Conservative received pronunciation, upper-crust received pronunciation or simply U-RP is likely one of the most fascinating accents of English. According to Peter Trudgill's estimation in 1974 only 3% of British population were considered being true RP speakers. Received pronunciation is, in fact, a minority accent. Consequently, conservative RP, as its less used and more archaic variety, has even fewer speakers. The aim of this paper is twofold: first, to outline the concept of a social network as a part of modern sociolinguistics and second, to investigate how native and non-native speakers perceive conservative RP and linguistic affects connected to it. This paper will try to prove that there is a huge difference in native and non-native
