James McAvoy Translates Your Scottish Tweets!
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2019
- Ahead of the release of It Chapter 2, we sat down with James McAvoy as he translates some of your Scottish tweets! Keep watching to find out what happens when a rat hijacked our interview! #ItChapter2 #JamesMcAvoy #JamesMcAvoyScottishTweets #JamesMcAvoyScottish
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When you're Scottish and dinnae need the translations but you just like to see your country represented by something other than pie eyed gingers and men in kilts yellin "aye, wee lassie"
I feel you pal, I'm danish and to a lot of americans that's the same as swedish, so we just get lobbed in with the Pewdiepie crowd, and that's no fun.
@@GodBear97 People are so dumb when it comes dialogues other than their own.
@@rowynnecrowley1689 Which is weird, I mean we have the internet at our finger-tips, any possible accent/dialect is right there. It's so easy to find out how other people sound, or look, but too few people actually try
@Zoe K. coz he plays a Jacobite 😂that's literally what the Jacobites were big muscly hairy ginger kilt wearing English hating maniacs that were pretty good at cutting men in half with claymore swords as big as they were
Rachel Henry mon the Scots 🏴🏴
His accent got thicker and thicker by the end of the vid. 😄
i think the way scottish people type with their accent (sometimes, not all the time) reminded him of how his accent used to sound, i imagine a lot of actors go through coaching to tone down their accents or speak more "posh" rather than with the really thick dialects.
That accent got dick that's why
he's fae the drum whit do yea expect
Glad he still has his accent, unlike Gerard Butler.
Happens to all scots if they've been away a while but listen to or read scottish. My fella has been away from glasgow for 8 years now and has a mild accent. By end of day 1 back in scotland, and he's full back, or if we've binge watched Chewin the fat/still game
I love how he explained "guide dog" as though that was the part of the sentence people had trouble with 😂
You'd be surprised
terri-louise Ó leathlobhair I Know Right he kept saying that’s self explanatory. Maybe to him but we don’t speak Scottish. Lol
I first heard 'gay dog', so it was good for me 🤣
@@jonsnow4603 Same lol
@@jonsnow4603 i heard gay dog too🤣🤣🤣🤣
i could listen to him talk forever
Oh Me Too!!
Me too.
Even though I don't understand shit 😂
@@anitan9591 It gets easier the longer you listen....
He should be the voice for audiobooks.
@@akat3628 Oh My Gawd Yes. That would be amazing...maybe someone should call his agent!!!
God damn he’s aging so beautifully!
I was just thinking the same, he keeps looking better and better!
He's aging?
i wouldny ken
Men aged like wine that's why
@@Breauner, wouldnae*
lol this is testing my English comprehension skills so hard rn
"Can understand Scottish tweets/Glaswegian accents" should be on one's resume skill set lol
Yorkshire accent is just as bad.
Listening to Limmy or Kevin Bridges is probably even harder. Their accents are THICC
@@acgm046Its no that thick ye shud hear how people fae Ayrshire talk and am fae there. Translation: Its not that thick you should hear how people from Ayrshire talk and i'm from there.
@@vape9546 I'm sure that's harder. But since English is not my first language, a Glaswegian accent is basically hard for me to understand. I know if I heard other thicker accents and dialects, I'd have a seriously hard time even trying to figure out what they're saying!
whenever he says, its pretty self explanatory, im sitting here like please explain.
He only says that when it's all words in english
Fairy liquid is a well known washing up liquid (soap for washing plates) in the UK.
I think that's the only time he said it that some may not have understood if they have never heard of fairy liquid before.
@@annag8678 Okay thank you lol cause he said fairy liquid and smelling like a plate and I was LOST but I guess it is straightforward if you know what fairy liquid is lol
Katherine K we have it here in Australia as well but then a lot of UK stuff is sold out here . It’s a dishwashing detergent . So what the young scot guy said was my mum ( maw) bought him some shower gel from aldi ( supermarket ) and it smelled like dishwashing soap so he went about his day smelling like a plate !
Katherine K I guess if you are American and he said is mom got some Dawn then it would make sense that he said he smellled like a plate. Fairy liquid = dish detergent I believe. I didn’t understand it either though. Lol.
I wish he did more movies where he could use his own accent.
Braveheart reboot anyone? 😂
@@glacialimpala filth
@@glacialimpala the film filth not your comment....... Great movie.
Omg yes please
5:44 y’all forgot to put the tweet up on the screen so i literally could not understand a single word he just said 😭😂
its terrible that throughout the entire vid i was like wheres the one where he talks about smellin like a plate???
I was struggling
Same! 😂
Same here
Shower gel from Aldi's smelled like Fairy dish soap?
Imagine one with Bill Skarsgard but instead he translates swedish tweets
Well even though it would work, but Swedish is a completelly different language and it doesn't even have the same humor factor
yeee maen almost nothin has the same humour factor as Scottish humour...
i can do that
Blip blop blip blop blip
Aye but Scottish slang isn’t a different language it’s just no one understands it
"I'm here SELLING IT 2" Tellin' it like it is James.
I didn't know this guy wasn't American. His American English is good.
Robert Pirlot the American accent is pretty easy to copy
Never seen Shameless?
He’s been in loads of good films.
ginger psycho
Says a ginger psycho like yourself all nimbly bimbly bloke mate
@@Gayredheadbitch94 Ikr, just talk normally lol.
The tragic part is that even his translation was hard for me to understand 😂
Yeah you're pretty right
Not really compared to some glaswegians James’s accent is pretty tame my mum can understand the as can I but my Da no chance !
Michelle Flood Oh so is Glasgow a region of Scotland famous for heavy accents?
Michelle Flood I’ve been watching that show “Outlander” and I am a proper Scottish-phile now haha
Lillian Gao thicker than others yes famous for it debatable !
He could read the ingredients on a box of cereal and I'd listen with rapt attention.
Me too!!!
And then Daisy Ridley could read me the milk carton.
A number of years ago a telemarketer called our house. My mom let him go through his half hour shpeel because he was Irish and just wanted to listen to him speak.
@@autocensored This sounds exactly like something I'd do, haha
In his original Scottish accent
"Can we get her fired? No?" 😂😂 I love him. Why did that kinda sound like his hedwig voice though?
He said "can we get her fired, NOW?" lol
Etcetera
I thought he was bloody brilliant as Hedwig 🦉
@@RiggidyDiggidyRaw he was brilliant at all of his characters
Jeannine/Alyssa Laidler LMAO
Me: completely lost
James McAvoy: *This is absolutely self-explanatory*
God he's even greying beautifully
firstname lastname to me looks more salt and pepper meaning he still has some of his dark brown but a few silver strands through it and yes I agree !!
Lmao right? It looks good
Whenever someone with an accent is with someone with the same accent or reads in that accent, the accent thickens by like 10 fold.
Thats just his normal accent when he was reading. He has to sound proper when on tv so people can understand him
It sounded like he was even trying to make himself sound more clear. Like when he was saying he didn't want to go camping with Bear Grylls, it sounded like he was starting to say "I dinna want.." and then changed it to "I don't want to.." to sound more clear
that is fascinating
Literally everyone has an accent
Who doesn't have an accent lmao
heard the first 42 seconds then spent the rest of the 6 minute video thinking about the fact that James has the sexiest voice on the planet.
And that is the reason Americans lack general knowledge.
Omg sameeeeeeee
idk sean connery has always had a good roll of the tongue but he's Scottish too ;)
Sameeee I always do this in his interviews, don't even know what they're talking about lol
Anyone else watching this just to listen to him talk.
Ughhhhh I love his voice so much X3
Same
Same, that simple
Lollipop Girl no because I live surrounded by that awful fucking accent. And most Scots don’t talk like those tweets.
Kathleen McKelvie most Scots don’t talk like those tweets? Yeah they do.
Lollipop Girl yes!!!
im scottish and am just going through these comments loving how much everyone appreciates our accent, cheers everyone! 💕🏴
It's a beautiful and musical accent!
Nah as a scot this comment section just fuckin triggers me
@@aimeeconnacher7650 get them telt
Keith lord of alba Scotland naw ano mate
I thinks y'all's accent is beautiful!
“Fairy liquid”? “Smelling like a plate?” How are these phrases self-explanatory?? 🤨😂
Fairy liquid is a brand of dish soap.
@@djinnj lmaoooo I never would have been able to guess that 😂😂😂😂
djinnj how are North America’s supposed to no
@@sounsure9108 I don't know, I'm from NA, and I knew. But I have no memory of where I learned it. It's as generic over there as saying a facial tissue is a kleenex over here.
djinnj no one and i mean NO ONE says facial tissue we just say tissue
This was adorable. Those tweets were surprisingly self-explanatory, though. I also appreciate whoever loudly lost a fight with inanimate objects in the background.
Thanks for your comment I really appreciate your efforts
Just here for the accent...
As a Scot, I can say some of those Tweets were actually quite tame, there are some Scottish Tweets I've read that have barely any English in them. I'm originally from the Isle of Skye in the North West of Scotland, and when I first moved to Glasow even I needed a translator. 😊
How the hell did this guy do so many different accents in Split and then sound like this naturally. Absolutely stunning.
His accent is what you hear when you open the gates of heaven😍
And his face!
Sofia Loves pizza God is a Glaswegian?
@@nhmooytis7058 More like Saint Peter as a Glaswegian guarding the gates 😂
Erin Lee and his stash of Glenmorangie?
@@nhmooytis7058 Yes! Lots of it. I imagine he is drinking that while greeting every person passing through the gate 😂😂😂
I would want to see a movie or a TV show starring James as St. Peter drinking while greeting every person that passes through the gates of heaven 🤣
I didn't know that i need to hear him talking with Scottish accent until now 😀
Shahenda Ibdah b-but he is Scottish
Man been talking like that his whole life wdym
Why does everyone seem to like his awful weegie accent? Live surrounded by it and you’d soon get sick of it. And the fact that people seem to think that’s what most Scots sound like..
James: It's self explanatory.
Me: No idea what he just said
take a shot every time he says "it's fairly self explanatory"
Saher Ahmad ahm pished mate
“I’m sorry, your accent is very thick! Is it possible for you to not have it?!”
-SNL, Mikey Day
💀💀😂
that was a very funny skit
Yep, came here after that skit
Dear lord, YES, I LOVED that!!
LMAOOO 😂 that skit was hilarious
I love the grey in his hair. It adds so much character
I really need someone to cast Gerard Butler & James McAvoy in a movie together. I don't care what the plot is as long as they're shirtless half the time & just being Scottish...
Ha ha ha!
Toss in Richard Madden, and don't release it with subtitles. Will probably be the most watched movie of the century
@@Ajuhdnis You had me at Richard Madden. He’s so beautiful. 😍🤤
@@Umbra16 With Billy Connoly as an elder and Kevin McKidd speaking Doric while shirtless and angry.
His accent got me like: 🥵🥵🥵🤰🏼🤰🏼🤰🏼🤰🏼
I love how he explained that Aldi is a German supermarket, even though he's translating Scottish words
I’m Scottish. Why am I watching this?
I believe James would be the answer
Same, I see James McAvoy, I click 🤷🏼♀️
To go to the comments and await wanky Americans go on about not knowing what he's saying. The bastards.
I came here to feel superior to all these roasters no knowing what he's talking about
Can someone translate this
"could we fire her, now?"
I love him sm 😂
He's literally sounded more Scottish when he started reading them 😂
Man I really want him to roll "R" in my name using that accent...
not every Scottish person rolls the 'r'. I certainty dont and from his area and the way he speaks i doubt he does either without trying to take the piss. You don't ken much about Scots, dae yae lass?
I think you have to roll the R in every word only in Icelandic? maybe not..
@@khaleesiii4542 I dont think they do that either. If they did, thats all you would here when an Irish person spoke. We don't roll our "r's" every time we say one and im not entirely sure where people got that from.
@@Alex-jd3bs hm..theres this CZcamsr she had a video on how to pronounce Thor and loki and Odin correctly and stuff..she says if you watch it at some time that in Icelandic they always roll their R..i mean I wouldn't know for sure that's why I said maybe not..
@@khaleesiii4542 i apologise, i quickly read this and thought you had said "Irish" due to the fact i had mentioned us Scots. My mistake pal.
I swear man I love James Mcvoy accent but i can’t understand him
This gives us Scots so much room for mischief, which we exploit in good-natured fun.
Thanks to my mum being half Scottish, I get this completely. It’s like being bi lingual in a way. Except I know Scottish
His accent is a bit easier to understand he doesn't talk as fast as some of us I find it really easy to know but I guess I've been arou d it my whole life
Does watching Shetland count?I understand without subtitles anymore.😎
😂😂 I love confusing non Scottish people its so funny (I’m Scottish)
...And I was thinking people speak English in Scotland too
Mugdha Johri
Ha well we do and we don’t.
We do. We just have slang terminology like every culture on the fucking planet. Just seems that we seem to be the easy ones to ridicule. Didnae worry if it's that intimidating? Then get tae fuck.
@@jameshutton1094 I find Scottish accents are very similar to Belfast accents. Get tae fuck is what Belfasters say all the time 😂
Naw.
@@janedoe-tz3zh Love it! This doesn't surprise me in the slightest as the Scots and Irish share such fundamental common traits. So many times I read 'Irishisms' and yell 'me too!!!''
Next time: James McAvoy translates Chapter 1 of Trainspotting.
First tweet. He said "girl". For a split second I understood "ghetto". Off to a good start.
Me too!!!
If you say "space ghetto" in an American accent it sounds like "spice girl" in a Scottish accent
@@unsaturatedfats5323 I laughed way too much with this 😂😂😂😂
His voice is enough to turn me into melted ice-cream 💕💕I'm dead!🥺🥺
i've been in love with this man since "penelope" and i'm pretty sure i always will be
I always think of 'braw' like "mighty fine". It's a braw day, that's a braw new jacket..."
Yes I feel he understated it with just ‘good’ like it’s deadset the sound you make when sometime’s so good it’s got you struggling for words and you only manage a half grunt of marvelled appreciation.
I mean... I knew he was scottish, but i have never listened to him talking scottish, and let me tell you something... I would fight a war for this man.
Like how they say "Aye" as well. Like, you'll be talking and they'll be listening going, "Aye. Aye."
This is funny, in Germany "kenn" also means "to know" or "to be used to".
Many scotish expressions come from german language
Yes, also part of the archaic English language, probably the Germanic portion. For example "outside of your ken" would be outside your understanding. Not common, but wouldn't have to think twice about the meaning.
Oh yes...another example is 'cow' which the Scots pronounce 'coo'...hört sich an wie unser 'Kuh'. Mein Mann ist Schotte... *grins*
It’s so cool seeing someone from Glasgow (where I’m from) who has made it into the acting business and is in such a big movie like IT. I want to be an actress but you don’t get a lot of people that have actually became actors round here so it’s so cool that James is an actor from Glasgow
Omg yes. This is the moment where I love being Scottish because I understand everything he says 😂😂😂
His accent mann 😍😍😍😍😍 I love him so much ugh ❤❤
Could he explain what Merida said in wreck it Ralph 2 because... I just don't know. I couldn't tell...
Mira Smith whit scene al translate
@@jamiemcatee302 The scene where she's in the room with all the disney princesses
Which quote? Lang may your lum reek or I gie ma mammy a cake? If the first, she’s wishing Vanellope well on her journey and she hopes to see her again soon, and if the second, she was talking about the plot of brave. I can expand on this if you need.
Merida says
I gave my mother a cake, she turned into a big bear, my father tried to kill her. If that wasn't a total mess, I don't know what is.
@@sarahmc2069 thank you. I already have a hard time hearing what people say so that scene just had my brain going into reset mode.
There are so many words that sound like they come straight from the Scandinavian languages. Even though they are spelled different, the pronunciation gives it away. This is the viking heritage.
'Fairy liquid' is UK for dish soap, e.g. Palmolive, Dawn, etc.
i was today years old when i learned james mcavoy was scottish
I thought he was British. Then again, most of the time I've seen him with an American accent, so I'm not even sure how I thought he was British, lol. I'm happier to know that he's Scottish.
@@ssummerlin001 Scotland is in Britain, so he is British. How do people no ken this?
@@antianti328 Most Americans use "English" and "British" interchangeably. Yes, I know Scotland is in the UK. Sorry for not originally saying "I thought he was "English". I'm American, so I used an American colloquialism.
@@ssummerlin001 Just so ye ken, it pure annoys the rest of the UK when people say that england = Britain. No yer fault but just for future reference
@@antianti328 pure winds me up
It´s so impressive to me, watching him speak in his normal accent. He´s such a great actor.
Uh, burn: Being an actual proper Scottish guy, I'm not bothered by the rain.
I would let him call me lassie in a "pissy way" tbh
I worked at a pub in London when Song 2 by Blur was out. I totally related to his story. If you were on the floor collecting pint glasses and that song came on, you had about 20-30 seconds before everything went wild and you had better not be on the floor with the glasses. Same thing with Tubthumping.
Thanks for your comment I really appreciate your efforts
You can also message me on Hangout if you really want us to have a private conversation here's my email below
jamesmcavoy1245@gmail.com
LOL
"Absolutely terrifying, hilarious, and good." as the man said, and I agree. All of the above! Watch It Chapter 2
obsessed with 5:37 when he says he’s not bothered by the rain i’m 🥺😍
You should have left the tweet on the screen while he was explaining them so we could follow along :)
I can spend my life listening to him talking and never get tired 💕
I really LOVE scottish accent. James sounds so sweet
He’s Scottish?!?! Omg his accent is so present😭 his accents in Split were so good
Love listening to his Scottish brogue 🥰 miss my Scottish grandfather so much and love hearing a true Scot 🦄🏴💜
I love that scottish people actually write in dialect, even when the word is an ordinary "english English" word. Like, you're just doing that to mess with other people, and I'm here for it. ^^
Scottish poets have been doing this for a long time. Try reading the original "Auld Lang Syne" and half of the words are incoherent to someone who doesn't know the dialect or Scots words.
They haven't always spoken English. They spoke Gaelic, at least the ones who were sent here to America in 1651-2 did and they kept speaking it into the 1800s sometime. They didn't mix with others any more than they had to
They’re writing in Scots. It’s not English 🙄 and it’s also not Gaelic.
The captions are so off it is hysterical. Thank you for quality content of him just talking. 🤩😍🤩
I just binge watched “the clique” based in Glasgow and he is so much easier to understand. I had to have the captions on the entire time watching the show.
He’s one of the sexiest men alive. And the Scottish accent seals the deal for me
I’d die for this man. What a legend. Just amazing. 10/10
"Bra" is the Swedish word for "good"
Azureecosse probably from the Swedish Vikings who took over Scotland
@@lexieostler8435
Vikings took over small regions of Scotland for very short periods of time.
They never took over Scotland.
Swedish? Or scotish
@@andrerojo4133 Swedish. And Norwegian.
@@lexieostler8435 Swedish Vikings who SETTLED in Scotland! They never took over 👍
such a talented actor really should have got an Oscar by know hopefully he gets a nomination for his role in IT he did great in the film your the best James
James is so down to earth that's what likeable bout him yeah he doesn't like to share anything about his personal life he's got my respect decentt fella
I’ve been living in Scotland for 2 and a half years now, so I understood a lot of this.
The way he said ‘girl’ love it.
Looking through all these comments makes me glad im fae Glasgow and can understand the big man 😂
makes me glad i read a lot of r/scottishpeopletwitter & can understand him lol
He can read the fricken shopping list for all I care and I'd still get pregnant instantly. Hot damn
Tell me why I already knew all this vocabulary from Outlander!! 😭🤭🤣
I’m in the States and when I listen to entertainment from anywhere across the pond I hear the term “furry liquid.” I’ve sort of deduced it’s dish soap, but when I heard it here with him translating I thought, “Awesome I can have it confirmed.” Then he just said, “Pretty self explanatory.” 🤦♀️
Fairy liquid is indeed a dish soap. ''Fairy'' is the brand name which is kind of iconic in the UK, like Kleenex for instance.
Ozymandias X thanks for explaining!
Ozymandias X My god. It's FAIRY liquid?! I've thought it was "furry" for years. Oh my word, I'm dying
@@83gemm I think I posted this story somewhere else on this video but once saw a shop window display in the Castro district in San Francisco that was basically just bottles of Fairy Liquid. I'm so used to the name of the brand that it took me a second to understand why they'd done it.
As a 20 year old from Glasgow, Scotland I understand him perfectly 😂
As a 30 year old from Australia I understand him and the tweets perfectly. It’s just about talking to people and watching a lot of tv shows from countries that aren’t America.
Same but am 14 and am from Edinburgh
If you were a 20 year old from Glasgow and did not understand him then you'd be lying about being from Glasgow.
Gary Mcatear I’ve lived here (in Glasgow my whole life) 😊
@@kf7094 Lol i wasn't saying you were not from Glasgow
i feel like james mcavoy would be a joy to interview since it seems he likes to tell stories that reminds him during his early days
I love listening to the Scottish speak. My favorite accent.
He's perfect 😍❤
Fairy Liquid is a type of dish soap, someone used it on their body.
King James: can we fire her??
Her: 👁👄👁
"would you like to go with bear grylls?"
"yeah no i don't want to"
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What a handsome man. And an amazing accent.
I find it incredebly interesting how I, as a dane, could recognize every one of the scottish words.
It's simply because in Scotland we stick to the earlier version of 14th century pronunciation and vocabulary which retains the high German.
Growing up in north england I knew 99% of these without translation but I just love listening to James talk so here I am
Makes me have so much more respect for other roles that he's also done like, Split. You'd never know he was Scottish and he does sooo many roles in one singular role. ❤
I'm Canadian and understood everything he said! It is pretty self-explanatory... Okay, it might of took me maybe about 15 seconds to understand but it wasn't that hard. Maybe it's because I'm surrounded by people with different accents...?
Maybe, I don't know 🤔🤗
No James, 2:34 Nightshift is night work, backshift is afternoon to late evening.
I once delivered a packet to James, up in the Park district of Glasgow, he needed to sign for it and I kinda recognised him, I asked him what his name was for the PDA he just stared blankly at me as if “don’t you know who I am “ ? 😂😂😂
Glad to see you, James. Love your work.
When he said he worked in Trash when Song 2 came out it was like 😳 because I was going to Trash in Glasgow back then, had to stop going when it burned down though
...i literally thought he meant he worked in waste management
dietotaku hahaha yeah, it was a really “trashy” club in Glasgow that had what was called the “unders” which was basically a night club that ran from 6pm until 10pm for kids under 18! Obviously no alcohol on sale, but it was a den of debauchery for 16 year olds! Had many awesome nights ther as an under and a legal drinker!
I have to watch this twice so i can actually pay attention to what he actually saying but maybe i have to watch it one more time
One of my favourite actors. He is so talented. 😍
“Can we fire her?” I lost it 🤣🤣🤣