British Girls React to Hardest UK Accents To Understand!!

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  • @tywco
    @tywco 2 роки тому +6813

    I remember two Scottish people asking me for directions (I think) in Portugal after they heard me speaking English. They’re probably still lost out there, twenty years later, confusing the hell outta people.

    • @multilingualsltty5267
      @multilingualsltty5267 2 роки тому +117

      😂😂😂

    • @myheartbroken1121
      @myheartbroken1121 2 роки тому +21

      Hi

    • @uliuchu4318
      @uliuchu4318 2 роки тому +153

      same experience in Berlin with an Irish guy. Didn't help that his Intoxication made him slur to no end. Hope you're still alive out there!

    • @lxportugal9343
      @lxportugal9343 2 роки тому +38

      Don't worry we understand Scottish... they are probably at home by now

    • @swissboleh2746
      @swissboleh2746 2 роки тому +3

      😂😂😂

  • @hugom5391
    @hugom5391 2 роки тому +3143

    As a foreign student in London I got depressed when almost a year trying to learn English I just couldn’t understand a word when I met an elderly Scottish man, I remember the feeling of failure, awful, but now watching these two British girls struggling to understand them I feel that it wasn’t really my fault 😂

    • @NazriB
      @NazriB 2 роки тому +55

      Lies again? The old man was just mumbling not moving his mouth properly to pronounce his sentences

    • @gggmoney77
      @gggmoney77 2 роки тому +95

      American English would probably be easier to understand lol

    • @philcollinson328
      @philcollinson328 2 роки тому +21

      Scots or Scottish, scotch is a drink.

    • @ElPayasoMalo
      @ElPayasoMalo 2 роки тому +10

      Scotland is like a third of the island of Britain.

    • @XXXTENTAClON227
      @XXXTENTAClON227 2 роки тому +3

      @@philcollinson328 Scotch-Irish is a thing though

  • @whukriede
    @whukriede 2 роки тому +3416

    I thought it was especially intelligent to play the voices, which were poorly recorded anyways, at a really low volume, put some music over them and then finally talk a lot at the same time. This made the exercise extra entertaining for us viewers, lol.

    • @iamironclaw
      @iamironclaw 2 роки тому +347

      I had the same reaction. I mean, I could maybe have understood more than I did, if I could just frickin' hear what they were saying, but yeah, shitty recording, stupid added music on top of it...

    • @frictyfranq321
      @frictyfranq321 2 роки тому +60

      At first I thought you were being sarcastic.

    • @psychosocialbadass7236
      @psychosocialbadass7236 2 роки тому +9

      I wouldn't understand even if was me..

    • @SansNeural
      @SansNeural 2 роки тому +77

      I especially enjoy the echo - like they're sitting in front of a white paper partition in a parking garage. No, wait, a little more confined space than that. A WWII bomb shelter?

    • @SmaugySpeedruns
      @SmaugySpeedruns 2 роки тому +12

      Same, i had to stop after skimming through 20sec over the first 2 parts where they play the video.

  • @clips9294
    @clips9294 Рік тому +483

    You did a horrible job with volume there

    • @kristofferv
      @kristofferv 4 місяці тому +39

      Yeah wtf also the music in top aswell

    • @AlexeyKhvatov
      @AlexeyKhvatov 3 місяці тому +4

      Perhaps the operator made it up on the spot after seeing the redhead's outfit - smart-ass ^_^

    • @MW-bs1nb
      @MW-bs1nb 2 місяці тому +1

      @@kristofferv yeah it even gets louder at the 2nd one wtf

    • @doctornova3015
      @doctornova3015 2 місяці тому +1

      not a very organized video.

    • @cubex2160
      @cubex2160 15 днів тому +1

      yea i think they were like "girls are pretty no need to actually hear the content on a video about accents right ?"

  • @Sasfoot
    @Sasfoot Рік тому +42

    I'm American but have watched alot of British programming over the years and can definitely tell that the girl in the light brown shirt does have a more northern accent. Some of her inflections and pronunciations are very similar to Christopher Eccleston. His northern accent was even mentioned during his one season on Doctor Who.

    • @VanDiemensLander
      @VanDiemensLander 11 місяців тому +5

      Haha make sense because Christopher Eccleston is from Lancashire, one of the accents she said that she has a mix of.

    • @Ned-Ryerson
      @Ned-Ryerson 9 місяців тому +2

      When she said "Lancashire" at the start, she had the typical north-western English nasal sound, it was quite amusing. It is a bit like trying to catch Tricia Helfer's Canadian underneath her Hollywood roles' standard North American.

  • @jesusfernando978
    @jesusfernando978 2 роки тому +968

    I am really satisfied to see that native english speakers also couldn't understand the old rifle man 😅. Thank you Girls

    • @thomsboys77
      @thomsboys77 2 роки тому +86

      Because his heavy accent was intentionally exaggerated for comedic effect in the film

    • @jesusfernando978
      @jesusfernando978 2 роки тому +7

      @@thomsboys77 hmmm got it. Do you understand his accent?

    • @mookiestewart3776
      @mookiestewart3776 2 роки тому +8

      Native speakers have rules too lol English has an insane amount of accents to understand but we have limits lol

    • @ianmontgomery7534
      @ianmontgomery7534 2 роки тому +3

      or that it was a shotgun not a rifle! he got you twice LOL.

    • @dougsmith3499
      @dougsmith3499 2 роки тому +18

      From the movie, that is why there were 3 police officers, 1 to translate the farmer, the second to translate the first, and the 3rd who actually knew what he was doing

  • @doaakhmer1119
    @doaakhmer1119 2 роки тому +473

    As an English learner, I fell great that I could understand those two British girls , also satisfied that even native speakers may not understand each other’s accents so it’s ok if I can’t 😂

    • @artemislogic5252
      @artemislogic5252 Рік тому +4

      yeah exactly

    • @theseangle
      @theseangle Рік тому +1

      You can't help but fall greatly right

    • @Merro959
      @Merro959 Рік тому +3

      I’m British and could only understand scouse. You’re doing great

    • @Jimmy_The_Kid
      @Jimmy_The_Kid Рік тому

      Feel*

    • @georgezee5173
      @georgezee5173 Рік тому +7

      I will always remembet when I had been to London for only a month (my first time in an English-speaking country), working as a bartender. This was a restaurant franchise, with 40+ venues. It was Christmas time, so they decided to bring people from head office (99% of them British, unlike the people who worked in the restaurants) to mingle with bartenders and waiters giving us a hand, as an "exchange experience". They put a 50 yo English lady that was very nice to me. At some point, a British man came to the counter asking for a cider. He was asking the English lady, and even though he had an accent (I think it was Cockney, but can't remember now), I could understand what he wanted due to context. She was totally cluelss, to the point she made the gentleaman ask like three times until I intervened and told her he wanted a cider LOL It was thanks to that incident that I started to feel more conformtable with English and understood that even between native speakers they don't understand each other some times, so I shouldn't feel stupid if I'm having a hard time with someone's accent.

  • @nickgermanic8505
    @nickgermanic8505 2 роки тому +1047

    I'm shocked that England, a tiny country that can be travelled in less than 15 hours from south to north, such tiny country can have so many different accents!

    • @Chris-uh7cw
      @Chris-uh7cw 2 роки тому +166

      15 hours? Were you on a pushbike ? 😁

    • @magicmulder
      @magicmulder Рік тому +1

      Sitch a toiney cuntray, innit?

    • @HYDROCARBON_XD
      @HYDROCARBON_XD Рік тому +87

      Netherlands:💀💀💀💀

    • @Dirantasy
      @Dirantasy Рік тому +90

      You'd be more shocked in the Netherlands then xD We even smaller and you can travel through in about 3 to 4 hours. Loads of accents.

    • @andreacantieri3364
      @andreacantieri3364 Рік тому +65

      I'm Italian, hold my beer

  • @janew6059
    @janew6059 Рік тому +214

    Sorry but no one’s gonna talk about how Emily is in fact NOT speaking Oxford 😂

    • @HannahCooper94
      @HannahCooper94 Рік тому +87

      I thought I was going crazy 😅 There is a standardised English accent there, but she sounds Eastern European.

    • @Йельчик
      @Йельчик 11 місяців тому +27

      @@HannahCooper94 sounds and looks

    • @phoenixrose1192
      @phoenixrose1192 11 місяців тому +6

      @@Йельчик Not really, if I couldn’t hear her, I would have thought she was English! 😂

    • @tarirai
      @tarirai 11 місяців тому +19

      Sounds East European defo!

    • @metehankanmaz8805
      @metehankanmaz8805 11 місяців тому +7

      @@ЙельчикNot really. There are tonnes of English people straight look like her.

  • @MightyFineMan
    @MightyFineMan Рік тому +75

    Saying “announce” is wrong for this. Announce is when you give a speech or message to a group, usually from a podium, a PA system, or other ways to give a message to a large group.
    “To Enunciate” is the proper term for this context.

  • @shangobunni5
    @shangobunni5 2 роки тому +143

    I was driving with a friend in the far north of Scotland in the early ‘90s. The narrow two-lane road we were on (which was the main road or highway) was closed ahead due to an accident and a police officer was telling the few cars that came along how to take a detour. He had an EXTREMELY thick accent with, I swear, a significant number of Gaelic words and phrases mixed in. The roads all wind around and are not marked very well with signs, so he was telling us to use landmarks (I think) to know where to turn. It was a complicated detour and this poor guy had to explain it to us 3 or 4 times with a lot of pointing and gestures. My friend and I were just staring at him, slack-jawed like, “Huuuhh?” the whole time. We finally thanked him and went on our way because we couldn’t ask him to explain it again. Still can’t believe we made it.

    • @gerald4013
      @gerald4013 2 роки тому +11

      If it were me I'd have asked him to speak Gaelic, because I understand Gaelic better than English with weird accents :-D But actually, Gaelic is now mainly used in the Hebrides, and in a few places in the Highlands.

    • @GM-tw4el
      @GM-tw4el 7 місяців тому +5

      The highland accent is extremely soft and easy to understand I think lol. The accent in the north east they call doric is really hard to understand though. Highland is easy in comparison to a working class Glasgow accent (which I have), a working class Dundee accent (really really hard), and the doric accent from the far north east. The western isles English accent is beautiful, it almost sounds Irish, but they have a wee twang to it that sounds like they're singing every word. I love it.

  • @robertkukuczka6946
    @robertkukuczka6946 2 роки тому +338

    When I first went to London in 1992 after 6 years of having studied English, when I asked one man for the way I did not understand a word of the answer, and I was afraid to ask again. Next time I dared to speak English with Polish accent and English people tried their best to make themselvs undestandable. :) Nowday I do not play pretending I am an English man.

    • @billyjean7169
      @billyjean7169 2 роки тому +3

      Lollllll

    • @Carrylane
      @Carrylane 2 роки тому +2

      Why exactly would you pretend? I have never

    • @shryggur
      @shryggur 2 роки тому +7

      @@Carrylane Fear of embarrassing yourself, the one that too many L2 learners know too well. Especially those who think that the only indicator of your knowledge is your ability to speak like a native at least

    • @Carrylane
      @Carrylane 2 роки тому +9

      @shryggur ok i also get embarrassed when i pronounce some words in English wrong, but that's how it is. I'm a bookworm i read so much stuff in English that i just translate the word but i don't hear the pronunciation.
      A wise one will correct u so that u will learn.
      That's how i see it 🤓

    • @bojo88
      @bojo88 Рік тому +13

      Lmao I did exactly the same thing when I went to France! I rehearsed my sentence so many times and finally asked, in my best French accent, where I could buy a stamp. I was horrified when the response came back like two chapters of War and Peace and I didn't understand a single word! The shop assistant took once look at my face and said, "English?" and I nodded sheepishly. She was very nice though and did tell me that my accent had been so good that she thought I was French which I thought was a lovely compliment! 😄

  • @jameswoodard4304
    @jameswoodard4304 2 роки тому +31

    As an American, I can say posh girl has more than a bit of generic American creeping in.

    • @stayhungry1503
      @stayhungry1503 7 місяців тому +6

      sadly yes...

    • @haroldcruz8550
      @haroldcruz8550 6 місяців тому +9

      Either she's been to the US recently, watched too many American movies, or are friends with Americans cause she sounds more American to me than 'English'

    • @EKL-qu7ih
      @EKL-qu7ih 5 місяців тому +5

      She's not got an English accent at all. She absolutely does not have Oxford English either. She sounds like she's been raised in eastern Europe somewhere first.

    • @notsorrywillneverbesorry
      @notsorrywillneverbesorry 11 днів тому

      @@EKL-qu7iheastern European? no she doesn't 🤣🤣

  • @oxyjen11
    @oxyjen11 Рік тому +16

    Honorable mention: South Wales Valleys accent. I spent some time in Wales years ago (as a foreign student) and noticed that one even left many native speakers absolutely confused by the end of a "conversation".

  • @User000-o5y
    @User000-o5y Рік тому +7

    did the ginger come to the uk from another country or live abroad? Her accent doesn’t sound like a regular Oxford one. 2:59 3:05 2:48 sometimes she slips up when she pronounces things. It sounds like her mother tongue could be Arabic or French Eastern European?

    • @-shayldn
      @-shayldn Рік тому +1

      thats what i thought

  • @spiderliliez
    @spiderliliez 2 роки тому +165

    When I was a kid, I was exposed to a lot of Scouse accent, because I was a big "Sporty Spice" fan, haha! I love this video. UK accents are soooo fascinating to me. I can easily copy American accents, but dang... the various UK accents are just so much more fun to hear, and yet so difficult to copy. 😅

    • @myspeakingmind4065
      @myspeakingmind4065 2 роки тому +1

      indeed😂

    • @mulkanmulkan5620
      @mulkanmulkan5620 Рік тому +1

      Standar american accent... can u copy american souther accent... 😆

    • @seandonohue6793
      @seandonohue6793 Рік тому

      Sporty Spice was born on the border Liverpool but grew up in Cheshire, which is not Liverpool. Cheshire typically only has a small Scouse twang.

    • @notgadot
      @notgadot 11 місяців тому +1

      @@mulkanmulkan5620 southern usa is basically british descent

    • @mcrichton46
      @mcrichton46 9 місяців тому

      Give the long and looow Loos-iana accent a go and see what you make of it

  • @asaris_
    @asaris_ 2 роки тому +46

    Aw man, now I have to remember that dude from Edinburgh I used to play MMOs with. He loved to talk to me but I couldn't stop giggling about his accent...
    That's so hard to understand for me (btw, I'm not a native speaker. I'm German. I've only been exposed to Oxford English at school).
    And it got worse when he was drunk. He then subconsciously switched to Scots. That sounded even more hilarious but I understood even less. You don't want to know how long it took me to figure out what was going on.
    (I know that's a bit off topic now, but once I asked him about his clan. It resulted in a three hour lecture ranging from the history, over associated clans and families, motto to tartans and famous members of his clan. He finished it with "And now that you know everything about my clan, what about yours?" Me: "You do remember I'm German, right?" He: "Yes, of course! And I know absolutely nothing about German clans, so I'm super excited to find out more." Me: "Uh... Sure... Here's everything you need to know about German clans: We don't have clans." He was genuinely shocked. It never occurred to him that clans don't exist everywhere... 🤣)

    • @hmu05366
      @hmu05366 Рік тому +3

      I’m sure he was probably being sarky mate, you’re German afterall therefore have a humour bypass. Patter is lost on ye

    • @artemislogic5252
      @artemislogic5252 Рік тому

      @@hmu05366 lmao

  • @WhatDayIsItTrumpDay
    @WhatDayIsItTrumpDay 2 роки тому +82

    Yes, you two made a great point about the huge variety of accents in the UK in that every village has their own accent. And you know why? Because of a lack of mass communication on at least a national level. And you'll notice accents are more differentiated or maybe spread across the older generations. It's because if you don't have access to nationally broadcast accents from like TV or radio back in the day, you're gonna get extremely localized accents.
    Same thing goes in the US as well, however because the US is the entertainment capital of the world, going back almost 100 years now, people have gotten accustomed to nationwide standardized accents or dialects. But again, the more localized accents are still more prevalent amongst the older generations. But for those who grew up with Cable/Satellite TV and the Internet are quickly losing their local accents because there's what we call American Broadcast Standard accent that every nationally syndicated program uses whether it comes from L.A., Chicago, Atlanta, or New York. I included Atlanta because it's becoming Hollywood East. A lot of TV and movies are now shot in Georgia. But anyway yeah, I would say Gen X'ers and younger Gens will all roughly speak the same accent within the next 10 years all across the country. If not sooner.
    And you'll probably see that in the UK as well. The Internet is probably your greatest equalizer when it comes to exposure to a standardized Queens English accent. Because as you saw, all those samples of hard to understand British accents were from Boomers.

    • @nickgermanic8505
      @nickgermanic8505 2 роки тому

      Brilliant Mr Molinarolo.

    • @poppinc8145
      @poppinc8145 Рік тому +3

      Spot on. It goes even further. The Bible or any other similar book in a single language and dialect was used to standardize a language in a given area because everyone was reading the same book using the same spelling and grammar. Later national radio and TV played that role. Most importantly it's public schooling that standardizes language and lingua-franca. Look at Italy which has dozens of languages (so-called dialects) but across the 20th century they've slowly become accustomed to knowing "Italian" as L1 or L2. Most Italian emigrants to the Americas didn't speak "Italian" but only their regional languages.

    • @WhatDayIsItTrumpDay
      @WhatDayIsItTrumpDay Рік тому

      @poppinc8145 yeah, good point about books, like the Bible, in helping at standardizing language. Never thought of that, but yeah, excellent point, but written text doesn't help with pronunciation. At least not 100%. Hell, with the Ukraine War, with trying to learn Slavic language pronunciation rules, it's insane on hiwn many people who report on the war can't seem to agree on how to pronounce these Ukrainian town names.

    • @poppinc8145
      @poppinc8145 Рік тому

      @@WhatDayIsItTrumpDay That's why I specifically left out pronunciation but mentioned grammar.
      As for Ukrainian, not that I'm an expert but I'm pretty sure the difference you're talking about is the difference in Russian vs Ukrainian pronunciation rather than differences within Ukrainian. Russian doesn't have an H-sounding letter. It's substituted with the hard G-sounding Russian letter which is *Г* (or the Kh-sounding letter which is *X* in some cases) whereas Ukrainian pronounces *Г* as an H while having a completely separate letter for a hard G which is *Ґ* (e.g. Good/Gang). It's actually pretty straight forward.
      Long story short: Russia uses G and Ukrainian uses H in most of these names.

    • @itseveryday8600
      @itseveryday8600 7 місяців тому

      This is the case in Japan as well.

  • @stefanicooper7644
    @stefanicooper7644 Рік тому +30

    The Oxford woman has quite a strange accent, slightly American? In any case, it’s ‘enunciate’ not ‘announce’!

  • @bhaskarkashyap4998
    @bhaskarkashyap4998 Місяць тому +32

    0:10 never gets old 😂

  • @rizaldiaulia7496
    @rizaldiaulia7496 2 роки тому +20

    the scouse accent to my Southeast Asian ears sounds like the softer version of Scottish accent, suddenly reminding me of my Scottish english teacher back then.

  • @henri191
    @henri191 2 роки тому +167

    I can see that both girls may be from UK 🇬🇧, but their accents are different , Lauren did a video with accents before with Callie 🇺🇸 and the hardest was the Cockney accent , i'm used to hear more accent from US 🇺🇸 because of TV shows and movies , but I absolutely love the UK accents

    • @deutschmitpurple2918
      @deutschmitpurple2918 2 роки тому +2

      I totally agree with you 🥰🥰

    • @fernandolora1905
      @fernandolora1905 2 роки тому +1

      Man youre everywhere 😅

    • @dutchgamer842
      @dutchgamer842 2 роки тому +4

      In every country there are several accents

    • @startersheep821
      @startersheep821 2 роки тому +8

      @@dutchgamer842 Exacly, like for example China has many different accents, like Beijing accent etc, but I think all accents are awesome :D

    • @NicholasJH96
      @NicholasJH96 2 роки тому +5

      @@startersheep821 China is a much bigger country than the UK & people are usually surprised how many accents there are in the uk in such a small space South Korea is actually bigger than Wales & I said so you can see how small one part of the uk is.

  • @ShinmenTakezo1234
    @ShinmenTakezo1234 2 роки тому +4

    This is very refreshing somehow, seeing two women focusing on a conversation in English and then one says Ok, I'm getting it. So much refreshing~~

  • @valerijavolosciuk3181
    @valerijavolosciuk3181 Рік тому +11

    After five years of living in the UK I'm still often have a situations, when people talk to me and I'm like "could you say it again...pleeease?" It's actually a relief even locals sometimes struggling to understand each other🙈 Makes me believe I'm not so bad in mastering English😅

  • @guillermone1
    @guillermone1 Рік тому +18

    It's amazing to see that for such a small country the great variety of accents. The US is so much bigger, but the regional variations are not many, and most of the accents are pretty much comprehensible.

    • @briansmith48
      @briansmith48 Рік тому +3

      I think that's because of modern technology. Before the radio, television and movies.
      I'm sure that each region had it's own dialect.
      🇺🇲

    • @LionXV1
      @LionXV1 Рік тому +2

      @@briansmith48 you're right about that but they wouldn't have been as unqiue or varied as in the UK mainly because people haven't been settled for anywhere near as long. In the UK you can get a unique accents every 30-50 miles, but this is also diminishing as a result of technology. Appalachia is a good example of a settled American accent as they've been isolated up in the mountains for centuries. Louisiana likewise with the French being isolated in the swamplands. Minnesota had a unique accent too as a result of the large Scandinavian immigration.

    • @poppinc8145
      @poppinc8145 Рік тому

      @@LionXV1 The UK's longer history is largely irrelevant because prior to Modern English, it was a completely different language called Middle English and before it Old English. They're not mutually intelligible anyways. These regional accents didn't independently develop from Old and Middle. They're all based on a quasi-standardized Modern English (itself evolved from Middle) that further diverted into regional variations of ME. The first reply is largely spot on.

    • @LionXV1
      @LionXV1 Рік тому +3

      @@poppinc8145 It's not just about the longer history it's about the settling of peoples, Britain's longer history means people have been settled in regions for significantly longer than in America where people moved and resettled regularly thus preventing enough time for the creation of as many unique regional accents.

    • @haroldcruz8550
      @haroldcruz8550 6 місяців тому +1

      In terms distance you're right, but US accents do vary as much as the Brits if you've been on different states

  • @NarsFromMars
    @NarsFromMars 2 роки тому +19

    Iran here. I did Translation Studies at uni. Over here people show clips from random parts of the UK/US, and if you miss 1 single word they'd go "so what the hell have you learnt at uni?!"

    • @jones.8004
      @jones.8004 7 місяців тому +2

      This is the bane of every language learner/student 😂😢 I was studying German at uni and my uncle learns this one word, very obscure, and him misprouncing the word BADLY. He then berates me me for not knowing the language because I dont know ONE obscure word.

    • @DerEchteBold
      @DerEchteBold 5 місяців тому

      @@jones.8004
      Haha, do you remember the word?

  • @pepsimax8078
    @pepsimax8078 2 роки тому +125

    Just a comment:would be a bit easier to try and understand it myself, if there was no music when the videos play, and also that the audio of the videos were a bit louder 😅
    But really did love the video!

  • @guillermogonzalezlavin4613
    @guillermogonzalezlavin4613 2 роки тому +62

    I'm from Spain, I love your beautiful language, and makes me feel better that when for you it's hard to understand many accents, I thought it was only me for not having lived abroad! Thank you thank you

    • @holliswilliams8426
      @holliswilliams8426 2 роки тому +3

      If it's any consolation I studied Spanish and found it difficult to understand a lot of South American accents.

    • @DavidAlvarez-he6sd
      @DavidAlvarez-he6sd 2 роки тому +7

      @@holliswilliams8426 But even so South Americans accents are more understandable than these english ones.

    • @thomsboys77
      @thomsboys77 2 роки тому

      @@DavidAlvarez-he6sd No

    • @everyojaniromerosifuentes5612
      @everyojaniromerosifuentes5612 2 роки тому +1

      @@thomsboys77 SI

    • @oscaralegre3683
      @oscaralegre3683 Рік тому

      @@DavidAlvarez-he6sd latin american spanish is better than spaniard spanish. 100% proven

  • @ahorrell
    @ahorrell Рік тому +9

    I'm glad they got to hear the voices, cos I sure couldn't.

  • @soomascorner
    @soomascorner 10 місяців тому +133

    The girl on the left does not have a queens English accent. I don’t know who lied to her. 🤨

    • @SusanaXpeace2u
      @SusanaXpeace2u 6 місяців тому +28

      I was thinking the same. She sounds like she's acting. I heard Irish, I heard American. They're trolling us.

    • @deadinsect
      @deadinsect 6 місяців тому +44

      (I am english) the baseline of her accent is definitely generic middle class / slightly posh south-of-England, but she has picked up a lot of American intonations/sounds "cool bored valley girl" on her phrases either from movies, or hanging out with international english speakers maybe. Some people pick up weird accent inflections quickly from whoever they're hanging around with.

    • @askherbs
      @askherbs 5 місяців тому +20

      I just hear American with just a tinge of British accent.

    • @ThisGuyAd.
      @ThisGuyAd. 5 місяців тому +12

      Shes has a bit of a broken flow to her speech, I would have wondered if she speaks another language fluently too.

    • @almightyyt2101
      @almightyyt2101 5 місяців тому

      This must be a catty comment from the js - she is beauti5and has a kinda posh accent - theres a Bristol near me, In NY

  • @henri191
    @henri191 2 роки тому +137

    Emily didn't appear on the channel for a long time, I mean a really long time 😅, April 18, 2021 was her last appearance, a year and four months ago.🤔 , World Friends didn't even have 150k subscribers 😂

  • @Vacheron7
    @Vacheron7 2 роки тому +28

    Fun Fact. The actor who plays the Geordie porter Michael in Alan Partridge (Simon Greenall) is actually from the Scottish Borders, but as a Geordie myself, it's one of the best Geordie impersonations I've ever heard.
    The part where he sits on his steak and kiney pie at Alans party still cracks me up to this day!

    • @Blaydoner
      @Blaydoner Рік тому

      Really? I'm a Geordie nd can hardly understand him, it's more scottish than Geordie, saying "aboot" and a few other geordie words doesn't make it good 🤣 one if the worst I've seen personally.

    • @philcollinson328
      @philcollinson328 Рік тому +2

      I'm from Durham and agree his accent was perfect Jarrow speak :D

    • @thegrinderman1090
      @thegrinderman1090 Рік тому

      He also voices Aleksandr Orlov, the meercat from the Compare The Market adverts!

  • @pandamanda5606
    @pandamanda5606 2 роки тому +73

    Emily doesn't sound totally RP. She definitely has a twang to her accent that isn't from the UK. Her accent sounds to me like she grew up around ESOL speakers, or English speakers from outside Britain.

    • @craigsb92
      @craigsb92 2 роки тому +31

      Yeh she doesn’t sound like she’s from the UK at all to me

    • @Sirusholuvyou
      @Sirusholuvyou 2 роки тому +3

      Agree!

    • @mimi.94x
      @mimi.94x 2 роки тому +11

      I don't know why she said she had a RP accent because you can tell she isn't from the UK...I'm confused 😩

    • @amyw6808
      @amyw6808 2 роки тому +4

      Totally agree. There’s definitely something else there. Maybe she lived in another country for a while?

    • @tkegs6492
      @tkegs6492 2 роки тому +18

      I 10000% agree! I’m from the UK. Up north. She sounds so Eastern European to me lmao

  • @ravivyas7532
    @ravivyas7532 Рік тому +4

    2:35 They were talking about the stems of the leaf, back in the they might be using leaves as toilet paper

  • @lolatana
    @lolatana Рік тому +5

    I'm a French person living in a black country for 13 years. Can you imagine the state of my accent? Lol, I swear, now everyone I speak to thinks I am from a Slavic country. Even when I go to France, they ask me where I am from.

  • @purplestringsmariamichelac3391
    @purplestringsmariamichelac3391 2 роки тому +48

    Gosh, thanks for this. It's such a relief to learn that you also might not understand each other at times 😁

    • @inoox
      @inoox 2 роки тому +5

      Not really, we do. Most of these clips are from tv shows with exaggerated accents where youre not supposed to understand or the audio was too quiet.

    • @purplestringsmariamichelac3391
      @purplestringsmariamichelac3391 2 роки тому +3

      @@inoox 🤣🤣 right, I'm back to earth from planet Relief

  • @mickybricks1113
    @mickybricks1113 2 роки тому +6

    6:12 its a scene from a film called hot Fuzz. The point is that you're not supposed to understand what the guy in the hat is saying and the guys in the left and right of the other angle are translating what's being said

    • @Big_B_Wolf
      @Big_B_Wolf 4 місяці тому

      Hot fuzz? Thanks a bunch

  • @88marome
    @88marome 2 роки тому +17

    Imagine an accident or something equally serious that you have to convey but everyone is just laughing at your cute, funny accent😭🤣

  • @nocturnalwolf7559
    @nocturnalwolf7559 Рік тому +39

    To the sound engineer/editor, we can't hear anything

  • @michaelsalmon9832
    @michaelsalmon9832 Рік тому +13

    girl on the left sounds like 5% eastern european

    • @Spikee2013
      @Spikee2013 4 місяці тому +2

      i'm pretty sure she was born in Russia or Ukraine ..maybe Bulgaria

  • @IntelligentAtheism
    @IntelligentAtheism 2 роки тому +68

    Wow. British accents can be very complicated. I think American accents don't get that hard.

    • @deutschmitpurple2918
      @deutschmitpurple2918 2 роки тому +6

      True, my friend.

    • @grzegorzg447
      @grzegorzg447 2 роки тому +6

      they do

    • @anndeecosita3586
      @anndeecosita3586 2 роки тому +7

      I’m American and I struggle understanding some American accents. One that comes to mind is Cajun. A lot of times I have no idea what they’re saying or can’t discern if it’s English they’re speaking. Most of my younger Cajun friends are the type to switch up for outsiders. There is a movie called Water Boy where the joke is no one can understand anything the Cajun guy says. Also in some deep South rural areas of like the Appalachian Mountains or the Low Country I can’t understand especially most older people because they tend not to enunciate. You kind of have to try to get the gist of what they’re saying.

    • @tonycrayford3893
      @tonycrayford3893 2 роки тому +1

      @@anndeecosita3586 I thought Cajun was its own dialect.

    • @Sadedits1888
      @Sadedits1888 Рік тому +1

      There is only one accent in the whole USA

  • @RexFuturi
    @RexFuturi 2 роки тому +12

    I'll be honest, as a Midwestern American, for most of these I just blinked and gave up.

  • @travellolo
    @travellolo 2 роки тому +46

    It always amazes me that such a small country can produce so many accents. Your whole country fits in California.

    • @keyos1955
      @keyos1955 Рік тому +2

      Like 10 accent, lol? You have never been in Europe, I suppose

    • @emaan05
      @emaan05 Рік тому +5

      More than 10, one city can have so many different accents.

    • @Rawan-sl1ms
      @Rawan-sl1ms Рік тому +7

      if youre american it only seems like a lot bc your country is too young to form more than a few

    • @stephenhaw9177
      @stephenhaw9177 Рік тому +4

      @@keyos1955 10 accents? What? From where I live I can drive 5 miles in different directions alone and get 4 stark opposite accents, so not sure how you’ve managed to generalise the entire country to 10 😕

    • @Calgac
      @Calgac Рік тому +1

      @@keyos1955 10 accents😂😂 try 100 times that mate

  • @prashantmishra1994
    @prashantmishra1994 Рік тому +3

    His Emily and Lauren! A beautiful lesson because you both explained the beauty of the UK in respect of different acents.
    Thanks & regards.

  • @Lisaaaaaaq
    @Lisaaaaaaq 11 місяців тому +24

    The girl on the left probably lives in the UK but I think she's not English or British. Her accent is definitely not standard Oxford/ English accent. Nothing wrong with that but just stating a fact. She could be bilingual too and switches between two accents. It's pretty common for immigrant kids. That's what I do 🙂

  • @01revolutionishere
    @01revolutionishere 2 роки тому +32

    Emily has so much personality... she's perfect...the most beautiful girl on world friends I've ever seen❤️

    • @Stupha_Kinpendous
      @Stupha_Kinpendous 2 роки тому +2

      Amen. Total smoke-show.

    • @CorvusCorone68
      @CorvusCorone68 2 роки тому +1

      sometimes the term personality is used as a euphemism

    • @mohicantheluststar2550
      @mohicantheluststar2550 2 роки тому

      U should be going out of ur moms basement so often my friend

    • @01revolutionishere
      @01revolutionishere 2 роки тому

      @@mohicantheluststar2550 lolololololo u should join IQ classes often my friend

  • @danutorr
    @danutorr 2 роки тому +23

    The sound editing here is pretty bad. Can barely hear the videos they're reacting to and i think the little we can hear is coming from their mics. You guys should probably re-edit and re-upload

    • @CrisOnTheInternet
      @CrisOnTheInternet 2 роки тому +1

      yeah, defeats the purpose of the video if the audience don't get the whole content.

    • @fordhouse8b
      @fordhouse8b 2 роки тому +1

      Yes, the accents they are listening too should be louder to us, the audience, then the voices of the reactors.

    • @ELeviathan33
      @ELeviathan33 9 місяців тому

      I had to scroll so far to see this kind of comment, it's crazy, I can't understand almost ANYTHING just because...the sound is awful.
      All of the audio has echo on it, even the clips that were added on, and then they place music OVER it all....YUCK

  • @tzmcneill
    @tzmcneill 2 роки тому +28

    You need to do one with American, Canadian, and Australian accents. I wonder what you’d find most difficult, an accent from rural Maine, or Nova Scotia, maybe the mountains of West Virginia or Tennessee. Actually, you’d probably become utterly confused with a Cajun accent from Louisiana.

    • @shangobunni5
      @shangobunni5 2 роки тому +5

      Yeah, Cajun would be great.

    • @ianmontgomery7534
      @ianmontgomery7534 2 роки тому +6

      with Australia you would have more of a problem with slang and idioms rather than straight out accents (some a very broad though)

    • @BumblebeeTuna8
      @BumblebeeTuna8 2 роки тому +3

      As an American dealing with Aussies from time to time, I had no trouble understanding them or Canadians. Scottish and Irish Accents were the hardest to understand for me. Cajun Accent is just a French North American Country Person trying to speak English.

    • @allewis4008
      @allewis4008 Рік тому

      ​@@ianmontgomery7534Same with East Coast Canada, a lot of slang with an Irish lilt.

  • @drgippy
    @drgippy Рік тому +3

    At 3:11, when the woman says "announce" or "annunciation", I'm guessing she means "pronounce" and "pronunciation", right? Unless somehow the British meaning of "announce" and "annunciation" is different from that of North America

  • @lemagreengreen
    @lemagreengreen Рік тому +5

    Their own accents are wild, like posh Southern-English/American hybrids.

    • @tylersmith3139
      @tylersmith3139 6 місяців тому

      The one on the left yes, but the one on the right has a general Northwest English accent.
      A lot of Englishmen have lived in the US for a bit or have been around a lot of Americans, especially if they're actors so it results in this mixed accent.

  • @scifyry
    @scifyry 2 роки тому +7

    When I served in the Marines ( U.S.), I trained with British Marines once but couldn't understand most of what they said. I've spoken to other British people since then with no issues other than names for items, places, etc. The Marines I trained with were from Newcastle. Is that area known for its strong dialect?

    • @Bella-fz9fy
      @Bella-fz9fy 2 роки тому +5

      Yes,Geordie.

    • @darrenjones1413
      @darrenjones1413 Рік тому +2

      Ye geordies basically Newcastle is northern England close to the Scottish border. More of a working class area famous geordie online is true geordie podcast type thing he has interviews with top boxers celebs on ytube

  • @silverhawk911
    @silverhawk911 2 роки тому +24

    I find that the pure Northen accent can be alittle bit difficult to understand (especially people from Liverpool or the Scottish accent) at first. However, being a supporter of Liverpool FC, I kind of gotten used to hearing it. Former Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher speaks English with a very strong scouse accent.

    • @GermanTaffer
      @GermanTaffer 2 роки тому +1

      I agree . I got desperate in Liverpool.

  • @fasteddie406
    @fasteddie406 2 роки тому +10

    Question to Lauren, have you soften your accent since you moved abroad?? if so when you return home do you notice the difference to family and friends and do you pick up you accent after a few days back home??

  • @OrthodoxPole81
    @OrthodoxPole81 11 місяців тому +1

    I'm an American but I grew up listening to shows of people from the British Isles as well as watching some old BBC shows. I love Scouce as well as the Essex accent. Funny enough, I encountered a gentleman from Glasgow and I was able to understand most of what he said. I basically slowed down my brain and concentrated enough to the point where I was able to get quite conversational with him.

  • @squirrel8161
    @squirrel8161 10 місяців тому +4

    I speak RP English with a slight posh accent, the redhead doesn’t sound RP at all. Her accent sounds like a mix of lots of things, at first I heard Irish in there.

  • @shadevp8924
    @shadevp8924 Рік тому +10

    With English as my foreign language, I was once in UK and managed to understand everything without sufficient difficulties. Both in London (we spend dozens of hours walking and enjoying the views and sightseeing) and in Cardiff (there I was even able to impress my colleagues by being able to read the signs in Welsh since I had some knowledge of the lingo due to my specializing in Arthurian literature). Can't boast that I managed to grasp 100% of what's been said at all times but still, generally I had no issues with communication. Till I meat a guy on a buss from Wales back to London. I just wasn't able to understand a thing he was saying... And it wasn't in some comical manner that old actor in the movie scene was slurring. The guy just had such heavy accent and was talking fast that I was completely baffled.

    • @notgadot
      @notgadot 11 місяців тому

      *specialiSing

  • @annabergman1166
    @annabergman1166 2 роки тому +7

    Some parts of Sweden have diverged so much from swedish that they're basically talking a different language. I assume that's a common occurrence around the world. But it's funny when two people with the same mother language don't understand each other and they argue about who's talking incomprehensibly

    • @magicmulder
      @magicmulder Рік тому +1

      Low German is also mostly incomprehensible to people from other parts of the country. It’s closer to Dutch.

    • @voidseeker4394
      @voidseeker4394 Рік тому +2

      I think it's not the divergence, it's actually the opposite: the local accents come from the old times, when most people stayed at their villages and towns and rarely traveled anywhere. So local dialects evolved in parallel instead of merging and spreading to the whole nation. This is why US accents are not that different, as USA is a young country and nation and settlers were mixed up more evenly, so dialects of settlers were able merge more evenly.

  • @metal_hobbit
    @metal_hobbit 6 місяців тому +2

    Was the video clip audio recorded from computer speakers with a shotgun mic? It's hard to hear clearly.

  • @osys7832
    @osys7832 Рік тому

    This video is a huge relief for me, thx to you, I'm not afraid of the UK anymore. Event British people doesn't understand accents LOL

  • @78nailbomb
    @78nailbomb 2 роки тому +30

    I had 2 Englishmen from a sister plant visiting my workplace about 15 years back. I don't know which part of UK they were from but they had very thick accent. 1st they asked my buddy and me if we spoke English. We said yes, but what came next was like ducks speaking to chickens. We managed to get through the convo but at the end I had to ask my buddy if they were even speaking English.🤣🤣🤣
    Edit: We are Southeast Asians.

    • @richardreinertson1335
      @richardreinertson1335 2 роки тому +2

      Indians speak English also, but with a very thick accent compared to standard UK and American pronunciation. And for Indians, their version of English is "standard." All Indians speak with that accent. That is THEIR version of English. So for Southeast Asians...yeah, probably similar, I would guess. So I am guessing that is why you had difficulty understanding the two Englishmen from the UK. They were probably speaking in a fairly standard UK accent, but the Southeast Asian version of English is different. Just my guess...I could be wrong. I have spoken to a LOT of Indians in English, and I usually find it difficult to understand their accents. However I'm better at understanding them than a lot of other Americans I know.

  • @zenpapyrus
    @zenpapyrus 2 роки тому +8

    GLASWEGIAN OLD GUY
    "well its very hard to bring out me mind.
    this is the thing.
    it's alryt, alright, he's ours. there's no point.
    ian hart, he is ours.
    you understand?"
    i think he's talking about Scottish football. Most likely glasgow football club rangers director ian hart, or less likely the football club hearts. Rangers are 1 of two top teams in Scotland that everyone supports. other being celtic.
    he's abbreviating the sentence and cutting it short, by using context of the topic to make her fill in the blanks. so without knowing the topic it's harder to understand what he said.

  • @01ivi3r
    @01ivi3r 2 роки тому +26

    Your normal accents may well be London/Oxford & Scouse/Lancashire but they've become international (almost Americanised) British English.

    • @MrsLizziee
      @MrsLizziee 2 роки тому +6

      British english? You mean english accents? Because "british" is not just England.

    • @liamsohal-griffiths1094
      @liamsohal-griffiths1094 2 роки тому +6

      In some places their accents were noticably Americanised. This made me wonder whether they even realise this themselves. I'd imagine it's because they're both UA-camrs and probably consume lots of social media on a daily basis.

    • @01ivi3r
      @01ivi3r 2 роки тому +2

      @@liamsohal-griffiths1094 I think it's more down to how much they absorb from their peers. They seem an international group based in Korea, so there are probably some Americans among them. Also regional British accents can be difficult for non-native English speakers to follow sometimes, so Brits living abroad after a while tend to neutralise to be easily understood.

    • @01ivi3r
      @01ivi3r 2 роки тому +2

      @@MrsLizziee I'm well aware that within the UK there are different accents, but I specifically said an "internationalised British English".

    • @samdaniels2
      @samdaniels2 Рік тому +1

      @@01ivi3r Yeah just to be clear; Britain is not the UK, the UK is Britain plus N.Ireland

  • @cinthialemos7578
    @cinthialemos7578 Рік тому +2

    I went to scotland this year and took a taxi with a very caring driver in glascow. He was explaning to me that he was trying to improve his accent to be more understandable to non english speakers - as me - and in the final I understood just this piece of information 😂 but I really appreciate his effort to talk to me, tho

  • @DieBlutigeLynn
    @DieBlutigeLynn Рік тому +4

    I love Lauren in this video, I find her really pleasant and fun to listen to! :) I would be happy to see more videos with her and Emily.

  • @ish4638
    @ish4638 2 роки тому +9

    A lot of Scottish people do speak a different language: it's called Scots, and it's officially separate from English.

    • @gerald4013
      @gerald4013 2 роки тому

      + 57,000 speak Gaelic, mainly in the Hebrides. Mur a bheil ach Beurla agad, cha tuigeadh tu facal sam bith.

    • @rachelcookie321
      @rachelcookie321 Рік тому

      The vast majority of Scottish people can only speak English though. Most Scottish people don’t know Scots.

  • @tkegs6492
    @tkegs6492 2 роки тому +8

    Ok that girl does not have a standard Oxford English accent. Not the queens English. Confused.

  • @binxbolling
    @binxbolling 10 місяців тому +6

    Emily remains the most condescending person on this channel.

  • @arisamone
    @arisamone 4 місяці тому +1

    I like to tell people their celebrity/famous people lookalikes.
    The person on the right looks like Astrid S, a Norwegian singer.
    The person on the left looks like the redhead in Riverdale.

  • @Charl_es19
    @Charl_es19 2 роки тому +18

    Lauren is from Liverpool , good , as a football fan I know about this city 'cause of the team , one of the greatest in UK and Europe , i know that The Beatles were from Liverpool , but i like more the team

    • @heidi_bavarian1725
      @heidi_bavarian1725 2 роки тому

      England has the best football is why is they have best singing to

    • @Neo-Reloaded
      @Neo-Reloaded 2 роки тому +2

      One of the greatest in history. It seems you haven't been reading the news of the premier league.

    • @dutchgamer842
      @dutchgamer842 2 роки тому

      UK and Europe? The UK is in Europe

    • @Charl_es19
      @Charl_es19 2 роки тому +2

      @@dutchgamer842 Europe as a whole , many football teams in Europe and Liverpool is big in UK and in Europe , it's not like Zenit from Russia , it's just big in Russia and nothing more 😑

    • @dutchgamer842
      @dutchgamer842 2 роки тому

      @@Charl_es19 It is not in UK&Europe. Since the UK is in Europe, the UK is part of the European continent. Russia doesn't have to do anything with this at all, yes it's also in Europe and it's part of Asia as well, it just doesn't have to do anything with it at all.

  • @cigh7445
    @cigh7445 2 роки тому +6

    This video should have been called 'Middle Class British Girls Laugh about and look down on regional, rural and working class dialects'.
    This attitude exists all over Britain and Ireland, where middle class cosmopolitan people view any variation from the middle class standard of their countries capital city as 'quaint' or 'funny'.
    It's a very subtle demonstration of class bias and unconscious disassociation from ones own region in favour of either the perceived higher status supraregional standard (which typically comes from the capital city) or in favour of widely recognised 'global' features (North American features, basically). Often this results in a mix, though most commonly the dialect of the 'standard' is taken on wholesale

    • @cigh7445
      @cigh7445 2 роки тому +3

      @SomeoneOnlyWeKnow Well yeah, on the surface it's just two people having a bit of harmless fun, that's how they see it and that's how most viewers will see it.
      But ask yourself, why is (to pick a random example) a traditional non-standardised Cornish dialect (now almost exclusively spoken by older men) 'funny', whereas the way these women speak is 'normal'?
      Trying to answer that question opens the door to theories of languages relation to prestige, power, marginalisation, change, the relation of the centre with the peripheries. Have you read Pierre Bourdieu's Language and Symbolic power for example? The centralisation of power in one area among certain social classes has been leading to the marginalisation and homogenisation of regional dialects for the last few centuries, especially now that populations are more mobile and fluid and there's widespread access to media.

    • @katec9893
      @katec9893 10 місяців тому

      ​@@cigh7445Well said, I totally agree with you! I thought this video was awful. Emily doesn't even sound English, she makes vocabulary errors yet seems to think she's superior to native Brits with wonderful regional accents.

  • @albertoaguayo4607
    @albertoaguayo4607 Рік тому +12

    Still remember my b2 speaking exam. Was funny because I was with my partner in the hall waiting for our examinators to call us and, meanwhile, they were talking to each other and we couldn't understand any word they said. This completely changed the moment we arrived, though. That came across to me as such a different language.

  • @DP-hy4vh
    @DP-hy4vh 4 місяці тому

    5:53 - Walder Frey from Game Of Thrones. Recognize that deep, growly voice anywhere.

  • @BlueberrySummertime
    @BlueberrySummertime 2 роки тому +26

    Emily doesn’t sound British to me; she sounds like she has a foreign accent and is speaking in English… I’m from East London so maybe that’s why but I have lots of family in Oxford so..;

    • @anndeecosita3586
      @anndeecosita3586 2 роки тому +6

      It could be from living overseas for awhile. Some of the Americans who’ve appeared on here have sounded non-American to varying degrees.

    • @mavsworld1733
      @mavsworld1733 2 роки тому +3

      Emily said an Oxford accent, but I think she was saying that to refer to RP, as given that she says she lived right next to Bristol and the West Country, she could be from Bath (I don't think someone from Oxford would say they pretty much live next to Bristol, and someone from Bath would be familiar with West Country farmers). I could be completely wrong of course, but I'm from Bath and she sounds pretty normal to me, just with a slight twang from probably spending a lot of time with Americans.

    • @NightOfCrystals
      @NightOfCrystals 2 роки тому +3

      I agree completely @marie Francis I’m from the US but my stepmother and her side of my family (English) speak with accents that are close to RP and Emily’s accent is not a standard RP/Oxford accent by any means - it sounds like she speaks British English as a foreign language at a very advanced level or minimally that she speaks other languages too that influence how she speaks. Were I pressed to guess, I would say Hebrew, Romanian, or maybe Danish.

    • @lukespooky
      @lukespooky 2 роки тому +3

      sounds a bit eastern european to me

    • @fordhouse8b
      @fordhouse8b 2 роки тому

      I think she is British-Brazilian, and reportedly speaks 7 languages.Glaswegian not among them.

  • @cr9153
    @cr9153 2 роки тому +7

    The people with the accents in Hot Fuzz are supposed to be impossible to understand that's the joke.

  • @davesalmon2492
    @davesalmon2492 2 роки тому +9

    Gornal Black country had its own way of speaking, this plus the accent made the old guys very difficult to understand in the 70s if they thought you were being annoying you would get “quit the the tricks you play on we” sadly this has died out with more movement around the area. But within 20 miles I still find four distinct accents wolverhampton, Dudley Stoke, and Derby the uk is still slightly weird.

    • @grapegripe
      @grapegripe 2 роки тому +2

      I’m Gornal born and bred! Very strange to see it pop up on UA-cam…!

  • @helderaraujo7593
    @helderaraujo7593 Рік тому +1

    I came defeated from London. I thought I knew English but I came back home so frustrated. Thanks God now I know it’s a region issue 😂😂😂

  • @tanjimahmed1637
    @tanjimahmed1637 Рік тому +2

    I used to teach IELTS in my native country.I've been residing in Doncaster for three months.I feel so embarrassed since, aside from a few words, I have no idea what they are saying.I feel relaxed now after watching this video because, if British people from other parts of the country cannot understand different English accents, I am nothing. 😂

  • @TheMartianGeek
    @TheMartianGeek 2 роки тому +7

    These two girls almost sound American, honestly. Their accents are very mild.

  • @rlaw8658
    @rlaw8658 Рік тому +4

    I really enjoy listening to English accents, especially yorkshire. it's fascinating yet a bit funny.
    I live in Ph. From where I'm from, the accent differs from the district. when you get to another region, the language changes 😂. Hell, even in my hometown, the outskirts has their own language (native language) where I only understand one word. 😂😂

  • @Fatasha776
    @Fatasha776 2 роки тому +22

    Emily DID NOT, just say “Ireland” is a hard “UK” accent.. I’m about to throw hands. WE AREN’T THE UK.

    • @t.castro4493
      @t.castro4493 2 роки тому +5

      She probably meant Northern Ireland 🤔

    • @Fatasha776
      @Fatasha776 2 роки тому +3

      @@t.castro4493 Then specify that? Still annoying af

    • @t.castro4493
      @t.castro4493 2 роки тому

      @@Fatasha776 I agree with you

    • @lewz_4566
      @lewz_4566 2 роки тому +6

      no one cares

    • @ExtraFC209
      @ExtraFC209 2 роки тому +2

      Who asked?

  • @ardmag
    @ardmag Рік тому +2

    As a Polish I don't understand how can you have such difference in one language across such a small country.
    No matter where from Poland we all can understand each other 0 problems. There are dialects here and there, but these use totally different words - not sounds

  • @oliversherman2414
    @oliversherman2414 3 місяці тому +1

    I'm from South Ascot, Berkshire (England), so I have a typical "Harry Potter" accent. But I've been living abroad in Spain for 2 years now

  • @mattleistner313
    @mattleistner313 2 роки тому +5

    Me when I was on my holidays in Scotland - as a German!🤣

    • @italixgaming915
      @italixgaming915 2 роки тому

      Holy Moly, did you make it back to the airport? 😱

  • @atlaslex
    @atlaslex Рік тому +8

    Is it just me or does the girl with the ‘standard RP accent’ in this video sound vaguely Eastern European?

  • @jek4477
    @jek4477 2 роки тому +4

    As an Hungarian who doesn't have sense of language but needs to know English because we are live in 21th century, I feel like girls with those accents. Mostly I hope noone see on my face how I feel lost. Anyway I love the English accents

    • @user-tw4xs8hi2v
      @user-tw4xs8hi2v 2 роки тому

      I thought Hungarians didn't like the British that much?

    • @tomriddle8933
      @tomriddle8933 2 роки тому

      Only ones that bought the wrong dictionary.

    • @gerald4013
      @gerald4013 2 роки тому

      "needs to know English because we are live in 21th century"
      Most human beings don't speak English.

  • @zerefplayz7532
    @zerefplayz7532 9 місяців тому +1

    The left girl is so pretty and the right's a vibe ❤

  • @Piet-d1j
    @Piet-d1j 2 місяці тому +9

    jesus lord the girl on the left

  • @GirlyEnglishGamer
    @GirlyEnglishGamer Рік тому +3

    The ginger girl does NOT have an RP, Oxford or "queen's English" accent. I wonder who told her that? Her accent even sounds foreign.

    • @User000-o5y
      @User000-o5y Рік тому

      I was expecting her to say London MLE accent. That is not queens English lol. She even pronounces some things wrong

  • @igory3789
    @igory3789 2 роки тому +4

    The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain 😊. I wonder how it will sound in Glasgovian 😂.

  • @gameplaytunisianplayers5987
    @gameplaytunisianplayers5987 2 місяці тому

    Thank you for the video without it I won’t feel confident about my English after several years of studying, practicing,
    wrote papers and reviews

  • @Cyberman1970
    @Cyberman1970 2 місяці тому +2

    Did the girls understand that David Bradley at 5:50 is deliberately speaking mostly gibberish? Did the producers get that that is the joke?

    • @AnasMousa-uv1tr
      @AnasMousa-uv1tr Місяць тому

      Who cares about accents?
      Over there, boobs are charming!

  • @EnglishWithStuartIngles
    @EnglishWithStuartIngles 2 роки тому +12

    You don't have a Liverpool accent or Lancashire accent but the closest accent you have, if it needs to be classified (it doesn't) is a North Cheshire accent, similar to Warrington, Northwich, Altrincham, Stockport (although there are variations within these).

  • @liamsohal-griffiths1094
    @liamsohal-griffiths1094 2 роки тому +8

    "I feel like sometimes it's a little bit more difficult to understand older people because they don't announce (sic) it very well"
    It's not because their enunciation isn't clear, it's because they have much stronger local accents, for fairly obvious reasons! The video of the Black Country couple was from the 1970s when both accent and dialect would have been much more distinct from BBC English.

    • @ABigHug
      @ABigHug Рік тому

      ‘announceiation’ 😂

    • @SarahDenna
      @SarahDenna Рік тому +2

      Ngl, i was just listening to this girl like... does she know the difference between announce and pronounce (or enunciation)?

    • @rachelcookie321
      @rachelcookie321 Рік тому +1

      But it’s also true that older people don’t annunciate as well. Even older people who speak RP English which is very clear, they get harder to understand as they get older. You can hear the same person and it gets harder to understand them when they get older.

  • @felipebelmiro7200
    @felipebelmiro7200 Рік тому +4

    This is such a relief. Even in my main language Portuguese I find myself struggling with the accents of my in laws. Specially when they are talking to one another. It feels like a totally different language. Glad to see I’m not that bad at languages it’s just a matter of how strong an accent is. Not matter ur knowledge in a language , the stronger accents are gonna be hard to get. And that’s ok. Keep calm! 😂

  • @kscitechgamming7633
    @kscitechgamming7633 9 днів тому

    The Glasgow video is from Discovery channel's Lonely Planet travel show and the girl is Megan McCormick. I just love the 90's Discovery.

  • @Sabbathissaturday
    @Sabbathissaturday 8 місяців тому

    I’m a 6 generation native Texan and I absolutely adore the northern England and Scottish accents. I could chat all day to a Geordie or Glaswegian! Every time I visited nobody would guess I was a Texan. I even got Canadian a couple of times. 🤣

  • @AlessioQ
    @AlessioQ 2 роки тому +5

    I really like the scouse accent and also the girl from the smallest village outside of liverpool😍 she is soooo cute and sooo genuine

  • @katherineh7381
    @katherineh7381 2 роки тому +6

    Emily's accent has a twang of American in it.

  • @mith3620
    @mith3620 2 роки тому +5

    Am I the only one who thinks that Emily sounds very neutral and not "standard" (RP) at all? Like I would say she's native but wouldn't really say she sounds too british

    • @mistersharkfilms
      @mistersharkfilms 2 роки тому +1

      It's definitely not an RP accent, like she says. There's certainly a foreign twang to it. She's very well spoken though.

  • @newpianotutorials
    @newpianotutorials 3 місяці тому

    Two Americanised girls from Britain react to UK accents.
    Both have an affected American twang common in most young British UA-camrs and influencers.