REGIONAL BRITISH ACCENTS! 🇬🇧
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- This video is all about UK accents. We run through, Birmingham, Bristol, London, RP, Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle, Leeds, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Southern Ireland and Wales.
We are definitely no experts! But we love accents and we love learning new ones! This is just to give you an idea of how different we all sound here in the UK!
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Being British: Joel & Lia hi guys I am from the US Las Vegas to be exact I watch hollyoaks on CZcams I noticed they have strong accents I know they are outside of London and I know the accents are not the same as the londoners where exactly is hollyoaks and does it even exist? LOL
Being British: Joel & Lia Sorry you're right about the mancunian accent, no hate but it was shit! Xx
John Guy hollyoaks is fictionally based in Chester but is filmed in nearby Liverpool, the accents on the show are mixed northern and a smattering of southern ( at least that's what it was last time I watched)
If you ever come to the US and visit Pennsylvania you will hear the Pennsylvania Dutch accent. It's a mix of German English and hillbilly. For example where are you going sounds like where yinz gooin
Being British: Joel & Lia
What accent do the two of you have? Joel sounds very formal and lia sounds more cockney
I’m so American that there were times in this video where I was waiting for them to change their accent but it just sounded the same to me
Hahaha. That’s ace. ☺️
@@flamezodiac5736 You're*. If you're going to insult someone, I'd suggest double checking your grammar.
@@flamezodiac5736 LOL ok cool guy
I'm American and have watched a lot of British TV over the years. I can tell when someone is not speaking RP, but I can't distinguish the other regions every time. Interesting though, how English has diverged from Chaucer's Old English!
Same but I’m Canadian
THIS WAS SO HELPFUL OMG
Shortcuts for practice! (someone probably already did this but you're welcome anyway)
0:37 Birmingham
1:21 Bristol/stereotype "farmer-like"
2:12 London
2:41 RP/BBC English/Standard English/Queen's English
3:29 Contemporary RP
3:36 Manchester/Mancunion
4:17 Leeds/West Yorkshire
5:26 Newcastle/Geordie
6:22 Liverpool/Scouse
7:16 Scottish
9:04 Southern Irish
9:21 Northern Irish
9:45 Welsh
Thank you so much for this
@@YourMom-jd6jp of course daaahhling :)
Most Americans probably use Harry Potter to learn British accents
(Edit: I finally found this comment again so I changed it from "all" to "most" because I don't want to annoy anyone)
All italians too😂
Lol I use Doctor Who
im struggling to understand british accent..lol
american accent is easier to figure out.
@einniB retxeD haha imagine a scouse professor at Hogwarts
I used Billy Connelly to learn a Glasgow accent haha
Irish and Scottish are way different when you are familiar with them
just what I said. The R's, mostly. Scots roll them whilst Irish have a softer sound.
Some Irish accents are quite similar to Scottish, e.g. around Ballymena and places that were heavily colonised by Scottish planters.
Jason Phelps Northern Irish and Scottish are british
If u think there way different then listen to Liverpool, Geordie, Bradford, and West Country accents.
Great info guys, thanks!! I'll look into that
Dont f n mess them up. I hate when I get called Irish , no im Scottish not a dirty Irish knob.
It's only spoken by one person in the uk whose name is the Queen 😂😂😂😂😂 that made my day. Loved your video 🇪🇸❤️🇬🇧
You guys need to try mimicking all of American accents. Northeast (New York v Boston). Southern accents (cajun, Carolina, Mississippi). Texas. California, upper midwest.
Fantastic idea. It’s on the list
Do we, Californians, have an accent?
Julia of course not. Everyone else does 😉... All joking aside I've heard people say the California accent is the "Hollywood accent". But I think it's fairly broad more like Western US since it very common from New Mexico to Washington and just about every state in between.
Saturday Night Live had a skit called "The Californians" which really played up some behavioral and linguistic stereotypes.
@Julia I've wondered this too. I don't think we do (in terms of sound) but I think we Do have some characteristics of an accent, like how we tend to speak really fast, or something else I've noticed is how we can be kinda sing-songy, ect
Your Liverpool accents made me laugh (I'm from Liverpool) but I thought use both did a good job.
imlydiabaines sams I’m from Liverpool and they did it so right
same, I'm from Liverpool and either laugh or cringe when people try our accent.
Do you guys normally spell it “use both” or “yous both”? I’m an American and I just thought it was interesting how you said “use both”. Like, I would say “you both”
@@robertboyette5169 Bama here, I was wandering the same, lol
*youse.
I was in a very down mood, but this tickled me. The two of you laughing made me laugh and smile too. Great job :) .
I like the idea of only the Queen & Joel talking in RP :D
One day!!
I had to pause the video at that point because I was laughing so hard at the notion. I had this image of Joel and HRH getting together on, like, a quarterly basis for the "RP Club Meetting" they hold to keep the accent alive and well in chats together. If only this were true, I'd be ecstatic.
James Sledge How I would to be a fly on the wall in those meetings! X'D
A lot of people make the mistake of thinking the queen's accent is RP but the queen does not speak RP. It is very similar but it is not RP.
Check out the first 5 mins of this video
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Mrs.Queen surely had her very own accent, caused by being brought up in a vacuum Her vowels are her own
"RP is only spoken by ONE PERSON IN THE ENTIRE UK" I'm crying :D
also, thanks for mentioning the term "contemporary rp" because I never knew how "the normal british accent nowadays" is called
So funny 😂 you kept me laughing the whole time. I especially enjoyed the RP one
Hello Joel and Lia I'm a french student and my teacher told me to watch this video to learn english culture. And I wanted to say that this video is amazing!!
Your teacher's a gem
As a German where we also have a lot of different dialects/accents, i would love to hear the history behind the british accents! :)
We will definitely make a video on it!
BronzeBart Well, the different region's were settled by different Germanic people's, but city dialects are influenced by recent immigrants in history.
My village in the West Midlands, our accent is descended from Mercian, which was an Angle Kingdom, we have alot of pronounciations that Germans might find similar.
Alot of the countryside accents or "farmer accents" are very old and sound almost the same as West Frisian accents in the Netherlands as they haven't changed much I the last 1,500 years.
The words have changed but the accent hasn't much.
I've touched on some aspects in my comment on this thread. Hope it helps!
I have been wanting to visit Germany, but I haven't managed to save enough cash yet. My grandfather is in his 80's and his great+grandparents moved here from what is now Rhineland-Palatinate.
My ancestors (Schauss surname) came to the colonies from just west of Worms, so Pfälzisch is my favorite!
The Manchester accent wasn't too bad and don't worry we don't bite haha
haha, thanks!
Kinda sounds like a southern accent from America
I do
einniB retxeD countries**
Yeah we'll stab
This was fascinating! Lia you’re so good at these! Joel don’t doubt yourself, you’re not bad, either. Didn’t know there were so many different accents. Loved your own accents as well as Southern Ireland
Omg I was wheezing laughing at the Liverpool "chicken."
I'm an old African-American from Pennsylvania. Love you both. And one thing Joel just said in this video we Americans say is " brain fart" when you get a short memory block.
Thank you for the video! You both are so funny, I laughed so hard!
That's okay! Thanks for watching Elizabeth!
I've just consumed about 25 of their videos in the last 24 hours (thank you, CZcams recommendation), and I agree - this video made me laugh the hardest so far. A delight.
This video freaks me out- I don't know what the fake accent is vs the real one.
I've split my side laughing so hard; each one sounded the same. But I DO love you two!!
OMG! You are so funny! And nice, Papa is right. Love it! Subscribed!
Aren't there different accents within London such as East End, West End, Cockney, etc.?
William Hoffman Yes you're totally correct, which is the same for lots of other cities. Maybe Joel & Lia can explore that one time on a new video, hehe, I'm sure Joel's head will explode though 😂
East end and cockney is the same
Just as there are a number of different accents in New York City.
I credit Tracey Ullman with a lot of my familiarity with British accents. BBC tellie too. As a kid I watched a lot of Benny Hill. Monte Python and Dr Who😀
This isnt correct. Theres only 2 accents in london - RP and cockney. You get different accents from different cultures but for white english people, theres cockney or RP.
I loved this. One of my favorite things about Downton Abbey is the different regional accents under one roof. You guys are so funny.
Very interesting. Love your attempts to demonstrate the differences between the accents. You had me laughing.
I'm from Northern Ireland and your accent was almost impeccable. Usually people struggle with it but you were both incredible. Love you guys so much x
Aw thanks so much Hannah!
Loved this video!! The Liverpool one was the best hahaha "they've got the RRRHH sound"
Thank you! Yeah it's a great accent! :)
Adélie Chevalier fuckk off, no they haven’t
I feel like I've lived under a rock all these time. Thank you for enlightening us!
The Liverpool accent sounds like they're always speaking with an accent that sounds like a question. Like the Beatles.
I also noticed people from the Liverpool area tend to pronounce a hard ING at the end of some of some words like “amazing” or “things”.
@@maribs87 it's not someone from Liverpool then if they're pronouncing the g on the end of amazing. We usually drop the G on the end of most words. Amazin, stunnin, runnin, doin, goin. Words like song sing thing are pretty much the only words were we pronounce the G on the end.
That was mint:) thank you guys!! mancunian accent is dead good. I love it. And I like posh accent as well. Sometimes I combine those accents when speaking 😂 sound a bit bizarre but I like it nevertheless:)
When you guys were doing Liverpool, I thought Joel sounded a lot like Sir Paul McCartney! Quite a compliment, so don't be angry Sir Joel.
When you do Leeds, what I hear is Mrs. Tweedy in Chicken Run! LOL
Oh my god SAME
Joel's laughter is contagious! Amazing!
I like to listen to Kevin Bridges' sketches for the ultimate Scottish accent listening exercise :))
As soon as you said "right" in _that_ way I was like "yep, Leeds, that's me. I don't think I sound like that but I really, really do". And I don't care what anybody says it's an amazing accent and if you don't agree, fight me.
haha! Yep you should be proud of it!!
Sophie Mary-Louise ,
Sophie Mary-Louise oh come on, I FUCKING LOVE YOUR ACCENT,It's my favourite accent,though sometimes it's kinda hard to understand,Be proud of your accent ❤
There are variant of accents within Wales: Valleys, Cardiff, Swansea, West wailian, North wailian
Shit, those accents are so complicated, damn it. I can't even define which to choose while learning English (I'm from Belarus).
All the Eastern county dialects are different as are Northants, Lincs, East Midlands & a load more.
@@jarosawjakubowski6492 don't worry about accents
By the way, they are wrong when saying that London is world's capital. Cause everyone knows that actually it is Bobruisk :) . But Brits would hardly understand )))
They all sound the same to us Brits...lol. In all seriousness, I have a hard time understanding any of the Welsh accents.
Oh my word! I LOVED this video!!! I’m an American here but I am fascinated by regional accents. Your Scouse accents had me dying! I’d love a video about why there are so many different accents in the UK!
I love Northern British accents! Great video!
Thanks Cristina!
Yeah, me too :)
Ha thanks, being from Yorkshire I’m think it’s the best also 😂
Leeds Leeds Leeds
@@ellagreen-lynch8383 as you are from Yorkshire, YOU ARE NOT A NORTHERNER!!!!
The Liverpool accent was AMAZING!! 😂😂
Hahaha the fact you thought you were doing a glaswegian accent 😂 bless you and all that sail in you. Also, I'm from Lancashire and you were right about your Mancunian being tripe, but you looked like you were having fun so crack on.
This is so funny. I’m manc through and through......your attempt was MEGA! G’wan lads
Love your video! You need to include an Essex accent and a Norfolk accent! X
I’m from Manchester and I can’t even do a manc accent so don’t worry
Lord Coe Lucky you I’ve got a propa accent. No one even understands me so I have to talk dead slow n that.
me too mate, it's like theres northern manc, gallagher manc, and southern manc. i grew up in wythenshawe but went to school in chorlton so i guess im more southern but people are dead surprised when i dont sound like a gallagher
Same
Aria I’m from cheadle 👋🏻
I’m from like 10 ish mins away from where the Gallaghers grew up
Fuckin' hilarious! I LOVED your video. Greetings from Canada. Joel has the most contagious laugh I've ever heard.
I'm waiting this now and Joel and Lia's natural accents actually seem very different
Extreamly Brilliant Video !
Thank you!
Liverpool has the funniest accent! haha... I remember when I was watching "The Fall" series and some of the characters had scotish accent, which sounded to me like they were making questions all the time! hahaha... Congratz, guys!
Yeah they're both quite difficult accents!
I’m scouse and I live in Liverpool 😂😂
Lily B same
Same
Mark Ballas mimicking his mom's accent is hilarious.
Y’all are hi larious! I love watching you guys. It’s so funny hearing the different accents.
Great job! Really useful!
I loved hearing the Geordie accent 😂
you should try a middlesbrough accent lol, that's where i'm from lol, i loved this video!!
Y’all are so Funny. Loved the Video I was Cracking Up 😂
This ones my fav! Just discovered your channel today. So funny
When I was in England, I knew a girl from Preston. I could listen to her speak for hours!!! I was stationed in East Anglia and that's the accent I heard the most.
James McAvoy has the true Scottish accent.
No such thing. Scotland has as many accents. Glasgow is vividly different to Edinburgh. And Edinburgh has variations east to west too.
@@andreawilliams6099 There are multiple variations , accents, and as the French call it "patois" of EVERY language throughout the world. Individuals, outside Scotland, may not know whether James McAvoy has a specific Glasgow accent or Edinburgh accent, "he states that he is from Glasgow." but 99% of English speaking people will detect it as a Scottish accent. When I spent time in Ireland, I realized that the Irish people from Kilarney could detect that our new Irish male friends, who had stayed in the same guesthouse as my twin sister and me, were from Dublin, by their accent. We weren't able to detect the subtle difference between the Irish accent of Irish people in Kilarney, from the Irish accent of Irish people in Dublin; but the native folk could. We wouldn't have picked up on any of their accents, as anything other, than an Irish accent.
This runs true for British accents,
Canadian accents, and American accents, as well the accents of all native English speakers. Other than the pronounced
southern drawl in parts of the Southern U.S., most people can't distinguish differences in regional accents , in these countries, other than their own native people.
@@DeniseEggertwaterlily Absolutely right! You're talking my language (pun intended) It's also true to say that no-one has an accent. If you ask anyone, they say they don't have an accent - because that's just the way they speak, and everyone around them, when growing up, spoke the same way. Less so nowadays because so many people move around so much. I just wrote earlier in response to another comment pretty much what you are saying. You obviously know that James doesn't have 'the true' Scottish, because there is no such thing, only a particular scottish accent. - though if that's what you meant, and i've pedantically picked you up, then I apologise.
Aren't dialects and accents fascinating?
Here them now - they won't be about much longer!
He does a great dublin accent in movie inside I’m dancing.
This video is definitely in my top 10 youtube videos of all time
Loved this. I cant wait for more videos!
I’m from Southern Ireland (we call it Republic of Ireland) and you were so good at our accent!
Love this video guys. It is amazing how many accents there are in the British Isles considering how small an area that actually is.
Very informative video. Thank you!
You guys are such fun to listen to.
i have never been in UK , but i think i love Newcastle and Liverpool accent.
Yorkshire for me
I'm from Newcastle and I hate it lol
Tyler Pountney haha am a proud Geordie
Thats like the equivalent of liking a hill billy accent in America
On my beginnings in London I had a manager who spoke in a particular way. A bit more melodic. One day he said he was going to Liverpool for few days. I told him I had heard (from a Manchester flatmate) about a weird accent in Liverpool. He answered me "I guess the Liverpool accent should be like mine since I am from there". Oh boy. Couldn't be more ashamed! Actually his melodic accent was quite nice to me. That is how I learnt how Liverpool accent was.
Eduardo NN it’s not liverpoool it’s scouse
I love your video, I'm from Manchester been in Australia for 30 years. Having a day to smile on youtube, I laughed the most with your video. x
Love this . More , more, more !
I'm from Leeds and I'm friendly in the comments. Genuinely loved this vid, proper made me laugh x
I'm from Leeds and we would say 'when ya waking up?' while others would say 'when are you gonna wake up?' Xx
You guys are hilarious!😄 it was so much fun to watch you. Greetings from germany!
This was brilliant! Thanks from an American in Chicago! You are both adorable. 😘✌🏽
I would love to hear you two try some of the different US accents too.... would be hilarious!
So. I’m American and a Geordie accent is my absolute favorite accent in the entire world. Lol.
Thanks, geordies are the best xD
This was fun!! Maybe a zoom in on the location in an inset map next time? I think that would be super helpful!
As an American, I have no idea how accurate you both were. But it was wonderful to listen to. That Leeds accent! It’s wonderful.
I'm English and they're pretty spot on! Well done!
The RP accent seems comparable to the Transatlantic accent, which is also dated in America.
Yes! That's right!
True, they were both taught, and are not organic.
OMG the Leeds accent 😂😂😂 I’m from Leeds!!
thank you you guys, enjoyed you two.
you both look so fun, you gained a subscriber!
To elaborate a lil bit. All American accents on the east coast and mid west are based from the UK, Norwegian and France. The Southern Draw from Georgia is from Welsh roots. Louisiana and Mississippi is straight French. The Irish and English made the Northeast accent.
Sorry if I gave you guys homework.
Mark Sr. Robles this is really cool, thanks for sharing
You're not serious. Why don't you wake up and pull your head out of your ass before you hit the keyboard.
Cite your source!!!
@@JoseGonzalez-ez6vn It makes sense if you think about it. We were colonized and spread like a disease from east to west. Different areas were settled (post-colonization) by different cultures, thus languages and accents, which would eventually merge.
Also for Scottish I think of Mrs. Hughes from Downton Abbey (Phyllis Logan)
Thank you both for the information you passed me.It's very instructive for all people like me who want to speak english correctly as possible
I have watched this before but it is worth another viewing! You made me smile!! Xx
I've been watching you guys for about a year now & I must have missed this one when I was a new legend. I'm not trying to offend but Lia, did you have facial work done? None of my business, I know you don't owe an explanation, just curious. Again, I hope no one is triggered. I love you guys❤
P.s. even though I live in Vegas, I can definitely tell the difference between Scottish & irish bc my grandparents irish (cork & limerick) accents are so prominent. Wish I had an Irish accent😭
I'm hollering! I had no idea there's so many versions of accents in UK
Lauryn people think we all sound like Londoners or that we speak with RP but the truth is, most of us don’t.
They do nowhere near the full amount. There are way more accents.
Jed Larchant ireland is not a “British isle”
Jed Larchant ireland is not classed as a British isle only to the English. They try in every way to claim Ireland but they just can’t get over it. Ireland too has islands. There’s just as much reason to call it all the Irish isles. The British isles is a term coined in the 1600’s a time when Britian ruled Ireland. We are not living in the 1600’s and ireland is not a British isle or British in any way
Jed Larchant the Isle of Man is a British Isle. Ireland is not a British island no matter what any site says. So achill islands off the coast of Ireland are Irish islands, how in the name of logic could they also be British islands too. Again very few people know the origin of the phrase the “British isles”. There are British islands, like the Isle of Man and guernsey. But NOT ireland
Love the explanation. I love UK accents. They're all my favorite! Lol
This was so informative
I love UK accents and can emulate a few. Here are some favorites to my ear...
Favorite Scots; Sir Sean Connery, Billy Connolly and Gerard Butler
Favorite Londoner; Sir Michael Caine
Favorite Liverpudlians; The Beatles, especially Sir Paul McCartney :)
I’ve heard that accents are so diverse that a seasoned person could sit in a cafe in London and pick out people by their accents and say where they live.
“He lives by kings cross”
“He lives near Hyde park”
“She lives near Wembley stadium “
It may have also been just people talking about what they don’t know as well.
When I think of a Liverpool accent I picture in my mind a more relaxed laid back way of speaking. (Like John Paul George and Ringo having a conversation)
I think of Manchester I picture a more aggressive somewhat Scottish sounding accent.(very much in the spirit of Manchester United fanatics)
You've just described "Professor Henry Higgins". The entire subplot of Pygmalion/My Fair Lady is predicated on social class dictates, by sound and accent. What is interesting - that even today, it still holds some weight.
That was bloody brilliant.
Hagrid's from Norwich, 240 miles away from Bristol on the eastern coast. Also, nice job bursting into laughter at the mention of poverty in London. Great stuff...
"Tha' is sick mae'". Tosser.
When you were doing Manchester and Leeds I kept thinking about how Harry Styles speaks😂lol
He's actually from Holmes Chapel in Cheshire. Not that far from Manchester but his accent isn't Mancunian.
it's like the Northern Ireland accent is just like an American one .
Geordie is the most impossible ( New Castle ) .
Glasgow and Edinburgh is also hard ( Scotland )
Bristol is rhotic , so is the west .(West )
RP or contemporary RP is for us , learning English as a second language , anyways I know it is spoken across the country and it's for high-class layer , so it will be still the best to acquire .
Thanks Joel and Lia , guys you are amazing
My auto play took me from your new video to this one 🥰
It's wild how different you looked in 2017 🤯 I'm so proud of you both for taking such good care of yourselves 👏🤩
PS I didn't know I missed the J&L lights so much lol
Omg! I want to learn more about different accents in UK!
Sending you lots of love from Philippines.
Being born and raised in California, there have been times where I get mixed up with Livermore California being in the UK and Liverpool North West Of England being in California.
“Americans think we’re all from the same place” and yep! Definitely thought this as an American even though I’ve traveled through the UK 😂
They don't they just think that everyone has similar accents in the UK
First, you two are adorable. Second, I found you because I’m reading a book set both in London and Cornwall, and I wanted to hear a Cornish accent ... because I’m a dork and like to accurately hear the characters’ voices in my head. Unfortunately, you didn’t cover a Cornish accent. Instead, I’ve happily followed your videos down a CZcams rabbit hole, and completely forgot I was reading a book. It’s now two hours later, I have to go to grocery store, I still don’t know how my Cornish characters speak, and I haven’t read the chapters I intended to read. But I did smile a lot. So thanks for that. :)
Amy Shane They didn’t cover Devon either and we were all put under the blanket of Bristol being a representation of the South West! Ugh just no!
Thank you for this video. I've often wondered where the actors' accents come from, when listening to BBC programming. Mollie Sugden's accent always greatly entertained me.
I’m from Liverpool and that scouse made me cringe so much😂😂 all the others sounded good to me tho but that’s probably because I’m not from there haha! I’m sure a Manc or a Londoner would cringe at their ones😂x
OMG! Why haven't I watched this video! You two are the best, I want to visit England soooooo bad, skip visit, I want to live in England!
Same here :)
Same. Lol
Thank you so much! As I am interested in British accent and try always to imitate it, it was so interesting and funny as well. The fact of making it so funny has made it so much enjoyable. Keep doing as such! So impressive, keep it up