British Accent - How to speak in a British Accent

Brixton has so many ethnic groups in it. Difficult to decide what particular sound, accent is most often heard. London with a touch of Indian and the West Indies. Nearly impossible to determine which one.

Which play is it? Is it contemporary, set specifically in an Afro-Caribbean community, or what?

I grew up in Brixton and agree with david. It is an incredibly mixed area, particularly famous for its West Indian/Jamaican/Black British community which makes up well over 50% of the population in some parts of Brixton. Depending on who the characters are, they might speak in any/all of t

Do you live anywhere near there? What a splendid analysis of the various groups living there. Many thanks.

I am British and would love to give some advice on British accents, including the South London dialect...ooops...sorry...Sarf Landun. One question though...just why is the font in this site so tiny? I have only just found this site and haven't registered yet so this is a guest posting.

Sandy
HEREFORDSHIRE
England UK

Thanks for that bunkadelic, very interesting. Could you please explain what RP means though?

Sandy, you could make the font size in your browser bigger. Go to view>text size and choose the setting you prefer.

RP means received pronounciation. it is used by the queen and the nobles. because it is very standard british accent

I see. Thanks Jennyji

Hardly Jennyji. RP is not only spoken by the Queen and aristocrats I'm afraid many so called educated people speak it including the vast majority of Public School students. As you may know a Public School in England is a private school anywhere else in the world. The British love being different.

I can advise you what NOT to do, and that it is copy the efforts of *** Van *** in "Mary Poppins". We Brits laugh uproariously at most American efforts to copy British regional accents, and doubtless the same is true of the reverse! Having said that, Renee Zellweger is excellent at her standard British accent in her role of Bridget Jones - very convincing!

Incidentally, most of us wou

I am an east londer
I agree with what is being said, however I can tell the difference slightly with south and east I think the east says words like " innit" alot and "yeh man", i think due to the younger east londoners listen to majority of garage music they use their lingo and south listen to more hip-hop and try to sound like american rappers. Ethnic minorty's play a big part in our langu