🍵 Get out of my pub! Today on LetThemTalkTV, we flipped the script of the classic movie My Fair Lady. Instead of a Cockney flower girl learning to speak like a duchess, we have Natasha, an American duchess, learning to speak Cockney.
👋 Hello, I'm Gideon from London, and this is Natasha Abrahim from Texas, currently in Thailand. She creates content on travel and mindset.
🌍 Natasha is a digital nomad who travels and works remotely. She dreams of being a Cockney flower girl in Covent Garden.
⏳ We have 10-15 minutes to reduce her American accent and teach her Cockney. In the movie, Professor Higgins had 6 months to transform Eliza Doolittle.
🔤 We start with phonetics to reduce the American accent. For example, "car" becomes "cah" and "mother" becomes "muhthah".
📖 Key sentences to practice include:
🎤 Next, we focus on the Cockney accent, starting with H dropping. For example, "happy" becomes " 'appy".
🗣️ Cockney expressions include:
🎭 We performed a sketch where Natasha successfully used her new Cockney skills. She is now a flower girl in Covent Garden!
📺 You can find Natasha on YouTube at Natasha Ibrahim and on Instagram and TikTok at girl.boss abroad.
✉️ Finally, in a Cockney accent, Natasha encourages you to subscribe to LetThemTalkTV and sign up for The Rambler newsletter.