A Newfoundland Language Lesson with Mark Critch, Candice Walsh and Travel Yourself
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- Опубліковано 25 кві 2011
- I've visited Newfoundland twice and still can't quite grasp this accent / language of theirs aka Newfinese. On my last trip I asked two friends of mine Mark Critch a famous Canadian Comedian and Actor known for his hilarious portrayal of various Canadian Politicians and other characters on the TV show This Hour Has 22 Minutes and famous Newfoundlander and Travel Blogger Candice Walsh of www.CandiceDoesTheWorld.com . I hope you enjoy! :) Check www.TravelYourself.ca for more great videos and don't forget to subscribe to our UA-cam Channel! :)
even the slang is the same...these guys could stroll into parts of ireland and nobody would even think they were foreign. lol
Eh?
Walsh yuup, it’s by’ here.
My grandma's from the maritimes (not same province but same region of Canada), her accent used to be so thick that when she first moved out of province people would ask her what country she was from. The main thing that differentiates her accent from this one is that it's basically a merging of a Belfast accent with a Cork one, so she sounds like two opposite sides of Ireland
Galway Tribesman fuck you too buddy. You absolute git.
@@caitlinhickey6 They sound like Irish Travellers to me. I would never think they are Irish but can hear a lot of the same affectation and syntax structure but the mix of American makes it unique. The plural of be and do comes from the double verb in Gaelige...I bes going to town is I be going to town, a syntax that hasn't be used popularly in Ireland since the 50's.
my first time in newfoundland when i got drunk i could understand everyone all week hammered on the last day i was sober and couldnt understand anything they said lmfao
ROTFL!!!!!!!
LOL< I was just the opposite, I couldn't understand a word when I was drunk, LOL
Gotta love Newfies! ROFL
haha ,,
Co-worker's a newfie living out of province who used to never suppress her accent, one time a bunch guys from Newfoundland came in (we work at a bar) and got so hammered they weren't actually speaking words so much as slurring all of them together. When we told her they sounded basically the same as her to us she started taking effort to speak less newfie
I’m from Montreal and I had a Newfie teacher in college. The whole semester I just assumed she was from Ireland. One day I just asked her and she said she was from Newfoundland, I was shook.
Most Newfies my dear, are Irish decendants, and Scottish and English as well and even French.
Must be from the Southern Shore 😉
Shook? For the love of God don't try to emulate anything American. We're the worst lol
And they say Ireland never colonised anywhere 😂 up the lads, we made it!
So Irish.
Bro we had the largest empire and most colonies in all of human history.
It’s a really strange combo of Irish ☘️ and Cornish/west country
You ever been to Boston? Ugliest group of people it's impossible to deny its Irish heritage.
@@Yamezzzz that's not true in the slightest.
This is incredible. I never realised how many different Irish accents are still alive in Newfoundland. Must visit!
I love the fact as someone from Northern Ireland I understand most of this
I think it has some similarities to an Irish accent.
StargateAdventures Its cuz many Irishmen migrated to Canada quite a long time ago
Makes sense, as the accents in the Maritimes developed out of a mix of Irish, Scottish, English (South West, like Cornwall and surrounding area), and I think a bit of French (Acadian), even.
@@bcpr9812 www.academia.edu/6091342/Irish_Immigrants_in_Newfoundland_17th_-_18th_centuries_From_Seasonal_Migrations_to_Permanent_Settlement
Me too
Newfoundland is a somewhat hidden treasure of Canada. I highly recommend visiting, it's absolutely beautiful as well as being full of character (as the video indicates).
"Deadly auld time"
Yep, we use that in Ireland
THIS IS EXACTLY LIKE THE WEXFORD ACCENT. YOUS EVEN SAY "I LIKES", "I WANTS" AS WELL. ITS CRAZY.
I can confirm that there are descendants of people from Wexford in Newfoundland
"I'm not talking to fast, you're listening to slow". epic lol
I’m from Toronto... but Irish/Scottish roots... I’ve had Brits comment that I sound British. I’ve met Newfies I thought were straight from Ireland... and Irish I thought were Canadian because their accent was identical to mine. It’s unbelievable how accents can be so varied and yet so well maintained through generations of migrating.
I picked up the phone once and answered in a standard Canadian accent, but the woman on the other end was Scottish and I instantly defaulted into a Scottish accent because it’s an accent I grew up with... I also default to a French accent in Quebec because I have French relatives... kind of hilarious. Newfies do the same... they change their accent and lingo depending on who they’re talking to... it’s quite the skill, lol.
Growing up in a family where your parents are from very different parts of the country, and their parents came from totally different countries besides, really gives you an ear to pick up on accents easier. Whenever one of them would visit their relatives back home they’d come back with a refreshed accent and complain their family told them they sounded English at the start of their trip, haha. Since then I’ve lived in a number of countries and always had a pretty flexible accent myself too. It really gives you a better sense of oral posture and things like that, which make it easier to learn accents and languages you were never even exposed to, just being more aware of the motions your lips and tongue make.
Funny to see a guy from Newfoundland impersonate an Irish Newfoundland accent with his own Newfoundland Irish accent.
My wife & I were in Ireland in 2009. We're from Labrador. The guide had the full Irish lilt telling stories & jokes. Others must have thought we were crazy because we could understand every word & we were laughing our heads off at her. She could tell a story or 2.
My family is from Stephenville...they spoke fluent French. Proud to be descended from Newfies! Cheers from the States. :)
buddy got a bitta bay blood in'en wha?
It's like if an Irishman lived in Northern Iowa.
Have you ever been to Northern Iowa? Maybe Wisconsin or Minnesota but not Iowa lol
I love the Newfie accent and don't want it to disappear. It seems it's starting to fade, though. When that car commercial a few years came back and stereotyped the accent all of Newfoundland was outraged and went out of their way to show they didn't talk like that. I was thinking: "WHY?" They should've said "Yep! That's how we talk! Come to Newfoundland to hear us speak - and bring all your tourist dollars with you!" Lol. x
There are 10 different dialects of English spoken in Newfoundland, representing the counties or main areas of West Country England or Ireland from which people emigrated. Memorial University's English Dep't. research concluded that Nfld's English is the most distinct form of English on the planet. Each dialect has some words or expressions which are unique to that dialect. Many of the Newfoundlanders known to people from outside the province are the celebrities who've come from St.John's or somewhere on the Avalon Peninsula where immigrants from Ireland settled long before the great Irish famine occurred. They arrived near the turn of the 19th century. Approximately 1/3 of Newfoundlanders are descended from the Irish; 2/3 have English heritage: West Country England cities like Poole and Devon or Dorset.
They all sound Irish, of all of these accents have the th Irish signature and the H, I heard one of them say ''boath'' The Irish were the first settlers in newfoundland, not sure how Irish became the prominent dialect but it did.
Patrick McDermot it’s a prominent dialect because the Irish settled the Avalon portion of the island, which today is the main part and includes the capital city of St. John’s. On the east coast there were entire communities of just Irish immigrants that lived among themselves. Which is one of the main reasons some people have very distinct Irish accents with little other influence. Many of the people form those towns today are pure Irish descendants.
i'm born and raised in Newfoundland, wouldn't have it any other way. i understand every word. i talk pretty well exactly like that :) fast, and with that amazing accent! Newfies rock
I would move to Newfoundland just to talk to people who talk like this :D I love it!
Mark Critch is brilliant.
Once I met a Cape Breton lady and I asked her what part of Newfoundland she was from. I've never seen a lady got madder. In order to calm her down I had to say sorry several times and ask if anybody else is made that mistake. As soon as I said as anybody else made that mistake she became very calm and said a lot of people.
why do cape breton folks not like to be confused with newfies? some kinda fishy beef?
i've been having a bit of an emotional day today and was looking into places that i could live in the future. came across this, and the idea of living there has really brightened my day ^^
Fucking amazing I'm from Cork and understood everything and I mean everything that was been said :)
4:50 sounds like a limerick accent 🤣.. 5:05 is definitely a cork access haha. I'm going to Newfoundland for a visit.
Hey you have the same name as my grandpappy. That made me smile
Everybody everywhere has an accent! I'm a Nova Scotian living in Vancouver and I got made fun of when I moved here bc I said certainly words different from the locals. So I "adapted". But it still slips out when I'm drunk, haha. I love the Newfie accent, makes me miss back east.
I heard someone say once, that a person who study's dialects and stuff once said, of all the languages and dialects in the world that exist today, Newfoundland's is the closest to Elizabethan English that was spoken in Shakespearean days.
Newfoundland is the only province in Canada that has it's own dictionary, thesaurus, time zone and distinct cultural that is completely separate from the rest of Canada. Having it's own time zone separate from the rest of the world even. They are remote and has kept it's traditions and culture. One old Christmas tradition is from England and Ireland - I once asked a British woman about it (she was about 45 years at the time) and she has no clue what i was talking about. It dates back to the 19th century. I guess they don't practice it over there anymore.
Although i am from Toronto, I am very proud to say my family comes Newfoundland and every time i visit there, there is a peace that overcomes me and i feel like i am home. I even call it home, even though i really never lived there. Sometimes Newfoundlander's are surprised to find out that i am a mainlander, lol . One day it will be my home.
hope you write a beautiful book about your journey!
I love this because I can barely understand them and I'm a newfie😂
Thanks for sharing I love Newfies so unique! You guys are precious!
Most these accents are derived from Irish, 4:49 is a Limerick city accent, 4:48 is a Cavan town accent, 5:04 is a cork accent, even the guy and girl in the video speaking in their natural voice sounds Irish, and could almost pass for someone from Waterford.
They sound like Irish travellers. When the dude did 'the irish accent', that is one accent (A little too Tom Cruise in 'Far and Away' for my liking) but ireland has multiple accents and many are show cased here or rather how some accents would have sounded through the last century.
I understand this!! Unbelievable!
Mental note: Must go to Newfoundland at some point over the next two years.
Velcro did you go?! It’s been two years!
This is the best case of lingustic analysis from the inside! Absolutely brilliant!
The thing is in other provinces we have variations too... like in Alberta there is a distinct accent in the Borcht Belt where dey talk wit de disses and da dats, couple times of years dey go to da big city of admunton
Great video! I lived in Fort McMurray ten years ago, and this video reminds me of all the nice people I met there.
I don't know how many times I've watched this! Love it!
Great laugh thanks! Im from Nova Scotia and had many a newfie in the family. Good stuff!
I really want to go to Newfoundland, I'm Irish and their slang and accents are so similar
I'm from Corner Brook but been living in Ontario pretty much all my life. People still comes up to me and ask if I'm from Nfld. I guess its because of hearing the accent all my life from me mudder!!
Raised my newfoundlanders, myself, mainlanders ask me if I'm from Nova Scotia O_o...guess the accent and slang rubs off. (using words like "chesterfield" and "right fancy" )
This is incredible and I just learned today that Newfies speak Irish. I thought the Irish language was written and spoken like another language. I have seen Irish words written and I had no idea what was being written.
On behalf of all Canadians, I apologize for the wrong behaviour of Sweiland75!
Yes, you are right, even native English speakers from other provinces of Canada have a hard time understanding this beautiful accent. I am from Ontario but love Newfoundland accent and Newfoundlanders. They are really nice people. Actually all East Coasters are great people. Hope you can visit it someday.
Funny I worked at the airport here in st. johns and when we would have the American military come in we used to have to talk slower and try to water down our accents because they used to look at us and say "...um, what?.." haha
I can see that happening with the Americans. Heck I'm from Ontario and when we vacationed there one summer I was trying not to laugh when I heard an older woman talking to her friend. I didn't understand a word. But it was funny. We had an amazing time there and would go back. It truly is a special place.
This is funny haha....Mark Critch is hilarious - made my morning
I just got an urge to watch This Hour Has 22 Minutes.
First time I met a newfounese, I thought I was having a stroke. I swore this is english but I don't understand any of it!
bananian Eventually understanding Newfies becomes like understanding the Matrix.
I'm from Newfoundland and I was watching videos and the ppl didn't understand the slang and stuff and I don't understand why because it kind of explain itself but I guess that's just where I grew up here
+water melon I'm from Newfoundland but I don't have the accent but I understand every word in this vid
+theflamingboss 55 exactly the same for me!
I'm not sure why all of this Newfoundland stuff from 12 years ago is coming up suddenly but I'm liking it! It's impossible not to have a good laugh when there's a newfie in the room.
This Guys hilarious. Need to google and watch him now. I was crying laughing with his chip fryers.
Great video! I'm a mainlander but my boyfriend is from the east coast of the Rock and I miraculously understand almost all of this.
this truly is the greatest video I have ever seen. this video has made me feel great to be alive! lol
I am from Corner Brook and I cannot understand so much of this. No surprising since we have more accents than any other place in the world. Being from the west coast the French part of the island and I can understand them!!!! Lol Sometime I find myself talking like the people of Stephenville and I've been away for 49 years!
Well this is weird, for several reasons, we have the same name and my Grandma's family was also from Stephenville :D
She also (being French) never sounded much like this..(..?) LOL SOME but, not totally. Lots and lots of 'British' phrases though ;D
I just got this message! What is your Grandmother's name? I am always interested in all Prospers! I know what you mean, but for me the French accent still comes out. Maybe it has something to do with my age. Would love to hear from you!
LOL! Amelia White, she had several sisters, I believe Effie lived there the longest, on Queens St. in Stephenville. Originally LeBlancs. Also have Cormier, Gaudet, Benoit. :D How about you? How funny!! I have it because of my Grandma, even though I was raised in the states, odd phrases from 'the rock' come out now and again. ;D
Ah, I've got benoit relatives in stephenville! Mike and Jill and them. Not sure if those names are familiar.
This was entertaining. Not even as someone who likes linguistics but also just as a fun video to watch
Keep this culture alive! Love from Montreal! :)
As a Newfie from Central, I love being able to understand this without any trouble. :)
Newfoundlanders are the greatest people on earth and the Rock is amazing.
Yes by I'm from nl and I talks just like dat by
Until the early 20th century, there were speakers in Newfoundland of a dialect of the Irish language called Newfoundland Irish. Remember that Newfoundland was a separate country until 1949.
I swear it sounds like the guy said, Casper was a rubber ducky?! and the response was, "not much where were you at?" "Oh not much going laying down a wicked wah."
I dies at you!
Teagan Walker
Like ya would!
Love the beer segment.
My area in NB is filled with families from Cork. And it's also a very Acadian-concentrated area so you'd think we'd all have very thick accents but the closest English school is nearly an hour away so we're affected by the way people talk in that area. I have a bit of an accent, but you'll really notice it if you get me excited or if I'm talking to other people from down shore.
It's a gealic Celtic Irish rouge accent!
Holy hell...i was not prepared for the way that guy talks. WOAH! hehe, i wnna catch a newfie accent XD
What a great video!!! Thanks!
I'm in love with this accent or whatever this is. I'm kinda doing it at work and by kinda I'm doing it uncontrollably. New customers are asking what Ireland was like and I'm like... whoops.
Great video and the editing is awesome.
FRom El Salvador, my country , thanks very much for the video ! great video !
Mark Critch is a Newfie legend and a Canadian treasure.
Mark is so correct on 100% of this. His history is not only correct it’s clearly funny as well. I’ve always said, I can tell where someone’s from in NL but the way they talk. BOTwood. Hahahahaha
I love how she translated everything i understood and nothing i didn't understand 🤣
I love Newfoundland...lots of love from Nova scotia.
Ik all that they said I'm a newfoundlander. One time mama dad called the US for something he wanted to buy the person on phone said she liked his accent and asked where his accent was from
Crazy how many different Irish accents all mould into one here
Newfoundland accent sounds like an Irish accent
Makes sense seeing these people are descendants of Irish, English, and Scottish also French people from really not very long ago at all. West country dialect with French, Irish and other bits mixed in. It's very interesting
XMad man? Newfoundland was the go-to place for the Irish escapin the Irish famine. The fishing industry in Newfoundland was boomin.
Thats because newfoundlanders r irish and I no cuz im a newfie
Brady, Colby,Caden Jagger,Ty I’m part scot part Brit. So not all Newfie’s my love.
@@sweetsounds152 Irish had been going to newfoundland since the 17th century. there is a plack in waterford.
I live close to the city and I find that as you get further into the bay the thicker the accent gets
this was great, made me a subscriber.
That was amazing. Kind of spooky to hear the accent breaking out. And the "th's". Just like here in Ireland. Class video.
Bi's im from newfoundland u forgot dat when we says up da coast we actually mean down the coast and goin down da coast means goin up da coast
I lived in Montreal for a while and had the opportunity to meet some Newfounlanders. It's crazy how much it sounds like the Irish brogue.
"this one little rock on the side of the coast the coast"... lol. Loves it ere by'
People from Cork stayed in the one spot and didn't move around. that's Cork people for ya haha
Try going to La Scie and asking for directions to 'Harrys Harbour ".
"Ho yer looking for arrys arbour?
Just ead hout of town, angg a left wen you gets to de eyeway....."
You get it.
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There is a town in nfld that my great great great grandparents who came from Ireland to nfld they named after her Mary something my father was telling me the other day ! I cant remember exzactly but I died laughing at this.. I miss it !
"You might have yer hospital, but we has the school."
I fucking laughed so much, reminds me of my community.
Take this clip for what it is meant guys ...Newfoundlanders are proud tp make fun of themselves ...all in good humour, our language is unique , coming from a mixture of cultures...
I have an uncle who is from Newfoundland and he's been in Manitoba for many years. Still has his accent
The funny thing (or ting) is, I'm from Cape Breton. I lived in Brampton, Ontario for a few years and there were so many people that thought I was from Newfoundland. At the time I was a bit insulted but not now. My great grandfather was from northern Newfoundland and his father or grandfather was from Ireland. So I start to understand what's goin on. I'm descended from Irish immigrants in the year 1756. Where they settled in Twillingate, Newfoundland. I of course never thought I had any sort of "accent" but low and behold I do. Living in the Sydney area, or Cape Breton Regional Municipality, of Cape Breton Island, we have I would say 4 distinct accents in our small area. I find that sort of strange for our small area but I guess it stems from older days when we were seperate and more isolated as communities and the accents stuck. We don't tend to talk as fast as Newfoundlanders though I don't tink.
This is excellent!
Oh right thanks! I'm Irish and it sounds pretty familiar to me, Cork accent specifically. You'd definitely know that it has been derived from Irish atleast! :) pretty cool.
Thank you, thank you. I had to google your sentence to know what you mean. You warmed up my heart. XXXOOO
True he's been having a crack with the pretty gals down dere.
Sounds really fast though like a rainbow Effect🇨🇮
Blessings everyone 😎 I'm from Chicago so I know the diversity why we got many accents
Legit sounds like Wexford was uprooted hahaha! If they were in Ireland, they would fit in even with the slang :D
I just visited Newfie last week and my buddy (from there) was playing a slot and hit three trees, and turned to me and said I hit tree trees paused then said yes bye! I laughed. I love it there mainly because of the people!
Newfounland is so awesome! The people who live there are one of the most amazing people in the world. They're extremely genereous. very friendly and boy do they know how to party!?
haha I love this guy! Needs to be on a death squad podcast!! Powerful NFLD!
Best description of our way of speaking bar non
Mark ya sounds like a Skeet in this clip! Whahahaha
Haha he said he's going to Colliers to a few kitchen parties. 😂
6:00 sounds like the French buddy spent a bit too much time up here in Fort Mac, out at camp.
7:26 haha thus is basically the extent of racism you'll find in Newfoundland :P
8:12 That's gold! I LAUGHED SO HARED! LMAO Betcha can't tell if I[m drunk or not! haha holy frig, this vidoe is epic, gotta add this one to me favourites!
Irish born and bred here and I understand 100% of that.
Looks like you had fun!
i work in northern alberta and im surrounded by newfies and i think they are all happy and good people ..there good for a laugh thats for sure