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British Accent Pronunciation help

British folks , could you please pronounce these words so that I can learn the British accent ?

Emergency
Party
Important
Oat
Call
Phone
Words
Original post by Helen20021
British folks , could you please pronounce these words so that I can learn the British accent ?

Emergency
Party
Important
Oat
Call
Phone
Words

Which British accent are you aiming to learn?
Reply 2
Original post by PhoenixFortune
Which British accent are you aiming to learn?

RP is the common one I guess
Original post by Helen20021
RP is the common one I guess

RP is the accent of the Queen, so many British people would consider you very 'posh' for speaking in that accent. Newsreaders and TV presenters tend to have a Southern British Standard accent, which doesn't have so much of a class association.
Reply 4
Original post by PhoenixFortune
RP is the accent of the Queen, so many British people would consider you very 'posh' for speaking in that accent. Newsreaders and TV presenters tend to have a Southern British Standard accent, which doesn't have so much of a class association.

I like the posh accent tho
Reply 5
HiNative is a REALLY good website for pronounciation and grammar. You can ask people on there to record their accent!
I use it for learning Japanese and it's soo helpful :smile:
Original post by Helen20021
I like the posh accent tho

Fair enough. This is a good speech simulator for specific words: https://www.readspeaker.com/text-to-speech-demo/
Original post by Helen20021
I like the posh accent tho

barely anyone speaks with it

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