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Posh British English | How to do a Perfect RP Accent!

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Traditional RP sounds sooo lovely ! It was one of the

first accents I could understand as an English language learner,

and still I m spellbound when hearing David Attenborough

or Joanna Lumley . Thanks for this beautiful video .

Greetings from the Netherlands .❤

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Do you want to add some RP into your own speaking voice? Are you an actor hoping to add this classic British accent to your repertoire?

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Im Rich im thick i stole from your ancestors. My children fill all the top jobs oink! oink! oink!. Dont open the oilfields for all its our pie lol. Were the master race we dont look at common people becouse there below us WAKE UP!

— @garethdodd2528

Then this is the video for you! In this video we look at the different varieties of Received Pronunciation - traditional RP, aristocratic RP and BBC RP how to understand the phonetic changes that occur compared to Modern RP and how to do them. Learn to speak like a Royal!

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Hmmm... your own accent - like that bleach , are neither natural

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making me think about all the words in my head ! i always felt i was somewhat Eloquent, but bear the scars from primary school, moving to sussex age 3 from nottingham in '61 and saying grass and glass, having piss taken for my accent, no biggie but a bit rough when you are a toddler ! now london kids dont speak cockney, but a mix of afro chinese pakistani abajabani jamaican korean kurdish Israelite init, my father in law from lambeth would have said: "Gertcha, cowson, gertcha!"

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More User Perspectives

RP English sounds more like Indian English!

@adityajoshii

Eyyy y ain’t u call her DAME Judy Dench? Where’s ur fqn practice girl smfh

@chthonicthehedgemaze

Excellent! Thank you!

@rolandsalvato

What is a British accent, I am English and I have a Yorkshire accent, laughable when people say British accent , proves how clueless you are as every 2 miles has a different accent. So there is no such thing as a British accent.

@Over50travels

At least you could understand commentaries, and the news when it was read in BBC English. Sometimes now I can hard to understand what they’re saying.

@suewhite4821

RP the least original and artificial English accent manufactured for the public schools for the elites and set them apart from all the many real and many regional English accents of the people. Mocked by regional English speakers as the language of the upper class twits .

@glynthomas7213

I cum from Norf london i aint got no ope !

@neilmartin1111

we used to put a pencil on our top lip in English lessons...keep the vowels tight.

@jacquibrookes8257

Lovely to hear the distinctions | variations of each RP. accents; Traditional RP, Aristocratic RP, BBC RP. Would be keen to translate this video into Vosa vaka-Viti | Fijian Language (Fiji).

@ESWaqanivala

Do you do or can recommend classes one on one ?

@Gwyned

I'm autistic, my accent is out of place with my area: NW England.
I speak too well for some people, and I know I'm disliked for it.
Too bad...

@EuanElliott

😲 " I didn't know learning to speak TOFF was such hard work " ..... 😖 All that effort Just to sound like Shakespeare or Hyacinth 🙄🥱🤗😇

@terryglover4734

I'm an Australian, South Australian, we have an accent completely different to the rest of the country. Your example of bath, dance giraffe and castle is exactly how we speak.

@jodeofoz

This explains why Americans do such a horrible British accents. They never sound quite right, because they mix too many different.British accents in the same sentence. It sounds British, but it doesn't hit the ear right.

@Supersquishyawesomeness

Peter Cushing had the best voice imo

@paulmonahawk4921

Rev it up and ride 👢📱📲

@Paul-r8w4x

And TODAY it is pointless using the BBC to help students learn English...THE UK IS DESTROYING itself. 😢😢😢😢😢

@ruthless9604

I've always naturally steered towards a 'BBC accent,' even though my peers spoke with the local Rutland language. The presenter here sounds like working class made good to me rather than someone born to privilege. In short - comprehensive not private school!

@martinkillips180

RP is a quite new form of spoken English back in the 1920s certain parts of the UK still spoke Elizabethan English. where I was brought up Saxon words were still used I.E. Nesh .

@janallexander5173

Technically, “Received Pronunciation” is just the accent most commonly found in the Home Counties. It is not “posh” English. There are various types of “posh” English. The Old Etonian accent. The Oxonian accent. The RAF accent. The Royal Navy accent. The Army accent. There used to be a standard “BBC” accent, however, this has now largely disappeared - regional accents now being de rigeur for anyone wishing to advance in the BBC these days. Then, at one time, every working class person, whatever his regional accent, always also had his “Sunday Best” accent for when the Vicar came to tea.

@Mark3ABE

I wish BBC Radio 4 would employ you! Standard English accents among its announcers and correspondents etc have declined on Radio 4 over the years and now there seem to be many Scottish ones, (though few Welsh) and various others of non British backgrounds, a few of whom are occasionally difficult to comprehend.

@Rolleston-n9g

Sabrah, where are you from? There’s something in your accent…

@MS4RS

This person is butchering the language in her introduction.

@DummyAccount-f1q

This is why I was disappointed with the Britbox series Outrageous. The Mitford sisters had very pronounced aristocratic RP and the actors in the show just sound like BBC readers.
Not convincing at all.

@ConjureBones-er9og

Oooh tastyyy!!! As a french person i always been fond of such subtle nuances thank youuu

@francoistamarin417

Just listening to you talk makes me very happy.

@danaywang

I'm just trying to get hired 😂

@EllinIsLivid

Good for rich posh people of England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

@desidesigning

I'm British, yet I have a strong North London accent. I can't pronounce words like 'build'or
' filled' without forming a 'w' sound ,ie buiwd fillwd ,so to speak 😂

@Liesl_Cigarboxguitar

You sound like a mild cockney. You need to work on speaking neutral and educated English without any accent. That is what RP is today.

@markpalmer8083

For me, the hardest part of doing an RP accent is the lack of glottalisation. 😫

@beetlesmoothie

Sounds great

@GalaxySaisahab

RP is the most beautiful English accent. It's a shame its use has declined so much in recent decades.

@4637812648

I’m Australian Scot , literally the uber mensch to your RP poppycock 😅

@panalternate

Great video! It would be fun to hear your take on Fraffly, so delightfully spoken by Peter Sellars in "The Magic Christian".

@thomashutcheson3343

Perche pubblicate video doppiati in questo italiano agghiacciante abbiate pietà! Trovate altre soluzioni..

@lorenzodeluca5406

Shame English language has lost soo much credibility since the 1990 n replaced by wokism and racism towards Britishness by the Enemies of this Nation!😮😮😮

@Truthmybannerl4631

George Sands

@mymidnightconfessions1457

Good job,well done presenter.

@JohnBarker-f4l

diphthong is pronounced "diff-thong" not "dip-thong"

@tonyclifton265