In the UK, Dick Van Dyke is infamous for how bad his cockney accent is in Mary Poppins - proving how difficult it really is!
@bigfrankfraser1391 Жыл бұрын
in fact, my wife whose actual cockney, said that where she grew up a bad impression would be called "going full dick"
@101steel4 Жыл бұрын
That was a shocking attempt, even by American standards 😂
@andybaker2456 Жыл бұрын
Apparently he had a voice coach to help him with the accent, however that voice coach was from Ireland! 😆
@101steel4 Жыл бұрын
@@andybaker2456 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@Aloh-od3ef Жыл бұрын
‘Alright, I’ll do it myself’ 😂😂😂😂
@tomreviews9668 Жыл бұрын
As a British citizen, I didn't think the examples shown were that great or shown off the accents in a particularly obvious way to an outsider. Thinking about it, I wished they had shown clips of the eighties drama, Auf Wiedersehen Pet, as the mixture of different characters clearly demonstrates the diversity and broadness in UK dialects.
@EtherealSunset Жыл бұрын
Very true, there were lots of different accents in that.
@thadtuiol1717 Жыл бұрын
@@EtherealSunset Funny thing was, only the Geordie characters accents were authentic because the actors actually were Geordies, but all the other actors actually weren't from the region their character was from.
@RcGhost-V8 Жыл бұрын
i am not British and i agree with you, anyone could understand what was said that was not the best video to show the British accents
@Athena621 Жыл бұрын
Jump, loved Jimmy Nail in it!!!
@RachaelMorgan-om4xw Жыл бұрын
Why aye!!! Geordies 😇
@hufflepuffgirl5437 Жыл бұрын
Honestly think some of the clips didn't represent the accents enough 😂 but it was hilarious.
@susanashcroft2674 Жыл бұрын
I agree.
@andybaker2456 Жыл бұрын
Yes, many of the examples were pretty mild, and didn't really give a good representation of how some of those accents really sound.
@GillNRTT Жыл бұрын
Totally agree
@xarisstylianou Жыл бұрын
Most accents on tv are toned down so people can understand Birmingham has so many ascent from the black country to Wolfhamton to Dudley even Yam Yam .and Newcastle is just as bad the softest is the midleland
@hardywatkins7737 Жыл бұрын
Yeah i thought that also.
@kjdempsey Жыл бұрын
Proud West Country boy here. You would know this accent from Hagrid in Harry Potter, Sam Wise in the Lord of the Rings and Captain Barbossa in Pirates of the Caribbean
@samhasnoplan76315 ай бұрын
Stephen Merchant and Russel Howard
@Richard-ec8xy4 ай бұрын
I like Stephen Merchant because his name alone is brilliant to showcase his accent @@samhasnoplan7631
@ThePheasantPluckerr2 ай бұрын
Do you think Sean Astin had a good West Country accent as Sam wise for an American?
@vamvam76902 ай бұрын
@@samhasnoplan7631do Bristol and Bath count as ‘West Country’? I guess they do? 🤔 Never considered myself ‘west country’ before but maybe I am 😅
@samhasnoplan76312 ай бұрын
@@vamvam7690 definitely West Country. I live between Bristol and Bath myself
@brokenphoenix6730 Жыл бұрын
A lot of the accents you heard in the video were accents for TV shows, so an element of a variety of different viewers being able to understand it would be taken into account. The everyday accent you hear across different towns and cities in real life are usually a bit stronger and the differences tend to be greater.
@neilgayleard3842 Жыл бұрын
Many by actors who are not even from that area. Including the RP one with a Australian playing the part.
@beckyallsopp5695 Жыл бұрын
I don't think this was a very good representation of any of the accents tbh
@wessexdruid7598 Жыл бұрын
@@neilgayleard3842 So many of these vids use Peaky Blinders as an example of Brummie - when the actor is actually Irish.
@mickleather2119 Жыл бұрын
No representations of British accents at all in the video. Missing the real accents via actors. Missing Yorkshire, The Midlands, East Anglia, Scottish other than Glasgow. All areas have slightly different accents. The shown video is nowhere near representation. Just to put the record straight, don't attempt to reproduce. It's offensive. You enjoy our melodic English speech. Maybe the odd exceptions.
@50upss Жыл бұрын
I disagree, accents are much more diluted now and tend to be exaggerated by actors
@Brontephile9 ай бұрын
As a Brit from Manchester UK, I’ve just discovered your channel, you too are so lovely, and I love your enthusiasm for learning all things Brit ❤ love your channel x
@corringhamdepot4434 Жыл бұрын
Before they invented the bicycle and the train, most country folk lived, worked and married within a few miles of where they were born. There were also many different local dialect words, as well as different accents.
@pauldurkee4764 Жыл бұрын
Its fascinating to look at old maps before the motorcar, market towns were like the hub of a spoked wheel with roads leading to the next settlements, they normally worked out about 13 to 15 miles in-between, a comfortable distance for a man to travel there and back in a day on a horse and cart. So they noticed speech variations about that distance apart.
@50upss Жыл бұрын
Even after their invention, most people couldn't afford to use them
@KenFullman Жыл бұрын
They chose the wrong video to react to. You only get to hear a couple of words of each accent. Absolute waste of time.
@ianbeddowes5362 Жыл бұрын
After the invention of the the bicycle, young men in rural England were able to roger young women they were not even related to.
@RachaelMorgan-om4xw Жыл бұрын
@@ianbeddowes5362 What are you on about...? Roger? Do you mean fuck?
@moyaterry8493 Жыл бұрын
I don’t think the video gave lengthy enough clips or examples of these accents. I LOVE accents!
@reactingtomyroots Жыл бұрын
Agreed!
@G0ldfingers Жыл бұрын
Not many of the accents in the video were actually very strong representations.
@PedroConejo1939 Жыл бұрын
Yeah, there's plenty of much thicker clips available. For Norn Iron, for example, I would have gone with the 'frost bit kid'.
@EtherealSunset Жыл бұрын
Yeah, they were mostly mild, diluted versions of the accents.
@janescott4574 Жыл бұрын
My husband and I are from the south east, one of my lovely daughters in law comes from Newcastle in the north east. My husband jokes that he hasn’t understood a word she says in 30 years!! (She then hits him!!!!)
@boontime Жыл бұрын
They used a clip of a Black Country girl speaking rough Yam Yam as an example of the Brummie accent :(
@eoinlucas50588 ай бұрын
Fact, these were the most diluted examples you could find
@wrightfamily4373 Жыл бұрын
The thing is in the UK. There tends to be an accent for each county. Although Norfolk is similar to Suffolk, there will be very small changes and bearing in mind there are 230 something counties. Each county is very different to the other.
@Parker8752 Жыл бұрын
Growing up in the uk during the 90s, you could tell if someone came from the next town over by accent. The difference in accent from just a ten mile difference was huge.
@Witcher148 ай бұрын
I love this about the UK
@aimeehall17428 ай бұрын
it’s still like this in wales! can tell from a 15min drive that you’ve moved into a new area
@brianthirling92608 ай бұрын
Yes its still like that in the northeast
@DansManCaveUK8 ай бұрын
I'm from Sheffield and can tell if someone is from Barnsley 15min away
@H.M.SKingGeorgeV8 ай бұрын
Yep, a prime example is Sunderland and Newcastle, we have a very different accent from Gerodies and we're not even 10 miles apart.
@marvinc9994 Жыл бұрын
Lindsay's got a point: it would be MUCH more interesting to have a SINGLE passage rendered in different regional accents.
@allenwilliams1306 Жыл бұрын
You mean something like: “Where have you been since I saw you?”, as opposed to “Wheir 'ast tha bin sinc'ah saw thee?”.
@marvinc9994 Жыл бұрын
@@allenwilliams1306 "“Where have you been since I saw you?”" Now that _is_ an interesting dialect (whatever it means). Where's it from? ;-)
@silverfireUK9 ай бұрын
@@marvinc9994 On Ilkley Moor.
@Si74l0rd3 ай бұрын
And across the class divide too. Morningside and a typical Edinburgh accent differ quite significantly. As does Bristol to Bath, which is mostly a class thing rather than a purely geographic one.
@AndrewBroadhead-kb7oc Жыл бұрын
I'm from Wakefield, went to school in Leeds, went to university in Hull, worked in Harrogate, now live in Barnsley and my girlfriend is from Sheffield. All Yorkshire towns and cities. Every single one has a completely different accent to the others.
@charlienerd8 ай бұрын
I'm from Sheffield lived in Leeds, hartlepool, Wolverhampton and now barnsley
@kristoferhailes46278 ай бұрын
A know what thar on abart theer mate. Tintintin tha knows
@Nesseveraf8 ай бұрын
I'm from Pontefract and there's even a slight difference between here and Wakefield.
@Danfrank248 ай бұрын
From Huddersfield to hull there’s a good 4-5 accents and from Sheffield to Richmond the same. Yorkshire is a massive county.
@molliesmomma8 ай бұрын
I’m a Scouser living in Barnsley, I’ve been here 4 years and I’ve noticed that Barnsley, Sheffield, Rotherham and Doncaster accents are all so different yet there’s only a few miles separating each place.
@simonmetcalfe59268 ай бұрын
When you think of Scotland, you should start with Billy Connolly.
@rjjcms12 ай бұрын
And Last of the Summer Wine for the Yorkshire Dales? Even if Peter Sallis voiced Wallace from Wallace & Gromit,and that was supposed to be set in creator Nick Park's home town Preston over in Lancashire?
@rjjcms12 ай бұрын
BBC2 have a fly-on-the-wall police series called Highland Cops running at the moment. Just saw the latest episode yesterday (Tuesday) evening.
@Yesser-Thistle73Ай бұрын
Yes, start. He's Glaswegian. Every city has at least one variation. As for the rural areas -many more, not to mention the Highlands and all the Islands!
@callum4796 Жыл бұрын
Gerald from Clarkson's farm is probably the hardest person in the uk to understand 🤣
@85stace859 ай бұрын
100%!! Not a clue what he's saying, but he's hilarious!! 😂
@javierhillier42529 ай бұрын
they should definitely check out clarksons farm
@javierhillier42529 ай бұрын
they should definitely check out clarksons farm
@jkasaunder2288 ай бұрын
There is a youtube video that basically teaches you to understand Gerald (I think it's "This is what gerald said"). Once you watch it, everything suddenly makes sense. (If you grew up around it, no need to watch the video)
@liannfoster54678 ай бұрын
I disagree the strongest English accent very broad Scottish.
@misolgit69 Жыл бұрын
Received Pronunciation used to be frivolously called BBC English all newsreaders and presenters were expected to speak that way
@DistrictDriver Жыл бұрын
As a Geordie myself, I can talk with a strong accent when I'm talking to my family, however I'm also a radio presenter so can talk relatively accent-free! I live in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and am a true Geordie, however just about 12 miles away, there is a city called Sunderland, and their accent is completely different to Geordie! They are known as "Mackems" because they pronounce the word "make" as "Mak"! I love accents, and the huge variations just a few miles away!
@TheStar798 Жыл бұрын
As a Londoner I looooooooove a Geordie accent 😂😍 (that and Edinburgh are my favourites)
@PolarBear4 Жыл бұрын
Yep! I have my normal accent and my "phone voice" for the rest of the World. I think it's something all of us with stronger regional accent have had to develop so those from other areas can understand us. And yep, I have relatives from Sunderland and Teesside and they're very distinctly different to mine (along with my friend from County Durham). Last time I met my elderly Mackem relative I could barely understand her for a few mins until my brain shifted.
@Labyrinth_Props Жыл бұрын
I went to in uni in Hartlepool. One of my classmates was a geordie. One was mackem. The were besties but fought like cats and dogs. Especially about pronunciation. And ‘phone voice’ is weird. I grew up being forced to speak ‘properly’ so rp or a very relaxed rp is my normal speech pattern but I still manage to slip into a Goole (close to the doncaster accent?) accent when I’m stressed.
@louisemanley4388 Жыл бұрын
Aye thiv got a canny accent in the Toon like! 😅
@rustynail1194 Жыл бұрын
Haha loads of people are like that. My Mrs is from the black country moved to Somerset with me and she lost a lot of her accent. Stick her on the phone to her family and it all comes flooding back 😂
@nigelclinning2448 Жыл бұрын
I’m from the north west of England and worked for a lot of my life in the south east. When I was at work, people thought I sounded like a northerner, when I went home people thought I was talking like a southerner. We all have our base accent but pick up from all the other places we live and work.
@BritishAdam Жыл бұрын
I'm quite surprised the Broad Yorkshire accent isn't on there. The modern Yorkshire accent for most areas is now fairly watered down, but older generation of people have some truly amazing broad yorkshire accents, they're also the only people that can sing the Yorkshire Anthem with any real hope! The accent local to Sheffield in South Yorkshire, was recently voted as Britain's favourite accent. Received pronunciation does indeed sound 'stuck up' to people here, its generally associated with people who are wealthy, as well as stereotypically the accent of broadcasters, giving it the nickname of BBC English.
@goose300183 Жыл бұрын
I know exactly what you mean! My dad is 65 and is a West Yorkshireman. His accent is pure and broad. I live in Glasgow and my father-in-law has a very strong Glaswegian accent and speaks pretty much pure Scots. My dad and father-in-law actually have trouble understanding each other hehe
@BritishAdam Жыл бұрын
@@goose300183Sweet, I'm in West Yorkshire myself. Have a wild mix of accents here, all entirely different twangs & local words. Doesn't matter if you're in Halifax, Bradford, Leeds or Wakefield, you'll always not understand 100% of the conversation with anyone from the other places. I have considered getting elocution lessons to try making my accent broad, but oof, pricey! Gonna have to live with my 'modern' Huddersfield one with plenty of input from the Holme Valley & Halifax.
@goose300183 Жыл бұрын
@@BritishAdam aye, my family is originally from a pretty rural place in the Keighley/Skipton area. A lot of farmers and rural folks still have the traditional accent, especially the older generation like you say. To outsiders, it sounds like people are speaking Old English or something with phrases like "see ya anon" and "you laikin out t'night?" "as't bin man bin?" "hows yasen?" etc lol
@johnbolton7657 Жыл бұрын
@@BritishAdamHey up lad, shout out to Halifax. Nice one, that's weer ahm from.
@gazroyston1035 Жыл бұрын
I grew up in Bradford, Yorkshire and love the accent there. But since I last live there 30 years ago, I've lived in south Africa, south Wales,Essex, Hereford, Edinburgh, Nottingham, Chester and also worked with a lot of scousers and Geordies. I've lost most of my original accent and people in Yorkshire don't believe I'm from there, but people everywhere else still say I sound northern.
@hinefamily7565 Жыл бұрын
Glaswegian (Slang) is a throwback to the vikings who were prominent in the area, Norwegian. The welsh village has the second longest name the Longest is found in New Zealand.
@adj0191 Жыл бұрын
I think part of the problem with a lot of these accents is they’re using actors so a lot of them aren’t native speakers of the accent. There is a really good accent video where they use celebrities speaking in interviews so they’re talking in their own accent which is better to help you hear them
@RachaelMorgan-om4xw Жыл бұрын
Agreed!
@Richard-ec8xy4 ай бұрын
And if they are native speakers of particularly broad accents like Paul McCartney, Limmy, Billy Connolly or Cheryl Cole it's quite a watered down version of their accent that is toned down for telly
@johnbruce2868 Жыл бұрын
The most challenging accent not mentioned, 'Doric' from Aberdeenshire in Scotland. Want a phrase to copy? See the Disney film 'Brave" and try to say, "It's nae richt tae mak us fecht fae th' haund o th' quine." Phrases include, "Foos yer Doos?" and Aberdeen is known in Scotland as "Furry Boots City" because of the dialect question, "Fur aboots?" = "where about's." I'll bet ye dinnae ken fit 'a loon' is eethur?"
@lesdonovan7911 Жыл бұрын
Hi Steve, The woman you saw speaking in the west country clip was not from the west country, her accent was all wrong, she was only playing the part in the tv drama Broadchurch which was filmed mainly in west bay Dorset, It was a type of Dorset accent but spoken really badly, in fact i think her home town is up country somewhere.
@lukemorris4065 Жыл бұрын
Love how you get your family involved now. I hope things continue to go well for you all
@davebardell Жыл бұрын
Etymology From Glasgow, modelled after Galwegian (“inhabitant of Galway”), itself modelled after Norwegian (“inhabitant of Norway”). The noun is from the adjective.
@reactingtomyroots Жыл бұрын
Thanks for explaining!
@aidanfarnan46839 ай бұрын
The old joke is: You drive two hours in the US you're in the same state. You drive 2 hours in the UK the accent has changed seven times and bred rolls are called something new.
@xanderjames86829 ай бұрын
😂 true! Had a barm mile back a cob here and morning roll later
@nicolaj6658 ай бұрын
@@xanderjames8682and a bread cake and bap. 😊
@planekrazy1795 Жыл бұрын
My Uncle is a Cornishman though and though. He has spoken the Cornish Language from a child. He speaks at a million miles an hour with a very heavy Cornish accent. The Cornish Language was almost lost but is making a big comeback. People think it's just like Welsh but it really isn't its very similar to Breton spoken in Brittany in northern France. These two languages are the closest to Brittonic the language of the Celts.
@wallythewondercorncake8657 Жыл бұрын
I'm from Devon and had a Dutch girlfriend and she asked me to slow down my speaking when we video called lol
@hardywatkins7737 Жыл бұрын
Yeah it doesn't sound much like Welsh. There are two branches of Celtic in these islands ... Brythonic and Goidelic (from 'Goidel' = Gael). Strangely, Celtic is related to Latin, both belonging to the 'southern indo-European' language group. In France, as well as Breton, they also have 'Gaulish' which was the language the Gauls spoke and isn't really related to Gaelic. So 'Gallic' and 'Gaelic' are not the same thing.
@susanwestern6434 Жыл бұрын
@@hardywatkins7737Dydh da.
@hardywatkins7737 Жыл бұрын
@@susanwestern6434 I must admit to not being a Cornish speaker, although i live in Cornwall now and have alot of Cornish ancestry but ... Dohajydh da! 🙂
@lilachiricli67569 ай бұрын
@@susanwestern6434 Dydd da I chditha hefyd 😁
@Momo_1412 Жыл бұрын
Liam Neeson is from Ballymena in Northern Ireland, Ulster is a Provence in the North of Ireland it includes all 6 counties of Northern Ireland and 3 more countries from the Republic of Ireland but can sometimes be used interchangeably as a term with Northern Ireland. So you are right in Ulster English is English in a Northern Irish accent. There is also a dialect called Ulster Scots which is a mix of English and Scottish which is maybe what Lyndsey was thinking of. You don’t normally watch tv on here but you should watch Derry girls to really hear a strong northern Irish accent. 😊
@saswatchco Жыл бұрын
I'm from Dublin and there are many accents in the city alone. You can tell what part of the city someone is from simply by their accent. There are also hundreds of accents all over Ireland and again you can easily tell where someone is from. 😅
@Bangtaneu9 ай бұрын
Amrcns All think they "Know!" Irish ppl..😅 (You know this!) 🤭💜🙏🏻💜🇮🇪💜 🏴💜🇬🇧💜
@sarahwhittle4868 Жыл бұрын
My husband of 34 years is a Macam. From Sunderland. When he moved to Peterborough in the 1970s, his name was Tom, so everyone said ‘rock on Tommy’ from the comedy show Cannon and Ball. lol x
@whitecompany18 Жыл бұрын
This vid is people with one accent doing somebody else's accent, it's mostly actors playing a part and they are showing bad examples 😄👍
@reactingtomyroots Жыл бұрын
😂
@RachaelMorgan-om4xw Жыл бұрын
Hear, ear! ☺
@RachaelMorgan-om4xw11 ай бұрын
Agreed!!!!
@rayaqueen96578 ай бұрын
And barely any of it to listen to anyway. It's mostly narration.
@CagedPaps9 ай бұрын
When you thought of Scotland when hearing Ulster - there is such a thing as Ulster Scots, so it's not that daft to think of Scotland. There's a video on KZbin from Fraiser (I can't remembeer the character names), but the English girl gets ger English accent imitated by th dad. The twist is, the guy who plays the dad is actually from Manchester. The girl plays a character from Manchestr but her accent is mor Yorkshire - because she is from Essex, so it's a fake accent even though she really is English. So you had an actor with an American accent mimicing an English person trying to do a Manchster accent but getting it a bit wrong, so he even does the wrong accent... I've not explained it well but yeah.
@karencooper3428 Жыл бұрын
If you're saying accents and dialects, they pretty much do change every village, coz we refer to tings differently, rhyming slang is a good example
@ASilentSymphony8 ай бұрын
I live in Glasgow, Scotland :) Limmy’s a legend
@janesalisbury3686 Жыл бұрын
That film is RUBBISH, it's all actors, many of whom are not getting the accents right. Everybody in the UK makes fun of Mel Gibbs and Dick van Dyke because they got it excruciatingly wrong.
@Bangtaneu9 ай бұрын
(I had to check your comment twice! I thought I had written that & forgotten!😂💜) Hilarious! 🙏🏻💜🇬🇧💜
@rayaqueen96578 ай бұрын
Can't upvote this comment enough!!! Feel sorry for the reactors because these all sound the same. (UK born linguist). We have so many beautiful wild accents. These are all tamed (and there's WAY too much narration from someone who knows nothing!)
@karenshields19748 ай бұрын
We also have the Ulster scots language /dialect.
@polheg1 Жыл бұрын
Liam Neeson is from Ballymena, Co Antrim, N.Ireland. Northern Ireland is made up of six counties and is only a part of Ulster which is made up of nine counties. The remaining three are part of Ireland.
@paulthomas8262 Жыл бұрын
@@matt01506 SLF fan?
@paulthomas8262 Жыл бұрын
@@matt01506 what type of conservative, what are you conserving?
@paulthomas8262 Жыл бұрын
@@matt01506 Conservative is relative to something. You might be socially conservative but relative to what period or state? For instance Old Tory, New Tory. If you mean slow incremental change that is another definition, but again is still relative to some kind of status quo. I'm just wondering what is it about liking punk you are embarrassed about?
@blackbob3358 Жыл бұрын
All 9 are part of Ireland, one would imagine, heg head.
@timarmstrong3251 Жыл бұрын
A Derry accent is quite different from a Belfast accent or an Ulster country accent.
@Lighting_Desk8 ай бұрын
Geordie is very specific to Newcastle upon Tyne where I'm living, but down the river in South Shields you have Sandancer, and Sunderland and Durham are Makems.
@jimboforest49118 ай бұрын
Makems and takems
@chrisaris8756 Жыл бұрын
My wife’s family come from Hamilton south of Glasgow and after 40 years I still cannot get half of what they say!!! Michael Caine (good bloke!) isn’t really doing a cockney accent. His is more Essex / Thames Estuary. The Northern Ireland accent is truly one of the my favourites. And the people are really lovely. If you want to do an Ulster accent instead of saying Nothern Ireland say NORN IRON. Then you’ve got it!! All lot of those accents in TV shows were really parodies of the real thing as the actors are themselves putting it on!
@octaviussludberry9016 Жыл бұрын
There are differences between a Derry, Belfast, Armagh, Derry Linn. Subtle but discernible.
@jmillar71110 Жыл бұрын
That's no even a hard Scottish accent 😂
@eddhardy1054 Жыл бұрын
Since Caine's from South London he's definitely not doing an Essex accent.
@benwest6633 Жыл бұрын
@@eddhardy1054 more like Kent I'd say
@andybaker2456 Жыл бұрын
@eddhardy1054 Yep, he was born and raised in inner South East London.
@99fruitbat94 Жыл бұрын
The Glasgow accent varies depending on which part of Glasgow you live in . Glasgow is a large City . North, West, South,East.The accent can be very different . I frequently baffle my English colleagues at work with my Glasgow accent 😂
@RachaelMorgan-om4xw Жыл бұрын
Keep up the good work
@radaring Жыл бұрын
And "how" means "why"?
@flootzavut30daychallenge3 ай бұрын
Glaswegian accents are my favourite Scottish accents 😻
@rayrecrok Жыл бұрын
I am a "Wessie" from Wakefield Yorkshire, Yorkshire folk have their own sayings that are completely understood by most Yorkshire folk, just like Cocknys understand theirs, it just is mostly the Yorkshire accent where folk don't understand a word we say! never mind what we are saying. "Sithie"😁
@penhullwolf5070 Жыл бұрын
Nah then!
@michellerice606 Жыл бұрын
Yoreyt? 😂
@rayrecrok Жыл бұрын
@@michellerice606 eye love!
@AutisticAl8 ай бұрын
The Yorkshire accent is one of the friendliest accents in the world (4th to be exact) and I'm from the South of Yorkshire and the irony is that the worst, most aggressive sounding accent in the world is only 100 miles from Yorkshire. This accent is known as Liverpudlian and sounds like someone with no education trying to speak with a mouth full of spit. It's nice to see some Americans finally embrace and learn about British culture without automatically resorting to insults and criticisms ❤👌
@smartypants72848 ай бұрын
What a downer on scousers!
@karencooper3428 Жыл бұрын
The west country isn't one accent, but it's a gradient of a similar sound
@rachelpenny5165 Жыл бұрын
Yes I agree with you. I am from Devon originally and the accent varies slightly over the whole West Country.
@wallythewondercorncake8657 Жыл бұрын
@@rachelpenny5165I be a Devon bey too, me luvver, an I cans tell doze vurriners in zummerzit apart from us lot
@susanwestern6434 Жыл бұрын
The 'West Country' accent examples were from actors who did not come from the West Country. Hardly any actors get it anywhere near right. Let alone the differences fom Cornwall to Somerset. Then there are the accents from Wiltshire,Oxfordshire and Hampshire etc.
@JonathanReynolds1 Жыл бұрын
Bill Bailey is from Somerset - he is a good example of the West Country accent.
@margaretshanahan9754 Жыл бұрын
I love the two of you doing reactions together ❤.
@NemesisMarple Жыл бұрын
Given what a tiny country we are, it’s insane how many different accents we have. 😂
@reactingtomyroots Жыл бұрын
Yeah, kinda blows our minds :)
@da90sReAlvloc Жыл бұрын
@@reactingtomyroots Steve if you want to show your wife a real Geordie accent watch a show called Spender.(starring Jimmy nail). Jimmy is a Geordie
@lilachiricli67569 ай бұрын
We also have four languages remember 😁 Welsh, English, Scots Gael and Cornish.
@Electrodoc1968 Жыл бұрын
Strong midlands born and bred here. Ay up ma duck how ya goo in on.? All rate a wot.? Hello my "Duck" how are you getting "Going" on.? Are you all right or what "OK or Something different".. This is A common greeting around the midlands area. Duck is derived from "Duke", for some reason the "E" is lost in time.. And is a for of endearment and acknowledgment of someone you know or don't know who you're passing on the street. So you're basically employing a greeting from when a midlands based duke gave a lot of land away to the common folk earlier in history. I think this land has now become council allotments and cost around £10 a year for a plot of 1/2 an acre and can be used to grow crops or house poultry etc. We are always greeting people by saying, "All Rate" or "Ay up" and more often than not ask how they are in passing usually accompanied with a slight nod or head turn with very fast wink gesture. We only really expect an answer such as "Living the dream mate" or "Sound cheers", we are not expecting a full health check or anything more than a nod. It's just something that is fairly common especially in small towns or villages. the separate Mate, Marra or Cheers also randomly and perfectly exchangeable with the "Ma duck". :) Perfect alternative sample.. All rate marra.? Yeah ma duck cheers.. You.? Ahh mustn't grumble me owd cheers.
@annbaillie9098 Жыл бұрын
I was in the city one day an some Americans where asking a guy for directions, and the guy in his best Glaswegian accent was telling them how to get to there destination, and the look on there faces was oh my god lol they had no clue what he was saying. And when he finished and walked off I asked them did you get all that and they all said no. And yes I did explain it to them slowly lol xoxoxox
@reactingtomyroots Жыл бұрын
😂 you're a saint!
@wheelmanstan Жыл бұрын
That happened to me once. I was 20 years old and drinking with some friends somewhere in Greece, two Scottish women said something to me and I was totally lost and caught off guard. There's a point where an accent sounds like someone is putting on an act, like pranking you. Haha. I've seen a ton of British TV shows but that Glasgow accent is just on a completely other level. The accent is so tough that I bet they're fully aware of it when speaking to foreigners.
@jennypurplethefirst8 ай бұрын
Oh yes, often when I’ve been abroad and didn’t want to be understood by the local population, we spoke in very strong Weegie accents 😂 Don’t watch Braveheart if you want to hear a Glasgow accent (btw it’s pronounced “Glaz-go” not “Glass cow”) first of all, William Wallace was born in either Paisley or Kilmarnock, and Mel Gibson isn’t good at a Scottish accent! You want anything with Billy Connolly, Taggart, Rab C Nesbitt, Still Game, Scotch and Wry, Sweet Sixteen or The Wee Man both with Martin Compston. There’s plenty of Glasgow accents around if you want to hear them.
@davidstewart29967 ай бұрын
Loved her look of sheer puzzlement when the weatherman uttered Llanfair etc. Priceless.
@kyleowen-smith383010 ай бұрын
Actually Ulster English is predominantly Scottish influenced, being that the people who came to Northern Ireland during the plantation period were mainly lowland Scots and some English from the border region. So your Mrs was right.
@chucky2316 Жыл бұрын
I live in torbay in devon and love it here in the summer being the english riveria and a tourist spot we get folk from all over the uk on holiday the shops restraunts bars are just full of wonderful uk dialects. Im a massive fan of a liverpudlian accent especially from a female. 😂
@user-mjg1067 Жыл бұрын
Ulster is in Northern Ireland but you also have Ulster Scots
@suzielees5227 Жыл бұрын
Don’t forget guys, the video was demonstrating accents that are hard to imitate, not necessarily hard to understand. 😊
@rayaqueen96578 ай бұрын
Lol they're hard to imitate because they're barely there. Most of these sound like rp to me. A proper broad accent is always easy to imitate.
@fibrown444 Жыл бұрын
When the British Library's website is fully back up (they had a cyber attack), they have a great resource on regional British accents so you can hear the difference say from South Edinburgh to Stornoway and Aberdeen within Scotland for example. It's called 'Accents and dialects - Sound Archive'. Worth having a listen and looking at a map just to see where things are from.
@reactingtomyroots Жыл бұрын
That's awesome to know! We'll have to see what we can find. :) Thanks
@slw147 Жыл бұрын
Hi Steve & Lyndsay, Egian comes from the word Region or area. So Glaswegian is an accent from the Glasgow Region. GLASgoWrEGION. The same for Norway Region NORWayrEGION. Accents often change within ten or so miles here but to people from outside the area this can be more difficult to hear. It is generally safe to assume that each county throughout the UK has it's own distinctive accent alough the bigger counties will have notable differences within the North, East, South and West of their areas. The reason that you both find the westcountry accent easier to follow is that the early settlers in the states had an accent very similar to the Gloucestershire and the Somerset accents we heve here today. Cheers from Trev & Jane from across the pond here in Devon.
@EtherealSunset Жыл бұрын
Definitely, people outside of the areas don't notice the differences. I'm from south County Durham. If I go to the next county south (North Yorkshire) or anywhere further south, they say I've got a Geordie accent. If I go to Newcastle, they say I'm from North Yorkshire 😂 (unless they're a bit more familiar with the accents in between). I understand it though as if I go two towns north, they sound a lot more Geordie than here (although not proper Geordie) and a couple of towns south and they sound fully Yorkshire to me.
@reactingtomyroots Жыл бұрын
That's pretty cool to know...and when you break it down like that (i.e. that it comes from the word 'region') it makes much more sense. :) Thanks
@stevekelley2531 Жыл бұрын
My Father was born in London with a neutral accent, moved to the West Country, for one of his jobs he acted as a translator between an agricultural employment agency and the local farmers. So this is an Englishman translating for Englishmen because the accent is so thick. :)
@kdog4587 Жыл бұрын
Im from Warwickshire and my husband is from Leicestershire, although we grew up only about 8 miles away from each other our accents are quite obviously different and because I spend more of my time with our son than him, his accent is closer to mine even though we now live in a village in Leicestershire. Its wild. How I say beer or deer, as someone from the west midlands it sounds like 'beeya' or 'deeya', and my husband makes jokes about it, but now our lad says it the same and he finds it hilarious. It's mad how towns or cities just over the border can sound so different!
@EtherealSunset Жыл бұрын
I'm curious now, how does he pronounce those words?
@honkhonk80528 ай бұрын
Hey, Scotsman here. Per every 15 minutes or so of driving, you’ll find another accent. For example, where I’m from we speak a dialect of Scots called doric. Just in my area if you drive 15 minutes west, you get a slightly different accent, 15 minutes east, different accent, 15 minutes south a different accent, if you drive 15 minutes north then you’ll just be in the moray firth lol. The same principle applies to cities and major towns, so that comment about changing in every village certainly does apply :)
@Yesser-Thistle73Ай бұрын
Absolutely agree. Every county has several accents/dialects!
@radaring Жыл бұрын
Americans will not notice the west country accent so much - as it is one of the main sources of the standard American English accent.
@rustynail1194 Жыл бұрын
I can hear similarities in there, I'm from Somerset. We pronounce some words very similarly. I had to do an American accent for a school play some years ago and we had Americans visiting and heard it. They actually thought I was American haha
@radaring Жыл бұрын
@@rustynail1194 Exactly, if you asked an American to say "Somerset" - they would almost sound like a local!
@jeanlongsden1696 Жыл бұрын
there are around 170 dialects in the UK, even more if you start adding the British Isles (Channel Islands, Isle of White, Isle of Man etc)
@DougBrown-h1n Жыл бұрын
They didn't use very good examples in the video to be honest, but it's really true that in some parts of the country, people only twenty miles apart will have a noticeably different accent. Apart from the South-East where accents have got more blended, we know pretty well straight away where someone was brought up. (It's not often mentioned that there's a whole bunch of very different Irish accents too - some of them reeeally hard for foreigners to understand.)
@MartynWilkinson45 Жыл бұрын
Sometimes way less than that. The dialects are homogenising these days, but get a bunch of men from my mother's generation and every colliery in my area has a noticeably different accent. One of my lecturers in University was able to guess which village I was from by my accent alone.
@jennd9091 Жыл бұрын
yeah it was crap.
@davefb Жыл бұрын
Yeah, using 'actors trying to do the accent, some good some bad' isn't a great idea.
@MikeBrereton-m4b Жыл бұрын
Where I come from in north Wiltshire near the Gloucestershire border the accent can change within five miles you can tell sometimes by the pronunciation of certain words, also word change I myself have worked the length and breath of the UK, and I find it absolutely fascinating. Best wishes to you both, Mike.
@MrBollocks10 Жыл бұрын
Scotland, Wales and Ireland don't just have different accents, they have different languages.😱
@SonyaPorter-n9q Жыл бұрын
Ever tried Anglo-Saxon?
@CliveAdlam-yn8uz7 ай бұрын
They all speak English with an accent .
@Pinkyorkie135 ай бұрын
@@CliveAdlam-yn8uz.. a lot of people in wales don’t speak English but instead speak Welsh. Same with Scotland idk what the language is but please check if you’re correct before commenting something like that.
@JohnResalb Жыл бұрын
You're near enough correct. You remember I told you that once I was in a local bus and I heard the accent change three times as we went along the route (you wouldn't experience that if you were driving).
@bblair2627 Жыл бұрын
The Dundee accent is like someone speaking backwards inside a coal sack which is underwater
@Ruthy-F Жыл бұрын
😂
@kezlana6907 Жыл бұрын
😂😂
@EtherealSunset Жыл бұрын
I'm not sure I've heard a Dundee accent before, but I now will be looking for one on YT after this amazing description. I need to hear that 😂
@melodykruck8692 Жыл бұрын
Scotland, my dad was Scottish from St. Andrews- I could understand him except when he went home.😘 Sean Connery was great too. I lived in London so that was okay. But Geordie and areas of Dublin, no. 😅😊
@ambermartin3961 Жыл бұрын
Naaaaah. They're fine!
@Jeanne24601 Жыл бұрын
Hiya! Love your videos! I'm from Devon, England, and they weren't kidding when they said that accents vary from village to village. And there's also the Devon dialect to contend with! When I was first introduced to my fiance's grandmother, who lived about ten miles from my home town, she walloped me across the back (by way of a friendly, Devon greeting) and said, "Ow be nackin' vore, then, maid?" I had absolutely no idea what she'd said, but my fiance helpfully translated - "She asked, 'How are you getting on? - How are you?" Apparently, "'nackin vore' was 'knocking for'. A sort of 'How are you knocking along?' I'd already understood 'Ow be' to be 'How are' (Ow to rhyme with cow) and 'maid' referred to any young female but the rest? Not a clue. The reply I was supposed to have given would have been, “ I be purt viddy my boody” (pronounced 'oy be pert viddy moy boody'. I just smiled my best, winning smile and said how lovely it was to meet her!
@dee2251 Жыл бұрын
Trust me, if you heard old school Brummie or Black Country accents, you’d have a hard time understanding it. It’s said to be closest to the old Anglo Saxon and it’s not just an accent, it’s a dialect.
@kezlana6907 Жыл бұрын
It's horrible (the black country accent and dialect 😂 Birmingham not so bad to me, that sounds better. And in this video the one "brummie clip" (Jeremy kyle) was the black country, which many often mix up. The black country dialect is ridiculous I really dislike it and sadly I live there 😂
@kaycresswell6179 Жыл бұрын
I’m from the black county originally totally different to Birmingham I love our accent very proud of the people of the Black Country , I’m now living in Cornwall ( perranporth ) took them awhile to get used to my accent but I do work with a couple of brummies lol that helped abit .
@dee2251 Жыл бұрын
@@kaycresswell6179 oh brilliant. I’ve been going to Cornwall, near Newquay, for over 40 years on holiday. Absolutely love Cornwall. Often people down there would ask if I was from Liverpool. That happens less often these days since Peaky Blinders as people have recognised the accent. 😂
@dee2251 Жыл бұрын
@@kezlana6907 I don’t hate it at all as it’s known by linguistic Professors to be the closest to old Anglo Saxon. It’s more authentic than every other accent and King Richard III whose bones were found under a car park is believed to have had the accent. Very difficult for people outside of the West Mid’s to distinguish between Brummie and Black Country accents.
@dee2251 Жыл бұрын
Was on Perranporth beach quite a few times last holiday and finished off the day with a drink at the beach pub and watched the sun set. Bliss!
@DianaSheward4 ай бұрын
I live on the Welsh Marches (border) and the next village just 2 miles away from my village has a different accent to mine.There's countryside in-between so that might be why there's an alteration in the sound. It's no exaggeration,Steve !👍🏼🇬🇧❤️❤️❤️
@rekcahlive Жыл бұрын
There is a change in accent about every 30 miles in England some are a slight change and others are a drastic change it is kinda crazy
@PedroConejo1939 Жыл бұрын
Thirty miles! Ten miles, more like. I could tell which part of town someone came from when I was growing up, and it was only five miles from one side to other. Same in the valleys, you can tell which side of the valley they live.
@geoffpoole483 Жыл бұрын
I remember travelling on the boat train which ran from Harwich to Liverpool. The train made many stops en route and it was fascinating to hear the accents change as passengers boarded at each stop.
@gillfox9899 Жыл бұрын
@@PedroConejo1939totally agree with you. I'm from the North East and when I was a child every village sounded different
@NauiByeolEge Жыл бұрын
In London, the distance between accent is even shorter.
@Angelfee1 Жыл бұрын
Leeds, Bradford and Wakefield in West Yorkshire all have differences and are within 10 miles of each other
@tmndroj6128 ай бұрын
I'd personally say the Yorkshire accent is difficult to get simply because there's alot of variation of the accent. Barnsley, Sheffield, Doncaster, and Rotherham are all places in the same area and all have different variations of the Yorkshire accent.
@brendangallagher5849 Жыл бұрын
Yeah the amount of different dialects and accents we have are staggering considering the size of us. The changes between places that are close to each other is indeed a real thing, mainly I think due to slang mainly.
@777petew Жыл бұрын
I live in Manchester, and quite literally the accent changes after about 15 miles away. It's not that much, but it is distinct, even to us.
@adj0191 Жыл бұрын
As a Geordie I agree with the Geordie being number 1 because anyone trying to imitate always does it badly 🤣
@frankgibson1335 Жыл бұрын
I totally agree, they're also inclined to mix up Geordie and Northumbrian.
@AndrewBroadhead-kb7oc Жыл бұрын
@@frankgibson1335 And even Geordie and Cumbria. Loads of people think both Hairy Bikers are Geordie, when Dave Myers is from the Lake District, only Si is from Newcastle.
@EtherealSunset Жыл бұрын
Agreed. I'm from County Durham, so not far away and still can't do a Geordie accent. I have no idea what goes wrong, but it ends up sounding like a weird combination of Geordie, Welsh and Jamaican (I have no clue why or how that happens). I can't do accents at all. I have my own and my telephone voice and that's it.
@EtherealSunset Жыл бұрын
@@AndrewBroadhead-kb7ocSi isn't from Newcastle either. He's a County Durham lad. Neither of them are from Newcastle.
@RachaelMorgan-om4xw Жыл бұрын
Yes, we get our slang and colloquialisms directly from Norwegian viking invaders. "Gannin doon the ruaad" is almost identical to the Norwegian for Going down the road. 🤗
@flipflop1975ifyАй бұрын
I'm a Lancashire lad with a very strong accent, and I can literally walk a few miles to a neighbouring town and the accent and phrases change lots. This is common throughout towns in the UK.
@lorrainejohnstone Жыл бұрын
You need to listen to the western isles of Scotland accent also orcadian(someone from the orkney islands). I myself hail from north east Scotland we have our own accent called the Doric it's a brammer 😘🏴
@jmillar71110 Жыл бұрын
I reckon doric would leave them flabbergasted😂
@FryingScotsman-zc2zz Жыл бұрын
Yip Doric is my fave Scottish Dialect, Scotland the What is hilarious!
@thepickledpixie9052 Жыл бұрын
Shetland 😄
@orangeymaud4899 ай бұрын
Doric leaves even people from other parts of Scotland bemused 😂
@Watching29099 ай бұрын
Gerald Clarkson’s farm… amazing, also true Yorkshire, it’s not really around any more, but please!
@benthompson9517 Жыл бұрын
Lindsay's RP accent could be good with some practice, well done! My recommendation for videos on accents would be "Anglophenia - One women 17 accents" It's fun but informative. Other recommendations are "Map Men videos on Jay Foremans channel" Educational and very entertaining Also the channel "our Travel Place" for videos on York, Whitby, The Yorkshire dales. Includes good footage of many sights with handy information. From the hills to the village shops, its a great look into what to add to your visit list :)
@gr1myr4tb0y8 ай бұрын
I'm genuinely super impressed by the research you've done on UK accents, you see a lot of american people on twitter being quite ignorant to just how many different dialects there are
@maryeaston4874 Жыл бұрын
Glaswegian is just somebody from Glasgow. Same with Norway as you mentioned. I'm from Fife in Scotland so I'm a Fifer. Love your Channel. I really hope you make it over here. Yes accents change every few miles here xx
@Yesser-Thistle73Ай бұрын
Fellow Fifer! Got your Lang Spoon? 😉
@theterriblemonarch8 ай бұрын
there really are so many accents, i live in a 3000 person city in scotland and we have a completely distinct accent to any other place in scotland, it isn't really exaggeration to say every city has its own accent lol
@quickclipsbyjmj Жыл бұрын
As someone from the Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, I can confirm that the Barnsley accent is one of the UK's hardest to translate.
@lsmith9929 ай бұрын
I'm a few miles away, born near Wetherby and have lived in Harrogate most of my life. But that strong west Yorkshire accent hangs on no matter . That Barnsley accent is one of my favourites as its so warm and friendly. Its so identifiable and always reminds me of Charlie Williams.
@lauriewsmith19 ай бұрын
I'm from South Yorkshire as well, Swinton, Rotherham, and it's fairly easy to tell Barnsley, Sheffield, Rotherham and Doncaster accents apart even though there isn't more than half an hour driving between us. The Barnsley area is definitely the biggest hold out for the broad Yorkshire accent tho. "Put wood in' oil on' way art." Might be tricky to translate. Biggest divider is the O vowel. Sheffield would generally pronounce tongue "tong" Barnsley and Rotherham would say "tung"
@sironagibson72529 ай бұрын
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (llan-vire-pooll-gwin-gill-gore-ger-ih-queern-drorb-ooll-llandy-silio-gore-gore-goch), usually shortened to Llanfair-pwll or Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, is a Welsh word that translates roughly as "St Mary's Church in the Hollow of the White Hazel near a Rapid Whirlpool and the Church of St. Tysilio near the Red Cave. As kids we went at least once a year in the summer I used to be able to pronounce it as a kid but now just looking at it makes my head swim and tongue tie itself in knots. 😂
@sironagibson72529 ай бұрын
Edited to add, OK... So I can still do it slowly... Provided I can read it 😂
@sironagibson72529 ай бұрын
We call it Llanfair-pg. For short. Double L is pronounced CL. So... Clanfair.
@Yesser-Thistle73Ай бұрын
@@sironagibson7252 I'm Scottish, but practised this while visiting! Brilliant name! Much shorter, but catches some out is the Scottish town Ecclefechan!
@lindyashford7744 Жыл бұрын
I feel your reference video is not really meant for non-British people but more for those who can laugh at what they already know. A lot of the references are not ‘real’ accents but from TV shows. Exceptions are those who were actually born and bred in their regions, but some of t6em are very dated by how old they people are. I am actually from Birmingham my brother says I am very brummie, but I am probably not, and many accents presumed to be brummy are Black Country which is a thing of its own. With very diverse immigration to all of our major cities you also hear hybrid accents, British south Asian accents for instance, or British Caribbean….. but then the very regional are also quite distinct too, West Country are just as diverse as any city accents. Live here long enough and you can place them. I was brought up and schooled in RP, it was drilled into us, but my school friends were from all over the country and from different classes of people too, you only briefly touched on that, how accents define where people are in the pecking order.
@3LenaBlack Жыл бұрын
Ulster is more than Northern Ireland. It is comprised of the six counties of Northern Ireland and three counties of the South of Ireland.
@evancunliffe86748 ай бұрын
I am a mancunian and also Scottish. I can do both!!!!!!
@chrissampson6861 Жыл бұрын
I don't think the video didn't emphasise enough is the difference between an accent, and a dialect. The west country - Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Dorset, Bristol, Wessex, have a dialect a distinct variation of English that is very old, dating back to the Saxon times of King Alfred in the 6th Century, it has a more Germanic grammar, pronunciation, and tenses compared to modern "standard" English.~ There's also the accent - the way west country people speak "standard" English It's often derided as a simple farmers / peasants way of talking
@stoneoutdooradventures2286 Жыл бұрын
The Barnsley accent in Yorkshire is the strongest accent in that region I went to secondary school in Barnsley and it took me a good two years to understand it I'm not kidding 😂
@steveclarke6257 Жыл бұрын
the Land of Sir Geoffrey and Parky (Geoffrey Boycott - former Cricketer and Michael Parkinson- Journalist and Chatshow Host)
@stoneoutdooradventures2286 Жыл бұрын
@@steveclarke6257 ayup lad itiz Indeed
@michellerice606 Жыл бұрын
Yep thas reyt anorl 😂 (translated = yes you are right as well) 😂
@stoneoutdooradventures2286 Жыл бұрын
@@michellerice606 haha 😅 still got family in Barnsley I revert back to the accent on the phone with them ☺️
@traceymcguiggan21639 ай бұрын
Yeah this video went through the accents waaay too quickly for you guys to fully hear the differnces! Love your content ❤
@chrisaris8756 Жыл бұрын
I think the easiest English accent is the perceived “upper class “ accent - and you both got it pretty close!!!
@felixhenson9926 Жыл бұрын
I think it's the non-rhotic R's that were tripping them up
@TequilaDave Жыл бұрын
If you want an example to try, my mother was born in Birmingham and spells out Egypt "Aay jay way pay tay" which I know has helped some actors when trying to do a brummie accent.
@AlexaFaie Жыл бұрын
Basically if there is a vowel its an "a" regardless of how the word is spelt.
@justme1111 Жыл бұрын
The change in village to village is not at all an exaggeration, in fact in some areas it changed every couple of blocks
@vicsaunders9710 Жыл бұрын
We don’t have blocks in the UK .
@DuncanHolland Жыл бұрын
What are 'blocks'?
@elliott7531 Жыл бұрын
I'm surprised that they didn't mention every pirate movie accent ever when talking about the West Country! The West Country has always been a major sea faring part of the UK and was the home to many famous pirates from history - most notably Blackbeard.
@AlexaFaie Жыл бұрын
Bristolian in particular. Not actually the accent of pirates, but just one famous actor who played Blackbeard happened to be from Bristol and his accent stuck as what people think pirate sounded like. When in reality ship crews were full of people from all over the country and all over the world so there would likely have been many different accents around at one time.
@daveofyorkshire301 Жыл бұрын
In the old days you didn't get on TV unless you spoke received pronunciation (RP or Queens English). Now you see a few more, but many still don't go on air because many wouldn't understand it without subtitles... I live in Yorkshire and there are some really heavy accents you really have to concentrate to understand... On a telephone you could struggle without visual clues, maybe pick-up 60% and construct sentences from that.. It's a skill requiring the understanding of context and syntax with a healthy amount of guess work.
@mwestfield52208 ай бұрын
Hi. I've only recently discovered your channel. As a Brit, can I recommend a mid to late 80's series Auf Wiedersehen, Pet. You should be able to find it. It is comic and deals with a group of builders who can't get work at home so go out to Germany. As I remember, the accents ranged from Geordie (Newcastle, NE England), Bristol SW England, Liverpudlian, cockney and Birmingham. Ran for years and everyone around me started to use badly pronounced Geordie phrases. I remember watching the first episode (pre-internet obviously) and wishing I had a TV with subtitles because I was baffled by quite a lot of it. Obviously, by the third episode I and everyone else had retuned our ears. Accents aside, it was a great tragicomedy that really depicted life in the 80's for many people.
@debbiep2688 ай бұрын
Accent changing every town, but even in the same town the accents arent the same. Scottish is the same as England. The accents are different. The man on the picture of mancunian is Karl pilkington, related to my family. the Cornwall you showed on here is nothing like the real Cornish accent. Glaswegian is glasgow. One of the hardest accent ever to understand, next is a real strong Liverpool accent. Glaswegan means Glascow region. All of these accents are toned down. You need to see the real accents like the woman you couldnt understand. Heres a nice Welsh accent, and he speaks Welsh . He can say the longest place name too. Hes well known . kzbin.info/www/bejne/bnzIeICbmbyae5Y. Ive a sort of geordie accent. Like haway man, (come on) some of them geordie accents were pee takes, not the real one. Americans cant do an English accent. Im English and cant understaant west country. The woman isnt speaking west country. Its too pash lol. None of these are real accent, theyre accent fpr tv. None of them, apart from the woman losing it, are real. Theyre toned town accents done by opeople who have different accents. For gwordie maybes watch biker grove. Its still toned down Geordie, but it is done by geordies
@maryrichardson8790 Жыл бұрын
You did brilliantly on the 'posh' accent! I think so, anyway! I'm from the London area. Great videos, Steve! And fun with your wife joining in. ❤😊😊😊
@christinestromberg4057 Жыл бұрын
Scotland has many regional accents, as does Ireland. Wales has fewer I think. But England has many many regional accents.
@HandleDeezNutzVoluntarily Жыл бұрын
Wales, believe it or not has many… I’d say fifty plus, easily.
@Parker_Douglas Жыл бұрын
Correction Scotland has its own language as well as English
@Parker_Douglas Жыл бұрын
Correction Scotland has its own language as well as English
@christinestromberg4057 Жыл бұрын
@@Parker_Douglas I didn't say it didn't. Your remark is an addition, not a correction.
@christinestromberg4057 Жыл бұрын
@@Parker_Douglas I know, but this video was about accents.
@nickgrazier3373 Жыл бұрын
That is in long hand Glasgow Region!! The best person to listen to for Glaswegian is Billy Connelly ! Received pronunciation used to be called BBC English. It was an imposed accent to make English more acceptable throughout the UK but was hated by all of us.
@kevinduff35848 ай бұрын
Us Scots and a few other accents talk much more quickly than other accents in the UK!
@kevs4252 Жыл бұрын
It's not just accents, it's how we phrase things that I love to hear. Using examples from my own extended family....... When meeting up with Bristol family, I'm greeted with, Hello my Lover which comes out like Hello myyy loverrr. My wife who is from Suffolk might say, I'm now going...but me being from Berkshire would say, I'm going now. Accent wise, I'd say... There's a few in the queue at the co-op. My wife would sond like.... There's a fuu in the koo at the ku-oap. I for one love accents and dialects.
@stevenburgess2856 Жыл бұрын
In the part of the world I'm in the accent can change valley to valley!
@raymondporter2094 Жыл бұрын
The versions of the accents shown in this video were ALL very mild versions. If you heard BROAD Geordie, broad Glaswegian, broad Bummie, they would sound very different to the voices we heard. And accents WITHIN regions can differ. For example people talk about a Yorkshire accent, yet most people from Yorkshire or futher away would have no difficulty in distinguishing a speaker using the accent from part of North Yorkshire (say Middlesbrough), from the accent of another person from Leeds in West Yorkshire, or from Sheffield in South Yorkshire or from Hull in East Yorkshire where some say they can distinguish between 3 different Hull accents. And when the Police were looking for the Yorkshire Ripper a few decades ago, a hoax "Geordie tape" was sent to the Police which many might have thought came from someone from Newcastle (Geordie) but which experts said came from a (Mackem) man from a particular part of Sunderland - Newcastle and Sunderland are 14 miles apart and have a fierce rivalry. They could even say it came from an area within Sunderland. North Wales (where there is a high percentage who speak Welsh) have a very different accent to the people from the South Wales valleys. It's all part of Life's Great British Mystery....