{"id":5483,"date":"2016-07-21T05:32:48","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T05:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.utalk.com\/news\/?p=5483"},"modified":"2022-07-06T15:20:25","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T14:20:25","slug":"would-you-adam-and-eve-it-its-the-worlds-first-cockney-language-learning-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/would-you-adam-and-eve-it-its-the-worlds-first-cockney-language-learning-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Would you Adam and Eve it? It’s the world’s first Cockney language learning app"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Do you know the difference between a pony and a monkey? Know your Peckham Rye from your Bethnal Greens? Not sure what we’re talking about? Read on…<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today we’re launching Cockney as a new language, adding to the 130+ already available on our new cross-platform app uTalk<\/a>. And we’re celebrating with a big knees up at G Kelly Pie and Mash shop on the Roman Road in East London (keep an eye on our Facebook<\/a> and Twitter<\/a> for pics and videos)!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All Londoners will be offered the chance to download Cockney free from Thursday July 21<\/span>st<\/sup><\/span> and uTalk will be teaching Cockney as part of the Roman Road Summer Festival 2016 on Sunday July 24<\/span>th<\/sup><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Cockney<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Our language expert Nat’s been researching how to translate this traditional East End dialect into a language learning tool for two years. She’s<\/span> had a lot of fun finding ways to make genuine Cockney slang work with our language games and negotiating the<\/span> controversy over what is and isn\u2019t Cockney. We\u2019ve gone for a more traditional interpretation and tried to avoid Mockney \u2013 the use of famous people\u2019s names that\u2019s come out of Essex.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are lots of traditional Cockney words for parts of the body and money, but more modern language isn’t always represented. So w<\/span>e’ve brought in some fun new modern phrases like Plastic Fantastic (Credit Card) and hope it will make people smile, celebrate and most importantly debate the language, feeding back on words in use. Where there isn’t something genuine we\u2019ve still pronounced words as they would be in the East End, dropping \u2018t\u2019s and \u2018h\u2019s\u2019 all over the place!<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"uTalk<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Our launch of Cockney coincides with the Roman Road Summer Festival 2016 on Sunday, where we’ll be providing Cockney language lessons for locals.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Details of how to get the free Cockney content will be in the London Evening Standard<\/a> and then their website from July 21<\/span>st<\/sup><\/span> for one month. If you download Cockney you’ll also get a month\u2019s free subscription to the rest of the uTalk<\/a> app, so you can access 130+ more languages spoken in London and beyond.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Intrigued? Here are some classic Cockney phrases to get you started:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n