Can I guess your British accent? | UK ACCENT CHALLENGE

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Come join my live birthday party - right now! www.twitch.tv/adventuresandnaps

[@SteveGouldinSpain]

Dang, sorry I missed the party. Belated happy birthday!

[@giovanniilacad2098]

Happy happy birthday Allana! Wish you to be more happy and safe.

[@KenFullman]

I was quite surprised to see Maggie Smith being classed as "RP" She definitely has a Scottish twang. But when I look up her bio I notice that her mother was from Glasgow and her father was from Newcastle. No wonder she has a bit of a twang. My family were all cockneys but I was born and raised in Essex. Yet my natural accent (until I married) was always cockney. It's changed quite a bit since and is now more Essex than cockney, but my cockney roots still show to any Essex inhabitant.

[@Industrialist2015ofUk]

SOooorry! i missed it. I luv Toronto when i've been there, and i like how the Canadians say "Aboott" 🤭 But i like ya vids and you😊which is compliment coming from me, and you really deep dive into info 👍i learn as well. Did you know re. accents...the southern states accents derive from an extinct common english accent, that was faded out and replaced by upper-class southern english way of speaking, in the 19th century...which is why we sound like posh f#*ks now!!

[@AdrianWright6363]

Bless you for saying "there's no such thing as a 'British' accent"!!! Finally someone from the North American continent figured it out! :D

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Thanks for watching!

[@stevenfair2288]

@@AdventuresAndNaps Here one try the Leicester accent.

[@HARRi81_UK]

Here here

[@jonadabtheunsightly]

The "British Accent" is the one Dick Van Dyke does in Mary Poppins. HTH.HAND.

[@patrickcarey8064]

There are loads of British accents, so how do they not exist?

[@chrisrock34]

I'm from Northern Ireland and I had to listen a bit to the last one to decide it was Scottish and not from here! For an absolutely tiny place we have lot of different accents, Belfast sounds totally different to Ballymena, less than 30 miles between them!

[@richardsinger01]

Yea, I thought it was an Antrim accent - got that wrong! Should have gone with my gut instinct.

[@conorsmith8551]

Yeah parts of Antrim sound like a Scottish accent sometimes

[@martindobler6510]

Yes, more accent videos, please! *screeching with excitement* - In all seriousness, tough, I really enjoy the accents content, it's probably my favourite thing on the channel

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Thanks for watching!

[@Lulu-jl5zd]

Many happy returns Alanna! Your Scotch accent was pretty darn on. For Scousers just say SUPERB... but drag the final vowel. Cockneys like me just say GEYSERS. or Cheeky Nandos. The Welsh will always be CARRDIV just roll the Rs or North Wales completely in another league... lovely folk don't understand a word mostly. Oh great vlog and well done for getting the two different Scottish brogues... Edinburgh...like and oiled door and Glaswegian like an argument that never quite starts. All of this IMHO! Got to love our language!... Homework: If I'm "mithering" someone where do I live???

[@dragonmac1234]

Happy birthday, you did well with those accents Alanna, I've lived here all of my life and I was going between Scottish and Irish for the last one. I've noticed your accent has softened a bit over the years.

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Thank you! 😃

[@kJ922-h3j]

Joanna Page is most famous for being in Gavin & Stacey, a great show if you haven’t seen it. Yes it’s got James Corden in it (who co wrote and co created it) 😂 but it’s his best work

[@allenwilliams1306]

Not that that's saying much...

[@kJ922-h3j]

@@allenwilliams1306 people literally just don’t give Gavin and Stacey a chance because of him 😂. I know there’s northerners who don’t give it a chance cause it has characters from Essex in it too, pathetic 😂

[@kevinreed9232]

Happy Birthday Alanna.May all that your wish for comes true.

[@tomsenior7405]

This sounds like one heck of a challenge. Good Luck Alanna. Heck, I had been married two years before I learned my wife is of Indian descent. I thought she was Welsh.

[@AaronTheHipHopGuy]

That was a really funny video! I’m glad I spent yesterday watching your subathon, it’s been a lot of fun so far! You’re doing a great job with it!

[@fourthdrawerdown6297]

Hey Aaron 👋

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Thanks Aaron!

[@shearerslegs]

Thanks for the video, hope you have a great birthday and you got some great gifts

[@eddymccabe5351]

I left Scotland at 24 to live & work in England over 40 years ago, and although my accent has definitely softened, I have never acquired an "English" accent, so I'd guess you will retain your North American accent, it will just carry on getting a little softer as time goes on. Speaking of which, Happy Birthday to you!

[@eze8970]

Happy Birthday young lady! I got the last one wrong (thought N.I) Would really like to hear you TRY speaking some British accents please!

[@saturdayplayer2492]

If you come to south Wales the accents can change within 2 or 3 miles especially in the valleys. I don't know if many other countries have such localised accents. Some are so broad that they are indecipherable.

[@alanhilton3611]

Happy Birthday Alanna you actually did quite well on those questions your accent has changed quite a lot and there are some things that you do say with a British accent..... you're becoming one of us lol.

[@duncanspiers8855]

Heaven forfend!

[@alanhilton3611]

Why the dismay buddy.

[@duncanspiers8855]

@@alanhilton3611 Well, you never want to lose your roots and become a stranger in your homeland.

[@alanhilton3611]

@@duncanspiers8855 the remark was in jest dude.

[@ashofthe3yamyamsa.k.aasher675]

Very entertaining, clearly you are becoming an expert in accents. There's so many more out there so worth going again. I had heard the term recieved pronunciation thrown around before but did not know what it was, now I do. Woohoo party

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Thanks! 😃

[@nordicson2835]

I love your voice , like Billy Joel says " don't go changing "... waiting for a pub crawl...

[@judithhope8970]

Congratulations, that was quite tricky, especially Mr Murphy from Scotland!!

[@RockyBobbieBuster]

Many happy returns Alanna.

[@shirleyboy8859]

Happy Birthday Alanna.... Always Cute and Funny... :-)) xxx Will join you after I have had dinner.... With wine of course... :-))) xxx

[@TheYorkRose]

If I didn't know your other videos I'd have thought you were faking not being confident in the accents, smashed it! And yeah, defo do a tougher one - Liverpool vs Manchester and ROI vs Northern Ireland would be very interesting! And happy birthday :)

[@ivylovesrunning]

Well done! Happy Birthday!

[@Ian-xx1xb]

Another fun video congrats on five from five and happy birthday 🎂🎁🍺

[@lukerowland23]

happy birthday alanna!!

[@Sophie.S..]

Happy Birthday. Great video.

[@tichburyfan]

Well done Alanna. Sadly a number of former British regional accents have either completely disappeared or are close to extinction today. I was born in Shropshire and at the age of 11 moved to Dorset where I was told by schoolteachers that they could not understand my accent; the old "broad" Dorset accent (such as moin for mine and loin for line) has almost completely disappeared today. So it is with Norfolk and Suffolk accents and several others. There used to be a historic rural Essex accent that has been completely displaced by the modern "chav" dialect which has no history before about 1970.

[@stracepipe]

It infuriates me that many people think that Estuary English is the Essex accent.

[@mothmagic1]

It's all down to the increased social mobility of the present population. Back in the days when people were born, lived and died in the same county if not the same village the lack of social mobility helped to preserve the local dialects. I'm sad that we are losing the old dialects and accents are disappearing so fast.

[@stephenphillip5656]

Wahay Alanna, you're an expert! Shamefully, I got the last one wrong - I thought that it was N Ireland. By the way, there's a whole load of Scottish accents. Also different Welsh accents.... Have a great weekend Alanna, sun's out, daffodils are smiling, *it's spring!* Enjoy!

[@MightyJonE]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALANNA!!! 🥳🥳🥳 Hope you had great time yesterday!

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Thank you!!

[@mouse-junkie]

Bring us more accent videos! Thanks.

[@ukpaullouis2708]

Happy Birthday 🎂. I got them all but I have been here like 3 times as long as you and extensively traveled the UK for many years. Hope your Birthday weekend goes well! Enjoy the Sunshine 🌞😁

[@johnjames218]

I am a Georgie and there are hundreds of variations to my accent in less than 50 miles radius. Well done Great vid as always

[@chrisytfc879]

You can say that about any region but to the rest of the country you all sound the same, sorry

[@conorsmith8551]

South Shields say their accent is different than north ha

[@frankgibson1335]

@@conorsmith8551 There's a large river between them which for many, many years could only be crossed by a ferry so different dialects are entirely possible.

[@iainmalcolm9583]

Well done with the accents and happy birthday.

[@M05000583]

Oh wow, what an entertaining video, I'm going over to twitch, that looks so fun!! 👍

[@maxwellmoore8424]

Hope you never lose your accent I think it's lovely

[@sniffrat3646]

You aced it! The last one was the hardest. More accent vids :)

[@alanfisher1949]

Keep your Canadian accent, it makes you stand out, and a good topic for conversation. Here in America people hear my Lincolnshire accent and ask where I am from. I have had some funny comments, asking if I am Irish or Scottish, or even Welsh. At least they get the right area of Europe lol.

[@kJ922-h3j]

Nadine Coyle (from Girls Aloud like Cheryl Cole) had a very strong Northern Irish accent if you are curious 👍

[@stephenparker6362]

Hi, Alanna, that was very entertaining and you got them all right. That was better than me I got the last one wrong I thought it was Irish. More of those would be very entertaining. I really enjoyed that.

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Thanks so much!!

[@Dan-zb7vn]

Well done Alanna 5/5 I only managed 4/5 I thought the last one was Irish and I am born and bred in England, great video thank you.

[@kristena9285]

I'm Norwegian and managed 4/5 - it was the last one for me too. I landed on N.Irish on that one..

[@magecraft2]

Yea I would have put money he was N Irish :)

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Thanks for watching!

[@grahamlive]

Wow. You’re from England and didn’t recognise his Scottish accent? It was not your stereotypical Scottish accent I’ll grant you but even so, it wasn’t that hard to detect,surely. Have you never watched any Scottish TV shows?

[@MS-19]

Brilliant stuff, Alanna! It's surprising how much knowledge creeps into the subconsciousness by osmosis. Even though you have spent most of your nearly 7 years as a CanadaBrit living in just one part of the UK, with only relatively brief visits to other parts, you have engaged with our popular culture and that tends to feature an array of British accents, so you've been exposed to them without being deliberately taught. That's education in its most natural form! At 6:19, there was a little clue to verify the Welsh accent: she mentioned filming in Neath, which is in South Wales. It doesn't mean she's from there, of course, but a quick search on a map might have affirmed your gut reaction. (You managed it anyway, so it wasn't essential to check!) Happy birthday, albeit nearly two weeks late! Did you have a good celebration?

[@jcasillas78]

Great video and Happy Birthday!

[@AndrewDixonMusic]

How about a video where you attempt several of these accents and we have to guess what you're trying to do? Could be fun!

[@bdwon]

another super video. Thank you and congratulations on your highly developed "ear" for accents

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Thanks for watching!

[@Subha403]

I loved this! Would love to do more accent quizzes!

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Thank you! Will do!

[@carldarbyshire4]

Happy Birthday Alanna. 🍷🎁🎈🎉😉

[@aliceathenahyde6659]

British born here and you did better than me. Apparently RP, Irish and Scottish sound very similar to my ear. Well done on getting 100%. Thanks for another fun video. Love from Alice xx

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Thank you! 😃

[@johnbayton9200]

Belated Birthday Greetings Hope you're party went well.

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Thank you!!

[@davidcollins9335]

Hello our little Canadian friend, greetings from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 and shine on ✌️🌹

[@alanshadbolt2454]

Happy birthday Alanna have a fantastic day

[@MustangErin]

I would like to see more accent videos. It is fun trying to figure them out. I was guessing along with you. There was only one that i wasn't sure about.

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Thanks for watching!

[@cactustactics]

Nice job! It would have been a bit harder if the non-English ones had regional options too instead of just "Scottish" etc, but that was pretty impressive - you're subconsciously a brit now! I could hear a bit of Maggie's local accent in there too, she started pretty RP but by the end she was saying things like "gonna" and I think I heard a bit of London / Estuary English in there?

[@michaeldaley5831]

Wishing you a very happy birthday,have a great time,I’ve just found you on Twitch😊

[@parkash9999]

Nice video as always. Keep it up.

[@geoffpoole483]

Colin Murray the broadcaster is from Northern Ireland. A friend at high school was from the north-east. As soon as he got home his accent would change to a County Durham accent.

[@MCallsen]

A very friendly and helpful "Happy Birthday" to you AdNappy :D Love the 2 videos per week and amazing performance guessing the accents ^^ yay

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Thanks so much!

[@barriehull7076]

Re Maggie Smith she was in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie a 1969 British drama film directed by Ronald Neame from a screenplay written by Jay Presson Allen, adapted from her own stage play, which was in turn based on the 1961 novel of the same name by Muriel Spark. The film stars Maggie Smith in the title role as an unrestrained teacher at a girls' school in Edinburgh. Celia Johnson, Robert Stephens, Pamela Franklin, and Gordon Jackson are featured in supporting roles. Have not seen the film in a long while but I believe she spoke with a discernible Scottish accent in the film.

[@scottwigham]

Well done, and happy birthday. As a guy with a completely bastardised smoggie/geordie/mackem accent (I've moved around a bit and some colloquialisms stick) I would challenge you to differentiate between the accents in the North East of England.

[@davidjones332]

That Welsh accent is very specifically South Wales. Once you get your ear attuned it's not difficult to distinguish the local accents of Ceredigion, Caernarfon, Bangor or Anglesey -they're all quite distinct. These were actually pretty easy, so let's see you sort out Devon, Cornwall, Birmingham Bristol, Nottingham, Rochdale and Oldham!

[@havoc6_1_6]

Happy Birthday you honorary Brit, I hope you have a great day.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇨🇦

[@browpetj]

Great vid! Congrats on the birthday and keep your accent. This is what I did and I moved to Scotland very young (primary school). You are sounding more Canadian by the day. 😎Nice😎 Man Canada does have different accents! 👀

[@maxplanck9055]

Happy 33rd birthday Alanna, i hope your livestream isn't a "turtle disaster"(Geordie),im sure it will be fun ✌️❤️🇬🇧

[@trampslikeus3575]

Happy Birthday Alanna 21 again! You were so cute when you got the right answer. It was fun, I'm Canadian I didn't do so well, lets do it again.

[@stanettiels7367]

Now you need to make a video doing impressions of them. 😂😂. You did good 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇨🇦.

[@matc6221]

Another great video to kick off the Friday vibes 🤘

[@Malfie657]

Can't argue with 100% Alanna, very impressive. In some regions there are even more localised variations and I've been caught out a few times in both Scotland and N.Ireland especially - it's quite embarrassing when you're running a training course in the region and you have to admit you can't fully understand the question you're being asked!

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Cheers Malcolm!

[@voodooacidman]

5 out of 5! Excellent work canadianado. Big love to all people:)

[@shaunwallace7684]

Happy birthday to you today 🥳🥳🥳🎉🎉🎉🎈🎈🎈🎊🎊🎊🎁 best wishes shaun

[@fatbelly27]

There's a new series of Derry Girls starting soon. You should watch it for the educational value (northern Irish) plus the first two series were very funny.

[@michaelstamper5875]

You did really well, Alanna. Most of the examples were in situations where the people speaking were softening their accents to be more easily understood by people who don't have the same accent. If you heard, for example, Billy Connolly talking to Ewan McGregor, the Scottish accent would be pretty obvious. Great video all the same xxxx

[@Elwaves2925]

Hey Alanna, had to go out earlier so I missed this. You did really well and I'd love to see more of these. By the way, the name of 'Emilie' that you struggled with is simply pronounced 'Emily', it's just a different spelling. She's an Australian actress and I'm a big fan. Which makes me wonder if you could expand this to accents from around the world? That could be fun.

[@DarrellW_UK]

Wow, how did you get them all? I got the last one wrong - I thought he was Irish 🤔 Good fun this was, I would suggest trying a few more from other parts of the UK (including the Black Country 😂 We have several different accents within a few miles of each other. If you want to hear a really good example search for Maureen Tipton!

[@hairyairey]

Thanks for the spoiler!

[@ThePrinceofParthia]

Wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people got that wrong, he's a very Irish-sounding Scot! I would love the broader accents as well, different parts of the North and West would be good (especially outside the cities).

[@Frank-mm2yp]

Dame Maggie Smith was born in Ilford a large town in East London.

[@petebradley725]

Happy Birthday I hope you have had a fabulous day full of joy 🥂🥳 My better half is Greek lived here with me , in the heart of England , for the past 25 years , now she definitely a Brummie Greek now 😂

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Thanks for watching!

[@Hydraas]

One tell for Welsh is "hyearing" for "hearing" at 5:54

[@GemDotThirteen]

Hahaha... that was great! Plus I learnt something!! Never heard of 'received pronunciation' before. Now I know what accent people think I have lol PARTYYYYYYY!!!! 🥳🥳🥳 Can't wait, I'm prepared to party until Sunday!

[@tonys1636]

RP, the accent of the BBC from years ago, when regional accents were frowned upon by the then Director General, Lord Reith, a Scotsman with an albeit slight Scottish accent! They changed allowing regional accents when David Dimbleby became DG.

[@fourthdrawerdown6297]

Sunday?! 😟

[@tonys1636]

Yea, a 4 day Weekend here, an extra bank holiday on the Friday, for some reason. St Patrick's Day is an holiday here. A lot of sore heads on Monday.

[@jillianb8992]

Super fun video!! I guessed 3/5.

[@davidtemple5934]

About the length of your Birthday party live feed , well that depends entirely on what type of alcohol you are imbibing ? Happy Birthday .

[@yomandinga]

Hope you had a lovely birthday 🙂

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Thank you!! 😊

[@nightwing369]

Yes, more please! 🙏

[@AndrewwarrenAndrew]

Happy birthday!

[@jameskelly8586]

As a Canadian, I grew up in the 1960s and around our house we were big fans of the Beatles and other British Invasion bands. Plus the CBC showed lots of British TV shows and movies and when we got cable the PBS station had a good deal of British content, as well. And I've been watching Corrie for decades. So I can pick out a lot of different accents--I just don't always know the name for those accents. Also, I tend to be like a sponge and start parroting the accents of the people I'm around--so in England, I almost immediately would start speaking with a British accent. Frankly I think the RP accent is a bit lazy these days--and doesn't sound that posh to my ear. Sara Jane, the 4th Doctor's assistant, had the most high class accent I've heard--better than the Queen's.

[@josephmwilliams6754]

You will always sound Canadian ! But I watched your video revue and your accent has changed markedly over time !

[@galaxywhispers1787]

Great video as always Alanna. 🙂

[@racheltaylor6578]

I love a Geordie accent.I find it so soothing.It’s my favourite English accent.

[@davidcox2264]

Happy Birthday 🎂🎂🎉

[@kadegray]

Yes, accent videos are great

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Thanks so much for watching!!

[@davidchristian8218]

Happy birthday, Alanna🎈🎆🎉🎂 By the way, I watched you on Twitch for the first time and I take my hat off to you for the hot wings 👌

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Thank you so much!! I'm back again this morning!

[@lizstubbs2969]

I got the last one wrong I thought Irish so you did better than me haha 🤣

[@ShaneHampsheirTV]

Love these videos. I’d say Maggie Smith isn’t QUITE RP…

[@geoffh2560]

Nice work. Was hoping you'd give us your classic "yorkshare" accent - maybe next time?

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Next time!

[@Bluedex2011]

Happy Birthday Alanna, I'd sing, but you'd hate me for it 🎶 😊 have a great Day ! Accents are fantastic, but sometimes subtitles would be really welcome 😂

[@leonbarber8650]

Happy birthday. 😀

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Thanks!

[@MrDbone75]

A very good Friday afternoon to you all from Wellington Somerset

[@Bigalbev]

Hahahah love it how you try to do the accent. Proper BRIT you….ok well Brit to be hahh

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Thanks for watching!

[@andymcgill354]

Great Scottish actor Robert Carlyle whose wife is Canadian and he lives in Vancouver most of the time.

[@howardkey1639]

Good try guessing the accents, not always easy to do even if you have lived here for years. As for your accent now it's definitely drifting towards being Ken-adian. 😀 Right I'm off to watch your live Birthday Computer Sub-a-thon stream now.

[@shaunwallace7684]

Happy birthday to you today 🥳🥳🥳🎉🎉🎉🎁🎈🎈🎈🎊🎊🎊 best wishes from shaun

[@breakbeatkid]

i love your glasses!

[@paulbrown3820]

Great video. All ready for the party :D :D

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

🎉

[@terryhughes9291]

happy birthday Alana.