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I have no interest in talking like the queen of England, but the beginning of the video was so sassy that I watched the whole thing
same here, also Jessica's impression of the Queen is very funny
I hope the queen sees this and invites you for tea
Marisa Donnelly - 👸🏼 After slurping her beverage out of a coffee mug? I think not! Her butler should have served her beverage in a tea cup at the least. He should be giving daily instruction regarding her table manners. Especially, as it seems, that she was quite allowed to run amok whilst she should have beed learning etiquette from nanny and eventually, her governess! 👸🏼 LOL🤣! Hope you are having a great day 💜
I honestly don't think she would allow someone to drink tea out of straws in her palace.
@@snakebitepellehue lmao you got a point
I have a feeling the queen doesn’t spend hours watching KZhead in bed like the rest of us.
I hope that the Jessica fires the queen from her useless job, monarchy is bad and monarchists should feel bad
Me: *Egyptian and speaks Arabic 24/7* yes yes this is very important I must take notes
You never know when you'll need to speak like a British royal, haha
*paper scribbling intensifies*
Window Maker Oh god same
Noor Azraq ayyyyyy omfg
Window Maker Sudanese though. Guess that makes us neighbors?
After this video, you deserve a role in the Crown!! MAKE IT HAPPEN NETFLIX 😤
Dream. Come. True.
Meredith B - AGREEE!!!! We should bombard their IG page!! 💜🦋
oh yes my mother will love me and not absolutely smack me as I talk like this for the rest of the year
DO IT!
My mother and I love British tv shows(We are American). Grew up with her mimicking the various characters and accents and so I'd join in too. I'm horrible at doing other accents but think I can do a decent "British" accent bc of all the "practice". 😄
Sorry, I read this in "the accent" now she'll have to smack both of us. Hehehehehe.
I fear this is true for most ppl! Practice anyway, vocal mimicry develops parts of your mind that allow you to hear sounds in other languages which helps learn to speak them more fluently!
"Just keep saying 'ears' when you mean 'yes'" ...I died
Is there WiFi in hell?
I think when thinking about the Queen’s speech it’s also pertinent to remember that 1. Her father had hearing problems; a lot of her slow and “proper” speech comes from that and 2. Her mother is Scottish; some of her pronunciations (mainly vowels) are also thanks to that.
And, her grands and great grands were German speakers so the vowels are more back in the throat.
furthermore, her father was not expected to take the throne & thus she and her sister were abruptly put higher in succession mid-childhood. while she would have already been learning etiquette, etc, the nature of the enormous burden suddenly placed upon her father (especially going into wartime) influenced her greatly, as would his (very private at the time) speech therapy. german accents, speech impediment, hearing impairment, those genes all the european families share (e.g. one for haemophilia) likely making her jaw/tongue placement rest in a distinctive manner... all these factors would have affected her manner of speech by default. speaking of speech therapy & etiquette/elocution instruction, Her Majesty was also of the era wherein the "transatlantic" accent was created. the dialect was taught as the "most correct" manner to speak english & was taught to be used for public speaking. this artificial dialect was thus adopted by actors, radio broadcasters, teachers... it is likely that her elocution lessons were based on the dialect.
i was just thinking that some of her pronunciations sounded a bit scottish! this is cool to know~
BattyButtercup very interesting!
BattyButtercup Indeed; excellent points all. Leads to wonder about the Queen’s DNA. Wonder what percentage of her bloodline is still German.
I am a linguist, and this made me very, very happy. Scouse, next, please.
👏SHE👏MADE👏THE👏VIDEO👏
The Queen talks just like everyone outside UK imagines how British people talk
you mean like AMERICANS think all Brittish people talk =_=
@@hypnotherapy69 WE IMAGINE THE DOWNTON ABBY ACCENT NOT THE QUEEN
Nah I imagine Jessica's accent in general. Even I, a mere Latin American native Spanish speaker, can tell her accent is Posh™
American we tend to imagine the upper class posh one or the worst cockney ascent you have ever heard
*italian and usually talks in a more american way* yeah- the Queen's accent, take notes
I love hearing Claire Foy say "Thank you" in the Crown because she says "thenk yoh". SHE'S SO CUUUTE.
Which season and episode?
When I hear you giving vocal lessons all I can think of is when my Californian theater group drove our British theater insane with the weird way Californian teens speak. Like how we don’t pronounce the last syllable of our sentences. It was pretty eye opening since none of us realized we had intense accents until the director made us change how we talked.
Oh dear, I'm made self conscious of the 'last syllable dropping' I NEVER NOTICED IT, WHAT.
My singer/language obsessed ass is LIVING for the IPA and accent training in this video!!!!
Rebekah Grace dude same
I loved the joke at the end! Niche phonetics/linguistics jokes are my favorite :D
It should be posted to the "Silly Linguistics" group on facebook.
I know what they say about explaining jokes but can someone explain it?
@@the_demon_cat337 the Kensington accent pronounces the word “crash” like “cresh”
Thank you!
"Strange vowels" Ain't that the whole English language tho? 😂 Also, I learned that I could sound like the Queen, if I weren't too lazy to speak. Thank you, Jessica.
Learning the queen's accent from someone who can't hear is but one of the many joys of this channel!
Jolly good video Jessica simply spiffing as always old chap. Pip pip! 😂😂 (Oh god that hurt to write 😂)
I've never heard the queen talk before but this seems ligit
I love her voice. If you listen to old speeches of hers, its oddly soothing.
jESSICA OMG I have been laughing at “just say ‘ears’ when you mean ‘yes’” for almost 20 minutes. 😂👂🏼👍🏼
'Make space around your r's' I'm sorry the accent just listen carefully this cracked me up 😂🤣
oh god me too 😂
I'm living in America right now (British-born, but grew up in New Zealand) and CONSTANTLY have to explain that NZ isn't a colony! And I do love it when someone compliments my ability to speak English...I usually shoot back with 'Thanks, you too!" The look of their face is always priceless.
As a linguist, thank you sooooo much for using the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) for clarity!!! It makes things way easier to understand
Things I need immediately: A collaboration with Jessica and Eric Singer (from Wired's Technique Critique).
I can't stop laughing watching this episode.
Ditto
Same. I’m back again lol.
I love your videos, they're my favourite. And ahh, that Cornwall joke made me laugh. I have a brummie accent so It isn't posh...at all. Quite the opposite. So maybe I'll give this video a try to dilute the accent a little bit as so many people hate the brummie accent. I do love your natural accent aswell.
Brummie accent is one of my favourites! You all sound so friendly xxx
Brummie accent sounds charming and sweet!
I loved the joke And why does the accent sound kinda southern. But that's probably me
Southern who? Like which country southern? If you mean English Southern It is because London is in the south of England and so it was most affected by the RP accent. If you mean U.S. Southern it’s because American southern has a slower speech patterns (some attribute that to the heat others to the mainly British familial colonization) and longer emphasis on the vowels. Etc. etc. Your comment was very vague...
I would say American southern
I forgot about the types of southern
Very sure I've seen articles before about the connection between English and the southern American accent.
@@Imtellingyourdad I was thinking the same thing. I live in Kentucky, so we're a bit more Appalachian influenced, but it definitely sounded like old Southern Belle. Especially at the end when she talked about the intonation and flow. It was a remarkable resemblance.
I recommend trying to say Flower Power in queen's English, it's everything
I'm doing an English degree in France and it's the accent we have to use in most classes. So, thanks for this video!
Really? Here in Brazil we can kinda choose whatever accent we feel like doing - usually it's American-ish.
I'm from Boston, New England (over the pond) and the Queen's accent as you dictated it sounds almost EXACTLY like our Boston accent, just a bit more posh!! It's unreal how I already knew how to pronounce a lot of those words (especially Worcester) because of my accent here. 🤣
That was so amazingly clear. I feel like I can actually sound like the queen. And you sound so much like her it’s uncanny. Like you said because you have to approach speech in such a scientific, systematic way, you can explain it so much better than someone who just “gets it”.
Oh darn!! From an Italian standpoint, now I do understand that when I was taught English at school I was taught the Queen's English!! Which is absolutely fine!! I am in total love with "Lilibeth". I love English, I studied it at university, and I have a masters in English and postcolonial literatures. But now I do understand that when I think about it, I do speak the way she would!! When I don't think about it I speak a mixture of Bre and Ame (my hubby is American, hence my once perfect Bre is now not pure!!!) :-) Thanks for the video, Jess!! Love you, love you Claudia. Big hug to both of you from Italy!!
I studied heightened RP for a while whilst at drama school and I can see this video helping future acting students! :)
4:35 Boy was it a mistake to look away from the screen while you were saying this.
No. Please no Why did you have to point that out
Oh wow. I see it now... 😳
I knew which bit you were talking about without even having to look >_>
I thought that too! I was in hysterics! 😂😂
This entire comment section is cursed
I absolutely adore your sense of humor. The sass is off the charts. I’ve watched this video so many times because I’m obsessed with accents et al. Im going to start saying “ears” in an English accent for “yes” now 😁
This is faaantaaaaastic. I absolutely love learning accents, particularly British ones. I am a citizen of the Commonwealth and by golly am I an Anglophile. I don't think you've ever made a video about something that wasn't already a special interest of mine.
Did linguistics at uni and you absolutely nailed this! Your explanations of the differences between ‘queen’s English’ and even RP and most other British accents is really good. Can tell you’ve researched this!
jokes on me since i started watching jessica's videos my accents been leaning more bbc british than ever
yes I was watching her a lot yesterday too and I temporarily went British even though I’ve lived all my life in the US 😂
I don’t know if I can do this with my Scottish accent 😂 also the crèche joke made me laugh 😂
Same
This was a lovely crèche course, Jessica 😄
I didn't know I needed this video but I am so glad it's here
I'm an American but I spent a summer studying abroad and my dormitory was in Kensington so I completely get that joke. One time, some of my classmates were having lunch at a café in the area and a little boy there said very petulantly to his mother, "Mummy, I want to go and look at the Ferraris!"
You and Carol Burnett are the two who do the best Queen voice, thank you! ❤❤🥄❤❤
Loved the joke at the end! I’m British and I didn’t know that that’s why they called it plummy ! Brilliant!
I can tell you had so much fun with this one, I’d love to learn more British-y things like phrases and history!
Can we talk about how great British food history shows are? I'm talking specifically about shows like Supersizers Go! and Ruth Goodman's historical Farm documentaries. They are so good!
You'll love A Tudor Feast and English heritage here on youtube, if you haven't already seen them x)
I adore this. I wonder how much of the Queens speech comes from speaking on the radio as a tween and teen. And how much comes from being taught, presumably by the people who helped her father manage his speech issues.
I loved this. You illustrated it perfectly. There's RP and then there's Upper RP which is the older, posher version you see in historicals and the Queen's way of speaking.
Lately I've been reading Winnie the Pooh and House at Pooh Corner to my little. I work my own play into the reading of it by practicing different accents for the various characters (I'm American but once upon a time used to teach accents to actors). I do the narrator, Kanga, and Roo in RP (think BBC, with different tones and pacing for each character), Pooh has a gravelly contemporary RP accent, Piglet is Cockney (with a very high squeaky voice), Tigger is from Somerset (because you gotta be able to say "Tiggerrrr"), Owl is Scottish (basically posh Edinburgh), Rabbit has an Estuary accent. I've been struggling with Christopher Robin because he has a much more posh RP closer to the queen, which is one I'm not very good at, so this was actually pretty useful!
Wow I felt like I was watching the crown! Her sound was on point!
You sound like her! 👸🤭 Prononciation lessons from a deaf: priceless. (I have an acquaintance who is also deaf, signs and speaks... French. He lost his earing at age 10.)
omgggg you actually sound like the queen😂😂😂😂😂
I love so much how you included 'Potter' in your list.
The intro was really funny and so was the joke at the end !! For the reason behind "tip number 6 : pronouncing every syllable", it sounds a lot like the way french people pronounce words in English, so maybe it's related to that...
"ears", what a concept!
I loved this so much! Could you make a video about what the British actually mean when they say things like "you must come for dinner" and "would you care for a cup of tea" because I only recently learned that they do not in fact want you to come for dinner and the tea thing is apparently a cue you should leave their house? :')
Really? Well, those repressed ppl! If you ask me if I would care for a cup of tea; you better be prepared to follow up !
What great fun this was to watch!
I bloody love this!
This is amazing! The intro is so good. 😁
this is AMAZING!
Wow, this was so entertaining, not sure why I would want to talk like the queen but I enjoy hearing you speak!
...a collision of two motor vehicles in Kensington!🤣🤣 Brilliant!🤣🤣
Amazing, as usual, Jessica
This was fantastic! I love videos on speech and accents. Very well done, Jessica!
YYYAAAASSSS!! SASSY JESSICA!!👏🏻🙌🏻🤣👏🏻🙌🏻🤣👏🏻🙌🏻🤣👏🏻🙌🏻🤣 You Jessica Dear, YOU are Queen! 👑👛👜💷🇬🇧🏴👑! This was quite fun actually! I have a feeling I will be driving my hubby crazy once “The Crown" returns & I start trying to repeat phrases 🤷🏼♀️! Hugs, love & prayers that you are feeling well & enjoying your week, plus necessary mooches to Walter & Tilly 🤗💜🙏🏻😘🐾🐾!
Are you hinting at something at the end🧐? Married, Grandmother, Nanny, Thirty, Only, Nursery, Baby, Invariably, Lovely? (I say, "Interesting".....😉🤗💜🦋)
this is so fun and actually a great resource for actors!
Favourite! Love this video
I had a long day with a loooot of work and I just came home and yeeees, a new video from you...wonderful! Thank you🥰
This was hilarious! Thank you! 😃
Loved the joke at the end. Having lived around Kensington High street, yes… exaCtly!
Gosh, this video is a delight.
I love the attitude! You are hilarious!
I love this video! Watched it while I was getting ready to go out for Bonfire Night and now I feel positively queenly 👑💕
Love your languge video's! 😍😍
Super interesting and well done! “Ear” for “yes” was perfect.
I just love it! Time and again we graciously agree to be amused!
Ooh! That was absolutely smashing my dear 💐
I watched this twice in a row. This was amazing! I love your fun facts! 💓
I really enjoyed this video! My grandmother was a British war bride whom I never had the opportunity to meet, who was originally from Yorkshire but lived in London during WWII. It seems unlikely, but I admit I pretend that she had the Received Pronunciation, and sounded a bit like Jessica!
This was so funny and fun! I love doing accents and I was watching your video while putting makeup on in the morning and absolutely started saying the pronunciations with you. I laughed out loud. Such fun!
Ah thanks! This was a lovely way to start my morning.
I cannot imagine how much work you put into it!
I love your videos and humor so so so so so so much.
I've been looking forward to this video
You’re so good!! 💜😁👍🏻
You can really see how much effort you put into your videos :)
You are unbelievably talented. WOW!!!!!
This was joyous
Your explanations of linguistics are truly the clearest I've ever come across, and I have spent a lot of time studying linguistics! I'd love to hear about the mechanisms of different British accents!
Love the video Jessica It may actually be helpful to some people who have difficulty with their speech x
Yaaay a Jessica Video!!
It's a lot like the British dialect for the stage that I learned in performance theatre! The A's that sound like eh were interesting, I liked this a lot!
Okay so first of all this video was phenomenal, and second of all yoUR HAIR IS SO BEAUTIFUL IM SCREAMING
Awesome!
This is a video I didn’t know I needed ❤️
As an English Scot independence campaigner your intro was EPIC & Cornwell topped it off. 🤣😂🤣😂
I only discovered your videos recently but you have become my favourite KZheadr. I love it when you speak like the queen. You’re fabulous! X
This is definitely one of my top 5 favourite videos of yours! Can't wait for more content about the UK and especially about the English language. 💚 I also have a request - could you or your lovely wife please give me tips on learning sign language? I started it this year in college, not English sign language but Polish since it's where I live, and I know they are all different but I need any advice I can get on best ways to practice, remember, not get confused, and honestly simply on how to study a sign language. I had a flare up of my chronic illness and could not attend classes at the beginning of the semester and now I have quite a lot of material to catch up on and I am not dealing well with this (welcome anxiety, panic and doubt, thank you so much for attending...).
This was a very fun video :D
I think that you found a way to have fun with speech therapy! I'm usually good with accents when learning a different language, but speaking like the Queen stumped me. I kept rolling my r's, which is so wrong. Seeing a new Jessica video in my notifications always makes me happy, and I open it instantly.