Im english but literally no one i know speaks anything like this the accent shes speaking is an upper class accent from the 40s or something p.s i live in the south of England
Honestly the main reason I am here is for acting technique, since I'm hoping to audition for a role that I need this sort of accent from. If I had native speakers to learn from I would. But I totally get that it is so different everywhere you go! Just like anywhere
InTheOtherWorld. I Spoke like this in my final years in Elementary School and I’m in High-School now I still speak English with the Upper-Class British Accent.......
I have the RP English accent and I'm 14. This accent is still around today, just a little softer, and most people with it will come from Cambridgshire.
Aurum Gloria Pictures saaammee I'm from Cambridgeshire, but most people in my hometown mainly speak in Estuary English accents. I'm considered one of the posh ones 😂
+Laura Bowden yeah same here more or less. I'm in the fens but I go to a posh school so everyone's either managed to retain a perfect rp accent or have slipped into a very light estuary. Having lived all round the world somehow hasn't affected mine and I naturally sound 'posh', but sometimes I put on a more west country or cockney or liverpudlian accent for a joke.
I literally obtained a British accent without any training, like I just picked it up and had my way of speaking with it. If I hear a British person speak, or just hear someone speaking the accent in general, it's likely I'll accidentally activate mine out of habit.
Could people endlessly commenting 'no one in England talks like that' please end their lives. She clearly explains this at the beginning, and explains why she's teaching this accent.
You are very good. I` ve checked your other videos as well and you are very good at mimicking accents. I know some people will criticize you and say no one talks like this which is partly true, but like you already said, this is *Received Pronunciation* and really only a few upper class people talk like that. A lot of newscasters have this kind of accent as well, so for actors I suppose it is important to master it and you` ve done a fine job.
I'm an English actor and my accent is RP ( recieved pronunciation) and is not like that rp is just the common accent in the south of England. What your speaking is more HP (higher pronunciation) which is what you here in like downtown abbey and isn't really spoken anymore
Are you from London ? I am 17 years old Sri Lankan buddhist forest meditating monk. I want to learn English into advance grammer like finding roots of words and spoken like higher lecturer. And I love to Queen's accent. I expect to come to London after March 2021. Still I am low intermediate. I can spend 6 months or little more for all days for learning English. Please help me from information such as accomodation, food, low cost causes or tutor, or person who can teach me voluntarily. Now I am in Myanmar for my higher meditation practices. Really I am a monk who convert to buddhism from Catholism for find enlightenment. May all beings be happy, peaceful and long life !
Love the RP accent!!!👍🏼 just like I love the tv series Penny Dreadful!!! Specially Eva Green's accent, even thou she is french, she's my favorite character!
My only qualm is that there is no such thin as an RP British accent. It's RP English. Because Britain encompasses Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland as well and their accents are very much different to the RP styling.
I am watching this as a german to improve my spoken english - it's currently a weird mix of 40% american english, 40% british english, 20% australian english and of course all of that wrapped in german accent. Great! I'm so glad I don't have to listen to myself as a native speaker
If you want to learn a British Accent, then just listen to Hermione from Harry Potter, or any girl in Harry Potter- it really helps. ; ) Hope this helps!
I'm german, english accents are very hard to distinguish for me, and watching this made me remember visiting Canterbury (town in England) and hearing people really talk like that. Especially the "tapped R", which was pretty much the only difference to the mish-mash of all kinds of english i've learnt in school.
Your terminology for the effect of running an R at the end of a word onto the next word if it starts with a vowel is incorrect. It's not elision, which refers to shortening words, like "it is" to it's. The correct term is "linking R" because the R becomes linked to the next word.
learning this accent was a bit harder for me because I have a thick Russian accent (I was raised in Dubna, Moscow) but her accent is so smooth when it comes to this stuff
might be weird, but it's not wrong. We would very likely refer to a Texan accent as an American accent, which could potentially include north and south America.
@TheTXoso lol no you're wrong. the united kingdom of Great Britain is basically what the monarch has control of; England (country), Wales, and Scotland are all on the same piece of land but northern Ireland is also part of the UK. it's all really confusing but I think (if I read your comment correctly) that what you said is incorrect
As a German I tend to have an accent more biased towards the American, but it is really interesting when I monitor how that shifts towards British when I speak to British people. That becomes very odd when I am in a conversation with an American, pick up the phone speak to a British, and return to the American after the phone call.
i'm canadian and i'm just looking at this for a school play, were doing it in accents so i need the "old and proper" english accent. and to those of you that are british, no offense is meant to you when people say a british accent. it is known that there is more than one accent in britain but people just generalize it to the english accent we hear and see on tv and in movies.
Is it true that the American accent is easier to learn than the British accent? I am Dutch and somehow I have to think longer while using a British accent, because I'm not used to it. I speak American English almost natively, but the 'th' (as in think, thick etc.) is almost as hard as foreigners trying to speak the Dutch G.
That was pretty good, I'd like to see more variety though when it comes to British accent training, most people only ever focus of either upper class accents, or the Cockney accent. It would be nice to see a Bristol, Scouse, Birmingham, Geordie, etc etc etc accent being trained every once in a while.
I really like her. Her videos are very interesting. Only an American would say a "British" accent though. No such thing. There are many accents in Britain.
haha yes America has many different states with different accents and that's the same with England, we have may different places with different accents, the reason why we say that there is no such thing as a BRITISH accent is because there's actually more than one country in Britain; that's not the same as in America. There would be no problem if people said they were doing an ENGLISH accent rather than a British accent :)
She clearly states at the beginning of the video that the RP accent isn't commonly used amongst the British unless one was born prior to 1950, but it is used in many period dramas. I'd like to her do a Yorkshire accent.
I actually DO talk like this. My friends have a more Yorkshire twang to their accents. They always call me posh! I don't mind though, I like being different! XD
As an American who has lineage to Scottish AND Irish people, I find it easier to do this than the Scottish accent, probably because my father came from an English lineage and that I have my fathers raspy, booming voice so that may be why I am having so much troubles with Scottish, I bet that by the time I get a Japanese accent I will sound like one of those buff dudes in anime shows.
Most Welsh people sound like this too :) I sound like this when I speak anyway I am very different to the way the rest of my family talk :) they speak with a thick Welsh accent then theres me with a normal English accent :)
There are several forms of an "English" accent, but a "British" accent directly correlates the accent with those who live in the region of Great Britain.
Somehow, we supposed to study the us accent.. but i'm pretty sure its British accent and that's would help me a lot because I'm going to Coventry in UK for the university.. :|
In my drama class I have to pick a accent then speak one or to sentences with it and I chose British but I have to learn by tomorrow. Also everyone says I'm British because I can't say my rs
there are more countries in the English community such as Ireland Britain is the country while England is the island many confuse the both but check me if I am wrong I don't think I am but there is no harm in it
Nice video, but: RP is definitely NOT a British standard accent, but an English standard accent. It is acceptable as a standard pronunciation to only very few people in Scotland, for instance, as they have their own Scottish Standard English reference variety, and this, too, is a general, middle-class, "educated" accent. RP is one of the international standard accents in teaching, and it is therefore confused with a British accent by non-linguists, but this view should really not be perpetuated. This is not just splitting political (or nationalist) hairs, but firmly based on sociolinguistic realities. Not sure if anyone else has commented on this, apologies if they have.
Isn't this English instead of British? I'm not from the UK/USA. Just a question. I thought that Brittain was also Schotland and they have a totally different accent than people from England.
Popularity. It's just like how Asians are stereotyped to all be Chinese: biggest probability of successfully guessing the ethnicity given physical attributes.
Why is it sooooooooooooo very difficult for people to catch that she SAID these sounds are not typical, they are "perceived" sounds by non-native speakers and can be appropriated by actors for the work of "sounding" "English".
British accent? Don't you mean English? Seriously, come on. Britain is a United Kingdom of four smaller nations. You're speaking in an English accent. However, she did a great job with the RP accent! She sounds very convincing, and I actually sound a lot like her.
She's so good at this
World Shaper I Agree with you as I spoke like this during my Final years of middle school and I still speak like this today .
This is RP English. She never said it was a regional accent. It's a useful tool for drama. Her videos are amazing.
Does anyone else here already have an English accent, we're just here to see if she gets it right?
Im english but literally no one i know speaks anything like this the accent shes speaking is an upper class accent from the 40s or something p.s i live in the south of England
Honestly the main reason I am here is for acting technique, since I'm hoping to audition for a role that I need this sort of accent from. If I had native speakers to learn from I would. But I totally get that it is so different everywhere you go! Just like anywhere
Me
Ben West I know plenty of people who speak like this...with maybe a tiny Sussex twang, but they do speak like this.
Ok but all the places I've been no one speaks like this
Hey, to all those saying no one speaks like this... *I* speak like this... ._.
+InTheOtherWorld. You have a very charming voice.
I
InTheOtherWorld. I Spoke like this in my final years in Elementary School and I’m in High-School now I still speak English with the Upper-Class British Accent.......
Rather!
I have the RP English accent and I'm 14. This accent is still around today, just a little softer, and most people with it will come from Cambridgshire.
I love the rp accent!!!👍🏼
Aurum Gloria Pictures saaammee I'm from Cambridgeshire, but most people in my hometown mainly speak in Estuary English accents. I'm considered one of the posh ones 😂
+Laura Bowden yeah same here more or less. I'm in the fens but I go to a posh school so everyone's either managed to retain a perfect rp accent or have slipped into a very light estuary. Having lived all round the world somehow hasn't affected mine and I naturally sound 'posh', but sometimes I put on a more west country or cockney or liverpudlian accent for a joke.
I literally obtained a British accent without any training, like I just picked it up and had my way of speaking with it.
If I hear a British person speak, or just hear someone speaking the accent in general, it's likely I'll accidentally activate mine out of habit.
Just like a true, uchiha...
Omg same I don't really try it just happens like I was in math and I was asking a question and I realized I was using an accent 😂
omg same! glad to see I'm not the only one.
OMG same! I thought it was just me!
Could people endlessly commenting 'no one in England talks like that' please end their lives. She clearly explains this at the beginning, and explains why she's teaching this accent.
You are very good. I` ve checked your other videos as well and you are very good at mimicking accents. I know some people will criticize you and say no one talks like this which is partly true, but like you already said, this is *Received Pronunciation* and really only a few upper class people talk like that. A lot of newscasters have this kind of accent as well, so for actors I suppose it is important to master it and you` ve done a fine job.
I'm an English actor and my accent is RP ( recieved pronunciation) and is not like that rp is just the common accent in the south of England. What your speaking is more HP (higher pronunciation) which is what you here in like downtown abbey and isn't really spoken anymore
I'm from England (London) and this was pretty good. She sounds like me!
She's making it so much that it turns weird and incorrect
Her English accent is pretty good, she sounds like somebody from downtown abbey😄 I'm from Manchester so I don't sound like that btw
Anna Donlan Downton not downtown lol
Anna Donlan Hi .... May I ask what does a Mancunian (Manchester) accent sound like ?
@@lucindawinehouse2002 it depends on who you ask
Are you from London ?
I am 17 years old Sri Lankan buddhist forest meditating monk. I want to learn English into advance grammer like finding roots of words and spoken like higher lecturer. And I love to Queen's accent. I expect to come to London after March 2021. Still I am low intermediate. I can spend 6 months or little more for all days for learning English. Please help me from information such as accomodation, food, low cost causes or tutor, or person who can teach me voluntarily. Now I am in Myanmar for my higher meditation practices. Really I am a monk who convert to buddhism from Catholism for find enlightenment. May all beings be happy, peaceful and long life !
Love the RP accent!!!👍🏼 just like I love the tv series Penny Dreadful!!! Specially Eva Green's accent, even thou she is french, she's my favorite character!
My only qualm is that there is no such thin as an RP British accent. It's RP English. Because Britain encompasses Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland as well and their accents are very much different to the RP styling.
England has a lot of different accents for such a small country
thanks about teaching me about my own accent
Very good Your shift from the American accent to the British one is remarkable
I am watching this as a german to improve my spoken english - it's currently a weird mix of 40% american english, 40% british english, 20% australian english and of course all of that wrapped in german accent. Great! I'm so glad I don't have to listen to myself as a native speaker
If you want to learn a British Accent, then just listen to Hermione from Harry Potter, or any girl in Harry Potter- it really helps. ; )
Hope this helps!
Or Alan Rickman
Or watch flushed away
I say - this most interesting piece was splendidly put together and frightfully accurate. Jolly well done!
I'm german, english accents are very hard to distinguish for me, and watching this made me remember visiting Canterbury (town in England) and hearing people really talk like that. Especially the "tapped R", which was pretty much the only difference to the mish-mash of all kinds of english i've learnt in school.
Your terminology for the effect of running an R at the end of a word onto the next word if it starts with a vowel is incorrect. It's not elision, which refers to shortening words, like "it is" to it's. The correct term is "linking R" because the R becomes linked to the next word.
Very pleasant lady! Just loved watching and listening ❤️
learning this accent was a bit harder for me because I have a thick Russian accent (I was raised in Dubna, Moscow) but her accent is so smooth when it comes to this stuff
Im only here because i left England a couple years ago so i lost my accent and i want it back and i cant wait to go back
might be weird, but it's not wrong. We would very likely refer to a Texan accent as an American accent, which could potentially include north and south America.
@TheTXoso
lol no you're wrong. the united kingdom of Great Britain is basically what the monarch has control of; England (country), Wales, and Scotland are all on the same piece of land but northern Ireland is also part of the UK. it's all really confusing but I think (if I read your comment correctly) that what you said is incorrect
So...why am I watching this? I already have this accent.
that was soo helpful! I mean i really wanted to achieve this accent and i couldn't now i will impress my english teacher thanks a lot!!
As a German I tend to have an accent more biased towards the American, but it is really interesting when I monitor how that shifts towards British when I speak to British people. That becomes very odd when I am in a conversation with an American, pick up the phone speak to a British, and return to the American after the phone call.
she did this one quite well.
I’m British, idk if anyone speaks like this outside of plays and some older musicals and films....
Love your posts . Do you do Liverpool Scouse ?
i'm canadian and i'm just looking at this for a school play, were doing it in accents so i need the "old and proper" english accent. and to those of you that are british, no offense is meant to you when people say a british accent. it is known that there is more than one accent in britain but people just generalize it to the english accent we hear and see on tv and in movies.
How's your Polar Bear?
he's doing quite fine thanks
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kristinavuk ;)
theres more than One British Accent
RP accents are more common than you may think. I personally, have an RP British accent, and I'm 14.
Is it true that the American accent is easier to learn than the British accent? I am Dutch and somehow I have to think longer while using a British accent, because I'm not used to it. I speak American English almost natively, but the 'th' (as in think, thick etc.) is almost as hard as foreigners trying to speak the Dutch G.
That was pretty good, I'd like to see more variety though when it comes to British accent training, most people only ever focus of either upper class accents, or the Cockney accent. It would be nice to see a Bristol, Scouse, Birmingham, Geordie, etc etc etc accent being trained every once in a while.
I'm not a native speaker, but I can understand very much and it is very interesting!
Fantastic.
Thanks for this.
I really like her. Her videos are very interesting. Only an American would say a "British" accent though. No such thing. There are many accents in Britain.
haha yes America has many different states with different accents and that's the same with England, we have may different places with different accents, the reason why we say that there is no such thing as a BRITISH accent is because there's actually more than one country in Britain; that's not the same as in America. There would be no problem if people said they were doing an ENGLISH accent rather than a British accent :)
That is just smashing!!
pretty useful video.Thanks
Here we go again. Americans doing a 'Briddish' accent which hardly anyone uses over here. What about a Scottish or Welsh accent. They're British too.
She clearly states at the beginning of the video that the RP accent isn't commonly used amongst the British unless one was born prior to 1950, but it is used in many period dramas. I'd like to her do a Yorkshire accent.
I enjoyed your lesson,so I love u so much
Haha it's so funny watching people do my own accent lol
Wow , this video is the best :))
she's seriouslyover doing it we don't talk like that
or you could just be british ;) we're so lucky
Shut up
thumbs up if you're watching this in 2017? :-D
Or you can be happy who you are and don't hide you're native accent.
Lucky compared to what?
Not as lucky as the Irish.
I am English and I have never and will never hear an accent like this in my entire life other that in a black and white film
I actually DO talk like this. My friends have a more Yorkshire twang to their accents. They always call me posh!
I don't mind though, I like being different!
XD
Not too bad for heightened RP for the stage. Some of the words sounded a bit off though...
As an American who has lineage to Scottish AND Irish people, I find it easier to do this than the Scottish accent, probably because my father came from an English lineage and that I have my fathers raspy, booming voice so that may be why I am having so much troubles with Scottish, I bet that by the time I get a Japanese accent I will sound like one of those buff dudes in anime shows.
You are so good..I mean the lady at the video
Most Welsh people sound like this too :) I sound like this when I speak anyway I am very different to the way the rest of my family talk :) they speak with a thick Welsh accent then theres me with a normal English accent :)
Omg I love her ❤️
Youre amazing.
I mastered my british accent.
+Sydney Pitts no such thing as a british accent
English*
There are several forms of an "English" accent, but a "British" accent directly correlates the accent with those who live in the region of Great Britain.
Somehow, we supposed to study the us accent.. but i'm pretty sure its British accent and that's would help me a lot because I'm going to Coventry in UK for the university.. :|
You're great!
This is so hard! lol
I'm young and speak with a RP accent.
I really like it
In my drama class I have to pick a accent then speak one or to sentences with it and I chose British but I have to learn by tomorrow. Also everyone says I'm British because I can't say my rs
there are more countries in the English community such as Ireland Britain is the country while England is the island many confuse the both but check me if I am wrong I don't think I am but there is no harm in it
Lovely!
Nice video, but: RP is definitely NOT a British standard accent, but an English standard accent. It is acceptable as a standard pronunciation to only very few people in Scotland, for instance, as they have their own Scottish Standard English reference variety, and this, too, is a general, middle-class, "educated" accent. RP is one of the international standard accents in teaching, and it is therefore confused with a British accent by non-linguists, but this view should really not be perpetuated. This is not just splitting political (or nationalist) hairs, but firmly based on sociolinguistic realities. Not sure if anyone else has commented on this, apologies if they have.
She said the word 'Married' has two vowels in American accent but only one vowel in RP. How so?
Isn't this English instead of British? I'm not from the UK/USA. Just a question. I thought that Brittain was also Schotland and they have a totally different accent than people from England.
im upper class british and have never heard someone with that accent xx y to americans think we r so posh
Lol true most Americans do think that British people are always super proper
Are you really?
yh
Lol...your self proclamation of your 'class' unfortunately evinces your real class...
no it just means im upper class
I'm really great at impressions , except I grew up with my family doing impression so I'm like an expert! (Not really but I'm good at it)
Pause at 1:58
no offense but i find this really amusing because i speak very similar to this because i'm from Hampshire.
You find this in Oxford, except for the university campus of course
Why do all Americans think that London is the only freakin city in the UK!!!
Popularity. It's just like how Asians are stereotyped to all be Chinese: biggest probability of successfully guessing the ethnicity given physical attributes.
some think Wales is the only worthwile nation in the uk.... :P
Eleanor Castledine Yes
Eleanor Castledine because london was the most famous lol
We don't
This is heightened RP
'Streets of London?' There are other places in Britain (AKA England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales)!
There's not such thing as a 'British' accent. It's English and even in England there are numerous different accents.
I wish people would speak about at her places than London when speak about Britain
Great info. The background music distracts Rather than adds value to the video.
I'm England and I can't do this accent.
hi England
Timothy Yeo Come on bro it was late xD English*!
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
***** Stop ruining its dreams
ARTHUR KIRKLAND?!?!?!
Most of the people I watch on UA-cam, probably actually all of them, are British. So I eventually taught myself to speak in a British accent
Why is it sooooooooooooo very difficult for people to catch that she SAID these sounds are not typical, they are "perceived" sounds by non-native speakers and can be appropriated by actors for the work of "sounding" "English".
You would never find this in London, maybe in Kensington and Chelsea though
I love how she is calling this a posh accent when this is the accent I have and I'm not even posh.
She sounds like Julie Andrews. I'm very impressed.
you are really good
Holy Smokes! You're goooOoood!
what is name the teacher ? she is a good accent
ahhhh yes the singular british accent
right
Did you listen, it is an older accent
i dont even have to try to do this accent
RP American English = Mid-Atlantic/Preppy Accent
RP British English = Indigenous English Accent
Beautiful...
British accent? Don't you mean English? Seriously, come on. Britain is a United Kingdom of four smaller nations. You're speaking in an English accent.
However, she did a great job with the RP accent! She sounds very convincing, and I actually sound a lot like her.
Can you do like a more modern, I guess you'd call it, british accent?
It meant only r.p. Recieved pronunciation. They want to learn the Oxford english, not dialects...
it's funny being a Canadian,with my accent,i found it harder cause i could not relate to her american accent perfectly
I'm American but according to this I do a pretty good British accent.
James Reid you're right.