you can test your own understanding of each accent clip obviously there will be many variables the speed at which the person's speaking the setting in which they're speaking whether it's formal or informal but hopefully it will give you a good idea as always there is a pdf that goes with today's lesson it's got all of the information that i shared today plus links to the full clips and some extra bits as well if you'd like to download that just click on the link in the description box you enter your name and your email address you sign up to my mailing list and then immediately the pdf will arrive in your inbox and then every week after that you will automatically receive my lesson pdfs you'll also receive all of my news updates and offers and the opportunity to participate in any future surveys you don't want to miss out on that important research now a lot of the clips that i'm going to show you come from tv shows mainly british tv shows i always recommend watching tv shows and movies in english as a language learning tool but one really frustrating situation is when you find the perfect tv show for you and your language learning journey and it's blocked in your country well i highly recommend nordvpn as a solution the sponsor of today's video i experience this myself when i'm trying to watch programs in spanish i go to spanish netflix and it's not available in my country nordvpn hides your location allowing you to improve your security but also allowing you to overcome geographical restrictions meaning you can unlock access to all of these entertainment providers it just takes one click you open the map you click on a location and in seconds you'll be connected it really is that easy and there won't be any annoying delays speed tests have confirmed that nordvpn is the fastest out there they have given me a special offer to pass on to you all you've got to do is go to URL_TOKEN lucy i've linked it down below in the description box you can get a two-year plan plus four additional months with a huge discount that is NUMBER_TOKEN off plus four months for free just visit URL_TOKEN lucy and if you don't like it they have an amazing NUMBER_TOKEN-day money-back guarantee so it's risk free to try it out right let's get started with the video so we have NUMBER_TOKEN accents and the person who's ranked at number NUMBER_TOKEN i.e the easiest to understand according to my students is queen elizabeth ii of course it helps a lot that she speaks very very slowly and this was a formal broadcast let's have a listen king james may not have anticipated quite how important sport and games were to become in promoting harmony and common interests but from the scriptures in the bible which bears his name we know that nothing is more satisfying than the feeling of belonging to a group who are dedicated to helping each other and now let's listen one more time with subtitles on screen so you can check how much of it you understand king james may not have anticipated quite how important sport and games were to become in promoting harmony and common interests but from the scriptures in the bible which bears his name we know that nothing is more satisfying than the feeling of belonging to a group who are dedicated to helping each other so the queen speaks the queen's english she speaks with a received pronunciation accent on the very top posh end of received pronunciation now
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