Features of an Irish Accent
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- In this lesson, I'm joined by Jo from Dublin, and we explore some of the features of an Irish accent.
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I was impressed with the use of the word “grand” for “I’m grand” instead of “I’m good”
In Italian you can say: vado alla grande= I'm doing well
Grand is one of those words changing meaning based on how you say it. It's like a word we use a lot in Genoa (where I'm from in Italy), a word I'm not writing as it's quite rude.
I believe that comes from when the English upper classes lived in the ‘grand houses’ in Ireland. So the common Irish people would say it in a mocking manner to each other’Arn’t you grand?’ ‘Yes I am grand’ In other words above your position or status. Then over time the ‘grand’ became known as ‘good’.
"Grand" is used a bit like "OK", but it generaly means better than OK as in "pefectly satisfactory" whereas "OK" suggests only just satisfactory.
I’m half Irish and here in America our English is by far more like the Irish English than England English. The Irish influenced us a lot! Country music dance language etc
Just brilliant dialogue! I love your interviews on different accents, Anna! Thank you
Such an amazing video! I am Brazilian, but I teach English. I love hearing different accents and learning new words and expressions. Thanks a million.
I am not from ireland but am part Irish, the irish accent is quite delightful
It's always been fascinating to learn about new accents. Thank you Anna for what you do here as a gifted teacher. I'm proud of watching your videos and learning something new. Well Done Dear Anna.💙💙
One thing that wasn’t mentioned is how Irish accents pronounce the START vowel - that’s in words like “cart”, “far”, and “heart”. On top of being rhotic like most things in Irish accents, it’s also very fronted in the mouth as well. In the city of Boston, Massachusetts, which was shaped by a lot of Irish immigration, the START vowel is also fronted but it’s also non-rhotic (although linking-R still exists, much like in British accents). This leads to the stereotypical phonetic pronunciation of “Pak yuh car in Hahvuhd Yahd”. (That’s “park your car in Harvard Yard” for anyone not familiar with Boston accents or New England accents in general.)
Many of these features a leftover from the Irish language. Even the syntax of a sentence when you go out west is different than English because they’re using Irish language rules
I wish you could interview the Frostbit Boy for another taste of the Irish accent. Love this video!!!
Thank you!
An enjoyable video, Anna. Just loved it. "Accents" can be quite interesting. It was only during my army training that I realised that even Afrikaans has differenr "accents" depending on where the speaker comes from.
irish accent is so good,i love it.
I was shocked by the similarity to some sounds used in New England, where many people are of Irish descent. When I was a kid, instead of "mine," we would say "my-en." Seems like the equivalent of "fil-em" and "ti-em."
I like Irish, thanks for the very nice introduction. The 'thing' stuff is 🤯
How does this channel not have more subscribers? Excellent content.
When I visited Dublin for the first time, I thought their accent was so familiar and thought they sounded so much more American than I expected
Dublin yes but the accents gets thicker outside of dublin. The Hollywood version of the Irish accent is not really heard in Ireland
Great n fun lesson…thank you!
As a native spanish speaker her accent is so much more intuitive to what we would sound words out to be, interesting !
As an Irish person and native English speaker I adore the Spanish language. I really want to learn it. Its so fluid and just beautiful.....
Canadian here. During five years in Cambridge late 60s, I was often assumed to be American 😒 but occasionally asked if I were Irish 🙂.
I love the Irish final "split t"!
Most of my youngest colleagues here in Galway use "What's the story?" and "What's the craic?". It took me a while to understand what they were telling me. It's not natural for me to use those phrases.
What’s the story? Morning glory! Amazing album by Oasis.
Jo is so lovely
I love British accent and I want to practice it and I am imitating now
Mum matriculated from what is now University College, Dublin. Hey elocution training indeed, included marbles in her mouth. I must say, Mum was sought after for public readings, announcements, and even the occasional radio spot in the very small town, where I grew up (USA). Her elocution was beautiful. She was born 1923, so her education was completed late 30s.
Great video
Your channel is really superb ❤❤❤
Really helping a lot
Do you plan on doing vids on American or Aussie accents? If you want to do American accents, I can point you in the right direction to start. For example, the Philly accent check out, on UA-cam, ice hockey player Tony DeAngelo, and for Boston check another hockey player (former) Kevin Stevens. Both have heavy classic accents for each of those cities respectively.
I’m from Cork where we have a very distinctive singsong accent that is quite different to Jo’s (mild) Dublin accent. Many of the features discussed, such as the pronunciation of “th” come from the Irish language (Gaeilge) and these we have in common across Ireland. As a 20something year old, I moved to Dublin, and it took me some time to understand some people! I moved to Canada decades ago and now have a mixed accent. However, some people, meeting me for the first time, will announce loudly “You have an accent!” To which I reply “So do you!”. I have been mistaken for English and Scottish. But whenever I go to Ireland, people remark on my Canadian accent. “Say Aboot!” I was recently reading a comment on an interview with the Irish actor Andrew Scott, in which the commented thought he had an American accent. I don’t think he has an American accent at all, just a mild South County Dublin accent combined with a bit of London, where he currently lives. But Irish accents sound very familiar to most Americans.
We need a video on the differences between Northern Irish and Irish accents!
Also, Welsh, Cornish, Manx, Scottish Gaelic &
Lowland Scots, hopefully!!
Who have the link of Chanel of Teacher "Jo"?? please.
This is great!! I am headed to Dublin next week so definitely learned some new words :) and ways that words are pronounced that I never would have understood! like “anything” - that one was wild
Everything can also be said evert'n (with the 't' being the Irish soft 't')
Ana habla con muy bonito acento, de qué parte es?
Also for Chicago accent look up comedian Sebastian Maniscalco.
Thanks for the effort you made for this challenge but this irish accent push my English down 😅
Happy birthday 🎉🎊
Thank you!
So on a trip to Ireland (from the US) I paid for a small item with a one euro note. The item cost 0.57, so the clerk handed me back my change and said, what sounded to me, like "Farty Tree." I just pictured in my head an old tree with a knot hole that was closed, but would open up from time to time and eject a foul rotten odor!
Off the topic, one euro only have coins, no notes 😁
Fantastic
Is the scottish accent rhotic as well??
Yes, it is.
It is but they use a thrilled R not an Irish or American retroflex R.
How to find a British partner to practice British English with him/her???
As an Irish person the only thing Jo lost me on was "anything "I have never heard anyone pronounce it like that 😂,I thought she was having a stroke 😂
what happened to R
Nice.
It's grand
She said "alone", but I thought she said "eleven" 😄
Strange to think the irish also have their own indigenous celtic language, wonder what percentage know how to speak it...
The sh sound is usually found in the upper crust part's of Dublin. Everything else she says is pretty much spot on though
a poor person pour the water on his cat's paw
A working class Dublin accent drop a middle T entirely; butter is buh'er
Correct. Also to be heard in working class Glasgow and London. They call it a glottal stop.
What abouts the North dublin accent 😅 sound pal ye
Is there any Irish English teacher UA-cam channel?
Whats up wit ya ? Nuttin
Very Dublin. Not like the rest of us in Ireland really.
why it sounds like kim kardashian speaking
She's right my Irish friends say "craic" in place of fun/good time.
Nobody: What are yus up to?
Irish: Ohhh nuttin much, just havin the craic
Very Dublin centric phraseology. Not the same around the southern or western counties at all
﴿بِسمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحمنِ الرَّحيمِ﴾ [الفاتحة: ١]
(1) In the name of Allāh,[2] the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful.[3]
[2]- Allāh is a proper name belonging only to the one Almighty God, Creator and Sustainer of the heavens and the earth and all that is within them, the Eternal and Absolute, to whom alone all worship is due.
[3]- Ar-Raḥmān and ar-Raḥeem are two names of Allāh derived from the word "raḥmah" (mercy) . In Arabic grammar both are intensive forms of "merciful" (i.e., extremely merciful) . A complimentary and comprehensive meaning is intended by using both together. Raḥmān is used only to describe Allāh, while raḥeem might be used to describe a person as well. The Prophet (ﷺ) was described in the Qur’ān as raḥeem. Raḥmān is above the human level (i.e., intensely merciful) . Since one usually understands intensity to be something of short duration, Allāh describes Himself also as raḥeem (i.e., continually merciful) . Raḥmān also carries a wider meaning - merciful to all creation. Justice is a part of this mercy. Raḥeem includes the concept of speciality - especially and specifically merciful to the believers. Forgiveness is a part of this mercy. In addition, Raḥmān is adjectival, referring to an attribute of Allāh and is part of His essence. Raḥeem is verbal, indicating what He does: i.e., bestowing and implementing mercy.
- الترجمة الإنجليزية
Spare us your salamalecs Abo! Tell me, believer, I have a question for you (and please, above all, don't tell me that the ways of the Lord are impenetrable!):
Does an alleged god, yet omnipotent and omniscient, like the ones featured in any of the revealed religions ... had the choice to create the world as it is?!!! .... Really? Really man?!! ...
If so, I would have 2 or 3 small questions to ask this -enfoiré- guy and I doubt that he would manage to convince me whatever his argumentation would be ...
Moreover, not the place for your proselytism here!
Allah Snackbar! 😂 ;-)
@@fabrice9252
Ask what you want . But what is your direction? What you believe??
thanks for this interesting video. As a Ukrainian, I realized that the Irish English is the most understandable for me. foreigners for whom English is not native have same features in pronunciation as in an Irish accent😯I started to feel interested in Irish
That weird because some Irish accents are very hard to understand
Feeling the same
Yeah, to put a long story short, it's a Ukrainian accent in English😂
@@CinCee-Some English, Scottish, and Welsh accents are difficult to understand. Some American accents are difficult to understand. Some Australian accents are difficult to understand. Ireland doesn’t have the monopoly on difficult to understand accents.
It is *very* common for non-native speakers to find an Irish accent easier to understand than an RP accent, and I can only assume that the fact it is rhotic is what makes the difference. I’ve lost track of how many times work colleagues from Asia and South America, who perhaps had never spoken with an Irish person before, have told me that they find my accent very easy to understand.
Jo said what I have always thought. The American accent is very close to Irish accent. There have been times I have thought a person was American when I finally would hear a giveaway to their Irish. So I think the American accent is mostly Irish.
Many white, EuroAmericans are from Irish immigration, due to
the Great Famine & English colonialism in general.
However, largest no. of
surnames are German
since several decades
(but perhaps some of those are E Europe Ashkenazi Jewish?)
Both are older pronunciations. The modern British English also drops secondary syllables.
First time l learned poor, pour & paw are pronounced in the same way in British English while there’s a difference between the three words in Irish ☘️
I wish I could spend a few days in an Irish city or town 😁
Thanks to you Anna as well as to your adorable guest 🙏
nuttin' is the most southern black thing i've ever heard come from an irish person
That's how we say nothing tbh
Beautiful Irish girl.
Interesting as I'm in Ireland at the moment💚
Not a bad Idea to go and live in Ireland, and now that I know that the language is some craic I can't wait to go and visit this amazing country with so much spirituality connected to nature. Nice to know you Jo from Dublin.
Then you could visit Highland W coast of Scotland to hear Scottish Gaelic, & (Lowland) Scots variety of English.
Other English speaking
Celtic regions-Wales,
Cornwall, Isle of Man.
French &Breton speakers in France, Galician & Spanish speakers in Galicia, Spain.
Great conversation! You are grand teachers. Thank you very much.
I love all accents. Unfortunately, I cannot do the Dublin accent... yet. But working on it.
Adding the word "like" or the word "so" to the end of a sentence seems to be more common among people from the west of Ireland.
Wonderful session ma'am ❤️😘
Hi Anna! Hi Jo! And hi to all our wonderful and lovely Irish friends! 😊 🇮🇪
I loved the lesson; it was a fascinating, enlightening and brilliant exchange! I learnt a lot.
Thanks so much to the both of you for that wonderful lesson!
You are magnificent. Another fantastic interview to your credit, Anna.
Bisous. Lots of love from France! 😍🌹🌹💗💗
Thank you so much, Fabrice!
@@EnglishLikeANative Excellent video! Thanks!
PS: has Australian English been influenced by Irish English?
Also, that slit-T that Jo mentioned - the one where she said it was more like the “sh” in “shower” - can be found outside of Ireland in some Newfoundland accents in Canada. (Like many accents, and especially accents in North America, it was shaped by settlement patterns and points of contact.)
I swear to god, the newfie accent is almost identical to an Irish accent. It's uncanny in so many ways. Even certain stereotypical Irish phrases have stuck around in newfoundland too.
@@marblerye123 yup! And that’s how accents are made: through contact points and settlement patterns. (The English-speaking people who arrived in Newfoundland, Canada, were predominantly from Ireland.)
Newfoundland is one of few foreign lands with its own irish name, Talámh an éisc, Land of the fish
OMG! I guess my English accent could be a mixture of many other accents... 🤭 Glad to find out! 🤪. However, I love yours Anna, which I think is British Received Pronunciation. Your accent and your charm when speaking. Thanks for everything. 🤗🤗
I really understood the difference between English and Irish accents but the most interesting thing was her smile. Jo is a natural charm whenever she smiles. Perfect as an Irish person should be. ♥️🇮🇪🇮🇳
The fact that Jo is adorable makes me want to speak Irish now 😂
I really enjoyed this. Thanks, Anna 🇬🇧 and Jo 🇮🇪
I like the Irish people
Want to hear a rhotic Irish accent ? Come to rural Waterford or South Tipperary 😂
I'm not sure if this was mentioned in the video, but the -ar combination sounds much different from the American pronunciation. For example, words like car, park, far sound like they're being pronounced as cair, pairk, and fair. Could you elaborate on that Anna?
somehow it sounds a bit american accent isn't it?
Irish English ❤
thing is with Irish, theres 4 "main" accents/dialects that effect phrases, words used, and pronunciation,
You have Jo's Dublin-Irish, and you have the very obvious Northern Irish, but very rarely does North West (The Connaughton, the Donegal and Midwest accent) and Southern (entirety of Munster) Irish get brought up, for example my self being from Connaught, we have a weird quirk with alot of words starting with "S", we always say it with "Sh" instead, so start would be "shtart" or stop would be "shtop" and we speak extremely quickly so it doesnt really get picked up on very easily until you slow us down, this does mean we can say "she shells shea shells on the shea shore"
I think that a lot of northern Americans go a step further and say "shchweet", "Aushchwalia", "ekshchwemely", "shchwaight". Not sure if it's a German/Yiddish influence or an Irish one. Maybe both.
Anna you are an excellent teacher
Thank you so much, Akbar Uddin!
Your Irish accent is nearly identical to a Michigan USA accent. Quite incredible to me.
My family is Irish/Scottish and has been here since the 1840’s.
Thanks for the great interview
I am in the UK at present and have met several people from Ireland who live in the UK or are like me are touring. The accent is lovely and so soft, similar, but different to the northern Scottish accent I have encountered.
@M OCribin Northern: being northern Scottish compared to southern - most of my relatives are northern or islands Scots. Being a visitor I didn’t know the difference between Irish accents. I am sure like the Australian accent there is variation from person to person. I am told by people here I don’t have a strong Australian accent.
@@peternakitch4167Just so you know, in a British context the word ‘northern’ refers to the North of England. It never means Scotland even though Scotland is further north than England.
Jo has a strong Dublin accent and not very reflective of Irish accents generally. Although it is not possible to find one accent that does, I would have chosen somebody from say Athlone in the centre of Ireland as the exemplar in the video. The rounded oi sound is very Dublin. The th goes very readily in Dublin to t/d. However other parts of Ireland have a sound that is, though not reaching to the standard English th pronunciation, a little more discernable from the Dublin th effort because there is a slight but perceptible breathiness behind the t/d to represent that h. When people mimic an Irish accent, they usually fail miserably for those two reasons: overdoing the oi sound and doing th as a straight t/d while forgetting the breathy little h. The upside is the many laughs we Irish have had over the years listening to the hopeless attempts - whatever Hollywood accent coaches are paid, it is WAY too much!
I am planning of moving to Ireland but was afraid of their accent as I am used to hearing at London's or American's. Luckily this video showed up to me and as a Spaniard, I find it easier to understand and either speak.
Why would you even change UK for Ireland?
@@m1lst3r89 Because Ireland has nicer ppl, is part of EU, is more stable economically and politically.
@@cianw2942 hehe, maybe nicer people to give you that. The rest ...👎
@@m1lst3r89 This didnt age well lad. Ya yer so stable politically and economically hahaha
@@m1lst3r89 This aged like milk. Growth rate 1/3 of Ireland’s and 3 prime ministers in 3 years. And still trying to negotiate a deal signed 3 years ago to settle a vote carried out 7 years ago.
Interesting
17:53 Bad Hollywood movies and Jacksepticeye
Irish accent is like american more than british
I was listening to the video while doing something else and caught myself smiling unintentionally quite a few times. I think I smiled throughout the whole video and am still smiling. I really hope I will be able to travel again after all the negative stuff around my country is gone :) been to England two times as a teenager, once to Isle of Wight and once to London and I can't remember if the accent on the Isle was different to any other I've heard before :(
5:02 I really love this feature. This is so Irish and sounds very posh to me. Honestly, this is the thing which made me interested in Irish accent!💙
Also the U in Irish they pronunce it like a sort of O. Like Bus is pronunced Bos
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Her accent sounds like American
I found this as well in some aspects and I guess this is probably mainly due to the more rhotic 'r' than in R.P. and 'schwa'!
@@fabrice9252 probably because you don't speak English as a first language, that's mostly what you would hear trying to differentiate an American and British accent. RP or not RP.
@@Maestro4759
I'm with you on this. By dint of hearing English, I am now able to identify an American one due to these 'r'. Now there are so many accents and even only in the U.K. itself that it's way more complicated to identify them and yes:
RP or not RP, that is the question! ;-)
@@fabrice9252 imo it really doesn't sound American at all, if you did hear it it would mostly be the retroflex R.
You should check out the accents of Newfoundland and Labrador, especially in St.John's and the Irish loop.
i would love to hear her say three and tree. if if no th sound, does the three sound like tree?
Yes
So Irish accent a little bit like American
I wish they wouldn't keep talking about the Dublin accent as if it were the Irish accent. None of these things apply to the Cork accent.
Well, we do pronounce “th” softly, but that’s Hibernian-English.
Such a wonderful conversation and video ❤
I'm so glad to see you've resumed your series on accents.
Great video guys. One quick note. Some of these pronunciations are very Dublin based. Munster folk would pronounce poor and pour the exact same way. And we'd pronounce time differently too. Just some little things that make Irish accents so much fun to learn about.
The Irish way of pronouncing the /t/ is the sexiest thing on earth!
I'm from Asia (so obviously, I'm not familiar with different English accent) but my curiosity just keeps bugging me. Liam Neeson and Jim Browning talks the same way. And I researched alot, I asked ChatGPT and it says that the accent they're using is RP? But when I ask it the second time, it says it's Irish.