Welcome to my Traditional RP course! In the following pages, you will find a comprehensive and accessible guide to learning a Traditional RP accent from soup to nuts. The best place to start is probably How to Use this Course. But though the
course is laid out in a straightforward progression, allowing you to start at the beginning and follow it all the way through to the end, you should also feel free to go wherever you like and jump around at will. The contents are as follows:
Welcome!
Received Pronunciation: Traditional vs. Modern vs. Estuary
Accent Models
List of Speakers
Long Sound Files
The 3 Ps: Posture, Pronunciation, and Prosody
Posture
State-of-Readiness
Rapier vs. Broadsword
Noel Coward vs. Ian McKellan: Jaw Height & Lip Corners
Active Lips
Pronunciation
Rhoticity
Consonant Sounds
T
Medial T
Final T
Syllabic Consonants
Syllabic L and Lateral Plosion
Syllabic N and Nasal Plosion
Vowel Sounds
Vowel Sounds: The Vowel Space
Vowel Sound Patterns: Lexical Sets
The NURSE vowel
The lettER and commA vowels
The BATH/SPA/START vowel
The TRAP vowel
The LOT/CLOTH vowel
The THOUGHT/NORTH vowel
The GOOSE vowel
The GOAT vowel
The STRUT vowel
The NEAR and SQUARE vowels
The CURE vowel
The happY vowel
The Secretary’s Melancholy Testimony
Fine Tuning
The DRESS vowel
The PRICE vowel
The FACE vowel
The MOUTH vowel
The CHOICE vowel
The FLEECE vowel
The KIT vowel
The FOOT vowel
Weak Forms
Of, Was, From
For, Your
Them, That
Been
Shibboleths
Prosody
Melody
Simple Falls
Simple Rises
High Falls
High Rises
Switchback Falls
Switchback Rises
Downstepped Peaks
Putting it All Together
Some Coordination Drills
Some Warm-Up Exercises
Some Texts