. Why? Because when a syllable isn't important, English often doesn't give it the full vowel. It gives it a schwa instead. And modern RP makes a lot of use of it. First, what does a schwa actually sound like? So, we'll say about, about. We don't pronounce it a-bout. We say about. Can you hear that a for the first a? The first syllable is weak. The second syllable carries the stress. About. Now try banana. Banana. Can you hear schwa's in there? There are actually two schwa's. Banana. So it's the first a. the middle syllable is strong, and the final A is much weaker, so it turns into a schwa. […]
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