British Upper Class Accent | Eton College Alumni

[@sophialee1804]

They all sound very elegant and relaxing. Their pronunciations are very clear to take in for me, a English learner.

[@elkpaz560]

But Tom Hiddleston is something in a class of his own.

[@ritschardt]

I am from Adelaide South Australia the way they speak sounds perfectly normal to me.

[@angelicabertellini]

Thank you Jade, I really like these accents videos

[@claudiodssantos]

In Brazil, our actors do not belong to the upper class. To be very honest, most of them have humble origins. In UK, you have a very different reality.

[@MegaUsaname]

Whilst it may seem romantic to other nationalities and generally i quite like some of our actors, its fucking annoying how underrepresented some of our regions or social classes (like mine in the north east of England) are

[@rukathehamsteratwork8896]

That’s interesting. In my country (Japan), sons of famous actors tend to pursue their career in show business, but it’s just a kind of nepotism. Or more precisely, I cannot find Japanese equivalent of “the upper class” of the UK. I found the structure of class society in Britain very unique and difficult to understand.

[@gavinreid2741]

The actors in Britain come from all social classes. The one6 show here have been selected to show a specific accent, not as a representative sample.

[@strictlyyoutube6881]

A lot of the production companies in the UK only have budget for period dramas about toffs, so they often source out toffs. Brazil I take it doesn't have that type of thing.

[@11bornrich]

Not really, U.K. is just like anywhere else, you have actors from all sorts of social classes, in fact, I’d be surprised if even a decent-sized portion of our actors are from the upper class. On one hand you can wonder if they would be because acting isn’t really a good career-choice for the most part, so if you were to dabble in that space some would think you had the financial security to explore acting so perhaps you’re from the middle-upper class. On the other hand, one could argue that wouldn’t be the case because typically, although the upper class do encourage their children to partake in some form of arts at some point, career-wise, they push them in a totally different direction, whereas, working class children don’t really have the same structure and are likely to dabble & choose a career in just about anything.

[@funkg]

Personally I wouldn't describe these mens accent as 'upper class' they're well spoken. I live in Notting Hill/Ladbroke Grove where a high number of men speak in a similar fashion.

[@elkpaz560]

IF Prince William isn't upper class who is?

[@rukathehamsteratwork8896]

The difference (and the relation) between “the upper class” and “the upper middle class” in the U.K. is very difficult for me to really understand. I watched Sally Potter's film “Orlando”, by the way, in which Tilda Swinton played the title role. I think she comes from the upper class, doesn’t she? It was a nice film. Greetings from Tokyo, Japan.

[@JadeJoddle]

A school like Eton is where the upper middle class can pay to access the upper class. There isn’t much difference in the accent of the above people. Damian Lewis has been influenced by living/working in the USA and Bear Grylls is a bit older so the word ‘powerfully’ is smoothed.

[@minno234]

@@JadeJoddle Don't forget the 70 boys on 100% scholarships - from all backgrounds.

[@jimwalsh8520]

No such thing any more, just those who can afford to send their children to Public School and those who cannot. Besides, Slough Grammar is not as ut once was, it has a woke head and he had brought in a diversity team, mostly misandrist females. Benenden, King Canterbury, Charterhouse, Westminster, all 100% better than this travesty of a scool

[@igod8054]

@@minno234 so 70 out of 1300?

[@corribnews2219]

To help[ you understand. The accent derives from prep school, often boarding schools that (mostly) boys attend from 7-8 onwards. It is a very SPECIFIC accent in a very specific miliue. Every single one of these speakers went to a prep school--that's where it all starts, for good or ill. If you haven't been to prep school and subsequently go onto to "public" school, you won't sound "posh". --Kevin Whelan

[@MacakPodSIjemom]

This is just standard RP British accent we all learn and recognize as typical. Is it really now confined only to the Upper Class people?

[@celiabarker]

No. I am not in the least upper class and most of my friends and I speak like this. Just educated people from the south of England which is not to raise it above any regional accent…equally acceptable..

[@MacakPodSIjemom]

@@celiabarker Thanks, Celia. I always thought that "upper class accent" is the one often called "posh" (usually used by many actors in old British movies). Does anybody really use that accent anymore? This one here sounds to me just like regular BBC news accent from 1980's-1990's.

[@mahmudurrahman2215]

@@MacakPodSIjemom many eton lads do, when they're from the countryside and have aristocratic families i.e lords and barons and whatnot

[@simonmoore2380]

Some of the accents here (Bear Grylls for example) are not even RP, they’re just “southern”. I tend to find most people who speak with so called “posh upper class” accents are not even especially upper class, or even especially bothered about class. It’s those going around saying things like “nah it’s dem posh geezers innit bruv, you get me?” who have the chip on their shoulders about class.

[@bathsalt79]

i think this content creator of this channel does not know who Jacob Rees-Mogg is.

[@cottagewitchapothecary]

I 've learned this accent in elementary school as a standard English (English is my second language).

[@annabeauty7084]

Yes) me too

[@robsonlevibitcoingenial108]

Me too, Best regards from Brazil

[@JuliaABltd]

Thank you! Love your vids about social accents

[@paintedbird6791]

Back in '89, amidst the hallowed halls of academia, I found myself peddling luggage in the eclectic tapestry of San Francisco. One fine day, a curious customer waltzed in, fixated on a particular backpack. With a sly grin, I remarked, "You've got quite a charming accent." To my surprise, he retorted, "London, my dear friend. I'm the embodiment of eloquence. It's you with the accent conundrum." That fleeting banter was a seismic shift in my worldview. From that point on, as my ventures took me globe-trotting, I'd initiate conversations with, "Greetings, I hail from the Golden State. Can you discern the faint echoes of an accent?" Yet, my quest for linguistic identity hit a snag in Shanghai. A local quipped, "No, it's not a Californian cadence; you're rocking the immigrant intonation." And just like that, I embraced my destiny as an international tycoon with an immigrant's lyrical flair. Life's a journey, and so is the accent that accompanies it!

[@curryrice7159]

Not all Etonians are from the upper class, the school releases bursaries and scholarships for people who don’t have enough money to pay for the fees but have excellent potential, and some parents work their ass off to send their kids to this school. They do this because Eton has the value and extremely high education standards to be worthy enough to have such a high tuition fee. There are many random boarding schools in the UK that have the same fees or even higher than Eton, but are not as good. Maybe write the trash comments of ‘who will pay this tuition for a school?’ to the schools which are not like Eton.

[@KM41867]

Perhaps not all, but most. It is, undeniably, an institution for the rich, which doesn't breed to power characters as fine as they should be. Take our last PM, as an example.

[@kinda4664]

The more singing, the upper class. I got it.

[@user-iz8xe5pf2q]

could you put the links those videos that you put in the description? I want to practice to use those videos

[@shahad_alsayed]

Thank you for sharing the video.

[@thecitizenjoan]

This is my favorite accent and the australian accent

[@ronniebauman28]

45k a year? Lmao that's typical out of state college tuition here in the states. IF you're lucky!

[@mariotabali6983]

Finally a vid I can watch without being distracted by your beauty

[@parkash9999]

Awesome video.

[@idontknowmyname.9202]

Looks like the princes don't have to conserve the queen's accent anymore. It's quite distinguishable.

[@ansari7301]

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[@natureishome1314]

I think it's funny how he's wearing a hawaii shirt in the beginning

[@aminekessar]

Jade, what are your thoughts about this accent or these accents?? Thanks for your job. Cheers from Algiers.

[@JadeJoddle]

The main point I would make about the speakers in the above video is that they speak with a modern R.P. accent. They don’t sound particularly ‘posh’.

[@aminekessar]

@@JadeJoddle I see. When I first listened to them, they seemed to me less british 😃 Thanks for your feedback. I really appreciate. Cheers from Algiers!

[@veniqer]

​@@JadeJoddle The last oke sounded slightly more "posh" in his pronunciation of "powerfully.

[@Gadavillers-Panoir]

Love this 💓

[@lavender5765]

Im in love with English Accents all ❤❤❤

[@dianaloren51]

i wonde what Eddie Redmayne is thinking of what's going on between william and harry? Particularly of William attacking Harry.... William telling Harry didnt want him around at Eton....

[@eryabolonha]

Damian Lewis is not American? - 😮 my jaw is on the floor

[@JadeJoddle]

His accent is a bit influenced by American English.

[@wbalkhair7369]

I'd think upper class accent is what Prince Charles and Rowan Atkinson speak

[@izwan7853]

Where is the origin English? Miss Jade

[@rpgadventurer32]

Their versions are not really upper class. It's a modern day RP.

[@mira-uf1ie]

Agree. None of them sound posh at all.

[@CountZero867]

but Bobby Axelrod is an American tycoon, isn't he? :)

[@Ehm593]

I wouldn’t boast about Harry as being an Alumni. Must have been pushed through the academic programme.

[@itoo3654]

As if that's new? all the royal family have been pushed through,!🥴

[@zulkiflijamil4033]

Hello Jade, thanks a lot for sharing this video. Anyway, I have a query. Is it possible for non Etonians and especially for non English to be able at least be able to have a good and understandable diction. As a conclusion, I give a five star for this particular video. 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@JadeJoddle]

Yes, of course. That's why I make accent training courses. jadejoddle.com/get-a-british-accent/

[@zulkiflijamil4033]

@@JadeJoddle To be honest to you, I have derived so great a pleasure listening to your lesson on posh upper class persons.

[@jimwalsh8520]

The UK is a very diverse small Island of different accents. For example, you will find Etonins and people who think they can train people to speak correctly make some huge gaffs. They will use an elongated A, so a bath becomes a bart and glas becomes glarss. They use a glotalstop so do not pronounce a T like in GAT Wick. or Law and order which to these people becomes lawrrnorder. Drwaing becomes a drawring. All very common and not good English spoken at all

[@zulkiflijamil4033]

@@jimwalsh8520 Thanks very much for the comments and sharing. Really appreciate it.

[@corribnews2219]

What isn't made clear here is something all of those featured above understand perfectly: that the "upper class" accent is a learnt almost by osmosis but ONLY from prep school one. Every single one of these guys went to a prep boarding school from age 8, eg. chiefly the Dragon in Oxford and Ludlow in Berkshire (check out their entries on Wikipedia). I went to two prep schools--a boarding school and a day school--and left them with an accent very similar to the above though my family wasn't remotely "posh" or upper class.

[@ВзломАнглийского]

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[@alicerossi_ap]

£ 44,094 per year? What on earth do they teach in this secondary school? To walk barefoot on the surface of the water?.....Surely the diction of its students can also be "perfect" and in line with the standard accent but on an educational level, can we say that they have acquired an extraordinary level of knowledge considering the school fees?....... Jade, I apologise in advance for my probably silly but instinctive comment 😊, thank you very much for this video.

[@idontknowmyname.9202]

Frankly, one of the main reasons why it is expensive, it's the price for gatekeeping and preserve the social circle's power of Etonian lol. Like ya know, there are sons of aristocrats/old money, politicians or nouveau riche (mostly billionaires). Even though, some young men don't have an affluence families, they are still creme de la creme who are extraordinary genius enough to get scholarships. So, this is the group of people who could be world leaders or world changers in the future. In order to keep Eton's status, they can't let the commoners in easily. Thus, the price should be very expensive. (if the financial unstable commoners wanna get in, they must have scholarships) By the way, Eton's education is splendid, so yes that's also one of the reasons why, too.

[@alicerossi_ap]

@@idontknowmyname.9202 It seems to me the least that education is splendid with how much it costs.......so, in short and if I don't get it wrong, more than a school fee it's the purchase price of a status symbol that certainly belongs to the super rich people's sons even if, potentially, mediocre in mind and which is also recognised with limits to the ordinary people's sons with mediocre finances, as long as they have a brilliant mind.......Socrates said: "Virtue doesn't arise from wealth" and Heraclitus said: "Having a great education doesn't mean being smart".....who knows, anyway thanks for the details 😊

[@filmtajm35]

Sorry guys, but you are all wrong. It's all about who you will be friends with, ie life long connections.

[@vickydonovan9439]

You also have to remember not everyone who goes to Eton is smart especially if their parents are rich. Yeah, some rich kids are smart but some are not and are mostly there because their are from affluent families and their parents bought them a place there. Prince Harry did not do so well in school at Eton, the school marked his grade as a pass but did not put the kind of grade he got, I know this because there a documentary I saw on KZbin and the grades of some children of some of the most affluent families in the UK who went to Eton but did not do so well. People who get into Eton with scholarship you know they are smart because their had to get in by knowledge and not connections. Finally, anyone who went to Eton can most get into the field their studied at because most employers see it at cream of the crop and you only get their if you smart so they super charge, but honestly you can learn all things taught in Eton by yourself or at another school.

[@andile5945]

There’s limited spaces and the wealthy class did not pick up their wealth at Poundland. Competition and quality, if well governed, go hand-in-hand.

[@celiabarker]

This just Standard English, not especially upper class.

[@carloscedeno8956]

Sunrise

[@simabelhinha4973]

And what about Hugh Grant?? His accent is undoubtly upper class...

[@JadeJoddle]

Hugh Grant did not attend this school.

[@celiabarker]

Standard English spoken by middle class people from the south of England

[@petergreenslade6194]

So its only the rich that can afford acting classes in England 🙃

[@Sj-dj9qz]

Jade....I lov u!❤ 🙃

[@Mrs.Karen_Walker]

Sorry but non of these examples are proper posh accents they are all RP accents. If you really want to hear a super posh accent. go have a listen to Noël Coward his song "I went to a marvelous party"

[@andile5945]

Brilliant marketing for Eton

[@msairs]

they sound muffled, like theyre eating their words. lol

[@garywilson6047]

This is not an “Eton” accent. Just properly spoken English.

[@JM-gu3tx]

Harry mispronounced "all" like 'ohl".

[@robertleadwood]

Not mispronounced, its his accent just like how you "mispronounce" his name as hairy 😂

[@ppate8]

See how they don’t sound like those chavs from Kent

[@misc1453]

They sound like me.

[@aram5642]

My non-native ear prefers Harry to William.

[@JadeJoddle]

Based on the clips, they are very different speakers.

[@aram5642]

@@JadeJoddle Exactly - even though they both came out of the same family and college.

[@parkerparks8004]

@@aram5642 I also find it interesting neither of them sound like Charles

[@sleepdeprived9181]

44k is not a lot to the rich, but I think it is the exclusivity. You could have all the money in the world and still not get in here because you have no connection.

[@martinpokmat2252]

OMG, without the rich parrents you are nothing!!!!!!!!!

[@carolyncouch4094]

Actors? No scientists?

[@ultramet]

Where’s Adele? 😂😂😂. She sure can 🎤 sing but No RP there for sure.

[@JadeJoddle]

Eton was a school for boys. Adele would not have been allowed to go there.

[@istiisti111]

upper class accent is the easiest accent to understand

[@MeadeFatLoss]

Because it's closer to American

[@Luna-nj9zd]

Eton: a nest of corruption and immorality.

[@eml9147]

For me, anyone who sounds more 'posh' than this sounds slightly ridiculous. If you sound more posh than Prince bloody William, you're surely overcompensating.

[@bernardliu8526]

Rather surprisingly, her accent is far from posh.

[@Jaydyte]

Upperclass accent? Whatever, my question is how much is in their bank accounts? I rather go with a Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk accent, hehehe 😜

[@simple.stuffs]

Jeff or Elon won't even give you a dime.😂

[@theoptimist9636]

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[@VladyslavKL]

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[@ilyabesk9809]

Jade, are you tired of KZbin?

[@sbor2020]

Jaded maybe.

[@AJCiti]

It sounds a bit insufferable tbh