Learn Hagrid's British Accent (HARRY POTTER) | West Country Accent

In this video we look at the wonderful British English accent of Hagrid in the Harry Potter films. He speaks with a distinctive West Country accent.
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[@spriggansiedeutsch6817]

Well, it’s official: I cannot speak like Hagrid. 😂

[@alicerossi_ap]

🙌 Join the club! Me too 😃

[@joserabelo6007]

I'm very curious about HP character accents. Could you do more of these videos? I simply loved this one. Amazing! Thank you so much!

[@SimplyMe514]

I love how a good chunk of the video gave the impression that a West Country accent sounds like growling, and then all the practice lines you picked were examples of what a big, soft sweetheart Hagrid really is. Excellent summary of the character, really.

[@tibbleslake]

Robert Newton did not play Blackbeard in Treasure Island, he played Long John Silver.

[@agustin1141]

I love England. It's amazing how accents change in a simple country. I have been to England two times and I'm sure I'll be back more times.

[@misemario]

It's like that almost everywhere. Language is an awesome thing. In Dalmatia (Croatia) people from the coast and from behind the first hill speak two really different dialects, and they are just a few kilometres away from each other.

[@agustin1141]

@@misemario yes I know. Every country has it's different accents. But in the case of England is amazing how in just one city the ways of talking change so much (e.g. London).

[@ParmodKumar-fw7jy]

@@agustin1141 lol! It's so common in Indian cities here everyone have their own accent 😂😂😂😂😂

[@YangSing1]

Why wouldn't they change?

[@livb6945]

A 'simple' country? 🤔

[@stayysid]

Yer a Wizard, Tom! 😂

[@raisa_cherry33]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@nadnadya7263]

Next, maybe Agatha Christie's series or Sherlock BBC 😙

[@lookatrinnn]

In 5:00 like the expression hagrid when saying "Pure Blood" 😂😂

[@barbarabronikowska6595]

How great! Hagrid`s accent, finally! I`m still a fan of "Harry Potter" and Hagrid is one of my favourite characters, next to Snape and Dumbledore. Cheers, Tom!

[@user-zq4ni4sg4e]

Barbara Bronikowska ,oh yees Snape! Alan Rickman’s voice is amazing)

[@ErikPT]

I am a Southern man raised in the US. I find it charming how some of our country and hick accents can almost derive from certain regions of Mother Britinana. Head on 'round my neck of the woods an' you'll hear a rough country accent and a mixed western since Texas is a land with four sections. I find the books I give Hagrid his Scottish accent but the films do justice if not a condensed adaption.

[@marygarcia7035]

I quite enjoy this HP videos! You've done a great job breaking down their accents. Please continue them!

[@Hodgeypodgesmodge]

I’m from Bristol and have a mediocre Bristolian accent and when I hear Hagrid talking it reminds me of a mixture of all the West Country accents smashed together

[@rolandscales9380]

"General purpose Mummerset" as used by actors whenever there'a rustic part to be played. Annoyingly this is sometimes used in lieu of a Leicestershire accent or an East Anglian accent.

[@thelastuser]

I just want to thank you for this video. I have been looking for this kind of information on the West Country accent including all these phonological features for my project at university. Your video is just perfect ! and these amazing examples from the Harry Potter series - I love them! Thank you a lot !

[@proudtobeanintrovert2806]

Hagrid: he don't Me: I can't

[@EatSleepDreamEnglish]

🤣🤣🤣

[@blackcosnersabbath]

Hey Tom! I newly discovered your channel, and I can safely state it is among the best Learning English channels! Keep up the great work you're doing! Cheers

[@oonang85]

Love the HP videos. Thank you! Hope to see more of these!

[@box_of_rain5277]

Ahhh the ancestor of the American-Southern accent.

[@raisa_cherry33]

Always something new and amazing to learn from this channel.Wonderful job sweetie 👏

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congrats

[@keerthanasendurvel9685]

Most expected video, thanks Tom.

[@haotianwu8658]

I’ve been waiting for this for long

[@southerncharm5359]

Enjoyed the video and it was an easy quiz at the end, coming from the Southern US we’ve a lot in common with the West Country accent.

[@polloncombinaguai74]

I'll never thank you enough for these videos!

[@Homensquesecuidam]

So cute!

[@thearies10]

Totally love it! 😍😊👏

[@user-zq4ni4sg4e]

It’s wonderful series! You’re great! I would like to see next one with Ron or Mac Gonagal

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[@angelamaciel7419]

Great vídeo👏👏 Thanks from Brazil 🇧🇷

[@allanlealdacosta9223]

OMG this video is amazing, you are the best tks s lot 🤗❤️

[@YasamanJoaquin]

The video hasn't even started, but I have already given it a like, because the topic of the vid is just awesome :)))

[@mamymimma]

Lovely lesson, Tom 😊

[@Anna_GG]

Amazing video!!! Thanks for these Harry Potter videos

[@rd3428]

😮 Great video!

[@rachelpenny5165]

Considering I grew up in rural Devon, the West Country accent is home. I live in Hampshire now but still have a West Country accent. Thanks for explaining this as I always wanted to know your evaluation of this accent 😁.

[@christopherthewreckerthats2295]

In Hampshire we still have a proper Hampshire accent the real Hampshire accent is West country unfortunately as re accent is dieing do to posh ungsters

[@c.isunin9210]

Amazing! Thank you so much XD

[@GemGames3]

I read somewhere that the Potter family (In the books) came from the Potteries, or West Midlands 'West of England' from Pottermore, so Harry might've been naturally drawn to Hagrid because his voice would've been similar to his dads, James Potter.

[@dramaturge231]

I dig the new logo and introduction.

[@nancyb7060]

Again a great video, Tom! Love Hagrid so much. 😍🖒🖒🖒 A video on Alan Rickman would be great, too.

[@dramaturge231]

PS I also like the examples with the practice time @ the end. 🙂

[@MultiKamil97]

I always thought that Hagrid's accent is scottish. I watched the films and read the books in polish as I'm from Poland but whenever I saw a meme of Hagrid on the internet, his texts were written just like I imagined a Scot would speak 😅

[@wh0438]

Love it ♡ Please make a Learn draco malfoy british accent!

[@VirgoAries1982]

Wow it's magic thank u

[@bappadey2952]

Probably you are one of the best teachers I have ever seen

[@rebeccasimantov5476]

Ever seen

[@bappadey2952]

@@rebeccasimantov5476 it was typing and I didn't notice that. Thanks for correcting me 😊😊😊😊

[@rebeccasimantov5476]

@@bappadey2952 sorry...you were right in the first place!

[@ellaohne4865]

You are Tom, Lord Voldemort was Tom. Could you make a video about his accent? 🤔 Generally, I still waiting for David Attenborough' accent. He gave a lot of videos about nature. ☺️ I love your films. Please, don't stop it! Have a nice weekend. ☺️

[@ahmedibrahim3623]

I'm too busy I have a lot of work I can't waste my time Looking at my phone , It's a new video from Tom Let's watch it. I'm not that busy..🤣🤣😘😍

[@jenniferrohlf200]

I had to look this up after I randomly thought today “Hagrid’s accent is more similar to ours in the US than other parts of England, I must know why.” We also obviously drag out the O, use rhotic R, say e’s got instead of he’s got”. Guess the accent didn’t change in the West country like it did in London in the 1800’s.

[@john-bv9wc]

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[@jwb52z9]

It's interesting. Hagrid's accent is a lot like some of the American Southern accents. The long vowels and occasional dropping of the letter H in the word "he" are very common in American speech in some places. "Ain't" is something you hear a lot in the US, also. The one part of my linguistics class that I had to take that I really liked was the analysis like this. Lovely video!

[@ChiMasterMedia]

That strong R 😀👌

[@mohjaelshafi981]

It was hard for me to read hagrid's speech when I started reading the books because it is full of contractions and glottal ts.

[@zxenon_]

U're freaking awesome in that costume.

[@lindaduncan7181]

I love the West Country/Cockney/etc accents!! The Newcastle accent, I'm not sure which part of the country that is, but Brian Johnson's I could listen to all day!! (Incidentally, wasn't that a Slytherin tie? It wasn't Gryffindor colors, for sure.) And if I ever get the chance I'm dreaming of, to live in the UK a while, my accent will wind up SUCH a mashup of all of the accents on top of my natural American accent!! 😂😂

[@rebeccasimantov5476]

Newcastle is Northern English btw...whereabouts in the States are you from?

[@lindaduncan7181]

@@rebeccasimantov5476 Thanks!! I'm in TN, I hear that people over there would gush over the way I talk LOL!!

[@Charlie1x]

Hello Tom! I really enjoy watching your videos and learning more about the British accent... I watch the tv show called Lucifer, and I was wondering if you can make a video on the main character, Tom Ellis .

[@alanjyu]

"ain't no one gonna get past Fluffy." It actually sounds colloquial american. Amazing.

[@jaffa3717]

I've got a proper Westcountry accent but there's a few differences between me and Hagrid. We don't drag vowels usually, or atleast I don't. Also, I usually pronounce the word "don't" as "dunt" for some reason, which most people do here

[@evelynscamander6657]

British check ♥️ any brits put there?

[@walterwhite5578]

I do love his accent and his accent so good considering he is from Scotland. Also, Scotland has a strong "r" as well. I like to think of Hagrid's accent as the country folk accent.

[@luketory4684]

Walter white or that one time in Harry Potter goblet of Fire film Dumbledore says Harry Potter in an American accent

[@johnherbert4646]

can you do a review prof macgnogal's accent? Scottish is so much fun!

[@TrymYoutubeMainChannel]

please could you do a video on accents from the movie Hot Fuzz ^^ thanks mate greetings from Norway

[@PurpleEnbyTerminator]

From my research of where the Weasleys live (according to the wiki) in Ottery St. Catchpole (which might be made up), Devon (which isn't made up), shouldn't they also have this accent?

[@CaptainAMAZINGGG]

Dear. Lord. This is the best thing EVER XD INFINITE JOYYYY

[@EatSleepDreamEnglish]

Glad you enjoyed mate 🤩

[@ayoubbouaoultaine5990]

hope you ok,please where can i find full british films with subtitles english ,and thank you ,good teacher

[@timmystauffer9094]

Could you do a Derbyshire accent video?

[@martinshepherd626]

Many many West Country dialects.....3 alone in Bristol, besides we speak fast in Bristol

[@jeklinmarvipongotak4381]

Tom, the R sound in west country accent sounds quite same with R in scottish accent, innit? I thought they use the rhotic too

[@Steve-zc9ht]

Am I the only one who thinks the west country accents R sound is to strong tho even for me I'm American and I don't even pronounce my Rs that strong like geez maybe they are a pirate

[@davissae]

The West Country accent is extremely similar to the Ocracoke Brogue and Tangier Island American accents.

[@italico2792]

Cute as always Tom

[@138hamid]

Amazing !!!appreciate it ..and advise to watch the movie "Liar Liar" intermediete Engilish level speaker can easily understand

[@feralbluee]

Wow! he's Scottish and he does that accent - amazing. for Pete's sake, i bet he can do any accent. For that ma' 'er, so can you :}

[@governmentjobtarget4420]

Bro create more phrase video plz... love from India

[@Snakeplisskin440]

I love the accents. I'm from the US and I feel we speak very boring over here. It makes a bit of sense of though, why there's such thing as a "southern accent" here in the US. I would think it came from over seas (Irish etc.). They tend to drop a few consonants when speaking. They even drop the letter "H' sometimes. Actually, that might make a good video. Go over the southern US accent. Also Dwarves and their language. Not a real language but cool none-the-less.

[@YangSing1]

The American accent is very strong and not boring to British people

[@protoncoccus3229]

cool costume

[@SongBillong]

The aitch consistency is a bit frustrating as he nailed most other aspects of the accent. I don't know the technical term for this but in the West Country we use a 'Y' sound to merge things such as "I have" (to make "aye-yav", rather than "Aye have"). I'm surprised he overlooked this!

[@rebeccasimantov5476]

I thought West Country accent mainly referred to Bristol...didn't realise it covered such a broad area including Devon and Cornwall (very "piratey")

[@YangSing1]

It's the whole region but there are slight variations

[@rolandscales9380]

It also takes in Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, the rural parts of Hampshire and a bit of Oxfordshire and Herefordshire.

[@jelenadukuljev1978]

It sounds a bit like American! - it's rhotic - the long sound in - got, hot, pot - dropping the h - it happens in American English as well (come 'ere, tell 'im )

[@rebeccasimantov5476]

I agree!

[@Enigmatism415]

'herb' as well, yet not 'Herbert'.

[@Steve-zc9ht]

@@Enigmatism415 I'm American and herbs just makes more sense then erbs I don't know what my fellow Americans where thinking might as well remove the H from the word entirely

[@Enigmatism415]

@@Steve-zc9ht English words vary on whether the initial H is dropped, like with hour, honor, etc. It's because no Romance languages today pronounce H.

[@darthxerxes5468]

I'm a native english speaker but i love accents.

[@mariluduarte2592]

Please continue doing this with Harry Potter and Sherlock Holmes too

[@faisal9277]

I want to speak just like Snape

[@isladurrant2015]

Well done my luvvah! How about names like "luvvah" that might be encountered? Just a thought pet x

[@stonedape2406]

LuvveR

[@sateyafilm8863]

how about jon snow? is he has the north country accent?hehe..btw i like his accent in got

[@nimkynasir7814]

aw !!!cuty Patootie🤓

[@needleboy17]

(In this accent) Squares!!!!!!

[@daverd6434]

Thank you, i have a question does Rusell Howard have a Bristolian accent ? 🤔

[@washypafc9640]

Yh, he's from Bristol bey

[@nutsriket9687]

I’m waiting for Geordie!

[@yttrv8430]

Did Johnny hit Lisa? Answer @7:58

[@waiyeungyip8471]

Emma's accent next please!

[@user-zq4ni4sg4e]

叶蔚洋 , yeah .Though it was already video about Emma’s accent,but it was not from HP. It sounds amazing,Emma’s accent is sooo beautiful

[@waiyeungyip8471]

@@user-zq4ni4sg4e 👍Absolutely

[@jelenadukuljev1978]

I think Emma uses the standard RP and he has already done a lot of videos about the RP :)

[@rebeccasimantov5476]

@@user-zq4ni4sg4e Tom has already done Emma's accent in a previous video...

[@yalyu4538]

Could you make the Severus Snape's (Alan Rickman) accent please? BRILLIANT💎

[@rolandscales9380]

Hang out at the Conservative Party annual conference. You'll pick it up.

[@jibjab351]

Hagred if from the Glasgow area of the West Country

[@jimbell122]

He actually speaks lie most people in England not like all the other posh accent , I m from Lincoln so my accent is different but I still sound more like him then other characters

[@user-oe1bu5qw1w]

I hear [ʍ] in "where" at 3:32.

[@covattireviews]

So, I'm watching thi 1st movie in English and it was the first time I listened to Hagrid's orignal voice and I was like "wtf, why is he pronouncing the R?" Well, here I am

[@ahmedibrahim3623]

Why I read comments in west county accent ..!!

[@liliiborys6430]

♥️

[@Dracoulis44]

It’s cute how some people refer to Britain while they really mean England. I wouldn’t expect that from a guy who teaches “British accents” but there you go!

[@douglasvicttor]

England is part of Britain.

[@Dracoulis44]

@@douglasvicttor British =/= English mate but thanks for the geography lesson anyway, keep up with your learning!

[@douglasvicttor]

Lol

[@douglasvicttor]

Hey dude, you're looks nice. Where are you come from ?

[@raphaeloyebanji6173]

West county accents sounds like some American accents

[@JohnDrummondPhoto]

So, just imitate Cary Grant (from Bristol) and that pretty much nails it, eh?

[@jagdpanther1944]

ooo arr, dear old Archie me luvver

[@MariFatale]

There’s no hogwarts without you, Hagrid 🥺💚🌹

[@bright3392]

Come on! You look like Harry even without the glasses. You don't need them at all :)

[@wannacashmeoutside]

I was today years old when I learned the actor was Scottish and not from west country 🫠

[@martinshepherd626]

Robert Newton came from Dorset and not Devon