2006-10-07 13:06:33 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
The best way? Get into the time machine, stopping in about 1960 when the purest strain began to fade
2006-10-07 13:16:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Talk Cockney with Uncle Fred
http://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/rabbit.aspx
Welcome to the Cockney Rhyming Slang Translator
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2006-10-07 20:12:49 · answer #2 · answered by Karen J 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Listen to old films set in the east end and any recordings you can find.
You are more likely to hear Azerbaijani or Romanian than Cockney in London these days and what Cockney that remains is seriously degraded or just plain false.
2006-10-07 20:22:37 · answer #3 · answered by "Call me Dave" 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
watcher mate i'm a cockney sparrer from east london. i reccomend you go and live there ,alternatively you could watch eastenders that will give you a smattering of the lingo
ps i now live in cornwall so trying to learn cornish. good luck.
2006-10-07 20:13:52 · answer #4 · answered by creak165 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I found been born to cockney parents helped me
2006-10-07 20:13:13 · answer #5 · answered by yellowpalma 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go visit Chapel Market nr Bethnal Green to buy some flowers and speak to the locals !
2006-10-08 19:14:47 · answer #6 · answered by SCOTLAND 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
by listening 2me.
i suppose if u go there 2 east london & copy ppl, but after saying that these days the east of london is full of ppl from the middle east so you've got as good a chance of learning polish & lithuanian or an asian language...
2006-10-07 20:11:32 · answer #7 · answered by Can I Be Your Pet? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get yerself a barra' and flog some old tat dahn the Roman Road market, naht ah mean?
2006-10-07 20:12:30 · answer #8 · answered by ♫ Rum Rhythms ♫ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get a flat within the sound of Bow Bells
2006-10-08 08:06:20 · answer #9 · answered by Pattythepunk 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Listen to the actor Dick van Dyke in Mary Poppins
"Even better than the real thing"
2006-10-07 20:14:43 · answer #10 · answered by strawman 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋