How to learn English pronunciation with My Fair Lady (1964)

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    My Fair Lady is a musical based on George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. Not full movie here, sorry...
    HIGGINS. All right, Eliza, say it again.
    ELIZA. The rine in Spine stays minely in the pline.
    HIGGINS. The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain.
    ELIZA. Didn't I say that?
    HIGGINS. No, Eliza, you didn't "sie" that; you didn't even say that. Now every morning where you used to say your prayers, I want you to say "the rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain" fifty times. You'll get much further with the Lord if you learn not to offend his ears. Now for your "h"s. Pickering, this is going to be ghastly.
    PICKERING. Control yourself, Higgins, give the girl a chance.
    HIGGINS. Well, I suppose you can't expect her to get it right the first time. Come here, Eliza, and watch closely.
    My Fair Lady - hurricanes hardly ever happen Now, you see that flame. Every time you pronounce the letter "h" correctly the flame will waver, and every time you drop your "h" the flame will remain stationary. That's how you'll know if you've done it correctly. In time your ear will hear the difference. Now listen carefully. In Hertford, Hereford and Hampshire, hurricanes hardly ever happen. Now you repeat that after me. In Hertford, Hereford and Hampshire, hurricanes hardly ever happen.
    ELIZA. In 'artford, 'ereford and 'ampshire, 'urricanes 'ardly hever 'appen.
    HIGGINS. Oh, no, no, no. Have you no ear at all?
    ELIZA. Shall I do it over?
    HIGGINS. No, please. Start from the very beginning. Just do this, go, "har, har, har, har".
    ELIZA. Har, har, har, har.
    HIGGINS. Well, go on, go on, go on.
    ELIZA. Har, har, har, har
    HIGGINS. Does the same thing hold true in India, Pickering? Is there the peculiar habit of not only dropping a letter like the letter "h", but using it where it doesn't belong, like "hever" instead of "ever"? Or like the Slavs who when they learn English have a tendency to do it with their "g"s, they say "linner" instead of "linger", then they turn right round and say "sin-ger" instead of "singer".
    PICKERING. The girl, Higgins!
    HIGGINS. Go on, go on, go on, go on.
    SERVANTS' CHORUS:
    Poor Professor Higgins,
    Poor Professor Higgins.
    Night and day he slaves away.
    Oh, poor Professor Higgins.
    All day long on his feet.
    Up and down until he's numb.
    Doesn't rest, doesn't eat
    Doesn't touch a crumb.
    HIGGINS. Again, Eliza, "how kind of you to let me come."
    ELIZA. How kind of you to let me come.
    HIGGINS. No, no. "Kind of you", "kind of you", "kind - ", "how kind of you to let me come".
    ELIZA. How kind of you to let me come.
    HIGGINS. No, no, no, no. "Kind of you", "kind of you". It’s like "cup of tea", "kind of you". Say, "cup of tea".
    ELIZA. Cup o' tea.
    HIGGINS. No, no, "a cup of tea". Awfully good cake this. I wonder where Mrs Pearce gets it?
    PICKERING. Mmmm. First rate; and those strawberry tarts are delicious. Did you try the pline cike?
    HIGGINS. Try it again.
    PICKERING. Did you try the -
    HIGGINS. Pickering! Again, Eliza.
    ELIZA. Cup o' tea.
    HIGGINS. Oh no. Can't you hear the difference? Put your tongue forward until it squeezes on the top of your lower teeth and then say, "cup".
    ELIZA. Cup.
    HIGGINS. Then say, "of".
    ELIZA. Of.
    HIGGINS. Then say, "cup, cup, cup, cup, of, of, of, of".
    HIGGINS & ELIZA. Cup, cup, cup, cup, of, of, of, of.
    ELIZA. Cup, cup, cup, of, of, of
    PICKERING. By jove, Higgins, that was a glorious tea. Why don't you finish that last strawberry tart? I couldn't eat another thing.
    HIGGINS. No, I couldn't touch it.
    PICKERING. Shame to waste it.
    HIGGINS. Oh it won't be wasted, I know of someone who's immensely fond of strawberry tarts.
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  • @vinny9868
    @vinny9868 4 роки тому +10523

    This is not "how to learn English pronunciation", this is "how to get rid of another English accent".

    • @addlemm44
      @addlemm44 4 роки тому +353

      How to learn ("True") English pronunciation. Obviously any other accent deserves nothing but disdain.

    • @angelisruledbyjupiter
      @angelisruledbyjupiter 4 роки тому +544

      addlemm44 oh, we’re sorry your majesty.

    • @duelbuster123
      @duelbuster123 4 роки тому +260

      @@addlemm44 then go time travel and stop your ancestor from colonization so the half of the world dont have to learn english and can fully focus on their native languages🤷‍♀️

    • @mrmoist9753
      @mrmoist9753 4 роки тому +99

      @@duelbuster123 Based on Europe's industrialisation even if we didn't colonise the world a European language would still be the lingua franca of the world. We must be thankful that the English language won out otherwise French would still be the lingua franca, and French is a dreadful and effeminate language.

    • @darthpanda2573
      @darthpanda2573 4 роки тому +19

      @@addlemm44 disdaaayn?

  • @ashneehs
    @ashneehs 4 роки тому +2318

    The irony of the servants singing "Poor professor Higgins, night and day, he slaves away" kills me everytime

    • @loisannebarin6995
      @loisannebarin6995 4 роки тому +18

      Omg 😂

    • @Amii-dw7jd
      @Amii-dw7jd 4 роки тому +1

      @@loisannebarin6995 lol

    • @lemurlover7975
      @lemurlover7975 3 роки тому +37

      poor Eliza since she doesn't get fed and he said he and the servants beat her. She's the slave. :'-(

    • @robynrodriguez6237
      @robynrodriguez6237 10 місяців тому

      Absolutely

    • @galateojlatteo
      @galateojlatteo 9 місяців тому +2

      have you seen the show before making your conclusion?

  • @snowy2619
    @snowy2619 4 роки тому +5605

    “Say cup of tea.”
    “Cupah tea.”
    😂😂

    • @CioChoux
      @CioChoux 4 роки тому +132

      Cupah tey

    • @Zeus.thunder
      @Zeus.thunder 4 роки тому +9

      edit: can't believe I got 1k likes, thanks y'all

    • @snowy2619
      @snowy2619 4 роки тому +11

      Zeus nah it ruins the comment lol

    • @leviismyoppa967
      @leviismyoppa967 4 роки тому +21

      In the book it's even funnier. She says "Cuppattee" Or something like that

    • @user-xs3og8us3d
      @user-xs3og8us3d 4 роки тому

      Lol.

  • @sofiamochon-ciniglio4010
    @sofiamochon-ciniglio4010 4 роки тому +2857

    No, Eliza, you didn't sigh that. You didn't even say that.

    • @cashewnuttel9054
      @cashewnuttel9054 Рік тому +2

      Many of europa's former colonies are only a few years years old.
      Zimbabwe I think is still under british rule when this movie was released.

  • @kirsteni.russell5903
    @kirsteni.russell5903 6 років тому +9373

    Amazing how well Audrey Hepburn delivered mispronounced English, since her English pronunciation is impeccable. But she managed a Midwestern American accent in another movie, THE UNFORGIVEN (1960). Meanwhile, she was multilingual!

    • @anaussie213
      @anaussie213 4 роки тому +143

      Andrews had a better cockney and RP accent though. Both of Hepburn’s are off.

    • @lisaq8118
      @lisaq8118 4 роки тому +115

      She was a professional. And one of the best human beings..

    • @Netalula0707
      @Netalula0707 4 роки тому +49

      Most of the world is multi lingual

    • @blancheneige9326
      @blancheneige9326 4 роки тому +102

      @@Netalula0707 most american and native english-speakers are not....thats why they don't know much about other's culture

    • @Netalula0707
      @Netalula0707 4 роки тому +49

      @@blancheneige9326 it's mostly an american problem. Even jn Britain you have to study at least French or German or something if i remember correctly

  • @Saturday4378
    @Saturday4378 6 років тому +1589

    "Did you try the plane cake?"
    "Try Again"
    "Did you try....."
    "PICKERING!!!"

    • @GalaxyJazzGirl
      @GalaxyJazzGirl 5 років тому +36

      "Pickering: Did you try the plain cake? ^-^ " "Try again. ^-^ " "Pickering: I said, did you try the pline cike?" o_O; " "Higgins: o_O; -_-; PICKERING!!! -_-; "

    • @thegirlinquestion
      @thegirlinquestion 4 роки тому +1

      RONNIE PICKERING

    • @700Harry007
      @700Harry007 4 роки тому +8

      funniest line in the film XD

    • @J.P.Robles
      @J.P.Robles 3 місяці тому +3

      He said pline like Eliza

  • @a.h.s.3006
    @a.h.s.3006 4 роки тому +507

    We have an arabic play similar inspired by this movie. The man was supposed to teach the girl how to address the King. The pronunciations there were more important because they changed the meaning. Instead of saying "You are the big heart, you are the mirror of our nation, your wisdom is shinning on us". She says:"You are the big dog, you are our wife, your wisdom is scamming us"

    • @badinfluencerinc5686
      @badinfluencerinc5686 2 роки тому +25

      What's the name of the movie?

    • @amiari3048
      @amiari3048 2 роки тому +31

      I would love to see that movie. It already sounds so amusing xD

    • @venus0.o153
      @venus0.o153 2 роки тому +7

      @@badinfluencerinc5686 I wanna know the name of the movie too :)

    • @rolaelsayed8728
      @rolaelsayed8728 2 роки тому +4

      I think it's the opposite order maybe, or that both are just from the novel, because the Egyptian play is in black and white, and this film is colored.

    • @rolaelsayed8728
      @rolaelsayed8728 2 роки тому +13

      @@badinfluencerinc5686
      The play's name is سيدتى الجميلة.
      I love it so much, but I'm not sure if you will find it with English sub, but anyway hope you enjoy.

  • @havingicecream
    @havingicecream 6 років тому +3403

    Not leviosA

  • @makecaseyfamous365
    @makecaseyfamous365 4 роки тому +833

    The one thing I never understood is why the mirror rotates. Doesn’t seem to give much of an opportunity to see your mouth shape.

    • @eduardobraivein8496
      @eduardobraivein8496 4 роки тому +218

      Casey Alcoser In the original Broadway production there's no mirror, just a candle placed in front of Eliza. Every times she pronounces the "h" sound, the flame flickers; otherwise, it doesn't.
      This rotating mirror was added in the film and, to be honest, it doesn't make any sense at all, rotating or not.

    • @V.U.4six
      @V.U.4six 4 роки тому +5

      Casey Alcoser different angles?? Idek lol

    • @user-gn1cl9ix7p
      @user-gn1cl9ix7p 4 роки тому +4

      Yes, it makes no sense.

    • @bidishah
      @bidishah 4 роки тому +7

      THANK YOU THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I THOUGHT AS A CHILD.

    • @Luka1180
      @Luka1180 4 роки тому +1

      It is 100% nonsensical. Stupid even.

  • @azer.2454
    @azer.2454 4 роки тому +6435

    as an English teacher, I can actually feel his pain

    • @esejsnake1503
      @esejsnake1503 4 роки тому +28

      XD accurate

    • @lostsoul5848
      @lostsoul5848 4 роки тому +69

      An English Language teacher*

    • @Joseph-pk7wu
      @Joseph-pk7wu 4 роки тому +130

      *Correction:*
      As an English teacher, I can actually feel his pain.

    • @argeraint
      @argeraint 4 роки тому +53

      I'm just a student and I even share his pain

    • @Redneck322
      @Redneck322 4 роки тому +25

      As a descendant of Noah Webster, the creator of the Webster's Dictionary, I can say that you have no idea.

  • @isamarramos4919
    @isamarramos4919 2 роки тому +223

    Eliza’s reaction to the bird getting the strawberry tart was EXACTLY how I reacted!😂😂

  • @AR-pd2it
    @AR-pd2it 4 роки тому +4414

    The only issue I had with the movie was that it had to be dumbed down into a romance to suit the needs of cinema of that time.
    In contrast to the movie, the Eliza from the book does not fall in love with the old professor who sees her as a mere experiment and refuses to treat her better. She realises that she deserved someone who not only loved her and treated her well but would also support her dreams. She was a woman with great intergrity of character and spunk and a desire to become financially independent at a time and age at which it was definitely looked down upon. Her character development in the book was Brilliant but Unfortunately it's pretty much stunted in the movie.
    P.S read the book!! It's called Pygmalion. By G.B.Shaw who also went on to win a Nobel Prize in Literature. It's a masterpiece of a satire on the societal class divide, feminism and world problem of education and so much more. It's a reader's delight. :)

    • @Passions5555
      @Passions5555 4 роки тому +22

      Sounds interesting

    • @GodsMistake
      @GodsMistake 4 роки тому +141

      It's not a book, it's a stage play of which the script can be read.

    • @radsical1392
      @radsical1392 4 роки тому +43

      Oh I’ve read Pygmalion! So long ago! I was always confused when people said certain movies and shows were reinterpretations of My Fair Lady, but you’re right there’s a huge difference! I’ve actually never seen My Fair Lady

    • @glykera
      @glykera 4 роки тому +26

      @@radsical1392 Also try the book Breakfast at Tiffany's - such an amazing piece of literature, has very little to do the fluff the movie is

    • @amitabhsharma3916
      @amitabhsharma3916 4 роки тому +10

      That's open to interpretation though. Because IIRC there's a line at the end of the play where Higgins says pretty confidently that she'll be back

  • @IsaacWale2004
    @IsaacWale2004 2 роки тому +500

    "You'll get much further with the lord if you learn not to offend his ears" had me dying 😂

    • @lubormrazek5545
      @lubormrazek5545 2 роки тому +3

      Same

    • @maazali8889
      @maazali8889 Рік тому +5

      That's Shaw for you.

    • @joannacrickenberger7627
      @joannacrickenberger7627 Рік тому +1

      Don't you "DARE" tell me not to say my prayers Mister Higgens! God's going to punish you for that. All God hears when we speak is a beauty of his creation. We weren't meant to talk or prounce the same way, He didn't create us to be uniformed robots! He creates us to be unique individuals in His image.

    • @SuperFlawless2010
      @SuperFlawless2010 Рік тому +1

      I'm just sitting here imagining an Almighty God who's choosing his favorites based on their truest English accent. EL OH EL!

    • @BitOfUltraviolence
      @BitOfUltraviolence 10 місяців тому +1

      I feel like that when people say "bruv" and stuff like that. I much prefer cockney slang than words made up by gangster wannabes.

  • @Kangakool
    @Kangakool Рік тому +151

    Watching this as a speech therapy masters student was fascinating.
    As some have noted, she is merely speaking a different dialect of English. It isn’t “wrong” it’s just different.

    • @cacambo589
      @cacambo589 Рік тому +14

      Yes. We all got that many decades ago. The film itself does not endorse the idea of correct pronunciation. It questions the validity of that concept. You have finally caught up with GB Shaw.

    • @inuhundchien6041
      @inuhundchien6041 11 місяців тому +2

      It is wrong if you want to mix with the upper class. It's like not having lip fillers will be wrong if you want to mix with the beverly housewives.

    • @forcabrasil5881
      @forcabrasil5881 7 місяців тому

      Hi Kangakool, how can one learn the British RP accent? So you have any experience from speech therapy experience? I can already speak English but wish to develop this accent

  • @maksphoto78
    @maksphoto78 2 роки тому +215

    "Did you try the "plain cake?" That gets me every time. These guys were doing comedy gold, and so perfect at that!

    • @cashewnuttel9054
      @cashewnuttel9054 Рік тому

      Hahaha, I know right!!!
      Anyway what about it gets you every time?

    • @maksphoto78
      @maksphoto78 Рік тому +1

      @@cashewnuttel9054 Sorry, I meant it makes me chuckle every time.

    • @sadia2395
      @sadia2395 10 місяців тому +3

      ​@@maksphoto78I always guffaw at that and then comes ' try it again' and off goes Mr Pickering,only to be yelled at ' Pickering!' 😆👏🏽

  • @Aineezz
    @Aineezz 4 роки тому +275

    1:36 he sounded like a villager omg

  • @Aramanth
    @Aramanth 4 роки тому +485

    Prof. Higgins has about 8 servants!
    *Poor Professor Higgins Indeed!!* 😸

    • @toothless9081
      @toothless9081 4 роки тому +1

      😂😂😂😂😂

    • @edisonlima4647
      @edisonlima4647 4 роки тому +20

      @@TamarMebonia Yes, all while starving poor Eliza. The staff members, albeit probably poor themselves, dedicate all their empathy towards the boss.
      There are some nice ironies at work in this movie which até occasionaly overlooked by viewers.

    • @ABhonestopinion12
      @ABhonestopinion12 4 роки тому +2

      😆😆😆

    • @Spokker
      @Spokker Рік тому

      ​@@edisonlima4647Professor Higgins did nothing wrong.

  • @abiseniyya
    @abiseniyya 6 років тому +757

    The reindeer in Spain was hit mainly by the plane

    • @robertfons9998
      @robertfons9998 4 роки тому +24

      That was one of my favorite lines of Colin's.

    • @thekingsdaughter4233
      @thekingsdaughter4233 4 роки тому +6

      Good thing I put my coffee cup on the table before reading this. * snort *

    • @tuxedopenguin8953
      @tuxedopenguin8953 4 роки тому +5

      Grandma got ran over by a reindeer.

    • @juliloafers
      @juliloafers 4 роки тому +6

      *T* *A* *P* *I* *O* *C* *A*

    • @Ourumov1
      @Ourumov1 4 роки тому +3

      We're watching animal Porn.

  • @thegoodthebadtheoffended6548
    @thegoodthebadtheoffended6548 4 роки тому +613

    Seth MacFarlane once mentioned that Stewie's accent from Family Guy was based on Pro. Higgins.

    • @brandonb4742
      @brandonb4742 4 роки тому +15

      I can hear it

    • @tobiaspartington1581
      @tobiaspartington1581 4 роки тому +52

      Polikos Tsangari There’s actually a family guy episode dedicated to this, where Stewie teaches an english girl how to speak properly

    • @mannydavis7708
      @mannydavis7708 4 роки тому +35

      @@tobiaspartington1581 The life of the wife is ended by the knife.

    • @TheAndersDanilet
      @TheAndersDanilet 4 роки тому +1

      Tobias Partington the life of the wife is ended by the knife

    • @patavinity1262
      @patavinity1262 4 роки тому +1

      Well he did a miserable impression then, because it sounds nothing like it.

  • @sarahkpauly
    @sarahkpauly 4 роки тому +95

    "Doesn't eat. Doesn't touch a crumb."
    Cuts to him eating cake

  • @patavinity1262
    @patavinity1262 4 роки тому +1986

    Plot twist: she wasn't really a cockney, she just had a terrible, debilitating speech impediment

    • @SunBunz
      @SunBunz 4 роки тому +37

      Patavinity hahahahah!!! That’d be hilarious. He’d wasted so much time for nothing!!! 😂

    • @randomcat4940
      @randomcat4940 4 роки тому +8

      Hah! I knw that wasn even a cockney accent

    • @caracara300
      @caracara300 4 роки тому +1

      I’m crying of laughter

    • @dallyh.2960
      @dallyh.2960 4 роки тому +29

      whats the difference

    • @valerievedette9542
      @valerievedette9542 4 роки тому +2

      Ain’t that the same thing 😂

  • @Laurahistory
    @Laurahistory Рік тому +93

    Phonics, once upon a time, was a skill all children learned in school. Not so now. Higgins' method is called, phonemic awareness. It uses rhyming words so that the student can see/hear the sounds. The issue, however, with English, is our exceptions. English is a wild and crazy language. That is why it is so expressive. I love teaching phonemic awareness to my students. It is like a window opens when they see/hear how the words are pronounced, and then know the rules of those pronunciations. Higgins also uses elocution as an overall method, because not only will Eliza need to pronounce the words accurately, she will need conversation. That means increasing her vocabulary.
    I would love to have my students for 6 months straight, every day!

    • @sanctuary6689
      @sanctuary6689 Рік тому +2

      I remember hooked on phonics from my childhood.

    • @marknewbold2583
      @marknewbold2583 Рік тому

      Having your students is abuse

    • @cacambo589
      @cacambo589 Рік тому

      "That is why it is so expressive."
      This is a very dangerous theory. Do you suggest there is an innate quality of English which makes it more expressive than another language which functions in a different way? Do Farsi poets wish Farsi was as expressive as English? Do humans have thoughts or feelings which can be expressed in English but not in other languages?

    • @Laurahistory
      @Laurahistory Рік тому +2

      @@cacambo589 Firstly, we are not addressing Farsi in this discussion. Nor poetry.The discussion is about the English language. Secondly, why is it a dangerous theory? What are you afraid of? Thirdly, it is how a language evolves and how open it is to adopting new words that broadens expressions.
      English is the STEM language. 1.5 billion people speak English, not because of Shakespeare, but because of science and technology.

    • @Poetic_Justice1962
      @Poetic_Justice1962 Рік тому

      Ha... ta... ta...

  • @mixall1640
    @mixall1640 4 роки тому +447

    Weird yt recommendation algorithm we meet again!

    • @ash-tj5rl
      @ash-tj5rl 4 роки тому +1

      Lol I thought it was gunna be a meme

    • @KRAFTWERK2K6
      @KRAFTWERK2K6 4 роки тому +2

      We ALL meet again. Because there's dozens of us. DOZENS!!

    • @NP-vn8so
      @NP-vn8so 4 роки тому +1

      Indeed. I watched Britain’s Got Talent 2009 sometime back, saw Hollie Steel audition singing I Could Have Danced all Night from My Fair Lady, watched the scene from the movie after that...and five years later, this came in my recommendations.

  • @Mrmoviefan123
    @Mrmoviefan123 6 років тому +683

    Here are some fun facts:
    1. In this movie, the main character's last name is Doolittle. 3 years after this movie, Rex Harrison played the title character in the movie Doctor Dolittle.
    2. Eliza's first and last names are the first and last names of characters who can talk to animals: Eliza Thornberry from the TV show The Wild Thornberrys (which came many years after this movie) and the afromentioned Doctor Dolittle (though with slightly different spelling in both cases)

    • @GalaxyJazzGirl
      @GalaxyJazzGirl 5 років тому +10

      Also Julie Andrews had to sing for Audrey cause Audrey didn't have a awesome singing voice like Julie.

    • @jenniferlapidus2229
      @jenniferlapidus2229 5 років тому +26

      Marni Nixon dubbed her, notJulie. Also sang for Natalie Wood in West Side story.

    • @anaussie213
      @anaussie213 4 роки тому +8

      Another fun fact, Stewie griffin in family guy is a parody of Henry Higgins.

    • @gato0082
      @gato0082 4 роки тому

      Haha ❣️🌫️🕊️😝interesting 🤷🙏

    • @misselizabethbennetp2185
      @misselizabethbennetp2185 4 роки тому

      I WONDERED WHY PROFESSOR HIGGINS REMINDED ME SO MUCH OF DOCTOR DOOLITTLE!!!

  • @bloopblipable
    @bloopblipable 4 роки тому +100

    4:00 old movies are actually funny in a wholesome way

  • @02ujtb00626
    @02ujtb00626 Рік тому +7

    My mother met Audrey Hepburn in a department store in NYC. She said she was such a sweetheart. My mother also resembled her in her youth.

  • @aadityamodi2554
    @aadityamodi2554 4 роки тому +35

    "You'll get much further with the lord if you learn not to offend his ears" 😂😂

  • @SonOfAnders73
    @SonOfAnders73 6 років тому +362

    as i get older she becomes even more beautiful

    • @KRAFTWERK2K6
      @KRAFTWERK2K6 4 роки тому +11

      She will always stay beautiful. But she also always was. Inside and outside.

  • @alexandraalberti5029
    @alexandraalberti5029 6 років тому +503

    Poor professor Higgins
    Poor professor Higgins
    Night and day
    He slaves away
    Oh, poor professor Higgins
    All day long on his feet
    Up and down until he's numb
    Doesn't rest, doesn't eat
    Doesn't touch a crumb

    • @jenniferbussey1708
      @jenniferbussey1708 5 років тому +96

      And then it shows him stuffing his face with tea and cakes!!!

    • @GalaxyJazzGirl
      @GalaxyJazzGirl 5 років тому +17

      "Slaves away" sounds kinda……………………… I dunno WRONG

    • @dr.davidwho4053
      @dr.davidwho4053 4 роки тому +1

      @@jenniferbussey1708 😁👍

    • @esejsnake1503
      @esejsnake1503 4 роки тому +1

      @@jenniferbussey1708 yep

    • @4nyth1n94
      @4nyth1n94 4 роки тому +17

      Sing all the busy servants

  • @achanwahn
    @achanwahn 6 років тому +102

    Rex was brilliant in this roll. It was the most honest and effortless performance of his life

    • @rosycandyhaven
      @rosycandyhaven 2 роки тому +7

      He was brilliant in The Ghost & Mrs Muir. He played a gruff sailor who was the opposite of the snobbish English characters he usually played.

  • @lemmor6791civ
    @lemmor6791civ 4 роки тому +64

    I do realize that Audrey Hepburn performance never could live up to that replacement voice in the songs, but her comedy timing was perfect, she was great as ever in those parts. (And she could dance better than anyone else...)

    • @vladislav_altair
      @vladislav_altair 10 місяців тому

      Yes, Jack Warner treated her very ungentlemanly in those days. Poor Julie Andrews... won an Oscar! 😄

  • @misselizabethbennetp2185
    @misselizabethbennetp2185 4 роки тому +41

    "Aaaooooww" and "I'm a good girl I am!" Are debatabley the best lines in the whole movie

    • @CanadianMonarchist
      @CanadianMonarchist 2 місяці тому

      My favourite is, “I’d treat a Duchess as if she were a flower girl.”

  • @bluebee5266
    @bluebee5266 Рік тому +61

    The days when an English professor could afford a big house and maids.

    • @MinhNguyen-ff6xf
      @MinhNguyen-ff6xf Рік тому +6

      Yeah I’m surprised. With a big house and a staff like this movie, he should be a titled man like a baron or viscount

    • @nightwishlady
      @nightwishlady Рік тому +2

      He was a professor from an university, as i recall well, the professors make around at least 200k in oxford, cambridge and so on ...

    • @MikeRoberts1964
      @MikeRoberts1964 Рік тому

      Lives in Midsomar, I guess.

    • @MrBumblesayswhat
      @MrBumblesayswhat Рік тому +1

      It is more a sign of how poorly paid labourers were than how rich professors were.

    • @musicaltheatergeek79
      @musicaltheatergeek79 11 місяців тому +4

      Higgins came from old money. That is why he was able to dabble in phonetics.

  • @haryett
    @haryett 4 роки тому +87

    Great performance by Audrey Hepburn. One of he funniest character she's ever played

    • @sailorv8067
      @sailorv8067 4 роки тому

      Idk as for me she looks really stupid here

    • @mrunalkadam8584
      @mrunalkadam8584 2 роки тому +2

      @@sailorv8067 yk this movie belongs in the 60's right? Of course the acting may not look authentic as of today but it was still enjoyable and appropriate for that time.

    • @sailorv8067
      @sailorv8067 2 роки тому +1

      @@mrunalkadam8584 oh please that's an amazingly ridiculous argument. You must have seen no movie before 1960s to say something like that!

  • @isam1542
    @isam1542 4 роки тому +125

    I love how Eliza's way of pronouncing has more logic than what the Prof is teaching her. She reads what is written.

    • @michaelscott3174
      @michaelscott3174 4 роки тому +2

      How so?

    • @cristinaglorialopez4429
      @cristinaglorialopez4429 Рік тому +17

      @@michaelscott3174 because English has no pronunciation rules: but if it had them, and the vowels were pronounced like in most of European languages with pronunciation rules, what the girl says would be much closer to how it would have to be pronounced: rain R - A (as in Africa, not as in Alternate) - I (as in Instrument, not as in Idea) - N

    • @MrBumblesayswhat
      @MrBumblesayswhat Рік тому +5

      You're more right than you realize. In Middle English, "ai" was pronounced how Eliza says it. Modern English radically changed pronunciation but kept most of the spelling, which is why modern spelling is so illogical.

    • @ImaginaryMdA
      @ImaginaryMdA 11 місяців тому +1

      Not really. cup a tea? dropping the H in front of words?
      Neither pronunciation is particularly "as written".

    • @europeanamerican7658
      @europeanamerican7658 11 місяців тому

      ​@@MrBumblesayswhatYes, it is the vowel shift that changed English pronunciation sometime in the Middle Ages.

  • @gokeogunremi7575
    @gokeogunremi7575 8 місяців тому +7

    “You’ll get much further with the Lord when you learn not to offend His ears!”
    I died immediately.😂😂😂

  • @FILIPOPERA
    @FILIPOPERA 2 роки тому +37

    I remember that I laughed so hard when she said the dialogue of Hertford... 🤣 Always Love her. She was unique 💗☺️

    • @lehlongwane
      @lehlongwane 2 роки тому +1

      'urricanes 'ardly hever 'appen.🤣🤣🤣

  • @tmaria3593
    @tmaria3593 4 роки тому +20

    Elocution is not about getting rid of regional accents, it's about teaching a pronunciation everyone can understand. In a multilingual country, pupils are taught the other language/s, so likewise everyone should have a similar accent nationwide, as well as their regional one if they want to keep it.

  • @flufflepuffle
    @flufflepuffle 4 роки тому +113

    The older I get, he more I appreciate the marvel that is Pickering's character.

  • @gurubellimanoharsai7416
    @gurubellimanoharsai7416 7 років тому +143

    pronunciation is very nice it is usefull to English learners

  • @simone222
    @simone222 4 роки тому +16

    Non-native English speaker here. Re-watching this scene evoked some fun childhood memory. I was three and very eager to go to prep school. I wanted to impress my parents by trying to read the text on a portrait of Garfield on the wall which read: I hate Mondays. I got the I hate part, but I pronounced Mondays erroneously (short o and a sounds). My elder siblings laughed their butts off.

  • @shiv11100
    @shiv11100 4 роки тому +38

    I remember having this story in my 7th standard English Literature book . Our teacher was very expressive while reading this chapter. Specially Rain in spain stays mainly in plain. 😁😁

  • @sashacaryll438
    @sashacaryll438 7 років тому +281

    Ahh, this is my job. I have spent two weeks trying to teach someone how to say looked properly!

    • @HUNKragor
      @HUNKragor 4 роки тому +8

      @Janoue Martin I'm sure you can
      Although I would keep it for backup as it's cute

    • @HUNKragor
      @HUNKragor 4 роки тому +1

      @the earl of graylocked?

    • @Theyungcity23
      @Theyungcity23 4 роки тому +1

      I don’t see how they could mispronounce lookded

    • @Eniramoi
      @Eniramoi 4 роки тому +1

      @@HUNKragor I hate the French accent, I quickly managed to drop it - I do have an accent but not the typical French one though

  • @katherinequinonesgonzales3455
    @katherinequinonesgonzales3455 4 роки тому +266

    In that era the male main character were older not that good looking men, while the women were beautiful, younger and kind of frail

    • @Theyungcity23
      @Theyungcity23 4 роки тому +4

      steve gale yeah lets see a woman with Audrey Hepburn’s build fight Rhonda Rousey

    • @Theyungcity23
      @Theyungcity23 4 роки тому

      @steve gale I think you misread what I wrote

    • @Theyungcity23
      @Theyungcity23 4 роки тому

      @steve gale Okay...I didn't say anything at all about me fighting anyone...

    • @Theyungcity23
      @Theyungcity23 4 роки тому +1

      @steve gale I genuinely don't know what's trolling here... Sorry.

    • @hybridbutterfly3908
      @hybridbutterfly3908 4 роки тому +4

      @steve gale Rhonda Rhousey is a female boxer. They seemed to just be using frail as a synonym for petite or waify. They never said it was a fault. Audrey is slender and went through years of malnourishment during WW2.

  • @rexco2700
    @rexco2700 2 роки тому +28

    This scene is so so hilarious 😆 Always put a smile on my face

  • @rohinisubba1511
    @rohinisubba1511 4 роки тому +13

    That *"cup a tea..."* is the sexiest voice I've ever heard lol

  • @curtwall7089
    @curtwall7089 6 років тому +118

    Must if been difficult to play a role of a common girl cant talk pronounce proper but in reality she speaks well spoken

    • @anaussie213
      @anaussie213 4 роки тому +11

      She’s meant to be a cockney, and Julie Andrews (who played Eliza on stage) actually can do a cockney and RP accent... the cockney Michael Caine can also do a good RP accent (as seen in Zulu). Hepburn isn’t English though so she can be forgiven.

    • @andipajeroking
      @andipajeroking 4 роки тому +3

      @@silversnow3186 She was born in Belgium

    • @Alusnovalotus
      @Alusnovalotus 4 роки тому +1

      curt wall that was so cockney 👍🏽

  • @ania5038
    @ania5038 2 роки тому +21

    Audrey's acting was superb it really is a shame she didn't get recognition just because she wasn't singing even though nowadays actors get away with it...

    • @vladislav_altair
      @vladislav_altair 10 місяців тому +1

      Many modern actors have never been able and never learned to sing at all. Unlike Audrey, who has spent months since Funny Face becoming a passable stage singer, but with a cockney accent.. coupled with her pleasant, but weak compared to a professional Marni Nixon voice - all this threw a sword into the scales of Jack Warner's decision. She knew five languages, was able to separate British and two American accents, but .. here her powers ended. And we see Audrey as an ordinary person, which one can often doubt to admit)
      Mean.

  • @KRAFTWERK2K6
    @KRAFTWERK2K6 4 роки тому +10

    The German dub did an interesting attempt. They replaced the Cockney accent with the typical "Berliner Schnauze" Berlin slang and to be honest it actually makes sense. Because it worked and had the exact same effect as it had in the original.

  • @fyeelessarndra3392
    @fyeelessarndra3392 4 роки тому +4

    I remembered watching FBE's React channel where the teens reacted to movie musicals, and one of the teens nonchalantly commented that Audrey/Eliza looked like she was in pain when she was singing the "rain in Spain falls mainly in the plains" song...I LOLed so hard because the timing was so perfect, and the teen even rhymed with the song...

  • @himakimendis6003
    @himakimendis6003 4 роки тому +5

    I played Mr Higgins at school a long time back❤️😂 Can't believe it's been so long and I miss those days deeply 😩

  • @wantonkid8243
    @wantonkid8243 4 роки тому +2

    This is one of my fav classic movie we used to watch this in English class

  • @liberte5847
    @liberte5847 4 роки тому +3

    How to be pronounced in an outstanding musical way! Merci beaucoup from Paris France

  • @Spectans1
    @Spectans1 6 місяців тому +2

    Audrey wasnt only a brilliant actress, but also absolutely gorgeous, a true Hollywood star.

  • @lilianabartosi7356
    @lilianabartosi7356 Рік тому +3

    "My fair lady" is the most successful musical of all time!!!! It has everything you need :top actors and music,it's funny and it's unique! I love it!❤️

  • @gunungmerapiapi1933
    @gunungmerapiapi1933 4 роки тому +66

    Audrey already talked with Julie Andrews about her "stolen" the role from her, and they become friends and also neighbors

    • @CareBear2480
      @CareBear2480 3 роки тому

      WAIT FOR REAL?! OMG!

    • @archyleach
      @archyleach 2 роки тому

      Julie andrews was in some many other things, can’t understand her being too upset

  • @Perky143247
    @Perky143247 4 роки тому +12

    1:51 in some parts of India, yes. People do drop the sound 'h' and use it in a wrong place, usually the end which I believe is wrong.

  • @desmorgens3120
    @desmorgens3120 3 роки тому +8

    English phonetics in a famous film...extremely rare! I love it!

  • @wheatwild
    @wheatwild Рік тому +3

    3:50 "PICKRING!!"
    Gets me every time. Comedy gold. Wonderful movie.

  • @ifi7542
    @ifi7542 4 роки тому +8

    After watching this.. I just remember gossip girl scene in season 2.. With blair and Serena doing "rain in spain" ❤️

  • @Joojoo0621
    @Joojoo0621 4 роки тому +7

    I just saw this video today, heard a “Poor professor Higgins” song.
    Looked for a lyrics in the comments section, and then I sang along~

  • @MrColin0202
    @MrColin0202 4 роки тому +4

    I love it when Wilfred Hyde White says "Did you try the pline cake?"

  • @snowy2619
    @snowy2619 4 роки тому +54

    1:36 Squidward vibes

    • @HT0369
      @HT0369 2 роки тому

      omg ahahahahaha.

  • @sunitafisher4758
    @sunitafisher4758 4 роки тому +9

    🌸 I love this movie 💕
    I must have seen it a thousand times 😊
    Audrey looks like my grandmother so much when she was younger.

    • @fernandaabreu5625
      @fernandaabreu5625 2 роки тому

      Really?! Wow so I hope those genes run strong in your family!

  • @seamelody509
    @seamelody509 4 роки тому +11

    I'm not really understand english when i was a little kid. I love watching magic stuff and watching harry potter with an my language subtitles. And then i slowly understand and know how to pronounce them.

  • @nimazsheik5152
    @nimazsheik5152 8 місяців тому

    Man the dialogue in these movies and the elegant way it's delivered is just so fascinating to me. I hope I can speak with the Transatlantic accent one day!

  • @aprendendoadvaita3983
    @aprendendoadvaita3983 Рік тому +1

    I remember when I was a kid nearly 45 year ago and struggling so hard to learn English. I could'nt much tell the difference betweeen American and British English not to mention why did Mrs.Hepburn drop her "h"s. in the movie. I listened carefully to the record over and over again as I did The Sound of Music... How painstakingly difficult was to learn a foreign language on my own listening to BBC and VOA news and reading Pearl S. Buck and Mark Twain and Charlotte Bronte and Anna Sewell. But it finally paid off! When I took the GRE in 1995 to get a PhD in the US I scored 97% on my verbal to my utter surprise! A major victory for a non-native English speaker.

  • @MrCapzz
    @MrCapzz 6 років тому +123

    This is a beautiful movie.

  • @GrandpasOldMoviesChest
    @GrandpasOldMoviesChest 9 місяців тому +3

    She was treated like a lady, then turned into a lady. Love Audrey's movies. Need more of them on my Classic Movies' Collection.

  • @miayana2539
    @miayana2539 4 роки тому +1

    What a beautiful harmony

  • @Resvrgam
    @Resvrgam 4 роки тому +113

    “The life of the wife is ended with the knife.”

  • @mikemesser4326
    @mikemesser4326 Рік тому +7

    I think this was my mother's favorite musical. It may very well be mine as well. As a former linguist I can truly appreciate it.

  • @-Tidgy
    @-Tidgy 4 роки тому +8

    This is brilliant 😅😅
    This is how I wish people still spoke.

    • @guyg5702
      @guyg5702 2 роки тому

      some people still do or at least try.

  • @NickSchrader
    @NickSchrader 6 днів тому +1

    I watched this movie when I was eight years old and didn't really understand it. I think I should watch it again.

  • @miriammaldonado2531
    @miriammaldonado2531 11 місяців тому +2

    Fair lady is an old classic in color, with great humor and manner. Money can shape minds and body but it can't make you a fair person.. I'm not quite sure I got message right, hence I'd like to watch this over just to refresh my thoughts out of modern era!
    #Myfairlady #1964
    #2023 ❤🧡💛💚💙💜

  • @ifurkend
    @ifurkend 4 роки тому +5

    0:58 Back in the time when the consonant immediately after /s/ was still aspirated. Today we mostly pronounce it unaspirated.

  • @moirbasso7051
    @moirbasso7051 4 роки тому +3

    My favorite scene in the musical! cup a' tay!

  • @ellaassa4799
    @ellaassa4799 2 роки тому

    I remembered watching this as a little toddler ❤️❤️❤️❤️

  • @nagee76
    @nagee76 7 місяців тому +1

    My father loved this movie and was a Rex Harrison fan - yes, the movie didn't stay true to the original work of Shaw but Harrison and Hepburn probably delivered their greatest performances as actors.

  • @kevins.butler3402
    @kevins.butler3402 4 роки тому +22

    I'm surprised that Audrey's"Ms.Eliza Dolittle" didn't get burned by that damn device that Sir Rex' "Prof.Higgins"uses to teach her how to pronounce her h's properly.

  • @russellianaclark9063
    @russellianaclark9063 6 років тому +82

    hahaha she wants that strawberry " tart tart tart tart tart".

  • @oishikhan4659
    @oishikhan4659 4 роки тому

    Funny how I watched this move today for the first time (loved it), and yt recommended this video today, coincidence? 👀

  • @Phonetician_
    @Phonetician_ Рік тому

    4:00...4:04 I found this method of ☕Cup very useful for the vowel sound as in but, hut, shut, must, just etc.

  • @yvonneredmond5905
    @yvonneredmond5905 3 роки тому +11

    Amazing film..love this scene it's makes me laugh every time.She plays a great character.Long suffering Eliza..

  • @hfredydl
    @hfredydl 4 роки тому +376

    Really the ending of this movie is a perfect example of Stockholm Syndrome

    • @artemisiaallan2390
      @artemisiaallan2390 4 роки тому +8

      hfredydl exactly what I was thinking😂

    • @bahma810
      @bahma810 4 роки тому +2

      Hahaha

    • @joellaz9836
      @joellaz9836 4 роки тому +72

      hfredydl
      In the actual play (Pygmalion) written by George Bernard Shaw. She leaves him and never comes back.

    • @kaitlyne1870
      @kaitlyne1870 4 роки тому +56

      No it's not. She wasn't actually held captive. She agreed to be there of her own free will to learn to speak better so she could accomplish more. Just because you would choose to stay with a man like him doesn't mean she has to have Stockholm syndrome inorder for her to decide to stay. Stop trivializing real problems in order to criticize a poorly written plot just because the character didn't choose what you would have.

    • @MrStGeorgeIllawarra
      @MrStGeorgeIllawarra 4 роки тому +24

      Gee, from living on the streets to filthy rich. In those days it was not a hard choice.

  • @silviafady76
    @silviafady76 4 роки тому

    UA-cam is so useful to learn & improve english , even English pronounciation which is not so easy for foreigners 🤓🤓😌😌

    • @guyg5702
      @guyg5702 2 роки тому

      Not so easy for the English either. You'll be hard pressed to find anyone on a street in Enland that speaks like this. I've tried.

  • @brezzainvernale
    @brezzainvernale Рік тому +1

    The "awwww" in the end is well pronunced :-)

  • @AnnaS-sl7sf
    @AnnaS-sl7sf 4 роки тому +112

    She started off sounding like an Australian accent lol

    • @randomcat4940
      @randomcat4940 4 роки тому +24

      Its kinda weird since cockney sounds a lot like aussie accent.

    • @paradiso123
      @paradiso123 4 роки тому +23

      That's because White Australians are mainly descended from working class criminals from England

    • @autumnwinter1462
      @autumnwinter1462 4 роки тому

      ‘Rain’ with a cockney accent sounds kind of like ‘RAyhn’, but an Australian accent sounds more like ‘RAhhn’

  • @staytunedwithdorothy
    @staytunedwithdorothy 4 роки тому +29

    I was laughting until 4:34. I felt very very sad at this. The disappointment is writen all over her face.
    Atl east give her a piece of cake unless the cake is a lie.

  • @StevenTorrey
    @StevenTorrey 4 роки тому

    Probably the most brilliant Musical ever!

  • @joemclaughlin995
    @joemclaughlin995 Рік тому +1

    G. B. Shaw,a literary genius !

  • @aggelicagold685
    @aggelicagold685 6 років тому +5

    I love this movie!!!!!!

  • @BillyBones-ui9ck
    @BillyBones-ui9ck 2 роки тому +7

    Audrey certainly was one of the most beautiful women to ever grace all of us with her presence on the screen

  • @0512gooner
    @0512gooner 2 роки тому +1

    I'm crying at this, what a classic

  • @jeevithaganesan6628
    @jeevithaganesan6628 2 роки тому

    I still remember watching this movie in my school

  • @HaydeeAbaza
    @HaydeeAbaza 4 роки тому +4

    Son todas muy lindas peliculas ,quisiera verlas en español y completas muchas gracias.

    • @sgabig
      @sgabig 11 місяців тому

      How was this film dubbed into Spanish ? I would think most of the humor would be lost

  • @johnjuhasz9125
    @johnjuhasz9125 6 років тому +87

    01:39. Stewie Griffin talking about cool whip.

    • @anaussie213
      @anaussie213 4 роки тому +5

      Stewie is a Henry Higgins parody. In Received Pronunciation you pronounce the H in WH words (whom for example, or even why). Technically to the brits (and Aussie’s) it should be cool whip like Stewie says it.

    • @PaddyInf
      @PaddyInf 4 роки тому +2

      The life of the wife was ended by the knife.

    • @KRAFTWERK2K6
      @KRAFTWERK2K6 4 роки тому

      "Schlachsahne. " "Schlagsahne" "Schlachsahne"

  • @javiergarciaflorez2103
    @javiergarciaflorez2103 Рік тому +1

    Un inglés fantástico ❤😊😮

  • @karinafonseca4809
    @karinafonseca4809 Рік тому

    😹😹!! I don't think I can either get it...what a creative way to teach...love it

  • @Blokewood3
    @Blokewood3 4 роки тому +7

    "In 'Artford, 'Ereford, and 'Ampshire, 'urricanes 'ardly *hever* 'appen!"