Accents: Northern Irish

Discover the Northern Irish accent. With special thanks to Joel.
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[Bethany Murray]

I love how enthusiastic Joel is. He's finding it so hard to not laugh

[Blink182bfs]

So funny hahaa

[The TERMINATOR-road to 30 subs]

Yep hes having trouble breathing cause of her she making him laugh

[TER510]

@The TERMINATOR-road to 30 subs Her unbelievable beauty and Charisma might be causing some of that breathing trouble as well. She is lovely.

[Jeff Morse]

You know Anna, it might be more difficult to put together, but a comparison between Joel and a person from the "Mid South" of the United States might be interesting. There were a lot of people from Northern Ireland who settled there and the accent of places like Tennessee an Appalachia still have many of the elements. Yeah, I know, the series is on British accents, but I've always been interested how accents in the English speaking colonial areas evolved (US, Canada, South Africa, NZ, Australia).

[Alessia Zuccarello]

I'm Italian. Once I had a chat with a taxi driver in Belfast. At first it was quite traumatizing, but after a few minutes I started to understand something like a word every two. He kind of kidnapped us to show us interesting places around the city and turned a 1 minute drive into 8, but we enjoyed the ride and paid the full price even if it wasn't our request. It was clear he cared about those places and well, it was a taxi full of anthropologists. And another time a local in Bushmills stopped to chat with us and I admit I understood half the stuff he said, but I got that he had never seen the Giants' Causeway and he didn't care about it at all.

[Caleb]

Non of us northern irish people care about the giants cause way ahha

[Anna]

Heyy, the Giants’ Causeway is awesome! I really recommend you visit haha

[gblan]

I love the way Anna delights in the diverse sounds of people's accents. She honors them all with her smiles of happiness.

[Beth McCullough]

When you are Northen Irish and you have been saying all these words and you realise that you are actually really Northern Irish😂

[LucasJS]

Beth McCullough same 😂😂😂😂😂

[Llwyd Skillz]

Beth McCullough OMG so true.

[Z]

Beth McCullough yep, definitely, I'm from country armagh

[Nicoleee Bishop!]

oh my soooo true 😂

[Josh Mckinley]

Beth McCullough sameee im from county down

[TheDarxide23]

I've always found it interesting that a lot of Northern Irish pronunciations are closer to American English than British English, especially the way 'r' is pronounced.

[didid3ksa]

Especially there’s a lot of Irish flead from their home cuz their catholic

[Toothless]

It’s not that interesting. It’s called a rhotic accent. They are not exclusive to America. Irish and Scottish accents are both rhotic. English accents used to be rhotic as well (and some still are, see West Country).

[Euan Hanna]

I'm Northern Irish and i have literally been asked by English people if i am American!

[colin campbell]

​@didid3ksaulster scots influenced USA accents

[K. Kelly]

Fascinating that the Northern Irish accent sounds so much more similar to the Southern U.S. accent than I expected! I’m assuming the large number of Irish (and Scottish) immigrants to the southern colonies played a large role in the development of our accent. Thanks for the video!

[Ian Logan]

It's interesting that you say that, I'm from Belfast and I found when I traveled through Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama these were the only places in the world (including the south of Ireland and Scotland! ) where I could talk at normal speed and be understood. Ha!

[K. Kelly]

Ian Logan - that’s fantastic! And not surprising, truly. I just rewatched the video, and there are quite a few sounds that I would identify as Southern US dialect (like the “ing” pronunciation as “-in” and not “-ng”, and the “r” being very pronounced at the end of words.) I’m from North Georgia, so I’m sure you and I could understand each other quite well, lol.

[Ian Logan]

@K. Kelly I'm sure we could, lol. I loved the South, great place, great people.

[Stephanie Bowman]

So can we have a video of just Joel reading us a story? He's adorable and I could listen to him talk all day.

[cheesyedits]

I’m Northern Irish and this video is so funny ! 😂🤚🏻 it’s so weird hearing people pronounce things differently because I’m used to the way Joel says it!

[Milena]

I spent a full month in Northern Ireland, in Belfast precisely and yeah it's a quite hard accent not gonna lie...but I can say that after the first week it got easier to understand people and I also fell in love with their amazing accent👍 I miss that city so much

[Milena]

@John Lavery yeah I will :)

[Hush]

I'm gonna be honest, I'm from Derry and I find Belfast way too stressful and overwhelming lol. It doesn't do Ireland justice, more industrialized than everywhere else but Dublin imo

[yeet y?]

I'm northern Irish it's so funny watching this I can't stop laughing this is like deja vu lol

[Juca Kajuru]

Lolololol

[Anna]

It’s so weird to hear like this ahaha

[Steve 14]

@Anna ya'll sound Canadian lol is that just me

[Anna]

@Steve 14 Lmao, no I think the same. Just a little bit

[Michael Jones]

I’m Welsh from Cardiff, but my Nan came from Belfast. Love hearing the Northern Irish accent as it always reminds of her ❤️

[Dan]

That's a posh accent lol

[larmoth]

I'm from Northern Ireland and I remember back in School during English class when we were learning about Homophones one of the examples from the book was "Paw, Poor and Pour" and we were all confused, even the teacher was like "Now hold on, this isn't right"

[Stuart Morrow]

I've noticed alot of Americans will say 'Gurbels' for Goebbels, not knowing that the 'r' comes from phonetic instructions for the British.

[D O]

Its so delightful to know that there are entire communities of people that actively seek out things like this channel in order to appreciate people's differences. The trend today is to overlook these unique things and to simply accept "we're all the same, all equal." That may be the case but acknowledging that and basking in the incredible little things that seperate us from each other should be met with that much enthusiasm.

[The Golden Fleece]

I'm Northern Irish and the paw, poor, pour thing really floored me. Never occurred to me we say each word different, when they are meant to sound the same lol. Strange.

[Kernow Forest]

supposed to be pronounced diffo, that's why they are spelt diffo, I say them diffo, they used to be diffo in Queens English, probably until the 19th C, just modern laziness in standard RP English.

[Neamhdhlisteanach]

they are meant to be different. english just cant speak properly

[Little Lamp]

The Irish pronunciation is actually the way I've been taught at school in my country...

[Real Tea]

Here in the northeast of the US we at least pronounce paw and pour/poor differently. Some people pronounce poor and pour differently from each other here as well. I know Canada for a fact pronounces them all differently. I think most English speaking places around the world do.

[Timothy Spruill]

I'm from Tennessee in the US and just realized I pronounce "paw, poor, pour" all differently and somewhat like Joel. I pronounce "pore and pour" the same way.

[SolarEmpire MVP]

Loved the video, would love to hear a version of thicker Irish Accent with words phrases and slangs that are particularly hard to understand, and the same for Scotland I've heard that Aberdeen and Dundee have some of the strongest Scottish accents that even other Scots find it difficult to understand.

[English Like A Native]

+PlsFundMe UK2016 I am planning to cover Scottish soon :)

[Appalachianwitchxx]

How similar an Appalachian accent is to a Northern Irish!! This is super interesting to see how it has descended through families (my own included) that immigrated frkm Ireland to the region. I always loved the country and irish fiddle and thought it was so cool to see the culture in a different form here in America lol It's especially noticeable when he says singular words. Walkin' talkin' etc. So cool!

[Connor Chapman]

I always thought I lost my Belfast accent, but watching this I realised I haven't. Good channel, thumps up.

[English Like A Native]

Thank you Connor.

[Cap't Jack]

Nice Ricky

[Mia Phoenix]

Thank you for these accent videos. I really enjoy them! :) Love the Northern Irish accent. Always been one of my favourites! :)

[Ray Coone]

So funny and still totally interesting and helpful! Thank you guys for such an enlighting video!

[The Golden Fleece]

As a Northern Irish guy living in the West Midlands, I have been asked if I am American or Canadian quite a few times. Very strange.

[Ben Jeffrey]

The Golden Fleece I've had the Canadian question multiple times before

[spelunk8]

When I visited England from Canada, my friend kept being asked if he was Irish.

[cormac23432342]

listen to the ing part of the video it sounds quite American

[fancyfree]

I do think some Norther Irish people sound quite American. I think it is because of the pronunciation of some vowels, as well as the strong R sounds. The pronunciation of father 2:00 sound american to me.

[Ben Benim]

The Golden Fleece American accent is basically the Irish accent. The first English speaking settlers were Irish

[BelfastDutchie]

I must've lived in Belfast too long 'cause I'm using all of these sounds now. This video could've been much longer, though. Northern Irish has countless divergences from standard English, and loads of variances from town to town.

[Felipe Coelho]

Hey, Anna! Thank you so much for your videos! They are so good, well made and helpful :) I was wondering if you could give us some tips on how to make the best use of the verbs: to raise, to rise, to arise, to rouse...and possibly: to wake and to awake haha their meanings I think are clear, but very close to one another though then I struggle sometimes to pick the best one when I speak... Really appreciated, thanks! PS.: it'd be very very nice to watch another of these accent videos feat. a Glaswegian or a Highlander...plsssss, I lived in Scotland some time ago =D

[LadyMidnight]

"Say hello Joel" Actually says hello Joel

[Lily I]

Only a northern Irish person 😂

[Jake Hawthorn]

From now on the baby sleeps in the crib; Iron helps us play Hello Joel!!!

[Nate Delaunay]

The absolute madlad

[Destal]

That's a common joke in every language.

[Foxythefurryfox]

Lily Unicorn I’m Northern iris I don’t talk like that

[Eduardo Velasco]

Nice accent. I'm from Ecuador trying to learn that crazy but wonderful language. That kind of videos have helped me to improve my listening. Thanks a lot

[Marion]

From my French point of view, the northern Irish accent makes more sense than the standard English accent 🤣 . I live in England for 6 years and just realised that I sound more Irish than English 🙈😳

[John Lavery]

Try to visit NI.

[thomsboys77]

No such thing as “standard English accent”

[carol hamilton]

Whats standard English

[Виктория]

These accent videos are a wonderful idea, I enjoy every episode!

[Holger Seffen]

Hi Anna, I really love your accent videos. I'm already looking forward to the next one.

[Harsh Samanya]

You are one of the best english trainers on planet. Your dedication is commendable. Hats off to you. May god bless u

[SternLX]

What's amazing is how much of the Northern Irish accent is prevalent in the General American accent.

[Shane]

SternLX how? I'm from Northern Ireland and I've never thought that way about the American accent. Why do Americans always try and steal every good thing about Ireland lol

[Markie C]

HypoCore actually it's a valid point as many Ulster Scots ( known in the USA as Scotch-Irish) were also prominent in the settlements of the 13 colonies in America.

[firefly927]

Well, there's the rhotic "r", pronouncing "t" as "d", not pronouncing the g in -ing words, the first "a" vowel in the video, etc.

[Marshwalker]

We didn't steal it, we brought it with us!

[Sar Gwy]

this is so brilliant, I am working as an English teacher in spain and I am going to use this to summarise my NI accent for my students!!!

[RunningTurtle]

I love this accent videos, with proper phonetics analysis. English has been my second language of about 20 years, but my accent is very fluid, it is nice to see where some of the influences come from.

[English Like A Native]

+Rui Sousa glad you enjoy them!

[Jabroni]

English Like A Native Maybe you should learn the difference between British & Irish. This is an Irish accent not a British accent.

[Gridball 1960]

I used to be a trainer and once did a two-week course in Brentwood to a class to 20. I thought it went pretty well until one of the feedbacks simply said. "I could listen to him speak all day. No idea what he's saying, just love the sounds."

[George Garrigues]

Brentwood in Los Angeles?

[Gridball 1960]

@George Garrigues Much as I would have enjoyed that, no. Brentwood, Essex, UK

[Katie Phelps]

@Gridball 1960 random to see an essex local under a random youtube video😂😂 i’m romford

[Gridball 1960]

@Katie Phelps Ahh. Not quite. I'm a Northern Irish local, but visited Brentwood to deliver a training course.

[Foot of Juniper]

In the 1998 movie Ronin, Jonathan Pryce pulls off what sounds a lot like this accent. I remember being particularly impressed with his pronunciation of "now." Thanks for the lesson!

[cosmicdust1]

For the paw, poor and pour, The N.I accent clearly pronuances each word uniquely . Especially the word, Poor. It's really good, how Joel makes it so clear which is which. . Anna pronuanced each of the words exactly the same.

[Henry Launcelyn]

Fantastic video. Northern Irish has always been my favorite accent.

[Babylon Queen]

I'm iraqi woman 🇮🇶 and I studied English by my own and now when I talk every one says you have got a Northaian Iraish accent!! And that's why i watched ur video and it was definitely like they told me 😅 I guss because I used to listen to my favourite band (west life ) they are Iraish band 💕 my accent became naturally iraish.

[Maximus Desimus]

That's funny and cute lol

[artsy_voyageuse]

My partner is northern Irish but we met here in my home country. Honestly, it was very hard for me to understand his accent when we first met. I feel like a complete idiot trying to understand the accent, but I'm used to it after a while ;) I was actually looking for Irish cooking recipe but stumbled to this great video! :)

[YourLocalNirvanaFan]

As a Northern Irish person, I find this very funny

[Cami4891]

ANNA! It's so great to see you, I miss your singing lessons so much but I'm so glad you're still around, YAY! You're just great at teaching, period! This is exactly what my roommate from Belfast sounded like when I lived in Toronto. I never understood a word he said for like 2 years. Hahaha! Great guy though!

[Elbereth Varda]

Love the video. Reminds me of the year I lived in Fermanagh, teaching French, back in 1998/99. I had thought I could get a grasp of what the locals would be saying, but it took me three months to be able to understand a single conversation... Thanks for the video.

[Lisi Wulff]

I am studying English Linguistik and your videos are helping so much with the pronounciation. Thank you very much :D

[rachel kelly]

Not many people talk about northern Irish accents, maybe you could do a video on our dialect because even talking to an English person it's completely differen

[English Like A Native]

+person t I think I will do a series dedicated to Irish accents and the differences :)

[Bethany Millar]

exactly! everyone is always talking about ireland and totally forgetting about northern ireland. it kind of annoys me now because we aren’t that very much appreciated lol

[Insider Reality]

There's a few different northern accents though. I mean someone in Belfast says "Car" like "Koah" but someone from Armagh or south Tyrone would say "Kee arr" and you start to hear the south accent creeping in with some words. Also there's like a posh Belfast and more thick "westie" accent.

[Malf1532]

Joel would do very well in Canada across the Country because those various inflections are common throughout the regions starting from East to West. I live in Saskatchewan and pronounce many of what Joel was saying or at least close enough.

[Sam Evans]

This video was so funny! I love it, made me smile. ☺️

[Sharp Tac]

My grandfather was from Northern Ireland. He died before I was born but my mom said he had a strong brogue & her friends (growing up in the U.S.A.) had a hard time understanding him.

[Amanda C. A. Johnson]

So fascinating. I’m from Virginia and have a bit of a southern accent. Our pronunciation is closer to that of the Northern Irish than it is to the British pronunciation.

[Pallah DaOracle]

I'm from Lynchburg! You talkin bout the Out and house and mouse sounds?

[Amanda C. A. Johnson]

@Pallah DaOracle yes!

[Kenny Mitchell]

Thats because your ancestors are from the North of Ireland lol

[Toothless]

Northern Ireland is British. I think you mean English

[Amanda C. A. Johnson]

@Toothless yes indeed! Thanks for pointing that out.

[Philip J]

This is fascinating. There are a lot of parallels to the Ulster Scot accent and the Eastern American accent. That does make sense as so many Ulster Scots emigrated to the US.

[Kevin Quigg]

Any time I am in England, I barely get 2 words out and they immediately cotton on to my accent and often ask me to repeat words, now having watched this video I understand why, and it's true that the English love the northern Ireland accent!

[George Garrigues]

"Cotton on," meaning "understand," is a kind of regional U.S. accent, too. I think from Texas maybe.

[Simplicity 🌜🌻🌼🌸🌺💐 ASMR]

I’m learning and HAILING WITH LAUGHTER 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🥰!!!!! I LOVE THIS ACCENT!!!! I’ve also watched your voice lesson KZbin channel and I’ve learned a lot from it as well.

[D_J_G 876]

I’m northern Irish and this is 100% accurate

[Mith'Randi]

These are fascinating! I know it's not actually British, but if you can manage it I'd love to see such an analysis of the Dublin brogue :D

[Jabroni]

FourPartFox Well she just done an Ulster accent which is not a British accent, When she even asked him if he would be doing an Irish accent he said yea I'll be using my own accent. In no way shape or form is any accent from Northern Ireland british.

[Paul S]

it is a British accent Northern Ireland is part of the UK and the synonym for someone from the UK is "British"

[orderinchaos]

Very interesting! I grew up in County Down and with the only exception being the "ing" thing (I pronounce the "ng" without even thinking) all of these are true of me when speaking in my 'home' accent - even ones I didn't think of like the paw/poor/pour thing. Another thing that isn't really captured is that NI accent has a very up and down rhythm, unlike my Australian accent which is comparatively flat with some rises near the end (I think the 'sound' of Australian English has a lot in common with Yorkshire, despite the different vowel sounds).

[Stephen Crossley]

I was born in Canada and moved to Norn Ireland age 4. I had to relearn my accent!!! People love it!

[Cin Cina]

Nice, so next time that a mother tongue doesn't understand my accent I will just say that I have a mixed English accent (standard British, Irish, Northern British and American) :D I love this kind of videos, I'm learning sooo much about the differences of the different English accents!

[Miguel Victor]

I really appreciate your effort, always bringing some guests, you deserve more subscribers! ^^

[PewPewCat]

It makes a lot of sense that american english sounds very similar to northern irish accent at times. My american side of the family has irish roots, but it's so far in the past, the people that would have had any information to give have already passed away or can't remember much. It doesn't help that records from way back are hard to find, likely have errors in them or are just plain nonexistent 🙁

[firefly927]

This is great. Please do more Northern Irish videos! Please!!!

[Jason Gannon]

Northern Irish accent changes every 20-30 miles Joel is likely close to Belfast . Still the poor paw and pour example stunned me I had no idea they were meant to sound the same

[Sallou Russell]

They arent. The southern english way of speaking has warped over the years and gotten lazy, especially with the embracing of recieved pronounciation / royal english. And in all likelihood its recent. from early 1800s, if even that. The difference between paw and the others especially

[gabriel galland]

My early years were spent in the countryside of Massachusetts, and I find a lot of the pronunciation of Northern Ireland very similar to the English that was spoken around me.

[Alessandro R.]

Love the series, love the accent! Have got some friends in Ireland and I appreciate their accent so much. It's a warm and friendly way of speaking.

[Sausage Soda]

If You visit Northern Ireland and you understand English you’ll not go far wrong if u listen to it like a song😉

[Ján .Kurinec]

Greetings from Slovakia! :) perfect video, thanks. Few years ago I was in Ireland, on holiday. I asked one man for directions and he kept repeating: It is behind "lojts", It is behind "lojts". Only then I did understand, that he thought "traffic lights". Just "it is behind lights" :)))) it was great.

[May04bwu]

I'm Czech but love all kinds of English accents. Sometimes I over exaggerate to the point where my "now" sounds like the NI version and I didn't even realize until now.

[colin dragan]

love it! british, yet so close to american. easy to understand and has a melody which is nice

[HBC 101]

It's the Ulster Irish accent actually.

[BelfastDutchie]

Anyone who's ever heard an actual Northern Irish conversation would never say it's 'just like American'. It's infinitely more lively and complex than any American accent I've ever heard but then, I didn't float up the Lagan in a bubble 😁

[Eu Fernández]

We all love Joel's accent!

[Andy McKinney]

Good video Anna but there is not only one accent in Northern Ireland. The accent in North Antrim e.g. Ballymena is very different from the Belfast accent, especially the intonation. Then you have the Londonderry accent and the Dungannon accent. Totally different again. For such a small place we have a big range of accents. I found it interesting that the accent in Northern Ireland had a lot of similar features to the West Country, especially the rhotic r. Maybe it's standard English that's got that wrong? 😆

[May Morgan]

Andy McKinney don't forget the south Armagh accent which is completely different altogether

[Pickle Cat]

I'm in Armagh City which is different again.

[Neamhdhlisteanach]

Derry*

[Pickle Cat]

Lol What mate down by Dublin isn't it?

[Joel Kelly]

Well commonly when you go to northern Ireland you go to Belfast because of titanic and all that. so its good to be able to understand what they are saying. because the Belfast accent is completely unique

[Imogen Poropat]

Hi! I woul love to see videos on the different Scottish accents. Glasgow, West Coast, Borders, Doric from Aberdeen, the different islands (Lewis, Skye, Orkney, Shetland to naim some), and others. Love the videos!

[English Like A Native]

Imogen Poropat they are coming - it just takes time to organise

[Fischize]

It's funny, but there are very few people, even here in the United States, that know our southern accents come from Irish settlers in the 1800s. The Irish settlers moved through the Appalachian Mountains. You can here the accent when Joel says "walking, talking - and especially Swimming"...

[Hikikomori Charlie]

It's hard to tell the difference between Northern Irish and the West Country/Cornish accents. Any chance of a video on that?

[Poggie Vloggies]

I'm Northern Irish but I never realised how strong my accent is until now. I always thought Northern Irish accents would sound annoying to others but maybe not???

[Azariah Israel]

As an American watching this video I was thinking how much the Scots Irish who came America probably affected our accent off the Queen's English. We say a lot of our words the same. Especially the ing endings.

[louisecarlto]

Scundered is actually used quite commonly in Northern Ireland. Most people use it as a way of saying 'fed-up', not embarrassed. Joel uses it to describe being embarrassed because he is from south/east Antrim.

[Caleb]

In fermanagh we don't use the word

[ICT]

In Scotland it's 'scunnered'.

[Forest Speyer]

In Derry we say scunnered

[Forrest Crummey]

After watching a break down of Northern Irish accents I understand it to be closer to our Newfoundland accent then I thought it to be

[MalkyMcCallum]

Love this, Joel's accent is so like the accent of the west of Scotland,, I always thought the NI accent sounded a lot more like Scottish than it does from ROI

[Spider Barnett]

I'm English and I love the accents of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland,they are beautiful.

[Mary Gebbie]

In America we tend to have our word final stops formed but unpronounced as well. That really confused my students here in Japan when they first met me as they'd never had an American teacher before.

[Jude dunne Jude]

Your accent is no were near the northern irish accent you havent got any og the sland to start to even know that your similar

[Pickle Cat]

I must be a weird one, I'm from Armagh but pronounce words fully. I've been called 'posh' more than once because I speak properly. However the number 8 definitely sounds Northern Irish when I say it 😂 that's one that will never change.

[Mike8827]

So....Anna finds it crazy that "paw poor pour" are not pronounced all as "paw paw paw"? Crazy! :D

[Newbie Gamer]

Lol

[James McGee]

I worked as an auto electrician when I was young and power was a word I used often. The Aussies I worked with heard Par.

[sora]

hi

[Stuart Morrow]

@James McGee Yeah, par, tar (towel), tal (towel)...

[Stuart Morrow]

@James McGee Oh yeah, and "WHERE. ARE. ARE. BAGS" - Michael McIntyre

[BavarianTrawler]

It's interesting to see the Scots-Irish similarities with American English with respect to the use of 'r' and other things.

[George Garrigues]

I once had a Belfast pen friend whom I finally met after twenty years, and I could barely understand him in person. It was almost painful to talk with him and his sister.

[regatta1990]

In many places outside belfast scundered means bored or fed up. I only discovered it meant embarrased after moving there at 18and was terribly confused at why someone said they were 'bored' when they did something stupid. Just thought I'd share.

[Cameron Mcilwaine]

And tired

[Nothing much.]

That is exactly what I was thinking. I was starting to think that I've been saying it in the wrong context all this time.

[Michael Doran]

Means bored or fed up for me to. Never knew it meant embarrassed

[GafftheHorse]

I from the west of Ulster, I thought it could mean anything from cold, bored, put upon or just really tired. My aule' Da used to report of being scundered after coming in from the cold after brisk garden work in the winter.

[E9JMX]

Thats a lie. *scundered* in Belfast means "embarrassed" Outside of Belfast (mainly Ballymena and Mid Ulster) there is *scunnered* which means fed up/tired/pi**ed off. Two different words, with different spellings, different meanings, in two different areas of the country.

[InnannasRainbow]

Many of the ways Joel speaks sound quite a bit like how we speak in the northern US. I've noticed that some British people add an 'r' to the end of a word. For example, the name 'Joanna', some British would say 'Joannar' or 'Joanner.'

[Bored Weegie]

My partner is from NI and we've been together for 10 yrs I'm Scottish he lives here with me in Glasgow .I always get him to say how now brown cow....😂😂😂. We say scunnered.....and obviously Aye ..and eejit so many similar words but it's nicer listening to someone from NI.❤️❤️❤️

[Ernesto Serravalle]

Interesting video! I imagine you have already planned for a video showing the scottish accent. That's the accent I find most difficult to understand.

[English Like A Native]

+Ernesto Serravalle coming soon

[Daniel Meurer]

Scottish accent may be hard for understand (and that's coming from a Portuguese speaker), but I love it and think it can be very sexy sometimes (yeah... dunno if that makes any sense)

[AE Conn]

Ernesto Serravalle well the Northern Irish and Scottish accents can be remarkably similar, seeing as the vast majority of the population in the North are Scots Ulster descended people. The only major place where you can find a true Irish accent is in the West, such as Counties Galway and Clare. The Leinster accent in places like County Dublin are English influenced and the Ulster accents in the North are Scottish influenced.

[barlovento]

For me the northern Irish people are the friendliest people of UK❤

[Injinii]

I would really appreciate if your guest did more of the exposition, so we could hear more of his accent in more natural sentences.

[STAR CITY RC]

Amazing how much Scots-Irish has influenced American English. A lot of my Ancestors trace back to Ulster Scots.

[Jason Palacios]

Also Jamaican English too even though it was mostly influenced by Irish and Cornwall English.

[thomsboys77]

Scottish colonisers

[wkdedits]

Ive never seen someone love the northern Irish accent so much

[Italktocarrots]

i actually learnt more about my own accent than i have in my 20 years of life

[Burcu Gönül]

Anyone noticed that he actually said “Hello Joel” 😂😂😂 Loved the video 👍🏼

[Suz C]

As a North Irish woman, I find it really difficult to pronounce words with a W in the middle, like 'Howard', which I pronounce as Har-erd, Flower which I pronounce as Flarrr, Shower becomes Sharrr 😂 I really try and avoid words with a middle W as much as possible.

[English Like A Native]

Oh I love this pronunciation, please don’t avoid it. It sounds fantastic.

[Suz C]

@English Like A Native it makes me cringe! 😂

[HypatiaMaxima]

Oh my goodness. As an adolescent my friends and I occasionally said “ijit” for “idiot”. Hilarious.😂

[The Cultured Bumpkin]

I'm really enjoying these regional videos! Good stuff

[Alan]

As an Indian, i feel myself closer to Irish accent than to Standard British one.

[BlastbeatsLOL]

But still not close enough to be intelligible.

[Eve Tresco Emes]

that's so interesting - in what ways?

[Jason Palacios]

You can see hear the influence of the Southern US accent especially the Black Ebonics talk as well. Also I hear a little Jamaican accent here too.

[ThisNeverAgesWell]

When you're in the American South, and Joel speaks just like us, minus the "cow, now," bit.

[Steve 14]

I'm not even gonna lie I'm surprised the R sound works in the Irish and northern Irish accents lol I always heard rhotic accents in the US and Canada so I thought it was just a American and Canadian thing

[Spider Barnett]

You are great,I love the way you do accents.

[Spider Barnett]

I really like this woman,she does an amazing job,when it comes to accent's,I just wish I didn't sound so annoying,even my parents and siblings hate my voice