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I feel like everything right now is about Adele, and I'm loving it 😏😏😏

Hey, that was a wonderful analysis! It's so important to show that things are not always as they are taught in pronunciation text books;) Thank you!

Tom, I'm German, and when I went to university, I studied German literature and linguistics. There was one professor whose thesis (I hope this is the right word) was called "Der flexible Sprecher", which can be translated as "The flexible speaker", and it was an investigation of master craftsmen of a certain region of Germany. He proved that those men switched their dialect and accents according to the people they were talking to. With family they used their local (strong) dialect, and the more official their conversation partner became, the more "standard German" their language became. It they were talking to customers (i.e. wanted to sell something), they adjusted to the customer's language. It was a fascinating book!

Great job!! I'm an English teacher, as well as a pronunciation nerd and accent lover so you definitely made my day with this.

I'm also a teacher. I grew up speaking French as I'm from Quebec, the main French speaking part of Canada. I now live in the west part of the country where English is the main language. I teach in a French school where other teachers are from all over. France, North Africa, Belgium, Quebec, Switzerland, etc. The way I speak when I'm at work is closer to standard French but when I go back home, the accent and way of speaking I grew up with comes back really fast! I loved this video; it was fascinating. Adele is the best! So humble and spontaneous. Keep up with the good work. Cheers! x

Wow... Today's video was spectacular. Hopefully, next time we can learn English with Tom Hiddleston or Benedict Cumberbatch. Thanks.

6:46 - Adele's face is priceless in this moment :)

Because of my mother's illness, I had to live for two years with my two grandparents, who spoke English with Norwegian accents. People say I have a strong Midwestern influence in my accent, so much so that they doubt I was born and raised in New York City. I have never lived in the Midwest, but a Midwestern accent was preferred, if not demanded, by radio and television stations at that time( the early 1950s) and I imagine that I learned my English from the radio. But one New York City(and environs) thing remains and that is the pronunciation of middle tees. Words such as bottom, little and rattle, or any word with a tee in the middle, are made into a dee in most of the US, but in metropolitan New York they are swallowed, so to speak. They don't disappear, they almost do. It is a very soft glottal tee, very different from the Cockney, lacking the Cockney hitch. It seems that no matter how hard we try to speak standard American English we can't get rid of it. It is as much a proof of origin as the way Canadians say -out words give them away. I often wonder whether this New York thing is related to the early Dutch settlers or to the prolonged British military occupation during the Revolutionary War. New York, by the way, at one time, had dozens of neighborhood accents. By the time I had reached my junior year at the City College of New York(1964), I could identify over thirty different neighborhood dialects, dialects that were determined not only by the ethnic identities of the inhabitants but by who preceded them in that neighborhood. For example, I had always wondered why there was an Irish influence in the accents of Norwegians, Germans, and Italians from Bay Ridge in Brooklyn- until I went there and noticed that amongst the oldest storefronts there was, invariably, a bar with an Irish name.

While listening to her songs, I used to wonder why her accent is so different. Now I know why. Thanks so much Tom.

Yes! I believe this is known as “code switching”. President Clinton does it often; switching between a southern accent and a standard American accent. Personally, I have a very standard American accent (like a newscaster) until I’m either angry or very rushed; then I sound like the Brooklyn girl I really am.

hi tom! your videos take me back to my linguistics classes in uni when i had to learn about phonetics and phonology. it's awesome how you're using famous people as examples to learn, engaging!

This was so helpful! I work with a lot of British people and my accent is all over the place. It really helped to break it down and categorize it

Tom, this video is CLASS. Fanks so much.

I suggest Emma Watson for next time!

"Ain't" is used frequently here in the Southern US as well as glottal stops or d's for t's and schwa vowels at the ends of words. Thanks for the entertaining videos!

I used to have a really heavy cockney accent growing up as I'm also from London but after moving here in Greece (been living here for over 10 years now) I felt the need to change my accent, the terms we use for certain words (like instead of crisps I say chips, etc.) and let go of some old habits when speaking English because people were having a hard time understanding me, even my husband. I now lean on RP more but sometimes the cockney in me comes out when I'm rushing to say something :D

It's almost 4 am and you keep me here watching, so it's YES!, go ahead, you are FANTASTIC!

amazing video Tom!!!

yes, I liked it!! It is such a good idea to study from the actual conversation!

Texas girl, here! This video reminds me of how I felt watching My Fair Lady and how I'd OBSESS with the accents and pronunciations. You, my friend, are doing my dream job. Thanks, Tom! 🧡

Love Cockney accent 😍 thank you so much for that.

Fascinating video, Tom. Having lived in various areas of the US, my accent has changed over time, and includes phonological elements of several regional American accents. I am sure that I favo(u)r one accent over another, depending on who I am talking to.

I was very surprised when I first heard Adele speaking!! I didn't expect that accent. This video is brilliant. I'm spanish and I've lived in London 11 years, fascinating

Loved this video. Actually, at the end of the video, you said "Adew" twice. It just matched what you said, about the context and how free you feel at the moment of speaking. This really helps me, and so does to my students. Fank you! 😁

Can’t express how grateful I am... thank u for that. It’s just what I needed!

Marvellous ❤️ You remind me of my 'social urban dialectology' class back 5 years ago. Much love to Adele ❤️

This video reminds me of my first couple of months after I moved to London. I was pretty confident with my level of English till a work collgue asked me in a pure cockney accent "Are you all right?" I froze for few seconds nodded and walked away having no clue what had he just said. Where were consonants? Or being in M&S and the cashier asking me "Do you want a 5p bag? " Luckly enough I understood "Do you" and "bag" parts. Now everything is way easier even if I still here my collgue s use some slang I still don't know. Long story short, your videos would have been really helpful back then but I do enjoy them now as well and can still learn a few things even if I live in London. Cheers!

This video is just fantastic! Thank you for sharing it! Can't wait for the next one.

This is an amazing video! Now I understand the reason we don't understand many british stars. Thank you so much for this video! I loved it! Greetings from Nicaragua!

Great video! I'm Bilingual (English & Greek), and in both languages, I'm a bit Bi-dialectal too. I speak in what most people say is an international English accent. I grew up in West London (Chiswick) until I was 8, so I spoke with quite a posh English accent until then. At 8 years old, my parents moved the family to Athens, Greece. Cos I couldn't speak Greek very well, I was sent to an American International School in Greece. As I have a strong ear, within a few years, picked up an American accent. Classmates would ask me if I was from the North East of the US when they'd hear me talk. When I finished High School at 18, I then moved back to the UK to attend Uni, and my accent changed again and went back towards British English. Now it's in between British English, and American English. It's not a Lloyd Grossman accent though, it's softer than that, and I can switch between accents if I so choose! It's the same with my Greek & Cypriot accents too! :)

I'm a Londoner but in the early 70s I lived in Manchester. From time to time I would travel to London for business meetings and stay with family and visit with friends. On returning north my Mancunian friends and work colleagues would remark on how I had reverted to a London accent (an how unintelligible I was 😄) So, without realising it, I was modifying my speech for my northern life but it only took 3 or 4 days to switch back.

Thank you so much for making this video, i was looking forward to it.

I was watching Cheryl Cole’s interviews for 2 hours. Then when I was speaking to my friend, I’ve got a slight Geordi accent/features in my speech. It lasted for few hours.

I love Adele! This was a fun new segment, I really enjoyed it :) Would be nice and useful if you’d do something similar with a more difficult accent, like I saw James McAvoy on Graham Norton show and could only understand a fraction of what he said!

My mother tongue is English, but I love watching your videos because of how engaging you are and the depth of your explanations.

I watched that carpool for 5 times! And you gave such a new perspective, thanks!!!!!! Shout out to all of Adel,s fans!

Pls do it with Cheryl Cole! I’m looking forward to the Geordie accent!

My accent definitely changes depending on who I’m with or after I have watched tv featuring different accents from my own.

I’ve moved to UK from Poland 20 years ago, lived in London for 6 years, soaked the cockney accent, then moved to Liverpool and lived here up until now for over 10 years now, scouse and cockney are far the best British accents in my opinion, both totally different, when I speak now mostly with a scouse accent I still throw here and there the cockney twang 😂 and funny enough that triggers my fellow scousers to show off their cockney few sentences learned from tv ( I suppose). Great stuff Tom. 👍🏻🤘🏻👊🏻

I live in Texas. I am originally from New Jersey. I watch and listen to so many British youtubers I find myself borrowing British phrases and names for things. This makes sense for me because it sounds better than the phrases we have here. I feel more comfortable when I say what I have to say without having to explain or repeat myself. I will pronounce words like a person would in England. This is something I try not to do, but it happens most days. I don't realize that I do it until someone points it out.

Hello Tom, Thanks for the amazing video! Yes, I do agree that our accents shift from context to context. I was born and grew up in Taiwan. English isn’t my mother tongue, but because of my great passion for language learning, I crossed the border of monolingualism and became a bilingual(mandarin and English) I’ve been exposed to mostly American accent growing up; however, I grow more and more fond of British accents as an adult(due to my late burgeoning interest in Harry Potter) I do notice the subtle to moderate change in my accent when I shift from one context to another. When I feel confident/professional(when explaining things), a higher dosage of British accent comes up whereas when I feel lazy and sluggish, American accent is at its full force. As a non-native speaker of English, I’m always aware of my accent speaking English, as I’ve grown intuitive to monitor my production of this language. I always say that for non-native speakers, their acquired accents are just like their teeth after braces, whose shapes are forced by artificial means, not natural. Therefore, it’s necessary for them to maintain the shape of their teeth, or, their achieved accents with certain degree of awareness.

Nice video, great lessons. I just remembered the movie "My Fair Lady"!

This is out of the park! Cockney accent rocks, and Adele is so real, a pleasure to watch.. Thanks for the thorough illustration 👍

This was a brilliant analysis and loved your break down! Love Adele and she was great with James Cordon. I lived in Norfolk for 4 years a long time ago and when I came back to the USA I had a slight accent. You are so right we are all a blend of accents. Great 👍🏻 job!

Great video! Please do the same with Elizabeth II next! I try to learn upper rp by watching her christmas speeches :D

Toooommm! I like this session ❤️ I am a big big fan of Adele and I’ve been watching this Adele’s Carpool Karaoke for times, lost somewhere due to Adele’s accent! Hahha I’ve to admit that I felt in love with the cockney accent and I am working on it! Thank you 🙏🏻😀

Fascinating, thank you. I love British accents. I'm originally from New Orleans, and the movies always get the accent wrong (actually there are several accents in New Orleans). At some point in my teens I decided I needed to speak "more properly" and I tried to standardize my accent a bit. Now I live in Texas and I have those hard "R"s.

Oh my God I LOVE this video. Can't believe youtube took two weeks to recommend it to me. It reunites some of the things I love the most: language learning, british accents (broke down!) and Adele! I alredy frequently watch her interviews because of her accent. I've read many times though british people saying that cockney comes off as uneducated and you can kind of see where it comes from, but I don't know, it just sounds the prettiest to me. Love me some glotal Ts heheheh PS: Loved also that you praised Adele all through the video, from her laughter to personality. She really is enchanting.

I’d like to hear someone with a Yorkshire accent!

A video with Adele? I clicked it

I love this part, I really enjoy understanding between accents 👍 well done

I love when she is just being herself and not thoughtfully editing herself. Love love love her natural accent and that infectious laugh.

My accent definitely changes depending on who I’m talking to. I FaceTimed a friend from America yesterday and my english accent just turned into kind of an american thing. It was crazy I didn’t even notice

Hi Tom!! I'm from Spain and I do really enjoy watching your videos (and I learn a lot about English). Here comes a suggestion: It would be really awesome a video about the accents of the members of Iron Maiden :D Thank you so much!!

I looove your videos !! It makes everything more clear to understand! Keep doing this!

Hello, everyone. I'm from Myanmar, and i grew up in Yangon. Since Kindergarten , English is in the curriculum but i really started to learn English in all speaking and listening since i was 16. For about 5 years i guess, i only spoke in British accent just to challenge myself, and i did, indeed, really capture the accent. i was so thrilled. but all changed when i moved to NYC for my schooling and i lost my accent right away, communicating with American people and all brilliant ethnicity that the city brings. Nevertheless, the total amazement to myself is that i didn't know that it happened and i can't even speak in at least one of the British accent again. As a person who likes languages and accents , i am now learning to do different American accents. Wish me luck!!!

I would love to see you doing Learn English with Her Majesty the Queen or The Royal Family. ;)

You also do the glottal 't' thing!! 😂 I noticed!!

Hi Tom this is Carmen, from Madrid. I love your accent and your videos. Specially, cos I understand you! you do not have the typical british accent I a feel comfortable listening to you! this is the first time I see a teacher without the "RP" accent (wich is very easy to unverstand but completely unreal). this is great. Thank you so much!

I’m learning Vietnamese, and as when I learned Spanish, I started learning some songs because it’s easy to learn music. Listening to Adele, I realized the same thing happens in English as Vietnamese-there is an accepted accent in singing English! (North and South Vietnam has accents as different as north and south England, but songs are in RP here and north accent there.) thanks for the revelation.

Love this! I have always been fascinated by Adele's accent! Also, I def adjust my accent depending on where I am. I'm born and raised in Wisconsin but when I lived in other states I softened my accent for sure, otherwise people would constantly point it out. Even when I did that, sometimes people still did though. When I moved back home it was so nice to just let my natural accent rip and nobody blinks an eye!

6:41 i love her eye

I've been trying to master a good modern RP accent and I follow a couple of channels including yours and I must say your videos are extremely helpful...Thank you so much for this one...I love love love Adele 😍 Pls do Olivia Colman next...I love her too 😍

this video is pure gold! i loved it! thank you sooooooo much :)

Hi, Tom! Greetings from your fan in Poland. I speak a very mid-Atlantic English. In Poland we are usually taught British English and RP is considered the model pronunciation most English learners want to achieve. However, I spent a few months in California as a teen and I watch a lot of American shows and films, so I am deeply influenced by it. To make matters more complicated, my favourite country is Canada and if I could choose I'd love to speak Canadian English:) (I know there's no one Canadian accent!) So I speak a mixture and I used to be very self-conscious about it. Now I'm learning to accept that. The way I speak reflects my personal story, doesn't it?

Oh me love Adele💕. Fanks Tom

I love her singing voice and it was jarring to hear her normal accent from around where I was brought up !

love your video!! so clear! Thank you so much! and hopefully more video like this, it helps a lot! I really don't understand what Adele said before, I find Cockney is so differenced from Received Pronunciation. Now I may start to understand more.

I loved this video .... btw I just found that I usually speak Cockney accent most of the time. AND TOM, what about next one on Aussie accent , I mean that's too kinda tough one to understand!

Vote for Tom Hiddleston next time!

Bro, you know what ? You are analizing the accents perfect. I am trying to improve my accent. I am a Turkish and you know it is kinda hard to practise but your videos help me so much. Thanks bro, good job...🖤

Thank you , Tom for that amazing video of Adele's accent and let me say that I love the way she talks however, I don't understand half of the speech . I love this accent especially when Adele and Rachel Weisz speak it . I hope to learn more from your videos . greetings from the Middle East

Awesome video Tom. Make more videos about Adele pronunciation.

It's a funny difference once again. Americans would say "drunk off my ass" instead of "drunk off my face". The cockney, and a couple of other accents, are very reminiscent of several American Southern accents, but then, that's where many aspects of the American Southern accent in general came from originally. I've always thought that American Southerners, if they're paying attention, will more easily understand the thicker British accents than those in the Northern US, but that's just my opinion. My father was a lay clergyman in the US here when he was alive, so my siblings and I always had to make sure we spoke properly when he was around, especially when adults with whom he was friends were also in listening distance, so I can relate to your experience with your grandmother. I love this kind of analysis. It would be difficult to find someone who changes accent so frequently, I think. If I think of anyone that might be a good candidate for analysis, I'll let you know. :)

As a Spanish speaking person, I may say I enjoy this video and thank you for it. This gives me the certainty that I am not crazy to say Adele sound very weird and sometimes couldn’t understand a word. You earn a big like and have a new follower, kudos bro!

Amazing deconstructed tom; as always, thanks 🙏

Thank you for this interesting video, Tom! I think it would be a good idea to listen to the royals, particularly comparing the old generation's accents with the younger one, such as prince William and Harry

I loved this vídeo ! Makes me so angry that I LOVE Adele but can't understand what she says during interviews lol This accent thing happens with me in Portuguese. I have a strong brazilian northeastearn accent, Recife to be more specific, but whenever I visit the Countryside I bring all the slangs with me for at least five days haha. Could you make a Amy Winehouse one ? Or the Heads together chat between Kate, Prince William and Harry ? Take care xx

Actually, this kind of videos help me a lot to recognize the words in British TV shows, thanks a lot!

Loved this video...I once got into a lift (elevator) in New York City and someone asked "up or down"...my response was one single word "down" and a lovely lady from the back shouted "Where abouts in Northern Ireland are you from?" I giggled and answered "Belfast" although I was born and raised in Germany to Irish parents...but cousins have a great impact on you. I just couldn't have explained in such a short time that I never lived in Northern Ireland at all.

That's called "code switching" in Linguistics. I think everything you said was interesting-- she may also be switching pronunciation due to cultural connections of particular topics. Great! Keep going!

Interesting, in central Italy, we say "mi mamma" instead of "mia mamma", this sounds very similar to "me" instead of "my". Great video, brilliant idea!

I was born in Bromley and spent several years in Isle of Dogs. I'm also hearing classic phrases. "Thanks. Well. Thanks very much." 2:16 4:35 - "I got a new coat out of the budget". I can just hear her at the annual Chrisp street market at Christmas. Buying people meals in restaurants. There's other things going on here which is causing the language to subconsciously flex. Really interesting overview and brings back memories.

More of these, please!!

Adele is one of the best singers out there!

I’d love you to analyze Zayn Malik’s Bradford accent, it’s very particular :)

This video has brought me so much joy I FREAKING LOVE ADELE

I really did enjoy it video.. I learnt a lot with Adeles songs...the queen of England ....hugs from Argentina😍😘👍

thump up if u want Hugh Laurie the next one 👍

Thank you so much for this video. I'm so in love with Adele's accent and now you enable me to understand also the great palette of opportunities to use different accents to not only adopt to different social environments but also to express yourself in different ways depending on how you feel or how you wont to be seen. Beautiful!

It’s awesome video!!!!! Thank you Tom. Adele has my favourite accent!!!

This is just BRILLIANT! Thank you for that!

Maybe Gordon Ramsay next?

Could be Jamie Oliver, because I undesrtand 5 words out of 10 from him. :) Loved this video btw, thanks a lot Tom!

I really liked this video! You make learning English more entertaining, thank you so much Tom! Also, I've noticed that even though I'm not a native English speaker my accent switches from american to british (RP) or viceversa when I watch your videos and some others from US youtubers, so your theory about accent might be true. Besides, I think It'll be great if you could analyze Florence Pugh's accent in the upcoming videos. Thanks 😄

Such a nice video! Love your job Tom. Jolly nice content 👌🏻

My accent has *definitely* changed because of my environment and people I've been around. I am an American expat and have been living in Asia for seven years. My friends back home notice vowel shifts and other differences in the way I speak, vs how I spoke before I left the US. I'd say my vocabulary and syntax have changed a bit, as well.

Love this vid of carpool karaoke. I’ve seen it a million times and I really wanted someone to make a video like this. Thanks for that:) please do someone else, I have no idea who though😂

This is a great explanation! As a non-native speaker who leans more towards American accent, i have a hard time understanding what Adele is saying in interviews. Her British accent is so distinctive and thick. So unique, yet so complicated.