In Australian English we tend to use “up talk” to indicate that we haven’t finished speaking yet and it is not the other person’s turn to speak yet. We go down in pitch to indicate that the end and the other person can talk now.
Emma Watson is just so great. When she speaks you can actually feel her enthusiasm and optimism regardless of the context. It's not something you can learn just from mimicking the accent and pronunciation. I guess ultimately what it takes to speak like Emma Watson is to wholeheartedly become a good person like her
Yes exactly, English is the second language used in most private schools in our country because of the fact that we were colonised and the English we speak is even though British English there are different accents in the mix 😆😆
This is brilliant! Not only did you give lots of great information, you did it with images of Emma Watson and kittens! This has "viral" written all over it! Congrats!
The 'uptalk' thing is something that I have mostly used (and seen people use) when they're not finished explaining something, and they have more to say. Just like we have intonation variations throughout our sentences, we can also have that throughout entire paragraphs that we say, basically giving our interlocutor information that we're not finished talking.
Hi Tom. This is a brilliant, in-depth assessment of Emma's lovely RP accent, which is, as you say, a contemporary version of RP. Thanks so much for s great lesson. Deirdre. X
As an American living in Scotland, I hear lots of accents, and I can't always separate them. I can say that I love the sound of RP for its clarity... it sounds timeless, and I appreciate it for how lovely English sounds with this accent.... as you say, the emphasis is on clarity... regional idiosyncrasies and nuances aren't there. Its one I would emulate or encourage my daughter to speak.
I learned English from Harry Potter, especially from the goblet of fire, I've watched it over and over. People keep telling me that my pronunciation is pretty good and I thing is because I tried to imitate the actors in those movies. So thank you Emma
@@reyt4838 The films were shot in England and the actors and most of the crew were British. But she went to university in America, so she was bound to pick up Americanisms from there.
I am French, and I've learnt the British accent over time. I absolutely LOVE IT, it sounds amazing. Listening to Emma Watson's interwiews is always useful to make my prononciation better ! Thank you for this lesson (:
He explains it quite well. I learnt English in Hungary, funny how they still teach the Queen's English here... and then you get confused when you hear no one actually speak like that. I love Emma Watson btw, she's a true idol!
The upward inflection at the end of a sentence (not a question) is an indicator that the speaker is looking for validation, agreement or participation from the listener - whether it's validation on the topic or that the listener themselves values and believes the speaker as a person. It used to drive me bonkers when people did this - or using confirmation qualifiers at the end of a sentence like "yeah?" or "right?" (Yes, listening to Gordon Ramsay drives me crazy), but then I learned that being more direct in your responses, maintaining eye contact and practising active listening skills alleviates most of this.
I love Emma Watson so much and all these years I was wondering how could I speak like her . Thank you tom. By the way" it's leviOsa not levioSa " Hermione granger
I deeply love anything Emma says and does, ..her accents included 😍 ..thank you friend for this amazing video, I love studying English and learning wonderful things like these ones you teach
Hey man, I loved this video. I like how you point out the subtle characteristics of her accent. It shows me what to pay attention to next time I hear someone speak.
I am an old Australian and I hear American pronunciation in my grandchildren all the time! One I hate is the pronunciation for forehead. It was always pronounced fohhid when I was young.
This is really intriguing. I didn't know she spoke with an RP accent till this video. Very useful for my acting course as we are currently looking at the accent.
I really love Emma's voice and accent ❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️
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It is very common for people who spend years abroad to partially adopt sounds from the dialects of those places. The same applies to vocabulary, it just becomes weird after a while to use a different word than everybody around you for a particular concept. These things happen often without the speakers even noticing it. I remember an interview with Gary Oldman where he spoke about having needed a dialect coach to help him get his native accent back after so many years of working abroad.
I speak Brazilian Portuguese as my mother tongue, and English as a foreign language. It was not easy at first, but I've finally decided to adhere to the contemporary RP. It sounds so pleasant and beautiful to my ears. Great video.
Love what your doing mate. Uptalk is rounded though so the intonation drops leaving the impression of a rising intonation. I liked how you discussed the background of the features you covered. I would be interested if the origins of Australian uptalk were aboriginal. It is similar to information affirming question tags to some degree though the contextual use is different.
I'm an English teacher and I just became more satisfied with my British accent after finding even Emma Watson seems to have some Americanized pronunciations. That can work for as a lisense, can't it? Haha...
Hi Tom. First of all, thank you for making a video about Emma Watson's English. I admire her accent. I really like received pronunciation. it is the one that ı wanna speak with. I really enjoy listening to the ones who speak with that. Your pronunciation videos are both helpful and enjoyable.
I have been having problems choosing the British Accent I wanna speak with but watching this video- I think I love the way she's been able to mix the accents.
Contemporary RP is the accent I'm using as a reference for my English 😊 I used to imitate the General American accent, but I feel much more confortable with the RP! There are still some sounds that I tend to switch (I don't always use the long a in certain words instead of the ae), but I'm confident that I just need more practice 😎
I was trying to lose my latin accent by copying american one. Now I'm gonna start to use british accent because it sounds more charming to me... Beside, someday I hope to meet Emma Watson in person... 😀😀😀
i’ve got my a level englang in a month and i stumble upon this. you’ve got a new subscriber as i will miss linguistics during my gap year!! i really liked this video and style tom (:
As native spanish speaker, we do what you call "uptalk" almost everytime we are gonna add another part to the sentence after it. I don't know if do the same. Examples: "I'm gonna _visit my grandma_, and then I'll do some homework" "First you'll _finnish your work_ and after that I'll let you play your games"
Thank you so much, Tom! The video is as useful as always:) Keep doing this for us, please, we all appreciate your work. As for Emma Watson's accent, I love it and I'd really like to speak like her and, hopefully, one day it'll be possible. Greetings from Russia!
I love contemporary RP. Another great RP speaker is Sophie Patterson who is an interior designer. I shall keep practising its my lifelong ambition to have a lovely speaking voice
I left everything I was doing to come to see this video! I love Emma Watson, I've been a hug fan since I was little and I started learning english thanks to the Harry Potter movies and this is my favourite accent of all the celebrities. Thanks a lot! Love your channel :)
Hey Tom ,pls do a video on how to speak English faster with the perfect pronunciation ....coz whenever I try to speak with perfect prn it sounds soo wierd n whenever I try to speak faster ,the pronunciation :-(:-(:-(:-(:-(
Practice doing it slow first. Just like with music, if you manage to play a piece slowly even though it is in fast tempo, you'd get the fast one right.
I'm not a native speaker and had a teacher who really valued RP. It could get extra points on your final oral exam. I preferred it as well. As we had no internet and a whole slew of different English dialects on TV I decided to read Jane Eyre aloud. The whole book. It payed off, I got full points! Years later I landed a job teaching English in Germany at a company that normally only hired native speakers. Unfortunately my accent isn't what it used to be. Hardly anyone speaks English in Germany.
I always try to pronounce in a British way, especially the words with T like Water, Beauty, Beautiful etc. I don't really like American English but people are usually more accustomed to that due to films, series and so on.
Sometimes I do lol, I speak Caribbean accent (I’m from Cartagena, Colombia) and sometimes I like to speak with a standard Spanish accent (pronouncing everything properly and c/s y/ll and sometimes even b/v difeferences)
Miss Watson speaks miraculously well. You might believe I am influenced by her looks, which aren't bad either, but I think that there is something more to it. She is just special.
I love RP accent and I continue learning it but it's difficult to undo your habit. I have tendencies to pronounce word similar to the American English but I would really like to be able to speak with RP accent. Please continue the RP series 😊 Your videos are awesome.
Watched this based on today's Bite-sized Britain and I have to say, this is very helpful in terms of doing a contemporary (and Queen's) RP accent as an American.
Well it's no more 'true' than any other English accent. They only speak like that because they've only ever mixed with other super upper class people. Real accents change slightly and evolve over time like a living thing, after being exposed to different influences. So if any accent is 'true' it's all of the accents of real people from everywhere.
@@isthisjustfantasy7557I totally agree with you about this true accent thing,for sure but I'd also like to note that there is no such a thing as 'super upper class'.
As a Mexican I learnt with classic RP and by listening interviews from my favourite artists such as David Bowie, Bruce Dickinson, sir Alec Guinness, sir Christopher Lee, Terry Gilliam, Robert Fripp, Jimmy Page, Rob Halford, Tony Iommy etc. So I've got an interesting Posh/Cockney/Brummie accent and sometimes it's very difficult for me understanding American films with Southern accent like Alabaman but I can completely understand all British accents and even Kiwi, NY or South African. We learn RP in most private schools, even half of lessons were in English.
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I love British English! Emma's accent is so beautiful. I wish I could get close to that accent, but reality is I haven't got it!
@Hudson Silva, I'm sure you can, all you need is practice and keep trying! Good luck, cheers!
@@QUARTERMASTEREMI6 Thanks a lot.
Hihihi 😍😍😘😘😘😘😘
@@imtheboy2200 Hi there!
And don't forget to love yourself
I never knew Emma’s accent became more Americanised!
yeah
@Emotioness Expression nobody asked you
@@misty.1111 😆...chill bro... I wasn't being rude.. Jk
@@misty.1111 he was just joking
@@ViratKohli-jj3wj but he Americanised the spelling - now that was one step too far.
HER ACCENT IS TOTALLY MIXED!!!!
Ya
That's what makes it beautiful to sound 😍
Emma's British accent is really soothing for me and she's literally my inspiration to learn British accent .
No such thing as a British accent, there are around 37 dialects in England, probably hundreds in the other countries
@@donkey3909 so what is Emma Watson accent?
@@donkey3909 Oh okay, so basically a British accent.
In Australian English we tend to use “up talk” to indicate that we haven’t finished speaking yet and it is not the other person’s turn to speak yet. We go down in pitch to indicate that the end and the other person can talk now.
Now that's an interesting observation and immediately made me think of the people who finish EVERY sentence with a raised pitch. You could be right...
It actually makes so much sense
NICE
We do the same in New Zealand!
Emma Watson is just so great. When she speaks you can actually feel her enthusiasm and optimism regardless of the context. It's not something you can learn just from mimicking the accent and pronunciation. I guess ultimately what it takes to speak like Emma Watson is to wholeheartedly become a good person like her
ABSOLUTELY!!!!! So true Swecha TW. She exudes positivity and kindness. It's infectious.
Thanks for saying so my friend. 😊🌎✨
Emma's accent is just so lovely and sound very clearly ❤
Wow! Daniel Radcliff talks about Emma Watson's accent 😱 How lovely 😍 😁 (Thanks for your videos Tom btw)
Muahaha Same thought!
Hihihi 😍😍😘😘😘😘😘
When did Daniel Radcliffe talk about that?
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star batteries they’re saying he looks like daniel radcliffe
She does sound American in this cat video. Which was interesting. She must have been spending a lot of time in the US in 2017.
Yes, her accent has definitely Americanised a bit over time
Yep she often changes "t" to "d"
She went to an American University for four years, so I imagine she knows quite a lot about it.
@@EatSleepDreamEnglish That's because it's a easier accent.
@@kirakira9906 i find american accent is more difficult, especially those Rs. RP is easy.
Oh damn, as a non-native speaking person I just get mixed up with all kinds of english all the time
Same
Yes exactly, English is the second language used in most private schools in our country because of the fact that we were colonised and the English we speak is even though British English there are different accents in the mix 😆😆
I know
Mine is close to American one but I prefer British so here I am😂
@@jhanvigupta6758 exactly
I wouldnt worry about it, you can go 10 miles away and the way people speak can change.
I love Emma Watson's English! I wish I sounded like that. Or just had a British accent in general
Same!
come to uk
Same
Her accent is actually super Americanised
Which British accent, English, Welsh or Scottish?
My wife she’s from the London and I LOVE ❤️ her British accent.when we go out on dates and she talks everyone turns 😂 I love it lol 👍👍👍👍
awhh so sweet both of you
@@rasmah7543 hye rasmah
😂😂
omg that's just goals
Recently I'm becoming interested in British accent. You explained clearly the subtle differences. Very well done. Thank you.
Who doesn't luvv Miss Watson's take on an American accent ?
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😂 Would be my favourite
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This is brilliant! Not only did you give lots of great information, you did it with images of Emma Watson and kittens! This has "viral" written all over it! Congrats!
As a first-year English student at university I found this video very useful. Thanks!
I found it out because of Emma Watson and her lovely accent
I love you for dissecting Emma Watson’s accent. I am a fan of her. I love that girl. Smart, talented, kind hearted and beautiful.
The 'uptalk' thing is something that I have mostly used (and seen people use) when they're not finished explaining something, and they have more to say. Just like we have intonation variations throughout our sentences, we can also have that throughout entire paragraphs that we say, basically giving our interlocutor information that we're not finished talking.
True
You have a big brain and you're right
Because many people percieve it negatively
Hi Tom. This is a brilliant, in-depth assessment of Emma's lovely RP accent, which is, as you say, a contemporary version of RP. Thanks so much for s great lesson. Deirdre. X
As an American living in Scotland, I hear lots of accents, and I can't always separate them. I can say that I love the sound of RP for its clarity... it sounds timeless, and I appreciate it for how lovely English sounds with this accent.... as you say, the emphasis is on clarity... regional idiosyncrasies and nuances aren't there. Its one I would emulate or encourage my daughter to speak.
Emma Watson's accent is literally the one that made me want to learn modern RP!
It is a beautiful accent, isn't it?
Please don't ever change your beautiful British accent Emma 😭😭 Nice lesson btw Tom ! 👌👌
I learned English from Harry Potter, especially from the goblet of fire, I've watched it over and over. People keep telling me that my pronunciation is pretty good and I thing is because I tried to imitate the actors in those movies. So thank you Emma
that sentence with two variants of 'matter' really surprised me! thanks for an indeed comprehensive breakdown ✨
Right! It was a curious sentence and one I was surprised about
@@EatSleepDreamEnglish happens to me...i switch from American English to Filipino English in a sentence. 😂😂😂 Very frustrating but it does happen.
Руслан Бортников She’s been a movie star and exposed to Hollywood English ever since she was a little girl.
Hihihi 😍😍😘😘😘😘😘
@@reyt4838 The films were shot in England and the actors and most of the crew were British. But she went to university in America, so she was bound to pick up Americanisms from there.
I am French, and I've learnt the British accent over time. I absolutely LOVE IT, it sounds amazing. Listening to Emma Watson's interwiews is always useful to make my prononciation better ! Thank you for this lesson (:
He explains it quite well. I learnt English in Hungary, funny how they still teach the Queen's English here... and then you get confused when you hear no one actually speak like that. I love Emma Watson btw, she's a true idol!
The upward inflection at the end of a sentence (not a question) is an indicator that the speaker is looking for validation, agreement or participation from the listener - whether it's validation on the topic or that the listener themselves values and believes the speaker as a person. It used to drive me bonkers when people did this - or using confirmation qualifiers at the end of a sentence like "yeah?" or "right?" (Yes, listening to Gordon Ramsay drives me crazy), but then I learned that being more direct in your responses, maintaining eye contact and practising active listening skills alleviates most of this.
Thank you Tom for video. Contemporary RP is my favorite accent. It sounds very gorgeous.
Isn't the Queen's accent more gorgeous? 😁
I love Emma Watson so much and all these years I was wondering how could I speak like her .
Thank you tom.
By the way" it's leviOsa not levioSa "
Hermione granger
It's lEviosa, not lAviosa :))
Hihihi 😍😍😘😘😘😘😘
@@Faraway077 OK..
@@Faraway077 what. She wrote it correctly lmao
Wise Witch She corrected it between our 2 comments that’s all ;)
I deeply love anything Emma says and does, ..her accents included 😍 ..thank you friend for this amazing video, I love studying English and learning wonderful things like these ones you teach
She is super Sweet and Charming,, Love Her British Accent,, Thanks soo much 🙏🙏😘😘
Hey man, I loved this video. I like how you point out the subtle characteristics of her accent. It shows me what to pay attention to next time I hear someone speak.
I am an old Australian and I hear American pronunciation in my grandchildren all the time! One I hate is the pronunciation for forehead. It was always pronounced fohhid when I was young.
I love Hermione Granger!! Fun video Tom!!
Glad you liked it! She's got such a clear accent, I love it too
This just sounds like Emma’s accent after spending several years at Brown in the US. She’s adopted several Americanisms.
This is pleasant to the ear. Contemporary RP is the best version of British accent.
Amazing amazing amazing . Especially the "uptalk" part was awesome 🤗💝
I find it highly irritating. As if they are doubting everything they're saying or asking for your approval to what they've just said. Can't stand it.
This is really intriguing. I didn't know she spoke with an RP accent till this video. Very useful for my acting course as we are currently looking at the accent.
I loved Emma Watson since Harry Potter franchise
Really great video!! Emma definitely has a beautiful and sophisticated accent. It's a pleasure to listen to her!!
If I was Emma Watson and saw this video I would be too scared to say anything ever again
Lol😂😂
If I were..not If I was
She has the most unique British accent even as an 11 year old it sounded so mature
Omg i really love your Channel, you know what it's just my first time but you teach it so well. Great!! Love from Thai Fans ^^ with British Accent
🙏🏻thank you
I could listen to Emma speak all day. Her voice is very soothing.... not to mention she's a dream to look at.
I'm a potterhead but my love is more for emma the hermoine character.
I really love Emma's voice and accent ❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️
It is very common for people who spend years abroad to partially adopt sounds from the dialects of those places. The same applies to vocabulary, it just becomes weird after a while to use a different word than everybody around you for a particular concept. These things happen often without the speakers even noticing it. I remember an interview with Gary Oldman where he spoke about having needed a dialect coach to help him get his native accent back after so many years of working abroad.
I could listen to yout explanations all day. I love phonetics and British English
Love the comparison with Yorkshire which is my favourite accent - can you do a whole Northern episode? That would be brill!
Yes absolutely, I'll work on one soon : )
Yorkshire is my fav too. But hard to imitate 😢
I speak Brazilian Portuguese as my mother tongue, and English as a foreign language. It was not easy at first, but I've finally decided to adhere to the contemporary RP. It sounds so pleasant and beautiful to my ears. Great video.
THANK YOU! You got me my grade in English at uni!
Hehe woohoo! Congrats
Helpful!!! I love this series!
Love what your doing mate. Uptalk is rounded though so the intonation drops leaving the impression of a rising intonation. I liked how you discussed the background of the features you covered. I would be interested if the origins of Australian uptalk were aboriginal. It is similar to information affirming question tags to some degree though the contextual use is different.
The Emma Watson's accent is just spotless and awesome !!!
I was waiting for you to honor the kittens! As soon as you did it at 6:31 I subbed!
This takes me back to when I was 10 reading Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone reading "Hermione" as "Harmonium"
I absolutely love her accent but I'm from Pakistan so no matter how hard I try but can't get this one! Enjoyed the vid :)
Yes u can Imrana..don't lose hope..
It's totally possible!
The best video that I've seen on RP! Thank you! 🙏
I'm an English teacher and I just became more satisfied with my British accent after finding even Emma Watson seems to have some Americanized pronunciations. That can work for as a lisense, can't it? Haha...
Hi Tom. First of all, thank you for making a video about Emma Watson's English. I admire her accent. I really like received pronunciation. it is the one that ı wanna speak with. I really enjoy listening to the ones who speak with that. Your pronunciation videos are both helpful and enjoyable.
Can you do a video on Tom Hiddleston’s accent as well?
I have been having problems choosing the British Accent I wanna speak with but watching this video- I think I love the way she's been able to mix the accents.
Contemporary RP is the accent I'm using as a reference for my English 😊 I used to imitate the General American accent, but I feel much more confortable with the RP! There are still some sounds that I tend to switch (I don't always use the long a in certain words instead of the ae), but I'm confident that I just need more practice 😎
I was trying to lose my latin accent by copying american one. Now I'm gonna start to use british accent because it sounds more charming to me... Beside, someday I hope to meet Emma Watson in person...
😀😀😀
i’ve got my a level englang in a month and i stumble upon this. you’ve got a new subscriber as i will miss linguistics during my gap year!! i really liked this video and style tom (:
I think it's amazing! I really appreciate British accent ❤️
As native spanish speaker, we do what you call "uptalk" almost everytime we are gonna add another part to the sentence after it. I don't know if do the same.
Examples:
"I'm gonna _visit my grandma_, and then I'll do some homework"
"First you'll _finnish your work_ and after that I'll let you play your games"
Thanks Tom 👍 love how you use contemporary examples 😊
Cheers Sean : )
Emma Watsons accent is just so lovely
Thank you so much, Tom! The video is as useful as always:) Keep doing this for us, please, we all appreciate your work. As for Emma Watson's accent, I love it and I'd really like to speak like her and, hopefully, one day it'll be possible. Greetings from Russia!
I love contemporary RP. Another great RP speaker is Sophie Patterson who is an interior designer. I shall keep practising its my lifelong ambition to have a lovely speaking voice
I left everything I was doing to come to see this video! I love Emma Watson, I've been a hug fan since I was little and I started learning english thanks to the Harry Potter movies and this is my favourite accent of all the celebrities. Thanks a lot! Love your channel :)
Awwww amazing, so glad you enjoyed it Karina : ) Thanks for your wonderful support.
As an English Teacher myself, I have to say what a great video!
I love her accent ❤
Great lesson Tom ! Congrats and Thanks ! Contemporary R.P. is my favourite pronnunciation of English. Sounds perfect and clear. Definetively!! :)
Hey Tom ,pls do a video on how to speak English faster with the perfect pronunciation ....coz whenever I try to speak with perfect prn it sounds soo wierd n whenever I try to speak faster ,the pronunciation :-(:-(:-(:-(:-(
Practice doing it slow first. Just like with music, if you manage to play a piece slowly even though it is in fast tempo, you'd get the fast one right.
I love linguistics. Superb job. Thank you.
Your videos are wonderful! 😍😍😍😍😍 I used them a couple of times with my students and they love them. Congratulations!!
That’s great news, I love that you use them with your students 👍🏼
Been waiting for this video for ages!!
Thank you sooo much :)
When you have an English accent but watch this anyway...
I love the American accent!
I literally love English accent l have a American accent 😂
Please do one on Jude Law.
I'm not a native speaker and had a teacher who really valued RP. It could get extra points on your final oral exam. I preferred it as well. As we had no internet and a whole slew of different English dialects on TV I decided to read Jane Eyre aloud. The whole book. It payed off, I got full points! Years later I landed a job teaching English in Germany at a company that normally only hired native speakers.
Unfortunately my accent isn't what it used to be. Hardly anyone speaks English in Germany.
Loved it. Would you analyze Tom Hiddleston's accent next time?
I always try to pronounce in a British way, especially the words with T like Water, Beauty, Beautiful etc. I don't really like American English but people are usually more accustomed to that due to films, series and so on.
She has amazing accent, love it 😍 😍 😍 Keira as well!
Thanks for the video! I do love her accent, it's the best one I've ever heard!😍
Please make video with Tom Hiddleston. I adore his accent and wanna know more about it!!!
You're the best teacher!!
As native Spanish speaker, I can't imagine myself speaking with 2 Spanish accents at the same time as Emma do...
Natalia Jiménez does it constantly.
Sometimes I do lol, I speak Caribbean accent (I’m from Cartagena, Colombia) and sometimes I like to speak with a standard Spanish accent (pronouncing everything properly and c/s y/ll and sometimes even b/v difeferences)
Miss Watson speaks miraculously well. You might believe I am influenced by her looks, which aren't bad either, but I think that there is something more to it. She is just special.
I would like to see a video about Kylie Minogue's accent.
Has she gone fully british or she has a mixture of australian and british?
Excellent video Tom ! Congratulations ! Very useful !!
OMG! Thanks for this mastering class, I really appreciate! Greetings from The Canaries!😉😉
I'd discovered your channel and it’s really amazing! I’m loving with the way you teach us her accent and the pronunciation of each word!
I love RP accent and I continue learning it but it's difficult to undo your habit. I have tendencies to pronounce word similar to the American English but I would really like to be able to speak with RP accent. Please continue the RP series 😊 Your videos are awesome.
Aww thanks Gemala, there will be more videos on the way!
Watched this based on today's Bite-sized Britain and I have to say, this is very helpful in terms of doing a contemporary (and Queen's) RP accent as an American.
I like the Queen's English the most: it's clearer and truer.
Why do you believe that?
Well it's no more 'true' than any other English accent. They only speak like that because they've only ever mixed with other super upper class people. Real accents change slightly and evolve over time like a living thing, after being exposed to different influences. So if any accent is 'true' it's all of the accents of real people from everywhere.
@@isthisjustfantasy7557I totally agree with you about this true accent thing,for sure but I'd also like to note that there is no such a thing as 'super upper class'.
Her accent is beautiful and makes me want to practice more British English, my English is way more Americanised
As a Mexican I learnt with classic RP and by listening interviews from my favourite artists such as David Bowie, Bruce Dickinson, sir Alec Guinness, sir Christopher Lee, Terry Gilliam, Robert Fripp, Jimmy Page, Rob Halford, Tony Iommy etc. So I've got an interesting Posh/Cockney/Brummie accent and sometimes it's very difficult for me understanding American films with Southern accent like Alabaman but I can completely understand all British accents and even Kiwi, NY or South African.
We learn RP in most private schools, even half of lessons were in English.