Learn the English Birmingham Accent with the Peaky Blinders.

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Learning accents that native English speakers can use is really useful for improving your listening comprehension. Not every English speaker talks like the Queen! Here, we join the Peaky Blinders of Birmingham to learn how to use and understand this extremely interesting accent. Sit back and enjoy.
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-------------------------- IN THIS VIDEO -------------------------------------
0:00 Intro
0:30 Vowels
4:05 Consonants
8:30 Tone
9:32 Outro
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[@raratoytoy]

20% learning accent 80% alright

[@naufal6879]

o-roight

[@cansino1636]

A'right come on -CJ

[@gianway]

Oroight

[@2jcward]

This accent sounds like Ireland to me

[@bobo19877]

@@2jcward Nothing like it.

[@islamaydean7195]

Arthur : "TOMMOOOOYYYYY"

[@It9LpBFS37]

L m f a o

[@garyhosty9874]

Tom-Oui

[@blitzergkon311]

3:40

[@hiteshsardar7649]

Fook linda

[@malekelaly6207]

Lmao

[@danielbuxton4493]

As someone from Birmingham, I have to say she's doing a better job of impersonating the cast than of a real Brummie!

[@BruceWayne-dp8vb]

Can u share a video on how the brummie accent is in reality??? I m eager to compare it with the show's accent....

[@FenceThis]

she is a brummie, awride ?

[@TylerAlderson]

That's because she is from Birmingham as far as I know

[@zaaramajid6588]

I'm from Birmingham to

[@rajatsirswal3327]

Well I must say Cillian Murphy truly nailed the Birmingham accent, considering the fact he is Irish.

[@SchoolOfStoics]

So basically Brummie accent is a badass version of English accent

[@Alghamdiim]

@YouAintFromEndz why is it so? I also heard people tend to hide it when they go out of Birmingham looking for jobs or study as if they’re ashamed, why shouldn’t be proud of how they speak

[@AK_AVFC]

@YouAintFromEndz your deffo some posh yute from london

[@2jcward]

It is. That area period. I live they way Scary Spice talks.

[@ps5user155]

@@Alghamdiim It happens to be unintelligent sounding

[@vitorsousa9067]

It's the reason why people doesn't understand Ozzy Osbourne lol

[@vlogsingh]

For me first issue is to learn English 😂

[@armxana9850]

😂😂😂

[@SanjayKumar-ix8mk]

Moj kardiya sardaar😂🔥

[@satoruai3475]

right. Every non native speaker issue 😂

[@syedfidahussain6675]

whole video i just saw girl reactions , didnt understand anything

[@kenkaneki8817]

Ha na bro 😭😂

[@wolsch3435]

As a German speaker, I often despair of English spelling, which only gives you approximate hints on how to pronounce something. The Birmingham dialect seems to be clearer, and the vowels are also closer to German, as I note with amazement.

[@thomsboys77]

I despair of the German language for being so shit

[@AndreasNilsson-ux1zk]

As a speaker of both german and english ( and swedish ), as i lived for 10 years in Brum ( Shard End, not far from Small heath ). The Brummie way of pronouncing vowels are much closer to how we do it in the rest of the germanic language countries.

[@mjlotus]

I like how she gets in character when she’s speaking in the accent. Don’t mess with her when she’s talking in the loc

[@rizalgabehawali6363]

Tommy : “POLLAYY”

[@muhammadnabil6907]

🤣🤣🤣

[@hillaryjanel.tabada8664]

Foc Linduh HAHAHAHAHA

[@nibrasflint1110]

R.I.P

[@furkanyldz8460]

Sad.. Polly dead.. i miss her

[@shakoor678]

Does anyone know in what season & episode that scene was?

[@BikramSingh-jy1vp]

I love how she transforms her vocal tone when she is explaining anything in Birmingham accent. She is talking like a normal person when she speaks in RP but the moment she switches into Birmingham accent she suddenly turns into a SHELBY😂

[@leancamo800]

"like a normal person" LMFAO

[@gavinreid2741]

RP normal?

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

Trouble is Bikram Singh, the so called Shelby's are IRISH and what they speak in Peaky Blinders is an Irish Accent. They do not speak in a Birmingham accent, take it from a true born and bread Brummie.

[@hbsblkk3842]

@@peterwilliamallen1063 not even. It’s just most the actors didn’t do the Brummie accent that well.

[@TheWooTubes]

I think this is great but where do you actually come from? I say the flat 'a' in South Staffirdshire. Some Brummies say a very long "'ad a barth" and "the gardin' parth". I've never worked out the geography of it.

[@jsmorenus8038]

As a native Spanish speaker, I find this accent more coherent with the spelling of vowels than RP.

[@zhussip]

Incredible! I can't even imagine how much work was done behind the scenes. So much charismatic playing! Bravo!

[@Itheonesavior]

I love her confidence 😂 she so serious

[@ardiroring1886]

Your "alright" is so Tommy Shelby.. And this is the best explanation of birmingham accent I've found so far. So thorough

[@user-qk8tr5gr7h]

Hi, i learn English and i never understood phrases like " so far" ,can you explain it to me?

[@ardiroring1886]

@@user-qk8tr5gr7h "so far" means "up to that time". so when I said "this is the best explanation so far", it means up to the time i said it, no other video gave better explanation.

[@user-qk8tr5gr7h]

@@ardiroring1886Thank you!

[@dmytroburyak8786]

You mean "oroit", roit?))) Yeah, agreed, best explanation ever

[@ardiroring1886]

@@dmytroburyak8786 🤣 Roit 👍🏼. If only she could somehow star in peaky blinders 🤣

[@fzo-b2131]

I believe this accent to be very comfy for native Spanish speakers, you roll the rs like us, you pronounce the U more or less like us, you pronounce the A exactly like us as well as the I.

[@AdgTee21]

I found your channel by accident and browsed for a bit. My family is from England in the 20s! I’m so captivated by your site. But I came to say what an EXCELLENT teacher you are!! Bravo.

[@allanbaal2743]

This is the closest to spanish that you can get in an english accent.

[@edelweiss-]

And german

[@Lichfeldian--Suttonian]

@Fabry 2512 Kind of. If I am right, you use a ‘tap’ for the letter -r- in many of your Castillian words.

[@edelweiss-]

The thing is many of the vocals in this accent are spoken like in german :)

[@jonathanwalker8730]

Very strange interpretation of a Birmingham, and indeed English, accent.

[@thunderider1]

I often get asked if im austrailian!

[@ammarakmalmohamedjohari8718]

the fact that cillian is from ireland and he's master it all

[@lemogrousso]

a lot of practice moy friend

[@johnsonandyjohnson]

American too. I thought he was actually American 😂

[@swiinka]

In fairness your average Dublin chav doesn't sound very different 😂

[@gavinsadventuresinterests.]

I'm actually from Birmingham, England & i think this video is hilarious 😂. I'm not offended by this at all. In fact i think this is brilliant. I was born & raised in the West Midlands County of England for 43 years since birth. This woman is not only very funny but she is actually quite attractive as well. We need more people like her in Brum as us Brummies would say. Brum is a nickname for Birmingham. Residents of Birmingham (or Brum) are called Brummies.

[@johnmack5341]

Another Brummie here and I agree,

[@Paulies-dn38416]

I'm from Hall Green and what is she talking about? Sounds like Wolverhampton

[@louiejonesponation]

My family’s from the same region, just 17 miles south of Birmingham.

[@albionmyl7735]

Wow... It's close to old english Saxon speech.... For me as a German it's sound very familiar.... Indeed we are Anglo-Saxons and Saxons.... I would say the closest ties in Europe... English and Germans are family... Let's stick together..... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇩🇪❤️✌️

[@ladybutterfly4992]

When examples are mostly Arthur fooikin Shelby

[@_rv00]

Other people :- Guns.... Tommy :- Goons. 😂❤️

[@swapnilpatil8650]

🤣😂

[@vinsonprinz2658]

Everyone: money Peaky Blinders: muney

[@tnglofficial]

Goons with goons(guns) 🤣

[@vinnigontinni7719]

Goose

[@_rv00]

@@vinnigontinni7719 boomps 😂😂

[@ivanshchukin4156]

Раньше я думал ,что у меня ужасное произношение английских слов,но теперь спокоен, оказывается у меня Бермингемский акцент 😅😅

[@fayzullohkarimov48]

Xexe

[@-eLMango-]

Birmingham/Black Country accent is the best accent of the land. Yes I know they are slightly different and people will get offended but they are very close...Class accent.

[@betsyfamilyb9371]

Thank you x

[@FrederickFokker]

I'll say it only once: I expect this bird on the next season of Peaky Blinders.

[@isaac7364]

that "bird" is so cockney

[@frecboisuprem6806]

@@isaac7364 not entirely- we say it in yorkshire as well

[@rattusnorvegicus4380]

@@frecboisuprem6806 ...& Lancashire

[@callumdavidson1928]

And Liverpool

[@rattusnorvegicus4380]

_@@callumdavidson1928_ _21 hours ago_ _And Liverpool_ While since I`ve visited the fine folk of Liverpuool(sic), do they pronounce it beard?:

[@anantharamashok9501]

The Legend says that even this lady needed subtitles to understand Arthur's accent

[@PawelTypiak]

XD i am from Poland and only when Arthur is on screen i have to look at subtitles 😁 such fun ❤️

[@notgadot]

@@PawelTypiak You haven't heard Ozzy Osbourne 😅

[@donjohnson7550]

Love it, love this series, it’s Birmingham, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest! Led Zeppelin’s Plant and Bonham! Dorian Yates! And I loved Peaky Blinders!

[@joelmasamba6762]

Oh my goodness!!!! I'm so happy that i speak in this accent nowadays thanks to you my amazing teacher just keep giving us phonetic features about it

[@visualsofhim]

she was literally talking in Birmingham accent while teaching Birmingham accent the whole time

[@ledger4321]

I'm a Brummie, but haven't lived there for over fifty years. Watching this I noticed I still sound a lot like my foredays even though the people I know say I don't have a Brummie accent. I know I still do, and a weekend visit to my sister really brings it out.

[@vipodcasting]

Just found this channel and love it. Brilliant lesson on Birmingham accent.

[@twosheepsoapery]

This is bloody well brilliant! From a brummie living in Ireland. No one can ever understand me 😂

[@putinski666]

I thought the Irish understood fellow shithole comrades.

[@scottscott232]

"I'll say it only wunce". I thoroughly enjoyed this entertaining but very informative clip. Loved it.

[@myrielifer]

Sin saber mucho de inglés, entendí todo el vídeo. Gran profe!! Me encantó. Soy muy fan de la serie y este video me ayuda a entender más ese acento particular que noté sin saber las diferencias, solo de oído. Tu vídeo hizo que ahora conociera la fonética de esa particularidad que notaba en el hablar de los actores de la serie ya que la vi siempre en idioma original. Celebro haberte encontrado

[@stevefrench7036]

I know it's kinda silly, but, I've been feeling quite comfortable with this accent. I learned American-English when I was a child, and to about the age of 8 no-one noticed I was a foreigner; then as time passed by I lost my edge because of the lack of practice, and when someone called out the flaws in my accent it hit hard. So now, I find it easier to hide my accent behind this thick one, and the slight r-rolling is really fluid in casual conversations! Teaching slowly.... now that's another story....

[@lucyisthebest9757]

this was a very fun and amusing way to learn my fav accent. as a south londoner, it was quite hard to learn this but i am pleased to say im happy with the result!!

[@kellogsx7069]

I'm from the black country and ive noticed that the main difference is that a lot of ppl with the brummy accent have a much deeper sounding voice while back country accent is a little higher and sing songy

[@mattschm5486]

Lived 7 months in Birmingham during my studies. I can understand brummie. Took me only 2 months. It gets really funny when I need to translate for people who speak English as well or better than me 😂

[@carefulconsumer8682]

When I was staying at Wrightington Medical Center where Sir Charnley developed his famous surgical procedures and devices and my friend and I went over to Wigan and met some girls. We could not understand one word they said their Wigan accent was so different. I am from USA and my friend is from Birmingham but literally could not understand them. They could understand us so we had a fun dinner together but it was a real experienced. Thanks for your videos. They are both fun and educational.

[@user-ij6el8gw5y]

I rewatch this video every once in a while. Good job! Thanks!!!!!

[@tshepisophofusetso3608]

You're amazing I love your English lessons. You're a quite humored lady.

[@glass0fwin]

this is amazing, thank you! I write a character with a Brummie accent and your video helps me understand her nuances.

[@smendes2004]

Luv this video! Never been to the UK, but have just realised that I love the Brummie accent!

[@Sarah-nb6sv]

Amaaaaazing😍😍😍😍it was such a cool video . I really enjoyed it. In love with peaky blinders and Birmingham accent 😁

[@Malik-fx7cx]

By order of Peaky Blinders.

[@Eric-el7dc]

I ve just discovered this video and its dammn wonderful. Well Iam excited for the next debate in my English class xD

[@JAVTROOPER]

I really love a trio from UK. They talk simple english, everybody can understand well what were they saying. Jeremy James & Richard

[@jsmorenus8038]

Even the r's are almost equal to the sound in Spanish. That's amazing!

[@saifmakkar1340]

May you live long and teach us more accents M'lady. ❤️

[@fernangalindez5188]

She's such a good teacher! Funny... And beautiful!

[@eliska4269]

Thank you so much for doing this video, you’re amazing and sound literally just like Tommy

[@FionaEm]

You're hilarious 😅 I'm Australian, and I've always thought our accent sits between Cockney and RP - but watching this video, I hear echoes of the way we pronounce the a, i and o vowels.

[@staceytomkinson910]

I’m from near brum and have a bit of a brum morning accent I visited Florida and they kept asking me if I was Australian

[@sowo1987]

I hear it too as an Aussie! Sometimes it also sounds Afrikaans with the Rrrs too.

[@FionaEm]

@@sowo1987 Yes! Definitely 😊

[@arkiu-himikoi]

I'd say it's more between American and British RP

[@wanpa4953]

@@arkiu-himikoi that's how I describe the Aussie accent

[@andrewabel3927]

A great explanation. I left Brum in 1965 to go to Uni, as they say now. I was last back home in 2004 and went to the place where I learnt to drink beer. I couldn't understand a word a guy said to me. Strange as I was brought up on a council estate. I have been told that when I become agitated the Brummie comes out of my mouth.!

[@eduardoalbertinopianista2380]

Oh, my! What a great job! It motivates even more to learn Engkish and dive deeply into it! Thanks for the amazibg performance!!! I'm gonna warch this many times!👏👏👏🙏🥰

[@kksunny7710]

thank u for such an awesome and useful video! now i finally can better understand the speech of peaky blinders’ characters!!

[@barbarajeen6289]

She is amazing. Thank you 💕

[@stevensmith743]

Your videos are exceptionally well done, as is the content.

[@faribakeyvanfar3858]

Thank you very much, I wish your channel existed when I first came to UK.

[@ysmarsaw5792]

I'm not really learning much but i can say this is very interesting and entertaining, you are so good

[@helium6913]

Simple yet perfect 😂🔥

[@potatohead5849]

DANG! It sounded so freakin smooth! Ya nailed it and Ima subscribed ;)

[@alanbruce6883]

You have smashed teaching Brummie Accent!!! Awesome

[@hsipzm9745]

thank you for making this, I needed this for character in a TTRPG I am playing in.

[@nickyperryman2683]

Best example of a Brummie accent I’ve seen. She doesn’t stray into Black Country but makes it really clear. Well done. Bostin ar kid!

[@sabinanamazova4079]

I wrote an esset thanks to your video. The best explanation in the whole youtube. Thanks

[@ramandeepsingh2331]

You nailed it very good and simplified learning

[@user-jy3rc8jl3j]

I've been watching the Peaky Blinders for some time. Started to understand the accent😆 thank you for the video🙏

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

Well then you know how to understand Irish then, because they do not talk like Brummies in Peaky Blinders.

[@sif_2799]

Love how the pitch drops some octaves for the accent xD it's the same in my language German when I speak Saxon dialect instead of standard

[@wasthataj]

Fun Fact : you really didn't need this video if you watched all the episodes of Peaky Blinders, hence, that's why your sitting and feeling proud that "hey, I already know this fookin shit".

[@mikasaackerman5873]

I laugh 😂😂🤣

[@nabeelkhan3794]

Aye yea by order of the peaky fookin blinders 🤣

[@JohnyFront]

I could listen this beautiful English swan for days. a perfect tutor with a soothing voice and incredible knowledge. Subbed!

[@irenepaulton3392]

I had to laugh at this - I am a native born Brummie but my parents didn't want their children growing up with what was then a very despised accent (1960s). My mother trained as a GPO telephonist and they were made to use RP at work and she taught us a lot of RP at home as well. My elder sister sounds much more Brummie than I do but I have been away from Birmingham now for a little over 30 years. If I visit, I can slip into the accent very fast but once I am back home, I have to really, really think and concentrate to produce a true Brummie accent. I remember, in the local amateur dramatic society where I live, being asked to take a part in their production of "An Inspector Calls" which is set in Birmingham but I literally couldn't sustain the Brummie accent for an entire performance!

[@notgniot]

I m polish living in West midlands i looove the accent here and I guess I acquired it accidentally 😃 everyone thinks im brumi🤣 and I looooooove peaky blinders 💖🖤🖤🖤🖤 oiroight mate! Nice one, taraaa!

[@ericaferreira7693]

The best explanation

[@alvinvalera3684]

This is so good. Entertaining and very helpful

[@arifmahmudarf]

Confident girl....It was just amazing.

[@leonahamilton3098]

I have watched this video over and over again just to listen to the BRUMMIE ACCENT ahhh I'm absolutely in love with this accent and Peaky Blinders (even though I'm not a native English speaker and I find it very difficult to understand the show without subtitles)

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

If you can understand Irish, you will understand Peaky Blinders, as the characters in peaky blinders do not speak in a Brummie accent, they speak with an Irish Accent, take it from a Brummie who thinks peaky Blinders is just a joke and it is not even filmed in Birmingham.

[@Beanpolr]

​@@peterwilliamallen1063How did you expect them to film it in Birmingham? The Birmingham depicted in the show was completely destroyed and/or built over. Of course they had to film elsewhere, it's not exactly realistic to build half a city in sets.

[@nincompoop9976]

Im watching this video smiling cause im really enjoying to learn the birmingham accent. Liked the video Love from Malaysia 🇲🇾

[@ashdannysh]

org mana der?

[@SYC710]

It was hilarious 🤣🤣🤣🤣 love it 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 always been a big fan of the accent of Peaky Blinders 🔥💙💙💙💙

[@joelmasamba6762]

Whenever I'm learning this lesson from ya i ain't Afraid of speaking English coz if i got stuck Muna use this great and amazing lesson

[@alejandramarquez235]

This is brilliant. Love the accent!

[@user-kz6of5nv2t]

Ive never watched the drama yet. However Im interested in it lol. You explain interestingly so I subscribe you. I hope I can watch more videos in your channel.

[@danihans5199]

So flawless and fun as usual dear teacher. The use of the vowel "u" just blow my mind. Greatings for Argentina. Keep going like that. 😎

[@grindelwald5496]

aguante Argentina wuacho, vamo boca lmao

[@danihans5199]

@@grindelwald5496 un saludo millonario querida Vale....😎😅. Soy de River. Igual todo joya...no importa que tu club y el mio se odien a muerte jajaja. 😎

[@ashishkumaryadav8555]

It seems like you have come through time machine from medieval era. Very beautifully described you are very beautiful ❤️ with very effective teaching skills.

[@Lichfeldian--Suttonian]

This is just bostin! Everything is spot on! I’m from the ‘posh end’ of the conurbation but I can _still_ hear myself uttering some of those pronunciations. Ta ta a bit.

[@Lichfeldian--Suttonian]

@Gísiu Perhaps not. 🤔😂😉

[@michaeljones7465]

@Gísiu This is a form of Middle English, which is why it's distinct from Modern English.

[@dayko1329]

This is fantastic. Thank you a much!!!!

[@dreamer0me]

Thanks for the video. I learned English and now I gonna learn this accent couse It's sounds funny ( and kinda cool?). You're the Best!

[@Xegethra]

I have a fairly weak Birmingham accent but it's there, my sister as a stronger one. Despite never living too far apart from each other or leaving the city. Most people I know, including myself, drop a lot of the t's at the end or middle of the words. So not just soft t's, but pretty much not there. I dunno inconsistent t's. I remember visiting New York City a few years ago and the first bar we walk into, I talk to the bar tender and the guy sitting there turns around to us and asks if we were from Birmingham. From my accent a lot of fellow Brummies can't detect much. Turns out he has family from Coventry and he occasionally visits these cities.

[@ProfessorKenneth]

" me boss gave me a rise" instead of raise.. the sun rise..you see. I was born in Swansea moved to Manchester when I was 5 then at 20 I moved to NYC. Brooklyn. Im 46 now so me accent is all mixed up..lol..it's fun to watch these videos.

[@zanttiagotorres4765]

Es curioso como este acento se asemeja a la forma que tenemos los latinos al pronunciar el inglés. El but con la u pronunciada, el fit con la i acentuada, la h muda, la manía mexicana de sobre-acentuar el "sh" o "tsh", el ocultar la r en palabras antes de un consonante se conoce desde que se habla el inglés británico. En fin, por su pollo que voy a adoptar este acento si la manera de hablarlo suena muy parecido al español-alemán

[@mariaeduardaalves5827]

I'm from Brazil and I'm in love with brummie accent❤ This video is perfect 😂

[@cptbrito]

The Birmingham vowels sound like our vowels in brazilian portuguese. Specially the "i" and the "u". That's very interesting. Thanks for the video! Cheers from Brasil :)

[@Kh7zz]

Same in Spanish

[@lazypadme3793]

That was actually really fun to do with her. Can't stop now 🤣

[@K.e.a.r.a.]

*As a South Yorkshire lass, it’s very amusing to me how similar some parts of our accents are but at the same time Brummies sound like they’re talking a different language* 😂😂😂

[@michaeljones7465]

Black Country/Worcestershire is a form of Middle English that still survives.

[@Xegethra]

Yeah we have a bit of Northern in there from time to time.

[@shahzebkhan2875]

Thanx Mrs Tommy for teaching me this accent ☺️

[@avigailomichael]

Funny and enlightening. Wish there were a million like buttons, I'd click 'em all! Funny how I wrote that with a Brummie accent in my mind 😂🤣

[@MoodyMooMoo]

This was not only educational but really entertaining! Great vid :))

[@potatoguy5307]

great teacher, great materials, great video, great lesson!

[@smashingenglish]

Thanks so much!

[@mrtjohnson1581]

Thanks, luv i’!! Very well explained. Next project: then off to Manchester and Liverpool.

[@heliman8286]

As a nonnative speaker of English who has learned the American accent all her life, I have to say that watching this TV show without subtitles added WAY TOO MUCH to the knowledge I had of this language at the time. However, I cried sweat and tears trying to understand the accent.

[@flexeduup2676]

I like it, she made it specific and perfect. It’s annoying because she isn’t wrong - if she made it less exaggerated she would sound like a casual brummy in today’s modern world instead of the dramatised peaky blinder version ahaha