Learn Hagrid's British Accent (HARRY POTTER) | West Country Accent

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  • čas přidán 20. 06. 2019
  • In this video we look at the wonderful British English accent of Hagrid in the Harry Potter films. He speaks with a distinctive West Country accent.
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Komentáře • 195

  • @spriggansiedeutsch6817
    @spriggansiedeutsch6817 Před 5 lety +89

    Well, it’s official: I cannot speak like Hagrid. 😂

  • @SimplyMe514
    @SimplyMe514 Před 4 lety +24

    I love how a good chunk of the video gave the impression that a West Country accent sounds like growling, and then all the practice lines you picked were examples of what a big, soft sweetheart Hagrid really is. Excellent summary of the character, really.

  • @agustin1141
    @agustin1141 Před 5 lety +49

    I love England. It's amazing how accents change in a simple country. I have been to England two times and I'm sure I'll be back more times.

    • @misemario
      @misemario Před 5 lety +1

      It's like that almost everywhere. Language is an awesome thing. In Dalmatia (Croatia) people from the coast and from behind the first hill speak two really different dialects, and they are just a few kilometres away from each other.

    • @agustin1141
      @agustin1141 Před 5 lety +5

      @@misemario yes I know. Every country has it's different accents. But in the case of England is amazing how in just one city the ways of talking change so much (e.g. London).

    • @ParmodKumar-fw7jy
      @ParmodKumar-fw7jy Před 5 lety +1

      @@agustin1141 lol! It's so common in Indian cities here everyone have their own accent 😂😂😂😂😂

    • @YangSing1
      @YangSing1 Před 5 lety

      Why wouldn't they change?

    • @livb6945
      @livb6945 Před 4 lety

      A 'simple' country? 🤔

  • @tibbleslake
    @tibbleslake Před 3 lety +9

    Robert Newton did not play Blackbeard in Treasure Island, he played Long John Silver.

  • @joserabelo6007
    @joserabelo6007 Před 5 lety +62

    I'm very curious about HP character accents. Could you do more of these videos? I simply loved this one. Amazing! Thank you so much!

  • @nadnadya7263
    @nadnadya7263 Před 5 lety +38

    Next, maybe Agatha Christie's series or Sherlock BBC 😙

  • @ErikPT
    @ErikPT Před 5 měsíci +1

    I am a Southern man raised in the US. I find it charming how some of our country and hick accents can almost derive from certain regions of Mother Britinana. Head on 'round my neck of the woods an' you'll hear a rough country accent and a mixed western since Texas is a land with four sections. I find the books I give Hagrid his Scottish accent but the films do justice if not a condensed adaption.

  • @lookatrinnn
    @lookatrinnn Před 5 lety +16

    In 5:00 like the expression hagrid when saying "Pure Blood" 😂😂

  • @barbarabronikowska6595
    @barbarabronikowska6595 Před 5 lety +20

    How great! Hagrid`s accent, finally! I`m still a fan of "Harry Potter" and Hagrid is one of my favourite characters, next to Snape and Dumbledore. Cheers, Tom!

    • @user-zq4ni4sg4e
      @user-zq4ni4sg4e Před 5 lety

      Barbara Bronikowska ,oh yees Snape! Alan Rickman’s voice is amazing)

  • @stayysid
    @stayysid Před 5 lety +68

    Yer a Wizard, Tom! 😂

    • @raisa_cherry33
      @raisa_cherry33 Před 5 lety +3

      😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @marygarcia7035
    @marygarcia7035 Před 5 lety +6

    I quite enjoy this HP videos! You've done a great job breaking down their accents.
    Please continue them!

  • @Hodgeypodgesmodge
    @Hodgeypodgesmodge Před 3 lety +9

    I’m from Bristol and have a mediocre Bristolian accent and when I hear Hagrid talking it reminds me of a mixture of all the West Country accents smashed together

    • @rolandscales9380
      @rolandscales9380 Před rokem +1

      "General purpose Mummerset" as used by actors whenever there'a rustic part to be played. Annoyingly this is sometimes used in lieu of a Leicestershire accent or an East Anglian accent.

  • @Homensquesecuidam
    @Homensquesecuidam Před 5 lety +6

    So cute!

  • @oonang85
    @oonang85 Před 4 lety

    Love the HP videos. Thank you! Hope to see more of these!

  • @proudtobeanintrovert2806
    @proudtobeanintrovert2806 Před 4 lety +12

    Hagrid: he don't
    Me: I can't

  • @GemGames3
    @GemGames3 Před rokem +3

    I read somewhere that the Potter family (In the books) came from the Potteries, or West Midlands 'West of England' from Pottermore, so Harry might've been naturally drawn to Hagrid because his voice would've been similar to his dads, James Potter.

  • @thelastuser
    @thelastuser Před měsícem

    I just want to thank you for this video. I have been looking for this kind of information on the West Country accent including all these phonological features for my project at university. Your video is just perfect ! and these amazing examples from the Harry Potter series - I love them! Thank you a lot !

  • @raisa_cherry33
    @raisa_cherry33 Před 5 lety +1

    Always something new and amazing to learn from this channel.Wonderful job sweetie 👏

  • @blackcosnersabbath
    @blackcosnersabbath Před 5 lety

    Hey Tom! I newly discovered your channel, and I can safely state it is among the best Learning English channels!
    Keep up the great work you're doing!
    Cheers

  • @thearies10
    @thearies10 Před 5 lety +1

    Totally love it! 😍😊👏

  • @khadijafayyaz6184
    @khadijafayyaz6184 Před 5 lety +28

    Tom 😍 Harry potter's costume looks amazing on you!

  • @Mohdu30
    @Mohdu30 Před 5 lety +9

    Thank you a millions for your video,
    Beacuse, today I successd my Toeic test, I have got 840, I have watched all your videos for 8 months
    Therefore I am officially engineer
    Thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

  • @keerthanasendurvel9685
    @keerthanasendurvel9685 Před 5 lety +1

    Most expected video, thanks Tom.

  • @southerncharm5359
    @southerncharm5359 Před 2 lety +6

    Enjoyed the video and it was an easy quiz at the end, coming from the Southern US we’ve a lot in common with the West Country accent.

  • @haotianwu8658
    @haotianwu8658 Před 5 lety

    I’ve been waiting for this for long

  • @box_of_rain5277
    @box_of_rain5277 Před 4 lety +4

    Ahhh the ancestor of the American-Southern accent.

  • @allanlealdacosta9223
    @allanlealdacosta9223 Před 5 lety +1

    OMG this video is amazing, you are the best tks s lot 🤗❤️

  • @rd3428
    @rd3428 Před 5 lety +2

    😮
    Great video!

  • @Anna_GG
    @Anna_GG Před 5 lety

    Amazing video!!! Thanks for these Harry Potter videos

  • @c.isunin9210
    @c.isunin9210 Před 5 lety

    Amazing! Thank you so much XD

  • @YasamanJoaquin
    @YasamanJoaquin Před 5 lety +1

    The video hasn't even started, but I have already given it a like, because the topic of the vid is just awesome :)))

  • @mamymimma
    @mamymimma Před 5 lety

    Lovely lesson, Tom 😊

  • @rachelpenny5165
    @rachelpenny5165 Před 4 lety +4

    Considering I grew up in rural Devon, the West Country accent is home. I live in Hampshire now but still have a West Country accent. Thanks for explaining this as I always wanted to know your evaluation of this accent 😁.

    • @christopherthewreckerthats2295
      @christopherthewreckerthats2295 Před 2 lety +1

      In Hampshire we still have a proper Hampshire accent the real Hampshire accent is West country unfortunately as re accent is dieing do to posh ungsters

  • @user-zq4ni4sg4e
    @user-zq4ni4sg4e Před 5 lety

    It’s wonderful series! You’re great! I would like to see next one with Ron or Mac Gonagal

  • @polloncombinaguai74
    @polloncombinaguai74 Před 5 lety

    I'll never thank you enough for these videos!

  • @angelamaciel7419
    @angelamaciel7419 Před 5 lety

    Great vídeo👏👏 Thanks from Brazil 🇧🇷

  • @dramaturge231
    @dramaturge231 Před 5 lety +10

    PS I also like the examples with the practice time @ the end. 🙂

  • @nancyb7060
    @nancyb7060 Před 5 lety +1

    Again a great video, Tom! Love Hagrid so much. 😍🖒🖒🖒 A video on Alan Rickman would be great, too.

  • @MultiKamil97
    @MultiKamil97 Před rokem +1

    I always thought that Hagrid's accent is scottish. I watched the films and read the books in polish as I'm from Poland but whenever I saw a meme of Hagrid on the internet, his texts were written just like I imagined a Scot would speak 😅

  • @dramaturge231
    @dramaturge231 Před 5 lety

    I dig the new logo and introduction.

  • @mohjaelshafi981
    @mohjaelshafi981 Před 5 lety +6

    It was hard for me to read hagrid's speech when I started reading the books because it is full of contractions and glottal ts.

  • @VirgoAries1982
    @VirgoAries1982 Před 5 lety

    Wow it's magic thank u

  • @ayoubbouaoultaine5990
    @ayoubbouaoultaine5990 Před 5 lety

    hope you ok,please where can i find full british films with subtitles english ,and thank you ,good teacher

  • @ahmedibrahim3623
    @ahmedibrahim3623 Před 5 lety +12

    I'm too busy
    I have a lot of work
    I can't waste my time
    Looking at my phone ,
    It's a new video from Tom
    Let's watch it. I'm not that busy..🤣🤣😘😍

  • @jenniferrohlf200
    @jenniferrohlf200 Před 4 měsíci

    I had to look this up after I randomly thought today “Hagrid’s accent is more similar to ours in the US than other parts of England, I must know why.”
    We also obviously drag out the O, use rhotic R, say e’s got instead of he’s got”. Guess the accent didn’t change in the West country like it did in London in the 1800’s.

  • @wh0438
    @wh0438 Před 5 lety

    Love it ♡ Please make a Learn draco malfoy british accent!

  • @alanjyu
    @alanjyu Před 3 lety +10

    "ain't no one gonna get past Fluffy." It actually sounds colloquial american. Amazing.

  • @ellaohne4865
    @ellaohne4865 Před 5 lety +3

    You are Tom, Lord Voldemort was Tom. Could you make a video about his accent? 🤔
    Generally, I still waiting for David Attenborough' accent. He gave a lot of videos about nature. ☺️
    I love your films. Please, don't stop it! Have a nice weekend. ☺️

  • @TrymYoutubeMainChannel

    please could you do a video on accents from the movie Hot Fuzz ^^ thanks mate greetings from Norway

  • @PurpleEnbyTerminator
    @PurpleEnbyTerminator Před 3 lety +2

    From my research of where the Weasleys live (according to the wiki) in Ottery St. Catchpole (which might be made up), Devon (which isn't made up), shouldn't they also have this accent?

  • @ChiMasterMedia
    @ChiMasterMedia Před 5 lety +2

    That strong R 😀👌

  • @Charlie1x
    @Charlie1x Před 5 lety

    Hello Tom! I really enjoy watching your videos and learning more about the British accent... I watch the tv show called Lucifer, and I was wondering if you can make a video on the main character, Tom Ellis .

  • @jwb52z9
    @jwb52z9 Před 5 lety

    It's interesting. Hagrid's accent is a lot like some of the American Southern accents. The long vowels and occasional dropping of the letter H in the word "he" are very common in American speech in some places. "Ain't" is something you hear a lot in the US, also. The one part of my linguistics class that I had to take that I really liked was the analysis like this. Lovely video!

  • @john-bv9wc
    @john-bv9wc Před 5 lety

    Is this the best learn English channel there , I think it is , came here From anpu

  • @zxenon_
    @zxenon_ Před 5 lety

    U're freaking awesome in that costume.

  • @jeklinmarvipongotak4381
    @jeklinmarvipongotak4381 Před 4 lety +2

    Tom, the R sound in west country accent sounds quite same with R in scottish accent, innit? I thought they use the rhotic too

    • @Steve-zc9ht
      @Steve-zc9ht Před 3 lety

      Am I the only one who thinks the west country accents R sound is to strong tho even for me I'm American and I don't even pronounce my Rs that strong like geez maybe they are a pirate

  • @johnherbert4646
    @johnherbert4646 Před 4 lety

    can you do a review prof macgnogal's accent? Scottish is so much fun!

  • @timmystauffer9094
    @timmystauffer9094 Před 5 lety +1

    Could you do a Derbyshire accent video?

  • @lindaduncan7181
    @lindaduncan7181 Před 5 lety

    I love the West Country/Cockney/etc accents!! The Newcastle accent, I'm not sure which part of the country that is, but Brian Johnson's I could listen to all day!! (Incidentally, wasn't that a Slytherin tie? It wasn't Gryffindor colors, for sure.) And if I ever get the chance I'm dreaming of, to live in the UK a while, my accent will wind up SUCH a mashup of all of the accents on top of my natural American accent!! 😂😂

    • @rebeccasimantov5476
      @rebeccasimantov5476 Před 5 lety +1

      Newcastle is Northern English btw...whereabouts in the States are you from?

    • @lindaduncan7181
      @lindaduncan7181 Před 5 lety

      @@rebeccasimantov5476 Thanks!! I'm in TN, I hear that people over there would gush over the way I talk LOL!!

  • @bappadey2952
    @bappadey2952 Před 5 lety

    Probably you are one of the best teachers I have ever seen

    • @rebeccasimantov5476
      @rebeccasimantov5476 Před 5 lety

      Ever seen

    • @bappadey2952
      @bappadey2952 Před 5 lety

      @@rebeccasimantov5476 it was typing and I didn't notice that. Thanks for correcting me 😊😊😊😊

    • @rebeccasimantov5476
      @rebeccasimantov5476 Před 5 lety +1

      @@bappadey2952 sorry...you were right in the first place!

  • @walterwhite5578
    @walterwhite5578 Před 5 lety

    I do love his accent and his accent so good considering he is from Scotland. Also, Scotland has a strong "r" as well. I like to think of Hagrid's accent as the country folk accent.

    • @luketory4684
      @luketory4684 Před 4 lety

      Walter white or that one time in Harry Potter goblet of Fire film Dumbledore says Harry Potter in an American accent

  • @CaptainAMAZINGGG
    @CaptainAMAZINGGG Před 4 lety +2

    Dear. Lord. This is the best thing EVER XD
    INFINITE JOYYYY

  • @138hamid
    @138hamid Před 4 lety +1

    Amazing !!!appreciate it ..and advise to watch the movie "Liar Liar" intermediete Engilish level speaker can easily understand

  • @sateyafilm8863
    @sateyafilm8863 Před 5 lety

    how about jon snow? is he has the north country accent?hehe..btw i like his accent in got

  • @jaffa3717
    @jaffa3717 Před rokem

    I've got a proper Westcountry accent but there's a few differences between me and Hagrid. We don't drag vowels usually, or atleast I don't. Also, I usually pronounce the word "don't" as "dunt" for some reason, which most people do here

  • @daverd6434
    @daverd6434 Před 3 lety +1

    Thank you, i have a question does Rusell Howard have a Bristolian accent ? 🤔

  • @evelynscamander6657
    @evelynscamander6657 Před 4 lety +3

    British check ♥️ any brits put there?

  • @italico2792
    @italico2792 Před 3 lety

    Cute as always Tom

  • @SongBillong
    @SongBillong Před 9 měsíci

    The aitch consistency is a bit frustrating as he nailed most other aspects of the accent. I don't know the technical term for this but in the West Country we use a 'Y' sound to merge things such as "I have" (to make "aye-yav", rather than "Aye have"). I'm surprised he overlooked this!

  • @martinshepherd626
    @martinshepherd626 Před 3 měsíci

    Many many West Country dialects.....3 alone in Bristol, besides we speak fast in Bristol

  • @ahmedibrahim3623
    @ahmedibrahim3623 Před 5 lety +2

    Why I read comments in west county accent ..!!

  • @user-oe1bu5qw1w
    @user-oe1bu5qw1w Před 2 měsíci

    I hear [ʍ] in "where" at 3:32.

  • @feralbluee
    @feralbluee Před 5 lety +2

    Wow! he's Scottish and he does that accent - amazing. for Pete's sake, i bet he can do any accent.
    For that ma' 'er, so can you :}

  • @yttrv8430
    @yttrv8430 Před 5 lety +2

    Did Johnny hit Lisa? Answer @7:58

  • @davissae
    @davissae Před rokem

    The West Country accent is extremely similar to the Ocracoke Brogue and Tangier Island American accents.

  • @Snakeplisskin440
    @Snakeplisskin440 Před 5 lety +1

    I love the accents. I'm from the US and I feel we speak very boring over here. It makes a bit of sense of though, why there's such thing as a "southern accent" here in the US. I would think it came from over seas (Irish etc.). They tend to drop a few consonants when speaking. They even drop the letter "H' sometimes. Actually, that might make a good video. Go over the southern US accent. Also Dwarves and their language. Not a real language but cool none-the-less.

    • @YangSing1
      @YangSing1 Před 5 lety +3

      The American accent is very strong and not boring to British people

  • @protoncoccus3229
    @protoncoccus3229 Před 3 lety

    cool costume

  • @governmentjobtarget4420

    Bro create more phrase video plz... love from India

  • @isladurrant2015
    @isladurrant2015 Před 5 lety +1

    Well done my luvvah! How about names like "luvvah" that might be encountered? Just a thought pet x

  • @faisal9277
    @faisal9277 Před 5 lety +1

    I want to speak just like Snape

  • @rebeccasimantov5476
    @rebeccasimantov5476 Před 5 lety

    I thought West Country accent mainly referred to Bristol...didn't realise it covered such a broad area including Devon and Cornwall (very "piratey")

    • @YangSing1
      @YangSing1 Před 5 lety +1

      It's the whole region but there are slight variations

    • @rolandscales9380
      @rolandscales9380 Před rokem

      It also takes in Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, the rural parts of Hampshire and a bit of Oxfordshire and Herefordshire.

  • @liliiborys6430
    @liliiborys6430 Před 5 lety

    ♥️

  • @mariluduarte2592
    @mariluduarte2592 Před 4 lety

    Please continue doing this with Harry Potter and Sherlock Holmes too

  • @darthxerxes5468
    @darthxerxes5468 Před rokem

    I'm a native english speaker but i love accents.

  • @jelenadukuljev1978
    @jelenadukuljev1978 Před 5 lety +9

    It sounds a bit like American!
    - it's rhotic
    - the long sound in - got, hot, pot
    - dropping the h - it happens in American English as well (come 'ere, tell 'im )

    • @rebeccasimantov5476
      @rebeccasimantov5476 Před 5 lety

      I agree!

    • @Enigmatism415
      @Enigmatism415 Před 4 lety

      'herb' as well, yet not 'Herbert'.

    • @Steve-zc9ht
      @Steve-zc9ht Před 3 lety

      @@Enigmatism415 I'm American and herbs just makes more sense then erbs I don't know what my fellow Americans where thinking might as well remove the H from the word entirely

    • @Enigmatism415
      @Enigmatism415 Před 3 lety

      @@Steve-zc9ht English words vary on whether the initial H is dropped, like with hour, honor, etc. It's because no Romance languages today pronounce H.

  • @nimkynasir7814
    @nimkynasir7814 Před 5 lety

    aw !!!cuty Patootie🤓

  • @needleboy17
    @needleboy17 Před 3 lety

    (In this accent) Squares!!!!!!

  • @Dracoulis44
    @Dracoulis44 Před 3 lety +1

    It’s cute how some people refer to Britain while they really mean England. I wouldn’t expect that from a guy who teaches “British accents” but there you go!

    • @douglasvicttor
      @douglasvicttor Před 2 lety +1

      England is part of Britain.

    • @Dracoulis44
      @Dracoulis44 Před 2 lety +1

      @@douglasvicttor British =/= English mate but thanks for the geography lesson anyway, keep up with your learning!

    • @douglasvicttor
      @douglasvicttor Před 2 lety

      Lol

    • @douglasvicttor
      @douglasvicttor Před 2 lety

      Hey dude, you're looks nice. Where are you come from ?

  • @dc5656
    @dc5656 Před 5 lety

    😍

  • @nutsriket9687
    @nutsriket9687 Před 5 lety

    I’m waiting for Geordie!

  • @covattireviews
    @covattireviews Před 4 lety +1

    So, I'm watching thi 1st movie in English and it was the first time I listened to Hagrid's orignal voice and I was like "wtf, why is he pronouncing the R?" Well, here I am

  • @yalyu4538
    @yalyu4538 Před 4 lety

    Could you make the Severus Snape's (Alan Rickman) accent please? BRILLIANT💎

    • @rolandscales9380
      @rolandscales9380 Před rokem

      Hang out at the Conservative Party annual conference. You'll pick it up.

  • @jibjab351
    @jibjab351 Před 3 lety

    Hagred if from the Glasgow area of the West Country

  • @waiyeungyip8471
    @waiyeungyip8471 Před 5 lety +3

    Emma's accent next please!

    • @user-zq4ni4sg4e
      @user-zq4ni4sg4e Před 5 lety

      叶蔚洋 , yeah .Though it was already video about Emma’s accent,but it was not from HP. It sounds amazing,Emma’s accent is sooo beautiful

    • @waiyeungyip8471
      @waiyeungyip8471 Před 5 lety

      @@user-zq4ni4sg4e 👍Absolutely

    • @jelenadukuljev1978
      @jelenadukuljev1978 Před 5 lety +1

      I think Emma uses the standard RP and he has already done a lot of videos about the RP :)

    • @rebeccasimantov5476
      @rebeccasimantov5476 Před 5 lety

      @@user-zq4ni4sg4e Tom has already done Emma's accent in a previous video...

  • @jimbell122
    @jimbell122 Před 2 lety

    He actually speaks lie most people in England not like all the other posh accent , I m from Lincoln so my accent is different but I still sound more like him then other characters

  • @rifnoviarahmad3724
    @rifnoviarahmad3724 Před 5 lety

    😎👍

  • @martinshepherd626
    @martinshepherd626 Před 3 měsíci

    Robert Newton came from Dorset and not Devon

  • @JohnDrummondPhoto
    @JohnDrummondPhoto Před 5 lety +1

    So, just imitate Cary Grant (from Bristol) and that pretty much nails it, eh?

  • @wannacashmeoutside
    @wannacashmeoutside Před 5 měsíci

    I was today years old when I learned the actor was Scottish and not from west country 🫠

  • @brahmspapilaya355
    @brahmspapilaya355 Před 5 lety +2

    notification squaaaa