Name: Learn English with Downton Abbey | British Accents
Uploaded: 2020-04-23T19:47:10.000Z
Duration: 8 min 38 s
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today we're gonna learn English with British historical drama Downton Abbey.

When I'm with her, I'm reminded of the virtues of the English country America.

So we're gonna take clips of the Siri's and analyze the British English accents that they used on their part to look at some super useful vocabulary that comes up in the show.

So if you're ready, let's take a trip to the aristocratic world.

Down Downtown Abbey is set in early 20th century Britain on a country estate in Yorkshire.

It's owned by the Crawley family, who are British aristocrats.

Aristocrats basically just means really so.

Half the show is about this family that lives upstairs, and the other half of the show is all about the maids, cooks, footmen, the work downstairs.

Let's start with the matriarch of the Crawley family, Violet, the dowager countess of Grantham, played by Dame Maggie Smith.

She speaks with traditional RP received pronunciation that's very, very similar to the Queen's English.

Let's have a listen, then what is Easter?

You're a woman with a brain and reasonable ability.

Now you hear the dowager there, she says.

Now this, in many accents is is up dip thought ear, ear.

But actually in traditional our peers, I would speak.

We also hear the Dodgers say ability, ability that it on the end of the world there with the why that's a shortened A so not E.

Now it's a ability, just like city and pretty good schools may what?

Just so just we'd say that as well, we'd say that it instead of the so I would say ability, you know, City seed it that kind of thing.

Just just Georgia dropped didn't mean toe Okay, Another sound that distinguishes violence.

Accent as traditional r p or the Queen's English is the year in suitable.

Yeah, my care When tragedy strike We tried to find someone to blame.

And in the absence of a suitable candidate, we usually ourselves Here The Dowager uses the yet sound after the S.

So she says Suitable, suitable, not suitable, suitable.

Also, we could say suit, I like your suit in all other British English accents this year is dropped after the s.

This is a process we call yard dropping your dropping so it would be suitable and suit gruffly south course to be suitable and suit.

And in the absence of a suitable candidate, we usually blame ourselves.

Oh, Harold hates to leave America curious.

Once again, the dowager changes a dip thong toe Amaro thought in this case that the now in regular RP this might be there rather rather disease saying that in traditional obviously that that so we're smoothing that different air to, uh the that's right that we also have the o sound.

So as you see, my lips are narrow on I'm articulating from the front of my mouth gear gear.

So next time you want a little space away from your child.

So as you can see, violence, Accent is not a 1,000,000 miles away from the Queen's English.

Now there are other accents, which are a little softer, a little more contemporary.

Sure, Uh, I'm going to tell you about Miss did.

She's a maid and she has a love with Yorkshire accent.

This is my last Till the come downstairs, you know, is there, she says.

May last just may me brother, Miss Sisters just make you also noticed, and she said, Last in the north of England, we say that sound right.

Upstairs where there are sounds, my dear boy, clearly, there should be a distinction between the app on the R sound, but I'm just saying it sounds perfectly frightful to say last within.

This is one of the big differences between accents in the north of England and accents in the south of England.

Now, I know RP technically isn't geographically located in the South, but we kind of categorize it as a Southern accent for these purposes.

Now, in Southern accents, they have r and R two separate sounds, but in northern accents, they just have that sound.

So yes, a word like bath in the south bath with our but in Northern Accent is actors bath on.

This is one of the big differences between the north and south.

In fact, there is no right and wrong these air.

The souffle mix is done for the savory, and I'll make a fresh amount for their call if I want to.

Go now Normally in an R P accent, all efforts go, but not in your tracks that we change the vowel sound.

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