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Hello, it's John here.
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Today we have a very interesting topic for you.
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That is the Eton accent and vocabulary.
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Now, Eton is one of the most prestigious schools in the UK, if not the most prestigious.
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So where is Eton?
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Well, it's about 20 miles from central London, very close to the town of Windsor.
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Here is a sample of former pupils who all went to Eton.
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We have Damien Lewis, Eddie Redmayne, Tom Hiddleston, Bear Grylls and Ian Fleming all went to Eton.
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Plus two other prime ministers, British prime ministers who went to Eton
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and they're the ones we're going to focus on today because I have recordings of both of them,
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that being Boris Johnson, for many people this is an astonishing moment of hope, and David Cameron.
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And that is something we should all be grateful for.
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And we're going to analyse their accent.
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Then we're going to look at the specific vocabulary that's used at Eton College.
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So, by the end of the video, you should know how to speak Eton.
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So, let's start with Boris.
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Let's hear the way he speaks in this speech.
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Tonight we are leaving the European Union.
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For many people this is an astonishing moment of hope.
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A moment they thought would never come.
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And there are many, of course, who feel a sense of anxiety and loss.
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And then there's a third group, perhaps the biggest, who had started to worry that the whole political wrangle would never come to an end.
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So Boris certainly speaks with an RP or Received Pronunciation accent.
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He's got various features, pronunciation features to his accent.
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Let's go through them now.
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OK, so the first thing you'll notice is he's got quite a throaty way of speaking, really at the back of the throat,
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you know, a bit like this.
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Political wrangle.
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On top of that, he's got this sort of start -stop rhythm to it,
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like as if everything he's saying is actually a sound bite.
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Perhaps the biggest.
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Couple that with his highly melodic intonation and he's surely got your attention. Of hope.
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Now, he's obviously nurtured this accent to sound, I don't know, privileged or upper class.
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And you can really tell that he went to a private school.
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He's got that kind of feel about his accent.
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He uses words that RP speakers would use, like astonishing.
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And he's got the classic RP vowel sound, like thought.
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Yes, so he's got this sound just like in classic RP.
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Plus it's a version of RP that's quite rare these days, although you have to say it does stand out because of that.
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Now let's move on to David Cameron who is also an Old Etonian.
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Here's his speech, the first speech he made as PM of Britain.
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Her Majesty the Queen has asked me to form a new government and I have accepted.
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Before I talk about that new government, let me say something about the one that has just passed.
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Compared with a decade ago...
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So, he speaks very clearly.
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Again, you could probably tell that he's been to a privately educated school.
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Maybe not exactly Eton, but he does speak.. he takes care in what he says and he speaks very clearly.
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He also, you would say, has an RP accent.
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That's because the first thing you realise is he doesn't like to drop sounds, especially his T's.
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He always says his T's like in government.
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Government.
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Yes?
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Like that.
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Form a new government.
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The next sound we'll pick up on is the classic RP sound of the O.
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Now I say it a more modern way.
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I say O and he says O, O.
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Right?
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So, people who want to enunciate, who want to speak RP generally take care of their vowel sounds.
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He says this O, O, AGO, AGO, HOPE, right?
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So, that is a clear indication of speaking received pronunciation as well.
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OK, let's move on to the vocabulary.
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Now, the first word, where would the schools be without teachers?
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And this is a word that Etonians use for teachers.
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It is used in one or two other private schools as well, but it's also used at Eton.
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So, they call teachers beaks,
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as in a bird beak and you can literally replace the word teacher for the word beak in sentences in at Eton.
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Everybody, the beak's coming.
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Finish up your homework now, quick.
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Something like that.
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Next, when I was looking at the fees for Eton, which are obviously extremely high, I noticed that the year is split into halves.
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However, the halves are divided into three.
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So, there's three halves to the year.
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That's very strange, isn't it?
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The next two are connected with eating.
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The first one is chambers.
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And that's a break in the morning when you can have a snack.
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I guess at Eton you would say something like...
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OK chaps, it's 11 o 'clock.
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Time for chambers.
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The second one is messing, which means to prepare a snack in the afternoon at your boarding house.
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Because obviously all the kids at Eton live in boarding houses.
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OK.
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Shall we put everything that we've learnt into a sentence?
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so that we can speak Eton.
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So in this half we're having chambers at 11
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and then we're going to go back to the house at 3 for messing.
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But we have to be at the chapel at 3 .30 otherwise the beaks will come hunting for us.
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And there you have it, a crash course in speaking upper class Eton.
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Now I hope you've learned a few things about the Eton accent
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and I hope you can take it away and just for pleasure or for whatever, enjoy yourself with the accent.
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Remember to like and subscribe to the channel for more videos on accents
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and remember right here you can get a better British accent.
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My name is John and I'll say see you later, stay connected, bye.
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So I hope you thoroughly enjoyed this accent video today
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and I hope now you can speak a bit more Eton and a bit more RP.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione si basa sul video “How To Speak Upper Class Eton”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: Eton, accent, speak, sound, word. Questo video contiene 96 frasi e 1020 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 6:57. Chi parla mantiene un ritmo costante di circa 147 parole al minuto, comodo per lo shadowing. Il 83% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
15 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| accent sostantivo | /ækˈsɛnt/ | accento |
| chamber sostantivo | /ˈt͡ʃeɪ̯mbɚ/ | camera |
| vocabulary sostantivo | /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/ | vocabolario |
| pronunciation sostantivo | /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/ | pronuncia, pronunzia |
| connect verbo | /kəˈnɛkt/ | connettere, connettersi |
| snack sostantivo | /snæk/ | spuntino |
| prestigious aggettivo | /pɹɛˈstiːd͡ʒəs/ | prestigioso |
| topic sostantivo | /ˈtɑpɪk/ | tema, categoria |
| anxiety sostantivo | /æŋˈzaɪ.əti/ | ansia, ansietà |
| compare verbo | /kəmˈpɛɚ/ | paragonare |
| clock sostantivo | /klɑk/ | contachilometri, tachimetro |
| grateful aggettivo | /ˈɡɹeɪtf(ə)l/ | grato |
| bite verbo | /baɪt/ | mordere |
| throat sostantivo | /ˈθɹoʊt/ | gola |
| privilege sostantivo | /ˈpɹɪv.(ɪ.)lɪd͡ʒ/ | privilegio, prerogativa |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Significato |
|---|---|
| go through verbo | attraversare |
Frasi da ripetere
Frasi brevi e complete del video che puoi riutilizzare nella conversazione di tutti i giorni:
- Let's hear the way he speaks in this speech.
- Let's go through them now.
- That's very strange, isn't it?
- Shall we put everything that we've learnt into a sentence?
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
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| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | has asked · has just passed · he's been |
| Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa | is split · are divided · are connected |
| Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosa | people who want · Eton, which are · messing, which means |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 14 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come we're, doesn't, don't. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “th”: throat /ˈθɹoʊt/, thoroughly /ˈθʌɹ.ə.li/, rhythm /ˈɹɪð.əm/, throaty /ˈθɹəʊti/
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, indication /ɪndɪˈkeɪʃən/, astonish /əˈstɑnɪʃ/, intonation /ɪntəˈneɪʃən/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, anxiety /æŋˈzaɪ.əti/, indication /ɪndɪˈkeɪʃən/, enunciate /ɪˈnʌnsiˌeɪt/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: accent /ækˈsɛnt/, connect /kəˈnɛkt/, snack /snæk/, prestigious /pɹɛˈstiːd͡ʒəs/, topic /ˈtɑpɪk/
- /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: accent /ækˈsɛnt/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, snack /snæk/, anxiety /æŋˈzaɪ.əti/, chapel /ˈt͡ʃæp.əl/
Come esercitarsi con questo video
- Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
- Fai shadowing frase per frase a velocità normale, ripetendo ognuna finché il tuo ritmo coincide con quello di chi parla.
- Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come accent, chamber, vocabulary.
Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?
Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.