do you speak English like the Queen
because if you do you're in the right
place some cultures believe a long life
brings wisdom I'd like to think so
we're gonna watch a speech she gave and
I'm gonna break down her pronunciation
sound by sound and show you how to speak
like the Pasha's person in the world if
you're ready let's do this
welcome to each Lee Joo English if you
haven't met me before my name is Tom and
I teach fresh modern British English so
that you can take your English to the
next level and achieve your life goals
whatever they may be in this series and
over the next few weeks I only teach you
all about received pronunciation or RP
as it's also known it's a British
English accent that's associated with
education wealth and privilege now it's
not constricted to one particular
geographical area although it does have
associations with London and the South
of England is often used as a model for
students who are learning British
English and for a long time it was the
preferred accent of the BBC now in this
series I'm gonna focus on two forms of
RP the queen's english or conservative
RP or upper RP as is also known and
contemporary RP which is a modern
version but today we're starting with
the queen so whether you're learning
english or whether you're just
interested in accents i think you're
going to find this really useful so
let's get going it starts with a
chorister singing the first verse of
once in royal david city okay here's the
first feature on that word city
she says sitting sitting now in my
accent in most other accents in Britain
it's an e sound at the end on that why
is e city city or city if you prefer now
she says city city it's an it sound a
once in royal david city so when you
have a wire at the end of a word in
conservative RP in the queen's english
is it not e other examples would be like
really
really or Italy Italy very very a once
in royal David City the priest who
introduced this service to King's
College Chapel exactly 100 years ago a
hundred years ago ago that Oh sound
there now she's forming that sound at
the front of her mouth a go-go and in
conservative RP or in the Queen's
English it is formed further forward in
the mouth than most other accents so
you'd have other words like show and
know that Oh sound really distinctive so
if you take the phrase oh no oh no it
would be oh no oh no and as you can see
that I for me at the front of my mouth
oh no the priest who introduced this
service to King's College Chapel exactly
100 years ago was Eric Milner white Eric
Milner white white now this is a big
feature of received pronunciation is the
articulation of the T the true T sound
now in many accents in British English
we are dropping that T I've talked about
it a lot in cockney and those other
accents in a conservative RP accent you
are keeping that T the reason for this
is because a big part of conservative RP
or the Queen's English is that every
sound is articulated it's pronounced so
that you are clear and you are true to
the the sounds in the word that you are
speaking so therefore the T's are true
you can hear them so white I'm going to
see that again later on was Eric Milner
white the Royal airforce celebrated its
hundredth anniversary
okay again there's another example of
the e sound on the Y and the end of
words our anniversary anniversary not
anniversary anniversary the Royal Air
Force celebrated its hundredth
anniversary we owe them and all our
armed services our deepest gratitude ok
this is really interesting gratitude
gratitude now what has happened there I
would
in my accent gratitude gratitude that is
a feature of most accents in Britain
you've got contemporary RP cockney
whatever you've got gratitude gratitude
now in the Queen's English
there is a year sound after tu or a D
you so you'd have queued to but through
something called your coalescence that
year has merged with the T to form a
chip in my accent so I'd say gratitude
but in her accent gratitude think of
other examples like we saw with a fish
tuna for me she would say tuna tuna
other examples instead of super it would
be super super this is really quite rare
now you won't hear many people saying
these words in this way we owe them and
all our armed services our deepest
gratitude with two weddings and two
babies and another child expected soon
here the new sound of to the
articulation is right at the front of
the mouth and she's not really opening
her lips very wide is she - - if you
want to say that word you have to sort
of have rounded lips but very close
together - and making that sound at the
front of your mouth - as I would
normally say I'd say - - - it's coming
from further back in my mouth but - in
the Queen's English there's two weddings
and two babies and another child
expected soon even the power of faith
this is a good one right we've got the
word power power now we have a trip
thumb this is when you have three sounds
ah ooh ah together power now in the
Queen's English a trip thumb is reduced
to one sound it's smooth so instead of a
coup a she's just saying ah
so power can see the difference there
power to power even the power of faith
now of course we can have this with
otherwise so
tower becomes tower or our becomes our
it's quite hard to replicate actually it
seems very unnatural but this is a
feature of the Queen's English and the
hope that bursts 2,000 years ago brought
to the world brought to the world here
we have two T's brought ending LT and
then two beginning with T in most other
accents you would lose one of those T's
it would disappear so I would say
brought to the world brought to the
world I'm using a weak form on the two
Center and I'm dropping that first T on
Brooks brought to the world
another Queen because she's the queen
and she speaks the Queen's English is
pronouncing every sound that she can so
that both those T's get the full
attention that they require in her
opinion so brought to the world not
brought teather well and the hope that
birth two thousand years ago brought to
the world a very happy Christmas to you
all
did you hear how she said very there a
very happy Christmas she said very very
now the way she's planting that are we
call a tap are so it's kind of when the
tongue flicks up onto the roof of the
mouth as she says it's a very very as
I'm saying that my tongue is kind of
hitting the roof of my mouth and coming
back down Benny
so when you see that are in the middle
of a word usually you can use a tap bar
so Betty Betty Betty
Bernie it sounds quite effective doesn't
it it sounds like you're really trying
to sound posh when you're using that tap
that are a very happy Christmas tool so
as you can see there are many features
of the Queen's English that are distinct
from any other British English accents
as I said this form of received
pronunciation is not used as much as it
used to be so you won't find a lot of
people speaking like this obviously with
the Royals they will speak like this in
the upper classes of Britain certainly
some politicians and Xaba might the
Jacob Riis mock speaks with this accent
you will find it in television
like the crown but apart from those
places you're not going to hear it
certainly when you're walking around
London you're not really going to hear
this accent when you walk around any
other part of Britain you're not going
to hear this accent but it's a great
accent to know and to understand keep
your eyes open for part two of this
series about receive pronunciation if
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saying goodbye