Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles Hello and welcome to British English with Joel & Lia. Today's video is all about BBC English so sometimes referred to as RP English, Received Pronunciation or BBC English which is the way everyone used to speak on the BBC way back when so in this video we're gonna talk you through three features of BBC English in the second part of the video we're gonna explain that this is no longer really a common way of speaking in the UK or in London but you can absolutely use these features if you're learning a BBC accent for perhaps an acting role or just out of interest and we're gonna just talk a little bit about what people in the UK think about BBC English so here we go the first feature of RP or BBC English is the 'u' sound such as the word Duke or during so in contemporary London English we would probably say during or during which is 'djuring' or Duke (juke) the Duke of Edinburgh had a great time during his trip to London which is perfectly fine but it's not technically correct and not correct in the BBC English accent so we're taking away the 'j' sound and we're just saying D U next to each other during Duke so it might be really hard to hear maybe you can't hear the difference but certainly when you speak to someone who's very much old school RP and you hear them say during or duke and often these people are a lot older and they will correct you if they hear you say juke they'll say it's Duke yeah similarly I had a teacher tell me it's tissue not tiss(h)ue and the same with the word issue instead of I said what's your iss(h)ue so you know there's like there's no correct way to say it both are acceptable it's just that if you are trying to learn a BBC English accent for whatever reason it's these tiny tiny things that will make the difference the next one is to do with stress placement in words like cigarette so the correct way of saying cigarette in an RP accent would be cigarette in the same way that you would say laundrette not laundrette yeah cigarette, laundrette it's cigarette laundrette hmm it's a very silly thing it's a tiny tiny thing but again if you want to do a BBC English accent it should be cigarette not cigarette it's just it's just stupid, it's a really silly thing and don't feel you have to speak like this if you're learning British English if you're learning British English then you're in the right place because our channel is actually about how people speak in 2017 that are sort of our age if you're looking for a TV programme perhaps to help you with BBC English I might recommend I might recommend that you watch something like Mr. Selfridge where most of the actors speak with BBC English because it's set in Selfridges an English department store back in the... when it opened so ages ago yeah definitely or The Crown on Netflix which is a series all about the Royal family and when the Queen was younger so of course they've all got BBC English accents so it's a really good one as well yeah so the third example that we found for sort of tweaking this BBC English sound that you might be going for is the T U sound after each other so similarly to the D U sounds from Duke and during we've got the TU sound in words like tuna instead of t(ch)una what we would say or Tuesday instead of a T(cho)uesday or I'm getting on the tube instead of I'm getting on the t(ch)ube or I'm watching YouT(ch)ube you should say I'm watching YouTube I'm watching YouTube which sounds so weird to us. it almost sounds American, like if you really really listen, I'm watching YouTube and that's probably quite important that's how it differs to American if you really listen they would say YouTube but we would say tube so we've got a slight it's called a diphthong where you go from one sound to the other tube instead of tube it's like you're dipping, you're actually dipping your tongue. So instead of tube it's tube. Thank you linguistics expert Joel. Clapping myself. I've got a cough, I'm sorry I've been coughing all the way through this Thank you. You're welcome. He doesn't like to be touched. You're fine. this video isn't saying that you should speak like this it's simply to help you learn a BBC accent if you're perhaps going for an acting role or you're just trying to learn it out of interest yeah this is how some people still speak and it's useful for you to get some context in how British English was pronounced back in the day to how it is now it's just good to get that a little bit of history I think hmm people are still talking about this because very recently in the news a guy who works on a mainstream show he works for the BBC he announces the lottery so in September of this year it kicked off people were phoning up and complaining about a guy who works on mainstream television because he pronounces the 'th' sound 'f' so he replaced his words like Funderball instead of Thunderball. Or Free instead of Three and people were phoning up and complaining and radio stations were talking about this and there was an article in The Guardian where he sort of told his story we'll link it in the description it's really interesting to read that there's people out there which are called prescriptivists prescriptivists who still care that people who are on television don't speak the way they used to fifty years ago yeah it's just silly it's just really stupid most people are like us which are called descriptivists where we just think there's no right or wrong ray.... *making fun of Joel's mistake* descriptivists think that there is no right or wrong way to speak the way that everyone speaks is perfectly valid and we are just describing the way that people speak which is what we do on our channel yeah whereas prescriptivists will say that is wrong this is the right way and it's just totally stupid. it's only a very small proportion and again it tends to be older people. I just noticed the word stupid I've just s(h)tupid that's another one in BBC English would be stupid yeah stupid so TU in like tuna and tube stupid so you've just you gotta just sort of accept it this is the way the older generation usually tend to be and this association comes with sort of like people that are on television have gone to a private school have been educated in say Eton or Cambridge, Oxford but it's not true and there's so much diversity now in the UK on TV and mainstream media there's no correct way to be this is just what's happening. Definitely, I think we said it at the beginning but just to reiterate people used to only be able to get a job with the BBC if they had the BBC English accent whereas now you get people with all sorts of regional accents on the BBC so it's just not a thing anymore it's just a silly attitude to have and it will probably work in your favour if you don't have a BBC accent because they're trying to move away from that old-school mentality and just bring other people onto the platform whether it's the way you speak or the way you look so yeah diversity is king gotta tick that diversity box Tick that ethnic box. Greek! Did I mention I'm Greek? Give me a job. Give US a job! Connected to a Greek exactly... I'm a male and white so it's not really um and RP... not really diverse. So fingers crossed for Joel Wood everyone! anyway that's it for today's video if you enjoyed it don't forget to give us a thumbs up and if you did find it useful if you're working on a BBC English accent let us know if you found it useful in the comments yeah and don't forget to follow our social media as well we're @JoelandLia on Instagram Twitter and Facebook on all of it take care bye
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