Can You Tell What UK Accent These People Have?

[@T16MGJ]

This woman's presentation style is very informative and watchable. Hypnotic even. She always has my full attention. East London born and bred me now retired travelled much in my employment. From several areas of Wales. Southern and Central England ( Blick Contray ) including both Lancashire and Yorkshire and further North up to Geordie Land. We are lucky to have such a wide variety of accents. Spent several months working in South Wales and yes, accents rub off on you even for a Cockney East Ender. There's lovely for you isn't it! Rich Scouse and Glaswegian still hard to catch all the words despite working and visiting those areas. I enjoyed BBC's Rab C. Nesbit but needed sub-titles permanently running or miss much verbal content. Now that was a very thick Scottish Accent. Hut-at! Keep up the good work Laura.

[@NachtmahrNebenan]

Your journeys through pronunciation and accents is always such an enjoyment! 🌺

[@leukohanyarish7695]

I have seen peaky blinders so I can easily recognize Birmingham accent. Your videos are really helping me to improve my English.

[@CaptainSiCo]

I got them all but one correct in a general sense (you accepted Yorkshire for Blackburn and West Country for Gloucestershire). I knew the latter wasn’t Devon/Cornwall/Bristol but had the West Country Features. The RP one I said Home Counties, but wasn’t expecting RP to be in there. I said South East for the South Londoner because to me it didn’t sound “cockney” enough to be London. Of course cockney is only one of the London accents - there is MLE, etc! BTW your Geordie (and all accents) were very good!!

[@lateinbloom]

Proud of myself, I did pretty well! I got RP, Birmingham, Derry, Scotland, Wales, Liverpool, and London. Kinda sad I missed the Geordie and Manchester accents, but I'm not familiar enough with Yorkshire/Lancashire and West Country accents to have guessed the regions for those.

[@mattewcheng]

I wonder if you can make this series. Lots of real daily talk clips are the best materials for learning. Not much blank and filled with a lot of talk, quick talk with accent difficult to understand. It's a dream learning material.

[@Roberto-REME]

Excellent video and very well narrated and hosted. Great job.

[@not_xeon]

As someone who's first language is not English and has never been to the UK, I'm proud I got Birmingham, Liverpool, Northern Ireland, RP and London. Probably the easiest to get right but I'm still proud.

[@carotheplaylistmaker]

I got only one point, I lived in North Wales for a year about twenty years ago, I've never been to Swansea nor South Wales but I recognized the Welsh happy intonations straightaway, I'm like you, I love them to bits 😀

[@78RJC]

I thought that one was from London

[@carotheplaylistmaker]

@@78RJC Sounded too lively to be from a capital 😆😉

[@tshandy1]

I live in the U.S., so the differences between U.K. dialects are difficult for me to discern. For me, everything is either RP or not-RP, with some obvious Scottish on the side. But indeed I am fascinated by all these accents. Quite lovely and unique.

[@paulsevers7740]

IN the US you have many different regional, and maybe more localised accents, which are just as fascinating!

[@SusanaXpeace2u]

Me too, and I'm Irish and grew up watching their TV! I can tell Scottish, and Welsh accents of course but within England, it's tough. North of England or South of England yes, but wow. It's tricky. I never picked up on Frank Skinner being from Birmingham because it's in the middle.

[@missrosirosya1459]

I'm happy for myself that I could guess at least half of them!! Need to learn more. Hope you can make more videos like this. Love it so much! Thank you..

[@tahmidpatowary]

Man your accent is so damn fascinating. All the time I be surprised with your pronunciations. Are you in any kind of theatre? I asked being a theatre student. Best wishes. ❤️

[@FGX318]

That’s a damn good never seen before exercice ! Very interesting since it improves our ability to focus on differences and particular features/sounds of each person ! Great great video/lesson !👍👍

[@userst324k5]

I didn't even know that much of UK's geography, much less its accents but it's something I want to learn it's kind of crazy how I can tell there's a giant difference between all the Spanish accents (cause it's my mother tongue) but I can barely notice the different English accents, for me it's just comprehensible or not 🤪 yours is perfect btw

[@thequintanashow5058]

Very interested in the English accents but I have to say your presentation is 11 out of 10!!! Supremely watchable presentation 🏆👍🏽

[@michelgolabaigne595]

Wow, that was a very difficult thing. No chance to distinguish between these accents. I didn't succeed at all ! I sent your video to my son, who lives in London ... :) I am very curious, if he will distinguish at least a single accent…?:) Merci beaucoup !

[@francebisounours]

SO useful, thank you ! I'm stuyding English at university and I've got an exam coming in which I'll have to recognize accents from the UK... I'm so stressed out but your videos are really useful! Do you have any other tips or websites that could be useful? 😀

[@scottoshea9440]

Birmingham accents weren't on tv until Peaky Blinders? I heard it on tv for 3 straight years in the early 2000s thanks to MTVs "The Osbournes". Always think of Ozzy when I hear Birmingham

[@smashingenglish]

Haha, yes of course! 😂 Classic Ozzy. What I meant was there weren’t a lot of TV shows set in Birmingham.

[@ikergalera]

I love you Laura!!! With you i'm learn a lot of English!!! I need more videos for weeks hahaha

[@miz_logo_lee]

I got RP, Geordie, Scouse, Cockney and Glasgow accent. I get the Northern Irish and West Country accents confused because they are rhotic, which stand out to my American ears. I’ve been watching The Outlaws, though, so I’m getting used to that Bristol accent.

[@chasinglightandtrails]

As an overseas Brit, I think you did a good job with all your accents 😁 Well done Laura.

[@glowupsejakdini]

Omg i freaking love this video, i really enjoy and fun. You should do a hundred episode for guessing accent

[@Polyglot85to90]

You should do a video about all the different accents in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet: great training for an English learner

[@andiepotter9024]

Hey Laura, can you please do a video on a Pompey accent? I'd appreciate that very much, thanks 💜

[@nickcoyshardiman2693]

Loves you doing the South Wales! Fabulous.

[@robertfrench8345]

I got em all. I’m a brummie. None were too difficult, but I do make mistakes between York and Manc…which can be fatal; like Aussie and Kiwi!

[@YiddoHuayi]

I couldn't quite get the Sarf Lundun accent (knew it was Londonish). Would be great to do comparisons between Geordie and Mackem, Glasgow and Edinburgh, Norf an Sarf Lundun or variations in the Northern and West Country accents.

[@AliciaDF]

UK accents - my favourite topic 😍

[@UKCougar]

Speaking as a local, I don't think that AJ's accent is representative of Blackburn (though that is where she's from). There's a twang to her dialect that sounds more Yorkshire. East Lancashire has a very distinctive flat 'O' vowel sound which is different from her slightly nasal "euh".

[@geoffashden2]

The Birmingham accent was first heard years on ago on TV in the soap 'Crossroads'

[@marine-001]

very bight, accurate, informative video. thanks, Laura

[@catt9353]

This was interesting. The Manchester one had me going. I love accents but not my own 🙊. I'm from Kent and speak with what I would call Estuary English.

[@juluisreyes9094]

Birmingham shares a little bit resemblance with liverpool accent. Like the way a sentence is spoken.

[@rjpiercy2]

I only guessed correctly on RP, Scottish, and Northern Ireland but I am American. Oh well. Great video once again.

[@martinzubr2113]

I'm terrible at this. I thought the first one was Estuary. The Brummie one I got. The third one I give up and didn't recognise, I learned that Mancunian sounds like Gene Hunt from Life on Mars / Ashes to Ashes and anything that doesn't sound quite like that I can't tell. I wonder if he's really a clean example. George I got. (so far 50-50)

[@redcanoe14]

Hello, you have an interesting channel. I was born and spent 50 years of my life in Yorkshire clearly remembering the conversations of my grandparents. I have to say there are many regional variations in Yorkshire, for example compare Hull, Barnsley and Leeds and North Yorkshire accents. It would be good if you would do an episode on this. Also there are general differences in Yorkshire and Lancashire accents despite finding some that are similar. Keep up the good work.

[@LiaBertoni-w8l]

Great job, thanks very much!

[@smashingenglish]

Thanks for watching Lia! Hope it was useful. ☺️🇬🇧

[@genevieveeguia7626]

More like this, please!!!

[@andyleighton6969]

Actually lived in Manchester for 3 years and didn't pick up on that accent! Either my ear is still tuned in or, in fact, she didn't have the strongest Manc accent.

[@mattd6085]

It wasn't a good example of it. Manc can be more easily softened for non locals to understand than other accents. I grew up with a strong north west accent but my career and moving to the south means I've softened a lot of the stronger parts of my accent. I don't pronounce stairs as "Sturs" anymore, I say "Stares" like a big southern softy

[@mjmonjure]

Very cheery, I love it, signed a drab American 😀

[@clarissarymer2452]

Bristolian is unique!

[@pengfeiwang9923]

I love your hair style. 😊

[@DaveBartlett]

"Before Peaky Blinders, there were no Birmingham accents on the TV!" - you clearly don't remember a little thing called "Crossroads" (4,830 half-hour episodes over a period of 26 years - from 1964 to 1988 and then from 2001 to 2003)

[@JonseyWales]

I can't 'personally' speak for your other accents, but your (local to me) South Wales accent is spot on😄👏

[@bunnyincloudrecesses9590]

This was a lot of fun and this channel is really interesting. Surprisingly, managed to guess a lot of these, but I do consume a fair bit of British media. The example was a very mild version of a Glasgow accent, but I've always found it one of the most difficult to understand, especially when it's a thick accent. I'm an Aussie and have an accent similar to RP and it was funny when a from Glasgow and I met for the first time, as we both struggled to understand each other! 😅

[@ibrahimissaissa6627]

Beautiful teacher

[@ChrisM541]

11:57 ..."we don't tend to pronounce our R's very much" --> The entire nation of Scotland would like to have a wurrrd...O_O

[@robertx5209]

I love your channel 🤩 I can learn new things about English language 😉

[@marco_spallino]

You're the number one Laura!

[@ComeOnEngland23]

With the Bolton/Lancashire accent do they stretch the letter a because the woman seemed to stretch snakes?

[@thekuzey6120]

Fantastic video! Thanks a million. What about Michael Caine's charming accent?

[@Becksnnc]

His accent is south London. Cockney accent

[@lucamaggi5284]

Hello Laura! I have noticed there is an error in the word "pronunciation" ;-) at 3':14" Ciao

[@annaarkhipova4285]

Fantastic video, thank you so much for sharing your expertise!

[@ahmadkateeb3688]

I like ur videos ,I've seen many of them, you have very kleerly since of humans ,funny 😄 with cuteness 😄 😆 😊.

[@nelly_lu]

Allow me to recommend Louis Tomlinson from Doncaster for the next time :b His accent is to die for!

[@sophi9648]

Yes!! :)

[@EW-000]

I don't have to remember the origin of all english accents. But I definitely should have the ability to extract information from different people's speech - to understand them.

[@soonyatologan]

I got 2 correct answers, Scouse and Cockney. But I was also confused between North Ireland and Scouse as well.

[@robinlee7531]

To me, all the North sounds the same, Irish is nearly American... can differentiate Cockney from others, but the best one is Glasgow.. love those accents... it's feels good to hear.. :)

[@turnleftaticeland]

The only one I got right was Liverpool because I’m a Beatles fan

[@ShozzleMeNoz]

Disagree on the Lancashire accent and that is certainly not a typical one. You'd have done better with David Lloyd for that part of Lancashire. Even within Lancashire, accents vary a lot. Bolton (Peter Kay) is different to Wigan is different to Preston (Flintoff) to Blackburn/Hyndburn (David Lloyd)

[@carotheplaylistmaker]

Very funny and interesting video 👌

[@calculatingperson5168]

me as well, I really obsession about Learning a new Languages this year 2022

[@Thechickengwurl]

Idk what my accent is, its not the recieved pronunciation british or whatever, but its not the accent of where I live (even though I've lived in Somerset all my life and I would love to have a Somerset accent) its just pretty much standard English

[@thorstenberninger]

You are just brilliant.

[@elisapenn]

when the one from north ireland came up i immediately thought "wait wait i already heard this one!" and in fact it was cos i watched derry girls, such a nice tv series x also i got the scouse, the scottish and the cockney one to my surprise cos i thought i wouldn't get any of em lol

[@ДенисПлахотя-о2ч]

The grade of clearness of diction is the parameter of understanding the accent

[@michaelheal2672]

Missed Norfolk

[@smashingenglish]

I can’t include every single accent, Michael. We’d be here for weeks.

[@WhocaresWhy44]

Malcolm McDowell could not ditch his Yorkshire accent when he did Clockwork Orange. Sean Bean didn't ditch his Yorkshire accent to play Andy McNab in Bravo Two Zero. "Come on TO-NAY! Talk to me mate!" This when the Iraqis were coming for them.

[@teymurgulmammadov7800]

I like her, she is very funny.

[@raoulkurvitz6305]

7:50 . I've got a taunting question here - can anyone explain - ? From where does this significant American rolling (roating?) "r" come from?? The Brittish won't say: "butter" - they would say: "butta" (ok, sooner "bu(_)a", even. But why do the Americans say: "butter"? I repeat: "butteR" - ?? Thus - where does this rolling/roating "r" come from into the significantly American ways of speech? Doesn't it originate from.... Ireland??? I'm really curious for the answers. 😶

[@daddyRAMROD510]

Manchester ❤️

[@SusanaXpeace2u]

Oh West country! Gareth Keane is from somerset or somewhere. Will I be right.

[@recentmovies3441]

Cockney accent is the hardest and most valuable accent in UK..I suppose

[@dpakmagar9722]

Could you make grammar videos in the future , please?

[@angturil]

Got about three right answers (irish, scottish and cockney) but as a non native english speaker I claim indulgence ;)

[@mansoormolanian9644]

Very amazing and informative video ,but the sound quality could be much better using professional instruments.

[@paulsevers7740]

found the south Welsh tricky, and couldn't have pinned the west country one to Gloucester, but whilst I am sure your Scottish lady may be FROM Glasgow, that is NOT a Glaswegian accent - too soft and cultured, closer to Edinburgh or mid-Lothian! I am sure, as a west midlands girl you can distinguish Dudley from Wolverhampton, Birmingham from Walsall, Coventry from Kidderminster, and so forth, but I think you need to brush up on your 'northern' accents a bit! As a Geordie, brought up on RP, exiled in Yorkshire for nearly 40 years, near to the Lancashire border, I felt there was rather too much generalising going on there - there are many easily discernible differences between Lancs and Yorks, and even within the two counties, very obvious clues to specific locations like the Rossendale Valley [remember Cyril Smith] Blackburn, and Burnley, and I can easily tell people from Ingleton from those from Settle, Skipton, Keighley, Bradford, Leeds, and on to south Yorks which are different again [think Ian Macmillan] . Then closer to my homeland, there are clear distinctions between true Geordie [Newcastle - I did love the way you, RP girl, managed to correctly pronounce my home town with a short, northern /a/ - put the emphasis on it and you might begin to fool folks you can do Geordie!] and Northumbrian, Ashington, Durham in general, Sunderland in particular, Hexham/Tyne Valley and so on, and the subtle variations from northeastern accents to Yorks as you move south through Teesside ,and north Yorks ... and then since my wife's from Stockport, I can tell that local accent from Mancunian. Sorry to go on! I really enjoy your videos ;-)

[@TheArmchairrocker]

Got 7 - from the US.

[@abdulshaik6736]

Skip to 2:13 content starts from there innit

[@everythingsfree3468]

I have no idea where these areas are ,and idc, I am interesting in listening variety of accents

[@petefly3103]

Scottish is the funniest one, this lady was easy to understand, I have heard much harder accent. I will get punch in the face in Ireland cause I really struggle not to laugh when I hear them speaking lol. I am from Slovakia

[@bijaybudha9336]

You rock. LAURA YOU DO.😉😉

[@ivoquinteronunez4257]

Hello! Great video. Does anybody know what accent Amanda Abbington has?

[@9LimaAlpha7]

is there a diff between northern irish & normal irish accents!?!

[@smashingenglish]

Yes! Listen to Jamie Dornan and then listen to Cillian Murphy. Pay attention to the ‘T’ sound, the ‘th’ sound and the ‘i’ in ‘pie’ sound.

[@szyszak9]

Yes, they are quite different, plus there are many accents in the Republic of Ireland as well but quite similar to each other.

[@Jcorry123]

To me, they're as different as a Scottish accent and a London one, but I understand that may not be the case for everyone. As well as pronunciation, the rhythm is quite different.

[@Sabhoh]

No, Northern Irish accents ARE normal Irish accents. Essentially, as the 6 occupied counties are so small an area, everywhere in them except Belfast and it’s rural outskirts are along the British imposed border and have accents practically indistinguishable from the neighbouring counties in the republic… Derry and Tyrone accents are indistinguishable from those of East Donegal. Fermanagh accents are very similar to those of north Leitrim, Cavan and Monaghan. Armagh is a mix of Monaghan and Louth. Only in the densely unionist areas of counties Antrim and Down are there distinct “Northern Irish” accents due to the Scottish element of the Ulster plantation and aspiration-driven affected “posh” English accents in the more affluent of these areas.

[@Sabhoh]

@@smashingenglish ahh yes, the two Irish accents 🙄

[@sidharththakursidharth4544]

Scouse was d hardest I didn’t understand a word from the English footballer

[@Becksnnc]

Easy but then again I'm British lol. I have the Lancashire accent

[@jayakumar6905]

I knew international phonetic alphabet but even though I can't pronounce like an American accent..I wanna learn it . Somebody please help want I wanna learn..

[@justok4521]

You look like Phoebe Waller-Bridge 😊

[@donnadrane4977]

What about Adele? What is her accent? I can’t understand a thing she says. You, on the other hand, are very easy to understand with your RP accent.

[@tillycox-thompson780]

I'm from the West Country and never realised how much i use hard Rs

[@jameshumphreys9715]

South Wales has a mixture of acceents

[@alishabestari2564]

I'd prefer the mixture of Cockney & Birmingham accents

[@Giuly_fantasy]

I actually thought I'd do better. There are 3 accents I didn't spot: the Derry girl (thought she was Scottish), the Lancashire girl and the West Country boy (thought he was from London). More practice needed, I suppose.

[@ianoian1]

Hen, Am a Scotsman, an' Ah think ye need tae dae anither programme aboot oor accent, an' a' that. Aye?

[@sorariendemoi5804]

I thing, for me, the accent from Liverpool is the most difficult to understand. Do someone know from where is the Paloma Faith' accent ?

[@Becksnnc]

She's a Londoner. Cockney accent.

[@vaughanrichards7438]

London (definitely ) NE ( I think )

[@mosoticyrus6929]

I burnt my food watching this. Lovely

[@poryarahmani2935]

you are best 👌

[@Staruha91]

Idk, perhaps I’m hopeless, but I just can’t get it right. I’ve been learning English for 20 years now and teaching it for 15. I’ve been watching quite a bit of Corrie, but when I hear Gemma Atkinson, I hear nothing like the accent of Corrie characters. When I clicked on this video, I knew I was gonna be rubbish, but I assumed I’d be able to get the Mancunian and the Scouser accent right at least. Also, I think I can notice an Irish accent, but that’s not the UK, so it’s irrelevant for this video. So, what’s wrong with me?

[@Staruha91]

Oh, I got the Northern Ireland right! Thanks to the show called “The Fall”, I guess. I absolutely adore this accent.

[@Siharyvani]

My favourite accent is Geordie accent.

[@luther1546]

Your son is adorable. He's so tiny.