Want to Be at The Top? Take Elocution Lessons in Received Pronunciation (RP)
According to phonetician David Abercrombie, "RP is a privileged accent: your social life, or your career, or both may be affected by whether you possess it or not."
Melvyn Bragg writes: "We are each one of us, all talking advertisement of our history. Accent is the snake and the ladder in the upstairs-downstairs of social ambition. Accent is the con man's first resource."
RP (Received Pronunciation) is an accent taught for many decades since it was popularised by the BBC. In the past, it was called Queen’s English and Oxford English. RP is the accent that boys learn very quickly in Eton if they do not want to be mocked for their regional sounds. Clearly, RP is associated with the quality of one's education and a certain social and economic position. The recent BBC article is a stark confirmation of his words: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c05q318501yo
Interestingly, a study revealed that the more refined the RP of a person, the higher their social status and the better their economic situation.
I would say that acquiring Received Pronunciation is a shortcut to social and economic success. RP opens doors to fantastic opportunities.
No wonder native English speakers with regional accents, who see the obvious benefits of RP, decide to acquire it with our apps, books, video courses and elocution lessons.
If you want to master RP, start with your personalised speech analysis, then practise RP with our apps:
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