hello everyone and welcome back to love english
today we are looking at what many people would think of as the classic
british accent it's called received pronunciation or
rp for short but it can also be known as bbc english or the Queen's english
but what does this actually mean and what are the features of this accent
well that's all coming but first of all an important thing to know is that
england has a wide variety of regional accents
if you live here long enough you can actually tell where somebody is from
just by listening to their accent however rp is known as the posh british
accent and it's very much been the accent of
the aristocracy the royal family and some of the media
in the past as well
but as many of you know i do love imitating accents
so when my boyfriend heard that i was making this video
he challenged me and leila to try and copy
some of these rather posh british people so we're going to listen to some
examples of rp the classic rp and we're going to try and copy them let
us know how we do in the comments the chancellor basically needs to calm
down and regrettably stop talking nonsense
the chancellor basically needs to calm down and regrettably stop talking
nonsense the chancellor basically needs to calm
down and regrettably stop talking utter nonsense
i just wanted to convey my heartfelt best wishes to all
i just wanted to convey my heartfelt best wishes to you all
that it is often the small steps not the giant leaps
that it is often the small steps not the giant leaves
that it is often the small steps not the giant leaps
so don't forget to tell us how you think we did with those
however rp is not just about posh sounding people
today anyone can speak with an rp accent and you don't have to speak like the
queen the accent has shifted into a more
modern version of rp and this more classic rp that we've just
heard is much rarer but before we move on to looking
at modern rp let's look at some of the features of
the more classic rp as they are still used by people who
speak with it today so first of all some of the diphthongs
are pronounced differently with classic rp
as they are to the modern rp remember that a diphthong is actually
two sounds in one syllable so for example the
uh diphthong which is found in cure and pure and sewer and during with classic
rp this will definitely be pronounced very
correctly a cure they might say pure during
during so with modern rp that diphthong can actually sound
more like or the long monophthong or the one found in horse
caught bought for example cure you're bought you can hear there's
not very much difference but with classic rp that will definitely
be said very correctly as well as that the diphthong ear as in
ear the one found in here near fear year this one in the classic rp has
a very interesting twist this one actually blends with r the
monothong r so you might hear rp speakers
saying yas instead of years many years ago he's not an mp round here
now to compare these two even more leila and i are going to talk to you about one
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do it by one of us talking in the modern rp
which will be leila and me talking with the classic rp
now listen to the difference see what you notice
about the changes in the vowels and even the intonation
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so what did you notice about the difference between our two accents there
perhaps you might have noticed that mine was a little bit more exaggerated
elongated vowels every consonant and every vowel
pretty much pronounced correctly so that was
the classic vowel Rp now do tell us up here in the poll which one you prefer
the classic or the modern from what you've heard so far but let's
move now to looking at some of the features
of the modern rp accent now this is a great accent to learn because actually
it's the one that is used in pronunciation guides and things like
that it's also known as regionally neutral
and is considered to be quite easy to understand
so first of all one thing about the modern rp sound is the long
r sound in a lot of regional accents in the uk
the long r can sometimes be said as a for example in grass castle
bath but with an rp accent you need to say the long
r grass bath castle moving on to the second feature
if you're speaking with a modern rp accent you never drop your h's
at the beginning of words so spoken english
all over the world has become a little bit lazy and at times there's nothing
wrong with that some elements of connected speech can be useful
however dropping h is considered to be a little bit of a bad
habit so with a modern rp accent you will say those h's
crispy and clearly crispy crispily in a breathy manner and clearly
so you might say have you gone on holiday recently
instead of 'ave you got an 'oliday recently
and Hold my Hat instead of 'old me 'at and hello harry
instead of' ello let's look at the lovely hermione granger
pronouncing all her h's here harry no way you heard what McGonagall said
besides you don't even know how to fly the next
feature is pronouncing your t sounds rather than
using glottal stops the glottal stop is
basically where we block air coming from our throat and so we
don't pronounce for example the t sound this can be seen in words like
football setback we don't say football set back so sometimes it is necessary
however people have started to overuse the glottal stop
in a way that does sound very incorrect for example in the word
bottle water modern rp says no to this and says pronounce it
correctly so have a try at practicing these
sentences to make sure you're not using a glottal stop
and are pronouncing your ts my boyfriend is getting fatter
every minute my boyfriend is getting fatter
every minute can you get me a bottle of water
can you get me a bottle of water the next feature is
no yod dropping what on earth is yod dropping good question Leila
well yod dropping is dropping the y sound
from certain words in certain words we do actually
have a little y sound for example in tuesday
and news and tune can you hear there is a yeah
sound news news tune however in american english they tend to
drop their y sound from some words and they might say
the news tune tuesday however with a modern rp
accent this is a big no-no you need to make sure you are
still saying that y sound but i have to say it's not just the
americans some of the worst offenders are
right here in england in the east part of england called east anglia
they will say oh that's a lovely tune or oh
how lovely is that music instead of saying music
the next feature is the long o sound in phone comb
moan this is elongated and pronounced very correctly in a modern rp accent
you would say pass me the phone instead of pass me the phone
so you need to make sure that you elongate your long vowels
this is just one example many of the other long vowel sounds
should be elongated as well such as long e long owww
or with the modern rp accent we don't rush those we make sure that we say them
in the correct lengthy way that they should be said
try saying these words to practise show flow
no how now caught bought
thought try practicing this sentence it shows that the grass grows where the
water flows the last feature is pronouncing the ng
phoneme which comes at the end of ing words
for example in singing talking eating in many regional accents this can
be dropped and said as eating talking chatting
fasting however with a modern rp accent this is not considered correct
fasting singing eating so a great way of course to practice the
rp accent if you have started to like it is by listening to it as much as
possible you can watch our current prime minister
he has a modern rp accent although a little bit classic as well kate
middleton a lot of the cast of harry potter for
the classic you could watch downton abbey and there
are also other things like for example the tv
show line of duty they have modern rp accents there
and also a lot of the speakers on the bbc do still speak with a modern rp
accent you could of course also learn with a native speaker
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right everyone i'm sure that you feel like you've been listening to me for
years so we'll draw this to a close now and
remember whatever accent you choose to learn
make learning fun accents are part of the character and diversity of languages
so make sure that you enjoy them we'll see you in the next video
bye-bye but it is all from the small steps
not the giant leaps really i sound australian