The biggest surprise from this video, for me, is that people are still worried about the concept of a 'correct' or 'right' way to speak; this is not the nineteenth century. If you lose the language/dialect/accent of where you come from then you lose the means of expressing the culture of that place, and a culture that can't be expressed is a dying culture. The most correct pronunciation is your native pronunciation .
No, that was just a personal/Private joke between those speaking RP and Lauren, who is a hybrid between RP and Northern. The joke was simply that most people would consider Lauren having an RP accident, but when she is around people in South-east England, she Sounds Northern. There really isn't much of a prejudice against what you would call "proper".I speak RP,and so do most of my close friends, but I've never heard anyone even mention accent variations, in middle England
Even when they were being mean to each other in a teasing way, it was obvious that they were having fun. I was taken aback when the video was over. Smiled the whole time, great video
Weird to use Lauren as the sole Northern example, when she's spent about 3 years on this channel explaining how she doesn't have a typical Northern accent.
My friend from Wolverhampton/West Midlands has far more thick accent than these. laugh is short loff, fun is short foon, time is kind of to-yim etc very nice really
He's Scottish. There's plenty of different accents and dialects just within Scotland and it's a bit disingenuous to divide it between northern and southern British since nobody thinks or talk about that in the UK. There's the South and North of England and then there's Scotland as well. But Scottish people aren't considered 'Northern'.
@@renegadepuppyI know that Northern Irish people are not British (having grown up in England) and I never said that they were. What I'm really trying to say is that whenever people from the UK (which Northern Ireland currently is part of) are brought to take part in this channel, its usually people from England and to a lesser extent, Scotland. Wales and Northern Ireland on the other hand are always excluded in this channel when it comes to the whole UK (if just Great Britain is the focus, then Northern Ireland doesn't count) though I guess it'll depend if any people from Wales & Northern Ireland have moved to South Korea.
I could not identify what the differences were because I'm Japanese and I have been exposed mainly American English in schools. However, I found it interesting there are so much variety accents in the UK! Thank you for sharing your accents!
The only one with a different accent on here is the man on the far left. All the others speak the same. I say that as a British person. The reason is because all of them are middle to upper class and regional accents and dialects become homogenous among them.
@@TheTyke I agree, this is a terrible example of accents, middle class and upper class don’t even really have an accent they all talk the same regardless of where they are from in the UK, much better to have wording class people who don’t mask their dialects
@@TheTykethe Scottish guy also has a very middle class and plain accent. Would have been good to see this with more working class accents. Also, the north / south divide only really applies to England. Scotland is a separate thing. We don’t consider ourselves “northern”
Nothing from Yorkshire, Newcastle, Sunderland, Teesside, Cumbria, West Country/Birmingham, Gloucester/Bristol, Cornwall/Devon, Essex/North London, Cambridgeshire/East Anglia, not to mention Wales/other parts of Scotland. What did we do to deserve being ignored like that?
@@AuricSilverfinger You’re right. Sorry. I was thinking it’d be similar to Gloucester/Bristol or Devon/Cornwall accent. I’m from the northeast so not very well up on southwest accents.
This is how we Brits show we feel comfortable with you and consider you to be a friend. We take the piss out of each other. It is not in a mean way. We polite and formal until we consider you to be a friend and then we'll start cracking jokes and teasing you.
@@blotski I mean by "mean" that it can be offensive in other societies.. but I already know about the british humor and that u use it just in case you are close to each other .. btw, my country has a similar humor so i am used to 😂😂
My mom is French and my dad is Puerto Rican but I grew up in England so I grew up with this weird British/French/Latino accent and everyone always thinks I’m faking my British accent😂😂😂
Haha I knew a guy who was half French half English and his accent would switch from the local English accent and a French/English accent and It was super confusing before he told me why haha
I wish they had a Northerner from Yorkshire or somewhere similar as well, because they have "Scottish-like" (monophthongal) "oh" and "ey" sounds as well. It would've given a nice example of an English person with those stereotypically "Scottish" vowels. The Scouse woman sounds very similar to the Southerners.
same like im from co. durham and we speak a lot diff to scousers and scottish people too!! also speak diff to geordies as well so would've been nice to see a bigger range:/
Yeah it's weird to have a Scottish person for Northern dialects. Would have been better to have all English or had a Southern English, Northern English and Scottish group.
I'm from Yorkshire and I wouldn't say we have too much "Scottish-like" sounds, but we sound completely different to anywhere else, especially in West Yorkshire where we skip the letters H and T (unless the T is at the start of a word) and we don't say 'To' so like we say 'orse' and 'ouse' instead of horse and house and we say like 'I'm off town' instead of off to town
@@cheman579 I didn't mean that Yorkshire phonology in general was "Scottish-like". I know they sound very different. I was just talking about the monophthongal vowels that many Yorkshire accents and many Scottish accents share (like the "ow" and "ey" sounds, which I mentioned in the first comment).
Aaah that's a video I was waiting for ! We're always talking about British accent, but... which one ? I found it very interesting, thanks for making the video and to all the guests participating in it 🥰
This is really normal, most of your attention is taken up with understanding what they are saying to notice the accent and the timbre of the voice. Keep it going, eventually you'll start to hear it.
@@jocelynarancibia9429 northerners, specially the girl is not good representative. Try to listen some interviews of footballers for example Conor Coady /Liverpool accent
Same like i truly didn't notice any differences. Same with the American accents, they all sound the same. I can only be able to differentiate between British, American and Australian English not differences in their accents state wise.
OK, so this is not the best example of how varied British accents are. The 4 on the left are what I would class a pretty much the same (I struggle to hear a difference). If the producers really wanted to show the difference amongst the British accents then they would have chosen people from across the country; Essex, South London, Dorset, Bristol etc all the way up to the North. I don't think this is a great example of just how beautifully varied the British accents are. Even in London there are multiple accents that are different between themselves: for example, the African British accent is different to the Indian British accent. Now that would be a video I would prefer to see that truly represents how wonderfully and fascinating British accents can be.
There's nothing worse than being asked to talk in your Scottish dialect on the spot. It just comes across as fake and forced, catching us in normal everyday conversation is much better and more natural. I appreciate it more that not everyone has the same accent or dialect up and down the UK throughout all 4 home nations. Fairly unique I'd say.
I’m Scouse, and even though considered English, I feel worlds apart from the southerners on the right. I feel 100x more at home and a connection with Scots than I do with southern English.
I speak with an RP southern British accent, but What's all the interest in this about?All these videos. We need more variation on the channel, e.g. different American accents, or different Spanish accents. I would be very interested to hear The difference between New York and California, contrasted with central US and Canada, for example
I'm from Edinburgh, but my accent sounds southern English. I've just never really been surrounded by people with strong Scottish accents and one of my parents is German giving me the 'silent r', which I feel is the biggest difference between southern and northern accents. I do, however, pronounce the 'A's in words like Bath, Grass, and Answer like 'ah' instead of 'uh', and I pronounce 'T's if there is a vowel after them, but if there is nothing after or a consonant after when it is used at the end of a word, I use a glottal stop.
I would of loved to have a proper west country accent take part in this!! As living in rural southwest England for most my live, there so many more relaxed way of talking and slang that is present in Devon and Cornwall (although Cornwall have more of there own as well) thats not available shown here, to me even the Dorset sounds more posh and although i know people who can sound like that here they often come from more affluent background even if they are still farmers or mechanics etc.! I know personally my accent isn't that thick as some other west country accents as i spent the 1st 8 years of my live living in Essex so i still have a bit of a twang there from my mum, but my dad grew up in rural Hampshire so he sounded different again! My kids dad doesn't speak very Devonian either has his father served in the RAF so he grew up exposed to many accents, although his family comes from Plymouth so that's kind of what some people would refer to as a townie accent rather than rural. But i also feel that this is an accent that isn't really represented in modern media very much either.
I also like a West Country accent. Problem is these people are all in their 20s, and the younger generations no longer speak proper West Contry because they think it's embarrassing or uncool. So instead they ape London and South Eastern accents, which is sad. West Country is one of the countries oldest dialects and accents, and it's dying out within the space of 50 years because young people think it's not cool anymore. Tragic really. I'm a Northerner, but I say West Country people should take more pride in where they live, and who cares if the South Easterners (or anyone else) laughs at your accent! West Country accents have always sounded friendly and unpretentious to my ears.
Glaswegian-Norwegian? Have we not moved on since the year of 1263? I welcome our scottish brethren back into the Kingdom of Norway once again, but keep the haggis for yourself.
I think a lot of accents are starting to be watered down now with people travelling and moving about the country. What'd be really interesting would be to go back to older video/recordings of people speaking with accents and see how they have changed over time. It's probably not the aim of the channel, I gather it's more for ESL students to get a variety of current accents.
Northern accents are waaaay more varied, & the South is not JUST RP. Unfortunately, here the northerners are outnumbered & forced to feel like 2nd calss citizens in 2022. Wow.
Yeah the south is extremely homogenised. There is literally no difference between Milton Keynes and Brighton; they're all wannabe Londoners these days. The North, Wales and Scotland are so much better, richer culture, more diverse.
Wonder why they only had two Northerners and four Southerners? I could tell without hearing them just looking that the two on the left are Northern, they look way more fun and likable to me as a fellow Northener! I'm from Cheshire, and I have quite a "posh" Northern accent, and sometimes Liverpudlians couldn't understand me at all as I enunciate clearly and don't have that nasal twang, but I don't sound like a Southener either, a lot of people in London speak quite street and sort of Cockney, which wasn't represented here, and they make fun of me sometimes because I speak nicely and polite! So many lovely Northern accents, the soft burr of Edinburgh in Scotland, Cheshire/Wirral, North Wales, as the Scottish man said there are more variations in the English Northern accent than Southern, as I have lived in both areas. Also there's a warmth and musicality to the Northern accent which I like.
every single southerner sounds exactly the same to me, and the one north england representation sound very educated as their really is not much of an accent, i have more thick accent and mine has been dulled down a lot through american media making my accent very diluted.
Gotta say they have very standard pronunciation and clear enunciation of words. If you're interested there are tonnes of British accent videos on UA-cam, like those live interviews and stuff. You'll be amazed, sometimes you just can't understand what they have said. 😂 Those heavy scouse and geordie, while irish is like singing songs LOL
"I dinnae ken yer leavin to tonight, haste ya back" "WHO IS KEN?" I watch a streamer group and a few of them are Scottish and one likes to speak in Glasweigan, so i was familiar with the term "ken". That made me crack up. Lmaooo
Scots Gaelic is not closely related to Scots English - the former is a development of Old Irish, the latter Northumbrian dialects of Old English (parts of southeast Scotland formerly part what was later the kingdom of Northumbria).
Well the southerners all sound posh rp. Born in North London, the Sarf Lunnon accent is very different and have a friend from Gloucester, not far from Cheltenham who has rolled r's and more rounded West Country vowels when speaking native though has softened by living elsewhere.
As a fellow Glaswegian who is constantly told they don’t sound it, I think some people just think Glasgow has to be the roughest, clankiest dialect! You *can* have a soft Glaswegian 😂 You just can’t hear us over the rougher speakers! And everyone hates the Glasgow Uni accent, but they bring it upon themselves… 😋
Edinburgh is exact same, class makes a huge difference to an accent. A Morningside lady compared to a lass from an estate, chalk and cheeses both side a wee bit put on the Posh trying to hard to be upper class the lass from the estate trying to hard to be street. Of course there varying degrees of strength of accent throughout the city those been extremes.
Just curious where in SE London them other 2 are from. As I was only in SE London couple of weeks ago in Blackheath + Lewisham! I'm in Kent right between Dartford/Bexleyheath.
"ken" is the original word for ''knowledge". Guys, as a Turkish guy, even I recognise it from goddamn Tolkien! Ken or kenne also means to know in German too.
Hmm. In my opinion, a language that fundimentally belongs to the same basic language no matter how big it may differ otherwise is a dialect. An accent would be basically different if the language was confined to a confined defined area. So someone raised in the area of a country that used English as the common denominator might experience different dialects of the same language, whereas someone who was brought up in a German or French speaking area, country or community might have an accent if he or she enters a different place in the world where a basically different language was spoken and the person tries to learn that language. Some terms may be known if they were imported as loanwords to the the foreign language, but in general, the terminology will be completely different. Someone from east Asia, for example, will not know how to speak an English word correctly until that person learns otherwise. To be able to do so, a person has to overcome such things as the correct pronunciation of the word in the according other language before being understood in the other language and so on. It can be quite frustrating to experience that down to the way the letters of the alphabet are not used in quite the same way as in the English way.
I think you could have made more of an effort to get people from different parts. 5 out of 6 of them are from the south. It would have been nice to see you get more people from Yorkshire, Humberside, Midlands, and an actual scouser (not the fake one in the video).
It's not fair calling her a fake scouser when she clearly says at the beginning of the video she is from Lancashire/Merseyside, not Liverpool. I'm from Liverpool (within the city), but the amount of Scousers acting as accent-police who jump down peoples throats on these videos is ridiculous.
6:37 - Lauren's best part ever 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I don't like British English at all But I love how Lauren and the others showes the better page of the British accent I love it, but I hate hear it in school from out teacher
Our accent changed because we felt very self conscious about it…that’s sad…we should be proud of our accents…it gives clues to our history. My natural accent was mostly an old blend of a West Country accent and an Irish accent…nearly gone now…mind you our people came over more than 200 years ago…
A discriminação ao sotaques regionais é muito comum ao redor do mundo. Às vezes, as pessoas querem mudar seu sotaque para evitar os preconceitos e pré-conceitos sobre o grupo do qual eles pertencem. Além disso, com o mundo globalizado, os sotaques das regiões com maior influência na média tornam-se o sotaque padrão e, consequentemente, inferioriza os demais. Tu podes observar isto na relação dos sotaques de paris, madrid, são paulo, lisboa, cidade do méxico em relação aos outros sotaques do país em questão
From an island that only joined Canada less than 75 years ago. We were a British Dominion but became too poor after World War II. I’m from an Island so the culture stayed intact for generations!!!Changed rapidly (sadly) in modern times..ie the past 30 years or so.
I've only just noticed after saying these sentences...when I say the days of the week I make an "ee" sound at the end so it's not Friday its Fridee lol xxx
Still, the accent is clearly different from RP, whether English is your first language or not. I’m Dutch (in other words, a non-native English (and Afrikaans ;)) speaker), but I have spent quite some time in South Africa over the last 20 years, and I can usually recognise it, although I may sometimes be unable to tell apart South African English and the more neutral accents from Australia and New Zealand.
@@jasperkok8745 It's probably easy to understand Afrikaans from a Dutch point of view. But man other way around not so much. We had dutch in school for like a year. Somewhat glad it was over. Way too many unnecessary letters in the pronunciations, haha. (Afrikaans made things easier).
@@josephvanwyk2088 Yes, for Dutch speakers Afrikaans is quite easy, just because it’s a lot simpler grammar and spelling-wise. So I’m not at all surprised that Dutch is much more difficult for Afrikaans speakers.
One bigger difference I've noticed between northern parts of England vs southern is the way they stress the last part of sentences. Example southern: "WHAT IS THAT DOING there?" Example northern: "What is that DOING THERE?"
I’m from southern England and my auntie always tried to get me to pronounce my Ts but I was lazy i just roll everything into one now. I do have a very strong Hampshire accent tho so I’ve been mistaken for coming from the south west Towards Devon and Dorset. I can’t stand RP it’s so much easier to roll all your words into one.
The biggest surprise from this video, for me, is that people are still worried about the concept of a 'correct' or 'right' way to speak; this is not the nineteenth century. If you lose the language/dialect/accent of where you come from then you lose the means of expressing the culture of that place, and a culture that can't be expressed is a dying culture. The most correct pronunciation is your native pronunciation .
So well said!!
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You are right….my culture “Americanized” and “Canadianized” rapidly in the past 30 years or so. It makes me a bit sad. It’s life though.
No, that was just a personal/Private joke between those speaking RP and Lauren, who is a hybrid between RP and Northern. The joke was simply that most people would consider Lauren having an RP accident, but when she is around people in South-east England, she Sounds Northern.
There really isn't much of a prejudice against what you would call "proper".I speak RP,and so do most of my close friends, but I've never heard anyone even mention accent variations, in middle England
@@Rowlph8888 Thanks for the explanation, I hadn't paid enough attention to the mutually enjoyed humour in that joke.
Even when they were being mean to each other in a teasing way, it was obvious that they were having fun. I was taken aback when the video was over. Smiled the whole time, great video
It's typical a British banter.
This is Britain, being mean to eachother is a cultural norm
Weird to use Lauren as the sole Northern example, when she's spent about 3 years on this channel explaining how she doesn't have a typical Northern accent.
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to be fair she does have a noticeable northen edge to her accent, its soft but its definitely there
Its very weak lmao wheres the mancunian, scouser, yorkshire or geordie accent?
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My friend from Wolverhampton/West Midlands has far more thick accent than these. laugh is short loff, fun is short foon, time is kind of to-yim etc very nice really
I love mitch's accent , very different from the others , i'm not used to this one
His is Scottish the rest are English
and even that's a mild Scottish accent, you should listen to some of the more pronounced ones, they're great
it’s very mild, check out channels like Limmy’s show if you really like that accent, it’s really really fun
I'd say he has a Morningside accent. Quite posh and from Edinburgh.
He's Scottish. There's plenty of different accents and dialects just within Scotland and it's a bit disingenuous to divide it between northern and southern British since nobody thinks or talk about that in the UK. There's the South and North of England and then there's Scotland as well. But Scottish people aren't considered 'Northern'.
Would be nice if people from Wales & Northern Ireland were in these episodes.
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@@renegadepuppyI know that Northern Irish people are not British (having grown up in England) and I never said that they were. What I'm really trying to say is that whenever people from the UK (which Northern Ireland currently is part of) are brought to take part in this channel, its usually people from England and to a lesser extent, Scotland. Wales and Northern Ireland on the other hand are always excluded in this channel when it comes to the whole UK (if just Great Britain is the focus, then Northern Ireland doesn't count) though I guess it'll depend if any people from Wales & Northern Ireland have moved to South Korea.
@@renegadepuppy They're not British but they can have British citizenship so i guess they could be included in the video
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I could not identify what the differences were because I'm Japanese and I have been exposed mainly American English in schools. However, I found it interesting there are so much variety accents in the UK! Thank you for sharing your accents!
Yeah, every country has different dialects and accents. The US is a great example of this.
The only one with a different accent on here is the man on the far left. All the others speak the same. I say that as a British person. The reason is because all of them are middle to upper class and regional accents and dialects become homogenous among them.
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@@TheTyke I agree, this is a terrible example of accents, middle class and upper class don’t even really have an accent they all talk the same regardless of where they are from in the UK, much better to have wording class people who don’t mask their dialects
@@TheTykethe Scottish guy also has a very middle class and plain accent. Would have been good to see this with more working class accents. Also, the north / south divide only really applies to England. Scotland is a separate thing. We don’t consider ourselves “northern”
Nothing from Yorkshire, Newcastle, Sunderland, Teesside, Cumbria, West Country/Birmingham, Gloucester/Bristol, Cornwall/Devon, Essex/North London, Cambridgeshire/East Anglia, not to mention Wales/other parts of Scotland. What did we do to deserve being ignored like that?
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That’s what I came to say these folk all sound pretty much the same aside from the dude in blue
Forgetting about Somerset?
@@AuricSilverfinger You’re right. Sorry. I was thinking it’d be similar to Gloucester/Bristol or Devon/Cornwall accent. I’m from the northeast so not very well up on southwest accents.
A New Zealander friend of mine once told me that my English was much better easy to understand than a Yorkshirer man's. I am a originally a Korean.
The dark british humour is really clear in this video .. everyone is trying to make fun of the others even in a mean way !!
This is how we Brits show we feel comfortable with you and consider you to be a friend. We take the piss out of each other. It is not in a mean way. We polite and formal until we consider you to be a friend and then we'll start cracking jokes and teasing you.
@@blotski As a Flemish Belgian person I don't even know why he thinks of this as mean.. xD
Not mean at all, just fun. As a rule of thumb, if a Brit is only ever nice/polite to you they probably either don't know you or don't like you.
@@blotski I mean by "mean" that it can be offensive in other societies.. but I already know about the british humor and that u use it just in case you are close to each other .. btw, my country has a similar humor so i am used to 😂😂
@@dennisengelen2517 I mean that it can be offensive to "some" people in "some" countries not to "me" 😅 cuz my country has a similar humor
6:37 It's like all of Lauren's ancestors came out to speak for a second there 🤣.
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The northern accents are very warm and friendly.
My mom is French and my dad is Puerto Rican but I grew up in England so I grew up with this weird British/French/Latino accent and everyone always thinks I’m faking my British accent😂😂😂
Haha I knew a guy who was half French half English and his accent would switch from the local English accent and a French/English accent and It was super confusing before he told me why haha
I wish they had a Northerner from Yorkshire or somewhere similar as well, because they have "Scottish-like" (monophthongal) "oh" and "ey" sounds as well. It would've given a nice example of an English person with those stereotypically "Scottish" vowels. The Scouse woman sounds very similar to the Southerners.
same like im from co. durham and we speak a lot diff to scousers and scottish people too!! also speak diff to geordies as well so would've been nice to see a bigger range:/
Yeah it's weird to have a Scottish person for Northern dialects. Would have been better to have all English or had a Southern English, Northern English and Scottish group.
I'm from Yorkshire and I wouldn't say we have too much "Scottish-like" sounds, but we sound completely different to anywhere else, especially in West Yorkshire where we skip the letters H and T (unless the T is at the start of a word) and we don't say 'To' so like we say 'orse' and 'ouse' instead of horse and house and we say like 'I'm off town' instead of off to town
@@cheman579 I didn't mean that Yorkshire phonology in general was "Scottish-like". I know they sound very different. I was just talking about the monophthongal vowels that many Yorkshire accents and many Scottish accents share (like the "ow" and "ey" sounds, which I mentioned in the first comment).
@@mayorjoshua yeah fair point, reading it back we definitely pronounce words like that
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I am a very big fan of Emly and Lauren . I love both accent
Aaah that's a video I was waiting for ! We're always talking about British accent, but... which one ? I found it very interesting, thanks for making the video and to all the guests participating in it 🥰
As a person who’s studying English as a second language, I really can’t tell most of the differences when they speak 😅
This is really normal, most of your attention is taken up with understanding what they are saying to notice the accent and the timbre of the voice. Keep it going, eventually you'll start to hear it.
I didn't notice the difference anyways
@@jocelynarancibia9429 northerners, specially the girl is not good representative. Try to listen some interviews of footballers for example Conor Coady /Liverpool accent
Same like i truly didn't notice any differences. Same with the American accents, they all sound the same. I can only be able to differentiate between British, American and Australian English not differences in their accents state wise.
@@Snowhite-tx4sm you cant see difference between deep south accent and New York city?
OK, so this is not the best example of how varied British accents are. The 4 on the left are what I would class a pretty much the same (I struggle to hear a difference). If the producers really wanted to show the difference amongst the British accents then they would have chosen people from across the country; Essex, South London, Dorset, Bristol etc all the way up to the North. I don't think this is a great example of just how beautifully varied the British accents are. Even in London there are multiple accents that are different between themselves: for example, the African British accent is different to the Indian British accent. Now that would be a video I would prefer to see that truly represents how wonderfully and fascinating British accents can be.
This whole project is based in Korea, so, I guess, it's kinda difficult to find such a variety of British people there 😅
brummy accent lmao
@@aelyndorren6770 Yeah I agree, it tends to attract these cliche trust fund posh twats
Emily just roasts everybody lmao
There's nothing worse than being asked to talk in your Scottish dialect on the spot. It just comes across as fake and forced, catching us in normal everyday conversation is much better and more natural.
I appreciate it more that not everyone has the same accent or dialect up and down the UK throughout all 4 home nations.
Fairly unique I'd say.
Yes it's almost impossible to code switch consciously.
I’m Scouse, and even though considered English, I feel worlds apart from the southerners on the right. I feel 100x more at home and a connection with Scots than I do with southern English.
Trying being from Liverpool and Southerners demanding you say "chicken" or "can of coke" on the spot, as if you're a dancing monkey.
The guy in black jeans and shirt sound so hot. His voice is pretty masculine plus British. So my type.
I speak with an RP southern British accent, but What's all the interest in this about?All these videos. We need more variation on the channel, e.g. different American accents, or different Spanish accents.
I would be very interested to hear The difference between New York and California, contrasted with central US and Canada, for example
I'm from Edinburgh, but my accent sounds southern English. I've just never really been surrounded by people with strong Scottish accents and one of my parents is German giving me the 'silent r', which I feel is the biggest difference between southern and northern accents.
I do, however, pronounce the 'A's in words like Bath, Grass, and Answer like 'ah' instead of 'uh',
and I pronounce 'T's if there is a vowel after them, but if there is nothing after or a consonant after when it is used at the end of a word, I use a glottal stop.
I would of loved to have a proper west country accent take part in this!! As living in rural southwest England for most my live, there so many more relaxed way of talking and slang that is present in Devon and Cornwall (although Cornwall have more of there own as well) thats not available shown here, to me even the Dorset sounds more posh and although i know people who can sound like that here they often come from more affluent background even if they are still farmers or mechanics etc.! I know personally my accent isn't that thick as some other west country accents as i spent the 1st 8 years of my live living in Essex so i still have a bit of a twang there from my mum, but my dad grew up in rural Hampshire so he sounded different again! My kids dad doesn't speak very Devonian either has his father served in the RAF so he grew up exposed to many accents, although his family comes from Plymouth so that's kind of what some people would refer to as a townie accent rather than rural. But i also feel that this is an accent that isn't really represented in modern media very much either.
I also like a West Country accent. Problem is these people are all in their 20s, and the younger generations no longer speak proper West Contry because they think it's embarrassing or uncool. So instead they ape London and South Eastern accents, which is sad. West Country is one of the countries oldest dialects and accents, and it's dying out within the space of 50 years because young people think it's not cool anymore. Tragic really. I'm a Northerner, but I say West Country people should take more pride in where they live, and who cares if the South Easterners (or anyone else) laughs at your accent! West Country accents have always sounded friendly and unpretentious to my ears.
"My accent is not very strong", then the editor transcribes"Glaswegian" as "as Norwegians" haha.
Glaswegian-Norwegian? Have we not moved on since the year of 1263? I welcome our scottish brethren back into the Kingdom of Norway once again, but keep the haggis for yourself.
But haggis is great!
Both sorts of Weegie.
@@h-Qalziel yep
This is resemble Kokoreç
İt's Turkish food
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I think a lot of accents are starting to be watered down now with people travelling and moving about the country. What'd be really interesting would be to go back to older video/recordings of people speaking with accents and see how they have changed over time. It's probably not the aim of the channel, I gather it's more for ESL students to get a variety of current accents.
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One of the beeeest videos for far…
I’ve been crying from laughter!
6:38 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I can't tell if they like, tolerate or hate each other
the ruder they are, the more they like each other, general rule for Brits
Nobody likes southeners. Especially posh ones
Okay but the girl in the pink sweater had such a lit outfit 💕
I live in Salford Manchester but I am originally from Surrey But I love hearing different accents.I love the Scouse accent.
I hope you don't tell people in Salford you love the Scouse accent? They'll get the pitchforks out
Northern accents are waaaay more varied, & the South is not JUST RP. Unfortunately, here the northerners are outnumbered & forced to feel like 2nd calss citizens in 2022. Wow.
Yeah the south these days are just wannabe Londoners. They have no sense of community or culture. Just bland homogeneity.
I’m northern English and the four on the right sound exactly the same to me 😂 can’t tell southern accents apart
Yeah the south is extremely homogenised. There is literally no difference between Milton Keynes and Brighton; they're all wannabe Londoners these days. The North, Wales and Scotland are so much better, richer culture, more diverse.
It was a bit of a strange video because Lauren doesn't sound very Northern and the girl from Dorset didn't have a Dorset accent
@@robertwilson3866 They're just wannabe southerners.
@@EvsEntps Yeah, go to Brighton and listen to the kids there, then tell me people don't want to be Londoners.
It is NOT RP, that is an old accent, they are specking Standard Southern British [SSB]. RP is the accent of the elite class from the last century.
Don’t get why they don’t just say southerners vs northerners
😃British accent is so fun to listen to, it also has alot of witty humour
If your in need of Northerns for videos I’ll happily come use my accent to confuse some southerns! x
Wonder why they only had two Northerners and four Southerners? I could tell without hearing them just looking that the two on the left are Northern, they look way more fun and likable to me as a fellow Northener!
I'm from Cheshire, and I have quite a "posh" Northern accent, and sometimes Liverpudlians couldn't understand me at all as I enunciate clearly and don't have that nasal twang, but I don't sound like a Southener either, a lot of people in London speak quite street and sort of Cockney, which wasn't represented here, and they make fun of me sometimes because I speak nicely and polite!
So many lovely Northern accents, the soft burr of Edinburgh in Scotland, Cheshire/Wirral, North Wales, as the Scottish man said there are more variations in the English Northern accent than Southern, as I have lived in both areas. Also there's a warmth and musicality to the Northern accent which I like.
every single southerner sounds exactly the same to me, and the one north england representation sound very educated as their really is not much of an accent, i have more thick accent and mine has been dulled down a lot through american media making my accent very diluted.
Gotta say they have very standard pronunciation and clear enunciation of words. If you're interested there are tonnes of British accent videos on UA-cam, like those live interviews and stuff. You'll be amazed, sometimes you just can't understand what they have said. 😂 Those heavy scouse and geordie, while irish is like singing songs LOL
@@leontnf6144 irish is very melodic, which i believe is a good characteristic to have in an accent
@@shadykid5939 If you're accent has been 'dulled' down from watching videos then you're vegetable lol.. 🥔😂
@@Dave-hu5hr Or i did not go outside enough and spent too much time listening to other accent more than my own.
That "look out" sounds like someone from Suisse would try to say it... XD
People from Birmingham need to have a place in this video
"I dinnae ken yer leavin to tonight, haste ya back"
"WHO IS KEN?"
I watch a streamer group and a few of them are Scottish and one likes to speak in Glasweigan, so i was familiar with the term "ken". That made me crack up. Lmaooo
Scots Gaelic is not closely related to Scots English - the former is a development of Old Irish, the latter Northumbrian dialects of Old English (parts of southeast Scotland formerly part what was later the kingdom of Northumbria).
Indeed. It was somewhat surprising that he was mistaken on that point. I'm American and I knew that.
With these kinds of videos I'm a bit surprised there aren't more south west accent people on it like Devon & Cornwall way
Would've been interesting if they had a Weslh person too, but we are often forgotten :p.
I wouldn't even say the English of the Southerners here is RP, more SB. RP is what the royal family speaks, think how Queen Elisabeth used to speak.
I actually also like Welsh accent...
thats why i watch WILTY..... there i get every accent and the beautiful Bri_ish humour
I'm from Worcestershire, my partner (who's from SE London) says I sound like a farmer but other people say that I sound posh! 🤣
Well the southerners all sound posh rp. Born in North London, the Sarf Lunnon accent is very different and have a friend from Gloucester, not far from Cheltenham who has rolled r's and more rounded West Country vowels when speaking native though has softened by living elsewhere.
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As a fellow Glaswegian who is constantly told they don’t sound it, I think some people just think Glasgow has to be the roughest, clankiest dialect! You *can* have a soft Glaswegian 😂 You just can’t hear us over the rougher speakers! And everyone hates the Glasgow Uni accent, but they bring it upon themselves… 😋
Edinburgh is exact same, class makes a huge difference to an accent. A Morningside lady compared to a lass from an estate, chalk and cheeses both side a wee bit put on the Posh trying to hard to be upper class the lass from the estate trying to hard to be street. Of course there varying degrees of strength of accent throughout the city those been extremes.
Next time round, I’d love to see Wales and Cumbria being represented too. And also Cornwall and thereabouts.
Thank you so much for this very informative video!! I jot down notes! Yay!
I have really loved this video. İt is so entertaining and informative
That was so fun to watch 😊
He is singing on the way home🤣
I’m a southerner but I say grass, bath etc like a northerner. Dad’s from Yorkshire so that might be why
Same here families from Bolton never met them but speak similar to them
Never met them as in the family moved south a few generations ago so they no longer live lol
"That was peaceful for five minutes". Look at the timestamp.
I enjoyed so much all along the whole video, and 8:07 THAT sounded Beautiful to be frank though.
Me wanna hear some leprechaun and pirate accents 😃 Arrrgh !! 😆
i'm enjoying this way too much
The funniest video so far.
People going through existential crises there! 😄😄😄
Just curious where in SE London them other 2 are from. As I was only in SE London couple of weeks ago in Blackheath + Lewisham!
I'm in Kent right between Dartford/Bexleyheath.
Que bueno que subieron un video con esa tématica!!!
Saludos desde Chile 🇨🇱
"ken" is the original word for ''knowledge". Guys, as a Turkish guy, even I recognise it from goddamn Tolkien! Ken or kenne also means to know in German too.
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UK friends are so beautiful
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oh man, for me this is like watching USA countryball getting confused by Poland, Monaco and Indonesia country balls in PWA channel!
Hmm. In my opinion, a language that fundimentally belongs to the same basic language no matter how big it may differ otherwise is a dialect. An accent would be basically different if the language was confined to a confined defined area. So someone raised in the area of a country that used English as the common denominator might experience different dialects of the same language, whereas someone who was brought up in a German or French speaking area, country or community might have an accent if he or she enters a different place in the world where a basically different language was spoken and the person tries to learn that language. Some terms may be known if they were imported as loanwords to the the foreign language, but in general, the terminology will be completely different. Someone from east Asia, for example, will not know how to speak an English word correctly until that person learns otherwise. To be able to do so, a person has to overcome such things as the correct pronunciation of the word in the according other language before being understood in the other language and so on. It can be quite frustrating to experience that down to the way the letters of the alphabet are not used in quite the same way as in the English way.
As an American I can hear the differences but I definitely would not be able to identify where they’re from based on the accents
I think you could have made more of an effort to get people from different parts. 5 out of 6 of them are from the south. It would have been nice to see you get more people from Yorkshire, Humberside, Midlands, and an actual scouser (not the fake one in the video).
in fairness, theres a limited choice to pick from in Korea...
Yeah that girl on the left is a fake northener
It's not fair calling her a fake scouser when she clearly says at the beginning of the video she is from Lancashire/Merseyside, not Liverpool. I'm from Liverpool (within the city), but the amount of Scousers acting as accent-police who jump down peoples throats on these videos is ridiculous.
7:28 The most left guy sounds like your best friend in Forza Horizon 4, literally.
6:37 - Lauren's best part ever 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I don't like British English at all
But I love how Lauren and the others showes the better page of the British accent
I love it, but I hate hear it in school from out teacher
I love this content ❤.
Is easy to understand of the pronoun English British accent.
This is interesting 🎉🎉🎉
More of Felix !!!!!
Our accent changed because we felt very self conscious about it…that’s sad…we should be proud of our accents…it gives clues to our history. My natural accent was mostly an old blend of a West Country accent and an Irish accent…nearly gone now…mind you our people came over more than 200 years ago…
A discriminação ao sotaques regionais é muito comum ao redor do mundo. Às vezes, as pessoas querem mudar seu sotaque para evitar os preconceitos e pré-conceitos sobre o grupo do qual eles pertencem. Além disso, com o mundo globalizado, os sotaques das regiões com maior influência na média tornam-se o sotaque padrão e, consequentemente, inferioriza os demais. Tu podes observar isto na relação dos sotaques de paris, madrid, são paulo, lisboa, cidade do méxico em relação aos outros sotaques do país em questão
@@brenos.5017I’m sorry. I don’t understand your reply.
@@darthorion2002 I’m British/Irish Canadian.
From an island that only joined Canada less than 75 years ago. We were a British Dominion but became too poor after World War II. I’m from an Island so the culture stayed intact for generations!!!Changed rapidly (sadly) in modern times..ie the past 30 years or so.
@@darthorion2002 You probably heard of it….Newfoundland.
Love the posh way people speak
next will be north italy vs south italy? 😅
i really like the accent and how the girl speaks in the black/grey shirt
🎉really funny stuff.
Fank u 😅
Stacey has the most beautiful accent ❤
I've only just noticed after saying these sentences...when I say the days of the week I make an "ee" sound at the end so it's not Friday its Fridee lol xxx
I wouldve loved to see someone from Yorkshire here, it wouldva spiced it a bit more. oh well
I wonder how they'd react to a South African in the middle. Since we have British English as our 2nd language.
Still, the accent is clearly different from RP, whether English is your first language or not. I’m Dutch (in other words, a non-native English (and Afrikaans ;)) speaker), but I have spent quite some time in South Africa over the last 20 years, and I can usually recognise it, although I may sometimes be unable to tell apart South African English and the more neutral accents from Australia and New Zealand.
Stacey from South London said in another video that she’s originally from South Africa.
@@jasperkok8745 It's probably easy to understand Afrikaans from a Dutch point of view. But man other way around not so much. We had dutch in school for like a year. Somewhat glad it was over. Way too many unnecessary letters in the pronunciations, haha. (Afrikaans made things easier).
@@josephvanwyk2088 Yes, for Dutch speakers Afrikaans is quite easy, just because it’s a lot simpler grammar and spelling-wise. So I’m not at all surprised that Dutch is much more difficult for Afrikaans speakers.
@@LiquidFranz I wouldn’t have guessed, but Joseph might disagree. :)
It’s cool! Many thanks!
let's talk about how handsome felix is-
1:09 “Glaswegian” (somebody from Glasgow) not “Norwegian”!!!
Where are the Somerset crew at init?
I pronounce Tuesday chewsdee. All the days of the week for me are pronounced with dee instead of day
I just realized this…. Nobody was wearing their kecks!!😂
Sheesh, Mitch almost looks like a Daniel Craig body double 🤣
One bigger difference I've noticed between northern parts of England vs southern is the way they stress the last part of sentences. Example southern: "WHAT IS THAT DOING there?" Example northern: "What is that DOING THERE?"
I’m from southern England and my auntie always tried to get me to pronounce my Ts but I was lazy i just roll everything into one now. I do have a very strong Hampshire accent tho so I’ve been mistaken for coming from the south west Towards Devon and Dorset. I can’t stand RP it’s so much easier to roll all your words into one.
For me (an norwegian) you sound the same... :)
Even in the United Kingdom, there are hundreds of accents.
From now on, I will be angry if someone criticizes my accent.
I think the southerners would think im speaking a different language. Im from Manchester and have a VERY strong Manc accent.