I'm Molly and I'm a Voice & Accent Coach based in London (niche, I know). My time is split between training actors, leaders and anyone who feels as though they need a helping hand with commanding a room and feeling confident in communicating again.
The nature of my work means that I literally learn something new every week about how to make coaching, accents and actor training more accessible and after some comments on my instagram I thought I would expand my content onto RU-vid too!
Anyway thanks for hopping on and I hope you gain some insight :)
Hello Molly. I just found and subscibed to you today. I was born in Folkestone, raised in Lingfield and Maidstone and then in a village on the Kent/Sussex border. My Grandparents spoke upper RP and my Mother RP. I did but having moved to Tennessee 12yrs ago, I am in fear my accent is going as new aquaintances from the Sothern part of the USA say I'm Australian when we're introduced. Back in 2012 they thought I really had a "Royall' accent how do I keep my Queen's English accent? Are there vocal exercises for this?
Great video Molly, I did watch till the end. The employee feedback example contains 17 and 21 words. I wish the examples followed the rules it is teaching. (gold star, wish, 3 short sentences, clear, but still feels a bit harsh. Def does not make me seem friendly. More pedantic really)
Thanks for the feedback and thank you for watching :) I think to realistically try these out you have to give a little flexibility to help it fit the circumstance. If it’s too rigid then of course it will feel pedantic. It’s tricky to make rules for nearly 10k subscribers so please feel free to use these as boundaries or offers and make them your own!
Hi, I'd like to say that your channel is so underrated that I cannot believe it. I learn so much from you, 100 times more than from other english teaching channels.You deserve at least 100K + subscribers. I hope you will get there in no time. I keep my fingers crossed. You are amazing. I hope you'll have a great day. All the best❤❤❤
Thank you for these great tips. 6. I love the ideas and can't wait to implement them. 10. I also like the idea of empathetic listening at the end. 11. 3 sentences.
Southeastern American accents. With the advent of the internet and people communicating across greater distances and with people from more and more regions, my native accent is becoming less diverse. One used to be able to tell what area within the region someone came from. But, while I mourn some of this loss and it IS important samples and studies of the different local varieties become documented, I'm not entirely sad. The variations blending and becoming one are related, at least in part, to social barriers being broken down. The more twangy drawl was more heavily related to Irish, Scottish, Native and enslaved folk having a heavier influence on their local American English that was regrettably forced upon two of those groups. It was often associated with a lack of education and stereotyped as being the sound that comes before ardent discrimination and ignorance. Not without reason to be fair. And the more (I call it "Bell Southern" because I usually associate it with a stereotype of the "Southern Bell" and southern gentleman) airy and annunciated Southern was associated with land (and sadly people) owners and the highly educated, socially powerful and therefore... Richer and "upper class". My accent is becoming a mosaic of the south. The diversity will be missed, but it's not entirely bad. There are a few areas If love to see FAR, forever into the future, such as Appalachian English (I think it might be considered a different language entirely) , and Gulla Ogeechee (which has a lot in common with English and one could be mistaken for overhearing a little and thinking it just a strong accent or vernacular that one didn't quite catch, but IS considered an entire language unto itself), but I need to learn more before I feel like I can advocate for them without being intrusive. Related to this, I've also been learning more about AAVE (African American Vernacular English) it's very interesting and important to my region's history in it's own right. It's important to me to remember that an "accent" is often more than just the way words are pronounced but vernacular and culture and history and real human people ❤.
To be fair, you need this standard accent to teach English to foreigners as a model of what clear, neutral English would somewhat sound like. Otherwise, teaching foreigners with a Cockney accent or a Yorkshire accent would confuse the learner. I have nothing against regional British dialects because they are indeed what makes the UK an amazing, interesting country but most foreigners are not exposed to those dialects as they are to RP. My point, keep the RP-like pronunciations for Standard English and that British regional speakers should just learn to code-shift to RP when talking to foreigners.
I love the "ha ham monday" exercise, this is great, I really feel how it puts me the position to speak "from the belly" instead of my regular "top of my neck" squeaky voice. and the "speak to the back" exercise really brings power to it. thank you very much you are amazing ❤
Molly, how can we learn to be more musical with our voice please? Anything I could practice in the car on my commute. I'm after modern rp / heightened rp accent musicality
Hi Molly, love your videos and it would extremely helpful if you added chapters in your vidros. Helps me see what is coming up in the video and it's content
Brilliant. The technical explanation of how to pronounce /create the sounds is head and shoulders above other channels I've come across and I've watched a lot! Love this video
Fantastic Molly! One of only a few videos that talk about oral posture for learning an accent. Love the exercise and the brilliant explanation behind it.
