Conversation with... Javier from Colombia on accents

Join your English teacher, Helen, and her guest, Javier Alfonso Gomez Chavarro, to talk about the wide variety of British accents. Practise your listening and put yourself in Javier’s shoes with Helen’s corrections and explanations on grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation and interesting phrases. 

Lesson Themes:
01:21  What is a Brummie accent?
01:56   Find out why Javier wants a Brummie accent
02:44   Learn vowel sound differences between the north and south of England
06:07  “Been to” versus “gone to”
08:02  Test your knowledge of UK regional nicknames
12:41  “Lilt”
13:03  “Pick up” and other phrasal verbs
18:46  “Be/get used to”

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