London Area Dialect and Liverpool Dialect [Korean Billy]

[@TomCurrell]

I'm always so impressed when people whose first language isn't English can understand the subtle differences in dialects.

[@Thalanna]

+tom c It's very tricky. I lived in different areas of the US for a year and a half (Boston for 6 months, LA for 4 months, the rest in Louisiana)... The local accents and dialects were hard to grapple, especially in Louisiana, but I managed. A year later, I was sent to London and JEEESUS FUUCK, I could understand only ~half the words! I was expecting the kind of like posh accent, but hoooly damn, that wasn't the case. Only stayed there for a week or so, so I couldn't really get used to it, but it's different from "standard" british, definitely.

[@TomCurrell]

Yeah standard English is only really used by tv presenters/newsreaders. There are so many dialects in the UK for such a small rock. Even within single cities accents vary albeit slightly.

[@daggersdukc]

+Thalanna I've only come to understand how difficult to understand my strongish London accent is to non-natives, when others pull me up on particular words and phrases I use. I live in Northern Ireland now, and I've had to slightly 'posh up' my dialect just to get by here. Its always nice returning to The Smoke, and be able to speak 400 words per minute, and not have to repeat myself! You're right about the broadcasting 'not quite plum in mouth posh, but nearly'. accent. BBC English.

[@mr.shankly]

This is incredibly difficult for a none native to appreciate/grasp,and you nail it mostly,very well done Billy!

[@joshchan2642]

Wow!He looks pi$$ed!

[@Figureight]

I'm in the South East and I mix them. I might say a BoTTle of wa'er, for example.

[@azurenex]

+Figureight so do i actually. never noticed that before.

[@moonie9000]

+Figureight Posh bastard.

[@TheHajinator]

I say it differently every time

[@robbenfan1792]

Figureight HEY

[@ssh1487]

I say bo'le of waTer

[@TheSnoozeFox]

This is brilliant, im from london and even I learnt a bit about our dialects

[@archvaldor]

Excellent video even for English people who have never thought much about how their dialects are constructed.

[@KennyEvansUK]

This is great for non native speakers.

[@adoredbeats2266]

We need a roadman dialect words tutorial

[@umaryousaf37]

lmaoo yes

[@gerbi3778]

Thomas Fraser Your wish has been granted

[@adoredbeats2266]

The Cancer Police AKA Gerbil ahah I loved his new video

[@thedepartmentofvillainy]

ahaa nailed the scouse accent you get a scousers approval

[@armondtanz]

Is right der ar kidda....

[@everythingsshinycaptainnot7769]

or right la

[@tomgarvey2495]

Yers is right mick r kid

[@Ryan-mg2uv]

I nearly pissed myself

[@rayorok3881]

all scousers should be hanged an killed they are racist neo nazis BNP supporters

[@nico84fr]

Good job Billy!

[@LibraKK89]

Great videos Billy!! I'm from the South West of UK, would like to watch a video of you imitating our dialect! 😂

[@trinitypate1475]

I'm from the UK and can I just say your accents were really good!! They sounded very similar to South Eastern and Liverpudlian . 잘 했어요!!

[@rlaejrgh159]

리버풀 k 소리는 살짝 독일 ch느낌이네요??

[@alexcaspercline]

I'm a native speaker and I still learned a lot from this video. :)

[@chaollapark7739]

Gosh... I can't hear the Korean accent...

[@conorsulli]

Please keep making more videos! This is one of the better channels I have found in a while your channel will surely grow!

[@twenty_four24.]

I am in stitches and im sure that wasnt the intention of this video

[@greimalkin]

very well produced - cool effects that highlight the differences / facilitate learning

[@TABBYMUSIC]

I'm from England, and can confirm that you have nailed it 🇬🇧

[@jstone98]

Love all these ;-) As a Brit it's amazing how well you have captured these.

[@karenchin8226]

Pretty good dude!

[@nbhappu]

Hi Billy! Please make one of these for American dialects and i'd be your best friend forever :)

[@saxbend]

In Essex they would say "I fink" rather than "I think".

[@skyhigheagleer6]

ERM no

[@Ambrosianite]

+skyhigheagleer6 literally a defining element of the accent

[@Smoke1]

+saxbend Essex don't have "acccents", they have learning difficulties.

[@RaesNamesChannel]

Rose Tyler from Doctor Who sounds like that to me, she would say "I fought you were" instead of "I thought you were". Sorry, I'm American so I don't know much about British dialects, but that is what it reminds me of when I saw your comment.

[@saxbend]

+Rae's Names yes that is exactly right. She is supposed to be from East London/Essex. Cassandra even refers to her as a chav in one episode.

[@trigsbie]

Really good effort at the local accents lol. Nice to hear you trying to do a scouse accent, I lived in Busan for around 10 years (Gwangan, Centum City and Guseo Dong).

[@trigsbie]

Also my wife from Busan lives in UK now

[@惠芬-w4i]

I am from Liverpool and that's one of the best Scouse accents ever!

[@aaron_luke96]

This guy is so posh! Love him 😂😂😂

[@keithgayson255]

Thank you Billy! I really learned about the differences between dialects

[@JHLee-uk9fh]

awesome!!!!! 부산 청년이 어찌 이렇게 영국 영어를 잘 할까~~~ ㅎㅎ 멋지네요!!!! 영상 재밌어요!

[@yeoan92]

영국방송 탄 영상이네요!! 차이를 모르고 들으면 정말 무슨 말인지 전혀 못알아듣겠어요ㅎㅎ 항상 재밌게 보고 있습니다^^

[@Steveplustax]

Super stuff, King Billy!

[@송이온니]

계속 영상 보다 보니까 정말 영국에 대해 잘 알고 계시고 그걸 쉽게 알려주시는 능력이 대단하시네요.. 멋져요!!

[@DrWho44]

Hi fellow Korean. Very impressive! Although I've lived in the UK more than a decade, I cannot pronounce those different accents. Very talented indeed :)

[@Chuschannel]

Wow very informative. Its funny for me seeing a Korean guy with a Brit accent, makes you realize what a globalized world we are living in today.

[@TornadoCreator]

Not bad. Isolating a single change in dialect seems odd, but it's a good way to explain the differences. This is quite adept observations of the differences. I grew up near Liverpool so it was interesting to see someone looking at the accent as an outsider. I would have said the most prominent parts of the accent where the higher stresses placed on 'e' sounds. Particularly 'er' and 'eh' sounds, and especially at the end of words. The flattening of 'o' sounds, so they sound closer to 'e' sounds. And finally, we also use the glottal stop in place of 't' sounds here. The two you picked out are true though, although the 'k' sound is starting to fade now, most people in my generation don't do that to the same extent that older generations do (or it's isolated to other parts of Liverpool). Good video. Keep it up.

[@James-kt4ju]

Exactly (get the reference Accrington Stanley who ate they )

[@1977Futre]

Im from the north east and I often miss out the t's depending on how fast I'm talking. wa-er and such. Your scouse accent is leaning heavily towards Welsh also....that said good job!

[@PhilipJohannessen]

Great job, Billy!

[@TCole2994]

This is impressive but not everyone in the Southeast speaks like this, that's normally how chavs talk. Honestly though this is very impressive

[@llamabean529]

There's no standard accent in England

[@James-kt4ju]

u wot m8 fam you calling me a chav joking lol a lot of non chavs speak like that

[@kamikazepiloot100]

Llama Bean. There is; Received Pronunciation. Although not every middle class person uses it.

[@llamabean529]

X. Chen I don't know any middle class people.... oh well.

[@VeryAmazingGrace]

Tom Cole I was about to say that but saw this

[@Greenwood4727]

Theres the main dialects, but theres also more subtle accents. but it takes a life time to learn them. you can even go down to street in some cases. this is the difference between "official" english technically correct, but real english is a little more flexible. A few years ago i lived in america and met someone from near my home town, talking to each other our accents got broader until the americans we were with couldnt understand us. But you did a great job (i live near liverpool so hear it every day)

[@tonylmaoxd]

Thanks Billy!

[@andyryongchoi7891]

The dog's bullocks dude! Impressive stuff!

[@khairulammar7747]

Great job Billy!

[@BigseanKim]

I like your videos! so neat and clear.

[@daggersdukc]

That video was fascinating. I have quite a strong London accent, and I have to slow down when I speak to my in-laws in Northern Ireland as they don't always understand me unless I use a little more RP, and slow down. Fortunately, my wife knows what I mean, mostly! So no need to obsess about getting it 'right'. Even native English speakers can experience difficulty when speaking to one another. Another thing for people to know is that Londoners, like New Yorkers, speak VERY QUICKLY. Scouse is a lovely, sing-songy dialect - a bit Irish and a bit English.

[@sunnygirly2k4]

Saw this on Have I Got News For You and was amused by it! You're good. The glottal stop I recall reading about in school and Scouse was an accent I heard on TV. I think growing up watching soaps such as Brookside, Byker Grove, Eastenders etc helped with my awareness of regional accents up and down the country, really as well as people around me from a young age.

[@grahamrutherford8800]

Excellent! Well observed. I think the first example (wa'er) is more about laziness of pronunciation that most of us Brits can be guilty of (like not picking your feet up when you walk) and occurs both up and down the country and the second Liverpudlian Scouse being a true regional dialect. Incidentally my father being from Durham County pronounced water as wätä.

[@lydiacoburn5884]

Haha this is amazing ! I'm from Liverpool and it's perfect😂

[@funtimehappydays5534]

I am from Liverpool but I speak standared

[@jamesbatchelor4772]

Is it me or does the Scouse accent sound a lot like the Irish? What are the differences?

[@terminalfrost3645]

i think there is a big difference you just need to get more familiar with the two

[@TheGiantKillers]

Scouse has probably been very heavily influenced by Irish migration so there would be similarities.

[@gm3492]

scouse is heavily influenced by mass irish immigration

[@jenniferburns7912]

as an irish person, there definitely are some similarities with the scouse accent and SOME irish accents. despite ireland being so small, there are many different accents. i don't know how to describe it, but the irish definitely don't have the rough noise made when billy pronounces the "k" in chicken or the "r" in story. personally, though, i think it sounds like the scottish accent more than the irish accent.

[@terminalfrost3645]

Jennifer Burns yea, it is sort of like to me geordie sounds quite similar to welsh, i also think there are some scottish accents that sound irish and vise versa. i mean it is hardly suprising that accents in the UK and Ireland that sound similar, we are all mixed up.

[@tedtaeeunkim2276]

오늘도 잘 보고갑니다! :)

[@techdavey3486]

Very good! An amusing story concerns a Scouser who made a career in TEFL. Unfortunately his students all sounded as if they came from Liverpool! There is a joke "What do you call a Scouser in a suit?" Answer "The accused."as allegedly the only time that they wear a suit is when they are in Court!

[@brannonkr]

Korean Billy, you should come to Kaplan Westwood and study the California dialect :)

[@주말-n9f]

비틀즈때문에 궁금해서 보게되었어요! 좋은영상이네요~

[@Spursman875]

Great video mate! Subscribed

[@khiemhoangho]

Is he a native speaker? I mean he is Korean, but maybe he was born in England? I'm just curious because his English is really good!

[@krysziek]

Billy, you're a lovely guy - BUT - you need to know the difference between "accent" and "dialect". Your entertaining talks muddle the two. "Accent" means "regional pronunciation" and "dialect" means "regional vocabulary". The way Scousers pronounce "K" is an example of accent. The use of "Pet" to mean "girl" is an example of dialect. And of course accent and dialect often go together - but there is a difference!

[@EdaliaDayCreative]

This is fabulous. I was expecting it to be comically bad but this is actually really good

[@fpv4metoo693]

Fantastic. Enjoyed so much you've got another subscriber. I've pondered different Korean accents in languages other than English ....

[@seranb4552]

I think "I was in the dock yesterday" would be a better example.

[@tomf984]

This was great. Can you do Brummie/Birmingham dialect next please?

[@Жанет-б5ь]

안녕하세요 ! 언제나 페북이랑 오늘의 유머에서 잘보고있습니다 ! :) 구독하고갑니당 ㅎㅎㅎ

[@PhillipOhren]

Hi Billy, are you able to do the Birmingham dialect please? I'm heading there soon and its vital to my survival.

[@ckballoon2324]

Phillip Ohren good luck that's the strangest of them all

[@James-kt4ju]

when you were doing an example of the Scouse accent you should've said Accrington Stanley who ate they exactly !

[@Michelle_Schu-blacka]

I like the Manchester accent ever since I got into Oasis and the whole Britpop scene. I wish it would came back.

[@wr2899]

ナコルル王女 listen to the Courteeners

[@nuri6394]

재밌네요^^ 집중하면서 보게만드는 힘이 있으신거같아요 구독누르고가요ㅎㅎ

[@MarceloPauloDeSouza]

Well done Mate!!!

[@montgomeryrichard]

This is very good apart from the background music which is distracting from the speech and not necercery.

[@junhwi0314]

뉴스보고왔삽니다 안녕하세요~

[@kimmie9778]

ㅎㅎㅎㅎ 영국서 살았었는데 이 영상 공감되서 너무 많이 웃었네요 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ 잘 봤습니다

[@yagamilight351]

I love the scouse accent i don't live in Liverpool any more but it so nostalgic.

[@mitchellboyd382]

Do a video aboot Scottish dialect pal.

[@jasondickson8712]

Haha! This is awesome! *doffs hat*

[@user-mt6up2mo1e]

유용한 정보 감사합니다 :)

[@AhlulBayt14]

At 2:16, you forgot to highlight the K in 'like'

[@이현진-p4c]

Receive Pronunciation is also called RP

[@livvielov]

not many people at all use received pronunciation and pro tip for Scouse accent: go up at the end of a sentence like you're asking a question

[@jayp563]

Hi Billy, I'm a news reporter for the Liverpool ECHO and we really loved your video of your Scouse accent. Is there any chance we could use it on our website?

[@stem9346]

굉장히 잘 비교하셨네요. 잘보고가요 ;)

[@GilCadiz]

You're awesome!!!

[@ragii1428]

gonna get a cheeky nandos with the mandem

[@mrnigz746]

cheey nandos with the Mandem

[@laurenjones9242]

this is pretty cool, I'm from the north west, and most of the people who live near me sort of miss out the t as well

[@learnenglishassecondlangua6010]

this is brilliant. thank you for sharing! :) - this is about to go viral :) 13k as of writing this.

[@에스피나카]

와 재밌어서 구독해요!! 역시 미국발음보단 영국발음이ㅜㅜ👍

[@Hauuy-el1vv]

The is so funny with the examples

[@brucewong904]

This one is great!!

[@ThePerioe01]

구현이 친구 안녕 응원하고 갈겡~

[@_SLABS_]

this does not fucking slip now

[@Gyokan7]

+Slabs Lmao

[@fathimtiaz]

oh piss off

[@YewanHolmes]

안녕 빌리! I'm quite impressed by the accent, British English seems to get so little attention in Korea that it's doubly impressive that you can not only hear the difference but do a good job of mimicking the differences. If you're up for a challenge, you should try an Australian accent (or varieties of Australian accents)--they are famous for being very hard to emulate. ㅋㅋㅋ

[@voozula9731]

Just saw this on Granada Reports!

[@samerai7897]

I'm not gunna lie this is quiet accurate

[@MrGeorocks]

All right all right calm down calm down

[@was8849]

차이를 잘 몰랐는데 덕분에 잘알아가요~~

[@_nxgitsune.exe_]

Nailed the scouse accent!

[@lennywooller4190]

I'm from southeast and that is spot on

[@ファミチキ食べたい-k1x]

R 발음 항상 하기 힘들었는데 이젠 그냥 리버풀 사투리라 하면서 R을 그냥 한국어 받침없는 ㄹ처럼 쉽게 발음해야겠네요 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

[@karensastclair4872]

I'm from the South East but there is a difference between certain parts of London and Essex has a distinct accent too. Still, it's very good. Billy what's yr history then? How did u start the accent mimicking?

[@thelookswapable]

Well done Billy. Very impressive. I am from the south and I think you got close to nailing it. I live in Korea and I could not even comprehend trying to master your regional accents.

[@TV-nh2kk]

고마워요 ㅎㅎ!!

[@dynamod1963]

I'm from West London, water is more pronounced 'waltah' where I'm from. sounds like it's got an L in it but remember the glottal stop

[@Omaru1982]

I know sumwun from mil`un keynes and she pronounces Birmingham as 'Burnunam'

[@rofflekopter]

This is amazing.

[@LadobaBr]

you're amazing!

[@fruitsushi]

I think accents are fascinating! I recently started watching the TV show Misfits and I couldn't understand half the things this one particular girls says. She talks fast too! Haha... But I got used to it after a few episodes. Oh and the slangs are so different too! I would love to live in UK for a bit to experience the culture and language, but I heard people say they don't like Americans. Honestly I'm not surprised. Lol

[@jamesdonoughue4557]

We have no problems with Americans in the UK