@@engvidBenjamin I find the RP accent to be quite pleasant to the ear, however the more regional British accents are also understandable to me (I can ubderstand hardcore Scottish most of the time, for example), and really nice to hear as well. So I guess I should move to Britain since I enjoy the different manner of pronounciation so much haha!
Jade Joddle - Speak Well Hello Jade. I like this man's video. Quite clear ! But I awfully love your videos as well my Dear! The way you teach together with your sense of humour allow us to progress in a very cheerfull way. Let me congratulate you again, Jade. You are really top of the Top !
The figure of 2% for the proportion of RP speakers in England is implausible unless the definition of RP is very narrow. In fact, it is based on an old survey by a linguist who used a kind of 'one-drop' rule, according to which anyone whose speech showed any non-RP features at all was not counted as an RP speaker. This is unreasonable, as it means that speakers whose accent is closer to RP than any other accent are excluded from the definition. For comparison, about 7% of English people are educated in private schools, and most of them would be recognised as RP speakers. Another 20% were formerly educated in selective grammar schools, and a majority of them (in southern England) would probably be counted as RP speakers. Or to take a social class approach, in the most recent study about 6% of people were classified as 'elite', and another 25% as 'established middle class'. Probably at least 10% of the English population would be regarded as RP speakers on a sensible definition.
I agree with you, David. Even most British presenters, not only on the BBC but also on CNN and Al Jazeeera as well speak with what i consider to be RP. ...Having grown up in the Philippines, I used to speak with an American accent. But I changed all that on purpose after I began listening to the BBC on noisy and static-filled short wav radio towards in end of the 1960's, becasue I just began to like it. I listened to the BBC every day. .. Because of my accent, fluency and grammatical correctness having been brought up in a English-speaking home, I was unexpectedly invited to teach English by a priest who was the head of the leading institution of higher learning in my hometown (Aparri). I tld him I wasn't a teacher but he told me to teach the English that I new. I soon started importing english courses from England which had all the skills - reading, writing, speaking and listening). that was a drastic change from the traditional grammar that others were teaching. ... Much later I enrolled in a i-to-i TEFL course and TEFLed in South America for two years. That was the job I enjoyed more than any I'd ever had. I soon hope to start doing it online. I just love RP.
As an American with something close to a general American accent (with an almost undetectable Northern cities vowel shift) I appreciate and identify with the clarity of RP. Great explanation, I might use it to explain RP to my ESL students because I'm hopeless at British impersonations.
Thomas Main this is why I try to understand other English accents from other countries as a future ESL teacher. I try to learn them as well. It’s fun and students do have questions about various English accents around different countries.
I learned my English pronunciation mostly from American movies and TV programs. I love the RP accent because I understand it perfectly. I struggle understanding other British accents like cockney.
I am from the U.S.A. And I love all the various English accents and dialects. I speak with, what I have come to call, a clear and colorless “California TV English”. That is no wonder as I grew up in Southern California watching an obscene amount of television. I am so envious of the charming tones, and colorful expressions I hear coming from the U.K. . When I meet people for whom English is not their native language they seem to appreciate the slow, clear and well pronounced tones of my standard ‘California TV’ English (which is flattering to me) but I swoon when I hear the sweet lilting and sonorous dark tone from Scotland, Ireland and Wales. With all that said, Carol Lumley’s “Posh” beautiful voice and speaking manor is pure gold; it is a sea-side vacation for the ears.
Interesting video. Although Princes William and Harry speak in a more modern RP accent than their father, they still sound posher than many other people who might also be considered to speak RP. I guess like all regional accents there is a fair degree of variation.
Thank you for this video. Considering my job, I'm looking for any way I can speak clearer English, not only to certain kind of people but all kind of people, native and not, if possible. This video has been helpful. I particularly like the "clipped, precise" definition. I'll definitely try to utilise it more in the future.
Great video! I l’ve grown up loving traditional R.P., but I’ve noticed that when I speak with a deeper voice and traditional R.P. it tends to annoy people. Still, I’m trying to gain the courage to use it as my normal voice as it seems the most natural one for me.
@@JuanMartinez-ic3sg It's because of the U.K. class system. Currently middle class culture rules the establishment; any accent seen as too upper class or too working class isn't liked, RP is seen as too upper class.
Let me know if you agree with me. In old RP the A in man, bad is something in between an /ɛ/ and /æ/, in modern RP is in between /æ/ and /a/. Also the ending Y in words like happy, funny sounds more like an /ɪ/, in modern RP is an /i/ sound. Some tripthongs (if such a word exists) in old RP are pronounced as monophthongs, e.g.: fire, sour /faː/, /saː/ > old RP, /faɪə/, /saʊə/ > modern RP. I also heard the sound /ɔː/ as in law, pronounced as /lɔə/ in old RP, while in modern RP is always /lɔː/. I think the 'connective r', in expressions such as law and order, is unacceptable in old RP, you should always say /lɔːən(d)ɔːdə/, while in modern RP is acceptable to say /lɔːrənɔːdə/. These are just a few ideas, it's hard to explain pronunciation through written comments.
Hiya, I know this is quite a while after you've posted it but I am quite interested in learning about this, do you know where I can find out more about the characters you're using? I've seen them around a lot but can't quite figure out what they are/mean. I've found a Phonetic Alphabet Chart but not all of the characters match up.
This was great! As an American this was so interesting! I have visited a few different countries in Europe. I was perfectly fine understanding the people in England regardless of where we went, but lemme tell ya…once we got to Scotland and Ireland 😂😂😂 I was havin a slightly tougher time 😂
Thank you, dear teacher, for this lesson that enlightened me about RP and other English accents. Besides, I am proud to join my comment with Jade's that I appreciate a lot and follow her courses regularly.
As someone who definitely does not have a native accent, I still do find R.P. (well before i knew anything about its background) by far the clearest and easiest to understand accent and -as a matter fact, - the most stylish and aesthetically pleasing accent of English language.
My speech therapist as a kid was British and I had a noticeably different accent than my siblings, and I always wondered where she was from, what kind of British I was speaking. But all of my dialect is from the American South, which is what I try to play up at work since it keeps me from being singled out by customers. But if I get excited then my RP accent comes out and I can’t hear it. It was fun to learn more about it.
@@oliviajordan4622 I have an accent that is mixed between well spoken and chavvy, because I had two different up bringings. I am always accused of putting on airs and graces, when it is just me.
I use to get foreign people asking me how to pronounce words or what words mean when i worked in a restaurant. Truthfully I am an idiot, I'm poor at using language. It's just I sound kinda like i know I'm doing because all my teachers and my parents come from Hertfordshire which uses the RP accent.
I like them more too. For many words I find I can say them quicker than my regular southern/midwestern weirdness. Probably shouldn’t like to speak quicker but...
Actor Dan Stevens has the most eloquent Received Pronunciation accent -- the epitome of high education and class. Very stylish and lovely to listen to.
Hello Benjamin. You're now our actual and current darling and king --- The throne was empty. Jade used to be sitting there but ... we dont know what happened to her. She might have been struck by some kind of spell or something. She changed sooo much. We needed a new king here --- with informative stylish classy classes in real British English. :) Thanks for taking over. The sun is shining again all over the net. Huahuaaa. Cheers. Long live the king. :) Irony mode on oh yeah.
I'm not quite sure how to react to this one other than to say that the EngVid teachers are not in competition with each other; we tend to get on quite well. You'll learn different things from different teachers...
Such an interesting vid. I was watching a video on how English sounds to non English speakers, which was kind of weird to hear. Then wondered about middle class accents in the U.K. This is very informative.
I wish the BBC still used RP. Like several people in the comments have said, it makes it easy to understand for non-native speakers and sounds more professional.
@Jannie Kirsten I heard it from Stephen Fry on an episode of “Qi” a few years ago. It sounded like “The”, not “Thee”. A lot of people tend to pronounce it using the long E version but in my experience they mainly say it that way if it’s the first word of a descriptive place name. I don’t hear it much when it’s used as a definite article in a general sentence.
As someone from the Midlands, I find trying to memorise the trap-bath split words to be the hardest part of speaking RP. It's quite easy to 'switch off' a glottal stop, but trying to remember if 'basket' is a long or short 'a' mid sentence is another matter.
@@engvidBenjamin I work with a lot of people who speak English as a second language, and they tend to find it easier to understand RP than regional dialects (as they were taught RP). As they've already put in the effort to learn a second language, it seems polite to at least make an effort to speak with an accent they understand.
No one speaks well on the telephone today. It is so frustrating. No one knows how to speak clearly, it really makes me despair. I refer to the service industry, i.e. the gas/electricity companies, British Telecom (one of the VERY WORST in communication) in fact any phone call one receives today. Excellent video BTW.
Don't even get me started mate! I'm foreign and sorting any official matters via phone is close to a nightmare. I know it's stereotyping but i would wind myself up so much when i hear an Indian accent over the phone... What's even more odd, in some cases, they won't deal with your situation IN PERSON in the office or shop, instead you need to ring them up, and identify(????) yourself with public information like your address. This is beyond me...
This was super interesting and helped me better understand the way I speak. I was brought up to use an RP accent and in the past I’ve tried to hide it by either sounding more West Country or more London-ish. Now I try not to hide the RP accent, but will still come out with Gloucestershire, or London-isms due to the influences of friends and co-workers.
Really fascinating video and notable that accents are very hard to quantify. It sounds "formal" or "colder" so it shows that accents are not better or worse they are subjective. I forget the study but it was done with Russians with no knowledge of English and none of them could say which accent was the "best" or "poshest" when played a selection.
4:26 Little correction: the first Labour government was in 1924 and the 2nd in 1929, so the Atlee ministry, after WWII, was actually the 3rd time UK had a Labour government.
When i watch the most of british tv show i don't hear the words exept some words and i being frustrating but the RP is very clear and he give me the hope to learn more about english
Watching TV shows is not a great way of working on your English and is only really useful once your English is at a certain level. I would suggest working on your vocab and grammar, taking regular classes so that you build a strong foundation. Watching TV shows is essentially a form of listening practice - you want to make sure that that listening practice is the right level for your English.
But I think it is a perfect accent for English learner, it is clear, it is formal,it is easier to pronounce,at least for me,and there are many materials on the internet, like BBC and audio books.
Very clear video. I bet you're a great teacher live.... I'm actually trying to reclaim my RP accent. It was bullied out of me at the dreadful high school I went too. I don't mind sounding "ridiculous" tbh.... I'm not sure about the diphthongs. I can think of a few regional accents who say "hee-yer" or "ee-yer" .... As in "over ee-yer" - cockney, Yorkshire, Welsh.. Going to watch the rest of your vids.
A similar occurrence has happened in Aotearoa/New Zealand. My generation - I'm 70 and grew up listening - on the local news - to what we thought of as BBC aka 'posh' English. Many of the moneyed sections of society - large landowners/doctors/lawyers/the Professionals spoke with what we considered an 'affected' or 'posh' way of speaking. That has completely changed now, with the modern generation speaking with an American influenced e.g. 'Hey bro' vernacular which has become very widespread, and which, depending on one's viewpoint, could be considered 'cool' or amongst many of us oldies as 'crude' or 'crass'... take your pick!
I’m literally watching this coz my mum was like: I SWEAR DOWN IF U DONT LEARN PROPER ENGLISH WITHIN THREE MONTHS OF UR GRAMMAR SCHOOL LIFE- Me: ~what life~ I’m from east London. And I’m from a Bengali background too. -.- y life. Tbh I’m acc listening to this guy.
5:17 This little part here is brilliant, it sounds like he's personally responding to me feebly raising my hand and saying "uhm, i don't get it... ;-;"
Hello Benjamin, like you I originate from Devon but have spend most of my life in the South East. I noticed that you retain the same regionalism as me, i.e. the "ou" sound as in "house", whereas some RP speakers pronounce it more like "hice". Despite that regionalism which I often exaggerate, some people still think I sound posh
"Make of him what you will", you made me laugh out loud, I was wondering what you would say about him while you were saying wonderful things about the two others.
For foreigners the RP accent is the easiest to understand because the pronunciation is clear.
Just bare in mind that you might not hear it all the time if you visit the UK
@@engvidBenjamin I find the RP accent to be quite pleasant to the ear, however the more regional British accents are also understandable to me (I can ubderstand hardcore Scottish most of the time, for example), and really nice to hear as well. So I guess I should move to Britain since I enjoy the different manner of pronounciation so much haha!
Thats probably why I get on so well with foreigners LOL
@@engvidBenjamin alas!
yes
I like this guy. He's like " whatever, I don't care if you get it or not"
Lol
Like most people in England
Not really, he tried his best to adjectivate something actually subjective so eventually he said "up to you", but still he gave a pretty clear picture
Ivan Lev is that good?
Saffron Sugar
Mostly from East London. But they
"Boris Johnson, make of him what you will." You made me really smile for the first time today.
I saw the name and I was wondering whether he'll sing praises on Boris Johnson as well. Needless to say, I wasn't disappointed.
Hahahaha! He's giving something away there I think!
The slight pause he makes afterwards is priceless. Like, yep.
This only gets better with age.
and today too
Loved this video. Fantastic breakdown of the R.P. accent.
Posted it on my site.
I'm honoured! Thanks, Jade.
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Jade Joddle - Speak Well Hello Jade. I like this man's video. Quite clear ! But I awfully love your videos as well my Dear! The way you teach together with your sense of humour allow us to progress in a very cheerfull way. Let me congratulate you again, Jade. You are really top of the Top !
man your British accent is really nice, very clear and sounds amazing
Glad you think so!
I have never seen R.P. be explained with such details. Thumbs up and subscribed!
Cheers
The figure of 2% for the proportion of RP speakers in England is implausible unless the definition of RP is very narrow. In fact, it is based on an old survey by a linguist who used a kind of 'one-drop' rule, according to which anyone whose speech showed any non-RP features at all was not counted as an RP speaker. This is unreasonable, as it means that speakers whose accent is closer to RP than any other accent are excluded from the definition. For comparison, about 7% of English people are educated in private schools, and most of them would be recognised as RP speakers. Another 20% were formerly educated in selective grammar schools, and a majority of them (in southern England) would probably be counted as RP speakers. Or to take a social class approach, in the most recent study about 6% of people were classified as 'elite', and another 25% as 'established middle class'. Probably at least 10% of the English population would be regarded as RP speakers on a sensible definition.
Interesting analysis. But surely even 10% is low?
Yeah I’d agree. Maybe 10%-15% of the British population uses this accent. It’s not as rare as 2% especially in London.
DavidB5501 wow what anne speech
Thanks for your detailed thoughts, David
I agree with you, David. Even most British presenters, not only on the BBC but also on CNN and Al Jazeeera as well speak with what i consider to be RP. ...Having grown up in the Philippines, I used to speak with an American accent. But I changed all that on purpose after I began listening to the BBC on noisy and static-filled short wav radio towards in end of the 1960's, becasue I just began to like it. I listened to the BBC every day. .. Because of my accent, fluency and grammatical correctness having been brought up in a English-speaking home, I was unexpectedly invited to teach English by a priest who was the head of the leading institution of higher learning in my hometown (Aparri). I tld him I wasn't a teacher but he told me to teach the English that I new. I soon started importing english courses from England which had all the skills - reading, writing, speaking and listening). that was a drastic change from the traditional grammar that others were teaching. ... Much later I enrolled in a i-to-i TEFL course and TEFLed in South America for two years. That was the job I enjoyed more than any I'd ever had. I soon hope to start doing it online. I just love RP.
As an American with something close to a general American accent (with an almost undetectable Northern cities vowel shift) I appreciate and identify with the clarity of RP. Great explanation, I might use it to explain RP to my ESL students because I'm hopeless at British impersonations.
Thomas Main this is why I try to understand other English accents from other countries as a future ESL teacher. I try to learn them as well. It’s fun and students do have questions about various English accents around different countries.
Thank you
Northern cities vowel shift. ???
@@nickcarty6854 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inland_Northern_American_English#%3A%7E%3Atext%3DThe_Northern_Cities_Vowel_Shift_or_simply_Northern_Cities_Shift%2CWestern_New_England_accent_regions.?wprov=sfla1
I learned my English pronunciation mostly from American movies and TV programs. I love the RP accent because I understand it perfectly. I struggle understanding other British accents like cockney.
Ok
That’s American pronunciation not English
Highly informative and delivered in an unbiased way. Bravo!
Glad you liked it!
I am from the U.S.A. And I love all the various English accents and dialects. I speak with, what I have come to call, a clear and colorless “California TV English”. That is no wonder as I grew up in Southern California watching an obscene amount of television. I am so envious of the charming tones, and colorful expressions I hear coming from the U.K. . When I meet people for whom English is not their native language they seem to appreciate the slow, clear and well pronounced tones of my standard ‘California TV’ English (which is flattering to me) but I swoon when I hear the sweet lilting and sonorous dark tone from Scotland, Ireland and Wales. With all that said, Carol Lumley’s “Posh” beautiful voice and speaking manor is pure gold; it is a sea-side vacation for the ears.
Thanks Chris, have spent some time in S. Cal...
Interesting video. Although Princes William and Harry speak in a more modern RP accent than their father, they still sound posher than many other people who might also be considered to speak RP. I guess like all regional accents there is a fair degree of variation.
Indeed
Absolutely amazing, thank you for letting us know this kind of accent has a specific name, I wish everyone spoke english that way !!
This video helped me with an accent. By the way, you pronunciation is so clear, I understand you more easily. Thank you very much. ☺
You're welcome.
I adore the manner in which Mary from Downton Abbey speaks. Very cool!
:)
And especially Matthew Crawley -- incredibly mesmerizing and elegant.
You are the most British teacher ever.. for sure.
Ha!
I'm from Egypt, and I'm really in love with your videos and your English, keep going
Thank you for this video. Considering my job, I'm looking for any way I can speak clearer English, not only to certain kind of people but all kind of people, native and not, if possible. This video has been helpful. I particularly like the "clipped, precise" definition. I'll definitely try to utilise it more in the future.
Thanks
Great video! I l’ve grown up loving traditional R.P., but I’ve noticed that when I speak with a deeper voice and traditional R.P. it tends to annoy people. Still, I’m trying to gain the courage to use it as my normal voice as it seems the most natural one for me.
Thanks Andrew.
I don't know why they dislike the RP accent. That's my favorite English accent. (I'm from Colombia).
@@JuanMartinez-ic3sg It's because of the U.K. class system. Currently middle class culture rules the establishment; any accent seen as too upper class or too working class isn't liked, RP is seen as too upper class.
1 word, heartstopper.
stop it!
Let me know if you agree with me. In old RP the A in man, bad is something in between an /ɛ/ and /æ/, in modern RP is in between /æ/ and /a/. Also the ending Y in words like happy, funny sounds more like an /ɪ/, in modern RP is an /i/ sound. Some tripthongs (if such a word exists) in old RP are pronounced as monophthongs, e.g.: fire, sour /faː/, /saː/ > old RP, /faɪə/, /saʊə/ > modern RP. I also heard the sound /ɔː/ as in law, pronounced as /lɔə/ in old RP, while in modern RP is always /lɔː/. I think the 'connective r', in expressions such as law and order, is unacceptable in old RP, you should always say /lɔːən(d)ɔːdə/, while in modern RP is acceptable to say /lɔːrənɔːdə/. These are just a few ideas, it's hard to explain pronunciation through written comments.
I agree.
Sounds about right.
Hiya, I know this is quite a while after you've posted it but I am quite interested in learning about this, do you know where I can find out more about the characters you're using? I've seen them around a lot but can't quite figure out what they are/mean. I've found a Phonetic Alphabet Chart but not all of the characters match up.
I never know what sound to associate to each symbol no matter the accent. Looks like someone dyslexic wrote it...
ə ˈnɒbl ənd ən ˈɒnɪst ˈbɔɪ
ˈdʒɔːdʒ ˈwɒʃɪŋtən wəz ðə ˈfɜːst ˈprezɪdnt əv ðə ˈjuːnaɪtɪd ˈsteɪts əv
əˈmerɪkə. wen iː wəz ˈjʌŋ, hiː ˈwʌns ˈlɪvd wɪð ɪz ˈeldə ˈbrʌðə ɪn ðə ˈkʌntrɪ. ət ðæt ˈtaɪm ə ˈgreɪt ˈmɑːkɪt wəz ˈheld ɪn ə ˈneɪbərɪŋ ˈtaʊn. hiː ˈvɪzɪtɪd ɪt ən ˈsɔː ə ˈbjuːtəfʊl ˈhɔːs fə ˈseɪl.
ˈðɪs ɪz ðə ˈməʊst ˈbjuːtəfʊl ˈhɔːs aɪ v ˈevə ˈsiːn, ˈdʒɔːdʒ ˈsaɪd. ɪf aɪ v
ɪˈnʌf ˈmʌnɪ, aɪ l ˈəʊn ɪt.
maɪ ˈbɔɪ, ðə ˈhɔːs ˈdiːlə ˈsed tʊ ɪm, ˈðɪs ɪz ðə ˈwaɪldɪst ˈhɔːs aɪ v ˈevə ˈəʊnd. ɪf juː kən ˈraɪd ɪt wɪðˈaʊt ˈbiːɪŋ ˈθrəʊn daʊn, juː meɪ ˈhæv ɪt.
ˈdʒɔːdʒ wəz ˈverɪ dɪˈlaɪtɪd. hiː ˈdʒʌmpt ɒn ðə ˈhɔːsɪz ˈbæk ət ˈwʌns ən ˈfluː əˈweɪ laɪk ˈwɪnd.
hiː l ˈʃɔːlɪ bɪ ˈkɪld, ðə ˈhɔːs ˈdiːlə ˈsed tə ðə ˈkraʊd uː ˈgæðəd tə ˈsiː ðə ˈbɔɪ ˈraɪdɪŋ ðə ˈwaɪld ˈhɔːs. bɪˈfɔː ˈlɒŋ ə ˈgreɪt ˈʃaʊt went ˈʌp frəm ðə ˈkraʊd wen ðə ˈbɔɪ ən ðə ˈhɔːs əˈpɪəd əˈgen. ðə ˈbɔɪ ˈkeɪm bæk, ˈsɪtɪŋ ˈkwaɪətlɪ ɒn ðə ˈhɔːsɪs ˈbæk. wen iː gɒt ˈdaʊn, hiː ˈgeɪv bæk ðə ˈhɔːs tə ðə ˈdiːlə ən ˈsed, ɪt ˈθruː miː ˈwʌns ɪn ðə ˈwʊd.
ə ˈrɪtʃ ˈmæn uː wəz ˈstændɪŋ
əˈmʌŋ ðə ˈkraʊd ˈkeɪm tə ðə ˈbɔɪ ən ˈsed, juː ə ə ˈnɒbl ən ən ˈɒnɪst ˈbɔɪ. aɪ ˈəʊn ə ˈgreɪt ˈdiːl əv ˈlænd ən ˈwɒnt ˈsʌmwʌn laɪk juː tə ˈhelp miː teɪk ˈkeə əv maɪ ˈθɪŋz. ɪf juː ˈwɜːk fə miː, juː kən ˈhæv ə ˈfaɪnɪst ˈhɔːs tə ˈraɪd.
Questions:
1. What is the story about? ____
2. Who are the main characters of the story? _____
3. What are the problems in the story? _____
4. What happens at last? _____
5. What is the moral of the story? ___
Refreshingly entertaining, informative and inspiring.
Thank you for sharing.
Not a prob
This was great! As an American this was so interesting! I have visited a few different countries in Europe. I was perfectly fine understanding the people in England regardless of where we went, but lemme tell ya…once we got to Scotland and Ireland 😂😂😂 I was havin a slightly tougher time 😂
I travelled throughout the British isles and had no problem until Glasgow lol
Thank you for your brevity. 1 second in looking at your white board I got the answer I needed.
Great stuff.
Thank you, dear teacher, for this lesson that enlightened me about RP and other English accents. Besides, I am proud to join my comment with Jade's that I appreciate a lot and follow her courses regularly.
Thanks for watching. Here's a video I made with Jade a few years ago: ruclips.net/video/XkYnXuh52vU/видео.html
As someone who definitely does not have a native accent, I still do find R.P. (well before i knew anything about its background) by far the clearest and easiest to understand accent and -as a matter fact, - the most stylish and aesthetically pleasing accent of English language.
find it strange to hear "Geuld" instead of "goaled" for Gold though.
Everyone has an accent. Try and learn a language in a foreign country and you'll see
I'M SITTING FOR PHONETICS TOMORROW AND THIS VIDEO ITS SOOOO HELPFUL THANK YOU
Cool
My speech therapist as a kid was British and I had a noticeably different accent than my siblings, and I always wondered where she was from, what kind of British I was speaking. But all of my dialect is from the American South, which is what I try to play up at work since it keeps me from being singled out by customers. But if I get excited then my RP accent comes out and I can’t hear it. It was fun to learn more about it.
Interesting!
Pretty sure i have this accent, people tend to call me "posh" and it annoys me 😂
It's not nice to be judged by your accent
Oh my god, same! I always get told I talk the poshest out of my friends despite the fact I think we all sound the same! Where are you from in britain?
@@oliviajordan4622 I have an accent that is mixed between well spoken and chavvy, because I had two different up bringings. I am always accused of putting on airs and graces, when it is just me.
OH MY GOD SAME AHAHDJDKSK
I use to get foreign people asking me how to pronounce words or what words mean when i worked in a restaurant. Truthfully I am an idiot, I'm poor at using language. It's just I sound kinda like i know I'm doing because all my teachers and my parents come from Hertfordshire which uses the RP accent.
The more I listen to British pronunciations, the more I like them, and the less I like American ones. Without disrespecting
I quite like the Canadian sound with their round vowel sounds
As an American I can say I agree
Learn English with Benjamin [engVid] As a Canadian, I wanna give you a huge thumb up!
Truer form of English. Ha.
I like them more too. For many words I find I can say them quicker than my regular southern/midwestern weirdness. Probably shouldn’t like to speak quicker but...
The best video I found on RP. Keep un the good job!!!!!
thanks
I prefer the sound of conservative over contemporary Received Pronunciation, it’s sounds more expressive.
Start listening to some real speakers of it
RP is my favourite and I'm falling in love with it every day and every moment.
What passion!
he is really good at getting his thoughts across to the beginners-intermediate students)Sometimes i am upset of having an advanced level
You're not advanced, in my humble opinion...
It's helps alot and thank you! I love british culture and people there!❤🇬🇧
Dude, I was glued the entire time. Awesome stuff.
Thanks
"Dude, I was glued..." Definitely not RP :-)
First of all thanks to that incredible detailed explanation ...
Second, I hope u design a playlist for teaching RP accent's trends and tips
Thanks for the request. I will certainly consider it when I am next filming.
Hello ..I am from Indonesia..Thanks for this Video.
Actor Dan Stevens has the most eloquent Received Pronunciation accent -- the epitome of high education and class. Very stylish and lovely to listen to.
Thanks for that, Lauren.
@@engvidBenjamin Thank YOU for this wonderful youtuve video. So enlightening.
Great talk! I'm trying to learn Received Pronunication.
Thank you. RP is a perfect tool to explain the concept of diglossia in sociolinguistics, it seems.
Hello Benjamin. You're now our actual and current darling and king --- The throne was empty. Jade used to be sitting there but ... we dont know what happened to her. She might have been struck by some kind of spell or something. She changed sooo much.
We needed a new king here --- with informative stylish classy classes in real British English.
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Thanks for taking over. The sun is shining again all over the net. Huahuaaa. Cheers.
Long live the king. :) Irony mode on oh yeah.
I'm not quite sure how to react to this one other than to say that the EngVid teachers are not in competition with each other; we tend to get on quite well. You'll learn different things from different teachers...
Thank you so much for this video! Finally I got my head around the RP. Would dream of obtaining it for ages. Now gotta think about it differently :)
Thanks for watching
I’m American and the class system in the UK is pretty interesting .
People feel strongly about it. It's interesting in the 2019 General Election that most of the working class voted for Conservative. (I didn't).
Such an interesting vid. I was watching a video on how English sounds to non English speakers, which was kind of weird to hear. Then wondered about middle class accents in the U.K. This is very informative.
Thanks
I wish the BBC still used RP. Like several people in the comments have said, it makes it easy to understand for non-native speakers and sounds more professional.
Diversity is good
@@engvidBenjaminBeing able to convey information in understandable manner is better.
This video is very informative and a big help for all the English students.
Thanks
Ah man, I was hoping RP English was Role Playing English like 'Ye olde shoppe'
You’re so funny
Hmmm
Haha - did you know that the Y in “Ye” was pronounced as “Th” in those olden times? 😂😂😂
@Jannie Kirsten I heard it from Stephen Fry on an episode of “Qi” a few years ago. It sounded like “The”, not “Thee”. A lot of people tend to pronounce it using the long E version but in my experience they mainly say it that way if it’s the first word of a descriptive place name. I don’t hear it much when it’s used as a definite article in a general sentence.
Great description. Thank you.
Thanks for watching!
very clear and interesting!
As someone from the Midlands, I find trying to memorise the trap-bath split words to be the hardest part of speaking RP. It's quite easy to 'switch off' a glottal stop, but trying to remember if 'basket' is a long or short 'a' mid sentence is another matter.
Why are you learning RP, James?
@@engvidBenjamin I work with a lot of people who speak English as a second language, and they tend to find it easier to understand RP than regional dialects (as they were taught RP). As they've already put in the effort to learn a second language, it seems polite to at least make an effort to speak with an accent they understand.
Idk how I got here but I’m completely fascinated.
Ha! Welcome...
I am educated in a USA top university but I have a British accent. I am European.
Cool
Brilliant explanation Benjamin, your accent is awesome
Thanks for watching
I must admit I absolutely love Posh, although I understand it might have a negative connotation. Anyway, Thank you for this video! :)
Cheers
Thank you for this beneficial explanation. For us as efl students the RP is easier to grasp..
No one speaks well on the telephone today. It is so frustrating. No one knows how to speak clearly, it really makes me despair. I refer to the service industry, i.e. the gas/electricity companies, British Telecom (one of the VERY WORST in communication) in fact any phone call one receives today. Excellent video BTW.
Don't even get me started mate! I'm foreign and sorting any official matters via phone is close to a nightmare. I know it's stereotyping but i would wind myself up so much when i hear an Indian accent over the phone...
What's even more odd, in some cases, they won't deal with your situation IN PERSON in the office or shop, instead you need to ring them up, and identify(????) yourself with public information like your address. This is beyond me...
Thanks
This was super interesting and helped me better understand the way I speak. I was brought up to use an RP accent and in the past I’ve tried to hide it by either sounding more West Country or more London-ish. Now I try not to hide the RP accent, but will still come out with Gloucestershire, or London-isms due to the influences of friends and co-workers.
Here in 2024 and you make learning easy to understand. thank you
Thank you for teaching me sir.
I can also recommend listening to Richard Ayoade, his english is the most precise i ever heard
Thank you for the very useful video.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you. This was really informative.
Thanks
You're a wonderful precise teacher. 🇧🇩
Thank you I enjoyed your presentation it really helped clear up some queries.
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I always speak in an RP accent no matter where I am and no matter who I am with.
Really fascinating video and notable that accents are very hard to quantify. It sounds "formal" or "colder" so it shows that accents are not better or worse they are subjective. I forget the study but it was done with Russians with no knowledge of English and none of them could say which accent was the "best" or "poshest" when played a selection.
I agree
Clear and concise, many thanks.
RP accent is adorable ! I love it so much !
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4:26 Little correction: the first Labour government was in 1924 and the 2nd in 1929, so the Atlee ministry, after WWII, was actually the 3rd time UK had a Labour government.
Very well explained, cheers Benjamin!
Thanks
*This was very informative, thank you,*
When i watch the most of british tv show i don't hear the words exept some words and i being frustrating but the RP is very clear and he give me the hope to learn more about english
Watching TV shows is not a great way of working on your English and is only really useful once your English is at a certain level. I would suggest working on your vocab and grammar, taking regular classes so that you build a strong foundation. Watching TV shows is essentially a form of listening practice - you want to make sure that that listening practice is the right level for your English.
Could you make a video of the queen’s accent, please? With exercises of pronunciation and tips. Thank you so much.
www.engvid.com/the-rp-english-accent/
The US also has a pronunciation that is used in broadcasting and is understood as regionally neutral.
General American - yes, indeed.
I find RP is the only accent I can understand without concentrating very hard - and I'm a 42 year old Englishman.
This really helped me with an accent for a musical I was doing. Thanks a ton 🙏
Glad it helped!
Was it the Cockney rhyming slang for Pygmalion?
Excellent explanation of RP. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
I want to speak with British accent I think this RP accent it will be much easier to me thanks for this video
You're welcome 😊
Excellent brief on RP! Thx!
Cheers
Gorgeous video!!!! Hugs from Santiago de Chile!
Thanks
Glad you made a new video was waiting for it :D .. Thanks for your efforts and teaching
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I enjoyed with your explanations. Thanks.
I like the RP accent and yours as well😄
But I think it is a perfect accent for English learner, it is clear, it is formal,it is easier to pronounce,at least for me,and there are many materials on the internet, like BBC and audio books.
Thanks Zoe
No matter how hard I try, I still sound like Jimmy Nail. M.
I find it sad that the bbc doesn’t require rp accent anymore, for it was a great way to share it
Great video! I'm Brazilian and I'm trying to learn English with an British accent
Great! Loving having fans in Brazil. Hope to visit when Covid subsides.
@@engvidBenjamin I'm also from Brazil, this helps a lot!
Joanna Lumley was a model and is also an actress appearing in Absolutely Fabulous, The New Avengers among others.
Very clear and affordable. Many thanks. María.
Affordable?
Very clear video. I bet you're a great teacher live.... I'm actually trying to reclaim my RP accent. It was bullied out of me at the dreadful high school I went too. I don't mind sounding "ridiculous" tbh.... I'm not sure about the diphthongs. I can think of a few regional accents who say "hee-yer" or "ee-yer" .... As in "over ee-yer" - cockney, Yorkshire, Welsh.. Going to watch the rest of your vids.
Thanks
I have an RP accent. Two of my four sisters have it also. How we say - Not and What, are unique to us. Similiar to Emma Watson.
A similar occurrence has happened in Aotearoa/New Zealand. My generation - I'm 70 and grew up listening - on the local news - to what we thought of as BBC aka 'posh' English. Many of the moneyed sections of society - large landowners/doctors/lawyers/the Professionals spoke with what we considered an 'affected' or 'posh' way of speaking. That has completely changed now, with the modern generation speaking with an American influenced e.g. 'Hey bro' vernacular which has become very widespread, and which, depending on one's viewpoint, could be considered 'cool' or amongst many of us oldies as 'crude' or 'crass'... take your pick!
Love all your videos!
Yay! Thank you!
I’m literally watching this coz my mum was like:
I SWEAR DOWN IF U DONT LEARN PROPER ENGLISH WITHIN THREE MONTHS OF UR GRAMMAR SCHOOL LIFE-
Me: ~what life~
I’m from east London. And I’m from a Bengali background too. -.- y life.
Tbh I’m acc listening to this guy.
kobi Simon LOOOOOOOOOL Bengali mums
London is Dhaka 2.0
I think you should embrace your background. You don't have to speak RP to speak grammatically correctly.
kobi Simon wow same even I come from a Bengali background 🙂
A very informative video! Thank you!
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5:17
This little part here is brilliant, it sounds like he's personally responding to me feebly raising my hand and saying "uhm, i don't get it... ;-;"
Glad you liked it!
Hello Benjamin, like you I originate from Devon but have spend most of my life in the South East. I noticed that you retain the same regionalism as me, i.e. the "ou" sound as in "house", whereas some RP speakers pronounce it more like "hice". Despite that regionalism which I often exaggerate, some people still think I sound posh
Thanks for watching Nicholas
No cap this guy is a genius fr fr😎👍👍👍👍
"Make of him what you will", you made me laugh out loud, I was wondering what you would say about him while you were saying wonderful things about the two others.
Can't remember who the other two were...