How to Speak like a Newfoundlander| Fi Di Kulcha: Episode 1
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- Опубліковано 20 лип 2018
- Learn how to speak like a Newfoundlander
Newfoundland and Labrador is a province in Canada and they are known for their beautiful sceneries and unique dialect. Watch me learn from Newfoundland sayings and have a laugh.
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Heard any similarities between your dialect and that of Newfoundlanders? Comment below some of them 💃💃
I am in the Bay Area (California), and we speak Ebonics (or a variation of) a lot, but can clean it up if needed. The similarities between these two dialects are uncanny. Thanks for the video.
Irish people would say mudder = mother dat= that basically th turns to d what are ya at and what's after happening now are all said regularly here in Ireland hows shes cutting would be more like rural areas of ireland and hows she getting on or are u getting on defo irish you dont no nobody with nothing going wouldn't be something that would be said regularly but I knew automatically it's more like you wouldn't know anyone needing something done would you i.e a job lots of things sound the same as we would say and pronounce but some sounds amish
CharisMaggie TV I am a Newfoundlander, so I think I sound like a Newfie
CharisMaggie TV all of them because I am a Newfie born and raised!
elissa vids awesommmeeee😎😎
I'm from the west of Ireland and I almost fell off my chair when he said How's she cutting, that's my number one phrase for confusing non-Irish people and I'm so delighted that its legacy lives on
lailedcat 🤣🤣🤣
When the potato famine happened, England kicked out some Irish people and you guys washed up here, not a surprise we sound similar to you guys lol
@@lyfehaxandtrix3481 Most of the Irish in NL arrived before the potato famine. These Irish in NL also went back and forth to Waterford and Wexford for a while before finally settling in NL permanently. They were brought over as fishermen by the Bristol merchants.
@@lyfehaxandtrix3481 ye no that's not what happened
There are many Irish descendants that live in NL, as well as many other Europeans Like Scottish and English.
I grew up in western pei in eastern Canada and a lot of us talk similarly. Newfoundlanders are the best people on earth. Amazing people.
Matt Gallor they really are 💕
Whatever. Kiwis are the best !! So there
CharisMaggie TV nah
Damn you managed to trigger some butthurt jealous kids lmaooo 👀👀
Hi my new friendlander
The Irish influences are strong in the newfie accent. I love it.
i grew up and still live in NL, and i still get mixed up if someones from the south coast or ireland.
This is absolutely amazing, I'm from Clare in Ireland and we use all of these sayings, I must visit Newfoundland some day.
Ayyyeee awesome. I really think you’ll like you
You'll love it here. It'll be just like you never left home. Thats how I felt when I took a trip to Ireland a few years ago
I’m from NL, and whenever I’m in Dublin, the locals think that I’m from Cork. So I’m assuming the St John’s accent is very similar.
This is one of the best explanations of the general Newfoundland accent I’ve seen. Newfoundland has 63 distinct dialects so it’s difficult to fit them all in.
He really did a great job breaking it down. Thanks for watching 💕
What resource did you get the 63 figure from? I've been looking for some texts on regional Newfoundland accents and I can't find any.
@@bannermanigans That number came from a Newfoundland Downhome published magazine so i suppose you should take it with a grain of salt. The provinces university has a dialect atlas: dialectatlas.mun.ca/app/atlas/
100%
i find townie is a good mash of it all
I've heard people use many words to describe our dialect. "Fancy" is definitely not the worst.
‘ow’s she cuttin’ is definitely a sailing/fishing term.
“She” is the person’s boat. “Cutting” is the way it’s passing through the water/wind. It’s a metaphor for life... smooth sailing. How is life going?
I guess that “like a knife” COULD be a serious way to continue the metaphor, “knifing through the water,” but I’d more likely describe it as an attempt to cleverly turn the expression on it’s head, applying the term “cutting” in a way that’s unexpected, “cutting like a knife” and not “cutting through the water.”
It’s like saying “what’s are you up to” and the person replying “about 6 feet tall”
very interesting. Thanks for adding this great conversation
That’s interesting. In ireland Sometimes if someone says how’s she cuttin? You’d reply like a hot knife through butter 😂
@@JaneMcQ100 the saying does in fact come from Ireland. Most Newfoundlanders are not educated on the origins of our accents and sayings so a lot make assumptions about where they think they originate which are often incorrect, just like OP did.
The reply in Newfoundland to “how’s she cuttin?” is simply “like a knife.”
This comment is hilarious, you have quite the imagination there. How’s she cuttin is a term that comes from Ireland and has absolutely nothing to do with that tall tale you wrote.
@@caitlinhickey6 I must admit I was completely unaware of Newfoundland until I started watching a UA-cam who was from there and I was like hmmm that accent is suspiciously Irish sounding let me look up more.
When did we migrate over there? Was it during the famine or at another time?
I’m guessing that dude’s regular job is solving mysteries with a dog.
I love Thomas, he's a former coworker of mine. Such an all around good person. Great video! 💜
Ayyyee 💃 thank you 😊
i have a west country accent with loads of northern irish thrown in, as i live there, scary how close this is to mine, i even new what some of the words were before you mentioned them
I’m from Newfoundland and my wife is from Trinidad. I’m always amazed at how similar the cultures are at time and still very different. Great video guys!
it really is heart warming to see some similarities for sure. Makes it easy to relate with one another
I lived in Ontario for a decade and I agree! Bun and cheese! The rum smells like bananas. Old Sam rum, screech….the slang has so many similarities too!!!
I'm in Ireland and this is just like how we talk
I'm from PEI, and I'm familiar with the phrases, but it's so interesting to learn the origins behind the phrases!
That’s so cool. Glad you enjoyed it 😊
You guys are wonderful people, and this is a superb video! Thank you both! 😀
Thanks so much. Glad to enjoy the video 😊
That’s just great! Thanks for this video.
Glad you liked it!
This is wonderful! Thank you for adding to my day! All the best.
Aww this warms my heart. Glad you enjoyed the video 😊
I have been away from home(n.l ) almost twenty years.i am still very proud to call myself a newfie.always will.
That’s great. Always be proud of where you’re from 💕
really enjoyed this one !! cheers hope you have a awesome one !
💃💃 thank you! Same to u
Another one you’d hear a LOT while growing up in NL is “singing out”, like in “where was ya to? I’m after singing out to ya for so long now, me throat (troat) is roach!” Lol
Oh, “singing out” or “sung out” is just calling for someone, usually drawn out and loudly. When you were playing with a bunch of people back home there was always someone’s mother who would constantly “sing” out for one of us to come home and be a kill-joy, haha.
DlchMcV haha there was so many I heard while going to school there, I couldn’t keep up 😂
Stay where you are
I’ll come where you too
Now go out and have a drink or two with these lads gets even more fun
Great people very kind and do anything to help you out😎
Loved this! My parents are from Newfoundland. I have always loved the Newfie slang! I also have a strong connection with the Jamaican culture and found I had no problem understanding Patois because, if you break it down, it makes sense. Glad you chose Newfoundland to further your education!
Nooiiiceee that’s awesome. I actually did a video about Irish influence on Jamaica and I think that would explain why some words would be easy to understand if you’re from Newfoundland, seeing that they have a strong Irish influence too
Here’s the link if you wanna check it out ☺️
ua-cam.com/video/HNGC7NFXLNA/v-deo.html
This is super interesting. Learnt something about Newfoundland and Labrador; must say, amusing differences in the dialect 💪🏽
Yayyy my work here is done 😎
Actually Newfoundland was it's own country between 1907 and 1934
Countrybananas Oh awesome 😎. And then it became apart of Canada in 1949 right?
@@CharisMaggieTV In 1949 the second of two votes was held to either join Canada, remain under a British commission of government, or go back to being our own country seeing as how our economy was better then Britain at the time but by a very narrow margin we voted to join Canada.
@@Countrybananas we should revote
@@stephenfrancis182 Hahaha yeah I wouldn't be against it given the current government. If anything just to see what the results would be.
Yes, I love that about us. Maybe we should go back to that.
I love the last one! 13 years ago, I sold my old kitchen to two newfies working here in Toronto. I think I could barely make out 50% of what they were saying.
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If you understood 50% they were being polite and speaking as slowly as they could lol listen to a recording of newfies talking at home. It's a different language.
There isn’t just one Newfoundland accent, there’s townie accent, bay accent, bay roberts accent, the western accent, others too but those are just some of the big ones
Do you know what regions in NL those accents are common in?
Bay as in Bay of Fundy area? Just a guess lol
@@CharisMaggieTV Townie accent is common in st.John’s and is usually what most people see as the stereotypical Newfoundland accent, Bay roberts accent is present in bay roberts and surrounding towns, and the western accent is big out in corner brook, stephenville and deer lake
@@tree6973thank you 😊
Lmao your look of exhaustion at the end 😂
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Wow, I understood most of what he was saying. There are a lot of similarities to dialect spoken in Jamaica, which also has Irish influence. The last one was an eyebrow raise. Listening through Jamaican filter, I hear "You no know nobody who no want nutting done?" I guess that would mean the same, because, "You no want nutting done?" would mean if you have any work or need work done. Right? 🤔
Anywho, I enjoyed the video. Somehow I've stumbled upon YT vids of Newfoundland and Labrador, looks like a great place.
Ayyyyeee so happy to hear that
The similarities are definitely mind blowing
Here’s a link to another video that looks at Irish influence on Jamaica featuring a guest from Ireland and a Jamaican living in Ireland
ua-cam.com/video/HNGC7NFXLNA/v-deo.html
Man with no arm and no legs is at the bus stop, the bus driver pulls up and says How ya gettin on... LOL
LOVE THIS!
elissa vids thank you! And thanks for watching 😊
Putting that "s" on the end of verbs fits you in good, with folks speaking the Black English Vernacular. "I goes to my favorite store every week" could be something someone using BEV would say.
Really common in the New York accent too.
Right!!@jdstep97 The sentence structure is very similar to BEV of the Gullah/Geechie people.
Legit Fascinated...mindblown...😐👏
Joel Supre yaayy glad I could blow your mind lol haha
This is nice guys :) Been here for almost 3 years and I'm still struggling to understand the dialect!
I took a teaching job in a little outport called Hatchet Cove, Trinity Bay, in September of 1970. I sold the "youngsters" their books and opened school the next day. I asked my pupils what they did at the one-room school. The oldest girl stood up and gave me the low down. LOL! I didn't understand a word of what she said. Not a word. I recounted this little vignette to an older woman who was born in India and spoke English and French very well. She looked at me sharply and said, "And she was English speaking?" . . . By the time, I left Newfoundland and Labrador several years later after a couple more years teaching and a few semesters studying, I was afraid I'd be thrown out of library school because my Newfoundland accent was so pronounced. Amazing, though. how Mainland the guy's English is though, isn't it? You'd never guess he was a Newfoundlander. I loves that t-shirt, b'y.
Paulette, there is no easy way to say this....you will always have a difficult time understanding. I am from central NL but lived in Toronto and now Alberta and even I struggle with some of the phrases. Smile and nod girl.
The th --> d/t shift doesn't come from French influence, it's from Irish also.
Yup no "h" in As Gailge
Training my Newfie accent! Terribly fun video, and intellectual, too.
Thanks for watching 😊😊
Hmm.. ❤ like it the way they are talking.. slang sentences.. 🎉
So like one day I’ll need you to sit and tell me how you ended up here! I love this though.
Danzii’s Recipes hehe that’s a video coming up soon 🤓
Cool video😎. You should make more.
Thank you. I’m open to suggestions. Do you have any?
lol that was funneee
I'm watching this video 5 years after it's made but it's still very interesting. I grew up many years ago in Western Prince Edward Island and the dialect is very similar because many of our ancestors who' settled there were from Ireland.
Dis video bes deadly bah
The last one I have taken for granted and would not have remembered. "You dont know nobody who dont want nudding done do ya". We are definitely weird ....make no wonder people do not understand us sometimes.
Big Bertha 💕
I'm irish and understand everything
two years and I'm still learning :P
Come to ireland😍for lessons.
'Ow can I do 'ere ting when I got n'ar ting ta do ar ting wit?
Scott Smith ok you gotta tell me what that one means please 😅
@@CharisMaggieTV I've heard a couple of different friends tell me that one. Basically in response to someone being asked to do a task without having the proper tools, instruments etc. to do the job. - 'ere and ar - I may have misused but I think its a shortened form of "either". ting is obviously "thing". So how can I do the job without the proper tools?
I've heard either pronounced as Eye-ther or Ee-ther and become Eye-dder or Ee-dder and then when said quickly, "ere or ar". "Did you catch Eye-dder fish dere buddy?" "No b'y, N-eyedder one" or "Nar one." So the shortest conversation between two Newfie Fishermen becomes. "A'rn?" "N'arn."
very interesting!
did you ever hear "yer burnt out by'". also, one more piece of history about newfs, alot of them built as iron workers, the world trade center building and stayed in new york after that. so there are newfs in new york. a lot more than you think.
Christopher Morrissey wow I did not know that. Thanks!
Irish say that I'm burnt out from smoking or burnt out from working or flat out meaning busy , ya by na by we would say nah boy yeah boy sucking diesel kid like is a massive word for us as well do u know what I mean like
the adding of H in everything is something like my childhood game of S Language, it's adding S at the beginning of every word. lol~
Lol that must be an interesting time 😅
I have lived in Belfast and they speak similar so " what about ye" how are you etc
The d/th switch is pure irish not French, all of this makes sense Ireland but definitely has a south west coast lean for the most part
From Cape Breton! Loves the newfies
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im from Colombia and im learning this dialect to talk with my friends lmao
hope it's going well ;)
Keep on doing mags.
Really interesting!!
Ayyye thanks Tosin! 💕
Best kind.
How can ya do are thing when you got nar thing to do are thing with?
I was born in Bonavista Bay and raised in fishing village in Summerville, which is in Bonavista Bay as well, and it's about an hour drive from Bonavista. I was nine yrs old when I left nfld. I will always miss downhome. I speak more like a mainlander now, I lost my Newfoundland accent a long time ago. When I go downhome its doesn't take long for me to start picking it up again. But I never have the thick accent I once had as a kid.
The "H" adding and dropping sounds very Jamaican. Lol
Kimisha Grant lol that’s why I was laughing 🤣🤣
CharisMaggie TV Maybe I should move there...
CharisMaggie TV Maybe I should move there...
Blinky?!
Lady Gladiator lmao. Same one...
I wonder if the phrase "'how's she cutting" gets its origin from nautical expressions. It sounds like it would be related to sailing expressions.
How she cutting,Great Irish expression.
As a man who was married to a woman from Deerlake,I learned the hard way just how many different things “buddy” can be.
Plus if your from St.Johns your a “townie”,but if you are from outside of St.Johns your a “baman”.
“Oh me shattered nerves”-mean your stressed by some one or by a certain situation.
Haha ah yes 😅
I heard and saw "B'y y'don know nobody who don't want nudding done, d'ya?" and i guessed correctly on what that means.
My cousin thought it was a threat
i lived in Newfoundland from when i was a baby till i was 7 and had such a strong accent that when we moved to Alberta, everyone kept asking me if i was british. I think I drove my teachers crazy cause I'd say "bird-day" "Yellaw" "Sock" when trying to say shark
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Dat's where me grand mudder came from and now I'm in Oz tinking 'bout how nice it'd be t' be there now while i read Ulysses.
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Knows Michael, knows
Heading to nfld this weekend. I'm from cape Breton. Just a ferry away and basically talk the same just way less dramatically haha all be upset if I don't get spoken to like this. I find at least here in cape Breton the strong accent only comes out of an elders mouth lolol
HAHA that's awesome. Wishing you safe travels and a great trip
How's she cutting is super irish haha
This is very true
well now i might actually be able to understand people when i move there in 3 weeks
"Y'don know nobody who don't want nudding done d'ya?" is interesting and bizarre. I'm wondering why Newfoundlanders phrase it as a negative ("don't"; "nudding") when the meaning is positive ("do"; "something"). It's almost as if it's made more complicated than it needs to be!
"How are you getting on?" is commonplace here in the UK too - in fact I didn't realise it was dialectal/not understood in standard dialects at all until seeing this video!
Double, and even triple, negatives like that are somewhat common in a fair number different English dialects around the world.
Lol I learnt something today
Hareen Hunter lol good 🤗
With the last one I was confused because saw “don’t want nudding” as “don’t want anything”. It’s pretty funny how emphasis can mean a positive of a negative in the Newfie language
One of my favourite turns of phrase is when someone from an older generation (parents age, but most usually grandparents) would look at me and say "Who you 'longs to, you?"
😅 what does that phrase mean?
@@CharisMaggieTV They're asking who do I belong to, who are my parents or who are my grandparents. I have a BIG family, like most newfoundlanders... 6 aunts and uncles on one side and 11 on the other, and each of them have 2 to 4 kids each, so it gets a little complicated in figuring out which child belongs to who especially at a family reunion or something, thus needing the question: "Who you 'longs to, you?"
@@s.kerfont8615 ahhhhhh I like that!
Also, don't forget " who knit you?"
@@debnoel8560 now that one I’ve definitely heard before hehe
Newfoundland are mostly Celts and Viking irish
Reading through the comments, yes, very Irish terms with their own accents. I also understand why they're fishing terms too.
I can't listen that fast, wow!
I'd have to record and playback speed around .50
Thanks for the video.
Thanks for watching 😊😊
Doesn't a good boat "cut" nicely through the water?
I like Newfies my bro in-law is a big Irish Welsh Newfie again I love Newfies
wonderful people
Lord tundern jesus how ye gettin on me old trout ? Im from da rock and the newfoundland accent differs slightly depending the region. Even an amateur can tell the difference between a jackie tar , townie or east coast accent . Jackie tars are from the west coast Stephenville crossing area mainly and townies from St Johns and to a lesser extent Cornerbrook . Some more newfie words and sayings are ; drinking too much is called getting hosified , all crawling insects are called bloodsuckers except for ants . Ants are called emmits , large rocks that can sink boats are called sunkers , wishing someone luck becomes long may ya big jib draw , an old man is called a skipper , a married woman is called the missis , a big meal is called a scoff , brother I like cannabis becomes brudder I likes me draws gotta go proper ting !
When u talk to a Newfie, they instantly become your friends... They are very friendly people, only thing is I always need them to repeat their sentences.
They are indeed one of the friendliest set of folks 🌸
So the Newfoundland accent is Scottish, Irish, Gaelic French, Native Indian, Caribbean ? Watching in the UK.
'Ow ya gone do nudding, if ya got nudding to do nudding wit?
I was just officially "screeched in" August turdiest. First trip to ''The Rock" ever, and it was the best trip I's ever took b'y!
When I's win da lottry, I's movin' 'ere!
First time I was in NFLD with my husband. The women in the store ask me “who owns ya”. Lol ! Just a way of saying who are you here with in the harbour.
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Who knit ya?
That’s not at all what it means. “Who owns ya” means who are your parents? Who is your family? She wants to know who you are because she hasn’t seen you in the area before. You should have told her that you’re a mainlander.
Da sentence where you were sayin da eagle eats I'd pronounce eats wit an h
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what part Newfounland is he from
got all of those, except the knife reply.... I'm Irish, how's it goin?
Hey! And thanks for watching
I actually have a video featuring an Irish guest if you’d like to check it out
ua-cam.com/video/HNGC7NFXLNA/v-deo.html
Chicago has a similar thing with th, immortalized in SNL's "Da Bearss" skit.
Well sweet honourable Jesus I seen it all
I want to go there so bad
You should do it. It’s a beautiful place 💕
the th or lack of it is probably due to it not being in irish(gaelic) rather than french as is the case in ireland we do the same
I was born in Newfoundland St. John’s and after I was born went to my county and came back to Canada In Ontario. Started my school here and living here so never got the Newfie accent.
I’ve been meeting a lot of people from Newfoundland right here in Ontario as well. Is that your experience as well?
@@CharisMaggieTV not really, I have met one person which was my music teacher
'ang anter yet drawrs'? We say 'Keep yer britches on'
"Whale oil beef hooked."
'Em are ducks!!
That’s my Brother singing, the Newfie Stomp
What's after happenin now?
Hip yer partner Sally Tibbo hip yer partner Sally Brown
It's a bit like a Trini accent where they pose all the questions in a negative.
haha that's a good observation. never thought of it til now. Thanks for watching :)
Uhm.. wow.. lolol 👏😂
Simone Hayling haha enjoyed ? 😅
CharisMaggie TV Defffffinitely.. gonna be telling people to "ang on der draws" soon enough! 😂
Simone Hayling for really next time someone arguing with me, 'oy, ang on yuh draws!' Rwl.
i loves im a fellow newfoundlander b'y :)
Heyy 💕
Most young Newfoundlanders you'll meet will speak either like "WHADAYAT BYYYS HAHAHA LOVES IT" or "Hello, my name is Steve. How's your evening going? That's good"
Late but had to say it - me son or my son is a common thing to tack on to what your saying. ie "what are y'at me son?" or "now listen here my son" when speaking kinda sternly. We're not calling you our son. I dunno, it's like just another way of saying "you" or "buddy"?
geiger9 nice. I’ve always wondered about that
good vid
Thank you 💕
Whaddya doin? Nutting.