Top 10 Hardest UK Accents To Imitate! - American Reacts
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- I can't understand any of these! American Reacts to The UK's Top 10 HARDEST Accents to Imitate!
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Just remember the rule of travelling in the UK:
Drive for an hour, the accent has changed twice, and bread rolls have a different name.
too true haha.... in wales we have villages 5 miles apart with historical rivalry which is hilarious.
its called a bun man, what ya gannin on aboout roll for. Here man, last time I had a bread roll, divent even nah where a was, mind ye, i was proabaly wrecked off me bonce
Barm cake , you both meant?🙂
You mean bap?
@@marcjohnson7734 true story... it's a f* baappppp
When I joined the Navy, 50 years ago, for someone from Cornwall to talk to someone from Scotland it had to go through 3-4 interperators. It was a week or so untill we got our ears in and toned down our accents before we could understand each other. UK accents have tone down a lot since then.
I just came to the comments to say there had been no Cornish or Yorkshire accents on this Top 10, Martin! Your comment was at the top of the list as well - how strange! 😁
@@jeanproctor3663 As a lad moving to Dorset from Yorkshire 60 years ago .... Still use a few Yorkshire words. Owt an Nowt etc. still get a few puzzled looks.
Lived on a farm in Cornwall and we had Liverpudlians staying as B&B. As a kid I used to interpret when they talked to one particular farm worker. They just used to smile and nod otherwise.
I am not Cornish, technically not Scottish either as I am 2nd gen English born. But 42 years after leaving Cornwall to live Aberdeenshire and 30 years after coming back south, there are still hints of both accents or a weird blend of them.
Were you stationed in Cornwall Martin? I was a NAFFI girl, Cludrose in the 70s.
From the hills in the north east of Scotland and every 20 miles the accent changes sometimes a little sometimes you won’t be able to understand it. We speak doric up here so check that out whoever sees this it’s mad😂 especially spending 15 years in Newcastle too🤣🤣
Being a Geordie my self I love seeing people just looking bewildered trying to understand us 😂
I've lived all over the UK and the only accent I can't do myself is Geordie.
I can understand it, but I can't replicate it.
When I lived in America I would deliberately talk in a generic posh accent. I always got a restaurant reservation and never went home alone after a night out.
You literally put on an accent that could melt knicker elastic!!
Brilliant 👏
That was s brilliant
I talk to a lot of foreign people online from the US, Canada and Europe and out on a bit of a RP accent for them and they love it 😂
Useless but if trivia. The guy in the green hat, and shotgun, talking gibberish. He's Filch, the caretaker from Hogwarts. 🇺🇸🇬🇧💜😃
West Country is such a wide ranging accent. That scene in Hot Fuzz is legendary tho with the farmer needing a translator. I watched it in a cinema in Somerset and we were getting the jokes early as we understood the accent
I love that scene. Being from Devon I'm still slightly disappointed that I don't have the accent that several Devonshire dumplings do
Did you know the actor is the one who played walder frey
I have heard it said on more than one occasion that the Southern US accent has more than a little bit of influence from the West Country accent.
Somerset gal here! When I hear an rrrrrrrrrr in American I’m like wait what???? Naaaaaa.
yeah it does, most white Americans in the southern states are of English descent, as opposed to German in the midwest and Irish/Italian in the NE, hence the accent having a slight overlap
@@Forestgravy90 brrrrrristollllllll is the password!
There is a community in the US that still has its West Country accent. I can't remember the name of the community, or even which state they're in, but they've been there over 100 years and still have their original accent.
@@tigs5354 if they sound like farmers/from Bristol/pirates or similar… get in!!
It’s very sad that almost all of the clips of these various accents were spoken by actors who weren’t even from the reason represented but who had learned their accents from voice coaches!!! Without exception, the clips bore little similarity to the real thing. If you want to do a piece on British accents there are lots of clips of ordinary people being wonderfully “regional ” and brilliantly incomprehensible! Oh yes what you are fed on he screen is rarely if ever true Received Pronunciation but a pastiche of what it might have sounded like 60 years ago!
Ah, the sins of voice coaches. Poor old Dick Van Dyke was taught his "cockney" accent by an Irish lady. Little wonder he butchered it so badly.
The 'Hot Fuzz' West Country clip was played for laughs and made incomprehensible on purpose. I live in the UK in the South and the only one that i ever have trouble with is Glaswegian as it is so fast. I have a bad habit of picking up accents if i am around people and at boarding school i actually picked up a stutter from the guy i shared with lol.
I am the same! I am a comelian when it comes to accents to the point where people have asked me if I am Australian! I'm not but love Home and Away and also My Kitchen Rules. Also sometimes after watching a show on TV I just come out with an accent when I am talking to someone.
JT love your enthusiasm and energy... I'm a Scouser, and I can spot a bad Scouse accent a mile away, but even within Liverpool there are many variations of the accent, which probably makes it hard to imitate - and I guess the same is true of most of the other UK accents
Absolutely.
I'm from West Berkshire (yes yes Ooo Arrr and all that 🚜).
But if you travel 15 minutes West down the M4 (in to Wiltshire) the accent is totally different but an outsider probably won't be able to tell the difference. Same goes for North into Oxfordshire, South into Hampshire and East towards London.
Is it true that the Scouse accent doesn't go beyond the city or suburbs of Liverpool? Not into the county?
I agree. Fellow Scouser here.
Potteries accent often gets mistaken for Scouse in other parts for some reason too!
Hi Niki, I'm a plastic scouser. As you will know that means I'm from The Wirral. x
Glaswegian is by no means the most difficult accent to understand in Scotland (though when they are drunk it is more tricky). Peterhead in the North East of Scotland has to be the most difficult Scots dialect to follow and I'm a Highlander!
Lol I just said the same thing though expanded it for the whole North east and I'm a Highlander too
Definitely struggle with Glaswegian on the phone but I can understand it if I'm with the person cos I can read their lips and get the gist of whats being said haha
Doric is hard for first timers
My great uncle talked like the farmer in Hot Fuzz - he died when I was 32 and for all that time I could never understand every word he said. That kind of west country accent is dying out though as most of the older generation never travelled out of the county - my great uncle was born and died aged 92 in the same house.
My grandfather did too, but he was a farmer from the East Sussex/Weald of Kent area and died in 1959. Another farmer from that area commented to me as I climbed out of a field of curious cattle, "Ah ken zee yer bain't be afearred o dem berlerks"
Very true it is a hard one to come by (that strong at least), even going into local pubs in small villages in Dartmoor you'll find it difficult to find
Dick Van dyke cocneey accent is the worse thing I have ever Heard
Along with Mike miers
Everyone talks about the west country accent but I live in Somerset and virtually never hear it
One that wasn't mentioned here but definitely a strong Barnsley (Yorkshire) accent. Any road, a'll seethee. Thanks for uploading. 🇺🇸🇬🇧👍
That was the favourite parting saying of Freddie Trueman, great man, who presented an ITV sports show called indoor league. As he stood there in his cardigan, holding his pipe in one hand and a pint in other. you have be a certain age to remember. 👍
"Any road" means "anyway" doesnt it? I remember hearing that in the north-east.
Naw then lad, get tha luggoles round a bit a Yorkshire..... There's some brass on't mantel, get thysen down t' shop and get thysen a bag o' spice....
The accent from manchester are crazy 🤪 I'm a manc from South Manchester and my cousin's live in North Manchester their accent is more stronger than mine its crazy how people who live in the same area sounds totally different xx
Same here. I'm from Oldham and my accent is completely different from those in Stretford 🤣
@@thomaspoke2306 I love all the different accents in Manchester. Its crazy to think you can drive 5 minutes down the road and you're going to hear a different accent. I love this crazy place we call home x
Im a born and bred Manc but ive also lived in Dublin and Newcastle and ive ended up with a ridiculous mix of all three accents. If im on the phone in public i get people looking at me because they are baffled at my outrageous dialect.
Definitely I'm from Bury and we talk different from rochdale
I am a Manc and moved to Oldham at 13 and got so tormented at School for my Manc accent but Oldhamers say some really daft things and miss letters out of work - goin t'town ont buzz!! My accent has softened working in call centres talking to people from everywhere in the UK, I can understand the majority of accents now too
As a Geordie I can tell you that A) Not all of us have as thick an accent as is portrayed in media, B) Not a single person in media who is not a geordie can imitate our accent correctly, and C) I've grown up a geordie, do not have a stong accent naturally and even I can't do the accent when I try! (Unless I'm quoting geordie poems like the Lambton worm - whisht, lads, had yer gobs, Aah'll tell yez all an awful story....)
Fellow Geordie saying hi x
I just translated for a friend - wry man it’s a manky dea, wor’s nithered, away yem.
I assume you've seen a clip of the Castle ep with the "Geordie"? It was so bad.
@@PolarBear4 no I haven't xx
@@clairewatson7506 Look it up. It's so, so bad. I don't know who taught the guy or wrote the script but yikes. He sounds pretty much anything but Geordie.
To be fair, the scene in Hot Fuzz with the West Country Accent was making a joke with the accent rather than using it as a proper example of it. What the farmer said is translated through the three cops until it’s known what was said.
Remember though that there is no such thing as a British accent because it’s not just the stereotypical posh or cockney, there are over 56 recognised Uk and Irish accents.
My family is from the Black Country, which is near Birmingham so the accent is similar and they filmed parts of Peaky Blinders there at the Black Country Museum. The tv show is really good, the accents are very accurate considering the actor that plays Tommy Shelby is actually Irish but the show can be a bit gory in places, which does reflect Birmingham at the time as it is about the gang wars after ww1. Also the Black Country museum has the best fish and chips in the uk in my opinion. 😁
Dudley!! (Doodlay)
The Black Country has a range of similar accents, dialects actually, but the dialects are dying out. ☹️
Yo cor goo aht a moyle dowern tha ‘oss rode afore yo mait a mon wot spake diffrent, ay it?
I used to drive the trolleybuses at the Black Country Living Museum.
Yep Dudley! Sadly I only have a twinge of the accent mixed with a mix of Gloucester as I grew up between the two. But at least I say words like raspberry, grass and bath right 😂 People in the south west always get confused when you ask for a cob and you just get given a soft bap sandwich instead. They literally only have the one word roll but to me a cob is a hard topped roll, idk tho 🤷♀️. Also I love that at the Black Country Museum has the signs just for locals that say things like “ yow caw come een ear chook” instead of “no entrance” cracks me up every time🤣
@@wulfrunian ok that is so awesome!!!
Its got to be majors chippy for me, best chippy in uk, plus its nostalgic for me (sure you know it if youre from the black country)
The really hard uk accents to master would have to be the north lincolnshire accent . The Hull accent ,the stoke accent and the Nottingham accent . If Robin Hood had been made with a true Nottingham accent it would be hilarious. I say that because all these accents shown are SO obvious to anyone in the UK. They are also really easy to do as well.
Try Norfolk. and I don't mean Modern Norfolk, but still from living people, albeit old.
I would bet that would defeat you 😊 but give it a go
@@Rabmac1UK Thaat's roit boy
Ey oop me duck 🦆
Thumbs up for the Hull shout-out!
@@DevPreston ow at is thee right
That feeling when jt says hes understood all the accents so far and we're at No 2 of 10 without our geordie appearing!
Or Glasgow
I’m from Orkney in the far north of Scotland and grew up speaking Orcadian Scots. When I moved to Edinburgh at 17, I had to switch to speaking English because Orcadian Scots and Lowland Scots are very very different.
Interestingly, the West Country accent was the one we now associate with pirates stereotypically. The reason for this is that one particular actor (forgot the name) had such an accent as he played the role of a pirate in a popular movie of that genre.
Robert Newton
Robert Newton played Long John Silver in Treasure Island I believe.
@@soddof7972 That's the one! But I would also hazard a guess that at least some of those who went to sea came from that area, so it may not be completely out of line.
In fairness to Dick Van Dyke for his role in Mary Poppins, his voice coach was Australian. After finding this out his Cockney accent does appear to have an Aussie twang! 😄
van Dyke said it was J Pat O'Malley, an Englishman of Irish heritage. Nothing to do with Australians.
@@southron_d1349 Oh, that doesn't explain the Aussie twang at all then. Weird.
@@redfog42 The worst accent, bar non, wherever his "heritage" is/was !!
The Bo Selecta sketch of Ant and Dec, supposedly talking in a geordie accent, was actually a passable Middlesbrough accent.😂
Nah mate I am from boro our accents aren't as broad as geordies.
@@Misscirclewillstealoreos Boro is more Yorkshire than northeast
@@bttnufc6725 it is in the north east whilst also being north Yorkshire. But to my original point .the accents mentioned in the original post sound like no teesside accent I've ever heard
@@Misscirclewillstealoreos I'm from Newcastle and nobody up this way classes Boro as a derby. It's more of a Yorkshire club
That's the great thing about living in a free country. You can think whatever you like ;)
Funnily enough the South was settled by Scottish, Welsh, Scots-Irish, Kent County and West Country settlers. People from Northern England also made their way to the Upland South (Kentucky and Tennessee) so us southerners do have those old dialects that have been brought over from the last few centuries. I’m from KY and I can hear how our accents linked, because they sound like they have “smoothed” out during the past 2 centuries
fun fact (that I learnt the other day): the geordie accent/words is a mixture of old norse and old english (and obviously modern english)
little bit of romany and some old french too
There's a BBC show called 'Trawlermen' - a bit like a British version of 'deadliest catch'.
It's based around the fishing towns of Fraserburgh and Peterhead in Aberdeenshire, where the local dialect is called 'Doric Scots'.
The BBC had to add subtitles because the audience just could not understand what folk were saying.
LOL! Even other Scottish people can’t understand Doric Scots. I have a copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stane - Scots edition, which I have used to win MANY arguments with people who say Scots is a dialect, not a language.
@@maryavatar yeh, I've said dialect here because of the wording of the original watchmojo video but I would consider Doric a Northeastern dialect of the Scots language personally.
I moved from Manchester to near Fraserburgh when I was 16. It was a culture shock to say the least. I am now able to speak and understand Doric though!
An accent that is very rarely mastered is a Welsh one - it often sounds like Pakistani when someone tries to take it off🙄
Even if I don't understand them, I love the UK countries accents a lil bit more than those I am aware off in my own country. Which, might be contradictory when one thinks that Ancient English speakers might as well came from what then has become Germany. Lol.
Hi Jt :) the best way to say that welsh town name, is break it into several chunks and start from the last section, as long as you know how something ends its easier to fill in the middle part :)
You should check out the accent on the farm labourer Gerald from Clarksons Farm. There are videos on here somewhere.
hi jt im from oxford uk just discovered your channel . i love watching reaction videos on the uk , last time i was in us was 2001 and should be going to us again before end of this year . keep the content coming as i enjoy your reactions . all the best
I was with my husband and we were talking to a Geordie. I was nodding and mmm ing all the time. After my husband asked me what he had been saying, I said ‘not a clue’! My nodding etc was being polite. His accent was so thick!
I can understand Geordie, and then I went to south shields, different language. And I’m from Aus
I have a few Geordie cousins... I genuinely struggle to understand them some of time, even after 30 years :)
I'm from the East Midlands and am good with most of our accents. However, I used to work away a lot and the place where I stayed was run by a couple from Hartlepool.
After they had had a few drinks, I honestly had no clue what they were going on about. First time I've been unable to understand someone from my own country.
@@lesliedavis2185 Im australian and my wife is a Geordie. I lived in Newcastle for 4 years. After living in Australia for 20 years I now have to translate Geordies to her sometimes ha ha.
Many years ago in England I often avoided going into my back garden if I saw my elderly Scottish neighbour of a few doors along in hers. She used to try to speak to me from 40-50 yards away. I understood maybe 1 word in 5. It was so embarrassing to keep saying "what?".
Omg I am pure howling my head off.... I can imagine you nodding, smiling saying uh huh......and not knowing wtf she saying and the wee wuman like, "och whit a lovely fella, canny no help a blether wae him, aw'ways goat time fur ye"
@@jaggedittlegirl 😂 you're not far wrong.
@@jaggedittlegirl as a side note, the same lady (who sadly must have passed away by now) when we were stood close and I could understand her, came out with probably the most shocking expletive I've ever heard. Got to be careful here. "Well, (very rude word) me gently with a plumbers rasp!". She was about 80 at the time.
@@michaelcaffery5038 and did you?
@@citizenpb how very dare you!😲
As always JT great video.
Your target of 100k is getting closer and closer. You might want to start to get a design down on paper, because it will happen quicker than you might think.
As always buddy, much love from down in Kent to you and the family.
✌️
Newcastle. Famous because my step Dad is a Geordie. He lived their for his first 9 years before moving to Derby. He still sounds like he just escaped from a Dandy comic!
I'm from Bristol. I love how the accents can change from town to town. Funnily enough I've heard the Norfolk accent is similar to the west country but its no where near each other. In fact I've never been.
I come from the easternmost suburbs of London, but spent several years training at RAF Locking, just outside Weston-Super-Mare. To then spend the rest of my career, and even the rest of my life, in Norfolk. The accents are very very similar, but different enough that a local from either area would be able to tell them apart easily. I have a strong suspicion that from outside the areas, and espcially for people from outside the UK, telling them apart would be much much harder.
Michael Macintyre has a joke about West country and Norfolk accents being similar.
@@AlanEvans789 yes you're right. As a bristolian I can tell the difference. After I made the comment I looked up the accent . We use our rs a lot more.
I live in Somerset and never hear the stereotypical west country accent
The farm folk around the Norfolk/Suffolk border to sound a bit westcountry, weird because they are so far removed from eachother.
I’m a geordie, I’m so used to it being the default that I forget it must be a nightmare for other ppl to understand 😂
Same here whenever I have to give my post code over the phone people never understand it. Much love x
I am from the West Midlands, born in Birmingham, grew up in Redditch, (which though only 15 miles away, has a distictly different accent which is now fast disappearing due to overspill from Birminham which startedin the late 1960s) and bt=y ancestry am Welsh. I now live in South Africa with my Zimbabwean wife. I LOVE West Midland accents including Yam Yam.
Alright bab fancy a kipper tae
As a geordie I have to agree, when I moved to Yorkshire I had to consciously slow down my speech as no-one could understand me!
Great reaction JT. The variety of accents here in the UK is vast and very geographically specific. As example, the police hunting the Yorkshire ripper back in the eighties received an audio tape from someone claiming to be the perpetrator. Language experts pinpointed him to be from a small part of Wearside in the Northeast (Geordie-ish). When the hoaxer was caught a few years ago they were proved absolutely right.
JW, Westcountry. Oooh-Arrh.....
I’m from Newcastle so I’m a Geordie and the problem with these videos is it’s people imitating our accent rather than having Geordies on talking lol
Sending much love and respect to you from England! Keep those videos coming JT!
Wales
@@peala_q I completely and utterly suck. Many and huge greeting to(and from) Wales (in particular from Pela) too!
I personally consider Welsh people to be my countrymen/women and have a huge respect for them as I spent I long time in Lampeter and everyone was so amazing :). Apologies for not being inclusive, I have big love for anyone that's chilled, peaceful, respectful, accepting and on the same planet as me ;)
@@peala_q A country in itself of numerous accents. Contrary to popular belief (in England) we don’t all sound like Max Boyce.
I’m a Geordie and when people try to mimic it, it’s usually either deliberately bad/exaggerated or the vowels are completely wrong. There have been many good actors who’ve tried to do a Geordie accent seriously but they can’t quite nail it. They can’t quite get the rhythm right. If I was to dial my accent right up and use full on dialect words then you’d struggle to understand me, but in my normal everyday accent/voice, you’d be fine. I work closely with colleagues based all over the UK and I don’t have any problems.
When I was training in the Royal Air Force we had a Gordie on my course. After about three months of being cooped up together pretty much 24/7 we could understand him pretty well. There was another Gordie on a different course, that lived in one of the other 17 man rooms in our block. He was pretty much unintelligible for the rest of us. All that was was the slight difference you get from one person to another. I have to say that I also personally struggle with Glaswegian.
*Geordie
They play accents down on British TV. Real people are much harder to understand, especially in the smaller towns. This list plays down the fact that even small towns and villages can each have a handful of accents. You can cross a street or turn a corner, and the accent can change.
Just ONE of the many reasons why i sacked TV 32 years a go, Motel.
@@blackbob3358 I have to say, I watch less and less every year. I think I'm down to maybe two to three shows a week tops right now, and they are usually documentaries. Dramas are all the same, and comedy really is not what it used to be. Britain used to make some of the best comedies and dramas in the world, and now it's all tat, tailored for the export market, or soaps that are still running out of habit.
Jack P. Shepherd (David Platt, Corrie) a Manc? He comes from my home town in Yorkshire! The unintelligible West Country farmers drawl is hugely exaggerated for comic effect in a clip from the movie "Hot Fuzz". The speaker is David Bradley (Walder Frey, House of Thrones) and is actually a wonderful example of his acting talent given that he is another Yorkshireman.
Look at Clarkson's farm Gerald ... That's when you'll realise just how honest these accents are.
I'm a Geordie, but I've been living in the west country for 21yrs. I can spot a bad Geordie accent on the telly a mile off. I can tell the difference in the north east accents, but my husband can't. By the way, I knew the Geordies would be no 1 😆.
Mind you deep in the west country, their accent is bad, you can't understand a word they're saying. To me it sounds like there's no spaces between their words, and they're mumbling.
Iam a Geordie and I wish I lived in Devon or Cornwall, after going on holiday to Devon and Corwall, I felt I was at home
I had a crash course in Cornish/Janner with my neigbour when we moved here years ago, laziest accent by a mile.
@@briancollins3071 I live in Somerset, it took me a while to settle, but I love it now. My Mam said, the people down here are so laid back, they're practically lying down 😆. I love Ladram Bay in Devon, it's beautiful.
@@Howay.Man.Angelica your so LUCKY Angelica, best wishes
@@Howay.Man.Angelica "so laid back, they're horizontal" is how we phrase it in australia :)
Liam Neeson speaks with a very soft Ulster accent, try listening to a Belfast or Ballymena accent to hear a more everyday version
Or Ian Paisley
Love your reactions as always my Wales guy, been a while since you tried out some Welsh maybe you should give it another go
Lol, the look on your face at the clip of _Bo Selecta_ at the end. 🤣
Without context it is abit of a nightmare of wtf is going on... wtf did i jst see.... lol
@@ikitclaw7146 That's why I found it funny lol, he's talking about something to do with accents, hits resume, and is confronted with what must seem utterly grotesque...at random!
Peaky blinders is amazing 👏🏻!! Would love a reaction to it 😄
Defo yes to Peaky Blinders, the best show in years 🥰
Thankyou for sharing.
Been watching you for a while dude,you have given me enough laughs now to deserve a sub!
I dated a girl from Kentucky; her dad was in the Hythe US Navy base in my village on the edge of Southampton water; I loved her accent; it was quite a challenge to get it right; after a while, my English accent started to lapse. I have to admit when in the company of heavy accents, I end up speaking the same; for example, when I was in Birmingham, a guy asked me where Sutton Coal field was, and I replied, "Grate ere intit mayt, sutton coal field is just over there, how am yah?" :-)
eye's frum samton , 'Amshuur , Inglun, as well ..... but the north devon is the kicker
@@christofferknight8567 Perfect accent, my Grandad (we used to call him Grampfer), sounded like a proper Hampshire Hog, he used to say "wasson then? " he was well known in Bartley & Cadnam (New Forest), he did anything for anyone. It is said he knocked out Britains Heavyweight champion Joe Beckett in the former Red Lion Pub car park in Totton
Silly straws take more material to manufacture, more processes during manufacturing to get the shape and due to the increased length working against gravity they're slightly harder to suck up liquids through, plus they're unnecessary compared to straight straws.
Basically anyway, not that I've used a silly straw in about 25 years
He's using the same straw he did twenty years ago, so there is an obvious case for sustainability. How many straight straws have that longevity?
I put mine in the dishwasher for a good clean and it came out looking like a shirt hanger.
Its in the name... "Silly" straw, its not meant to be serious... lol.. are these an american thing? i never saw one were i live in england, still havnt in over 30 years.
@@ikitclaw7146 UK West Midlands - we've bought them for children a few times during that period.
@@ikitclaw7146 You must live in a remote part of England because we have a drawer full from my daughters' youth 20+ years ago and we live in darkest rural Leicestershire "A straw, a straw my thirst for a straw"😂
Really enjoying the videos so far. Thank you! Would love to watch you try to decipher Scottish accents 😄
That last bit right at the end was from BO SELECTA, and that was exaggerated version’s off Antony Mcpartlin and Declan Donnelley also known as Ant & Dec
West Country is by far the hardest 🤣 it might as well be it’s own language hahaha
Is it? Just doing a pirate impression gets you close enough. Throw in a "my lover" at the end of your sentence and you're golden.
Each County down here has its own dialect language, then there’s dialects within dialects. It’s easy if your from here, hell if you’re a grockle.
Try going to Peterhead in Aberdeenshire. It is another language.
Doric just knocks it out the park even other scots can't understand them
A deep, old west country accent is the strongest and most difficult to understand. I used to spend every summer down there on a farm as a kid and I was lost listening to the old farmers talking. Nobody seems to speak like that in Devon any more.
@MrAarovic some Welsh kids in Monmouthshire have more of a west country twang than many young uns living down Devon. Language evolves I guess.
Your new tattoo should be the British Bulldog design like you have on one of your t-shirts! LOL!
Draped in a union flag.
It's a shame the clips of each accent were so short, but you really nailed that Welsh Town pronunciation!! 🤣🤣
I am a geordie and couldn't imagine living anywhere else in UK and very proud of my strong accent...we are a friendly bunch here and we have real trouble with automated service they just don't understand a word we say 🤣🤣 love to watch your channel.
I'm what would be called a wooly back, stuck in the middle of Sunderland and Newcastle. I have a twang of both accents but if I travel not even 5 mile in either direction the accent is different. Even my parents is different to mine they live near Castletown.
We stopped using bendy straws when it became our responsibility to wash them 🤣
Seriously though, this video shouldn’t be showing bad examples of accents because it could confuse anyone not from these shores 😁
But the actual Welsh language is different to what you’ll normally hear. It’s like Scottish or Irish Gaelic and is really only limited to communities where it’s spoken. What everyone else hears is English with a Welsh (or Scottish/Irish) accent. That long place name is Welsh language, not English. If you want, you can learn it by breaking it down into easy parts. But it’s definitely not easy. Go for it!
I imagine that a LOT of the variations are Remnants of when Gaelic was spoken in many areas . Interspersed with bits of the Nordic tongues .
That last bit with the weird masked guys was I believe a show called
Bo Selecta.
Check it out.
It's a British comedy show from the early 2000's.
It's on UA-cam.
UK.
10/9/2022
A few years ago, there was a trend for call centres to be based in the north (before most companies decided it would be cheaper to hire call centre staff overseas), which led to many call centre workers who spoke with a geordie accent. Being from Kent and speaking with a North Kent/RP mix accent, I felt so bad at having to constantly ask people to repeat themselves. But I genuinely could not understand the accent half the time, especially as the phone lines often had a hiss and a crackle to them.
Unfortunately I understood the old man's west country accent, possibly because I'm old & from the west country. However my grandparents spoke a language of their own, I can see it would be difficult if your a outsider!
Yep I’m from Gloucester, which some people definitely have that ‘farmer’ accent however if I venture over to Bristol some of the people sound as if they are speaking a totally different language🤣 and I’m told sometimes I say words like ‘cheups’ instead of chips even tho I’m sure some of my accent is more affected by my mum and grandparents who have Dudley accents 😂
I am from a farming area in Devon and could also understand the accent. I still have a slight westcountry accent, but live on the edge of the New Forest in Hampshire. I never tried to change my accent.
@@rachelpenny5165 I lived abroad for a few years & had to speak more clearly as people struggled to understand me, but back here again I thought I had a mild accent until I listened to a voice mail msg I'd made, lol was oi & arr, comic I suppose but I'm told closer to the original English of Shakespeare days, that's why his poems make sense in west country English.
@@remi9n3_45 Dudely accent is a very strong Warwickshire accent & strangely enough Norfolk seems to be similar to West country.
I'm not sure exactly where the boundaries are, Bicester is quite a west country accent, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, parts of Berkshire & Hampshire.
The funny thing is anywhere I travel in the west country nobody says, where you from? Go outside, say London & straight away, you get where are you from? Or wheres yer tractor? That's where the pirate accent comes from, it's west country English as well.
I'm from Bristol and I didn't understand anything he said.
For the tattoo. I like the idea of a heart that Has the flags merging into each other or the Welsh dragon outline with the rest of the flags inside it
Peaky Blinders is amazing!! Get it watched!
Northern Irish has to be the hardest, I worked on reception and someone called and I could literally not understand a single word, I had to pass on to a colleague who even pulled the squinting face trying to work out what was being said.
Btw why *do* we squint when listening hard? Lol it’s like our eyes want to help, on a phone, where you can’t see them…. 😅
I was born and raised in Northern Ireland and still have difficulty understanding some of my compatriots 😅
When I was at uni my best friend was from Northern Ireland, and one night she met a Scottish guy, however they got that drunk that neither of them could understand each other and I had to act as a mutual translator (English, from Derby)
Considering most people from Norn Ireland understand Scots, Ulster /Scots
Uhh, from NI here, went to uni in scotland and had no problem with accents from anywhere. Absolutely loved listening to shetlanders too.
@@georgejob2156 Aye, "most." I like a bit of Lallands mi' sell, like.
I find this hard to believe when ulster English and Scottish are closely related
One of the funniest things is listening to a scouser getting angry, because their voice gets higher and higher pitched as they're getting angry 😂
Black Country Dialect is, surprisingly, one of the oldest dialects in the UK. A lot of it is Saxon in origin. I love that you can “graunch” which is a wonderfully onomatopoeic way of saying “crunch and grind in a noisy way”. So, “if yo pair don’t stop graunching that suck, I’ll give you such a coghaiver!”. This translates to “If you two don’t stop noisily crunching those boiled sweets (hard candy to Americans), I’ll give you a slap that will rearrange your gears”.
My other favourite is “fair clemmed”. This means anything from “i’m cold”, to “I’m exhausted”, to “I’m starving hungry”, to “I’ve been out in the snow for 5 hours and I can’t feel my extremities”. It doesn’t matter the cause of the situation, if you’re a bit tired, overwhelmed and whatever, you’re “fair clemmed”.
Oh no the geordie accent can be undecipherable when they get going, my cousin married a geordie when I was about 9 and I was totally baffled but now nearly 40 years later I still can't understand lol but I love it 😀
As an Italian that grew up learning and practicing English with a US accent, I got quite the shock when I moved to the UK.
Glaswegian spoken by a local, quickly…..can be challenging to understand by an outsider. There are also distinct variations in a local dialect. For example. A voice from say, Sunderland is different from say Newcastle central. Look into an Ashington accent or a Bedlington accent and it’ll blow you away😂😂
Love your videos JT.
Hi JT I'm a Geordie and our accent changes from region to region. Love watching your videos much love xxxx
Street to street in my experience lol
@@daviddogsbody aye your right there David x
have a Manc(chester) accent and I have to soften it when I talk to foreign visitors, but I don't mind so much, it kinda makes them laugh 😄
The ScotsLanguageCentre UA-cam has a few videos on some of the Scottish accents. The British Library has several resources and clips to play on their website of the different accents from around the UK.
another couple of hard scottish accents would be Dorric (Aberdonian) and old Dundonian, of which there are at least a few vids with them floating around YT.
I was born and raised in the highlands so highlands english (soft with a lilt heading towards isles gaelic but very clear to most english speakers) . Loads of my family are originally from aberdeenshire and often at family gatherings translation was required lol
"What the hell was that?"
That was Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer pretending to be Ant and Dec.
It wasn't, it was Bo Selecta
I can fully understand Geordie😂 I think its surprising alot of people can't.
Funny when I went to London years ago people thought i was from Scotland or Wales or Ireland
@@markscouler2534 Geordie can sound similar to the Welsh accent at times.
In Scotland we had a Table of 24 County Cork Farmers in our Restaurant. I couldn’t understand most of them. Even although i went to Ireland about 4 times a year on Holiday. But i had never visited Cork. It was so strong.
I'm from Somerset (West Country) and don't have a thick wc accent, but some words I say end up sounding like it. I lived in a tiny village in Devon for a small time, and I saw this man walking his dog and wanted to know some good places to walk my dog, so asked him. He was an old guy and I couldn't understand a word he said because his accent was so thick. I just nodded, said thanks, and walked away. My dad was with me, I turned to him and said 'did you understand a word of that?' He was like 'Nope.'
omg your so close to 100k now your such a good soul
also an accent in a different part of the country can sound similar, an accent in the rural south east, countryside with a lot of farm land, can be similar to that of rural south west, devon/somerset, even though the rural south east is close to london, an accent from a londoner is very different from an accent of rural south east, and within london there are different accents..
Also JT, when you see Simon Pegg and Nick Frost dressed as coppers, that is a clip from Hot Fuzz which is a great film you should check out 👍🏽
Been watching you from the very beginning & honestly can't believe the changes in you as you get older.
I'm from wales uk & would love to see your reactions of some of our comedians such as LEE EVANS & JACK WHITEHALL
The clip at the very end is from a show called bo selecta. It's a funny show from the early 2000's i recommend checking it out
I'm from county Durham classed as a geordie. There are several regional geordies. In the toon (Newcastle up on Tyne) it's really thick. Get closer to Gateshead south west of Newcastle it drops a little. Durham is way milder. Then you get towards chestr-le-streed it's sing songy. Then you get to the makems in Sunderland which changes again then Darlington Middlesborough which changes again. People from other areas can not tell the difference but up here we can hear the regional variances in the accents over several villages and towns in the area and say ah yer a makem like. To someone from Sunderland for example.
I grew up in a small village in Derbyshire and it's a very unique accent with lots of sayings and random words you don't hear elsewhere in England and just up the road was Sheffield in South Yorkshire and it's totally different again
I live around 30 mins from Newcastle but even I sometime have to ask people to repeat themselves lol
I'm a Yorkshire man and I was talking to a bloke from Tipton near Birmingham. And when he said something I once didn't understand. I said can you please repeat that in English. We had laugh about what I said. Nice.
That was “Bo Selecta” one of my favourite shows every by Leigh Francis, also “Bo! in the USA.” 😂😂😂😂
I think it is great that for such a small country we have a myriad of accents. I'm A south Wales cross Mancunian man myself but can still understand the variations. Its the colloquialisms that make it difficult sometimes. Like Barms and muffins (it's a barm)
I'm Dutch and used to have trouble understanding any non-RP accent. Listening to the Toy Dolls foor nearly two decades has helped a lot in that regard.