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Accent Training: How To Do A Bristol Accent

Hi there, it’s Matt from VoiceHacker. We do dialect coaching over Skype. We’re here to do a Bristol accent, and we’ve got 6 tips to help you out. Let’s get started. I had some trouble with the Bristol accent. There’s lots of famous folk from Bristol, like the comedian Bill Bailey, and creator of Wallace and Gromit, Nick Park. But as you can hear, they don’t quite have that distinctive Bristolian twang. Stephen Merchant certainly does. But I decided to turn to a rather more distinct voice: Football manager Ian Holloway. So here we go: 6 top tips for the Bristol accent. For number one, you’ll be able to hear straight away the ‘r’ sounds are very prominent. In ‘longer’ and ‘term’ - and all the way through this sentence. This means the Bristol accent is what’s called a ‘rhotic’ accent: you say every ‘R’ you see. Number two on the list are the ‘ng’ sounds. These tend to lose the ‘g’, and turn ‘doing it’ into ‘doin’ it - unforgiving into unforgivin’ and meeting into meetin’. This happens only on ‘-ing’ endings, so drop off those g’s when you can. For number three, it’s time to look at some vowels. The /əʊ/ sound is a big change here. In promoted - and open - it changes a lot, doing a lot less motion and keeping quite tight in the mouth. ‘So’ instead of ‘so’. For tip number four, the next vowel is the /aɪ/ in ‘delighted’ and ‘like’. It’s very similar to the Dublin Irish accent - think of Colin Farrell saying ‘life’. The jaw stays quite steady, and the tongue does most of the work. Keep your mouth still while you do it. For our penultimate tip, we turn to a classic: the old ‘Bath/Bath’ debate. RP speakers like myself say /bɑːθ/, with a long /ɑː/. But Bristolians say /bæːθ/, turning ‘passing’ into ‘passing’ and ‘last’ into ‘last’. They flatten like crazy - but they keep their length. Now we reach our final tip - Bristolians tend to use elision when they speak. In other words, they run words together. You can even hear this in Bill Bailey - as well as Ian. Notice that some ‘th’ sounds are getting lost there. So, to sum it up. Keep the r’s in, drop the ng’s, curl the /əʊ/’s, flatten the /aɪ/’s, stretch the /æː/’s and get that elision going. Easy. Thanks for watching, and make sure you subscribe for more accent hacks. Download our FREE APP at https://play.google.com/store/apps/de... Check out http://voicehacker.co.uk for more tips and to book Skype lessons. Twitter:   / mpocock1   Facebook:   / mattpocockvocalcoach