Now, my accent is Standard Southern British English. And that's what I'll be showing you on this site.

我的口音是标准的英国南部口音，这也是我在这里要给你们展示的发音。

So I'm arguing that what we should use, if not RP, we should use Standard Southern British English (SSBE) .

所以我认为我们应该使用的，如果不是 RP，我们应该使用标准南方英国英语（SSBE）。

I teach British English and pronunciation, southern British English, if you must.

我教英式英语和发音，是英国南部的英语。

Standard American English is a variety of southern British English from around London.

标准美式英语是南方英语的变体，后者来自伦敦周围的英式英语。

However and now we know that mostly I focus on southern English, southern British English here.

但是现在我们知道我主要关注的是南部的英语，我说的是英国南部的英语。

You can get much more authenticity with standard southern British English if you're going for this, and many other dialects as well in English.

学习这个会让你的标准南部口音和其他的英语方言口音更真实地道。

And what is the same about these is the fact that they're both long vowel sounds, right? first, fast, at least again in standard southern British English.

它们的相同之处就是它们都是长元音，对吧？first，fast，至少在南部英式英语口音中是这样。

That's why often Standard American English and standard southern British English, known as SSBE are often more similar to each other than a dialect from the north of England, such as Geordie from Newcastle.

这就是为什么标准美式英语和标准的英国南部英语，被称为 SSBE，通常比来自英格兰北部的方言更相似，比如纽卡斯尔的泰恩赛得口音。

So, just to keep it really simple, this video's gonna focus on what's called standard southern British English and that way we can just compare two vowels, 'first' and 'fast' rather than three vowels.

为了简单起见，这段视频主要讲标准的南部英式英语，这样我们就可以比较两个元音，first 和 fast，而不是三个元音。

It's outdated and confusing, and I'm here to argue that we should ditch this anachronistic term in favor of the more up-to-date name, and that is SSBE — Standard Southern British English — a much better, clearer and more accurate description.

它既过时又令人困惑，我在这里是想说，我们应该抛弃这个不合时宜的术语，取而代之的是更最新的名字，那就是 SSBE——标准的英国南部英语——一个更好、更清晰、更准确的描述。