@@tanishbhalerao1721 Sorry you didn't find it useful. The purpose of this video was to illustrate that Britain has many different accents. Also we wanted to send the message that it's okay not to have an RP accent. Here are the different sections of the video: 2:15 Anpu's Accent 2:55 Sally's Accent: Oxford University 3:44 Multicultural London English (MLE) 5:05 Who is Sally Le Page? 5:53 British Humour and insulting friends 7:10 Culture Shock 8:05 Different Pronunciations 10:55 BBC English 14:35 Higher Class Accent (Posh accent) 20:53 London English (MLE) Hope these time stamps are useful for viewers!
Here are the different sections of the video: 2:15 Anpu's Accent 2:55 Sally's Accent: Oxford University 3:44 Multicultural London English (MLE) 5:05 Who is Sally Le Page? 5:53 British Humour and insulting friends 7:10 Culture Shock 8:05 Different Pronunciations 10:55 BBC English 14:35 Higher Class Accent (Posh accent) 20:53 London English (MLE)
Glad to hear that the video was understandable! That's why I decided to make it slightly longer than usual - so that the nuances are discussed and for it to discuss the breadth and depth of the English language. Cheers.
I'm Italian and I decided to go for modern RP because it's the easiest British accent for me. Also,I'm fond of it it even though I love regional accents as well! It's just that I find them so much harder to do.
Anpu, you have a very clear, natural and pleasant RP accent. Your friend sounds far more posh than RP. It's not always easy to understand what she's saying. I've worked with Oxbridge colleagues for years, and they certainly didn't have her accent.
4:12 The influx of immigrants to London wasn't in the 80's, it was the 1950's/60's, the basis of the MLE accent grew from there (West Indies/Pakistan/India)
It was super fun Xd. It’s a completely normal thing to switch between accents and adjust your speech depending on who speak with. Everybody does it unconsciously and it’s not unique to English. As far as the super posh accent is concerned, it’s arguable whether NNESs should aspire to sound like that. (According to my British friend, I sound posh when I speak English. However, they (NESs) can,of course, hear a subtle foreign accent and I might actually sound ridiculous rather than posh Xd. )Language is evolving and the RP has slightly changed over the past years, too. The glottal stop, for instance, has become acceptable in the RP, as well. Sally in this video uses it too. Especially in ‘but’ and in the last few min ‘that’ and ‘lot’ I’m not sure whether the latter two were intentional or not:). Not to mention, the RP is dying and less and less people use it now. So when foreigners come to England, for example, they will have a hard time understanding British people because the majority of them don’t speak with an RP accent. On the other hand, I see why would it be beneficial for them to speak with an RP. It is still associated with educated people. My opinion is the more accents (including foreign ones) learners are exposed to, the better it is, and knowing the differences between accents might also be helpful.
I Think Sally’s accent sounds posher (can you say that?) also because of the intonation she uses when she speaks…al the ups and downs, and also pauses…what do you think about this?
@@AnpuLondon Ohhh, you replied! 😅 Sorry for such a 'coming up' comment! I just wanted to share a joy with the readers! But no one reads my comment, so often! Glad, you read! Thank you so much for your British Accent lesson, too! Wish you a bright life ahead! 😊😅 Quite a long reply of mine! Sorry!
Well it was fun conversation. I'm a modified RP speaker but conservative posh RP sounds wondeful but now it could be dead within few decades and it has seen better days
Really weirded me out when Sally pointed out Anpu didn't pronounce the "t" in mate, late, eight etc. because I didn't realise I was doing that! In my head it's just how it's pronounced!
I started watching your video and now when I talk to my teachers in British Accent ,their face would be like 'What ......The fuck are you talking to me..' I said 'Yeah mam I can't speak in Indian accent.😂😂😂 My english teacher had stopped talking to me.....I am in 10th standard.....LoL Thanks man I wanna see you at TedxTalks .
when I first started to learn English I was learning ipa international phonetic alphabet and received pronunciation RP. I think I sound quite posh when I speak English. I consider myself underclass as I live in a place English is not spoken .
6:55 That is so true about us British....if we like you, we call you "bastard", "sod" "bugger" (How are ya mate, you old bastard, come here! Where you been ya bugger!) But when we are aggressive, we call you "pal", or "buddy" or "friend" (You looking at me bud?...you want a fight friend? You spilt my drink, pal....)
The universities in England need all the foreign students they can get (foreign students pay 3 times as much as British students). If you can walk in a straight line after drinking 10 pints of beer, you'll be accepted
Like the class system, we have a caste system( INDIA) but again it's heavy on religious aspects. Anyways SALLY your RP is really really good; however, it has yet to finish the apprenticeship being an RP as it's nearing the complete ONES, though of not practiced it's going to fade, and it's EXPENSIVE.
I dont know about the rest of India but in Kerala there is definitely some ties between caste and accent (although nowadays, the accents are getting more and more homogenized). The most famous one in Kerala is the Namboodiri accent that brahmins use here which is very distinct from the other accents.
Mr Anup ji, is she real posh?, I don't know, I have listened a lot about posh accent, but don't know how they speak, I am listening first time, plz reply me, from small village of Odisha india
BBC English changed deliberately during WW2. They allowed more regional variation in case of invasion, as they thought that Germans wouldn't be able to realistically imitate those accents to impersonate the newsreaders. BBC Radio 4 now has a Jamaican newsreader and continuity announcer.
A similar thing happened in the US actually, though it had nothing to do with strategy. The preferred accent for actors and newscasters was an upper-class Mid-Atlantic accent that was very posh and reminiscent of a more British accent without actually being British. If you listen to newsreels from before the war, you'll hear it. It's the closes we have to "Received Pronunciation," but nobody learns it anymore. ua-cam.com/video/W68VaOuY6ew/v-deo.html
Hi Anpu, how about this for a video idea, get a foreigner who wants to learn RP and try to teach them the accent on camera. It would be interesting to see where they succeed and fail and how they correct themselves. We could also compare their attempts at RP with your own. Start off with a South Asian because that's where I'm from.
I really like to know, as I am from Switzerland, deutsch ist meine Muttersprache (German is my native language and more so Bärndütsch isch mi mueter sproche, i bi z Bärn gbore. (Hochdeutsch: Berndeutsch ist meine Nuttersprache, Ich bin in Bern geboren).English means: Swiss German is my native language, I was born in Bern. Thus my English has of course a Swiss-German accent. Now I have noticed that in the Indian accent the 'w'is like 'v'and the l is like German as well. Now indeed India had been ruled until 1947 two and half centuries by the British. Where does the influence of a German accent come from!? One use for a Haltestelle in Indian English a Bus halt or indeed a bus stand. Halte, in Bern German a Hälte. Deswegens selbsverständlich kann ich deutsch! Ich warte jetzt für einen O-Bus (Oberleitungsbus) or trolleybus nach Köniz. I wait for my bus to Köniz (a suburb of Bern).
Oh, my daze: i propah luvvvvvvvvvvv'd diss, i did; we ain't dat bare posh, 'round my endz ({ ; D ...! Actually tho', i do generally have rather an [ hemi-semi-demi- ] 'posh-ish' accent/pronunciation: western Ealing [ Borough/W7 ] ... plus a good bit of 'affectation' and all, i reckon/must admit ({ ; D ...! Such a good video, *Anpu;* and Sally's absolutely bloody marvellous!! ~Much love /
tbh I wouldn't really say Sally's accent is that posh at all, nice accent definitely but not particularly posh. Great video and energy though you folks, really enjoyed it.
There are definitely Americans who do mock insults and sarcasm, but only with people who know them well. It can get is in trouble when we go abroad into cultures where sarcasm and “personal” banter are not understood. I think a lot of Americans don’t get irony, but that may very well be a result of not reading much...🙄
Americans, in my experience, understand irony and sarcasm well (Marx Brothers, Phil Silvers, and a host of American writers through the ages, Mark Twain, etc). You make a good point though. I think the difference is: American humor is generally forgiving and flowery....British humour is often barbed, and brutal.
16:10 It's always KI-lo-me-tre (it always rhymes with millimetre, centimetre, etc.), never ki-LO-me-tre. The latter is an effect of the Americans not being able to spell the word correctly, so "kilometer" is thought to be a device and is pronounced as such (like thermometer, barometer, etc.). It's unfortunate that this phenomenon reached Britain even though they spell the word correctly.
Aeescot is posh for ascot races. Cockneys too say aee instead of aaa. Dunno how to explain this people from Kent and reading pronounce it the same way instead of asscot they say aeescot
11:00 British actors have to put on the phoney Mary Poppins accent to please the Americans; Oor kid Cheryl, from Gateshead, was dropped from the USA Got Talent show because (supposedly) Americans couldn't understand her Geordie accent. I'm from London, and I understand every word she says. Most Americans would as well. But it is the London snobbishness and Hollywood fear of something different that got her the boot ("when the boot cooms in la'....").
@@AnpuLondon The comment I think is derived from a first generation American point of view. See, either a NYC ceite or Bostonian ceite. You say park the car they say puhk thuh kah. New York too. "Yah Seihh".
@@vanessaperry5244 Thanks for the explanation. I'm not a native, but I learn 😉 I hope one day I will sound in modern RP. However I am a little bit scared of people in England xd due to "classes" and "passive aggressive" attitude to others...
@@punisher4738 Could you write it in Tamil for me please? And no it's not your fault. I can imagine how difficult it is. Please keep practising. Much love!
Raaaaaaa, this video was lots of fun! Raaaaaaaaa!
I don't think you're allowed on my channel anymore - you're gonna get us stabbed xD
See you soon friendo!
I watch the entire video but I didn't get anything useful, next time when you make a video consider a purpose in your mind
It's not leviosaar, its leviosa
@@tanishbhalerao1721 Sorry you didn't find it useful. The purpose of this video was to illustrate that Britain has many different accents. Also we wanted to send the message that it's okay not to have an RP accent.
Here are the different sections of the video:
2:15 Anpu's Accent
2:55 Sally's Accent: Oxford University
3:44 Multicultural London English (MLE)
5:05 Who is Sally Le Page?
5:53 British Humour and insulting friends
7:10 Culture Shock
8:05 Different Pronunciations
10:55 BBC English
14:35 Higher Class Accent (Posh accent)
20:53 London English (MLE)
Hope these time stamps are useful for viewers!
@@john-bv9wc Hahahaha
Here are the different sections of the video:
2:15 Anpu's Accent
2:55 Sally's Accent: Oxford University
3:44 Multicultural London English (MLE)
5:05 Who is Sally Le Page?
5:53 British Humour and insulting friends
7:10 Culture Shock
8:05 Different Pronunciations
10:55 BBC English
14:35 Higher Class Accent (Posh accent)
20:53 London English (MLE)
Hello Anpu! How can I contact you? Thank you
I made a new video
This is jolly good!
It’s really a nice video where you actually understand the nuances amidst different accents of the English language.
Glad to hear that the video was understandable! That's why I decided to make it slightly longer than usual - so that the nuances are discussed and for it to discuss the breadth and depth of the English language. Cheers.
13:00 I grew up in Australia, we call girls "mate" there. Back home in England, a woman says to me "thanks darling" and I say "no worries mate"
I'm Italian and I decided to go for modern RP because it's the easiest British accent for me.
Also,I'm fond of it it even though I love regional accents as well!
It's just that I find them so much harder to do.
She looks like Miley cyrus
The posher u get, the less u move your mouth, lol, got it
Hahahha
Blowjobs must be rather horrible in that case... 😅
@@leonamay8776 Oh.no.you.DIDN'T ({ : o ...! Actually though, that's too hilarious ... and rather a good point, in fact ({ ; D ....
Yes right
Loved it please upload more frequently and I miss those live streams too🥰
Glad you liked the video. Will be doing a live stream very soon!! :)
Anpu, you have a very clear, natural and pleasant RP accent. Your friend sounds far more posh than RP. It's not always easy to understand what she's saying. I've worked with Oxbridge colleagues for years, and they certainly didn't have her accent.
4:12 The influx of immigrants to London wasn't in the 80's, it was the 1950's/60's, the basis of the MLE accent grew from there (West Indies/Pakistan/India)
I think, the guy speaks a modern RP accent. Am I right?
If you grockles come down to Devon, you'll find we all talk like pirates.
It was super fun Xd. It’s a completely normal thing to switch between accents and adjust your speech depending on who speak with. Everybody does it unconsciously and it’s not unique to English.
As far as the super posh accent is concerned, it’s arguable whether NNESs should aspire to sound like that. (According to my British friend, I sound posh when I speak English. However, they (NESs) can,of course, hear a subtle foreign accent and I might actually sound ridiculous rather than posh Xd. )Language is evolving and the RP has slightly changed over the past years, too. The glottal stop, for instance, has become acceptable in the RP, as well. Sally in this video uses it too. Especially in ‘but’ and in the last few min ‘that’ and ‘lot’ I’m not sure whether the latter two were intentional or not:). Not to mention, the RP is dying and less and less people use it now. So when foreigners come to England, for example, they will have a hard time understanding British people because the majority of them don’t speak with an RP accent.
On the other hand, I see why would it be beneficial for them to speak with an RP. It is still associated with educated people.
My opinion is the more accents (including foreign ones) learners are exposed to, the better it is, and knowing the differences between accents might also be helpful.
I agree with your viewpoints there!
Oh super!
She's an absolute delight 😂😂
I Think Sally’s accent sounds posher (can you say that?) also because of the intonation she uses when she speaks…al the ups and downs, and also pauses…what do you think about this?
Indeed !
For a minute, I was like, is this whole video is showing us "coming up" section. 😅
You're doing a great work bro! Keep working! 😊
Haha it's a long video - so had to include a 'coming up' section. Glad you enjoyed!
@@AnpuLondon Ohhh, you replied! 😅
Sorry for such a 'coming up' comment!
I just wanted to share a joy with the readers!
But no one reads my comment, so often!
Glad, you read! Thank you so much for your British Accent lesson, too!
Wish you a bright life ahead! 😊😅
Quite a long reply of mine! Sorry!
Well it was fun conversation. I'm a modified RP speaker but conservative posh RP sounds wondeful but now it could be dead within few decades and it has seen better days
Really weirded me out when Sally pointed out Anpu didn't pronounce the "t" in mate, late, eight etc. because I didn't realise I was doing that! In my head it's just how it's pronounced!
True!
It is the southern English glottal stop
Professor Severus Snape's British accent is my favorite. By the way when would you post a new video?
He speaks in RP?
I started watching your video and now when I talk to my teachers in British Accent ,their face would be like 'What ......The fuck are you talking to me..' I said 'Yeah mam I can't speak in Indian accent.😂😂😂
My english teacher had stopped talking to me.....I am in 10th standard.....LoL
Thanks man I wanna see you at TedxTalks .
when I first started to learn English I was learning ipa international phonetic alphabet and received pronunciation RP. I think I sound quite posh when I speak English. I consider myself underclass as I live in a place English is not spoken .
That was fun....a lot of fun....In next five years my aim is moving to UK... Then I will meet you there...😊
Happy to hear you had fun watching this! I had so much editing it :) And good luck!!!
@bye girl who's not😉
@bye girl I want to move cuz I've to travel the whole UK and settle there with my Indian girlfriend.. ok..?
6:55 That is so true about us British....if we like you, we call you "bastard", "sod" "bugger" (How are ya mate, you old bastard, come here! Where you been ya bugger!) But when we are aggressive, we call you "pal", or "buddy" or "friend" (You looking at me bud?...you want a fight friend? You spilt my drink, pal....)
I m from Hong Kong. I have a very strong Hong Kong accent
Expecting more videos of these kind, btw I'm so excited to get in Oxford...so, wish me luck!
Will definitely keep this in mind. And wow, good luck!! All the best.
The universities in England need all the foreign students they can get (foreign students pay 3 times as much as British students). If you can walk in a straight line after drinking 10 pints of beer, you'll be accepted
@@jagdpanther1944 Haha I wouldn't want to operate on a patient after 10 pints of beer
Like the class system, we have a caste system( INDIA) but again it's heavy on religious aspects. Anyways SALLY your RP is really really good; however, it has yet to finish the apprenticeship being an RP as it's nearing the complete ONES, though of not practiced it's going to fade, and it's EXPENSIVE.
I dont know about the rest of India but in Kerala there is definitely some ties between caste and accent (although nowadays, the accents are getting more and more homogenized). The most famous one in Kerala is the Namboodiri accent that brahmins use here which is very distinct from the other accents.
Mr Anup ji, is she real posh?, I don't know, I have listened a lot about posh accent, but don't know how they speak, I am listening first time, plz reply me, from small village of Odisha india
BBC English changed deliberately during WW2. They allowed more regional variation in case of invasion, as they thought that Germans wouldn't be able to realistically imitate those accents to impersonate the newsreaders.
BBC Radio 4 now has a Jamaican newsreader and continuity announcer.
A similar thing happened in the US actually, though it had nothing to do with strategy. The preferred accent for actors and newscasters was an upper-class Mid-Atlantic accent that was very posh and reminiscent of a more British accent without actually being British. If you listen to newsreels from before the war, you'll hear it. It's the closes we have to "Received Pronunciation," but nobody learns it anymore. ua-cam.com/video/W68VaOuY6ew/v-deo.html
Interesting!
Hi Anpu, how about this for a video idea, get a foreigner who wants to learn RP and try to teach them the accent on camera. It would be interesting to see where they succeed and fail and how they correct themselves. We could also compare their attempts at RP with your own. Start off with a South Asian because that's where I'm from.
Both pronunciations of evolution are correct. You can check the Oxford Advanced Learners' Dictionary.
Best as always...Loved it!!!☺️
Thanks so much!
@@AnpuLondon You're Welcome...☺️👍🏻
Almost a year since upload,and here iam enjoying.love from india(arunachal pradesh)
I really like to know, as I am from Switzerland, deutsch ist meine Muttersprache (German is my native language and more so Bärndütsch isch mi mueter sproche, i bi z Bärn gbore. (Hochdeutsch: Berndeutsch ist meine Nuttersprache, Ich bin in Bern geboren).English means: Swiss German is my native language, I was born in Bern. Thus my English has of course a Swiss-German accent. Now I have noticed that in the Indian accent the 'w'is like 'v'and the l is like German as well. Now indeed India had been ruled until 1947 two and half centuries by the British. Where does the influence of a German accent come from!? One use for a Haltestelle in Indian English a Bus halt or indeed a bus stand. Halte, in Bern German a Hälte. Deswegens selbsverständlich kann ich deutsch! Ich warte jetzt für einen O-Bus (Oberleitungsbus) or trolleybus nach Köniz. I wait for my bus to Köniz (a suburb of Bern).
Ahhhh how nice to see you guys! Miss you already!!!
Miss you lots!
How I wish I can learn from both Anpu and from that posh English teacher. Yes.
Patrick Stewart is the actor you meant.
oh!
@@AnpuLondon Also he plays Captain Picard. Not Spock. Pretty certain adult Spocks have only been played by Americans.
George Laidlaw He is a Star Trek Yorkshireman of the right age but yeah, he did play Picard.
That's the one!
A video on sociolinguistics and variation. Fascinating stuff.
TRiG (Ireland) the best stuff
Glad you enjoyed it!
8:47 It is the accent and language of Polari:) (If you don't know what "Polari" is...."How Bona it is to Vada your Dolly Old Eek")
Hi I think both of you flapped the t in the word "matter" am I right? I'm curious cause I thought English people wouldn't do that
This is What I wanted. ..... Tnx Mate
Awesome!
Oh, my daze: i propah luvvvvvvvvvvv'd diss, i did; we ain't dat bare posh, 'round my endz ({ ; D ...! Actually tho', i do generally have rather an [ hemi-semi-demi- ] 'posh-ish' accent/pronunciation: western Ealing [ Borough/W7 ] ... plus a good bit of 'affectation' and all, i reckon/must admit ({ ; D ...! Such a good video, *Anpu;* and Sally's absolutely bloody marvellous!! ~Much love /
Hahahaha I love how you spelled your words there xD
@@AnpuLondon Safe, bruv: bare haps ya liked it; had hoped ya might get sort of a kick out of that actually ({ ; D ...!
I suddenly see why the guillotine was so popular.
That’s my world, mix of British (somewhat posh) and American haha
tbh I wouldn't really say Sally's accent is that posh at all, nice accent definitely but not particularly posh. Great video and energy though you folks, really enjoyed it.
what is posh if u can expain me pls
Hello Anpu! How can I contact you? Thank you
Thank you all
What is the best youtube channel to learn tamil for a non tamil speaker ? Also this is a great video.
There are definitely Americans who do mock insults and sarcasm, but only with people who know them well. It can get is in trouble when we go abroad into cultures where sarcasm and “personal” banter are not understood. I think a lot of Americans don’t get irony, but that may very well be a result of not reading much...🙄
Americans, in my experience, understand irony and sarcasm well (Marx Brothers, Phil Silvers, and a host of American writers through the ages, Mark Twain, etc). You make a good point though. I think the difference is: American humor is generally forgiving and flowery....British humour is often barbed, and brutal.
I don't hate posh sounding people. I just hate people who sound more posh me.
One of the best.
Cheers!!
" beeenh liea laey bhaa anywahhys thanhs fr introjucinh yah greah frnh"!! x😉
You sound like a true Londoner:)
16:10 It's always KI-lo-me-tre (it always rhymes with millimetre, centimetre, etc.), never ki-LO-me-tre. The latter is an effect of the Americans not being able to spell the word correctly, so "kilometer" is thought to be a device and is pronounced as such (like thermometer, barometer, etc.). It's unfortunate that this phenomenon reached Britain even though they spell the word correctly.
i have literally never heard anyone say it the first way in my life wtf
@@BeccaMoses There's a first time for everything.
Listening to myself I do drop my ts a lot 😂
when Sally does the "really posh" accent it almost sounds South African. (not a criticism just an amusing observation of how that accent can sound)
Aeescot is posh for ascot races. Cockneys too say aee instead of aaa. Dunno how to explain this people from Kent and reading pronounce it the same way instead of asscot they say aeescot
Interesting!!!
Aye man this goes for Australians as well aee instead of a
Nice
Hooray Henry
I like Anpu's cracking
Even the queen has toned down her accent. I based in London and I never heard anyone speak like in downtown Abbey
You'd be surprised haha
3:25 accurate representation
6:47 Nah, I'm naturally like that, Sally.. Banter is also v. common among Filipinos.
Stopping saying like, like and then make a video on RP
To sum up: Sally has marbles in her mouth, and Anpu is a natural for Polari.
Where were you born?
Lovez fRom South India
Mate where are you???
11:00 British actors have to put on the phoney Mary Poppins accent to please the Americans; Oor kid Cheryl, from Gateshead, was dropped from the USA Got Talent show because (supposedly) Americans couldn't understand her Geordie accent. I'm from London, and I understand every word she says. Most Americans would as well. But it is the London snobbishness and Hollywood fear of something different that got her the boot ("when the boot cooms in la'....").
but the real question is, is Anpu single?? asking for a friend ... who is thirsty lol
Me trying to speak to a girl
Yo Sal, you look peng sister... raaaa 👍🤣
Rrraaaa new video???😂
anpu do you have a bf or gf asking for a friend, jk i was just curious.
Sometimes she sounds a bit like Emma Thompson 😂😂
Hahaha!
Swell!
Please do an omegle video
Lol funny intro
Super posh English is like a foreign language to me 😂😂😂😂 Posh ppl are too lazy to pronounce the words clearly
oh rather old thing, but it's simply super when I am visiting mummy in Wimbledon, she is the most frightful wreck after a sundowner on the verandah
I would love to talk to you like this.....☝😒
Hihi 🙈🌸💕🤗
Hehehe hi!
Sup
The cringe is unreal
Hazza
lOndOneR.. londoner my ass
The girl doesn't sound bit like an american or ... ? 😒
Do you think she sounds American?
@@AnpuLondon The comment I think is derived from a first generation American point of view. See, either a NYC ceite or Bostonian ceite. You say park the car they say puhk thuh kah. New York too. "Yah Seihh".
"Soccer".
She’s comes off a bit annoying and arrogant
Why do you think that?
@@vanessaperry5244 Thanks for the explanation. I'm not a native, but I learn 😉 I hope one day I will sound in modern RP. However I am a little bit scared of people in England xd due to "classes" and "passive aggressive" attitude to others...
Purigika mudila.not understandable sounds
Sorry, what is Purigika mudila?
@@AnpuLondon it's a Tamil word. not able to understand.. Its very very hard to understand british accent. Ok it's fully my fault.. Love you.
@@punisher4738 Could you write it in Tamil for me please?
And no it's not your fault. I can imagine how difficult it is. Please keep practising. Much love!
RaaAa
Lool