Speak English With A British Accent

Speak English With A British Accent

Alison Pitman

190 - 20 Common Medical Abbreviations You Should Know 🏥 - Why "pick it up" sounds like pi-ki-tup 🇬🇧 - Taste vs Flavour: What's the Difference? 🍫🍓-The Wonderful, Versatile Word: "Shit" 💩 (And How Brits Really Use It)

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.

190 - 20 Common Medical Abbreviations You Should Know 🏥 - Why "pick it up" sounds like pi-ki-tup 🇬🇧 - Taste vs Flavour: What's the Difference? 🍫🍓-The Wonderful, Versatile Word: "Shit" 💩 (And How Brits Really Use It)

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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.

Episode

190-

20 Common Medical Abbreviations You Should Know 🏥 - Why "pick it up" sounds like pi-ki-tup 🇬🇧 - Taste vs Flavour: What's the Difference? 🍫🍓-The Wonderful, Versatile Word: "Shit" 💩 (And How Brits Really Use It)

Jum, 15 Mei 2026

189-

Returning a Faulty Item (Very Useful British English) - Why Commands in English Fall ⬇️ (An Intonation Secret)- Ditch "Common"! 10 British Words That Sound Smarter 😎 - The Art of Saying Everything by Saying Nothing

Jum, 08 Mei 2026

188-

English Collective Nouns: How to Talk About Groups Like a Brit 🐝 -The "Invisible Y": Mastering the Y Glide 👄- Assure, Ensure, Insure… why English needs three words for this 😅 - British Idioms About Death (don't worry… they're quite funny)

Jum, 01 Mei 2026

Jum, 24 Apr 2026

Jum, 17 Apr 2026

Jum, 10 Apr 2026

184-

A Trip to the Garden Centre 🌿 (Very British) - Except , Besides, Apart From - what's the difference? - 8 Phrasal Verbs You'll Hear at Easter (Especially If Chocolate Is Involved)- Softened Swearing: How Brits Swear Without Actually Swearing

Jum, 03 Apr 2026

Jum, 27 Mar 2026

182-

British Slang Intensifiers: Super, Proper, Dead - British Comparative Idioms: As Dead as a Dodo, As Free as a Bird- Booking a Pet Sitter: Real British English You'll Actually Need - How to Pronounce the SQUARE Diphthong /eə/

Jum, 20 Mar 2026

181-

Taking the Mick: A Guide to British Banter (Don't Take It Personally!) - Internet Abbreviations: A Secret Weapon for Spelling Letters Clearly - 🇬🇧 Unlock the Rhythm: Mastering Stress Shifts in Word Families - Stress Shifts Drills & Quiz

Jum, 13 Mar 2026

Jum, 06 Mar 2026

Jum, 27 Feb 2026

Jum, 20 Feb 2026

177-

British Work English: Softening Feedback- French speakers:vowel purity vs British diphthongs - Get Creative: 10 Very British Phrasal Verbs for Art & Ideas - Stuck? Good. You've Hit the Accent Plateau (And That's Not a Bad Thing)

Jum, 13 Feb 2026

Jum, 06 Feb 2026

Jum, 30 Jan 2026

174-

The silent K & B: English's most pointless letters - Inviting & Declining Plans (The British Way) - Indian speakers & British English: it's not your consonants: it's the vowels - Minimal pairs: why your ear matters more than your mouth

Jum, 23 Jan 2026

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Why British English trips you up at the ends of words - How those tricky endings show up in real British English work speech - Different ways to say hello (context + pronunciation) - Bump into, ran into, come across – when English collisions happen!

Jum, 16 Jan 2026

Jum, 09 Jan 2026

Jum, 02 Jan 2026

170-

Compilation: 🎲 Game on: British idioms to level up your accent - Excuse Me! — The Art of Grabbing Attention (Without Grabbing Shoulders) -How Brits really say "Good night" 🌙💤- Do This. Read That. Master the Imperative in English

Jum, 26 Des 2025

Sab, 20 Des 2025

Jum, 12 Des 2025

Jum, 05 Des 2025

166-

PALINDROMES: WORDS AND SENTENCES - 5 minute conversations: delivery driver - The Four Verbs Every Learner Trips Over (But Not You, After Today) - 🍽️ Everyday English Mini-Lesson: Better Ways to ORDER Things (Politely… and Not So Politely)

Jum, 28 Nov 2025

Jum, 14 Nov 2025

164-

How to sound instantly more British (by not saying things properly) - Weak Forms Quiz: Are You Secretly Speaking Like a Robot? ⚡️- 🇬🇧 9 British Phrases That Confuse Americans (and Everyone Else) - Sympathy, Empathy, Apathy… and the lost art of

Jum, 07 Nov 2025

163-

🎯 Upgrade Your Vocabulary: From Basic to Brilliant - 🛒 How to Sound Subtly British at the Supermarket - 🗣 How to Speak Like a Brit at the Supermarket Checkout- 🇬🇧 Why You Can't Say "A Cotton Lovely Blue Dress" (and Other English Myste

Jum, 31 Okt 2025

162-

Stop saying "very" — sound more British instead 🇬🇧 - Do you speak British or American English? 🇬🇧🇺🇸 - 🎯 Lose vs Miss — Two Tricky Little Verbs - 🎯 Optative Sentences — Wishing and Hoping in English

Kam, 23 Okt 2025

Jum, 17 Okt 2025

160-

🚔 Crime doesn't pay — but it can teach you British pronunciation - British entertainment places (and how to pronounce them properly) - 🌿 How to Sound Smart (and Properly British) When Talking About the Environment - What are you up to this wee

Jum, 10 Okt 2025

Jum, 03 Okt 2025

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Let's talk MORE tongue twisters 👅 - Fitness Vocabulary Lesson for British English Learners - Improve your British Prounciation Instantly With this Noun-Verb Trick - To British or Not To British? That is the Accent Question

Jum, 26 Sep 2025

Jum, 19 Sep 2025

Jum, 12 Sep 2025

155-

🎯 Idioms with "COME" – and how to say them like a Brit - 📍 East, West, North, South – phrases with direction (and RP tips too!) - 😷 Feeling poorly? Doctor's phrases in British English (RP tips inside!) - 💊 Need anything from the chem

Sen, 01 Sep 2025

Jum, 22 Agu 2025

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Excuse Me! — The Art of Grabbing Attention (Without Grabbing Shoulders) - What do you do? Friendly ways to start a chat 🇬🇧-How? What? Where? — The British way to ask 🇬🇧 - Bon voyage! — British ways to say "Have a great trip" 🇬🇧

Jum, 15 Agu 2025

Jum, 08 Agu 2025

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Polite & Effective Ways to Make Requests in British English - Do This. Read That. Master the Imperative in English. 🔥 - Quiz: Can You Spot the Imperative (and Use It Right)? - Don't Bother Me… or Is It Disturb? Or Interrupt? 🤔

Jum, 01 Agu 2025

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👗 What's Your Fashion Dilemma? Let's Talk English for Clothes - 🧥"Button It!" – 12 Clothing Idioms You'll Actually Hear Brits Say - 👖Do You Know Your Pedal Pushers from Your Plimsolls? - Master the art of linking in British English

Jum, 25 Jul 2025

Sen, 21 Jul 2025

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🏃‍♀️15 Phrasal Verbs with RUN (No Jogging Required) - Phrasal Verbs with RUN – Multiple Choice Quiz - 🔊 5-Minute RP Workout: The Vowel Power Session - ❌ Not, Knot, Note, Nothing… Are You Saying These Right?

Jum, 18 Jul 2025

Sen, 14 Jul 2025

Jum, 11 Jul 2025

Sen, 07 Jul 2025

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A 30 Day British Accent Challenge - 🏖 Holiday Expressions Every Brit Uses (And You Should Too) - 📚 7 Unusual '-ish' Verbs to Polish Your English - ☕ Office Small Talk: What to Say by the Kettle (Without Making It Weird)

Jum, 04 Jul 2025

Sen, 30 Jun 2025

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🎧 Roleplay Time! 3 Common Work Calls in Perfect British English - How to Say "I Don't Know" Like a True Brit 🇬🇧 - 10 British Questions That Aren't Looking for Answers - ☕ How to Speak Up in a Meeting (Without Sounding Pushy)

Jum, 27 Jun 2025

Sen, 23 Jun 2025