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If I paid for a class and somebody was on the toilet 20 seconds then I would want my money back. This would be a good video If it wasn't completely stocked with unfunny jokes and nonsense cutaways.
I find it hilarious that so many want to learn our accent 😂 I have often been frustrated when watching non Irish people trying to pull off our accent in movies and tv and getting it so wrong! I didn’t appreciate how difficult it is. You have done a great job 👏 We don’t pronounce the TH sound because there is none in our Gaeilge language and because we were forced to speak English by Britain we didn’t use the TH sound because it isn’t natural to our tongue
I am Australian and my family were Irish ☘️ I want to sound like what I should sound like and annoy my family speaking in a accent for days I can do posh English and it drives them mental ❤😂
@@ErnestLemmingway I don’t think it’s gender specific; I think just about everyone has had their moment, from Marine Corps uniforms in movies, how someone holds a baby to how a novice holds a weapon just before they pull the trigger. And our responses can range from hilarity to cringe.
Thank you so much for a proper guide for this. I've always had a slight speech impediment that made people think that I was British. And because I'm proud of my Irish heritage, I try to morph my speech impediment into an Irish accent. The problem is that most "tutorials" mash all Irish accents into one accent that most Americans would recognize as being "Irish".
I had a horrible speech impediment when I was younger and have hearing damage so I am partially deaf. I went through years of speech therapy. I have always lived on the East Coast of the US in Virginia. When I am not concentrating I don't realize I speak with slight British drawl (such as when I am tipsy, very tired, or with family and relaxed) and when concentrating on how I speak I still speak as though I am from the Northeast US. Usually people can listen to someone's accent here and know whereabouts they are from but it is near impossible with me.
Watching hours upon hours of Irish UA-camr videos and Dungeons & Dragons have finally made me want to learn the accent. This was very well put-together. Thank you for this!
Same! I accidently voiced a female character with a sort of Irish accent, and of course it was one that is often recurring, so I wanted to try and learn how to do the accent a bit better, to give it proper justice! (On top of making my masculine voice sound more feminine... I really like overworking myself😅)
@@ImproveYourVoice I think you're video wasn't really intended for me, it's for people who want to ACTUALLY sound like they're from Ireland. Not necessarily for people who want to flex to their friends that they can do a stereotypical irish and have it instantly recognized as such. Still a really good video, I'll keep the cadence thing you talked about in mind going forwards!
@@ImproveYourVoice I'm hoping that it helps with mine as I can find myself slipping between accents if I'm unsuccessful in being more specific with my accent choice.
Grew up in Dublin all my life, really liked how you broke down this video, very interesting and the skits were great! Your north Dublin accents in your examples were fairly weak but a solid point for only being a few days into learning them!
Hello , I've recently found out I'm Irish and taking an intrigue to Irish people, my mother raised me , my father wasn't in the picture but my father has passed and his family has been informing me of our roots so that's pretty cool . I don't know when my family got to America for some reason neither side of my family kept records and I'm just the type who wants to know where do I come from , neither side actually has any type of heritage any culture they have been so extremely americanized and it sadden me , had I been an Original Immigrant for my family tree I certainly would've been the type to record keep and keep my family rooted in where they come from , it's so bad it's like my mom doesn't even realise we are all from Immigrants it's like she thinks we just mysteriously woke up here in America, whew . I just don't understand the lack .
@@LightLivingEst80 You're not irish. You're of Irish descent, but that's not the same thing. You're American. I know that's not sexy or exciting for you, but trust me, it's probably more useful in the grand scheme of things. I'm an Irish person sitting in Ireland.
I was watching these exact UA-cam videos referenced in the video and failing at the accent. The fact that this video totally bashes those other ones is hilarious!! Completely embodies my journey and actually gives me direction to practice. Thank you!
Just so happens Dublin is exactly what I was going for, was trying to replicate Sean from rdr2 for a DnD character and thought first to look him up but then realized it made more sense to look up his VA, he's born and raised right in Dublin, great stuff you're making here man
Yes, this guy is brilliant and very methodical. it's funny,I just started trying an irish Accent like yesterday and he's picked apart all the first teachers I was listening to and taking copious notes. from,particularly Marianne. You just don't know what you don't know. I guess it's a matter of how authentic you need to be. if he's your audience your in trouble but 'm guessing you could fake it a bit most of the time.
This really made me laugh. I spent 6‘month in a bording school in Limerick with students from all parts of Ireland when I was 15 years old. I picked up some accent sounds and love them. Well done, great video
For a trainee ship i lived for half a year in Cork City. I picked up the local accent very fast even without noticing it by myself. When I came back to Germany to continue my studies, my English teacher was shocked and English speaking students asked me why I sound so "Irish". But as fast as I picked it up, as fast I lost it without Cork / Irish people around me. But at least on single word I still pronounce the Irish way even when drinking Scotch Whisky: Sláinte. ;-)
Thank you so much for this! My sister chose me as her wedding officiator. We’re traveling from Los Angeles California to Dublin for her wedding. I’m aiming to get the accent down within the next six months. Thank you again!
American Western, eh? Do you mean Texas, Colorado, New Mexico, California gold country, Nevada silver country...? TBH, the Texas accent travels well. But then again, you've got regional and class distinctions to figure out. Have fun! I've traveled & visited through all those areas, and I suspect a Durango accent would serve you well for Wild West kinds of VO. Really thought I'd popped back about 130 years!
i know you made this while ago, but i just wanted to say how helpful it was!! i've been practicing on my own by just imitating north dublin creators, but the way you broke everything down into manageable parts was a life saver. (also your bits were hilarious) thank you!!
I've realized that most of the people just mix the Irish accent which made me more confused when learning. Thanks a lot sir for such a great video of step-by-step tutorial.
I use a Belfast accent when performing Irish music. I used to play at an Irish pub in Charleston SC for two years. The best compliment I got was from a group of Irish ladies that came over to me after I finished a song and asked if I was actually from Ireland. I was honest and said I was from New York. And they told me my accent was really convincing. Thankful I was able to learn it properly.
😅 You sound like Aidan Gillen doing a northsiders accent in “Love/Hate” tv series… Brilliant work,love it… North Dublin accent needs to be lived,anyone trying to mimic it sound like they are trying to mimic it…. Not an easy accent to get a grip on…. Love it!!!❤
This is really incredible work! I can’t believe this doesn’t have more views/likes/comments. I really appreciate how you broke everything down. Very well done. Thank you for sharing this!
Thanks for this video, I am in America (Minnesota) and I originally got a somewhat-light southern Dublin Irish accent from my family (considering literally everyone of them is from Ireland), but was mistaken for something wrong with my speech so I was paired up with a speech therapist quite long ago (focusing on the th sound mainly) and went through it from 1st grade to 4th grade, until it for whatever reason stopped. I still have a bit of "Irish" in my voice right now due to well y'know, what I explained earlier. So I'm currently trying to morph it into a Irish accent and get comfortable speaking with it.
Such a quality video. I've been practicing singing for the last year, and so have been practicing a decent amount with the voice and placements, and a few weeks back I started getting recommended beatboxing videos, and now today I get your videos on accents and the art of speaking. Definitely been enjoying the process of developing my voice and I suppose I'll add your speaking videos to the list. Edit: also I tried going to the link and clicked the transcripts and resources link below the video but I'm just getting redirected to the main page of the website instead. Thanks
As an irish person living abroad i'd say this is the best of these I've seen and id say the other part of it is people just miss the sing song or overdo it
Amazing video!!!! I checked the book 'How to do accents' after I watched a video where you recommended it and I'm so happy to finally see someone on UA-cam tackle that methodology, it'd be really interesting to get a video on Laban dynamics or the 7 zones : )!!! thank you for putting this video together it's has been really insightful.
Great video man! I've been wanting to work on accents and this video helps a ton, both with this specific accent and with what I need to know for others. I really appreciate this channel, it's made my own channel better.
I can't believe this video has less than a million views. It's easily the best how to learn an accent video I've ever seen. Everything he talks about in the video can be applied with any other accent as well. What a crazy good lesson. Have a coffee!!!
Hey man Big thumbs up for the video and all the time you put in to it. I’m from South Africa and I need to record a 20 second audio with an Irish accent so I’m gonna use yours as my basis. I think 22 minutes is definitely not even close to begin to say “enough practice”, but I honesty don’t have more time. Anyways, thanks a lot!
Fantastic video. I realise his reading at the end was only 2 weeks work but it was 95% there, and I'm Irish born, raised and living in Ireland. It's only when I watch this type of indepth analysis that I realise just how difficult it must be for non natives.
@@ImproveYourVoice I'm going to write out the piece you read and listen back a few times. I'll post as soon as I can. Just getting set up for work here 😊
Dude, im like 63% irish, but i have an American country accent. My accent doesnt fit my history. This was great bc ive really been wanting to portray my ancestry more.
This was so much fun! I would love to hear you teach an American accent, New England in particular. Then I could judge your accent properly. But, I'm impressed with your Northern Dublin accent and your video editing skills and style! God Bless!
@@ImproveYourVoice New England is Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts (born and raised), Rhode Island and Connecticut. Any accent from the USA would be awesome though!! Brand new subscriber so excited to check out all your content!! 🥰
THANK YOU! That Step 1 Be Specific step also applies to EVERY language in the world. Just an example, I'm from the Philippines. If a foreigner says that they can speak Filipino, they usually mean they know how to or at least has some knowledge on how to speak Tagalog. Filipino on its own is very broad because we also have Pangasinense, Kampampangan, Waray, Chewbacano, etc. And, even with Tagalog, there are different types of accents. There is Bulakenyo, Batangas, taga-Metro, etc. When it comes to learning language, the MOST important rule is to be very specific.
@@ImproveYourVoice yesss, been trying to find find a video that actually has good steps in learning an accent. This is the best one I got so far. All the others were frustratingly general.
Thank you for this! I'm doing an audition for someone with an Irish accent, and stumbled across the videos you mentioned. I used your video and watched some Irish UA-camrs like PotatoMcWhiskey and Jacksepticeye to learn something actually real. I always thought it was weird how hard some of them hit the "Oi," since the UA-camrs always sounded like they were saying "I."
Thanks for the video man. I've got a pretty good chunk of Irish ancestry, and I've wanted to develop a solid, believable accent for a while and this has been the most helpful video on YT.
HA! I had just come here immediately after watching the Irish accent vid done by the "Goin' farrr with Mike (Mike)" guy you posted on here at the start. I felt caught lol. Glad I found you!!
This is already helping me a lot for the accent of my new Dungeons and Dragons character: an Irish pirate bird barbarian (I am not an actor and I am not a native English speaker so we'll see how well it goes. If all else fails I'll just use a thick Dutch accent)
Oh my god, I am not even thinking about getting any accent as I am Italian and came in the UK 10 years ago in my late 30’s so that is something that would be impossible for me to achieve but I love to watch accents videos and this is the best video I have seen in the past 10 years!
I greatly appreciate you. You’re a clearly talented individual in many aspects but you sharing your knowledge in dialect, accents and where the sounds come from AND I also appreciate you so much for sharing yourself within the video. This was so much fun to watch and I hope you enjoyed making this video. Cheers from America 🤙
Side note - I love how you instruct to get invested in the culture. Wildly overlooked (guilty of that). But excellent advice. Top notch video. Top notch teaching. Very thankful for your willingness to teach but also how much fun you made it.
This will make you laugh, growing up in Dublin in the 70s Dr.Who with Jon Pertwee was very popular. But us kids never saw Dalek written down so we would talk about the Darleks, because being used to hearing English accents on TV we thought that's what he was saying.
As a guy who grew up watching Crocodile Hunter and living in the deep south I feel obligated to say the "ging" sound you make, and do so well, sounds just like a baby gator or croc lol made me laugh. Absolutely stellar video 👍
YES this is REAL and you're adorable. Useful, creative and easy to watch and follow. Thank you!!! Can you look at the subtitled text as you're speaking - some are really funny mistakes I don't think are intentional... :)
Yessss finally, I’ve been dying to dive into my roots I love the culture and everything about the accent. Very authentic I’ll be practice with you thanks man
A for effort. Some of the bits you read from the script are bang on the money, and some miss the mark. The thing that people don't realise is we use inflections from the Irish language when we speak English. For example, the word 'blue' in irish is Gorm. Not gorm as in gormless, it sounds like gurum. So 'world' sounds like 'woreld'. The language is littered with it, especially north dublin. We stretch words out too, like 'team' is spoken as if it has a hyphen in it. Te-am. Sounds the same as when you say 'Liam'.
thank you so much for this video, I'm not in school to be an actor or anything but training in my own time to audition to be a part of a theatre group so really exciting. I've always been fond of different accents and feel like I can do them decently, but the problem I had was that none of them apart from my own south London accent other London accents and more regional English accents, maybe my Brooklyn, Harlem and Parisian ones, none were specific to an area. so they were all really general. this was so helpful because now, I can take these things and apply it to all the other accents I want to perfect ! yeah... those videos you mentioned left a lot to be desired, so im so happy I stumbled across you :)
Brilliant! It's the nuances in the dialects that help with the correct enunciation, and you've got that pretty spot on. I'd love to hear what you ended up with after a month's practice. Thank you for this. 👍I agree with the pinned comment. This is gold, for 'free'.
The lessons are well thought out, thorough and presented in a relaxed and clear way. Darren, why must you have a sound-track of music running during while you are speaking? I find the sound-track to be a big distraction and it interferes with my attempts to concentrate on the nuance of your speaking.
Me an annoying American trying to learn how to speak with an tolerable Irish accent for my DnD character because I firmly believe any character of Fae/sylvan background should be of Irish background lol
Apart from the really, really, really annoying music, this was an excellent video. Because it was so technically good, I grudgingly gave it a thumbs up.
Great video. I've seen videos from the others mentioned and always felt they were comically "Irish", compared to when I heard native speakers in shows and movies.
For two weeks you are doing great. I'm a complete newbie just do this for fun but I've got a character I been workin on for over a year, and sort of developed my own Irish accent around him. I stay pretty clear of Dublin though except for the occaisonal Tink and Dose. Bridget and Eamon is a super funny Irish show and is great practice since it has a wide cast you can work on a lot of regions.
Peaky Blinders and Cillian Murphy made me want to learn the Irish accent. Thanks for this, I thoroughly enjoyed it. That Madeleine video was very misleading, I'm not gonna lie.
Thank you for making this video! Learning how to speak with different accents is a hobby of mine, but seeing everything about irish accents being wrong all of the time made me afraid to try! (Learning accents is something I do out of respect and interest, and I'd never want to offend someone when speaking with "their accent".) I'll be watching this video and practicing on making the accents I do specific. Hope you have a nice day!
I'm reading a book right now by an Irish writer, and he keep mentioning people "pronouncing their ing's" the more posh people I believe he said in the part one book. Now that makes sense!😅
Sth I always wondered was why many ppl who teachs accents dont tell u which accent they r teaching. I'm from Germany and if someone would try to teach "the german dialekt" u couldn't do that cause even in places with a specific accent they can still differ from town to town, so its rly nice to have aomeone teach a specific accent from a specific region, and not a mix of all of them Edit: also im planning on spending a year in ireland after getting my degree, so this video will be helpful, not only to have a better chance at understanding others, but also so i can try and sound more Irish, its kidna like learning the language of the country ur traveling to(ok in case of Ireland it would be Gaeilige but i think ill have to speak more english than Gaeilige)
I'm from the Congo Democratic Republic( Centre Africa) and it's a French-speaking country, French is my first language, I'm currently in Australia, since 2018.
This is really helpful, thank you! I just started learning Irish on Duolingo and its really annoying that the speaker voices on there always differ for the words and pronunciations as well given they're probably also speaking different dialects of the words, but I suppose its good though because it gives me an idea of how else to pronounce them.
It sounds like you’re talking about a North Inner City Dublin accent, which is quite different from the way they speak in Clontarf, Howth or the rural areas of North County Dublin.
Oh! "Be Chief O'Brien" for North Dublin, why did you just say that. Much easier now. ;) Thank you for the class, my players are always looking for meaningful NPC, a believable accent help makes them feel real.
❤ This video is wonderfully witty and informative as well. Thank you especially for sharing the exact articulation points. Query: I’m studying Gaeilge on Duolingo but want a more realistic accent. Would you advise practicing a specific accent and then sliding those articulation points into my Gaeilge accent? I don’t yet have a native human being as a teacher.
Hmm. I might not be the best person to ask on that one as I don’t speak the language and therefore am unaware if there is a specific or proper accent for it. I’m sure there are tutorials that might cover or articles online.
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criminally underrated video; people pay thousands for classes like this
Well feel free to buy me a coffee anytime! 😎
@@ImproveYourVoice you deserve the whole coffee shop 👍 thanks
If I paid for a class and somebody was on the toilet 20 seconds then I would want my money back. This would be a good video If it wasn't completely stocked with unfunny jokes and nonsense cutaways.
@@vaultgirl9458 it’s free stupid just learn what you can from it and don’t leave annoying comments like this 💀
Or just go live in Eire for a few months
Plottwist: He actually has a deep Irish (North Dublin) accent and has been explaining everything using his Essex accent
Hahaha yeah what a cheat eh 😂
I find it hilarious that so many want to learn our accent 😂 I have often been frustrated when watching non Irish people trying to pull off our accent in movies and tv and getting it so wrong! I didn’t appreciate how difficult it is. You have done a great job 👏
We don’t pronounce the TH sound because there is none in our Gaeilge language and because we were forced to speak English by Britain we didn’t use the TH sound because it isn’t natural to our tongue
I am Australian and my family were Irish ☘️ I want to sound like what I should sound like and annoy my family speaking in a accent for days I can do posh English and it drives them mental ❤😂
@@justamistymanic ah Jaysus I’m not
Surprised they go mental 😂
This is definitely something only a girl would complain about. " No one is doing it the right way 😤"
I’m half Irish but I’m only here learning the accent cuz it’s 5am and I’m bored lmao
@@ErnestLemmingway I don’t think it’s gender specific; I think just about everyone has had their moment, from Marine Corps uniforms in movies, how someone holds a baby to how a novice holds a weapon just before they pull the trigger. And our responses can range from hilarity to cringe.
Thank you so much for a proper guide for this. I've always had a slight speech impediment that made people think that I was British. And because I'm proud of my Irish heritage, I try to morph my speech impediment into an Irish accent. The problem is that most "tutorials" mash all Irish accents into one accent that most Americans would recognize as being "Irish".
That’s why I put it together. I’ll work on it myself a little more over the coming weeks and if I learn more I’ll share more! 🤜🤛
I had a horrible speech impediment when I was younger and have hearing damage so I am partially deaf. I went through years of speech therapy. I have always lived on the East Coast of the US in Virginia. When I am not concentrating I don't realize I speak with slight British drawl (such as when I am tipsy, very tired, or with family and relaxed) and when concentrating on how I speak I still speak as though I am from the Northeast US. Usually people can listen to someone's accent here and know whereabouts they are from but it is near impossible with me.
@@ImproveYourVoice too bad you and Tyler couldnt work together to help each other ;)
I've never seen a more american comment I'm literally amazed
I think the other videos ended up sounding Australian or Brummy (Birmingham uk)
Watching hours upon hours of Irish UA-camr videos and Dungeons & Dragons have finally made me want to learn the accent. This was very well put-together. Thank you for this!
I am also here from D&D (but also attempting to dabble in voice acting as well)
Superb video! 🤘
I’ve Irish parents but I don’t use the accent
This is exactly why I'm here lol I want to do the accent as well as possible for dnd
Lol same doing it rn
Same! I accidently voiced a female character with a sort of Irish accent, and of course it was one that is often recurring, so I wanted to try and learn how to do the accent a bit better, to give it proper justice! (On top of making my masculine voice sound more feminine... I really like overworking myself😅)
Who else is here because they decided to make an Irish DnD character?
Did it help?
@@ImproveYourVoice I think you're video wasn't really intended for me, it's for people who want to ACTUALLY sound like they're from Ireland. Not necessarily for people who want to flex to their friends that they can do a stereotypical irish and have it instantly recognized as such. Still a really good video, I'll keep the cadence thing you talked about in mind going forwards!
@@ImproveYourVoice I'm hoping that it helps with mine as I can find myself slipping between accents if I'm unsuccessful in being more specific with my accent choice.
Hoping that it helps with mine as I am prone to slipping between accents if I don't choose a more specific one.
Yes lol
Grew up in Dublin all my life, really liked how you broke down this video, very interesting and the skits were great! Your north Dublin accents in your examples were fairly weak but a solid point for only being a few days into learning them!
Hello , I've recently found out I'm Irish and taking an intrigue to Irish people, my mother raised me , my father wasn't in the picture but my father has passed and his family has been informing me of our roots so that's pretty cool . I don't know when my family got to America for some reason neither side of my family kept records and I'm just the type who wants to know where do I come from , neither side actually has any type of heritage any culture they have been so extremely americanized and it sadden me , had I been an Original Immigrant for my family tree I certainly would've been the type to record keep and keep my family rooted in where they come from , it's so bad it's like my mom doesn't even realise we are all from Immigrants it's like she thinks we just mysteriously woke up here in America, whew . I just don't understand the lack .
@@LightLivingEst80 You're not irish. You're of Irish descent, but that's not the same thing. You're American. I know that's not sexy or exciting for you, but trust me, it's probably more useful in the grand scheme of things. I'm an Irish person sitting in Ireland.
I was watching these exact UA-cam videos referenced in the video and failing at the accent. The fact that this video totally bashes those other ones is hilarious!! Completely embodies my journey and actually gives me direction to practice. Thank you!
Just so happens Dublin is exactly what I was going for, was trying to replicate Sean from rdr2 for a DnD character and thought first to look him up but then realized it made more sense to look up his VA, he's born and raised right in Dublin, great stuff you're making here man
Yes, this guy is brilliant and very methodical. it's funny,I just started trying an irish Accent like yesterday and he's picked apart all the first teachers I was listening to and taking copious notes. from,particularly Marianne. You just don't know what you don't know. I guess it's a matter of how authentic you need to be. if he's your audience your in trouble but 'm guessing you could fake it a bit most of the time.
This really made me laugh. I spent 6‘month in a bording school in Limerick with students from all parts of Ireland when I was 15 years old. I picked up some accent sounds and love them. Well done, great video
I watched this to prepare for a DND session where I played an Irish character, this really helped a lot! Thank you so much for making this video!
CRYING OVER ALL THE TUROTIALS FEATURED IN THAT ONE SECTION SO ACCURATE ME RN WATCHING ALL OF THESE I CAN'T THAT WAS SO GENIUS PLZ
For a trainee ship i lived for half a year in Cork City. I picked up the local accent very fast even without noticing it by myself. When I came back to Germany to continue my studies, my English teacher was shocked and English speaking students asked me why I sound so "Irish". But as fast as I picked it up, as fast I lost it without Cork / Irish people around me. But at least on single word I still pronounce the Irish way even when drinking Scotch Whisky: Sláinte. ;-)
Thank you so much for this! My sister chose me as her wedding officiator. We’re traveling from Los Angeles California to Dublin for her wedding. I’m aiming to get the accent down within the next six months. Thank you again!
You got this.
How's it going so far?
How’s it now
how did you do?
Please do more of these! Beginner VO trying to learn Accents. Australian, American Western etc would be awesome!
American Western, eh? Do you mean Texas, Colorado, New Mexico, California gold country, Nevada silver country...?
TBH, the Texas accent travels well. But then again, you've got regional and class distinctions to figure out.
Have fun! I've traveled & visited through all those areas, and I suspect a Durango accent would serve you well for Wild West kinds of VO. Really thought I'd popped back about 130 years!
Native Gulf Coast Texan here. There are so many different accents in this giant state! Agree, must be specific! 🤪
the way i just watched the 3 videos he reviewed before coming to this, this is so much more helpful and is gonna be so much better for my play 🙏🙏
We all did! They were my inspiration 😂 where you from?
@@ImproveYourVoice canadian! but im part irish and have wanted to do an irish accent forever
i know you made this while ago, but i just wanted to say how helpful it was!! i've been practicing on my own by just imitating north dublin creators, but the way you broke everything down into manageable parts was a life saver. (also your bits were hilarious) thank you!!
I've realized that most of the people just mix the Irish accent which made me more confused when learning. Thanks a lot sir for such a great video of step-by-step tutorial.
He Literally just targetef the Last Two Vids I Just watched🤣
I use a Belfast accent when performing Irish music. I used to play at an Irish pub in Charleston SC for two years. The best compliment I got was from a group of Irish ladies that came over to me after I finished a song and asked if I was actually from Ireland. I was honest and said I was from New York. And they told me my accent was really convincing. Thankful I was able to learn it properly.
😅 You sound like Aidan Gillen doing a northsiders accent in “Love/Hate” tv series…
Brilliant work,love it…
North Dublin accent needs to be lived,anyone trying to mimic it sound like they are trying to mimic it….
Not an easy accent to get a grip on….
Love it!!!❤
Just found your channel and subscribed! Thank you for all you put into these videos 🙌🏼
Very kind off you. I hope you get lots more from it!
This is really incredible work! I can’t believe this doesn’t have more views/likes/comments. I really appreciate how you broke everything down. Very well done. Thank you for sharing this!
Thanks for your comment! Where are you from?
Thanks for this video, I am in America (Minnesota) and I originally got a somewhat-light southern Dublin Irish accent from my family (considering literally everyone of them is from Ireland), but was mistaken for something wrong with my speech so I was paired up with a speech therapist quite long ago (focusing on the th sound mainly) and went through it from 1st grade to 4th grade, until it for whatever reason stopped. I still have a bit of "Irish" in my voice right now due to well y'know, what I explained earlier. So I'm currently trying to morph it into a Irish accent and get comfortable speaking with it.
Such a quality video. I've been practicing singing for the last year, and so have been practicing a decent amount with the voice and placements, and a few weeks back I started getting recommended beatboxing videos, and now today I get your videos on accents and the art of speaking. Definitely been enjoying the process of developing my voice and I suppose I'll add your speaking videos to the list.
Edit: also I tried going to the link and clicked the transcripts and resources link below the video but I'm just getting redirected to the main page of the website instead. Thanks
Okay thanks for the heads up. I’ve been having trouble with this 🤔
Thank you so much! ❤ I am half Irish, but I don't live in Ireland, so my accent is not irish, but I really want an irish accent! 🇮🇪
As an irish person living abroad i'd say this is the best of these I've seen and id say the other part of it is people just miss the sing song or overdo it
That means a lot. Thank you 🙏
Amazing video!!!! I checked the book 'How to do accents' after I watched a video where you recommended it and I'm so happy to finally see someone on UA-cam tackle that methodology, it'd be really interesting to get a video on Laban dynamics or the 7 zones : )!!! thank you for putting this video together it's has been really insightful.
Wonderful! Certainly more to come using those methodologies. Thanks for your comment! x
Great video man! I've been wanting to work on accents and this video helps a ton, both with this specific accent and with what I need to know for others. I really appreciate this channel, it's made my own channel better.
Yeah you can check all these things when looking at other accents! It helps. Thanks for your comment 👍
I can't believe this video has less than a million views. It's easily the best how to learn an accent video I've ever seen. Everything he talks about in the video can be applied with any other accent as well. What a crazy good lesson. Have a coffee!!!
Thank you sir. So glad you got benefit from it. And the coffee/book is gratefully received 🙏
9:59 he started sounding like a Minecraft villager 💀
I came looking for this comment
Thank you for making this video, it will helps so much when my Irish character speaks in the novel I’m writing 💗
Ooh that’s cool. Why’s it about?
Hey man
Big thumbs up for the video and all the time you put in to it. I’m from South Africa and I need to record a 20 second audio with an Irish accent so I’m gonna use yours as my basis. I think 22 minutes is definitely not even close to begin to say “enough practice”, but I honesty don’t have more time. Anyways, thanks a lot!
Fantastic video. I realise his reading at the end was only 2 weeks work but it was 95% there, and I'm Irish born, raised and living in Ireland. It's only when I watch this type of indepth analysis that I realise just how difficult it must be for non natives.
Thank you @velcro so glad a native can appreciate the effort. That’s a great starting percentage 😀 can you spot where I can improve?
@@ImproveYourVoice I'm going to write out the piece you read and listen back a few times. I'll post as soon as I can. Just getting set up for work here 😊
Wow thanks 🙏
I have a history exam on the Troubles in Ireland next week but I think this is more important for revision
Dude, im like 63% irish, but i have an American country accent. My accent doesnt fit my history. This was great bc ive really been wanting to portray my ancestry more.
This was so much fun! I would love to hear you teach an American accent, New England in particular. Then I could judge your accent properly. But, I'm impressed with your Northern Dublin accent and your video editing skills and style! God Bless!
Thanks Nikki 🙏 where is New England? I might need to do somewhere more well known. Anywhere major that it’s close to?
@@ImproveYourVoice New England is Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts (born and raised), Rhode Island and Connecticut. Any accent from the USA would be awesome though!! Brand new subscriber so excited to check out all your content!! 🥰
Hmm I’ll have to check them out! Thanks 😊
Boston
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THANK YOU! That Step 1 Be Specific step also applies to EVERY language in the world. Just an example, I'm from the Philippines. If a foreigner says that they can speak Filipino, they usually mean they know how to or at least has some knowledge on how to speak Tagalog. Filipino on its own is very broad because we also have Pangasinense, Kampampangan, Waray, Chewbacano, etc. And, even with Tagalog, there are different types of accents. There is Bulakenyo, Batangas, taga-Metro, etc. When it comes to learning language, the MOST important rule is to be very specific.
Yes sir! I’m glad you agree. So are you learning the rush accent?
@@ImproveYourVoice yesss, been trying to find find a video that actually has good steps in learning an accent. This is the best one I got so far. All the others were frustratingly general.
That’s very kind! 😊
Thank you for this! I'm doing an audition for someone with an Irish accent, and stumbled across the videos you mentioned. I used your video and watched some Irish UA-camrs like PotatoMcWhiskey and Jacksepticeye to learn something actually real.
I always thought it was weird how hard some of them hit the "Oi," since the UA-camrs always sounded like they were saying "I."
It's more like Ai rather then Oi !
Seán is one reason I've come to appreciate the accents heheh
Thanks for the video man. I've got a pretty good chunk of Irish ancestry, and I've wanted to develop a solid, believable accent for a while and this has been the most helpful video on YT.
Just adore the accent from the North of Ireland. Derry and even Belfast. Picked up quite a bit from Derry Girls.
Derry Girls is Hilarious 🤣
HA! I had just come here immediately after watching the Irish accent vid done by the "Goin' farrr with Mike (Mike)" guy you posted on here at the start. I felt caught lol. Glad I found you!!
This is already helping me a lot for the accent of my new Dungeons and Dragons character: an Irish pirate bird barbarian
(I am not an actor and I am not a native English speaker so we'll see how well it goes. If all else fails I'll just use a thick Dutch accent)
Oh my god, I am not even thinking about getting any accent as I am Italian and came in the UK 10 years ago in my late 30’s so that is something that would be impossible for me to achieve but I love to watch accents videos and this is the best video I have seen in the past 10 years!
Bless you mate! Should I do another?
@@ImproveYourVoice absolutely yes 😁😁😁😁
Any suggestions?
Most accurate I’ve heard. Spot on 👏🏻☘️
I greatly appreciate you. You’re a clearly talented individual in many aspects but you sharing your knowledge in dialect, accents and where the sounds come from AND I also appreciate you so much for sharing yourself within the video. This was so much fun to watch and I hope you enjoyed making this video.
Cheers from America 🤙
Side note - I love how you instruct to get invested in the culture. Wildly overlooked (guilty of that). But excellent advice. Top notch video. Top notch teaching. Very thankful for your willingness to teach but also how much fun you made it.
This will make you laugh, growing up in Dublin in the 70s Dr.Who with Jon Pertwee was very popular. But us kids never saw Dalek written down so we would talk about the Darleks, because being used to hearing English accents on TV we thought that's what he was saying.
Perfect 👍
As a guy who grew up watching Crocodile Hunter and living in the deep south I feel obligated to say the "ging" sound you make, and do so well, sounds just like a baby gator or croc lol made me laugh. Absolutely stellar video 👍
YES this is REAL and you're adorable. Useful, creative and easy to watch and follow. Thank you!!! Can you look at the subtitled text as you're speaking - some are really funny mistakes I don't think are intentional... :)
Aah thanks for the heads up it was automated 😂
Great video. Very funny! I would have liked some sample sentences to practice though.
A key in. Exactly. I think the reason these other videos are so popular is because they give a bunch of sample sentences which we can use as a key in.
Thanks! 😃 noted. Did you check the transcription on the website?
Yessss finally, I’ve been dying to dive into my roots I love the culture and everything about the accent. Very authentic I’ll be practice with you thanks man
Haha! Researching Irish accents and found you! well done amigo! Thoroughly enjoyed this amigo! x
Hi 👋
I love you. Thank you. I'm half Scot, part Irish, and others. But ultimately I was born 'mercan. I'd love to learn my heritage💜🤗💚
Best of luck with it!
A for effort. Some of the bits you read from the script are bang on the money, and some miss the mark. The thing that people don't realise is we use inflections from the Irish language when we speak English. For example, the word 'blue' in irish is Gorm. Not gorm as in gormless, it sounds like gurum. So 'world' sounds like 'woreld'. The language is littered with it, especially north dublin.
We stretch words out too, like 'team' is spoken as if it has a hyphen in it. Te-am. Sounds the same as when you say 'Liam'.
Those areas incredible tips there thank you 🙏
Oh thanks so much for the Irish accent! I ll start practicing with my friends (I live in Dublin), that will make them laugh big time ! Funny vid🤣🤣🤣🎉…
I m in North Dublin 😍💕
Perfect!
thank you so much for this video, I'm not in school to be an actor or anything but training in my own time to audition to be a part of a theatre group so really exciting. I've always been fond of different accents and feel like I can do them decently, but the problem I had was that none of them apart from my own south London accent other London accents and more regional English accents, maybe my Brooklyn, Harlem and Parisian ones, none were specific to an area. so they were all really general. this was so helpful because now, I can take these things and apply it to all the other accents I want to perfect ! yeah... those videos you mentioned left a lot to be desired, so im so happy I stumbled across you :)
Yes you can. Well done 👍 hope your audition goes well!
Being irish I find it amazing that so many people want to talk like us!
It’s a popular search topic for sure!
Brilliant! It's the nuances in the dialects that help with the correct enunciation, and you've got that pretty spot on. I'd love to hear what you ended up with after a month's practice. Thank you for this. 👍I agree with the pinned comment. This is gold, for 'free'.
you are the best teacher of sounding Irish. Gawd blss u mi sun
Thanks for making this.I have Irish blood and i have always wanted to learn this accent.
Where did you grow up?
@@ImproveYourVoice Texas. My dad has familt in Ireland so i have Irish blood from him.
Okay. Texans can have quite a thick accent too right? Where in Ireland is he from? 🇮🇪
The lessons are well thought out, thorough and presented in a relaxed and clear way. Darren, why must you have a sound-track of music running during while you are speaking? I find the sound-track to be a big distraction and it interferes with my attempts to concentrate on the nuance of your speaking.
Noted! Thanks 🙏 until someone speaks up I’m not to know. Much appreciated 👌
Me an annoying American trying to learn how to speak with an tolerable Irish accent for my DnD character because I firmly believe any character of Fae/sylvan background should be of Irish background lol
Only five min in but this is legendary 👌🏻 thanks a bunch lad
This guy is such an oddball I love it 😹
This was so amazing, I am just looking for fun for a D&D campaign.
Apart from the really, really, really annoying music, this was an excellent video. Because it was so technically good, I grudgingly gave it a thumbs up.
Great video. I've seen videos from the others mentioned and always felt they were comically "Irish", compared to when I heard native speakers in shows and movies.
For two weeks you are doing great. I'm a complete newbie just do this for fun but I've got a character I been workin on for over a year, and sort of developed my own Irish accent around him. I stay pretty clear of Dublin though except for the occaisonal Tink and Dose.
Bridget and Eamon is a super funny Irish show and is great practice since it has a wide cast you can work on a lot of regions.
Cool, thanks for that! I might check it out later.
Peaky Blinders and Cillian Murphy made me want to learn the Irish accent. Thanks for this, I thoroughly enjoyed it. That Madeleine video was very misleading, I'm not gonna lie.
Really good video! I'm trying to learn 'the irish accent' and it's very helpful now focusing on a specific one.
Great! Have you learned any others?
This so so helpful. And SO FUNNY 😂 Bravo!
Thanks any favourite points?
As someone from Barbados who's accent has a very noticeable Irish accent in it I can naturally so it sometimes cause I was just raised around that
Thanks, Darren! A great resource for a pending audition!
You’re welcome ☺️
1:52 that was easily the BEST evil laugh I’ve ever heard. Done with such zeal; aside from that, wonderful video, friend
I've learned from this video that my Irish accent is way better than I thought and that I may have a nack for stealing accents
Thank you for making this video! Learning how to speak with different accents is a hobby of mine, but seeing everything about irish accents being wrong all of the time made me afraid to try! (Learning accents is something I do out of respect and interest, and I'd never want to offend someone when speaking with "their accent".)
I'll be watching this video and practicing on making the accents I do specific.
Hope you have a nice day!
Thank you for your comment. Love to hear what you come up with?😁
@@secretwof_yt9070 Yes ma'am! :D (well, sea/rain/ice - so i had a good reason to name her Icee. :P) I love those books haha
I'm reading a book right now by an Irish writer, and he keep mentioning people "pronouncing their ing's" the more posh people I believe he said in the part one book. Now that makes sense!😅
Which book?
@@ImproveYourVoice Paperboy: An Enchanting True Story of a Belfast Paperboy Coming to Terms with the Troubles.
met some irish in the pub once... no idea wtf they were speaking lmao
Sth I always wondered was why many ppl who teachs accents dont tell u which accent they r teaching. I'm from Germany and if someone would try to teach "the german dialekt" u couldn't do that cause even in places with a specific accent they can still differ from town to town, so its rly nice to have aomeone teach a specific accent from a specific region, and not a mix of all of them
Edit: also im planning on spending a year in ireland after getting my degree, so this video will be helpful, not only to have a better chance at understanding others, but also so i can try and sound more Irish, its kidna like learning the language of the country ur traveling to(ok in case of Ireland it would be Gaeilige but i think ill have to speak more english than Gaeilige)
Interesting!
Thanks for this, it helps me, it's my ultimate tool for my communication improvement.
We need more like this.
Glad it was helpful! Where are you from?
I'm from the Congo Democratic Republic( Centre Africa) and it's a French-speaking country, French is my first language, I'm currently in Australia, since 2018.
Maybe I’ll cover the Australian accent next???
Enjoying this video plus the added benefit of irritating my wife when ask “would you like to see me shillelagh?”
wowie, the man completely transformed by the first minute mark, excellent stuff
"Where's Mike?" "Piss off" 🤣🤣
Wow someone actually watched it that far in. 👊
Lovely bass in the background :)
You know it! Is it you?
@@ImproveYourVoice Oh wow you responded quickly :)
What do you mean by "Is it you?" 🤔
Great video the skits had me laughing my ass off. The oil one at the end killed me.
"Where's Mike?" "Piss off."
I didn’t think anyone watched that far. 🙏
Thank you! This is so helpful! Also, loved the editing!😁
Thanks 🙏 not everyone gets my humour though. 😳
Seriously, that's brilliant! Thanks a million.
9:59 Minecraft villagers be like
Useful? 😁😁👍
The part were he's like ooo look at me im from airlanddd.. He sounds likes Wallace trying to do an Irish accent.. Form Wallace & grommet
Here to become the one, the only, the notorioooooooouuuussss, conoooooorrr, mcreeeeeeeegoor.
Absolutely fantastic...now I know why other videos haven't worked for me. Amazing insights...crucial. thank you so much.
This is really helpful, thank you! I just started learning Irish on Duolingo and its really annoying that the speaker voices on there always differ for the words and pronunciations as well given they're probably also speaking different dialects of the words, but I suppose its good though because it gives me an idea of how else to pronounce them.
I came here so that I could read Niall Horan's dialogue in fanfiction in an Irish accent in my head, and I am leaving a changed human.
Ha ha, o hope that’s a good thing?
It sounds like you’re talking about a North Inner City Dublin accent, which is quite different from the way they speak in Clontarf, Howth or the rural areas of North County Dublin.
Thankyou. I know it can get even more specific than that. Good to know for future. 👍
9:55 this man started speaking villager
Oh! "Be Chief O'Brien" for North Dublin, why did you just say that. Much easier now. ;) Thank you for the class, my players are always looking for meaningful NPC, a believable accent help makes them feel real.
❤ This video is wonderfully witty and informative as well. Thank you especially for sharing the exact articulation points. Query: I’m studying Gaeilge on Duolingo but want a more realistic accent.
Would you advise practicing a specific accent and then sliding those articulation points into my Gaeilge accent? I don’t yet have a native human being as a teacher.
Hmm. I might not be the best person to ask on that one as I don’t speak the language and therefore am unaware if there is a specific or proper accent for it. I’m sure there are tutorials that might cover or articles online.
About time my accent is lacking so i needed it Yknow lad
Cheers dude