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Im doing a british accent as old fashion RP(just changed a link)



 
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Im doing a british accent as old fashion RP(just changed a link) #1 (permalink) Thu May 06, 2010 20:12 pm   Im doing a british accent as old fashion RP(just changed a link)
 

sorry guys because I haven't got a microphone here so I leave a link for you to download the audio message which was recorded by my mobile phone
http://www.4shared.com/audio/T2PF6JQ6/QWE.html(
Since there were lot of people around me were laughing at my accent so I was decided to learn how to speak with the british accent known as RP
In the recording I was doing a old fashion RP
I am eager to know if I really did it as speak with a british accent
Thank you

Lesson 2
Thirteen equals one
Our vicar is always raising money for one cause or another, but he has never managed to get enough money to have the church clock repaired. The big clock which used to strike the hours day and night was damaged many years ago and has been silent ever since.
One night, however, our vicar work up with a start: the clock was striking the hours! Looking at his watch, he saw that it was one o'clock, but the bell struck thirteen times before it stopped. Armed with a torch, the vicar went up into the clock tower to see what was going on. In the torchlight, he caught sight of a figure whom he immediately recognized as Bill Wilkins, our local grocer.
'Whatever are you doing up here Bill?' asked the vicar in surprise.
'I'm trying to repair the bell,' answered Bill. 'I've been coming up here night after night for weeks now. You see, I was hoping to give you a surprise.'
'You certainly did give me a surprise!' said the vicar. 'You've probably woken up everyone in the village as well. Still, I'm glad the bell is working again.'
That's the trouble, vicar,' answered Bill. 'It's working all right, but I'm afraid that at one o'clock it will strike thirteen times and there's nothing I can do about it."
We'll get used to that, Bill,' said the vicar. "Thirteen is not as good as one, but it's better than nothing. Now let's go downstairs and have a cup of tea.'
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Im doing a british accent as old fashion RP(just changed a link) #2 (permalink) Thu May 06, 2010 21:02 pm   Im doing a british accent as old fashion RP(just changed a link)
 

well,there are something i need to say In fact the accent I was doing in the recording is not 100% old fasion but something between conservative RP and contemporary RP because the vowel ae I pronounced that only can find in the youger speaker these day and older rp speaker pronounce the vowel more close to the vowel ei actually I think of the accent I was doing in the recording is much closer to the old fashion RP.
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