Cool Accent Features in the Queen's Speech | Improve Your Accent
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- Опубліковано 6 кві 2020
- An analysis of the Queen accent in her address to the nation on Sunday 5th April 2020 regarding the coronavirus pandemic.
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The Queen sounds much better than the rest .
She's calm & convincing !
Wow, I never heard "science" pronounced this way. Strangely enough, the modern accent sounds more like French than the old one :)
Can't agree with you, doesn't really sound like French.
I speak French, and I have to disagree. When I hear both versions of "science" I find that the Queen's articulation is more similar to the French pronunciation. In French and the so-called old fashioned pronunciation of the Queen are both one syllable, whereas I hear two syllables at 0:25.
That said, English and French both have many very different accents and one word can be said in dozens of ways, so in the end, it doesn't really matter.
In the Gauteng province of South Africa, a lot people pronounce words like science, time, like etc like that.
It’s pretty cool
/ˈfaɪə/ is the "original" pronunciation to "fire", /faː/ being its clipped form.
@@bananaborz1 Oui,elle s'écoute comme allemande
Strangely, the only person I've ever heard pronounce "science" like that was my Granny, who grew up on a farm in Kentucky.
I did think it sounded similar to a US Southern accent
Many modern accents in the USA have English roots.
@@archiebald4717 don’t all accents of the English language have English roots?
The whole South pronounces I as AH.
@@JenChenshuffler No.
The Queen’s accent has changed. Just listen to her first speeches and those of today to see the difference. 70 years ago she spoke with the typical accent of her social class, with a light snobish pronunciation. Over the years, her accent has changed and is much less socially marked today.
I'm glad to see that you're back! I'm an English teacher and I've showed your video about the French accent to all of my students.. It's so helpful and educational. Thank you so much 🙏🙏
Check your use of past tense for past participle.
I showed = past tense
I've/have shown = p p
Not "I've showed"
Similarly past tense is
NEVER "I seen"
BUT "I saw" = past tense. Past Perfect/completed is "I have seen/I've seen",
Likewise
Did/Done
Went/Gone
Spoke/Spoken
Wrote/Written
Rode/Ridden etc.
Went
Thus
@@DD-xt6vo what a nice comment, it couldn't be said a nicer way 😉
@@DD-xt6vo I've just checked it out and 'showed' does exist even if it's less common.
@@leaenglishExists as past tense, I showed. But as in past perfect/completed the past participle applies, ie. I've/I have shown.
Holy carp, I just realised something.
So I was a cadet as a teenager and I always remember an instructional video in which some middle aged officer type kept talking about far par instead of fire power. That made sense because there are Rs in there so just smear the vowels and it happens.
I now realise that fire is pronounced the same as science so of course science would turn into sarns
You're right! Linguists call it "smoothing and compression"
I can't in jaw the absence of your content
Very good!
Science = "Sans"
Endure = "And your"
I love it haha! 🤣😄
I'm so happy that you come back with more videos and you have courses now!! I was looking forward for them!! 👏👏👏
That awkward moment when you grew up in Texas on the border of Mexico and you have such a strange accent compared to Her Royal Majesty. I love the differences in English accents. I could study them forever.
"To sound like a modern British English speaker..."
yeah yeah yeah yeah, let me stop you right there
to sound like a modern British English speaker, all you need to do is speak British English in modern times
Yeah, I'm a Geordie and we pronounce both of these words differently to both examples given for each.
Up in North East England us Geordies pronounce 'endure' as if saying 'end-you're' or 'end-you-ah'
Triphthong flattening is a feature of posh RP. So "power" sounds like "paa" and "higher" sounds like "haa".
Queen is a classy lady!
I enjoy your lessons soooo much.
Good evening. I am from Uzbekistan, that is from Central Asia. I always see your different videos. It is very very good. Good luck👍👍👍👍
I'm definitely saying it the old school way
It’s good to see you back!
I tried to push my pronunciation for a while but in the end I realized that my efforts were useless. They could spot I was Italian two miles away. A second language is a tool and as long as it works in conveying communication, that's enough. I lived happily ever since.
Think like that: it's sexy to have an accent. You're "the Italian guy" for them!
I think the reason your pronunciation practices may have been uneffective was because you were misled by the IPA symbols that the dictionary likes to use.
For example, while the vowel of words like north are commonly transcribed with /ɔː/, the quality of that vowel is actually closer to [oː] (the vowel of the o in "alto").
There are actually a lot of vowel sounds in Italian that can be used to make a quite convincing modern British RP accent, so while it may seem hard, I think giving your pronunciation practices a second chance wouldn't be so bad.
Glad your back
But wouldn’t I want to sound more like the Queen of freakin’ England??!!
No, because virtually no one else speaks like her.
@@davidmukarovsky2044 Neither does anyone speak in RP.
@@Alaryk111 There are definitely more people speaking modern RP than the posh English that the Queen speaks. But I guess it's not just the number of speakers that matters. The Queen’s accent is very distinctive and old-fashioned. If I heard someone who's not upper-class and British speak exactly like the Queen, I’d assume they’re impersonating her. Frankly, the idea that anyone under 40 would speak like her is surreal.
@@davidmukarovsky2044 ok... Then, if I'm not supposed to speak like the queen, what is Hermoine's accent called?
@@chew7656 I'd say that's RP, i.e. Received Pronunciation - the British standard accent. The guy running this channel seems to speak pretty much the same accent, as do Lucy from the channel "English with Lucy" and Elliot from "ETJ English". However, we could say that the Queen speaks RP as well, but it is a sort of an old folks' RP. She’s 94 after all! I don't think language learners should imitate 90-year-olds, not even those as graceful and articulate as the Queen, because over a century the pronunciation of a language is bound to change.
It’s lovely I love her voice 💖
Thanks a lot-it was actually amazing !
growing up in a commonwealth country meant i learnt RP English as a second language. The 2nd syllable of the word "endure" is pronounce with a "d" sound. When i first heard British pronounced the word as "en-jure", I thought i've learnt the wrong pronunciation all my life. This video proves that what i've learnt is not wrong, just old-fashioned.
England alone has hundreds and hundreds of different accents and pronunciations for our own language, no one way is the 'correct' way. Just don't try and talk like the Queen because everyone will think you are very strange for doing so. It is a very exclusive accent that only royals and nobles use.
@@Oxley016 Thank you for your comment. Having learnt English as a second language, the way i speak English is tinged with my mother tongue. I can't do Queen's English. Imagine an asian trying to imitate Jacob Rees-Mogg 😂😂😂
@@bathsalt79 That would be an interesting thing to hear 😂😂😂 We are generally fairly used to hearing Asian versions of English accents because in our recent history many Asian immigrants have settled from the old empire; mainly from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Burma and Hong Kong!
Amazing Points to be noted and these points are very important to improve accent. I'm from India and i really love your way to teach.
Interesting, useful, amazing! Greetings from Argentina!🇦🇷
I've just discovered your channel. I wasn't expecting to see Lucy 😂😂
Few English people now speak the Queen's accent. that's what I heard.
En route pour les 100k !!! 😉👍
Great video! Thanks!
Very interesting, thanks
The Queen pronounces those words a french would do.
I find this channel very interesting and informative. 👍🏻🔥🔥
The Queen is very old and her accent is so unusual it almost seems uniquely hers. Frankly if anyone learnt to speak English with her royal accent it would be an amazing party trick!
wow i never thought how the queen acutally sounds like
Is that a traditionally made Indian statue behind you on the shelf? Had got me all excited when I first saw this video when you uploaded it months ago. But I forgot to ask it then for some reason. Anyway, I greatly enjoy your lessons. Have done for over a year and a half now. Keep teaching us how to speak English like natives. Wish you luck for your channel to achieve even greater success. :)
Many people in India say "saans". And almost everyone says "ind-your" (the "d" is pronounced a bit differently by most Indians though).
Oh Gosh, I love this language, definitely! 😍👌🏻💯🙏🏻🇬🇧🇺🇲
My favourite english accent was that of legendary actor Peter Cushing.
I try my best to get his r, and i have actually heard him do similar sounds to these.
I'm over the moon now to see a notification from your channel 💃❤️
Keep going.
My best teacher
Thanks💕
0:28 she is from English With Lucy
Lovely
Endure without an ‘r’ sound is just alien and a bit of an affection.
Previously I used to pronounce as advised but now I will pronounce like the queen !!!!! 😍
Yeah if you want people to look at you funny and think that you are strange, then feel free!
Great video.
I loved this video. The thing that it's like pronouncing "in jaw" for endure" is very helping. I will remember it way more easily. Thank you!!
More helpFUL is to say endure correctly, ie. NOT in-jaw but as en-djur or en-djoor. Endurance, the noun, is not in-jaw-ance but en-djoor-ance (long vowel sound.
Similarly injure is not said in-jaw but in-djur (short vowel sound). Injury is not in-jaw-y but in-djur-y. And perjury is not per-jaw-y but per-djur-y.
Note the family of words have things in common ie. the 'r' in the middle is there to be pronounced.
Science simply has two vowels in the middle, mostly clearly pronounced as sci-ence/si-ence. No need to learn sans or sarns from the opposite ends of the class divide.
Thanks for your video!! Can I ask the title of the song that comes out shortly at the beginning of the video? 😍
God Save The Queen
if ur learning english pls neverrrr say “science” like “sanze” 😭 nobofy id going to understand u
Don't write english in the way you do it, please!
Not true - of course we can understand it and the queen is not the only one to say it
- the upper classes still often do!
@Legion Joanna Lumley speaks beautiful RP...
@Legion You don't know what you are talking about, the UK has had countless accents and unique dialects since forever. It has nothing to do with yanks.
@Legion I don't know anybody who uses the word guys
English with Lucy 🧡
As a Brazilian who had larned english in a British oriented shcool I usually speak with "The Queen accent" the RP accent it's considered more elegant. My thacher speak portuguese but, is originally from london and his wife is Brazilian. There are a few americans here in the ciety were i live and they're larnenig the formal accent and pronunciation the way that well instructed people speak. On day-to day life most Brazilians don't talk like these but, as I see, it the individual who's able to comprehend the refined usadge of a language makes good impression on a job interview and also native speakers
I prefer the Queens way. She sets the standard. Always strive for the highest. Who are YOU to recommend me your way? Who do you think you are?
Top man
Lucy shows up out of no where 😂😂😂
Still enjoying your vidos Luke !
Thanks, Sebastien!
"Science" and similar cases are pronounced this way in the US Carolinas as well. Lot of "southern" dialects follow RP. Dropping of final [r] being a most famous case.
The Cambridge online dictionary still gives /ɪnˈdjʊər/ as the only option and I must be old-fashioned because I really prefer it.
/ɪnˈdjɔːr/ may be viable, but /ɪnˈdʒɔː/ seems careless and impacts aural comprehension.
Science, as the Queen pronounces it, seems closer to the original French, despite the lack of the [i].
That said, I've never heard it pronounced that way and it's probably better to stick with the current pronunciation.
Agreed. To whoever is reading this comment: folks, you would do well to stick with /ɪnˈdjʊə(r)/. /ɪnˈdjɔːr/ is not even recognised by dictionaries, much less the atrocious /ɪnˈdʒɔː/. With that beign said, no doubt a lot of people use the two careless variants.
Why should I "improve" my accent? You're telling me to pronounce endure like injure, what kind of improvement is that?😊😊
Because the word's original pronunciation actually has a yod that is immediately after the 'd' sound. When a yod occurs immediately after /d/, it may get coalesced with the /d/, so the pair amalgamates into /ʤ/ -- the sound of the 'j' of the word 'juice'. This phonetic phenomenon is called 'yod-coalescence'.
@@amediocrecatholic7398 no normal English speakers understand whatever you just said, there are hundreds of accents in England alone and the RP being taught in this video is only one of those accents. It isn't an improvement, it is just one of the many valid ways of speaking.
La vieille est vraiment d’une autre époque !!
Love this, very clear and corpus-based. One thing I was expecting you to mention was a) the probable French influence in the two uncommon pronunciations and b) the inconsistency of the RP accent if we are to consider diachronic variation. Thanks for the video. Looking forward to seeing more.
I didn't know that !!! 🤔🤔🤔
Can you make video about Arabic accent ? please
In speaking, my goal is to be understood, nothin' else 🙄😁
Bingo! 🌹
So you are an uncultivated minimalist then.
Eres bueno Lukas
Queen Elisabeth: "science"
*Megalovania starts playing in the background*
Science.... the way Queen say is like 'southern accent' in America
More like the other way round.
I'm feeling old fashioned now, and I'm 60
How she’ says science just sounds like a general southern accent
Teh queen also might remember middle English
Hi, i have a question, are u(British) able to understand tangier island dialect in the united states?
What is a cut glass accent and can you please do a video explaining or talking in this accent but I say a paragraph in this accent and then say it regularly if you do please text my name in the comments so that I may get notified
im not native English but i find it easier to pronounce in'djue (the old one).
Вы очень красивый мужчина. На Вас приятно смотреть)
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Love this! But I prefer the old-fashioned pronunciation.
Oddly enough the older British pronunciation of endure is much closer to the modern American pronunciation.
AAHHHHH I KNOW LUCY!!!!!
0:25 That's Lucy!
(As non native speaker) I do agree with your advice on pronunciation of science, but in no way I would mix endure with injure.
Mixing "endure" and "injure" is not an issue, because "endure" has stress on the second syllable, while "injure" has stress on the first. The fact that the second syllable of "injure" is unstressed also means that its second vowel is /ə/, known as "schwa", which is the most common vowel for unstressed syllables in English words. On the other hand, the second syllable in "endure" is a full, long vowel. It takes little, if any training to distinguish between the two words. I say that as a fellow non-native. Just compare the transcriptions: /ɪnˈdʒɔː/ (endure) vs. /ˈɪn.dʒə/ (injure).
Oops, forgot to add.
Yes, the Queen has a lot to ' in jaw' but it ain't 'sahns' .
March 6, 2021 🙏
I find it fascinating that our American southern accent has similarities to British like the schwa er, science, fire and ice among others.
I was told by a prof that Shakespearean times accents would sound very much like a modern day Tennessean.
@@sadiemack5395 Thank goodness we have evolved since then
I am still an old english user for endure - do not care.😅
What’s the music name ?please
Is the pronunciation of 'science' an example of smoothing?
smoothing and compression - yes!
What song
Of course the way it is suppose to be pronounced is “indoor”
Endure your life!
Enjoy your life!
Both frases sound the same for a "modern" Briton.
I would really go with an International English.
science pronounced that way mirrors French "sans" (without the nasal ending), as for endure, it sounds like enjoy if you use the /dg/ sound, barring the final /i/ in enjoy with is barely audible. English is so confusing, I don't get how to get around understanding one another
Anyone notice her serious vocal fry? Very California.
Strange that the Queen's English sounds little American? Her "endure" is certainly American. "Sahnce" sounds like the American South.
It is said that the American pronunciation is actually closer to 1700 speak; British english is the one that evolved most.
@@FrancescoDondi Yes! British pronunciation is evolving fast than American.
That "weird" pronunciation is typical for Americans with endure but it's a more natural sound for us. Almost en-do-er. The in-jaw pronunciation (with English accent) would not even be recognizable to an American without context. With an American accent it would be flat out incorrect
ENDIOR LOL
I feel like old fashion pronunciation of endure sounds like india
From now on, I will say "sans"
Me too. LOL
Cutie
Kinds of sounds like ‘Injure’
Ha her science is very South Carolina !
I am a German speaker and I do everything - EVERYTHING- to imitate RP English. And I say saans, not just sience. and endooor...and not endure. How common it is to say sience
Endure, actually i pronounce this word.in modern way but when i look up at the dictionery i thought i pronounce it wrong.
Endure