How to speak with an Irish accent

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  • čas přidán 10. 03. 2016
  • Learn to speak with an Irish accent in six minutes (or less).
    After the massive success of his "3 Minutes to a Proper British Accent" ( • 3 minutes to a proper ... ), University of Alberta drama professor David Ley is back for an encore with his tips to speaking with a Dublin dialect. (Northern Irish accents are different because .... well, we'll let Ley explain the difference.)
    So give it a try -- break out the guitar, even. You're sure to be a hit on St. Patrick's Day or your next kitchen party.
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Komentáře • 83

  • @SM_Price
    @SM_Price Před 5 lety +135

    "interesting but not appropriate" summarizes all the decisions of my life

  • @stardust-reverie
    @stardust-reverie Před 7 lety +75

    I knew that guitar was going to come into play at some point.

  • @bertinsydney8710
    @bertinsydney8710 Před 5 lety +4

    Thanks Prof David , your method is by far the most scientific and implementable method I've come across so far!

  • @gorkhacheli7855
    @gorkhacheli7855 Před 3 lety

    Enjoyed your tips .. 👍👍 Thankyou 🙏
    Would love to hear more Irish songs ☺️

  • @TheOfficialOriginalChad
    @TheOfficialOriginalChad Před 3 lety +1

    Underrated. Great descriptions of what to do with the mouth.

  • @untitled8027
    @untitled8027 Před 8 lety +13

    This is great, i hope you upload more videos.

  • @rebeccac5051
    @rebeccac5051 Před 7 lety +21

    hahaha "Whiskey you're the devil" in an English accent! Brilliant :)

  • @lad63bird
    @lad63bird Před rokem +1

    This was a VERY GOOD Lesson! I've seen a few that were just over the top but you going into the physical posture was fantastic and much appreciated. I'll let you know if I get cast. Feature film to be shot in Tasmania. I am an italian American actor, so if I pull this off, It's Kudos to you my friend! "If girls were all ducks in the water, All the boys would jump in an swim after!!
    Thanks David! Lou

  • @blueoak116
    @blueoak116 Před 10 měsíci

    Brilliant lesson!

  • @lucindawinehouse2002
    @lucindawinehouse2002 Před 4 lety +1

    I love this

  • @rea3695
    @rea3695 Před 4 lety

    this is so helpful

  • @Jbelovedson
    @Jbelovedson Před 4 lety

    Very helpful.

  • @margarita8614
    @margarita8614 Před 3 lety

    I fell in love

  • @furdiebant
    @furdiebant Před 7 lety

    Amazing

  • @corykilgore2444
    @corykilgore2444 Před 4 lety +5

    Wow you sound just like Damien rice with that accent 😂 I never realized how much of his singing voice is his accent

  • @gavinhuthchings-bennett6466

    The one video I foumd helpful

  • @chickenalpaca0332
    @chickenalpaca0332 Před 7 lety

    1:53 lol my grandpa just gave me a bike and told me to ride it but there was no one watching me outside most of the time (this was my "outdoorsy fase" and I spent all my time outside) so I could only ride it on grass and there was lots of trees around, you can imagine how the first few weeks went

  • @fangsandfolklore8795
    @fangsandfolklore8795 Před 2 lety

    Super helpful for my audiobook readings. Thanks!

  • @Doommaster1994
    @Doommaster1994 Před rokem +1

    Looking at the thumbnail, I thought this was Stewart Copeland.

  • @christopherwood9009
    @christopherwood9009 Před 5 lety +10

    He means a 'middle-class variety of a South-Dublin Irish accent'. He also sounds quite depressing - much more like a Northern Irish. He seems like he mush have mistaken (and keeps confusing) these accents.
    The Northern Irish accent is rather monotone - hence why I used the word "depressing" earlier - while slightly declining in tone.
    The (republican) Irish accent is very joyful and is like a stereotypical Irish accent: with a lot of variation in pitch and tone throughout the sentence.

    • @christopherwood9009
      @christopherwood9009 Před 5 lety +1

      Correct points, wrong places and connections. Otherwise, spot on

  • @ZarKiiFreeman
    @ZarKiiFreeman Před 5 lety +6

    The irish accent is hard, congrats to bigmooney06 for being that irish

  • @woodyhewitson
    @woodyhewitson Před 4 lety

    Was he on doctor who, the Vincent van gough episode?

  • @radiator9987
    @radiator9987 Před 3 lety

    Guy has best trick in beginning to get mouth right

  • @siha102
    @siha102 Před 7 lety

    Isn't this the guy who voiced Chorban from ME 1

  • @FrancisRoyCA
    @FrancisRoyCA Před 6 měsíci

    For the love of god, someone tell me that he has his own channel!

  • @WilliamMonroe13
    @WilliamMonroe13 Před 2 lety

    I want a wee bit o Irish whiskee 🤣

  • @pilotactor777
    @pilotactor777 Před 3 lety +3

    great accent coach-spend time in Belfaast in 89-trust me-the accent is far harsher

  • @generalsherman1213
    @generalsherman1213 Před 4 lety +8

    Ah yes now I can sing Come Out ye Black and Tans with the accent

  • @StorybookApothecary
    @StorybookApothecary Před 7 lety +6

    shit - clearly I need to be going to this school....

  • @malcolmi1
    @malcolmi1 Před 6 lety +1

    How would an educated, landed Irishman (someone who'd gone to Trinity) sound? Is there a variation on the Dublin voice that conveys a more refined (educated, moneyed) background?

    • @dessullivan1725
      @dessullivan1725 Před 5 lety +1

      Listen here to former Irish President Mary Robinson, who comes from a wealthy west of Ireland background, attended Mount Anville Secondary School in Dublin and studied law at Trinity College, Dublin.czcams.com/video/GLWnoQjTNiw/video.html

    • @jugglinbob
      @jugglinbob Před rokem +1

      @@dessullivan1725 That's perfect for what I'm looking for - an educated middle clash accent for a bishop role I'm auditioning for soon!

    • @dessullivan1725
      @dessullivan1725 Před rokem

      @@jugglinbob oh this would be very Upper Middle Class 😀

  • @talarts
    @talarts Před rokem

    Who are you talking to when you look to the side? 1:19

  • @wolfgangkovacs7628
    @wolfgangkovacs7628 Před 3 lety +3

    It’s doesn’t work but it hurts. Thanks

  • @TruthSurge
    @TruthSurge Před 4 lety +10

    :28 still can't quiiiite get rid of that aBOOT. haha Everyone has some kind of accent. Just like everyone has some kind of race or genetics. Most people are egocentric and think their lives and experiences are THE ones and all others are wrong.

    • @kelleyjones2926
      @kelleyjones2926 Před 2 lety

      They all need to shut up and stop competing against one another, because they sound childish & make toddlers seem smarter!

  • @et2424
    @et2424 Před 4 lety +4

    You look like Ted Danson

  • @coldcomfort1654
    @coldcomfort1654 Před 7 lety +8

    Classic stage-Irish accent.

  • @gavinmceneff5612
    @gavinmceneff5612 Před 3 lety +5

    Fantastic! now do an Irish accent

  • @I-should-go-outside
    @I-should-go-outside Před rokem +1

    Midlands accent but good

  • @Ozzyisunavailable
    @Ozzyisunavailable Před 6 lety +3

    thought you were gonna do a d4 accent

  • @daithionuallain5902
    @daithionuallain5902 Před 6 lety +3

    I'll say you passed , but you need to come back Your're a bit rushty'Dubliner here' 7/10☘🍀🍻🇮🇪👍🏼

  • @xtrailz
    @xtrailz Před 3 lety

    What is the guitar for?

    • @matthewjeffery6481
      @matthewjeffery6481 Před 3 lety +2

      It’s so he can get birds. They all love a bloke holding a guitar.

  • @ragdoll2309
    @ragdoll2309 Před 7 lety +10

    I have always wondered where this accent comes from. I come from Ireland (born and bred) and I've never heard anything like it anywhere in Ireland. Having said that, there's a ridiculous amount of accents in Ireland. This American movie accent though I don't think is anywhere except in the movies.
    I was talking to Colm Meaney recently and I asked him that exact question. Where did this american version of the Irish accent come from? He essentially said that it may have come from a director meeting one person with that terrible accent and then americanising it.
    Either way, I was glad that it's disappearing in movies... although not completely.

    • @williamjordan8603
      @williamjordan8603 Před 5 lety

      45 million Irish-Americans here. No lack of accent resources.

    • @dubmait
      @dubmait Před rokem

      @@williamjordan8603 Well they wouldnt have irish accents because they are of irish heritage not actually irish

  • @maddiebyfaith
    @maddiebyfaith Před 4 lety +5

    This is so hard to do with a tongue piercing 😂

  • @jaysunbrady
    @jaysunbrady Před rokem

    As a south Dubliner this accent is more north country Dublin, not south Dublin city like he thinks.

  • @kesinger9015
    @kesinger9015 Před 4 lety +4

    When your trying to impress jacksepticeye.

  • @aquawolf2984
    @aquawolf2984 Před 7 lety +2

    I wonder I master this accent I can go up to meh Irish crush and speak to him LOL wat

  • @BillyBob-yb5ht
    @BillyBob-yb5ht Před rokem

    Jaysus

  • @UglySurgeMonkey
    @UglySurgeMonkey Před 8 lety +13

    This is the kind of lilting Irish accent which only takes form in the minds of Americans. Though the pronunciation of 'day-cent' was quite Limerick-like.

    • @ellenorbjornsdottir1166
      @ellenorbjornsdottir1166 Před 8 lety +1

      Well some Irish might speak it.

    • @CrazyIrishDrunk1
      @CrazyIrishDrunk1 Před 7 lety +6

      Definitely not, he's very good. I'm Irish btw.

    • @TheMorganaic
      @TheMorganaic Před 7 lety +3

      It's a bit of a classic Irish accent. In fairness though, if he sped it up, he'd have it to the T. - Also the use of Irish phrases is key

    • @Katastr0phic_Katicorn
      @Katastr0phic_Katicorn Před 5 lety +2

      @@TheMorganaic I'm pretty sure he's speaking slowly and perhaps even more obviously so those, who haven't had the experience of meeting an Irish accented person, he's teaching.

    • @KarenMariaMcCormack
      @KarenMariaMcCormack Před 2 lety

      Agree, Irish born and bred here (so not one of those Americans who calls themselves Irish but isn't really). There's an English voice coach here on CZcams who has done a really video on how to work on getting an Irish accent and how you should go about it by listening to people from the part of Ireland where the accent comes from. Also it's a slow process, it's not going to come over night. Understanding and respecting current Irish culture (the culture in Ireland not some plastic paddy version of Irish culture) is also important.

  • @rebeccac5051
    @rebeccac5051 Před 7 lety +37

    It's a decent enough Irish accent but not 100% convincing to me (an Irish person). It's not exactly South Dublin - more like a mixture between North Dublin and Louth.

  • @eimearpower318
    @eimearpower318 Před 4 lety +3

    At the start he said this was meant to be a South Dublin middle class accent....100% was not this

    • @BlessedBeyondCompare
      @BlessedBeyondCompare Před 3 lety

      You should make a video tutorial! :) I wanna learn how to sing a really specific song with an Irish accent and I think the first video was supposed to be a northern Irish accent and this one was supposed to be a southern Irish accent... and there are people on both videos saying it's inaccurate so I need all the help I can get haha

  • @awesomefistme5150
    @awesomefistme5150 Před 6 lety

    Never helped me you need to slow down with the words for exapel ( oooooiiiieeerrrrrlllllaaaannnnnddd

  • @bobo1749
    @bobo1749 Před 6 lety +4

    This is not Dublin at all hahaha. Look up Jack Raynor in "What Richard did" for south Dublin. For North Dublin, try "Adam and Paul". Adam and Paul is obviously the extreme, but it's truer than this guy. Or have a look at the following; "The snatcher", "The commitments" or "The van".
    Hope it helps

  • @RM-wv8yg
    @RM-wv8yg Před 5 lety +7

    I’m Irish and we don’t sound like leprechauns

  • @dessullivan1725
    @dessullivan1725 Před 5 lety +2

    A classic middle class Dublin accent would be Blackrock, Rathgar or Ranelagh and the more neutral D4 accent. To my (irish) ear your version sounds way too countrified and overemphasises the R sound and is more like a light generic Hollywood attempt. For the real deal, listen to Ryan Tubridy and Domhnall Gleeson here during an interview on the Late Late Show czcams.com/video/1uSj8vsMXA8/video.html

  • @gingersndragons
    @gingersndragons Před 4 lety

    its a good accent but i wouldnt say its south dublin

  • @matthewjeffery6481
    @matthewjeffery6481 Před 3 lety

    Hie nie brine cie

  • @misemefein-ws6tp
    @misemefein-ws6tp Před 4 měsíci +1

    Nope, he's doing an American "Orish" accent, which is not the way we speak. Also, that's nowhere near a Dublin accent. What he's also doing is a Northern Ireland (Norn Iron), accent and he just about hits it. I'm Irish and live in Ireland. Try again.

  • @paulbrown7374
    @paulbrown7374 Před 3 lety +3

    Nope....

  • @kelleyjones2926
    @kelleyjones2926 Před 2 lety +1

    Excuse me but, Why do They show rubbish from TikTok before the video? If I wanted to join TikTok I would, but I don't. Everyone wants to be famous, it's not enough for these narcissistic clowns to be alive but to push the envelope so far you want to push them off a cliff! And this guy, it's not dram- mah, its Drau-mah, because it doesn't make sense to say baby mama dram-ma, when it's baby mama, drau-ma.

  • @philr335
    @philr335 Před 4 lety +4

    This is not a Dublin accent.

  • @COM70
    @COM70 Před 3 lety +3

    Nope ! Sorry, it’s still American.

  • @Parmesito
    @Parmesito Před 2 lety +2

    Awww man this is really really wrong. I know absolutely nobody here that speaks like this.

  • @TheDelacato
    @TheDelacato Před 3 lety +1

    Too technical! Doesn't nail it! Too generalised. Certainly not south Dublinese!
    Go 10k in Ireland and the accent changes.

  • @davethecrow
    @davethecrow Před rokem

    im sorry to let you know but this is very bad and you shouldnt be teaching this. if youre not irish then you need to have some respect