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The Queen sounds much better than the rest . She's calm & convincing !

Wow, I never heard "science" pronounced this way. Strangely enough, the modern accent sounds more like French than the old one :)

@Corvard555

4 жыл бұрын

Can't agree with you, doesn't really sound like French.

@bananaborz1

3 жыл бұрын

I speak French, and I have to disagree. When I hear both versions of "science" I find that the Queen's articulation is more similar to the French pronunciation. In French and the so-called old fashioned pronunciation of the Queen are both one syllable, whereas I hear two syllables at 0:25. That said, English and French both have many very different accents and one word can be said in dozens of ways, so in the end, it doesn't really matter.

@elizabethlightley8990

3 жыл бұрын

In the Gauteng province of South Africa, a lot people pronounce words like science, time, like etc like that. It’s pretty cool

@receivedSE

3 жыл бұрын

/ˈfaɪə/ is the "original" pronunciation to "fire", /faː/ being its clipped form.

@gaborodriguez1346

3 жыл бұрын

@@bananaborz1 Oui,elle s'écoute comme allemande

Strangely, the only person I've ever heard pronounce "science" like that was my Granny, who grew up on a farm in Kentucky.

@JenChenshuffler

3 жыл бұрын

I did think it sounded similar to a US Southern accent

@archiebald4717

3 жыл бұрын

Many modern accents in the USA have English roots.

@JenChenshuffler

3 жыл бұрын

@@archiebald4717 don’t all accents of the English language have English roots?

@benavraham4397

3 жыл бұрын

The whole South pronounces I as AH.

@archiebald4717

3 жыл бұрын

@@JenChenshuffler No.

The Queen’s accent has changed. Just listen to her first speeches and those of today to see the difference. 70 years ago she spoke with the typical accent of her social class, with a light snobish pronunciation. Over the years, her accent has changed and is much less socially marked today.

Science = "Sans" Endure = "And your" I love it haha! 🤣😄

That awkward moment when you grew up in Texas on the border of Mexico and you have such a strange accent compared to Her Royal Majesty. I love the differences in English accents. I could study them forever.

I'm glad to see that you're back! I'm an English teacher and I've showed your video about the French accent to all of my students.. It's so helpful and educational. Thank you so much 🙏🙏

@DD-xt6vo

3 жыл бұрын

Check your use of past tense for past participle. I showed = past tense I've/have shown = p p Not "I've showed" Similarly past tense is NEVER "I seen" BUT "I saw" = past tense. Past Perfect/completed is "I have seen/I've seen", Likewise Did/Done Went/Gone Spoke/Spoken Wrote/Written Rode/Ridden etc. Went Thus

@leaenglish

3 жыл бұрын

@@DD-xt6vo what a nice comment, it couldn't be said a nicer way 😉

@leaenglish

3 жыл бұрын

@@DD-xt6vo I've just checked it out and 'showed' does exist even if it's less common.

@DD-xt6vo

3 жыл бұрын

@@leaenglishExists as past tense, I showed. But as in past perfect/completed the past participle applies, ie. I've/I have shown.

Holy carp, I just realised something. So I was a cadet as a teenager and I always remember an instructional video in which some middle aged officer type kept talking about far par instead of fire power. That made sense because there are Rs in there so just smear the vowels and it happens. I now realise that fire is pronounced the same as science so of course science would turn into sarns

@ImproveYourAccent

4 жыл бұрын

You're right! Linguists call it "smoothing and compression"

I can't in jaw the absence of your content

@ImproveYourAccent

4 жыл бұрын

Very good!

Queen is a classy lady!

I'm so happy that you come back with more videos and you have courses now!! I was looking forward for them!! 👏👏👏

Up in North East England us Geordies pronounce 'endure' as if saying 'end-you're' or 'end-you-ah'

I'm definitely saying it the old school way

Triphthong flattening is a feature of posh RP. So "power" sounds like "paa" and "higher" sounds like "haa".

I enjoy your lessons soooo much.

It’s good to see you back!

Glad your back

Good evening. I am from Uzbekistan, that is from Central Asia. I always see your different videos. It is very very good. Good luck👍👍👍👍

"To sound like a modern British English speaker..." yeah yeah yeah yeah, let me stop you right there

@isabellaw8817

3 жыл бұрын

to sound like a modern British English speaker, all you need to do is speak British English in modern times

@Oxley016

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I'm a Geordie and we pronounce both of these words differently to both examples given for each.

growing up in a commonwealth country meant i learnt RP English as a second language. The 2nd syllable of the word "endure" is pronounce with a "d" sound. When i first heard British pronounced the word as "en-jure", I thought i've learnt the wrong pronunciation all my life. This video proves that what i've learnt is not wrong, just old-fashioned.

@Oxley016

2 жыл бұрын

England alone has hundreds and hundreds of different accents and pronunciations for our own language, no one way is the 'correct' way. Just don't try and talk like the Queen because everyone will think you are very strange for doing so. It is a very exclusive accent that only royals and nobles use.

@bathsalt79

2 жыл бұрын

@@Oxley016 Thank you for your comment. Having learnt English as a second language, the way i speak English is tinged with my mother tongue. I can't do Queen's English. Imagine an asian trying to imitate Jacob Rees-Mogg 😂😂😂

@Oxley016

2 жыл бұрын

@@bathsalt79 That would be an interesting thing to hear 😂😂😂 We are generally fairly used to hearing Asian versions of English accents because in our recent history many Asian immigrants have settled from the old empire; mainly from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Burma and Hong Kong!

I tried to push my pronunciation for a while but in the end I realized that my efforts were useless. They could spot I was Italian two miles away. A second language is a tool and as long as it works in conveying communication, that's enough. I lived happily ever since.

@brunorossibonin788

3 жыл бұрын

Think like that: it's sexy to have an accent. You're "the Italian guy" for them!

@naufalzaid7500

2 жыл бұрын

I think the reason your pronunciation practices may have been uneffective was because you were misled by the IPA symbols that the dictionary likes to use. For example, while the vowel of words like north are commonly transcribed with /ɔː/, the quality of that vowel is actually closer to [oː] (the vowel of the o in "alto"). There are actually a lot of vowel sounds in Italian that can be used to make a quite convincing modern British RP accent, so while it may seem hard, I think giving your pronunciation practices a second chance wouldn't be so bad.

Thanks a lot-it was actually amazing !

I've just discovered your channel. I wasn't expecting to see Lucy 😂😂

Amazing Points to be noted and these points are very important to improve accent. I'm from India and i really love your way to teach.

It’s lovely I love her voice 💖

Interesting, useful, amazing! Greetings from Argentina!🇦🇷

En route pour les 100k !!! 😉👍

Few English people now speak the Queen's accent. that's what I heard.

But wouldn’t I want to sound more like the Queen of freakin’ England??!!

@davidmukarovsky2044

3 жыл бұрын

No, because virtually no one else speaks like her.

@Alaryk111

3 жыл бұрын

@@davidmukarovsky2044 Neither does anyone speak in RP.

@davidmukarovsky2044

3 жыл бұрын

​@@Alaryk111 There are definitely more people speaking modern RP than the posh English that the Queen speaks. But I guess it's not just the number of speakers that matters. The Queen’s accent is very distinctive and old-fashioned. If I heard someone who's not upper-class and British speak exactly like the Queen, I’d assume they’re impersonating her. Frankly, the idea that anyone under 40 would speak like her is surreal.

@chew7656

3 жыл бұрын

@@davidmukarovsky2044 ok... Then, if I'm not supposed to speak like the queen, what is Hermoine's accent called?

@davidmukarovsky2044

3 жыл бұрын

@@chew7656 I'd say that's RP, i.e. Received Pronunciation - the British standard accent. The guy running this channel seems to speak pretty much the same accent, as do Lucy from the channel "English with Lucy" and Elliot from "ETJ English". However, we could say that the Queen speaks RP as well, but it is a sort of an old folks' RP. She’s 94 after all! I don't think language learners should imitate 90-year-olds, not even those as graceful and articulate as the Queen, because over a century the pronunciation of a language is bound to change.

wow i never thought how the queen acutally sounds like

The Queen pronounces those words a french would do.

The Queen is very old and her accent is so unusual it almost seems uniquely hers. Frankly if anyone learnt to speak English with her royal accent it would be an amazing party trick!

Great video! Thanks!

0:28 she is from English With Lucy

I find this channel very interesting and informative. 👍🏻🔥🔥

My best teacher

Very interesting, thanks

I'm over the moon now to see a notification from your channel 💃❤️ Keep going.

Endure without an ‘r’ sound is just alien and a bit of an affection.

Lucy shows up out of no where 😂😂😂

Oh Gosh, I love this language, definitely! 😍👌🏻💯🙏🏻🇬🇧🇺🇲

English with Lucy 🧡

My favourite english accent was that of legendary actor Peter Cushing. I try my best to get his r, and i have actually heard him do similar sounds to these.

Is that a traditionally made Indian statue behind you on the shelf? Had got me all excited when I first saw this video when you uploaded it months ago. But I forgot to ask it then for some reason. Anyway, I greatly enjoy your lessons. Have done for over a year and a half now. Keep teaching us how to speak English like natives. Wish you luck for your channel to achieve even greater success. :) Many people in India say "saans". And almost everyone says "ind-your" (the "d" is pronounced a bit differently by most Indians though).

Queen Elisabeth: "science" *Megalovania starts playing in the background*

Great video.

Top man

if ur learning english pls neverrrr say “science” like “sanze” 😭 nobofy id going to understand u

@ninnosimoni755

3 жыл бұрын

Don't write english in the way you do it, please!

@AnnabelleJARankin

3 жыл бұрын

Not true - of course we can understand it and the queen is not the only one to say it - the upper classes still often do!

@AnnabelleJARankin

3 жыл бұрын

@Legion Joanna Lumley speaks beautiful RP...

@Oxley016

2 жыл бұрын

@Legion You don't know what you are talking about, the UK has had countless accents and unique dialects since forever. It has nothing to do with yanks.

@Oxley016

2 жыл бұрын

@Legion I don't know anybody who uses the word guys

Thanks💕

Lovely

As a Brazilian who had larned english in a British oriented shcool I usually speak with "The Queen accent" the RP accent it's considered more elegant. My thacher speak portuguese but, is originally from london and his wife is Brazilian. There are a few americans here in the ciety were i live and they're larnenig the formal accent and pronunciation the way that well instructed people speak. On day-to day life most Brazilians don't talk like these but, as I see, it the individual who's able to comprehend the refined usadge of a language makes good impression on a job interview and also native speakers

Still enjoying your vidos Luke !

@ImproveYourAccent

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Sebastien!

Previously I used to pronounce as advised but now I will pronounce like the queen !!!!! 😍

@Oxley016

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah if you want people to look at you funny and think that you are strange, then feel free!

La vieille est vraiment d’une autre époque !!

"Science" and similar cases are pronounced this way in the US Carolinas as well. Lot of "southern" dialects follow RP. Dropping of final [r] being a most famous case.

In speaking, my goal is to be understood, nothin' else 🙄😁

@margalitvanbergen6620

3 жыл бұрын

Bingo! 🌹

@renatovonschumacher3511

3 жыл бұрын

So you are an uncultivated minimalist then.

I prefer the Queens way. She sets the standard. Always strive for the highest. Who are YOU to recommend me your way? Who do you think you are?

The Cambridge online dictionary still gives /ɪnˈdjʊər/ as the only option and I must be old-fashioned because I really prefer it. /ɪnˈdjɔːr/ may be viable, but /ɪnˈdʒɔː/ seems careless and impacts aural comprehension. Science, as the Queen pronounces it, seems closer to the original French, despite the lack of the [i]. That said, I've never heard it pronounced that way and it's probably better to stick with the current pronunciation.

@paulwarren4947

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed. To whoever is reading this comment: folks, you would do well to stick with /ɪnˈdjʊə(r)/. /ɪnˈdjɔːr/ is not even recognised by dictionaries, much less the atrocious /ɪnˈdʒɔː/. With that beign said, no doubt a lot of people use the two careless variants.

I loved this video. The thing that it's like pronouncing "in jaw" for endure" is very helping. I will remember it way more easily. Thank you!!

@DD-xt6vo

3 жыл бұрын

More helpFUL is to say endure correctly, ie. NOT in-jaw but as en-djur or en-djoor. Endurance, the noun, is not in-jaw-ance but en-djoor-ance (long vowel sound. Similarly injure is not said in-jaw but in-djur (short vowel sound). Injury is not in-jaw-y but in-djur-y. And perjury is not per-jaw-y but per-djur-y. Note the family of words have things in common ie. the 'r' in the middle is there to be pronounced. Science simply has two vowels in the middle, mostly clearly pronounced as sci-ence/si-ence. No need to learn sans or sarns from the opposite ends of the class divide.

Why should I "improve" my accent? You're telling me to pronounce endure like injure, what kind of improvement is that?😊😊

@amediocrecatholic7398

2 жыл бұрын

Because the word's original pronunciation actually has a yod that is immediately after the 'd' sound. When a yod occurs immediately after /d/, it may get coalesced with the /d/, so the pair amalgamates into /ʤ/ -- the sound of the 'j' of the word 'juice'. This phonetic phenomenon is called 'yod-coalescence'.

@Oxley016

2 жыл бұрын

@@amediocrecatholic7398 no normal English speakers understand whatever you just said, there are hundreds of accents in England alone and the RP being taught in this video is only one of those accents. It isn't an improvement, it is just one of the many valid ways of speaking.

Thanks for your video!! Can I ask the title of the song that comes out shortly at the beginning of the video? 😍

@ImproveYourAccent

4 жыл бұрын

God Save The Queen

I'm feeling old fashioned now, and I'm 60

Love this, very clear and corpus-based. One thing I was expecting you to mention was a) the probable French influence in the two uncommon pronunciations and b) the inconsistency of the RP accent if we are to consider diachronic variation. Thanks for the video. Looking forward to seeing more.

Oddly enough the older British pronunciation of endure is much closer to the modern American pronunciation.

AAHHHHH I KNOW LUCY!!!!!

I didn't know that !!! 🤔🤔🤔 Can you make video about Arabic accent ? please

Science.... the way Queen say is like 'southern accent' in America

@Oxley016

2 жыл бұрын

More like the other way round.

I am still an old english user for endure - do not care.😅

im not native English but i find it easier to pronounce in'djue (the old one).

Teh queen also might remember middle English

(As non native speaker) I do agree with your advice on pronunciation of science, but in no way I would mix endure with injure.

@davidmukarovsky2044

3 жыл бұрын

Mixing "endure" and "injure" is not an issue, because "endure" has stress on the second syllable, while "injure" has stress on the first. The fact that the second syllable of "injure" is unstressed also means that its second vowel is /ə/, known as "schwa", which is the most common vowel for unstressed syllables in English words. On the other hand, the second syllable in "endure" is a full, long vowel. It takes little, if any training to distinguish between the two words. I say that as a fellow non-native. Just compare the transcriptions: /ɪnˈdʒɔː/ (endure) vs. /ˈɪn.dʒə/ (injure).

Eres bueno Lukas

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How she’ says science just sounds like a general southern accent

Of course the way it is suppose to be pronounced is “indoor”

Вы очень красивый мужчина. На Вас приятно смотреть)

Hi, i have a question, are u(British) able to understand tangier island dialect in the united states?

Love this! But I prefer the old-fashioned pronunciation.

What’s the music name ?please

What song

0:25 That's Lucy!

What is a cut glass accent and can you please do a video explaining or talking in this accent but I say a paragraph in this accent and then say it regularly if you do please text my name in the comments so that I may get notified

That "weird" pronunciation is typical for Americans with endure but it's a more natural sound for us. Almost en-do-er. The in-jaw pronunciation (with English accent) would not even be recognizable to an American without context. With an American accent it would be flat out incorrect

I find it fascinating that our American southern accent has similarities to British like the schwa er, science, fire and ice among others.

@sadiemack5395

3 жыл бұрын

I was told by a prof that Shakespearean times accents would sound very much like a modern day Tennessean.

@Oxley016

2 жыл бұрын

@@sadiemack5395 Thank goodness we have evolved since then

Endure your life! Enjoy your life! Both frases sound the same for a "modern" Briton. I would really go with an International English.

Oops, forgot to add. Yes, the Queen has a lot to ' in jaw' but it ain't 'sahns' . March 6, 2021 🙏

Anyone notice her serious vocal fry? Very California.

From now on, I will say "sans"

@feynman.freegimo

3 жыл бұрын

Me too. LOL

I feel like old fashion pronunciation of endure sounds like india

ENDIOR LOL

I am a German speaker and I do everything - EVERYTHING- to imitate RP English. And I say saans, not just sience. and endooor...and not endure. How common it is to say sience

Is the pronunciation of 'science' an example of smoothing?

@ImproveYourAccent

4 жыл бұрын

smoothing and compression - yes!

Strange that the Queen's English sounds little American? Her "endure" is certainly American. "Sahnce" sounds like the American South.

@FrancescoDondi

3 жыл бұрын

It is said that the American pronunciation is actually closer to 1700 speak; British english is the one that evolved most.

@benavraham4397

3 жыл бұрын

@@FrancescoDondi Yes! British pronunciation is evolving fast than American.

Americans: say it again?

Kinds of sounds like ‘Injure’

science pronounced that way mirrors French "sans" (without the nasal ending), as for endure, it sounds like enjoy if you use the /dg/ sound, barring the final /i/ in enjoy with is barely audible. English is so confusing, I don't get how to get around understanding one another

Ha her science is very South Carolina !

Cutie

Endure