The Yorkshire Accent(s): Northern vs. Southern Differences in Pronunciation

In this video I take thee on a tour round t'Yorkshire accents! ahem I show you how to sound more Yorkshire and understand the Yorkshire accents. This video's perfect for anyone who's interested in the differences between northern and southern varieties of British English. This video only goes through a handful of the differences, and there are SO MANY Yorkshire varieties which I sadly haven't even touched on in this video. I hope you enjoy it and get a taste of how I REALLY sound when I'm not using my "teacher voice"! :)
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[@michaelhawkins7389]

Emma York is a beautiful city with so much history would you agree? I live in Yorkshire :) also York is a city not a town , as it has a Cathedral which is called Saint Peter but is more famously known as " The Minster"

[@silverchain6182]

Gotcha m8!

[@BalveerSingh-qd1lr]

So beautiful

[@smanticus]

I’m American and I absolutely love the Yorkshire accent. It’s one of my favorite English accents.

[@Pronunciationwithemma]

No way! :) That's so nice to hear.

[@smanticus]

@@PronunciationwithemmaThe thing I love especially is the way you really bear down on the letter "L." I was really excited that the new Doctor was going to have that accent!

[@Pronunciationwithemma]

Yeah! Quite a lot of my students and followers have told me that the new Doctor is northern (and a woman! WHATTT?!? haha). I'm so proud they chose a northerner for the role. She's spreading the awareness of Yorkshire :)

[@simonyip5978]

Shannon M the cities of Leeds, Bradford, Sheffield and Hull and York are located in West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, East Yorkshire and North Yorkshire and each of those places sound different. It's true that you could travel 40 miles in any direction and the local accent will be different.

[@artbyash1826]

I feel appreciated

[@Cnsalmoni]

I grew up in California, and my soccer/football coach was from Yorkshire. He was also an excellent English teacher and would recite Shakespeare and other classic British prose or poetry with this accent. I grew up thinking that was the proper upper class Way to speak British English. When I hear this accent, I recognize it straight away, and I smile at how much lovelier it is to listen to than the snobby King’s version.

[@NSYresearch]

There was a recent project to perform Shakespear plays in the accent of the time. It was amazing the rhythm and timing were better and the jokes worked better.

[@joanadler4155]

A few years ago my wife and I took the train from London to York. In a fairly empty car, there were three retired railroad men sitting across the aisle from us, Yorkshire men on their way home. Their conversation was so lively and fun and the sound of their accent so engaging. They invited us to join in. It was one of the highlights of the trip. I must add, we're Americans. We found York itself to be, well, brilliant.

[@Mark64W]

Great story , thank you for sharing and visiting us !

[@PeterPanQuails]

It's very cute to hear Emma speaks in her original Yorkshire accent. Love it.

[@miniroll32]

So glad I was born up North. It's amazing how many people who travel up here from down south compliment my accent - it's just something you take for granted.

[@Pronunciationwithemma]

Compliment? I get laughed at and mocked 😅😭

[@jamesarmitage8399]

Nothing beats the Yorkshire accent, especially broad Yorkshire! Only sounds at its best when spoke by someone from the place!!

[@dakotahrickard]

I appreciate your detail in this video. I study phonetics and dialectics as a hobby, and I feel I more easily understood your descriptions of the accents in this video than in many others. Also, as a side note, I find it fascinating how many of the characteristics found in Yorkshire speech made it to the speaking habits in the broader southern American accent. Thanks for the excellent video.

[@Pronunciationwithemma]

Thanks, Dakotah! I'm glad. I also discovered the same thing just recently as well. Isn't it unusual!

[@Astronemma]

As a fellow Emma from York, I sometimes come back to this video when I’m feeling homesick and needing to hear someone speak proper! And thank you for noting all the different varieties of Yorkshire it does my head in when they all get lumped together.

[@SG-1-GRC]

From a fellow Yorkshire lass, born and raised in Barnsley (with family still there) and having lived in Halifax and now Bradford, worked in Leeds, with friends from Sheffield and Thirsk and Scarborough, plus having family in Holmfirth and Huddersfield and teachers from York, work colleagues from Doncaster and Hull, thank you for this. I'm so fed up of the generic 'Yorkshire' accents of actors and actresses that are just as likely to sound more like they come from the other side of the Pennines or are a touch closer to the Geordie accent etc. Having worked in Manchester one day a week for years and with many work colleagues and family from Northumberland, again a place of many accents I also get fed up of Manchester accents on telly being so wrong and of Newcastle's own very distinctive and rich accent being used to portray people from that county but living miles from the Tyne. Thank you for touching on the fascinating differences between the speech of people who live only a relatively short distance from each other.

[@chegeny]

Your Yorkshire accent is lovely and melodic. It's not at all difficult for me to understand. I wish I grew up there. Excellent content on your channel.

[@Pronunciationwithemma]

QUESTIONS FOR YOU: What do you think of the Yorkshire accent? Would you like to have this accent? Do you find it difficult to understand? Tell me in the comments! REMINDER! Don't forget that in October I will be doing a live lesson every single weekday. Be sure to subscribe to my channel and click the bell icon for notifications!

[@mahsa6985]

Pronunciation with Emma yes of course 👍🏼💓

[@CANOB23]

Sorry but I don't like this accent I couldn't understand almost anything

[@CANOB23]

You sound like a robot 🤔

[@Pronunciationwithemma]

That may be the cheap microphone I'm using ;) Hahaha

[@ainag6181]

I love it! Accents enrich languages. It was so surprising that your voice changed, I thought this only happened to me when I speak English (I'm a Spanish-Valencian native speaker) 😅 Is there an explanation to this? Don't you find it hard to use the 'teacher accent' sometimes? Like fighting against your instinct or something? Thanks for your effort, Emma! A very interesting video 😀

[@alessandroricciardi7317]

Brilliant! I’m an English teacher but I’m Italian and I want to show it to my students!!!!

[@albamartin7286]

I'm Spanish and I'm finishing my bachelor on English linguistics. I'm doing my final project on the Yorksharian accent and your video helped me very much, thanks!

[@xIncisions]

I'm working on a Yorkshire accent for a role, and this has been incredibly helpful! Cheers for the concise breakdown of the accent 💪

[@DraslyThe1]

As a Norwegian this was actually surprisingly easy, we have most if not all of these sounds in our daily words, also we have separate letters that are Æ, Ø and Å which are used (their sound) in the Yorkshire accent

[@BinanceStuff]

probably because you invaded us and its actually your language - lol

[@DraslyThe1]

@@BinanceStuff :)

[@neilgodliman6476]

It mad how I can tell the difference in accents of people from Leeds, York and Hull, yet all "southerners" sound the same to my ear. As soon as you started speaking I knew you were from York.

[@Pronunciationwithemma]

It's funny as I used to think the same until I moved down south for a bit 🤣

[@shakiskako6826]

I simply love it. What a beautifully accent spoken by a gorgeous lady.

[@bearharper8678]

Im American and the Yorkshire accent makes me melt i love it lolll, it sounds so confident, if that makes sense. A lovely accent

[@Pronunciationwithemma]

🥰 thank you!

[@davidalen2590]

The Yorkshire accent is really quite lovely.

[@beboppalooka9897]

I LOVE Northern English. It may be my most favorite accent in the world and I just ADORE a twangy Yorkshire or Manchester accent. People overseas don’t really understand the nuance of American southern accents and they usually think we all sound like West Texans 🙄 ... but Yorkshire is maybe my favorite accent and Khmer is my my favorite language ❤️❤️❤️

[@Pronunciationwithemma]

Thank you :) And that's true! But at least some people can hear that there's even a West Texan accent! Many Brits just think there's one "American accent". 😂😅 These also tend to be the kinds of Brits who'd get offended if you confused them as being from another part of the country based on their accent!

[@olympusmons8439]

What a badass accent!!!!

[@benxo]

I was raised and have a lived in all parts of Yorkshire now and I love the regional differences, one thing thats fascinating to me is the South Yorkshire accent - seems to differ so much to the others, they pronounce 'tonight' - 'taneet' and 'there' - 'thee-ur'.

[@Pronunciationwithemma]

Barnsley do this a LOT, don’t they? It’s very interesting.

[@djbrook4132]

@@Pronunciationwithemma oh arr lass. We do indeed.

[@peteredeson5647]

Alot of Norse words in our dialect/accent here in Yorkshire, as in alot of northern counties, enjoyed this TA!

[@Gisburne2000]

Great video! I'm from South Yorkshire / West Riding and here's a few things I would add. I change a 't' to an 'r' in words like 'got'. Such as 'she's gorra funny accent'. And with words like 'floor' and 'door' I add an extra syllable so they become 'floo-er' and 'doo-er'. I wrote a dialect poem (it's on my channel) and people from other parts of Yorkshire told me they didn't speak like that at all, but I just had to explain that that's because they were from a different part of Yorkshire and that was the accent/dialect when I was growing up!

[@Pronunciationwithemma]

Thank you! 😁 Quick question! You only change that “t” to a “r” if it is between vowels, right? “Gorrit” (got it) but not “gorrthe” (got the), for example? Just curious! I’ve also heard of the “floor-a” and “door-a” thing! That’s definitely a South Yorkshire/Sheff thing, isn’t it? 😄 I’ll go check out your poem now!

[@antonycharnock2993]

To my Rotherham ears you sound Barnsley area. Broadest accents I've heard come from Dearne Valley area. Like your poems by the way.

[@agoogleuser4443]

Ey up from the US. I love the Yorkshire accent! Best English accent there is. I can usually understand the accent if it's not too broad and fast. I think it's odd how the Hull accent is so much different than the rest of Yorkshire. I'm from the southern US, and people try to mimic our accent all the time-sometimes very well and sometimes awful. Funny but Brits can do it better than the northerners here (picture Vivien Leigh in Gone With the Wind). Good video. I hope to visit your beautiful Yorkshire countryside one day.

[@Pronunciationwithemma]

Haha! I get my fair share of people taking the mick out of my Yorkshire accent as well. I just show them this video now and point out how many people love it! It shuts them up! ;) Hope you come to Yorkshire one day. You'll love it!

[@BeckyZoeG]

Most of my family are from Barnsley that's a pretty broad accent and my husband still struggles to understand them when we visit 😂 I was raised in Wakefield so mines a bit of a combination accent, not broad although when I rant it's definitely broad 😂

[@fairyisland2138]

I'm Japanese and first learned English in Leeds when I was 4 years old. When I moved back to Japan when I entered junior high. my English teacher couldn't understand my spoken English at all.

[@dreddykrugernew]

Im from Hull in Yorkshire and I was on holiday playing football on the beach with lots of Dutch guys, when I talked with them I had to slow down my words a bit but then some woman heard me talk who was from Doncaster and immediately said to me you are from Hull arent you. Then we both started talking with each in full Yorkshire flow and the Dutch guys couldnt understand a single word, people who learn English in foreign countries and then teach that English without coming to England to understand it properly the people they teach come to the UK and they cant understand a single word. You would be able to understand real English people more than anyone who even can score higher than you in learning English when it comes to actually using it in with real British people...

[@Gadavillers-Panoir]

@@dreddykrugernew English dialects are beautiful and must be encouraged and taught to anyone who wishes to learn them and preserved for all time as they are part of the British heritage. However, it really wouldn’t make sense for someone in another country to be learning a regional dialect of English as it wouldn’t be helpful in interviews and such. I myself am learning Received Pronunciation as it is more or less familiar to any international speaker. However, I do, from time to time, listen to recordings of people speaking dialectal English as well as English accents from the UK and around the world, so that i can understand any English speaker.

[@saffronwalker7606]

I'm currently doing my dissertation in York on the Hull/East Yorkshire accent vowels this has being so helpful!

[@CYNC33]

The thing I love is when you say something like "You can travel 20 minutes t' next town" I don't even know how you'd properly try and write that down so that you can get across that sound through text but it's one of my favourite things about our accents. It's proper Yorkshire. I didn't know it was called a glottal stop though. I've been told before that I have a pretty broad accent, even by people that are from South Yorkshire themselves, that's thanks to my Grandad I reckon.

[@tungstentrain1956]

Thank you so much. I'm an actor and my character has a yorkshire accent. Everyone just says to do the normal cockney, no one would notice (it's in the US), but you know my grandma would slap me...

[@Pronunciationwithemma]

I've met quite a few Americans (and Canadians!) who genuinely couldn't tell the difference between a British Accent (a standard/neutral one) and an Aussie accent! So you may be safe if you just went with a Cockney one! 😂

[@lostie4998]

You doing Billy Liar? (I am lol)

[@superbird4351]

As an American the Yorkshire accent is so much fun to do, especially South Yorkshire. I get tired of doing the southern pronunciation because there’s no character to it.

[@barryschwarz]

Excellent lesson for someone who wants to learn to speak the accent/s. Much better than 99% of other instructional accent vids on popular media. I learned phonetics for accents at acting school.

[@lifefindsaway7875]

I’m an actor in the US preparing for a role with a Yorkshire accent. This is great for distinguishing the Yorkshire accent from RP

[@outlier896]

I love the Yorkshire accent. To an American ear it sounds more Scottish, or even Irish, than the southern accent. Thanks for the video.

[@Astronemma]

I love this! I am also from York but have adopted my accent since moving away and working with people from all over. Whenever I’m tired or have been chatting to people back home I slip back into my Yorkshire accent but definitely use a more neutral one day-to-day. I wish regional accents were less stigmatised - I’m trying to reintroduce my natural accent back into how I speak regularly!

[@Dall_of_Cutie]

My parents are both from West Yorkshire so I've got a fairly strong accent. I live in North Yorkshire near Harrogate and everyone's talks like a right posh bugga. When I was at school no one could ever understand me. I got asked if I was from a different country a few times. 😂

[@Pronunciationwithemma]

Haha!! Not surprised! When I moved from York to a small town in East Yorkshire everyone called me posh for ages! I WAS BLOODY 8 AS WELL!!

[@jonp3890]

All of the English accent varieties sound interesting and beautiful to me. It’s amazing that in a country so small so many still exist, too. Personally, I hope it continues. The spice of life, and all that.

[@christa1732]

When I heard Louis Tomlimson speaking for the very time, I absolutely fell in love with his South Yorkshire-accent and it became my favourite british accent. So, wanna learn it by myself and found your explanation very helpful. Thank you Emma!

[@Ericgoat17]

Hey Emma, I came across your channel at my lunch break and I really liked the first video I watched, so I clicked a few more videos and much to my delight I discovered 2 videos about the Yorkshire accents. I had lived in York for the last 10 years and only just recently moved back to Taiwan. Hearing your N. Yorkshire accent does bring back loads of fond memories and make me really miss York. When I lived in York, I got to hear all kinds of accents at work, I didn’t particularly like the York accent to be honest and I was struggling to understand it, but it grew on me and I think it is the most charming accent in the entire UK. Thank you for the video and it did make me homesick! And just wanted to let you know you are brilliant!

[@Pronunciationwithemma]

Aww thank you 🥰🥰🥰

[@phile5437]

American here. I'm not familiar with most British/English accents but I think the Yorkshire accent is adorable. Especially the way words like cup, but, and blood sound. The u sounds like a soft o, kinda (to me at least).

[@albaxiaomanmartinezsimon495]

I'm watching this apart bc I love it, to understand Louis Tomlinson 😂😂

[@markwood1639]

As an American Southerner (born in South Carolina, currently living in Florida) I grew up with a distinctive "Southern" accent. I'm fascinated by the variety of discernably different accents in the U.S. and U.K., especially when different ones exist so close to one another. Thanks for your video. I'll be watching more!

[@heatherwoodley8244]

Loving this!! Wish I'd found it sooner! I'm also a Yorkshire lass, (Sheff), recently started teaching English and I also have my special 'teaching' accent, hehe. T'students wunt understand owt if not. This lass is fab. I'm still learning the IPA.

[@Paul_Warren_Wolfe]

Thank you for a great video. I'm from the States - west coast - and found great KZbin guitar lessons from a guy in Leeds. I enjoy his speech and wanted to learn about it.

[@1991beachboy]

Swedish here and I gotta say some words in the Yorkshire accents are straight up almost nordic. Like the way you pronounced boat is actually the way we say boat in swedish though it's "båt" . So very cool indeed. Gotta respect the vikings for mixing our languages :)

[@Pronunciationwithemma]

Check out the dialect words and you’ll see it gets way more Nordic and interesting. It’s always like we were invaded by vikings or something, right? 😂

[@andrewallan3415]

We have many village names ending in Thorpe which I believe is ancient Norse which may also be the reason why we use old norse words still.

[@blotski]

You should come to Durham. It's even more Nordic.

[@EM-cg4iy]

This is a fantastic explanation, thank you so much! I'm American but I absolutely love this accent in particular.

[@muhammadahmed8299]

I really fond of Northern Accent, love it! You put too much efforts to deliver this video and spread knowledge.FOR FREE. Big thank you to the most energetic dedicated teacher.

[@Pronunciationwithemma]

You’re very welcome!! 😄

[@l.moorey]

Idk why im watching a yorkshire accent video when im from east yorkshire

[@NSYresearch]

I now live and work in Somerset and one day a couple came to my counter and were chatting away. They had a Yorkshire accent but not just that but a Dewsbury accent. I said hello and asked if they were from Dewsbury and it turned out he was the vicar of the church I was baptised in .... a distictive accent indeed

[@martham5898]

Emma you are a great teacher. I wasn't confused at all.

[@adamforster4443]

thanks Emma, great video. super helpful. am preparing an audition for a feature film and its in southern yorkshire in the early 90's and this has gone down a treat. Great work

[@Pronunciationwithemma]

Good luck!! ❤️

[@michel-jeantailleur]

Lunch is actually pronounced din-ner.

[@jaeleighxxx7829]

Absolutely it is dinner like in school dinner ladies not lunch ladies.

[@teletext-or3sc]

And din-ner is pronounced t-ea 🙂

[@pavementpounder7502]

Love the Yorkshire accent, it sounds so homely and down to earth. I think of a farmer wearing a cap and a woolen jumper, or Wallace and Grommit or something. From Australia and our accent is so different, much more like Southern English, but there are some interestingly similarities. Guess James Cook was from Yorkshire after all.

[@martinburke362]

Your accent may be more like southern English but large parts of aussie culture and attitudes are pure northern English i mean you love rugby league!! Nuff said🏉🏉🏉

[@pavementpounder7502]

@@martinburke362 that's true, we got convicts from all over England, Ireland and Scotland. A lot of Irish and Scottish influence too. James Cook of course came from Yorkshire, James Stirling who founded Perth was Scottish.

[@shanecommins7968]

So, I'm a Dungeons and Dragons player who, when I run a game (or 'DM' it in the lingo), kinda has to make an effort with my non-player character's accents i.e. my elfs have to be a bit posh, my dwarves have to be Scottish etc. Problem: I'm Irish and ALL your bloody accents are difficult! These videos are really, properly helpful, so thank you! I have a terrible villain who I needed a Northern accent for, and her name will be Emma in your honour.

[@Pronunciationwithemma]

This comment has made my absolute day!!!

[@maiadraconica6488]

thats so funny cause im trying to get into dungeons and dragons properly for the first time and im currently fleshing out a character, i had a very specific idea of what i wanted her to sound like (due to a certain youtuber) which is the reason im here trying to understand how you do this accent xD

[@xsiriuslupinx]

as someone from North Yorkshire, hearing you slow down the differences between 'no' finally made me hear what my friends must hear. they constantly call me posh for how I say it and I don't notice anything but oh my gods I totally say it in the posher way 😭

[@user-iv3fp4gy1u]

I've relatives in different parts of England, and I grew up watching British shows. I have no issue understanding, at all... yet, I've no way to differentiate one region from the next. It's just fun to listen and even funnier when my Caribbean mum asks me to "translate" to how it would be in American English! I found this as I do voice over and had a request to introduce a character with a Yorkshire accent. As Catherine Tate said, "Um, yeah, I can do that!" Yeah, maybe not, but you helped so much, thank you!

[@Pronunciationwithemma]

Glad I could help! Doing voice overs sounds like such a fun job! I'd love to do that :)

[@user-iv3fp4gy1u]

Pronunciation with Emma, you never know! I was working on set for a television show and met dozens of students visiting from Windsor. Of *course* I mentioned this video and how I thought to hold onto your Yorkshire advice!

[@budte]

I am Yorkshire on my dad's side but only spent about seven school years around York. The rest out of Yorkshire. In my 60s, I have no Yorkshire accent, but I am pleased to learn that I still pronounce words like path, bath and happy the Yorkshire way.

[@LynnaeaEmber]

Im from Tennessee and can understand your accent perfectly. Not all, but many of the vowel changes are common around here.

[@jacka6497]

I’m from the Netherlands but whenever I play games people tell me I have a northern English accent.. now I’ve decided to search it up and this is kinda how I sound!! I’ve never even heard of the town Yorkshire!!

[@Pronunciationwithemma]

It's a whole county, my friend! Not just a town :) You should visit!

[@andreyserebryakov2231]

cool

[@jacka6497]

@@Pronunciationwithemma That’s so cool! I’ll definitely visit someday 🤩

[@jacka6497]

@Jamie Marsden oops! 😅

[@djbrook4132]

@@jacka6497 was your English teacher a northern englishman? Obviously that would have impacted your vernacular, accent, and pronunciation.

[@mohamedabdrhem5819]

I am very happy to watch this video. It's useful. We appreciate your efforts. Thanks.

[@MsJLorraine]

Thank you most much! THIS has been extremely helpful!!! 🙌🏾🙌🏾 I have a huge callback audition next week and it requires me to have a Yorkshire accent.

[@Pronunciationwithemma]

Good luck!!

[@byootifoullaif5722]

Can you do another video going more into depth about Yorkshire regional variations? You're the only one on KZbin that's done it well

[@Sara88890]

Very interesting, I laughed at the "trap - bath" split bit since in my American English accent we have the "cot - caught" merger, but in my accent "cot" and "caught" sound the same so when I try to describe it to learners it sounds off. I just read up on the trap - bath split, I've never heard of it before, I pronounce trap and bath with the same a sound as well.

[@DHMenke]

Well, Emma, here's the deal. I'm an amateur linguist, and, retired professor of Physics from Tucson, Arizona, USA. I have been watching KZbin videos from a woman who lives in Wakefield, and I do understand 99% of her Yorkshire accent, but I wanted to improve my understanding. Thanks.

[@Pronunciationwithemma]

Glad I can help! :) If I can help with any linguistics related questions, do let me know.

[@DHMenke]

@@Pronunciationwithemma "Wow, that was fast." That is a quote from a movie about "Kevin" who was left "Home Alone" and spent his vacation in New York City. No matter. As I was taking my shower today (I get lots of ideas while in the shower), I was thinking of the word "proper." I think it's generally used in British English, but maybe more so in Yorkish. Is that a word? For example, if I took a very short shower, I may say to myself, "I will take a real shower later," or "I will take a complete shower later." In Britain, I bet you'd say, "I'll take a proper shower later." We never use the word "proper" when it means "true, real, complete, etc." because the opposite of that word is "improper" and nobody will ever say, "I just took an improper shower." That would mean, "a bad shower" or "an evil shower" or "an inappropriate shower." In American English, "proper" and "improper" are opposites. In Britain, "proper" and "incomplete" are opposites. "Know what I mean, Vern?" That's also a quote from a film. Thanks. - Dr Dave.

[@markdelmonte6342]

Trying to learn a Yorkshire accent for an audition. This helps!

[@Pronunciationwithemma]

Good luck!!

[@elizabethgills3937]

Thanks, I am doing a play and I need a Yorkshire accent and this has helped so much. 😍

[@thomasng1816]

Emma you look really cool when speaking with the northern accent 🎉

[@gilesfarmer5953]

Hi Emma, lovely video. Harrogate person here, now living in Australia. I still have a Yorkshire accent which I've had to tone down a fair bit, however, it wasn't that strong to start with coming from genteel Harrogate. When I return to Yorkshire every now and then, the old accent returns, but my family think otherwise and reckon that I talk posh, but on my return to Australia, my kids can't understand me.... Anyhow, you have to explain to your students about the Yorkshire way of saying the worth "the", as in, "I'm off to t'pub" . A lot of people who try to imitate the Yorkshire accent often get this wrong by emphasizing the glottolized "t" sound, where in fact it should be implied. Nice work. G

[@Pronunciationwithemma]

You speak such truth about people getting that omitted 'the' wrong when trying to mimic the accent. I'm in Bristol and I get a lot of people here trying to mock (or should I say "tek t'piss"? 😂) my accent sometimes and the fact that they cannot even mock me correctly sometimes is hilarious. I also know EXACTLY what you mean. To many southerners I still sound northern, however, to many northerners I sound "posh" (exactly what your family say about you)! I don't know what I am anymore... I got called Dutch the other week! 😅

[@kangzhendong1915]

After this lesson, I do start to realise you did have very tiny northern accents occasionally in very few words. But you are still absolutely a perfect British English pronunciation teacher, that little accents just make the sound more native and natural, nothing else.

[@adoptheckler6836]

Please keep on doing in Yorkshire accent... U sound n look better when u do it in Yorkshire ❤️❤️❤️

[@jambarreturns9060]

Thank you Emma, I loved your explanations. A Tyke living in Bavaria.

[@axiomaddict]

Thank you! I live in the US in California, and I’ve grown curious about the Yorkshire accent as a result of watching Gentleman Jack and appreciate your video. I’m aware that micro-locations, class and decade also impact speech. Here in California, for example, NorCal (Berkeley) where I live and SoCal (Los Angeles, etc.) have very different cultural norms and rhythms of speech.

[@user-rq7nm3bz5s]

Thanks for this video, Emma! I just LOVE the Yorkshire accent! The guy by my side, named Neville, is native from Yorkshire. We already do some "coaching". 😂 Some days ago he said: "Darlin', you're native German, right? You're doin' quite well!"

[@Pronunciationwithemma]

Neville sounds sweet!! 😄 haha

[@user-rq7nm3bz5s]

Right! Though we´re already older than 40 we were recently told that we´d sound like two teenies in love After MANY years of long-distance friendship. Si thi! @@Pronunciationwithemma

[@peggyknecht5551]

I had to learn a "Cockney" accent for my role in My Fair Lady. I love your Yorkshire accent!

[@myplatemyfate3402]

Vikings really influenced the accent in Yorkshire.

[@psyche599]

Super stoked you included the IPA notation

[@Pronunciationwithemma]

My pleasure! :)

[@85waspnest]

I lived 20 years in Huddersfield, 1 year in Rotherham, 30 years in York, 6 years in Market Weighton, 2 years in Sunderland with the last 8 in Lincoln so goodness knows what my dialect's like :-D.

[@Pronunciationwithemma]

Probably as mixed as mine! 😅

[@angelpoldark1663]

Thank you teacher I'm so fascinated about accents so I'm so much grateful for this

[@chrisdickinson7099]

This is an excellent video. Detailed and clear! Thanks

[@isaiahbaggett5014]

I'm from Texas 🤠. I LOVE your Yorkshire accent. It's so deep and strong; very grounded. I first really noticed it from Downton Abbey...and of course Game of Thrones ("You don't know NUTHIN John Snuw") Fascinating:)

[@KmT81]

Im French born Cameroonian. I remember phonetics I studied at University ,I knew Scots,Welsh had accents but its in the late 2000s that I knew english different accents. I love Scouse, Yorkshire,Geordie and Posh accents. But Yorkshire is m'y Favorite.

[@Mark64W]

Very good video that I really enjoyed . I was born in Co. Durham and moved to Holmfirth in West Yorkshire aged 6 in 1970 . It was like space aliens had arrived ! The children at school thought I was Irish , the milkman thought my family were Welsh and the new friendly neighbours were totally amazed by us . There are so many different ' Yorkshire ' accents having travelled the county for many years . But if we really want to ' open a can of worms ' how about the Saddleworth accent ? That was part ( and many say still is ) of the West Riding of Yorkshire until 1974 . Perhaps the subject of your next video ? Hmm ... Thanks again , Mark .

[@PLS-PG]

Currently studying at York St John for a year as an Erasmus Student, so this video has helped me a lot! I love the accent so far!

[@Pronunciationwithemma]

Thank you! I hope you're having an amazing time! I studied there ❤️

[@sahatatsiripongwutikorn6633]

I love Bradford accent in West Yorkshire accent because it's interesting accent.

[@mrslizzen]

To be honest I prefer your usual accent Emma. Your voice seems be smoother and clear,easier for us learners to understand. You know I live in East Yorkshire and still struggle to understand sometimes 😅 but it's always nice people know there's an "yorkshire language" 😘

[@Pronunciationwithemma]

Hahaha!! Yes! You need a medal for understanding the Yorkshire accent where you are 😃

[@nicholasthejovian5464]

Probably the best video on Yorkshire accent I've seen! I only wish I'd come across it sooner (recognizing it's only been here 2 weeks). I've always loved the Yorkshire ways of speech, but haven't found a good source on actually doing it, before. Embarrassing, really, since I'm a voiceover performer, but one can't start out knowing everything I guess. I'd also LOVE to hear your take on the dialect, how it varies from standard British English. There was a bit of a script I had lately, just a couple of lines, but could have used a dialectic makeover. Most of what I find out there is bits and pieces. But this, well, I'm subscribing.

[@nicholasthejovian5464]

Just for completeness, the line, rolled back to very standard stuff, is: "If you're going to weld something, alright, but you won't cut anything without the oxygen on, you idiot! There we go, and if you don't mind my saying so, it's neither safe nor useful to be using things you've no idea how to use." The character is from Richmond in 1908. And let me tell you, figuring out what's she'd actually say is a challenge for someone in California in 2018.

[@Pronunciationwithemma]

Hey Nicolas! Thank you. It was actually tough filming this video in my original accent as I tend to teach in a more neutral accent every day. Switching can be a bit tricky, but I managed to pull it off and bring out my inner Yorkshire lass again! I'm also planning on doing some filming this Thursday and Friday and to hear that someone would be interested in hearing more about the dialect makes me really happy! I'll definitely do a video on the dialect for you. It does range between each part of Yorkshire (and even from city to city) but I'll try to do something where some generic Yorkshire dialect words are used. I've also had more people ask me to do more videos of me simply just speaking with my Yorkshire accent because they want to hear it more. Can you believe that I was once told "you should never be an English teacher with that Yorkshire accent"?! NOW PEOPLE ARE ASKING FOR IT! It makes me day! And if I get the time on Thursday or Friday this week, would you like me to do a quick recording of this short section you've commented with so you can hear how I'd say it in a Yorkshire accent? Just let me know and I'll try to schedule in the time to record it for you!

[@nicholasthejovian5464]

@@Pronunciationwithemma Yes! On all counts! Videos of anything at all with your native accent would be absolutely lovely. And nuts to the silly people who thought you shouldn't teach English or accents! Who better than someone who can alter their own very distinctive accent to teach others to do the same? And I would *love* to hear you deliver that line with a Yorkshire accent! Even better if you change the wording to be what someone from, say, Richmond might actually use. I mean, a general Yorkshire is useful and cool; specific riding (obviously I have a specific use for Northern, but also obviously it's up to you) is even more so. That would be spectactular!

[@Pronunciationwithemma]

Enjoy! :) soundcloud.com/user-198111630/yorkshire-text/s-fo0jf

[@nicholasthejovian5464]

@@Pronunciationwithemma Ah, I love it! No word changes you'd make? (Yorkshire being famous for things like "tha" and "nowt" and marvelous, perplexing phrases.)

[@UstashaMe84]

I think the Yorkshire accents are the “coolest” in England. When most Americans think of the bad ass Englishman from TV shows or like GOT they use these accents for a reason, women sound so pretty speaking it in my opinion and when speak with this accent it sounds very battle hardened lol. Fun fact, York is also home of the Starks! :p great video!

[@garryl6594]

Being born & bred Brighouse, which is in the middle of Halifax, Huddersfield & Bradford & only 15 miles from Leeds, the accents are pretty much the same, it’s just certain words that we pronounce differently, for example they’ll call you lov in Huddersfield whereas we in Brighouse would say luv.

[@NSYresearch]

But ..if you lived in Dewsbury the accent is very different from Wakefield which is different again from Barnsley

[@garryl6594]

@@NSYresearch A Dewsbury accent is more Punjabi.

[@metteagneteskovbhatia181]

eyup dock. It took me years to understand the dialect and I love it! If I could I would love to be able to master it myself but it's hard enough trying to sound British as I am from Denmark 😃 Thanks for your channel. I love the fact that you can explain the exact differences between 'proper' English and the dialect. Thanks from Mette

[@breezierosie]

I'm American but my family originates from East Riding... The village of Melton by hull. As an American, I pronounce the "huu" sound but I've been informed by a Londoner that they just call it "ulll"

[@dreddykrugernew]

Im from Hull and just been on a 2 week course in Melton, yeah its Ull no H's in any of the words, also we do strange things with our T's as they can be removed totally or changed for a D in some words. Like the word 'totally' it kind of goes like this 'tow alleh' the T in the middle of the word is totally removed and is replaced with a slight pause before we finish the rest of the word. However Melton is a posh village and the Melton natives wont speak what I would consider proper Yorkshire talk they arent common enough and pronounce all their words properly, its a class thing...

[@datcatproductions]

Love your accent. Your videos are brilliant! Clear and informative, you must be a great teacher.

[@nostalgia.mmshah]

You have got very good attitude.. your voice spurred me to speak like you..

[@ashleywalton5406]

That was great! I am from Manchester but live in California now and everyone I know is going to watch this lol!

[@LisaOwen-jx1st]

Love the yorkshire accent and the people. They are so much more friendly than southerners.

[@Candypoot]

This is the best explanation of Yorkshire I've seen. Coming from a reight Yorkshire lass.

[@gecho0807]

Wow your Yorkshire accent sounds so calm. I think so. The stress doesn't sound powerful and aggressive unlike any other accents. Unlike Cockney, R.P, G.A and so on.

[@hexyko4850]

Thanks lass, I'm from Brazil and I've been obsessed with UK culture for years now, I love Northern English and Scottish accents. I didn't know how to pronounce some place names either.

[@Pronunciationwithemma]

Neither do the natives, don't worry! haha

[@kape9004]

At 7.47. Wot duwi wanna ear abaht thi Gramar foh? Worrabaht thi Grandad anall? :) Ha ha. Great video Emma. It's wonderful how you dissected our very own Yorkshire language to the foreigners and non believers out there. Well done young lady. (PS. I ant gorra chuffin clu worra jus rit then. Ni mine trina no worra wuron abaht). Am guna tek mi ferit forra wark.

[@iann5713]

What a brilliant Video Emma and it's solved the problem of why the sister's accents in 'Happy Valley' vary when they use the 'O' sound. One sounds 'posher' than the other but, in fact, it's because they developed their language a bus ride away! The beginnings a new plot twist if only there was a future series! :-)

[@NSYresearch]

I just had a look and only one of the main cast is actually from Yorkshire. So that's why the accents are a bit different. Actors eh ...lol

[@ahmadzidan1159]

Emma. When I was starting to play this video, i felt there is something different in your voice. And it turns out you said that you spoke with your Yorkshire accent. Wow. I can only be amazed. :)