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I bet this is the only time in the Queen's life that she's ever been interrupted.
Horror Habit LMAO
Yep!
Hahah we just wanted to analyze it🤣
You dare stop The Queen from speaking her mind-
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I am German and lernt RP at school in Germany. When I was in my twenties, I worked as a foreign language assistant at a British high school, where one of the pupils asked me why I sounded like the Queen's best friend. I told him that was because I met her for tea every Sunday afternoon and he actually believed me...
Lol ... love it
Wow 🙄
Ich hatte ähnliche Erfahrungen! 😁
@@lindenbeck why would an American learn English
Brilliant! 😄😁
I'm Spanish and when I moved to England I thought most people would have RP accent. How wrong I was!!!
Hi Cristinglish, but now it became easier for you as Spanish people, you can pronounce every (R).
Y cuando fui a España (a Granada) , descubrí que la mayoría de la gente hablaba con un accento muy diferente del accento estándar de España que se oía en clase.
Te escribo desde Argentina, yo opte por el RP y deje de lado excepciones localistas. Algunos de UK se sonrien y te dicen 'very British'. Lo importante es que te entienden.
Terry Dawson es asi. Y lo mismo sucede en America Latina, lo bueno es que en el idioma escrito nos entendemos muy bien, gracias a la RAE. No baje los brazos vuelva España que con unos buenos vinos de por medio hablara como Cervantes Saavedra. Sdos
@@sebastianalderete6978 : Lo interesante es que en España se dice "habláis" o "vivís", mientras que en America del Sur, nadie lo dice así.
There is this charm in RP. People who speak RP are often "very clear" to listen to. And they also speak slowly (not too unbearably slow) with great intonation and rhythm. Rather than the accent itself, I'm trying to learn to speak more slowly and therefore more clearly. Whenever I speak too fast, my local accent will always pop up in the end.
I love queen's English. It is easily understandable by everyone and catchy.
OMG, Queen's English is my favourite accent, more videos like this please, good job!
Yes please
Ángel Fernández same
I totally agree.
Well mate so now we know you like the sound of a illegitimate murderous accent
Her accent is butiful
I stumbled across this video after looking up Foreign Accent Syndrome (FAS) on CZcams. I was born and raised in America but I have recently been diagnosed with epilepsy and after suffering between 15 - 20 intense seizures in one night the next morning I woke up with a very pronounced British Accent. The strangest part is my accent sounds very much like the Queen's English. When I say words like Gratitude I have the 'J' sound between the U. I have never been to the UK and have now had a British accent for 7 weeks.
That's weird, and I have heard of Foreign Accent Syndrome. That gliding 'y' sound, as in 'tuna', is called a yod.
I'm sorry about your epilepsy.
@@pauljordan4452, a yod is usually spelled j. y would be oo (u) or ü or i.
as a foreigner, what we learn is RP accent. and then find out people not really talk like this way. I thought we learned the wrong accent........ turn out is the most standard accent just not everyone uses it.
Well because it's an accent so everyone in the UK can understand it on the tv
2:55 when you spill your tea and cucumber sandwiches all over the clean carpet of the palace
Gosh, you did humour me.
The carpets at the palace aren't clean! Quite the opposite, those yappy snappy mutts are allowed to shit all over them! Its disgusting!! And, god forbid you tell them off!
Katie Perry Are you really Katie Perry?
i blurted out an ugly audible laugh because of this
LMAO
The Queens English, spoken by her, was delightful to hear. She was truly a national treasure.
Thank You for this video! I love the British English and the way the Queen speaks it. It is amazing, the foreigner who hasn't got much experience in listening English can understand everything what the Queen says. Her accent is really very well articulate.
Jerzy Odolski. You’re right. The Queen speaks very clearly. It’s easy to understand her. She doesn’t grumble.
Really very well articulate.
You need to drop the "well"
it makes little sense. "Very articulate" would be the most appropriate use of language. I wouldn't be so pedantic in general but this video is about language and you were abusing said language.
Ingrid Dubbel or just add a d to make it articulated and then that sentence makes perfect sense.
Well educated people in the UK speak the received pronunciation.
It's so elegant and charming.
I love it, therefore I try to improve my pronunciation every day.
Thank you for those videos.
no, people who want to get ahead, or have got ahead, speak RP. the rest of us recognise it as being a pseudo German twang, which queen victoria adopted, and is quite alien to the uk before 1850
Drobium
Maybe
But then why if I look for a pronunciation in the Cambridge dictionary I get the received pronunciation?
And then what did they use Laurence Olivier and all the other great Shakespearean actors?
1850?
Now we are in 2019
Two centuries later...
@@silvanodelazzari8522 being from Warwickshire , i know what Shakspear would have sounded like, and it ent lark you hear in stratfud. Thee ent gorr'oat saandin lark up ay'r, daan thee're
Drobium
Ok, but what about Laurence Olivier and others great actors who acted Shakespeare?
Even Latin had a different sound those times, but now it sounds different...
P.S. I tried to understand what you wrote
I think I understood much of it.
silvano de lazzari trust me, social class doesn’t always indicate intellect
Throughout her reign the Queen's accent has changed. She has recorded 66 Christmas messages and the gradual change is clear over the years.
i love british accents and how it differs every parts of the UK
I love how there are similarities between the Queen's English and ours here in South Africa
Yes I agree, we also emphasise every sound
Yes, I did not realise that until now. Must be the influence of British Colonisation. I am trying to improve on my Queen's English!
I was going to say the Queen's English is still active in Africa.
I'm Nigerian and this is what I hear around me of course with Nigerian accent which itself isn't bad
South African accent had distinct Dutch pronunciation 😮
I wish everyone would speak English like the Queen. She makes it sound very natural. Many "wannabes" sound theatrical and unnatural but her English is a treat (at least for me...LOL). Thank you.
😂😂😂😂
I just wish to find a really good teacher here in Amsterdam to make me speak like at least, almost like a native. Her accent is delightful. The British English language and French language are like a bouquet of roses wrapped in silk. You can say like all the shitty words that you want and still sound high class.
You're not going to hear this accent when you're walking around London? I hear it all the time!! I speak with the more contemporary RP. I'm 60. I was raised in Scotland and in state primary school we learned RP, not to force us to speak differently, but to be able to get on in life around the UK and the world, because our local accents and dialects were much thicker then. In the 1960s aspirational working class mothers still sent their children to elocution lessons. Later, I went on to university with many privately educated students and then moved to London and lived among the professional and media classes, so contemporary PR is the voice I hear most, although I know many who still speak with the upper version. Lots of us who speak in large meetings or in public heighten our RP at work: it allows you to be heard at the back of a hall, foreigners understand you much more clearly and it gives you authority. To me, speaking well is like writing well or singing well or playing an instrument well. Once you learn to do it, it's automatic and it can be a joy.
Ikr
Tom Moncrieff you are correct. Clear words sound so much better for my Mexican Spanish ear. RP sounds elegant and you can understand it. Pronunciation also makes more sense
What is English in England now, with so many people coming from various places of the world English changes.
Be happy to speak in correct sentences. A good structure, and speak in an understandable way. Be yourself
I speak with Contemporary RP because that’s how my mom and Stepdad speak
My grandma and grandpa spoke with Conservative R.P
Yes, Contemporary RP sounds much easier to pronounce and sounds more universal for everyone to understand.
The Queen"s english is so clear and easy to understand. W posh english!
This is the first time I have heard the queen's voice.
Rest In Peace Your Majesty Queen Elizabeth
❤❤
I applaud you. This was very much like a classroom setting in a way and helpful.
Tom, I'm 75 and find your présentations truly delightful. I'm also American and would give anything to sound like Jeremy Irons when IQQ speak. There, I've confessed.
Robert Bushee 75 what? 75 millions in debt? im sry for ur company, or 75 kg? thats not really bad
For some Reason beyond my abilities to understand my comment seemed worthy of making fun of me. For that Reason, in part, we have many people in our society who are completely fake and insincere because people in general sense that the world out there is not inoffensive. People do not mention their debts or weight, but will sometimes share their age in hopes that the information will be useful to the one reading it. Think about it for a minute and perhaps you'll understand what I'm Driving at. And how old are you?
@@robertbushee You can safely ignore any comment as stupid as that made above by 0xVENx0, someone who clearly has a very weak grasp of English and furthermore cannot even spell correctly such simple words and expressions as "I'm sorry", "your", and "that's".
@@Ynysmydwr Thank you for taking the time to say kind words. The world needs more people like you. Continue enjoying life the way you do. Rob
@Madame Coeur de Montespan Many thanks for your uplifting words which brighten even a dark day like today. Having all sorts of people really can give us a means to compare and appreciate in ife. Keep sending encouragement at a time in history where it is so lacking and needed.
Amazing video. Thank you Tom!!!! Queen’s English pronunciation is music to my ears!!!! I’ll share this fantastic video with my students!!!! Looking forward to watching part II.
This is fabulous. Looking forward to more parts of this Queen's English series❤️
Wonderful lesson😊 I love this accent. By the way, you teach with an enthusiastic passion that shows how you truly love the language.
Love your videos! I found them very interesting and useful. Nothing an ordinary teacher would teach. Looking forward to seeing part 2 👍👍👍
Toms voice reminds me of daniel radcliff🤔
he looks like him too
It was on the tip of my tongue!:-) Precisely!:-)
Yeah definitely!
xD
... and his chin & hair colour, of Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor ;-)
I've just discovered your channel and I must say it's absolutely brilliant!! Thanks!!
Thank you for the lesson! I think that Portuguese speakers tend to pronounce each letter, each syllabus of words. So, for me, the Queen's English accent is easier to understand.
É verdade Érica
Infelizmente não aqui em Minas Gerais KKKKKKKKK
@@user-wt5if6rx8m É verdade! O sotaque mineiro é um mundo à parte.
So do Spanish, Erica. I am Spanish myself 😉
:-):-):-) you are absolutely right! I'm not European, but I endorse every your word! The Queen's English is easy to understand and pleasant to hear!
Oh gosh thank you SO much Tom! I LOVE RP ! Especially number 1 ( the queen's English )
I appreciate your work 💗
Love your channel! I’m American, and I love your comparison videos!
Thank you so much, Tom! I was waiting for this video for quite a while. I hope you will make more videos about the British Royals ‘ English. And, God Save the Queen! 🇬🇧 👑
You cannot imagine how I did enjoy this video. Loved it indeed! I got mostly asked if I am British because of my accent. Feel proud of it, must confess!
Wow!! What a great video! Thank you so much! I am doing a dissertation about English phonetics, and this was utterly helpful! Cheers!!
The vowel elements of RP are interesting. I hear some Americans who have that. I love the linguistic aspects of your videos, even though I'm a native English speaker, because I don't see people talking about this kind of thing anywhere else, for the most part. I think you'd be really good for a lecture series somewhere with the way you do your videos. You have a way of explaining that makes it interesting for everyone, not just English learning students. :)
Brilliant class, as always!... Helping me a lot during these troubled times. Social distancing is not that easy! Thanks to you I have been facing all this much better!... Stay safe! Happy Easter, Tom!
Awesome video. Simply amazing by changing the "y" found at the end of words to "i" sound, the "o" vowel you can really begin to speak like the queen.
I wish if all English speakers use the RP accent. It sounds so respectful to me
The new RP is even better
Dávid Holczer Whatever it is: I‘ll learn English with RP, no matter if it is traditional RP or Modern RP. I‘ll not learn any other accent then RP.
Most of the english guys did not care that i spoke with a modern RP.Some ppl said though that "you don't have to posh it" who gives a damn that some ppl don't like it.
People are happy with their own accents
@@YangSing1 But why you lads don't like when sy tries to speak with a more British accent?For me its's not that hard to imitate a modern posh kind of accent but to squeeze the words together, that's a tougher thing to do and the "Th" letter when I try to pronounce them after each other is hard.And I know cockney accent replace them with "v" and "f" letters
Excellent. As a teacher once told me, awareness of language brings wakefulness.
Great video !
Sir David Attenborough has got the traditionnal RP accent, or Queen's accent as well ! And it's delicious to hear !
RP sounds very respectful to me. I wonder how it sounds like in arguments or sarcasm.😂😂
Loved this! Thank you so much!
One of your best lessons! Congrats!!!!
Yessssss.... I speak the Queen's English 😄😁.... That was how I was taught by the Convent nuns at school and by Dad at home 👍👍
Very great lesson, Tom. I really appreciated it.
I’m an American so I speak English but I’ve always loved the way the English speak it.
Thank you so much, Tom. I am very fascinated by your language and the queen's accent. Great video indeed.
Oh, I think adding a live chat is an amazing idea Tom!!
Like it👍💞
Highly useful and detailled video, thank you!
Greetings from Belgium :)
Excellent post! Anything that breaks down the English accent is fascinating to me!
Thanks for this video. I love it. Keep them coming
Love it! Waiting for more videos like this :)
"all our gratitude" - this accent you describe does something to the "L" sound too, almost like with a mute "R" before it.
Thank you so much! I suggested to do a video on the queen's Christmas speech last year and you actually did! Upper rp is my favourite English accent by far, maybe because we traditionally watch a sketch called "Dinner for one" on new year's eve in Germany. Miss Sophie (May Warden) speaks with perfect upper rp in it and I mimicked her way of speaking when I was a child.
Looking forward to part two!
I just realised my accent is mixture of conservative and contemporary and I speak all the words the way queen uses in this vid.. to be fair my English teacher was quite old, proper woman who drilled into my head about proper way of saying it. I didn’t know I spoke that way until some people kept asking where I was from because I used quite archaic pronunciation of words..
Same here, had my grandma drilling it into my head since young, not that I'm complaining now 😂
Dear Tom, you´re doing an amazing job! One huge "Thank You!" on behalf of all of us - english language learners. Could you, please, do any Lyam Gallaghers deep and comprehensive analysis as one of your next posts? He´s still a really hard one for me to get even after more than two years in the UK. Thank you so much, mate. Take care!
The Queen pronounces "very" using the Russian "r".
Love all British accents 😍
Thanks Tom.
Yeah, that "r" pronunciation is brazilian too....cheers!!!
In Indonesian language too
Very similar to russian "r", but our "r" is a little bit stronger). It's my native language). Thanx.
No, in Russian we form the "r" in a different place
You could say it's a Celtic 'r' - Irish, Scots and Welsh use it.
May I ask for part 2, please?
I was just going to comment on that
Thank you so much Tom! This really helped me a lot to record a voice for one of my characters. Cheers! Xo
Thank you so much for being such a fine teacher!! I rather love this, and watching every one of your youtube videos.
Hi Tom! Thanks so much for this video and for all of your work. You know, I teach English and as part of my training when I was in teacher training college, I had to learn to speak RP. So, this video took me back to my training years. Thanks.
I love the way she spoke. Miss her. 🌹
This video has made me realize that as a turkish native speaker, they have taught us the Queen’s English at the school, and even though I could make all those sounds perfectly, I believed I was wrong because normal people didnt speak like that and struggled for several years to change that sounds to American accent…. Im gonna cry.
Very interesting video! Thanks a lot! 😊
I'm really looking forward to next episodes, as I am really interested in UK's accents!
The most pleasing form of English!
"oh no"
astonishing sound
OMG So many years trying to "sound British"... Taking Cambridge examinations and now I realize I speak like the queen??? I want to cry...😞😭😭😭
Very interesting video!!! Have only heard of the English mentioning the “posh” accent but never knew what it’s really like. Now I do and I’ll keep my eyes open for part 2 👀
So interesting! Thank you
I went to a State school in the 1950s and 60s and we were taught to speak in a very similar way to the Queen, with vowel sounds being emphasised. We had to articulate every word and we were not allowed to mis-pronounce words. If a child said, for example, “I fink”, instead of ‘I think”, the teacher would keep correcting them until they got it right. We were ‘drilled’ in English every day because, the better you spoke, the better job you would get. A lot of time was spent on learning English grammar too and I notice many changes in people’s grammar today. My speaking voice probably sounds very old fashioned now but I suppose we continue on in the way we were taught.
That's a brilliant video! Thank you a lot!!!
Excelent! Loved it!
Yes! Take my English to the next level.
I love the Queen's RP❤
Hehe I’ll try Chi
I loved the video, thanks!
Great video/lesson, full of really useful and interesting information about The Queen's English. Years ago, during my first trip through the UK, I was surprised that most people did not talk like this.
Why would they? People speak different accents all over the UK, and this isn't even popular
I just loove this pronunciation! It's so classy and antique and unique!
Thank you for this video. Stay safe out there.
This is so wonderful, thanks for such an informative video. Love me some RP accent x
Your videos are amazing, mate!
I love these accent break down videos. Would you do an episode for Mr. Bean's accent please?
Kevin Kosmo I thought Mr. Bean was silent! I don’t think I’ve heard him speak.
Thanks for this Tom, I find this kind of pronunciation so beautiful, very interesting.
I would love if you could make a video about punctuation in english, I am used to the punctuation in spanish and honestly I am not quite sure if it changes. :) x
thank you so much for this brilliant video,I have- for many years- been fascinated by the so called "Queen's English "many thanks for sharing your tips .I shall try to polish up my accent .RP is the best especially for French people ,we need a strong model to correct our French intonations
Lovely video! Thanks
Dear Tom: You made another great video! Thanks a lot. How about a video on comparing the Queen's vocabulary to her subjects'?
calm and serious
Yes, I would love to speak like the Queen (with some of my own accent included)! I love the healthy emotional part of her attitude, which comes out in her speaking.
I love the 'queen's English'!
Great... Awesome video... Love british and yours
TRUE STORY
I am nearly at the end of my schooldays and when I was at Secondary-School I was taught by a teacher who didn’t teach English class this teacher was a Technology-Teacher and she spoke in a similar style to The Queen Of England and even though I was taught at a School called Hazel Grove High School which is in Stockport North Of England . Despite that most of my teachers spoke with EXTREMELY POSH-ACCENTS .
I went there from 2014 i will be leaving in July 2019 and I have to say that I LOVED the fact that I could teach my teachers to speak the Queen’s English it was great !
Very detailed video Tom.
Great video Tom! I love accents in general and I enjoy learning about its differences. I, for example, speak spanish with Rio de la Plata accent. 🇺🇾👍🏻
the "oo" sound is the poshest part of the accent lol sounds so snobbish. it's cool though
Toooo right, mate.
Lol I say too or two exactly how the queen says and I'm not even a native speaker!
I finally found what I was looking for, thank you!
Thanks Tom! And God bless the Queen! :)
Wow! I’ll try! I need to keep practicing!
really interesting thank you so much
Noooooooo!!!!!
Bring back the Queen’s English!!!
Where is Mr. Henry Higgins?!?!
In Hertford? Hereford? Or Hampshire? 😁
I don't know why or how YT suggested this video to me but I'm glad it did.
I'm french, I know my accent sucks when I speak English but it's very interesting to hear and know how and why there are differences in the pronunciation.
I must say that I love hearing the British accent which is very classy. I could hear it all day long. :)
And it's even better when the teacher is absolutely charming. :)
Interesting - i've always liked the way posh English sounds. Whatever else can be said about the Queen, her speech is very pleasant to listen to.