British English Pronunciation - Modern RP Accent

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- Hello everyone.

And welcome back to English With Lucy.

Let's take a look

at this word, epiphany.

It's a particularly beautiful word

and it holds a lot of meaning for me.

As defined by Cambridge English dictionary,

it is a moment when you suddenly feel

that you understand something that is very important to you.

I want you to have an epiphany

when it comes to your English.

Now, let's look at the pronunciation.

Epiphany, epiphany,

you might have seen in my pronunciation videos

that I use these weird letters.

These are phonetic transcriptions.

They are incredibly useful,

if you know how to read and understand them,

and they are incredibly useless,

if you don't know how to use them.

I have created something big, something important.

To me, it's the most valuable work

that I've ever carried out

throughout my career as a teacher.

It has taken me two years of hard work.

I have built a language platform.

It's called a Epiphany Language Studios, and it's ready.

I can now announce

that the first course is waiting for you on the platform,

and it is the most highly requested

and anticipated topic in the history of my YouTube channel.

Never have I received so many requests

for one specific topic,

British English pronunciation.

I need to be very specific here.

There are so many varieties of British English,

and none of them are superior.

In this course,

I will teach you pronunciation based on the way I speak,

modern received pronunciation.

I will teach you to sound natural

when speaking English.

You will learn to speak clearly

and you'll feel more confident and fluent

when you speak.

We'll go through every sound

in modern received pronunciation in detail,

focusing on mouth shape and tongue position.

Lift your tongue so that the tip makes gentle contact

with the underneath of your upper front teeth.

I'll be right there with you,

leaving you time and space,

to copy and imitate my sounds and movements.

All the vowel sounds,

all of the consonant sounds,

you'll master them all,

you will leave the course

with the ability to understand

any phonetic transcription that you might find

in a British English dictionary.

That means that you'll be able to look at any word

and immediately know how to pronounce it.

We will also analyse connected speech,

how to link your words together

and make your sentences flow.

I'll show you where to emit

or to leave out certain sounds or syllables.

We'll look at rhythm, intonation,

word stress, syllable stress.

We will of course, take a good look

at notoriously difficult sounds,

like the glottal stop, the linking R and the dark L.

I wanted to ensure

that I'm providing you, my students,

with an outstanding pronunciation course.

So I hired two lecturers in linguistics

from prestigious English universities,

to fact check and confirm the course.

They went through every script that I created,

every video in the course,

every single part of the course,

to fact check it and confirm it all.

I am so excited and proud to share this with you all.

I've been making lessons on YouTube for five years

and I always had the goal of creating a course,

but, I wanted it to be the best course possible.

I am so excited to welcome you

through the doors of Epiphany Language Studios,

so that you can learn pronunciation with me.

Go to EpiphanyLanguageStudios.com,

or click on the link in the description box.

I will see you on my language platform.

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