I DON'T UNDERSTAND! American Reacts to 30 Dialects of the English language in the UK
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- čas přidán 22. 01. 2021
- I am American and here we have a Southern accent and a Northern Accent, but in the United Kingdom you have a different accent every 20 miles! American Reacts to 30 Dialects of the english language in the UK
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America :- you drive for 2 hours and your still in the same state. UK :- you drive for 2 hours,the accent changes 3 times and bread rolls have a new name.
It’s a cob 😂
Tea cake?
Don't you mean bap mush?
Cob if it's crusty, bap if soft. Funny story drove car for 6 hrs, Gainsborough to Loch Lomond on arrival asked someone else parking how much it was for the car park, (which is free there by the way) it was only another blinking English person, what are the odds. 😂
It’s a cob no matter what lol
Being Scottish myself I can tell you there is WAY more than two dialects here.
true. glasgow is the only city on earth with 2 accents. the sober one and the drunk one
@@hugh.g.rection5906 it’s also the only city apart from Las Vegas where you can buy sex with chips
Weegies have way more than 2 accents, reckon it depends on wot bloody street ya live on. Also have best statue of a dude on a horse.
At least 14 to my experience and as an English man ironically I met the most anti English scot I've ever met at the William Wallace memorial the irony made me chuckle after the altercation had concluded however I am not ashamed to admit I shat myself 🤣🤣🤣
@@ryanlacey7315 great views from up there though.
On our first holiday in the US we shared mini bus with another group from our hotel....our driver said to us that he loved the British accent as we all talked 'proper' English.....made us cry with laughter as we were 4 Bristolians, 4 Brummies and a Manc!!
Hahahaha! Such a mix! Even brummies have different accents
I'm from Stoke the potteries accent is a fucked up mix of brummie and manc and maybe a bit of Liverpool thrown in to really fuck with people . I spent my secondary school years in Cornwall Newquay so I also have a cornish element to my accent I can switch between the 2 in the fly
@@acid3129 haha I get ya! I am from cannock (staffs) but lived in Wolverhampton and Birmingham and lived with someone from Devon and someone from Wales for years so my accent is also very changeable (notably Welsh when angry)
You all sound posh posh to us north easterners
Hahaha 😂😂
For anyone wondering, pitmatic accent is now called mackem, from Sunderland, which is on the other side of the river to Newcastle, with the geordie accent
nah gateshead is over the river from newcastle i live like 300 meters away from the river tyne sunderland is like 10 miles south of there but not far tho really
Sunderland is on the wear near Durham not the Tyne
Pitmatic is as different to mackem as it is to geordie
@@kylearkle2569 ganna be honest the Geordie accent is dying out and becoming more mackem. Sad but true
I’m from Durham and I definitely don’t class myself as a mackem 😂 the wear runs through both city’s but we don’t have the same accent
"The highland Scottish, that's what a lot of Americans assume all English people sound like" Not sure who's more offended the English or the Scots 🤣😂
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🤣🤣 at least you're remembered, many videos exclude Wales all together
they also said the entire of Wales has one accent 🤣🤣🤣
Haha *The* Welsh accent- a bit like saying the British accent.
@Cowboy Nobby. When I heard that I thought ooops 😁
The Scottish is just so wrong, there are so many separate accents to Scotland.
Yep I felt insulted there so many different accents here in Scotland
Same with Yorkshire, it is so varied. Even where I live in South Yorkshire each town sounds so different.
They missed Stranraer, Ayrshire, Glaswegian, Lothian, Dundonian, Doric, Orcadian, Shetlandic....Western Isles... to name a few!
@@ben_young here in greenock we are just a different breed lol
@@andreacrumlish9976 aye inbred
I was waiting for the Mancunian one and honestly that was the exact reaction I was expecting 🤣
Coronation St's Kevin Webster is a prime example of a Manchester accent; "all dite den - Ah done dis fod Abbeh."
I'm not taking the mick; I'm a Lancastrian.
from manchester but sadly dont have the accent. Moved too much in my childhood
You should reach out to your UK subscribers and set up an email account so we can send over audio of sentences in slang, as each accent has its own variation of slang.
Would be fun watching you trying to figure out what we are saying😂
There are so many more dialects
Basically everyone bloody town 😂
@@Phoenix-wl5or It’s been proven that every 15 minutes you drive there is a new dialect
@@lorenzomassarella2180 never knew it had been proven
Ginger Biscuit Yes, the East Midlands lumped together Lincolnshire which is more like Norfolk, south Notts is different from North Notts and that approaches Derbyshire which is different again.
There are three distinct accents in my home town alone....
I'm British, and I'm finding this hard to understand. They sound like elderly people from the 60s.
You're not kidding I am 44 and have lived in Cambridgeshire all my live but struggled to understand what was being said.
@@missdragonfire When you do get towards Warboys and Ramsey Height, things get a bit... As for Manea
no no no you would have really bad issues then from the 60s this stuff is from the 70s 80s not the 60s
Being a brummie and having a thick brummie accent.. I completely understood.. That is a bad thing 😂😂😂and I'm only in my 30s
tbf that's cause lots of these dialects are mostly spoken by older people nowadays - South East for example has almost completely been wiped out by Multicultural London English and RP
"he needs to blow his nose", im literally crying with laughter, "i didnt understand one word of that", im literally crying with laughter again.
It was the perfect description of a manc accent to be fair.
Manc accent - get us a cuddy and uddy up about it! 😁
@@janicetaylor8794 Apparently it sounds so nasal because the air used to be so full of smoke from the factories.
Oh my, your face hearing Welsh English spoken!!! You should listen to a welsh person speaking Welsh! Welsh is a completely different language to English. I've just moved to Wales from England & I love hearing people here speak Welsh.
I love how melodic all the different accents in the uk are 😊😊😊
I was just thinking the same.
Cockney
"He's the dude with the cup of tea"
Nope, quite the opposite mate.
Hes the one with the stella 😂
Wasn't it Danny Baker?
@@drcl7429 That's what I thought. Mind you, he's from south of the river, so not a cockney.
@@drcl7429 Yeah I'm 99.9% sure that's Danny Baker. And yeah, not a cockney strictly speaking, he's from Lewisham or something.
Correction, he's the chimney sweep that goes on jolly holidays with Mary.
The annoying thing is there are loads of different accents in Wales, just like there are in England, but if someone is going to summarize, at least separate North Wales from South Wales. They are as similar as Brummie is to cockney!
Agreed. I lived and worked in Wales for a while, and I could soon distinguish accents from Bangor, Caernarfon, Holyhead and other parts of Anglesey, and we'll not even get into Mid Wales or the South Wales Valleys!
PLUS WE ARENT ENGLISH LOL
@@swynyddcymru8445 AMEN
Cardiff sounds very harsh. The others are fairly melodious but there's not much resemblance between the southern and northern accents. It's not clear if Kelly knows we have a separate language. Maybe he thinks we use our alphabet to spell English words in a mysterious way.
Marianne
Literally every Welsh town basically has a different accent.
Glad you included Pitmatic and Yorkshire, the full dialects from those areas are actually closer to Norwegian than English because of the Vikings
Geordie here, more than happy to help you out! Keep up the great vids mate.
I love it when Americans say:
"I just love your "British accent."
Then carn't understand a word you say.
There is no such thing as a British accent but many British accents.
At best they think I am Australian.
Yep
@@themanftheworld8439 When Americans mistakenly say someone has a British accent they nearly always mean an English accent. Have you noticed here in the UK we almost never say 'British accent'. It doesn't mean anything. England, Scotland and Wales are all in Britain. We say people have English, Welsh or Scottish accents not British. And then we can start getting specific after that.
@@simonpowell2559 I got that when I went to America! I'm from the north of England. A couple of people asked if I was Australian.
This video isnt totally accurate and it's really old, there should a bigger difference and smaller distances apart. Search CZcams for 67 english accents and voice, its by trusene92
and there should be at least 5 accents for just the Welsh Valleys XD
the video is very inaccurate. they represented a different language (scots) as a dialect of english. its like saying Portuguese is just a dialect of spanish.
@@ancientsolar2 they said there was 1 accent for Wales 🤣🤣
Yep I'm from Lancashire, there's more than one accent I pronounce town the way it's written but few miles away it's pronounced toown
The Cornish accent alone has multiple variations. The one they played was from the far west of Cornwall. I'm from SE Cornwall and it sounds very different. My nan was from mid-Cornwall and she sounded different again.
I go to a Welsh school and my Welsh teachers sound exactly like that😂 (I’m in Cardiff so not all my teachers sound like it)
I love your southern U.S.A accent! Greetings from Portugal 💚❤️🇵🇹👍🏻🇬🇧🇺🇸
Scotland has 100 more dialects that what was here... Edinburgh sounds fuck all like Glasgow
yeah I struggle understanding a thick Glasgow accent
I remember working in Aberdeen way back in 1979 - as an Englishman, I had a f*^king hard time understanding 1 word in 3 at first - and I had been living in Glasgow for a couple of months prior to moving there and had no problems understanding the Glaswegian accent.
@@nekite1 try going further north than Aberdeen. My mums side is from Thurso...I grew up in Edinburgh, but my partner (also from Edinburgh) uses me as a translator when we speak to anyone on her side of the family. I’m used to it as I grew up with it but by god it’s a a THICK accent. I also have family who speak Gaelic from the islands and even I’m like “nope” trying to understand their English.
@@katrinarowell9417 I had a similar experience when at university here in the north east of England. Myself and a Geordie fellow student got to go to the Netherlands for two weeks for an engineering project collaborating with students from at least 10 different countries. I spent most of my time translating from broad Geordie to English so that the other students could understand what the hell he was talking about!
@@nekite1 my dad was born in Newcastle but his family moved to Sunderland after WWII so I’ve family in and around geordie town and am very familiar with the accent! My dad passed over 20 years ago but I still have so much love for that accent.
It's crazier than you think. I'm from Manchester and there are numerous distinct accents within one city. Same goes for most of the bigger cities.
And little towns and villages.
same hahahah stockport here, ones from north manc like rochdale and moston sound a little different to us. not sure where but I notice some areas say "me" like "where's me keys" but here its "ma"
I'm North Manchester & I sound nothing like that clip.
Funnily enough, I was born in Moston and moved to Stockport when I got married. My children sound nothing like me. Which they remind me of frequently 🤣🤣
Definitely. I live in hyde. Denton, hyde, hattersley, Ashton, all different accents.
Even more bizarre is they're all greater Manchester, but hyde you put Cheshire on postal address, with a stockport post code, even though it's not in stockport.take a hop and a skip and you're in Denton. Manchester postal address with a Manchester post code, hop and skip in the other direction. You're in Ashton under lyne. Lancashire postal address, with and Oldham postcode although it's not in Oldham.
Hyde is made up of gee cross, godley, hattersley, mottram, broadbttem, and tintwhisle, highpeak, The last although although still supporting Cheshire, and a stockport post code loose the 0161 area code in favour of 01457 which is a glossop number. Glossop is in Derbyshire, which hyde isn't but the latter 2 areas are considered Derbyshire.
This is why the tier structure doesn't work when Manchester, Cheashire, Oldham, Lancashire, and Derbyshire all had different tiers.
Many of these old dialects have disappeared over time, the differences between places isn't so pronounced anymore although there are still strong accents in some places, very few speak cockney anymore. You can still travel 30+ miles and get a different accent but because people now move all over the country and with immigration in many places you will hear many dialects and languages
Within Scotland there are a myriad of dialects, it's not just Highland Scots and Scots.
Even though there's so many more layers to what you're looking into, it's really appreciated that you're taking the time out to learn about the UK!
Most people from the UK won't be able to understand these either. They are terrible recordings.
Yeah agreed. Why did they chose to use recordings from people that sound like they've died, been dug up and reanimated?
There's gotta be a better dialect and accent video than this.
Yeah the sound isn't the best
I understood them all.
Yeah I have to say I understood all of them too.
no problem understanding them
The guy talking about the drummer is where I used to live and its my absolute favourite place in England... Wolverhampton
Back in the 1930’s there was a professor of linguistics who conducted a study of English accents, who toured through just the English areas, not including Scotland, Wales nor Northern Ireland, compiling information on every accent that he could and eventually he published the proverbial book on the subject.
In the book he held that in some area’s he had found changes of accents, not only between villages or other built up locations but even within single villages. As he increased his database he started to find that the larger the location’s populace he was finding more accents and at the end of the study he had found that in some places accents were changing from one street end to the next. He concluded that an accent would only remain pure for as long as the speakers were isolated from other speakers of other accents and as accent speakers moved into town’s and cities from the smaller rural areas and radio stations had an effect on speech overall then he believed that accents would become more and more blurred, so he started to collect accents before they all disappeared. Unfortunately I don’t know the name of the gentleman but I know that he did publish his research via one of the university publication houses, but again I don’t know which one.
P.s. Don't forget Welsh is a different language
Welsh (natural language) is a different language, however when Welsh People speak English, it is a 'Welsh English' accent! 👍
@Paul 222 i think he is saying it because its only in the Welsh language that Wales have a different alphabet and I don't know if jt knew that
@@jakegriff2908 I think you are correct there. I don't think jt has been made aware of the 5 native Celtic languages of the UK with their separate alphabets.
Barely...
Thanks for taking such a big interest in the history culture of the UK.
all i can think of is that scene from hot fuzz with the old farmer!
Well as a person who just started and am from the UK I am excited to see this
The funny thing is, wherever you're from in the British Isles you can pretty much understand people from any other area, except maybe Kenny Dalglish.
Don't agree. I'm from North London and when I went to Newcastle I couldn't understand anything they said and they didn't understand me!
@@nigelbailey4557 ...a few years ago my son had a pal whose father was a Geordie. When anyone called at their house the son had to translate on his dad's behalf. Myself, I like a Geordie accent.
He's an Anfield legend so I couldn't care less what he sounds like 🤣
My mum is Welsh... her dad was scottish and my dad was Cornish. Right old mish mash of accents in our family😂
I thought only 2 people lived in Scotland. There's more Scots in England than Scotland.
Must be brilliant when the footies on & you’re all supporting different teams...
That makes you Australian I guess.
Changes every 20 odd miles. Even towns and cities have slight variations within them.
There's usually different accents in each region as well. Loving your videos.
"Welsh English"
There are different accents in every valley in Wales, to just show one is a bit of a disservice (not that that's your fault)
There are at least 4 dialects in Wales not 1 north Wales ,mid Wales , South Wales and Pembroke Welsh ,there are even differences in accents between valleys next to each other
can’t lie the cambridgeshire one sounds exactly like my grandad it’s so weirddd!!! so accurate for the older generation of people from cambridge. It’s less like that now but quite accurate for the older generation
Scotland has dozens of local dialects. You can drive 10miles and they speak totally different and use different words for things. Then you have the Doric dialect in the north east of Scotland where Fraserburgh is, watch a video of people speaking Doric if you want to be totally confused. I’m from Glasgow in central Scotland
If u wanted to write Kelly in Welsh u would write it as Celi. C is always hard in Welsh, the soft c sound we have in English we use s for in Welsh. The reality is that nearly all Welsh speakers also speak and understand English so that Welsh people can switch back and fore between English and Welsh spelling. There is also strictly no j in welsh but we do not have a word for jam so that is normally now accepted for use in Welsh.
Yes! No J! That puzzles people when they think of "Jones" (iones) !
We can switch to English midsentance so can definitely manage pronouncing someone's surname that contains letters we don't have. Must admit though sometimes I spell in English like I'm using the Welsh alphabet (forget Ks and mess up fs or vs usually)
@@francisluke4739 I meant when you tell English people there is no J, not us lot!
@@welshgit yes sorry I was saying we would be able to pronounce Kelly and since it's a surname would probably keep the spelling, both comments being about surnames made that less clear 🤦♂️
@@francisluke4739 Ahh sorry, yes, that makes sense now.. You were replying to Chris, not me! 👍
The strange thing is you can get people with received pronunciation mixed in with people with regional accents, like in the village where I was raised. It's not always to do with class or education either.
Totally agree it's not always to do with class or education. For me and my own accent it depends on my mood and what I'm talking about. Talking about anything slightly intellectual, I'll slip into having a tinge of RP, totally by accident. But if its about football for example it'll become more northern. Now, some will say I'm spineless here, but I think it's more to do with the fact that you get used to certain things being talked about with certain voices.
Not to totally stereotype but it's like going from Gary Neville to Stephen Fry based on the things they mostly talk about.
I’m from the Isle of Wight, and you get a mix of everything down here
I never realised how strong my Devonshire accent was until I listened to this. I moved to Essex and forgot we all sound like that 😂 no wonder I get looked at funny
I'm from Essex and went to Devon for a week one time. It was so weird hearing such a completely different accent.
These were just the main more generalised ones, as you can often just travel up the road a few minutes to the next town and be confronted with a different accent.
I love your appreciation of Wales 🏴!
I have to say, I was not expecting the Geordie accent to be so good. Not many people still have one in Newcastle no more. Was nice to hear a fellow Geordie.
I get what he means about not understanding us. In most other areas in the UK they don't understand us either, and how fast we talk doesn't exactly help
Finally a like minded soul who has spotted our accent is dying out. Go on any random Newcastle United fan channel on CZcams!!! All sound like mackems! Gateshead is the last bastion of the Geordie accent
Like you said, it's amazing the difference considering how close together they are. Even more amazing when you think that you are never anymore than 75 miles away from the coast when you are in the UK.............
Bloody Hell, those example's of accent's are very dated. I can travel 10min to a different town & their accent is different. North East accent's are really varied & not all Geordie. Especially the slang. I Love JT's accent.
Yeah, like 10/20 plus years out of date
Yeah like cities were so isolated every few miles there's a new accent because they just didn't mix their accents between towns
Us Georides one of the best tho .
My dad is Welsh, my mum is half Scottish and half Irish both my parents have accents. My mums Scottish comes out the most when she’s shouting or is mad at something/ someone, her Irish when she’s being gentle. I always knew by the way she shouted my name what mood she was in😁 I was born in London and sound nothing like either of my parents however I use words that are from my parents and butcher them with my London accent.
"Mancunians sounds like they have a blocked nose" ...I'll leave now 😂
I wasn’t sure where you were coming from when I watched you before, but now I have wrapped my head round it, I like it!
i’d be classed as cockney/kent but bloody hell those audios are shit. you should ask your followers to send you voice messages on instagram for a video!
Great idea
I didnt see no essex on there either
@@brandonnewman162 if it’s TOWIE Essex then that’s a blessing in disguise.. 😂
Yes because the cockney one was sooo wrong
This is the best idea, the sound bites that he had were awful
I realise the video couldn't keep on for ages, but there are way more than just two Scottish accents.
True that
Not only that scots is not a English dialect. Scots is a mutually intelligible language to English. It's why half the words are completely different.
I thought it was rlly weird bc they went into all the smaller varieties of England but scotland was just put into Scots - Highlands which is total nonsense. I felt the same w the Wales as well but idk as much about that.
@@Hi-ig9jw the video must have been made by someone that does not even know scotland is its own country. i mean that was literally one dialect for scotland and one different language represented as a dialect. that alone is very offensive.
@@TheWeeJet in all fairness to this video, it is a reaction to a really crap video representation of the accents of people in the UK. The ‘Scottish’ spoken in this is English, not what I would class as a different language to English. Even my cousins who are from Scotland say they had English lessons in school, not Scottish lessons, as a subject title. Now in Wales, they have English lessons and Welsh lessons, two separate subjects. So you can understand how the concept must be difficult for someone elsewhere in the world to grasp, especially when it doesn’t make that much sense to those of us living here!
Bread rolls change name also, depending on town/region.
I love this video! Although a lot of the accents are old and there are even more than you hear here! I feel like a lot of the accents are even stronger now as well, like the Geordies, Scousers and Brummies. Also us Welsh have so many different accents, the north is completely different to the south, and even within the north, south and mid regions there are so many different accents!! The same goes for Scotland, every Scottish person I know has a different accent!! But great video! Keep them coming. 🙌
Accents in the uk can change from as little as 4-10mile depending on your location, my cousins have a slightly different accent and live 4 mile away.
Welsh doesn’t have a ‘k’ but it’s a phonetic language so ‘c’ is the same sound. So to sound the same, in Welsh, Kelly would be spelt ‘Celi’
There are a crapload of accents here in Yorkshire. The east is very different from the west etc. I think the amount of difference comes from how long the country's been around. Apparently, if you go far enough back, even leaving your town was considered adventurous, so two towns in the same city can have quite different accents.
The best part of this is they're only showcasing larger county wide accents, there are more localised accents within each region too
You should try reacting to Welsh words, or watch a video like the Welsh singing their national anthem at a rugby game or Only boys aloud audition for Britain's got talent, to give you a better idea of how the Welsh language is supposed to sound
yeah welsh prounounced english is one thing, actual welsh,,, whole other game
Or listen to Taron Egerton saying Llanfair . . . I can’t think of a more prominent Welsh celeb.
@@ailawil89 I would have gone with Luke Evans.
I would have gone with Michael Sheen
Or the Llanfair-PG song! Might give him half a chance of saying it
Try the difference between Walsall, Wednesbury, Dudley and Tipton all just a few miles apart yet so different you would think you need a passport :-)
you forgot wolverhampton as well
aye no wea bi we cor gu up t osse rode con ya od uns aye tha lolor u run th bonk or cut ,tiptonian in written words and gornal as well
@@karlkuttup Something about not being able to go on the ‘horse road’ (main road) and holding hands around the bank (hill) and cut (canal)? I’m from Birmingham and even I’d like a translation please!
I feel as thought these voices were recorded so long ago and now I feel the accents are a lot stronger
Just recently discovered your videos. I am a South African Brit. There are 4 people in my household and 3 different dialects/accents. My husband is East Midlands, my daughters' Brummie. I have a Johannesburg South African accent. The distance between my husband's hometown and where we now live (Birmingham) is only 45 miles and his and our daughters' accents are so different. My grandparents were British born and between them there was Cockney, Scottish and Irish accents.
Tho dude... You need to learn the language is English but you need to refer to all accents from the UK as UK accents. You cant call a Scottish accent as an English Accent.
It's better than referring to an English accent as British and Scottish as Scottish. That really annoys me. There is no such thing as a British accent.
To be fair no matter where they are from they are speaking English, so in a way it is always an English accent. Even JT is speaking English, just with another different accent. You can’t call Scottish a language it’s just English with a Scottish accent, it’s a difficult concept to grasp for someone not from the UK. The UK is not a country it’s a sovereign state, made up of 4 (main) countries, I think that is where the difficulty starts for a lot of people. Throw in the fact that Wales actually has its own separate language and it would probably be too much to comprehend for a lot of foreigners.
@@steve5x565 okay how about you go learn some facts before you spread your opinion and learn about scottish language's. You can't say a language is not it's own just because it shares alot of words. That is incredibly offensive are just wrong. How about you go and inform the people of south Africa that they don't have their own language ( afrikaans ) and they in fact speak Dutch. See how well that goes. People like you are the exact reason scottish get pissed off on this subject because we need to re-teach the uninformed that what they where told was wrong.
@@TheWeeJet I'm from Yorkshire. I was once sat drinking with 2 Irish lads and a lad from London. The lad from London still thought Ireland was part of the UK. I was so embarrassed. It seems some people really are ignorant. And there's no excuse nowerdays with all the information at your fingertips
@@tick999 not only just ignorance but that guy I replied to has posted the same Bs to multiple threads. It's ignorance trying to teach people their ignorance. Just about the worst type of it.
It is only in recent times, the last 100 years or so, that people have been able to travel widely and have mass communications like radio and tv. This lack of mobility meant that separate comparatively small groups were isolated for hundreds of years and differences arose. Sadly, a lot of regional accents and dialect expressions are being blurred, although the BBC for example is now using regional accents that in years past were deemed unacceptable.
when it says pitmatic, its more known as mackem where i come from in sunderland, its called mackem because when the shipping industry was big here we would "mackem and tack em" which is make them and take them :)
Plus we all understand each other perfectly
You say all...
@@destinitra ok, well there maybe the odd exception such as Gerald from Jeremy Clarkson’s farm. Even he can’t understand him & neither do I mostly.
You should take a look at the Isle of Man TT bud, it will blow your mind.
Yeah defo!! JT needs to make sure it's the video with the tune "Faster" in the background
Peter Hickman 2017 is one to watch, it's insane.
@@OblivionGate Although he'll need to mute the background noise, or take other precautions to avoid being demonetised - has happened to a lot of reaction CZcamsrs
The one he needs to react to is by Lockk9 TT Racing with 73 million views
Was so disappointed on the ten best places to visit in the uk it didn’t mention the tt when it spoke on the Isle of Man
if you want hear some british accents check out a british tv show from the 80/90 called auf wiedersen pet it's a show about british builders working in germany and has some of the best brit accents around
I’m from London, and although I could understand all of them, it always takes a second to catch on to what they’re saying, especially the northern accents
Hi Frank from Liverpool UK, type in BASIC WELSH PHRASES , this is what native Welsh language sounds like.
Sit back and be amazed.
Addicted to your videos.
Your names translated in Welsh- Celi
It makes me laugh when I hear Americans try to show how many accents they have
I am a Mancunian, and I was raised by a Geordie Gran (who never lost much of her accent in the years she lived in Manchester), and I am married to a Pityakker from Durham (Pitmatic), and I have an accent that is pretty much a blend of them, as do our kids .
The RP accent brought back so many childhood memories of listening to audio books of Beatrix Potter :')
There are of course many more accents. They are just more subtly diffierent. It's a bit like New York, many Americans can tell if someone is from New York, but a native New Yorker would be able to tell which borough they were from.
You see those little islands at the top that got lumped in with Highland Scots? That’s Orkney, where I’m from. The Orcadian accent is nothing like the accent in the Highlands. Orkney was ruled by Norway and Denmark for hundreds of years, and the accent still sounds vaguely Scandinavian. It’s sometimes described as ‘the bastard offspring of Swedish and Welsh’. Nothing like the Gaelic-influenced teuchter accent in the highlands.
When I moved from Orkney to Edinburgh for university, people often had a hard time understanding me, even other Scottish people had difficulty with my accent. On a fourth or fifth date, an English guy asked me why I’d chosen to go to uni in Scotland, and was really surprised to find out I was Scottish - he thought I was from Iceland. One year my lab partner was from Birmingham, and we had to write notes to each other because neither of us could understand what the other was saying.
I grew up in a village called Aylesham, it was purpose-built in 1926 to house the incoming miner’s families that would work at the Snowdon Colliery and other Colliery in the Southeast Kent coalfield. The village is a mining village in two ways, it houses miners and the village’s roads and streets form the shape of the pit head winding tower, the pattern can be seen in Google maps. The original village has it’s own dialect that was studied in 2016, as the miners came from Scotland, Wales, Yorkshire, Lancashire and many other areas of the U.K. the village became a mixing pot of all the dialect and accents. There are village one or two miles from Aylesham and their accent completely different. In the last few years hundreds of new homes have extended the village by another 2000 people to make the population around 6000 inhabitants.
Subscribed with all bell notifications on 😂 Xxx I am from North Wales, and we talk either the Welsh Language, English & Welsh as bilingual or English with a Welsh accent.xx It is compulsory to learn Welsh in school here.xx
Honestly welsh is one of the most confusing languages, depending on your tense and the words in front the sentence changes. Dw i’n hoffi - I like
Hoffwn i - I liked😂
Throw gender into the mix also and add in a few adjectives with plural endings. Brilliant :)
If you go on YT channel 'Anglophenia', the lady does 17 accents very clearly in one go! She's amazing 👌🏻🇬🇧 It's called, One Woman 17 Accents 😃😆
Half of my family is in Norfolk and the other half in Suffolk so I have a mixed accent from travelling between both place it’s really funny
The fact it huddled half of Scotland together makes me want to scream
We have way more dialects, 51 cities in England alone, each with their own accents
What you on about every city? Every bloody town has it's own accent
I'm British and even I'm struggling to understand alot of these.
same here, i couldn't understand half of them haha and i''m from Stockport
@@ashleyowen7664 ayyy stockport here too
@@sam6719 cool where abouts? i'm heaton norris
@@ashleyowen7664 near wythenshawe lad
When I was a teenager, someone from North Wales suggested I should try learning Welsh, so I went out, bought a "teach yourself" book (and cassette - it was the late 90s, so audio cassettes were still around) and learnt a bit from the tape. Next time I saw the family who suggested it, their son took one look at the book, and said "This is a South Wales dialect" - I was just thinking, how did they know that? Accents are really interesting in the north-west. Preston and Liverpool are linked by a main road that's maybe 30 miles long; Go from Preston to Rufford (about 6 miles) and you'll start to pick up a hint of a Liverpool accent. Go 4 miles further, to Ormskirk and Burscough - the "Liverpool" accent gets a bit stronger. It does the same again if you talk to people from Maghull (another 3 or 4 miles), and 6 miles later you're in Liverpool. It is pretty fascinating.
I’m from Norfolk/Suffolk area and that’s literally quite accurate for most people, I love it🤣🤣
There are a lot more than one Welsh dialect. The one you heard was about South West Wales from a Welsh speaker. There's a Newport twang, a Caaadiff (Cardiff) non-conjugation (I goes, he goes, they goes, etc.), there's the Valleys, a nasal North Walian and a scouse-ish North Walian to name a few
That accent was pure mid-Wales from the Machynlleth area.Southwest Wales my arse!!
In Northern Ireland alone id say there is 30 accents easy.
If you can pinpoint some accents to just a specific village there are hundreds in the UK. My grandmother came from a small village in Co. Antrim She died back in 2002. I started a job in 2014 and met a girl who I instantly was able to correcrly guess she was from the same village based on her accent even tho she no longer lived there. The village Ahoghill Co. Antrim.
I personally never knew i had an identifiable accent. Until a person 3 miles East said he could tell by my accent i was from the village i was... crazy
Lived in the north for ten years and only spotted about four accents: Derry lad, sperrins farmer, Belfast and boring ordinary norn accent.
That is a old film of different accents. There are more accents in different areas of the same place, like South, West and East Yorkshire. Many different accents in different towns in the same parts of West Yorkshire too.
I live in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador and you can hear different dialects of English just by taking a drive around the different bays in the province. Sometimes the Dialect is different according to what part of the Bay you are visiting. When doing a news report from here the national news uses subtitles even if the person being interviewed is speaking English.
Great video but there's a couple of these that are typical of how older generations speak, especially from rural areas, rather than the general population. Also, the scouse accent in this clip was quite tame compared to what you normally hear around Liverpool haha. Never seen Geordie Shore, but would love to see you react to an episode 😂
Wrights pie advert on signal 1 sounds just like that. Makes me cringe every time I hear it
The Scots are not English. I recommend you react to CGP Grey's "The Difference Between the UK, GB and England - Explained."
... but, the Scots are British and speak English as their main language ...
@@Jester-Riddle scots is a differant language to english. like afrikaans is to dutch or portuguese to spanish. its called mutually intelligible languages. their is 3 languages spoken in scotland. scottish-english (thats the dialect of english), gaelic (the little spoken celtic language becuase the english made it illegal to speak in the 17th century and killed those that openly spoke it), and then scots (a hybrid language of gaelic and middle english that started to form in the 12th century),
@@TheWeeJet There's also a fourth one spoken in the top of the Highlands descended from Norse where the Gaels didn't get to in their invasions
I forget what it's called though
@@mch-gaming1437 Norn. but its not spoken on mainland scotland. i was mainly talking about them ones
Give him a chance. He's learning.
I was born in NYC but moved to Wales to live with my grand parents at age of 12 (now 63) ive lived in London, York, Manchester, Bolton, Chorley (Lancs). I now live back in Wales and my accent is a complete mix of every different area I have lived. Even Cardiff and Newport have different accents and they are just 19 miles distant from each other. Its not just county to county where accents are different it can be town to town and city to city. There is a saying in the UK it says 'there's something in the water'.
Tattoo idea: the Queen dressed as a Roadman. 😂😂
They pick older people I would think remembering people of my Great Grandparents time where the local dialects will be a lot stronger. The Local area in the East Anglia so SE of England I live has it's own dialect and sayings. Most noticable is the saying "My ol' boy". Elsewhere meaning the person's father, but here means the person's son. A town 5 miles away even at one time had it's own local language. It is getting noticable as people move around more dialects evolving and other toning down even some sadly disappearing. There is a small area where the local dialect is noticable sounds an early version of where the stereotype standard American drawl is noticable. I have a friend who married and moved to the USA years ago and developed a mid Atlantic dialect. We think he now sounds American, Americans think he sounds English.
The Queen Riding a British bull dog with big Ben in the background. You can't get a more English tattoo that that lol.
I live in Devon, on the South West Coast, 10 miles away from the city of Exeter. Our accent is totally different, where they have a real westcountry twang we don't.
Exmouth?
Someone from the home counties would say that you do have a west country twang. It's all relative.
@@charzy888 lol yeah
Why would you just have the bell surely you would want Elizabeth Tower as well so more people would get the reference.
@@ixleigiontoon779 captain pedantic has arrived. Lol
About 100 years ago a Vicar (preacher) wrote a book on the various accents in the South East. He found that there were variations from village to village, so even within walking distance there was a noticeable change. I live in East Sussex next to Kent and there is an accent difference and also a culture difference.
Even many English people struggle with Geordie.
Yorkshire isn’t really one accent either. People from there can tell the difference between Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley, Leeds and more