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90% of Britain: represented by an actual person
West country: "uuuh... Here's Hagrid!"
Crying about "representation" doesn't seem very west country
@@oldoddjobs hear, hear!
I'm an American...would the accents from Grace and Favour have worked...they sound similar to me but again, American.
Be fair, he brings in Josie Gibson who's got surely the best West Country I've ever heard on British network TV, actually maybe anywhere because it's much earthier than John Oliver. OK so she's from Bristol itself but still.....just wonderful.
@@Erlrantandrage no they're not similar aha sorry
him every 5 minutes : "now this is one of my favourite English accents"
Hehe fair! But it’s true I love so many British accents 🤷🏼♂️
I think he’s pretty good. I find this video, perhaps more scholarly. That being said, he nails many points. I rather enjoyed this video. Well done 👏
To be fair, if it’s every 5 minutes that’s only 4...so he could have a top 5?
@@EatSleepDreamEnglish the I know
It's possible to have a wide selection of favorites. I have dozens of 'favorite' music albums.
As an American, this is very helpful. I grew up watching BBC period dramas and adaptions and I’ve heard every British accent there is, but I never knew what they were called or where they originated from. I still love watching British period dramas. My mom and I got a BritBox subscription last year, and it’s the best subscription we’ve ever made.
For a very typical West Yorkshire Huddersfield/Halifax accent you should watch Happy Valley or Last Tango In Halifax… you’ll see our lovely scenery too!
Trust me bro you haven’t bheard every single British accent there just to many of them
@Themasada bro I’m from Sussex and our accent isn’t even mentioned in this video, in fact East Sussex has a slightly different tone to West Sussex not much of a difference tho but still a difference
@chilloutii3638 I lived in East Sussex for awhile but never noticed a difference between East and West Sussex accents. That's really interesting to find out. Do you have any examples of some words that might be pronounced a bit differently in each area?
Lmao they always forget about Sunderland because we are so close to Newcastle 😭😭
I worked with someone from Northern Ireland and just got used to her accent being sort of normal. Then I watched Derry Girls and started noticing her subtle but very distinct Northern Irish notes. I really love it ❤
Irish. Not Northern Irish. Just Irish .
take a day off @@AnnesleyPlaceDub70
Yep, Norn Irish sounds grand
I'm an American and I just realized how fascinating this topic is
I’m conservative rp so I’m British ✨😩
We probably have more accents here than they have there lol
omg there are so many accents it’s ridiculous i have a mix of a leeds and bradford accent but not as strong 🤣😭
@Kenny Powers the us accent differences are a lot more subtle apart from the south/north divide
Look into our (united states) accents. The diversity and history is also fascinating.
Introduction 0:52
Queen's English 1:34
Conservative RP 2:57
Contemporary RP 3:44
London Cockney 4:56
London MLE 6:37
Essex 8:01
West Country 11:13
Bristol 11:54
Birmingham Brummy 12:39
East Midlands, Nottingham 13:39
South Yorkshire, Doncaster 14:37
West Yorkshire, Bradford 15:05
East Yorkshire, Hull 15:25
Manchester, Mancunian 16:15
Liverpool, Scouse 16:57
Newcastle, Geordie 17:30
Scottish, Glasgow, Glaswegian 18:14
Scottish, Edinburgh 18:59
South Wales, Welsh 19:35
Belfast, Northern Irish 20:32
Thx bro
This was helpful, thanks. 😂
*northern irish
Bristol sounds so American.
Thanks ye!!
You can literally hear the same characteristics in American accents:
Bristolian - Great Lakes
Nottingham - Washington DC, Maryland
Belfast - Appalachia (Scots-Irish)
Irish and Scottish accents have always fascinated me for (what I perceive as) their musicality. I think it’s so cool that some cultures somehow developed languages with such rhythm and melody that it’s fun just to listen to them talk! My enthusiasm for accents started when my dad’s Scottish friend introduced us to Still Game when I was a kid 😄
Shut up and Welsh is even better
"Emma Watson, Daniel Radcliffe-"
Me: RUPERT GRINT
"Ed Sheeran,"
Me: eh, close enough
Meh... I’m more of a Tolkien fan
@@engorgioarmani3381 I don't support Rowling, but she did a pretty good job with HP. But yeah, Tolkien is really good.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
lol, I think a lot of us had that thought.
Maybe he didn't include him because Rupert Grint actually speaks a bit different from the other two. He tends to use more dark Ls and often doesn't strongly enunciate the H at the beginning of a word, sometimes dropping it completely.
Ja gay
Please do some more Scottish accents. There’s so much diversity here. Shetland, western isles, aberdonian, Doric, borders, Ayrshire etc! Everyone always focusses on Glasgow.
He also spoke in a Glasgow accent trying to do the Edinburgh pahaha
Agreed!
Aww cut him a break! He used videos of native speakers exactly for that reason & said so, and even apologized at times for his own attempts.
I live in the USA. Nobody believes me when I say the accent is markedly different every mile of the Fife coast. Utterly unimaginable here. That would make for a very educational video to break even one Scottish region down.
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I'm American, and the easiest accent for me to understand is RP, followed by posh. When watching British TV, I usually have to put on subtitles in order to understand what the people speaking in other British accents are saying. I love the sound of the Scottish accent. I could listen to the actors on the TV show Shetland speak all day long.
I think the RP is posh.
They are even more diverse in Britain, I read recently that most British sitcoms and comedy programmes (programs) are never aired on American TV because they'd be so difficult to understand, whereas for Brits, standard American accents are very easy for us to understand.
My fascination with British accents began when I read a piece on the James Bond movie Goldeneye. The writer was critiquing Sean Bean’s performance and said at times Bean’s Yorkshire accent slipped through although he was trying to sound Southern. That sent me off down the rabbit hole of researching accents lol. It’s fascinating how many regional accents there are for a relatively small country.
Interesting. In Game of Thrones everyone in House Stark has a Northern English accent, and that’s because Sean Bean couldn’t do a Southern English accent, so everyone else is trying to sound like they’re from Sheffield 😄
@@PBurns-ng3gw haha, that is funny! I guess after goldeneye he gave up on trying. Thanks for sharing.
How can such a small country have so many different accents? This is so fascinating to me. I took a linguistics class in college, and I absolutely loved it. I find the subtle differences in pronunciation so interesting. This video is just great!
Some of our accents are because of conquests of britain in different time periods. Iam from Bradford Yorkshire and our dialect comes from Danish Vikings (Norse) even tho we speak modern english... for example say your ears were burning... i would say are your lugs (ears) burning lol
in Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia... in much smaller countries you have so many accents, dialects, one can tell from what region person is, and locals can tell from what town or even village person is by hearing them talking. it has much to do with language itself and f course with different influences by other languages, by history, by local geography (mountains or flats, seaside or continental). Dutch is similar with its varieties too
The small country was settled ages ago and has a rich history of all these regions fighting one another and trying to maintain their independence from one another. Also there wasn't that much of the migration of people within the country, not until the 20 century. Other factor is that many of British accents were heavily influenced by Celtic pronunciation of English words. All these and other factors combined led to distinct regional accents.
Big, but relatively young countries like the US were mostly settled in the late 18th but mostly 19th century when huge waves of migration swept across it carrying the more or less unified pronunciation across the country. Then other non English speaking ethnic groups arrived and helped shaping many of the regional accents.
How can GREAT Britain be small? O.k., it's constantly belittled and ridiculed by that Bozo guy from 10, Clowning Street but apart from that it's really a great country and i met loads of nice people, although i didn't always understand everything... 😜
Its not too much
Iran got nearly 80 languages and accents 😍 you just can understand where is the person actually from!
I love it! So many cultures and history in different parts 🌸
As a Korean student studying in Manchester, the various UK accents truly sounded like an unknown European language when I first listened to the accents. It's been around three years living in the UK, but I still partially understand the Liverpool accent.
I'm from the Wirral, and I guarantee you'd comprehend my accent and speech, it's just outside Liverpool BTW. Not all Merseysiders speak Scouse. I don't, I sound more Cheshire.
@@JasmineSurrealVideos That's the misconception many have. I'm from Billinge (Merseyside - Just about but before the boundary change in 1974 a Wigan parish) and I have a traditional Lancashire accent.
@Kevin S... Utter nonsense! For one , I do! I even speak it, la!!
부럽네요 영국 유학생.. 저도 영국 가고 싶습니다!! ㅎㅎ
Even scouse misinterpret scouse
Best BE accents analysis I have ever come across. Even my college ELT (ESOL) course didn't cover the subject so well.
And, to answer your quesstion, it's just your accent that I like most. With your immaculate diction it is a pleasure to listen, really.
Your ability to mimic different accents and explain them is impressive. Top professional.
I’m from the US. When I was a child, I noticed subtle things about Grandfather’s & his Dad’s accent, that was different from everyone else in our family and in our area, I thought it was just a family thing. His family had been in the US for many generations, living mainly in Indiana & KY- but when I got older and learned about accents & dialects, I realized that those odd little things I noticed about my Grandfather & Great Grandfather’s accent was from their English ancestors, I think Yorkshire - he always said the word “us” as “uz”, and when he said the word “he’s”, it was VERY SUBTLE, but he dropped the H just a bit, putting less emphasis on the H than normal, like “hE’s”, not quite silent, but barely there.
Then, after realizing this, I noticed other things about his accent that are typical of British English, not how he pronounced words, but the words he used and also other things like pitch & volume of how he said things. The first time I heard a person from Yorkshire speak, it surprised me, because it was the first time I’d ever heard someone who sounded like my Grandpa & Great Grandpa. What’s weird, is that that side of my family had been in the US for at least 3 or 4 generations, BUT, my Great Grandfather and Gr GR Grandfather visited and kept in touch with their English & Irish family, so maybe that had something to do with it.
Also, my cousins & I used to always get after my Grandpa for how he said the word “Pizza”, he refused to say “Peetsa” like we said it, he pronounced it exactly as spelled, kind of like he said the word “us” as “uz”.
When people say "I wanna have a british accent" what exactly do they mean then since there are so many
Never agreed with a comment more in my entire life 🥴😂
Non-american english.
But there are literally like 50+ accents in England alone, so when someone says “I love the British accent” it makes no sense as all the accents sound completely different. You could literally drive an hour down the road (in any direction) and they will have a completely different accent. It’s just ignorant and offensive when people blanket us all with the same accent
@@winggoddess there are many different non- American accents
I tried to explain this to people here (from the US) and they don’t believe me.
Rule of thumb: if it sounds like a pirate, it's probably from the west country xD
"Arrrrrr!"
No mr Frodo Sir
@@imranaljahsyi2801 and Ross Poldark is a pirate ?
Black Beard was a Bristolian so yeah, seems legit.
You really missed a trick here... if they sound like a pirate from the west country... they probably arrgghhhhhh!
One of my favourite things about the Yorkshire accent, that Lee does from Gogglebox in the clip, is pronouncing words like “take” and “make” like “meck” and “teck”.
Also in the Scottish accents, I love the double O sounds in “door” and “poor” (Oo-er) that also crop up in parts of Lancashire (but feel it’s sadly dying out as only ever hear it in people of my grandparents generation). Something I hear my Nan do as well, which is relatively common where I grew up in Lancashire, is pronounce the double T sound as ck, so little as lickle, bottle as bockle. I think it can be a bit marmite for some, but warms my heart when I hear it! 😂
It’s just so fascinating! Definitely one of my favourite things about this country.
Dooa for door in Yorkshire. Oppen for open.
I'm an ESL teacher, so I'm always curious to learn new things and accents! I'll be checking out more of these variations 😄
You asked us to comment on which accent, and for me, I love the Liverpool accent. My mother was born and raised there. In 1952 she met my American father in England who was in England for university. They married and built their life here, in the USA. As a very tiny 3-year-old, I remember distinctly translating for my mother in stores and such. The small-town Ohioans could not understand her! She'd try to "Americanize" her accent and that was even worse! So, here I was, a shy little kid, translating English to English so my mom could find which aisle the confectioner's sugar was on. I'd, therefore, love a deep-dive on the Scouse accent.
_(Miss you, Mom, more than you can know.)_
❤️
Good on you! Kids are incredible linguists! I have raised two bilingual children and they surprise me every single day.
🥰
@@lauramonzonstorey What two languages do they speak?
I love the saying, Liverpudlian
As a Mexican girl studying English for almost 4 years I felt like I haven’t learned anything when I listened Yorkshire accent 😭
Don't feel bad, I'm a native English speaker and I've heard certain accents of other English-speaking people where I only understood like half of what they said lol
Some are broader than others ,of course .I.m from there ,but at times I can barely understand the people with a strong accent .
Don't feel badly about your English. When I went to college in Dundee, there was a girl everyone had trouble understanding and most of the kids in our group grew up within a few miles if her, all within the city!
We drop letters and change things so i can understand the frustration. For instance " i took it to my mother" becomes "a tuk it to mi muther" or somthing like that or should i say or summat laak that? :P Our part of the country was under Danish viking rule for quite some time and old Norse heavily influenced certain words and our accent.
Don't feel bad, I used to teach English in Mexico and the proximity to the U.S.A made practically all of my students really comfortable with the North American style English but my Yorkshire accent totally threw them off. They got used to it eventually!
As someone who really wanted to know some more about the different accents because I adore them all, this was very helpful and will be my reference in explaining the accents.
I'm preparing for an exam to become an English teacher in Spain and I find this content super interesting and valuable! Personally, I LOVE the Northern Irish accent, the way it sounds and the lexis they use are so peculiar! It would be nice then if you dived into this accent a bit more! Love your content!!
I appreciate how you're not judging any of these accents and reporting neutrally on them, nice one. As a British person it can be very hard to overcome your natural prejudice towards certain accents.
So true. People are judged by their accents in England. It's definitely a form of class distinction. Doesn't mean people who speak with an accent or dialect are less intelligent!! Think of Russell Brand!! A brilliant mind with a Cockney accent!! Love him😊
yep growing up in south yorkshire i would hear many people talking with a much more neutral accent as though they were ashamed of their yorkshire accent and didn't want to be deemed stupid by others. be proud of your native accent
It's not that hard
@@adamlaycock3702 It's a shame. I love the Yorkshire accent. ❤️
@@dolorescunningham4816 Thats not just England, it happens in almost every country to varying extents. England can be quite bad for it but it has improved compared to how it used to be.
Northern Ireland.
I an Atheist!
Aye but are you a Protestant Atheist or a Catholic one?
Rbh in
Tough one to answer when they nab you and put a burlap sack over your head
"what god do you not believe in?"
Ahahahaha
Protestant atheists pronounce h as aitch, Catholics atheists as haitch 🤣🤣
thank you for sharing this video - this was super cool, educational, and fun!
My favourite’s has always been the Scottish accents as well as the northern English ones.
As a Swedish person I am fascinated and interested in certain words that are used in Scotland. Like their word for child, house etc. I think they originate from Sweden and other Scandinavian countries. Would like to see a video about that.
Thanks for a great video! I really like all the accents. I think accents are a huge part of a country’s soul and heart. Even if you don’t always understand what people are saying. 😂 That goes for both the British and Swedish ones. 😂😂
Are there many native accents in Sweden?
@@hairandcia2028many dialects not accents
As someone from Australia, where the accent of most ppl is relatively uniform unless they're immigrants, it's always fascinated me that a group of small islands can have so many distinct accents. I love any of the northern British accents, especially Scouse. It has a lilt and lots of character!
Same, I’m from Canada and we don’t even have that many
Same, South Africans (white, English speakers) have a very uniform accent. There is some coastal variation but for the most part one could recognise any South African as such irrespective of where they live.
Try the Netherlands then. We’ve got a much smaller country but about the same amount of accents/dialects. Frisian is even an official language despite Friesland being part of the Netherlands. But for example: I’m from The Hague area which is south-west of the country. But most of the family of my mother’s side is from Drenthe, which is more north-east, close to the German border. Now I’m serious when I say sometimes I don’t even understand my own family!
I had a scouse teacher at school who used to pronounce marijuana marriage-a-hwarner
@@tchorveiik 😂 thats just awesome
If you think they're speaking a foreign language they're scouser.
I've once been (foreigner) to Liverpool and they speak there like in Norway/Netherlands/Scotland.
NO... they are Jordie.
Or if they robbed you
Same with belfast
@@millinutz Yes, I found it interesting that the only time subtitles were used was for the Geordie accent.
As someone who is absolutely fascinated with accents I find this fascinating. So much variety.. and to the untrained ear I’d say ‘scouse’ ..
Loved the video. I've always been fascinated by how accents change when you move around the country. Would be good to see how neighbouring communities transform.
Selfishly, as an American, I'd love to see the same thing for the United States.
I find US accents to be much more fluid, and less regionally defined. I grew up in NYC and to this day I don’t really know what a “New York accent” is...
@@chrisvazan huh? Sounds like you need to travel more like visit Atlanta, Chattanooga, Winston-Salem, Birmingham, or Memphis and speak in public. You will find out immediately what a New York accent is. 🤣🤣🤣 There are five boroughs in NYC. Six if you include Newark and every single borough has a different accent and set of dialects depending on where you live and what your racial, ethnic, and/or cultural background is. People from BK, I'm talking about born and raised been there for generations, not the gentrifiers sound very different from people Uptown, in Midtown, in the Bronx, Queens or Shaolin. That's Staten Island for those unaware. Wu-Tang is FOREVER! Very much like what was stated in this video about London which is where the whole borough system originated.
@@chrisvazan I think we tend to be unable to differentiate the accents we grow up hearing. I grew up in the mid-Atlantic, but with relatives from the Midwest I heard a lot of Midwestern accents, too. And everyone is familiar with California accents from TV and movies, thus they don't realize they and the people around them sound different than that. I had no idea that the Midwestern accent was different from the mid-Atlantic accent until someone pointed it out. There's definitely a strong New York accent. I hear it all the time in New York, talking on the phone to New Yorkers, and in person talking with New Yorkers who moved to where I grew up.
@@chrisvazan there’s tons of distinct us accents.
For sure. I’m just saying that I don’t ascribe them to locations with the same specificity as I would when describing European accents and dialects.
I just love how Jade from little mix has such a strong Geordie accent that even native speakers don’t understand her
it's so true...
Lmao the Ian story😂😂
That's not a strong Geordie accent at all, fairly weak in fact, a strong one would require sub titles.
@@spencereagle1118 the clip showing Jade literally had subtitles but that was not her with her strongest Geordie
You can look up videos of people (not even fellow band mate who is also Geordie) not understanding Jades accent
@@shootingstar_2143 The point I'm making is she hasn't got a representative Geordie accent, she's pretty mild.
Hi Tom ! I really enjoyed your video about the many regional accents of 🇬🇧 Great Britain. What amazing diversity! It was very exciting.🏆🌹🇬🇧
Loved this video. I have a friend in the UK with a very distinctive accent. Listened to your video and picked up the West Yorkshire and Manchester accents as being similar. Turns out he was born in Rochdale which is located between West Yorkshire and Manchester.
In some parts of scotland the accents are so strong they are almost a different language. Aberdeenshire "doric" is a great example
He says 'Numerous Scottish accents' then only covers two, but does 7 before he left the south east of England alone. What about the Borders accent, Highland and islands accents, what about Inverness-shire, Orkney or Sheltand heavily influenced by Scandinavia ... just another example of metropolitan laziness, no wonder we / Scotland wants rid of England.
My best friend is from Aberdeen (I am a Londoner) and when he speaks to me he tones down his accent but when we are up in the north east of Scotland and he is speaking to other locals I struggle to follow the conversation sometimes.
Some of them technically are different dialects.
@@the_grand_tourer theres more people in the south east than there are in scotland by a massive margin
have you ever been to shetland? they almost sound norwegian!
"I love Louis Tomlinson's accent." Same. It's the best
I got so excited when I saw him :)
@@nataliebilal8133 I was happy to see Doncaster and literally jumped at Louis 🧍🏼♀️😌
Agreed... 👍👍
i didnt watch this just to see doncaster...
I was waiting for this comment
wow this is awesome! i've definitely heard all these accents before but never had any idea where it meant they came from. reminds me of Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady being able to place a person's hometown based on their accent.
my favorites are essex and nottingham, there's something sassy about the way they both speak, kinda careless and reminds me of cockney but just a little sharper.
Thanks for making this video, I enjoyed it!
I love a good welsh accent, but also Irish...I love all accents because there is so much character in each.
However, my grandparents were from Midlothian, Edinburgh and we got to listen to them talk at Sunday dinners.
We would always have to listen to their favourite record, which was "Harry Lauder" who has a marvellous accent at well, so we got to hear that every week too. It's still a running point of humour in my family.
Queen's English 1:34
Conservative RP 2:57
Contemporary RP 3:44
London Cockney 4:56
London MLE 6:37
Essex 8:01
West Country 11:13
Bristol 11:54
Birmingham Brummy 12:39
East Midlands, Nottingham 13:39
South Yorkshire, Doncaster 14:37
West Yorkshire, Bradford 15:05
East Yorkshire, Hull 15:25
Manchester, Mancunian 16:15
Liverpool, Scouse 16:57
Newcastle, Geordie 17:30
Scottish, Glasgow, Glaswegian 18:14
Scottish, Edinburgh 18:59
South Wales, Welsh 19:35
Belfast, Northern Irish 20:32
I would like to hear native speakers of each accent read or recite the same passage or poem for comparison. I appreciate the IPA notations where provided and would appreciate more. Love listening to variants of English. Thank you.
Yes, excellent idea!
In addition to the accents demonstrated here, there can be many variants even within one city. E.g. within Edinburgh: Niddrie, Morningside and Gorgie have quite distinctive accents. Btw, I lived in Edinburgh for 3 years.
I'm not a Linguist, though I am a "language person". I'm an Interpreter. I find accents fascinating, particularly, where the accents originated and have evolved from here in the US. Linguists here can extrapolate current accents to the original settlers from Scotland, Ireland, or even Scandinavia. Additionally, It's a fascinating to me that England is only about the size of one of our average sized states, but there are so many different accents! I suppose, in comparison, the map of accents here might have a similar variety if the map was condensed. Only in a couple of places will you find such a disparity of accents in a single state. I live in western NY state for example. All the various though somewhat similar accents to be found in NYC and it's environs are very different than the accent here. Otherwise, we talk about a Texas accent, or Midwest accent. Both cover an exponentially larger number of square miles than England. Obviously, I'm not an expert; just musing "out loud" as it were. Thank you for this video!
Geordie: Needs subtitles for native English speakers.
If you watch every episode of Vera you'll become fluent. ;o)
Rob...I have been living in the US (at 16) for 30+ yrs, and if you think you don't understand him, to me, he sounds as though he's talking Chinese! Surely other languages have similar dialects, but, since I don't speak any other than English I can't imagine the differences other languages encounter.
@@TRKuchulu Not really, Vera has a very watered down version of a Geordie accent.
used to work for a company where the UK branch was in Newcastle. I had serious issues comprehending what they were saying and each meeting I would have a seriously fried brain within fifteen minutes. (Funny how all the women working there were like Geordie shore characters: black dyed hair, way too much make up and trashy clothing, not suited for office.)
@@TRKuchulu have a look on youtube for Auf Wiedersehn Pet for a better example.
I’m from Germany and love to hear people from Wales.
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Me too I'm German and one of the first TV-shows I watched in English was Torchwood and thus the Welsh accent sounds nice and familiar to me.
There are about 4/5 main accents in Wales. Valleys, Cardiff, West Wales, North-West and North-East. Torchwood is a Cardiff accent mainly. Most famous is the Valleys accent. North-West is my favourite, they speak English as a second language so accent sounds very interesting.
I really love the german saxony accent
Same. (Ich auch)
It's so interesting. American accents are just as unique but this was one of the best to hear it divided and specified the pronunciation of certain words. Good job
I absolutely feel in love with the Welsh accents a few years ago, specifically from Catrin-Mai Huw's performance in Xenoblade Chronicles 2. As crude as her character was, I think it might have had some of that sing-songy feel that you described.
As a Canadian who's never visited the UK, my head is spinning! Wow.
Love ALL of these! 🇬🇧❤
Each is so charming in its own way.
and we love Canadians! Your English is the easiest American accent to understand ( Shawn Mendes, Justin Bieber, etc.)
@@maggiep265 Technically, we're "NORTH American"...but thank you! 😊
As a non english speaker i love how all canadians speak coz it's just so easy to understand.
@@Snowhite-tx4sm Thank you for that! To be honest, though, many of us who aren't Newfoundlanders (or at least from the Maritimes) might sometimes have a hard time understanding their accent. We love it, though: so distinctive, with quite an Irish flavour to it!
I am french and learned English in america but i am aware that american pronounciation is lame, so i want to learn any british accent, and more specifically Louis Tomlinson's
Wonderful! As an American, I've always loved the various British accents. I greatly appreciate how you've broken these down to help us "feriners" (foreigners) understand them better. So much fun.
Nice
Just don't go to the UK and try to sound like the locals, they'd very likely be offended, British people take offense when you try to mimic their accent.
As a Russian, it sounds extremely confusing trying to guess which sound this specific speaker had just gulped down and what word it's supposed to be.
North American speakers are much easier to understand.
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Yes we are, thank you.
@@oscarf5433 I think it’s different with foreigners, it’s offensive when British people with another accent try to sound ‘native’.
I LOVE THIS VIDEO!!! Thank you so much... I have always been fascinated by different English accents, and this video was nice, informative, and fun!
Why not also acquaint yourself with accents from the rest of the UK besides England.
I’m an American whose maternal grandmother was from Glasgow. Her accent had been tempered by years in the States but my great-grandmother moved here as well and her accent was always very thick. I loved it. Spot on to your description. I have always had a fascination with linguistics and I really enjoyed this video.
The Yorkshire accent just tickles my ears. Absolutely lovely.
Loov'leh, you mean ;)
@@CharlesDickens111 Well look who it is, how the Dickens did I find you here
Eee bah gum yeh bugga!!
Scottish accents are beautiful, I would love to hear about them more
Educated are great, glasgow horrible..
I can't understand Scottish accents worth a damn when it's super thick.
Like, if it's the accent in how to train your dragon for the adults, that's fine, but anything stronger than Meridith from brave, I'm lost.
@@Tigerland1962 Rude :(
100% agree
@@Tigerland1962 Glasgow is great. You are horrible.
Crazy how many accents we have in such a small country! I'm from Southampton, and feel like we don't really have much of an accent here. But when I worked in Gloucester, they all said I sounded like a Cockney, and when I worked just outside of East London, they said I sounded like a farmer (west country). So must have a mixture of both 😂
Small country but not really small, stilll 874 miles from one end of the country to the other. Or 19,491 miles around the whole coast of the uk, definitely sizeable Enough to accommodate the different accents.
Fascinated by the Northern Irish, especially as I have relatives there!
And love, love the Welsh accent.
So fun trying to pick ( and copy) all the different regional accents as an Aussie!
American here. I’ve always enjoyed Scouse and Geordie and recently I’ve started liking Manchester / Mancunian. Something about the northern accent is just distinct and lovely to me. Good vibes!
I'm a Geordie so thanks for that.. I can tell the difference between Newcastle upon Tyne, and the other place 12 miles down the road I'm not prepared to write as it's a swear word..
@@toonman1892 well I'm dying to know what this place is!
@@glortw S*nderland, the home of 6 toed humans.
From my American ears, Geordie has always been my favorite of the British accents. So musical and unapologetically its own!
*English Accent
@@smartone661 It's both an English and British accent
When you analyse it carefully, Geordie also carries elements of lowlands and border Scottish, as it's not that far away.
It's a bit over the top. I like the west country accent.
That was a pretty mild Geordie accent to be honest.
basically, i just love any of british accents. one of my favourites are RP (who could've thought... pretty boring choice probably but i adore it completely) and those which are somewhat around liverpool! also northern accents are my everlasting love... it seems like i can talk about accents for 3 hours straight given of how much i love the theme and great britain itself and the incredible ability of this country to carry so many different accents.
i'm not sure but i believe it's... sheffield accent (?) that i also like very much. however, there are plenty of them that i could say so many affectionate words about. i dream desperately to visit britain one day and hear some of its accents live.
thank you very much for your video! just like you, every 3 minutes i was just 'Oh, now there is one of my favourite ones'. Absolutely enjoyed, very useful and also entertaining.
I hit upon it today. Very subtle differences for a foreigner (I'm Dutch) but I love it. Most to my taste are tapping r's and Scottish accents like snooker player John Higgins. A more linguistic approach is to look for accents that are closer to spelling and so contain older sounds. I suppose they can be found in Scotland. Or maybe most in Scots?
Love this. There's so many accents within Manchester too. The Stockport accent is different to the Wythenshawe accent for example, even though they're situated right next to each other. Bolton and Bury and that area is like a mix of Yorkshire and Manc. Places like Rusholme, Chorlton, Gorton, Moston, Openshaw etc have the most stereotypical Manc sounding accent.
Bolton and Bury a mix of Yorkshire and Manc??? Yorkshire and Manc accents have more in common than either do with a strong Bolton accent.
I would love to hear the Bolton accent. That's where my family originally came from.
manc accents are terrible full stop.
Mix of Yorkshire and Manc? I think you'll find both have strong south east Lancashire with very little Manc involved.
I have a question, as a person who has never been to GB and does not fully know English. Do you easily understand what a resident of another region is saying? For example, is the dialogue between people from, for example, Newcastle and Glasgow, understandable?
In my country, with a few exceptions, everyone speaks rather the same.
I love Louis and Zayn’s accents so muchhh
I was so happy to see Louis at the beginning
yorkshire accents
I really appreciate your effort. This helps A LOT when trying to understand English as a whole
I liked learning about Scouse because some of my ancestors were Irish folks who settled in Liverpool. My great grandparents later moved here to New England in the US. I found out a few years ago that during my mom's childhood they actually lived in the same Boston area town I live now, only about a mile or 5 minutes drive away from me!
In general it seems I find the “ lower class” regular people in UK’s accents to be way more interesting and appealing than the hoity toity ones.
I agree. They have more character and uniqueness.
Scouse because of The Beatles. Please do a whole video in how they used to speak it in the 60s. Thank you!
Yeah me=Scouse because Jodie Comer
The Beatles aren’t even really Scouse, they’re from the more Lancashire sounding south Liverpool, whereas traditional Scouse is more of a North Liverpool thing
funny thing; they are, among other bands, who barely sound as if they had an accent. The pronunciation of certain words just sound too, normal, or accent-less, if you will. idk if it is just me, but I feel like lots of British bands don't sing with an accent. Please, correct me if I'm wrong
Yes! Early Beatles. A Hard Days Night. Love every syllable of that movie!!!
@@lar9299 In the sixties their accents were heavier. Ex. A Hard Says Night.
I think the most interesting thing is how much accents change within a couple of miles from town to town. For example in the north east, lets just say Darlington, Aycliffe, Durham, Middlesbrough, Hartlepool. They're all classed as geordie to most people outside the north east which is wrong for a start (how to annoy a proper geordie). These places are within 10/20 miles of each other however the accents are so distinct! I'd love to know why dialects changed so much in such small areas. I'm sure it's the same around the UK, I'm just using NE as an example because I'm from there.
Couple of pretty distinct accents I think you maybe missed:
In Bristol there is a variant of what you call MLE (or at least there was 20 years ago when I grew up there), which is distinct from both Bristolian and also other ethnic accents. It was pretty strongly influenced by the carribean roots, but it also has features of Bristolian, MLE, and a few other accents. I've never seen anyone talk about it, but since I used to speak it I can tell you it definitely exists.
In the far north-west of England, you get some interesting merging between the Scottish dialect and northern dialect, with features of both. It sounds pretty distinctive.
In Cornwall, there is a weird phenomenon where a fair number of folks actually have almost australian-sounding accents, due to influences from australian surfers that lived in the area. The combination is quite surreal.
The south-west in general has several pretty distinct sounding accents (to my ears), which I think maybe deserve to be distinguished between.
"It was pretty strongly influenced by the carribean roots" Then it's not an 'English' accent. It's an accent spoken by foriegners whilst speaking English - crucial difference.
@@sunnyjim1355 It's distinct from a Jamaican or carribbean accent. And if an accent is only spoken by native speakers who have grown up in a particular area of the country, then it is not a foreign accent, it is an english one.
Nobody would call Yorkshire a 'foreign' accent just because of its Viking roots. Similarly we have other accents with influence from non-english accent that have, nevertheless, become english ones.
I’m American and the only British accent I can immediately discern is cockney just because of how harshly unique it is. I can hear the differences between the others but I need to pay closer attention to notice the differences. I’m so curious how the different American accents sound to people in other English speaking countries
The American accents I had a chance to listen to were mostly quite comprehensible, but aggressive/intrusive beyond my pain threshold at the same time. As if someone were shouting at me, which I presume has never been the intent. I prefer the "muted" variant the Brits use plus the RP features for phonetic clarity. Nonetheless, from a limited experience, a random American has been easier to understand than a random Brit so far.
@@piotrwyderski7848 American accents have far more phonetic clarity. At least in my opinion it's way easier to understand without random consonants just being completely ignored.
Don't get me wrong, I love all the UK accents. I just think it's ridiculous to say that they're more easily understood
@@rektspresso7288 No worries, it's just a matter of taste after all. And we seem to agree: the American accents I know of (I am not a native speaker of English) are more understandable "on average" than the UK accents. It's just the way of pronouncing words that makes AmE less pleasant to my ear. American accents put far more stress at the beginning of the word with a relatively limited pitch range, whereas the Brits do the opposite. That makes the latter sound softer and more polite just out of the box. As long as you keep in mind the Americans are not trying to be intentionally offensive to you, both work equally well. RP has both features: it is at least as clear as AmE *and* way softer, hence I greatly prefer it. But if we leave the RP land, AmE would be my second preference. The regional British accents still sound nice, but many of them are difficult to comprehend.
American English sounds like non-native English.
The only regional US accents I can immediately recognise are new york and the typical southern accent
I still find it sad that nobody who vlogs about British accents *ever* does East Anglian. Although I'm not native to the region, I've lived around it for the last thirty or so years, and it has its own dialect and distinctive accentual features which never seem to get presented on TV (possibly because actors tend to guess "Mummerset" (that is, an actors' version of West Country) for anything rural.
My accent is naturally not-very-clearly-marked RP--a standard middle-class Southern accent, probably from my parents' accent and the BBC.
You could also mention that RP is also most frequently spoken as a "second language": that is, code-switching in mixed or work contexts (which is very important in a more geographically mobile Britain), while the broader accent comes out with close friends, drunk, or with family.
East Anglian accent is the sexiest one, TO ME.
Yeah that was surprising to me too, its such a distinct accent. I grew up in Norfolk and then moved to Germany so I was looking forward to the nostalgia
It's quite similar to west country I reckons
That's a fun course. Starts mid January and is called 'Spring' course. I'd name it 'Winter' course, since spring is far off yet. Then it runs till a month PRIOR to when it started.
This is so facinating! I’ve lived up and down Britain, from Yorkshire to Dorset, and was born in Germany, but have been living in North Wales for the last 20 years (army brat). I’ve always been jealous of my fellow brits and their amazing accents, because I feel like I don’t have one! But it’s been described to me as Welsh/Scouse, with hints of American- English 😅 eg: I say Toon-a instead of Tune-a. Would love to see you do a video where you try to work out where people come from based on their accents, like Henry Higgins from My Fair Lady.
My personal favourites from the UK are Scottish, South Wales, Geordie and Yorkshire 💖
When you are a brazilian guy and you learn american english all your life is a little different hear so diversity in accents and I love them
Spot on, one of the best summaries of the British accents I've seen
Very enjoyable and informative video. I would like to have heard accents from Inverness, Aberdeen, Isle of Mann, Orkneys, Hebrides, and Cornwall as well, plus more of the different Irish accents. Perhaps a second video?
Enjoyable. One of the consonant clusters that get changed in your examples is the /th/, which went from the th sound to /v/ and /f/, and it occurred with a speaker who was Black, which also occurs here in the states, mostly to the th sound, so "bath" becomes "baff". The th sound is a phoneme in English, a sound unto itself. I like all the accents, in fact most accents, but do really love the Yorkshire accent. I heard a little girl say "MONG-kay", which is just charming.
Glaswegian I always think “What’s heavier, a kilogram of steel or a kilogram of feathers?” 😂
but its heavier than feathers! Limmy for the win.
Kill Jester guy is the politest glasweigan
You've no business being on UA-cam. You're nae even from UA-cam.
Okay, for a moment I started to actually work it out and I'm.not even Scottish
The West Country accent is definitely my favorite. It’s basically a pirate accent. You should make a video about that one.
yeah it is, the actor in treasure island by disney in the 1950s based his accent off of dorset in the south west of england, which basically defined the west country accent as sounding like a pirate
I'm from Plymouth (Devon) the further to the southwest you go for example into Cornwall the thicker the west country accent becomes
@@chrisholland7367 So are all Cornishmen pirates? 🤔
@@PockASqueeno no but in parts of Cornwall during the 1700s smuggling was very prevalent.
@@meliora99 This is since, in the novel, Long John Silver was Cornish. Many pirates in the Golden Age of Piracy were from that region since most ships went out of Bristol and Penzance.
Wow. Incredible research. A lot of work has been done. Thank you.
My family are all from the North or Scotland so for me the Yorkshire and Glaswegian accents are like home. Hearing them always brings me a little joy!
I love the variety of accents and dialects we have in the United Kingdom.
Sadly there are many elitists/ ignorant people that will judge a person to be less intelligent or of a lower social status based solely on their regional accents or colloquialisms.
It's the same everywhere though.
yeah, in school they tell us growing up that our accent in the American south is often considered a sign of unintelligence for some reason, so our teachers taught us that many of the american bright mathematical minds speak with one of the southern accents, and many STEM/strategic facilities in the 1900's and before are in Texas, Virginia, Florida, etc.
This!
Same with the states sadly
It is what it is
As a northerner all I can say about it is that's their fookin' loss init.
For Yorkshire, at least where I'm from, "I'm going to the shop" would actually be "Am off t' shop".
It depends really as I would say"M'off t shop", I'm from Doncaster.
At an put t,wood in,t hole ! Ya girls blouse.
Aye, aye, laddie 😂
What to you think of the Monty python "Four yorkshiremen" sketch? ua-cam.com/video/ue7wM0QC5LE/v-deo.html
@@brianmiller1077 funny af, it really tickles my sense of humour.
I also noticed how HMTLQE said tower in a video..its very distinct to my ear at the moment. Thanks for your lesson, nice one 😃
Wildly helpful video, expanding my accent repertoire for dming in dungeons and dragons and i learned a lot
He resembles Daniel Radcliffe and Michael Fassbender at the same time.
And Tony's dad off skins ifykyk
You're right !
And Willem Dafoe
What? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
right??? I saw the resemblance with Radcliffe since the beginning, but I couldn't quite make another celebrity into the mix; Fassbender! Brilliant
I’m in Australia and we have many British immigrants here. My late father-in-law had a Yorkshire accent, but my favourite is two of my colleagues who have Welsh accents, especially one who often gets on the PA system to make announcements - his pronunciation is a delight and makes my heart jump for joy on hearing it. 🥰
Just found your channel, about 1 min in and I love you! I am partially deaf so I use lip reading alongside listening, you don’t have to answer as I’m so late to the party but I’m just wondering if you have/had a lisp, your pronunciations are fantastic no issues. I hope I do not come across condescending, I’m just (probably too) fascination with how you’re forming words.
I Didn’t post it before, so I’ll carry on.
Great video, I’m from the UK and have an American boyfriend I want to give him a voice note in different uk accents, thank you for the video.
Important to note about the 'a' pronounciation: it's largely
split north and south like he said, but the west country also shares the northern pronunciation 'bahth' where lomdon and the South East would say 'barth'
I love the Yorkshire accents. They sound so lovely. I'd love to hear more about the Welsh accent. It's really hard for me to pick that one out.
It's probably most distinct in Gavin and Stacey (in popular culture), you can really hear its singsong-ness on that show. :) I live in Cardiff now and sometimes I'll pass by people who sound exactly like Stacey, Nessa or Bryn!
Listen to Tom Jones speak or Rhod Gilbert.
What do you mean by the “Yorkshire accent” There are literally dozens of accents in Yorkshire. The county is literally so big that it had to be split into 4 sections. Don’t really get what you mean by that as, North, South, West & East Riding of Yorkshire all have very different accents. I sound nothing like people who are from North/East Yorkshire 💀🥴😂
I'm Chinese but I speak in a strong Geordie accent as I watched too many videos of little mix 😂😂
😂haha
omg this is the funniest thing!
😂😂😂
coolorin booo
pls tell me you get that
Omg yessss 😂
England and America with so many different English accents.
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Thanx for the headups! It's quite a difficult task to me to find out what really defines that kind of sound in the language itself. So it's british pronounciation in general. Like that. As an accent fan it surprises me that these accents are spoken nearly all over the country. Think i learn one of these accents from now on and use 'em in my conversations ! Greetz from gernany
Lived there for two years after university. Absolutely loved and miss it dearly. So many accents! I tried to incorporate as many as I could remember into the voices of my characters. I couldn’t quite remember one in particular, thankfully I found this channel to help jog my memory. Cheers, mate!
“I’m a massive fan of the dictionary”
I love this quote; always makes me laugh :)
I was in doubt whether i heard that right xd
I am too, I collect them, bu I 'm not British.
At first I thought she said "messy fan of the dictionary." 😅
"Bitch... me too."
Great video to use with my ESL students who are visiting the UK...my favourite is my own of course...East Yorkshire!
West county is definitely my favourite uk accent it has a lot of personality in it
I am from France and I just love the Scouse accent! When I first heard it I did not even recognise it was English! 😂 It sounds so unique! The accent in East Midlands has a special place in my heart though, because that's where I did my Erasmus year
I have a scouse accent and my American colleagues can't decide if I'm from Scotland or Ireland.
I live between Nottingham and Birmingham so the accent here is like a mixture of those two.
@@yardgrid I get that too! It's so funny trying to explain too.
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I was brought up in Derbyshire small mining village and we drop few letters similar to a Yorkshire
When moved to Sussex, they couldn't understand a word i said.
@@yardgrid I've heard that too in online voice chat and sometimes people think I'm speaking Dutch or German.
I guess from the "ck" which sounds similar to Dutch "g" or German "Nacht" ( Depends on region in Germany ) and Scottish "Loch".
What's funny is that the Dutch person in the voice chat actually understood me while everyone else was baffled. I started speaking in broken English as a joke so everyone else could understand me lol.
How can you not mention Ozzy Osborne for brummy? He's the most brummy person on the planet
SHARON!
Jasper Carrott is a good rival for that accolade
I’m American but I’m in love with the cockney accent. I wanna go to London just to hear ppl talk like that. Same with the South Yorkshire accent
Well it is so hard to choose. I am a New Zealander and I come from the South of the South Island where we roll our r's and this is said to come from our Scottish forebears who settled the southern area. I like many British accents, they are so full of character..but as a descendent of a scouser I would have to say I love that, but how too choose I love so many of them.