British Accent: Placement

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Now, the first thing that I want to talk about is placement. When I am talking about placement, this is possibly the most essential component that you get in order to make your British dialect authentic and consistent. And, it is a bit confusing, but actually for the British placements quite simple. Every dialect has a point of placement or a point of residence somewhere in your jaw. Standard American dialect, the point of placement is in the middle of the mouth, which basically means that's where the words are coming to. They are basically stopping at that point or we are driving our words to that point. Other dialects, like Australia, Australia is in the top back of your mouth. Southern is in the bottom back of your mouth. New York is in the front tip of the front teeth. But, the British dialect point of placement is in your lips. So, what you want to do is you want to always speaking the British dialect as if you have a pencil, round your lips and put them around the pencil. It is like you are puckering up, like you are going to kiss someone, and that is your point of placement. That is where we are trying to shoot all the words to. And this is for standard American dialect, I mean, standard British dialect which would be like BBC dialect. What you would hear across most of England. This is not Liverpool, this is not Scottish, this is standard British. So everything we are going to try to place in the lips, in the front lips, so tight, tight pucker. So they don't open their jaws a lot like a New York dialect, they really working their jaw. This is all in the lips. So, practice that placement right now. Practice, puckering up your lips. Pucker up your lips. Your lips will eventually hurt if you really get them out there far enough. So, that is lesson one, learning the placement.

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