Learn Emma Watson's British Accent (HERMIONE) | Received Pronunciation

today you were looking at the British English accent of Emma Watson and how she's able to change it from this I've miner Granger to this hey guys how sick is Channing Tatum's bod well that's coming right up guys so there's a run the intro welcome to eat see Jim English 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 now I'm sure you know of Emma Watson she is a hugely successful British actress she made her name playing Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter series it's Leviosa not Livio so now let's talk about her British English accent she speaks in contemporary RP you post something on your Instagram account and you get instant feedback our piece down to received pronunciation now this is part two of my series about receives pronunciation in part one we looked at the Queen's English very formal extremely posh now as you can guess from the name contemporary RP is a more modern version of the Queen's English there are certain similarities but there are also quite a few differences contemporary RP is it's a more relaxed informal version of the Queen's English but it still maintains that emphasis on of clarity and articulation I'm here with BuzzFeed I'm playing with tiny cute kittens my day is made there's our first word kittens kittens now as a lot of you will have gathered by now the T sound in British English is extremely important and it's a great indicator of what accent someone has so just there for Emma Watson she said kittens she used a glottal T she didn't fully pronounce that T sound she said kittens kittens she kind of stopped just before she pronounced the T so kittens kittens that's a glottal T and that's very normal in many accents British English including contemporary RP I'm playing with tiny cute kittens in the Queen's English for example in part one of this series the cream would say that t sound that true teach you say kittens but speakers of contemporary RP sometimes choose to use the glottal T sometimes they'll say a true T sometimes they'll say the glottal T now interestingly Emma Watson has three different ways of saying the T she says the glottal T kittens she was saved with the 2t kittens and she'll also use an Americanized version which is kittens kittens is a kind of a D sound I'm playing with tiny cute kittens we designed for Bell this ring that would sit on her little finger here we have some interesting information this intonation pattern is something called up talk it's where the speaker goes up at the end of the sentence even though it's not a question okay it's an affirmative sentence but she has gone up as if it were a question as if she were asking you for some information but she's not they would sit on her little finger so we're going up at the end she does this again later on I just wanted to make sure that we stayed true that we'd stay true going up now the origins of this are debated linguists are not entirely sure there is a theory that it came from Australian English where it's much more common now why we had this influence from Australia well it could be through culture so television programs films things like that it could be because of a movement of young British people over to Australia it's a very popular place to go as a young person to travel around and possibly through those travel experiences people have picked up that intonation pattern because it's quite catchy and then brought it back to Britain this inflation pan is mostly found in young contemporary RP speakers I just wanted to make sure that we stayed true nearly young girls feel like their voice doesn't matter and what they have to say doesn't really matter ah amazing she uses the same word matter and she prances it differently within two seconds of each other in the first example she uses an american-style tea sort of that flap that matter matter with a dearth sound then the second time she uses a true tea matter clearly young girls feel like their voice doesn't matter and what they have to say doesn't really matter and I think I would want her to know that it does now this sound is really important in a received pronunciation and contemporary RP is does that ah now R is a defining sound in RP because in Britain the northern accents don't have that sound whereas the southern accents and RP generally associated with the South does have that sound now in the northern accent it B does that sound whereas in RP its other words that have that sounded like run or butter or Sunday they all have that ah sound here's another example hurry up up now can you imagine if Harry Potter was set in the north of England let's say Yorkshire what would it sound like Oh up up very different so that our sound is very distinctive feature of contemporary RP so many times when people have told me that I can't do something it's gonna be too hard or whatever else here's another distinctive feature of contemporary RP Kant and hard that ah so now you find that sound a lot in contemporary RP on A's so glass or grass or baths or dance in northern accents you probably have like dance baths glass in American English also that same sounds of dance glass so this R sound is particular to contemporary RP when people have told me that I can't do something it's gonna be too hard or whatever else guys before we continue let's just take a moment to appreciate these kids I had the sound guys playing happy here's a great way to contrast the Queen's English with contemporary RP happy that I sound at the end of Y has e a long sound e happy in the Queen's English it's a shortened version it's happy happy it's an it sound this can be applied to any word with a Y on the end so very really clearly all those kinds of words so it's everywhere P you have a longer sound happy I had the sound guys playing happy it's the most surreal thing I've ever seen everyone in costume and the beauty in the Beast over okay you a to dive deep into some pronunciation because this is really interesting the words that she said were the Beauty and the Beast born the Beauty and the Beast ballroom clearly she didn't say it like that she used lots of interesting features so the first feature is that Americanized t beauty beauty then she used weak forms on and and the dis a and thee she said and so Beauty and the Beast Boram now what's happened there now at the end of the word beast you have a T now T is a plosive what is the place if it's a sound that is made with air being released from your mouth you can feel the air find your hands now tea is a play Civ and ballroom begins with B which is also a plosive but-but-but you can feel the air again when your two places next to each other like that the first one is not released so you wouldn't say Beast ballroom that would take too long so you don't release that first closer sound its beast born beast born can you hear that I'm not releasing that T beasts balls okay so let's hear that again they say I say that again everyone in costume and the beauty in the Beast so can you hear those features now we've got the American ice-t on beauty we've got the weak forms on and and that and we've got the plosive not being released on beast and the beauty the beasts and this is great for connected speech if you want to make your sentences sounds more fluent and connected these are the kind of features you need to be incorporating so just as a general observation about contemporary RP you'll notice that there's a real emphasis on clarity Emma Watson really tries to articulate all the sounds shorthand for ideas that I found really difficult to express myself know just quickly to show you her versatility and the way that she can change her accent let's have a look at her doing an American accent hey dyers house sec has challenged Hiram's bard as you can see very different she has to change the shape of her mouth extend some of those vowels completely different that's not an easy thing to do I think she does it pretty well so yeah respect to Emma Watson I want you guys to tell me what do you think of Emma Watson's accent what do you think about contemporary RP is it an accent that you like do you like listening to it is it one that you speak with tell me in the comments below if you know anyone that we enjoyed this video please share it with them thank you so much for joining me guys this is Tom the chief dreamer saying goodbye

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Length: 9min 59sec (599 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 05 2019