British English Accents | The Queen's English Part 1

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 you've enjoyed it hit the like button share and of course subscribe until next time guys this is Tom the chief dreamer saying goodbye

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Id: DPZkrRpJ4Zc

Length: 9min 19sec (559 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 29 2019