How do you speak with cockney dialect?

Answer 1

You really do have to heart it. And you have to be specific about what you want (the "cockney" accent in My Fair Lady is very theatrical and pretty dated).

Here are a few links to sites that collect accents and dialects for study:

www.ku.edu/~idea/
www.bl.uk/collections/sound-archive/accents.html (specifically for study)
www.collectbritain.co.uk/collections/dialects/ (focus is on English accents/dialects)

Many companies make recordings intended to help you learn accents and they are really effective (and cheaper than a dialogue coach if you have a good ear). Order one that works for what you're trying to do and then practice like crazy. Also, record yourself and play it back so that you can hear what you ACTUALLY sound like.

IMPORTANT: Some people have a natural "ear" for dialects/accents. This means that they can 1. hear them and repeat them accurately and 2. naturally extrapolate the "rules" of the dialect so that they can speak in accent/dialect without having to think about it or "copy" another voice. If you don't have a good ear, or if you are just developing this ability, you're going to need a dialect coach.

If you're really dedicated, you can learn phonetics which can help you to learn accents without the benefits of tapes. The first answer poster here was attempting something like that but, um, not very well.

Good luck!

Answer 2

Pick up a tape of the dialect being taught and explained. David Alan Sterns has a very good series called "Acting with an Accent," which I'm sure you can purchase via the Internet.

Learning to perform an effective dialect is MUCH more than a matter of listening and imitating! It requires specificity and precision. Start with the tapes, and have your progress reviewed by your director/teacher/dialect coach...if you have one.

Answer 3

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How do you speak with cockney dialect?

Answer 4

Okay, I like Mark's answer, so get a dialog coach. Also, it's not only about the accent, it's about the choice of words. There's something called Cockney Rhyming Slang which would be heavily in use, and you would have to use it and know it if you really want to be authentic.
ie. a cockney might say "boat race" to mean face
"teapot lids" to mean kids.
To confuse it further, they might even shorten the phrase more, so "teapot lids" would be "teapot".
Do a search on Cockney Rhyming Slang, it's really interesting and fun to see how they come up with the words!

Answer 5

Mark is on target. You need a dialect coach. There are some very good ones in the LA area. If you live near a major university they may have one or two to help with the Theatre program.

Answer 6

Watch My Fair Lady. Great examples of cockney in there.

Answer 7

Leave out lots of valuable letters , add some where they don't go and mess with the proper vowel sounds while speaking with a proper english accent.

Here is the same sentence in Cockney.

leeve ut a lots a faulable lehet-ers, add sum we're vey dn't go an mess wif veh proper vowl sounds wil speakin wif a proper english accent

Answer 8

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Answer 9

You are not going to learn to speak any accent by reading yahoo answers. You need to spend time really listening to the accent you want to use. A dialect coach can also be very valuable, but ya ain't gonna learn no damned accent on you who answers.

Answer 10

esp. use nothink, eneethink and somethink and drop all t's on ends of words and h's at beginnings