Top 10 Hardest UK Accents To Imitate
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- Top 10 Hardest UK Accents To Imitate
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These British-based vocal tones are really difficult to recreate. For this list, we're counting down the UK accents that can prove especially tricky to imitate - from Geordie enthusiasm to well-rounded Welsh. How many of these accents can you pull off??
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Special thanks to our user RichardFB for submitting the idea on our interactive suggestion tool: WatchMojo.com/suggest
#10. Cockney
#9. Mancunian
#8. Ulster English
#7. West Country
#6. Scouse
#5. Glaswegian
#4. Received Pronunciation
#3, #2, #1: ??? - Zábava
What accent does everyone find hard to imitate?
Geordie accent. Thank you for your picks, as always enjoy them
Pretty much any regional accent. Despite being a born and bred Lancastrian and having a mix of Liverpudlian and Kentish relatives, I just seem to be stuck with a half RP and half Northern accent
Jack Aylward-Williams I’m a Lancastrian too
Try 1:32:18 on this film which was set in East Anglia.Mr Tom's character speaks with the local accent czcams.com/video/eYJBkfKtCvM/video.html
Jeremy Brookes, aye doric is a well spoken accent in the north east of scotland
can you just keep it quiet,, and let us hear the accents?
Jose
Technoblade never dies Oh my gosh your name is so great
Pig that can kill youtubers
dude literally every video on this and it's associated channels have commentary. That's the while idea of these type of videos
@@kenzieaugustcorder5235 Commentary is all well and good, but if the commentary replaces the thing that is being commented on, what is the point? It would be like going into an art gallery and seeing descriptions of the paintings plastered over the top of the works of art themselves, so that no paint is actually visible. Nobody would go to such an art gallery. It would be ridiculous.
That's the problem with watchmojo
It’s crazy how in the U.K. you can drive for about ten mins and get a different accent. Especially when crossing the English/Scottish border.
Of course. There are villages of people who only talk with each other - for centuries - and so make up their own dialect and phrases.
It's like this in a lot of European countries. It's because from late Middle Ages up to 18th / 19h century (early Middle Ages were more tolerant in this aspect), most people weren't allowed to move to a different region without the consent of the local gentry. So every region was pretty much isolated and the language there developed separately (with the exception of travelling merchants, musicians, artisans and the like).
Very true, an hour in the car from my house we here noticably different accents.
Love the Berwick accent - a funny mixture of Geordie and Scottish.
yeah. In Belgium my town has a very distinct dialect. Neighboring cities are different. And just 20 minutes away, it's a completely different dialect.
I'm Welsh , I was in a cab in New York . Chatting to the driver while we were stuck in traffic . He asked where I was from . When I said Wales , he said that's in Denmark isn't it ? Sometimes you just can't win ! 😂
HAHA that's actually quite funny
I'm cumbrian, and on holiday they didn't think I was English either 🤣 and when explained they thought South England 😂😂😂
that reminds me of an anecdote in Ireland. Also an american customer. my co-worker was finnish. the american asked him where he was from(they expected everybody in Ireland to be irish). He said: Finland. they answered: yo don't look finnish....by the way, where is finland?
Cumbrian
I lived in California for a year then Texas for Another 2 years,The only Person who realised I was English in the whole time was a Taxi Driver from Mongolia in Houston
Who had lived in London while at University And had Visited my home City Manchester.
10. Cockney
09. Mancunian
08. Ulster English
07. West Country
06. Scouse
05. Glaswegian
04. RP
03. Brummie
02. Welsh
01. Geordie
Yep. I listed all of ‘em lol
ღ Aᴜᴛᴜᴍɴ D'ʙᴀʀʀɪ ღ where’s manx
YesAmJole Same as mancunian ye?
Im essex cockney
Manc is easy
YesAmJole it’s number 9 mancunion
More accurate title:
"Ten most well-known British accents with bad impressions of each"
Agreed it didn't help the examples were by actors instead of actually using people who talk with those accents every day. The actors have to learn to copy the accents so they aren't even authentic anyway.
..."that most people, up to a point, can imitate"
Expect Ozzie and Sharon Osbourne they have got the classic Birummy accent.
Christopher Dale Sharon Osbourne is *not* a Brummie, not even Black Country. She was born in London.
@@JulieWallis1963 I meant Ozzie not Sharon. Forgive me Julie it's been close to 35 years since i lived in Birmingham full time. Yes I've been back on and off living in all parts from Liverpool,Leeds and Newcastle and it gets harder to pick up those nothern acsents from Lancashire to Newcastle you only have travel less then 15-20 miles and it changes a Merseyside to a Jordanian and you dont want piss them off either or will cop it hard either from suburbia to the pub and of course a football game.
They speak 3 words and get interrupted by your explaining. Impossible to watch
Watch Mojo do it all the time. All their top tens are just them talking through it all.
Yeah well, automated copyright strikes exist.
All the watch mojo videos are pretty much unbearably bad!
Why are there more "likes" than "dislikes" on this video? It makes no sense. The video is absolutely awful.
UNSUBSCRIBE AND DISLIKE ALL THIS GUYS VIDEOS
10. Cockney
0:43
09. Mancunian
1:17
08. Ulster English
1:50
07. West Country
2:28
06. Scouse
3:12
05. Glaswegian
3:53
04. RP
4:35
03. Brummie
5:12
02. Welsh
6:00
01. Geordie 6:45
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When I heard the "West Country" 2:28 accent in real life for the first time, I had the exact same reaction and the most interesting part is they're making noises and understanding each other 😱
It surprises me sometimes 🤣 I‘ve noticed a lot of people up country don’t understand me
I didn't understand what he said
yo i thought i was the only one in Turkey who knows English
😆that's hard to understand
It sounds so American to me. Out of all it’s the easiest to us understand.
Less explaining about the accents sound, and more examples of the accents!
Agree, was so disappointed to see that a lot of the accents were imitations or done in a comedic way instead of clips of people speaking with their natural accents... :/
The examples given were mostly useless and non-representative,so more of the same actors talking wouldn't have helped.
I am not british, so for me it was cool that they talked about the history behind the accent.
Yeah I liked hearing facts and history about the accents too, but really, more clips of the actual accents being spoken would've been nice. I'm sure they could've found news clips, interviews etc. to show us instead of the actors.
That and it seems like number 1 is always shown the least on watchmojo videos..
How did you miss the Yorkshire accent
They did show it, but said it was mancunian. 🙄
That hurts as a Yorkshire man.
@@k.stewart007 mancunian and yorkshire accent are nothing alike
Because it’s easy to understand and sounds like someone is constipated?
@@stephenmurphy9958 well I've met plenty of people not from Yorkshire who have asked a few times what I was saying as they didn't understand our words
As an Australian it's mind boggling to hear so many variations of English coming from the UK, being such a small area in comparison with such variety! It's incredible to hear so much difference.
6:34 me putting something too hot in my mouth.
😂😂
Weird comment haha
lol underrated comment
😆😆
I'm amazed it fit on the map!
*_"Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch"_* had to be a Welshman's idea of a *practical joke.*
_(I've had to edit that name about 23 times...)_
In new zealand there's a place called Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu (copied and pasted) 🤣
@@adambuckley538 I could swear that was just you falling asleep on a keyboard...
start typing the first part in google, it'll finish the rest, press ctrl C, then ctrl V wherever you want to type llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
BOOM
The postmark is LlanfairPG. It's good enough, and everyone understands it.
I live there 😂
Ozzy Osbourne doesn't speak "Birmingham", he speaks "Ozzish-Bournish", something only he and his wife can possibly comprehend.
Shaaaaaaaaaaron
I just commented stating basically the same and deleted after scrolling, there accents are too neutral, I have bromie family and you can hear it in them not much ozzy more sharon out of the family
LMAO that's so fucking right!...
Shaz is a Londoner
Or bad Yank when playing live ....
as a person from Ulster who speaks Ulster English I can tell you for definite that there's at least 10 variations of the Ulster English accent.
Omg yes! Like wtf even is an "ulster english" accent
Yupp..East, North, West, South of N.I. alrdy so diff,🤦🏾♀️ b4 heading to South of Ireland d republic
@@arsoncat2146
I’m Dutch. But several years ago I had a colleague from Glasgow with a slight Indian accent mixed into it. She also spoke really fast! That was probably one of the biggest English accent challenges I had.
Careful.... It’s a ‘Scottish’ accent, you can trigger a few Scots saying the speak with an English accent 😂
@@mattpryokra2245 you’re probably right 😂
watching indian coooking videos i realise theyr in english half way through the video
@@mattpryokra2245 Cause a flippin' revolution
I know your Dutch and your not that educated but don't get us mixed up with the English were rivals
Would have loved to actually hear some examples of the accents instead of the three or four words we could hear over the V.O.
Legit
just search The Wurzels
I’m Northern Irish and I’ve literally never heard it referred to as Ulster English before
Bubbles17011 I'm Scottish and it's always the Northern Irish accent.
Always referred to it as a Northern Irish accent here in London.
Kean Kennedy its the norn iron accent
Same. Never fucking heard of Ulster English
Me neither.
6:30 - That might have been the highlight of his career.
If you wanna learn British accents, go to
Steven Gerrard (Scouse)
Liam and Noel Gallagher (Manc),
Gemma Collins (Essex),
Jack Grealish (Brummie)
Alan Shearer (Geordie)
YUNGBLUD and Louis Tomlinson (Yorkshire)
Andy Robertson (Glaswegian I think)
Niall Horan (Irish)
Oli Sykes from bring me the Horizon a good example of a Sheffield accent
@@mattylamb9194 yessss
YUNGBLUD! Yes bruv
Oh my I completley forgot abt my YUNGBLUD phase😭
I don't have an accent, it's just everybody else who doesn't come from my town.
Same lol
That is because your brain recognises your own specific way of speaking as "the way of speaking" every human brain does it sadly
@@danhendas6609 wooosh
Trust me u do have an accent when ever I’m on Xbox with some American kid they always notice my Scottish accent I really can’t Hear it at all but I know other people can hear it
You do
Everyone does
Cockney is literally the easiest accent to imitate even easier than red kneck
Cockney is but Essex, which is very similar, I never see imitated well
It's the rhyming slang that makes it hard. And that thing changes in time. Some gets irrelevant in time and some new ones are invented, as it goes with slang all over the world. I know there are classics like "apples and pears"...and that's the only one I know of, as a non-native.
what is red kneck?
@@guido7095 got me
What does kneck mean?
I traveled nearly 1 thousand miles from one end of the uk to the other and it’s actually crazy how the accents change from area to area
Thanks for the two words we get for each! Very generous of you
I had a Glaswegian accent until around 12 years old andthen I developed the Newcastle Geordie accent (Ashington pit, accent) after moving and living here for a couple of years at the time. It mostly sounds Geordie but there is a tint of the Glaswegian still there. Apparently, I can sound aggressive even though I am just speaking normally in my eyes. I don't notice it. lol.
Fucking hell mate, calme down.
Howay the lads
scots and geordies sound them same
2 of me favorite accents.
hengus pod no they don’t!
Liam Neeson speaks Ulster English in Taken? I thought it was just a bad American accent done by an Irishman.
jsphat81 😂
Norn iron
no he doesnt
flip inheck there’s no such thing as “Ulster scots” you idiot
@@toomuch9762 LOL Her Majesty's Government might disagree with you on that, as they produce all government information in Ulster Scots as well as English. www.niassembly.gov.uk/about-the-assembly/general-information/information-leaflets/ulster-scots/
Presenter also has something going on: we poblish a new video every day
He's Scouse.
@@octaviussludberry9016 nah g
@@stanleybrown6146
Errrr, yes.
he's more of a wool or diluted scouse.
From one of those northern places where they can't speak properly.
Any English accent cose I'm Ukrainian and try to learn English.
You did well writing this comment.
learn the American accent its probably the easiest. also some of these UK accents I can hardly understand, but everyone can understand a US one
@@aidank2108 Some parts are easy, but the American r sound is a nightmare to pronounce. This is why some kids pronounce the American r as a w sound, they haven't picked up on how to do the bloody sound.
@@Kromiball That sound strange to me since I'm so used to it, but I guess the r is a nightmare in many accents. I'm learning Spanish right now and the r is the hardest part of the accent.
Any English accent because I’m Ukrainian and trying to learn English. I’m guessing, you did well!
The hardest one for me to understand is Cornish. As a Swedish person engaged to a guy from Worcestershire with grandparents from Devon and Cornwall, my fiancés 80yr old Cornish grandfather is utterly impossible for me to understand. I was so embarrassed when I met him, I had no clue what he was saying haha
I'm Cornish and can still only understand about 50% of my grandparents say lol.
I've no problem with how the Cornish speak, been living there for over 25 years now, though being a Belfast lad, its pretty easy to pick up. Now Geordies I haven't go a clue , as Dublin knackers ffs I still cant get my head round that one, and I lived there as well...
@@choughed3072 Similar experience studying German in Austria (in the Steirmark, St. Radegund bei Graz). Had a local group give our study group a dinner, and could hardly understand the oldtimers welcoming us and giving local history - we talked with our young local friends and they affirmed they could barely manage to understand either.
@@revsin1886 Was in a Belfast pub a few tears ago with my grand daughter and was joined by some gentleman who started a conversation. I could barely understand his accent and my grand daughter kept asking 'What did he say?" It was hard for me and impossible for her.
@Malin Dansk...you should just say I don't understand they will speak more clearly for you being foreign,, I met a swedish girl once who spoke English with a Birmingham accent as her boyfriend was from there, I said you have picked the worst accent to mimic. The swedish accent (in english) is more clear and nice.
Props to the weather guy for pronouncing that name.
his boss is a dick, " so on today's weather report we want you to mention LLwanfairpwllgwynpfydllanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerydbscsbvufbjbvwtwfnfnfgn4ngngfngcnnrgnrngwnxqgfnamsnznqnwqfcxowllgogogogoggadgetweatherman and nowhere else"
Regraig ‘gogogadget’ 😂
Before this video the only UK accents I knew was Harry Potter, Beatles, Monty Python and Mr Bean. Um salve to UK people 🇧🇷🇧🇷
Wotah
Lol
Haha Mr Bean barely spoke.
@@aditisk99 😆
🤣 @@aditisk99
Thanks for this video. Even though I love language and pay attention to people's speech, I didn't realize until I viewed this video that, as a Canadian, I can barely distinguish these accents from each other. Very interesting topic.
I love the Yorshire accents. Someone from England called me by accident the other day and it was the highlight of my day!
I find it hilarious when British people can't understand each other's accents. There's no hope for us Americans at that point!
Now imagine what it's like for people whose native language isn't english * nervous dutch laughing *
We all understand each other though?
As an Spanish speaker I’m agree with you
I’m British and water it’s said like wora
@@Milybrusee As A Spanish speaker I'm IN agreement with you.
I find almost no uk accents hard because I’m British
Lol me too
Same, Americans always think they know the ins and outs of every single accent but really they sound cringe as fuck
Me there to easy, could do the if American, they always posh as fuck
@@ieatmice751 Same thing with most people imitating any accent that isn't theirs.
Same there so easy to understand even the really strong Scottish accent I can understand
Can’t believe you found the clip of Jo Guest bumming Ant/Dec with a satellite dish on Bo Selecta! Classic Television.
did you just say "ulster english"?
*THE IRA WANTS TO KNOW YOUR LOCATION*
Yes they do....Cunting American's you know they can travel..
Ahhaahah the provincial IRA will be giving you a house call haha
Provisional you Mong fuck the RA Ulster’s BRITISH
Yeah Gerry just called: he said the ceasefire's off.
Stephen Kirkpatrick shows what you know only six out of the nine counties of Ulster are actually the state of Northern Ireland and its part of the UK but that doesn’t make it British many there identify as Irish and Northern Irish at that get over yourself unification is no longer a pipe dream and getting to be a inevitability deal with it or piss off to England then !
Best Geordie accent I’ve seen by an actor is Liam Cunningham who plays Ser Davos on Game of Thrones (a Fleabottom accent in the show). He’s actually Irish. I’m not a Geordie myself but from what I can tell it’s really good.
Alistair Drennan
Id agree, I’m from Newcastle and think he does a great attempt.
He sounds more like a smoggy than a Geordie.
Agreed! I'm from Newcastle and was shocked to find he wasn't! His is mild enough where it sounds like he's trying to tone it down for TV. Certainly seems very natural
Agreed. It's a bit softer but he nails the tone and inflection beautifully. Apparently he got it from Neil Marshall who is a go-to Game of Thrones director (and the brilliant movie Dog Soldiers) and is a Newcastle native. I think Irish and Welsh actors probably have an advantage over most other English speakers because they have the natural rising and lowering 'melodic' tone already. Americans REALLY struggle because of their flat tone, look up the "Geordie" in the episode of 'Castle'. It's fucking painful.
He sounded a little singsongy Welsh sometimes but he has done the best impersonation I've ever heard.
Omg, that Egypt episode of The Ricky Gervais Show is my all-time favourite! I love how Karl says he doesn’t know what the washroom attendants do with the money given to them because “the place has never seen a mop”, major emphasis on the p!! Hahaha, hilarious.
I was waiting the whole time for Welsh, because it's genuinely the one that throws me the most. It's not necessarily the most difficult to understand, but the intonation is just very different and unexpected.
Ironic that you claim the Manchester accent is "relatively unknown" and then use a character from Corrie with a broad LEEDS accent as an example!
Half of them in Coranation street are from Leeds and Manchester looks nothing like Corrie and hasn't done for maybe 50 years.
@@stevenbingham4828 Same true of Eastenders and East London.
I am from Birmingham the City and whenever I hear someone 'Trying the Brummie Accent all I hear is the Black Counrty Accent instead because the Vowels are more pronounced than the Brummie accent it is easier to imitate and ppl always seem to want to really make sure they are getting the Vowel right that they overdo it and it sounds like a Black Country accent
Lord Omacron brummie wtf is that
@@Achilles1194 you have access to google find out for yourself
So to learn a Mancunian accent I have to listen to David Platt from coronation street,even though the actor is from and speaks with a Yorkshire accent,ok then.
I came to comment this, he's from Leeds.
My sister has developed a wierd accent due to attending high school in Harrogate and going to uni in Manchester. So it's a mix of those two and Leeds
I’m so glad someone said it. I’m Manchester born and bred and literally no one talks like that here
Yeah that annoyed me.
All those accents seem like a delight to the ear. Greetings British brothers from Uruguay. You guys have a beautiful country.
The Yorkshire Accent:
Am I a joke to you?
Somewhere between posh and poverty that one is
Mate I'll fookin tell ya know I'm from Yorkshire me sen and I tell you I'm no fookin Joke mate your a joke a dust bag
Dee dah deffo are a joke
@@leon.whitby7302 you're definitely a joke
@@CbaDropDead jeez how could I have made it any more obvious it was a bloody joke
None of the Geordie accents shown were done by geordies, they were all southerners imitating them, show a real Geordie accent
kris wilkinson aye everyone that tries a Geordie accent sounds mackem or at a stretch, like they're from Durham.
Exactly it's like that tit on big brother too. He's a smoggy and the film purely belter may have been about Newcastle and two Newcastle supporters but most the cast were mackems and ex byker Grove no hopers
I'm not a Geordie myself like, I'm from Oldham, but I used to live in Newcastle- in Heaton- so I know how it sounds
Roger Thornhill Gosforth is full of posh people
gossy people posh? lmfao. thats like saying fawdons well to do..
As far as Ozzy Osbourne goes, it should be called "Drug-Addled Birmingham".
My go to singer for a Brummie accent is Rob Halford :D
@@SwordOfHeimdall
Rob Halford was a Walsall lad not a Brummie.
@@GoyBenius_0901 Lol, whats the difference
I knew someone from Birmingham and I had no problem understanding him. Not so much Ozzie who just sounds like generic druggie with brain-damage from wherever.
"Ayy-up! 'Ya forget those from Yawrkshurr! Thurz trubble at 'th' mill, lads!". My Dad's West Yorkshire accent was as thick as the fog on the moors. I love hearing folks from Yorkshire speak. When we bought a house, the builder was a transplanted Sheffield fellow. I offered to translate Yorkshire talk into Canadian English for my wife.
When I was in my teens (mid-1960s) I an old man in his 80s who spoke only mid-Cheshire dialect. Despite him living 10 minutes walk from where I grew up I could not understand him a lot of the time. The local accent since then has shifted towards a variety of Scouse.
English (US)
English (UK)
English (Big Shaq)
Ahh yes
Lmao tru
Skrrraaaaa
@Cancerous Calls 'low that bruv man like Shaq did english in school, man got a E for excellent.
😂😂
It seems strange to talk about Cymru (Wales) without referring to the fact that Cymraeg (Welsh) is a separate language with much older indigenous origins than English.
nope
youdontknowme........english is mixture of french latin and old german. ( not your queen )
Yip .... That is the perfect point. You know what you are talking about. Youdontknowme is cluless
An early form of Welsh was once spoken across most of England, Devon and Avon are derived from Welsh words, England stopped speaking Welsh when the Anglo-Saxons settled in England in the 5th Century, after that all the Celtic languages were displaced and eventually became English,
Barbara Hallinan English is based in Anglo-Saxon with an injection of French.
My mother was a "true Cockney" i.e. born within the sound of the churchbells of Stratford-atte-Bowe AND before the bells were removed. But she knew her accent would hamper her and, coming from a poor working class family, she needed to get a good job to bring in a good wage after her dad died prematurely. So she left school early (had hoped to go on to further education) and took elocution lessons. The contrast in accent, speed of delivery and pitch was amazing - she'd do almost like a party-piece where she'd speak and constantly change from one to the other.
6:33
"Just up the road from **proceeds to drop a barrel full of pots and pans down a staircase**"
Out of all of these the one I find hardest is welsh
And I’m welsh
A's 'cause Cardiff, Valleys, and Wrexham, for example, 's as far apart of each other as Geordie, Scouse, an' Somerset, accent-wise (I's Cardiff, by-the-by). M' accent in Welsh is right Hwntw though.
Hahahaha
My 1st love was Welsh, but living in England, near the border, Ross on Wye.
Funny, her twin sister became the #1 female golf player in Wales since.
not wrong there duck
As a german I‘d say it‘s easy to understand for a foreigner. To me it sound like posh English
Fair play to that weather man, he nailed that
Helps he's from Wales ;-) Though he tweets stuff in Welsh, I'm not sure if Welsh is his first language, or it's English
Fair play to the man that spoke a word in his native language, he nailed it. Flay play to you also for spelling weather correctly, you nailed it :/ Though, neither should really be difficult and require celebrations. Do you congratulate the French when they speak something in French also?
boon steson *fair play
I can say it just like him
Fair play to you Kris, i can tell you're Welsh just by the sentence structure in your comment, You nailed it. XD
Right.. I have studied British accents for many a year and my top 5 are these..1: Glasgow, 2: East Midlands, 3: Cambridgeshie 4: Kent 5: Lincolnshire
I was born and raise in Edinburgh. When I was 14 I emigrated to Canada and with in two years I'd lost my sottish accent and pick up a Canadian accent. Roll forward 10 years and I returned to Scotland for a death in the family. The plane landed in Manchester and developed mechanical problems so the airline arranged a coach to take the few passengers on to Glasgow (which was the original destination). So we arrive in Glasgow and I'm told I'll have to take the train from Glasgow to Edinburgh, needless to say I had no idea where the train station was and so proceeded to ask for directions from a local. To my utter SUPRISE & SHOCK!, the gentleman I asked (I'm sure) gave me directions but I had no idea what the hell he said to me. I did find the train station eventually and while shopping in Mackenzie's on Priness Street (Trainspotting anyone?) bought the box set of Rabb C Nesbitt. I periodically re-watch to keep my brain trained with the Glaswegian accent, just in case.
Legend has it that the Northumberland Fusiliers are the only regiment in the British Army that employ their own interpreters. :rofl:
I am from the West Country and I don’t speak bloody gibberish
As someone who lives in the west country but wasn't born here, I promise you do.
Sorry, didn't get a word of that ;)
I am too, (Somerset) and Steve Merchant is Bristolian, which in my eyes is different to West Country
I used to live in Devon and people would rudely mock my accent. They don't seem to realise that they also have an accent. Nothing wrong with having an accent, it's what makes us British, with all the glorious variations.
Thing is, I’ve got a mild Cornish accent and always lived here. Any American friends I’ve ever made literally fawn over my accent because I “sound posh” so I can absolutely agree with you upon the fact that not all of us speak absolute nonsense.
The example of cockney given didn't even sound like real cockney, and I'm not even British.
Bold that you think not being British somehow makes you MORE qualified to judge. In fact the clip is two men comparing their Michael Cain impressions, and they are both pretty good. Michael Cain is from Bermondsey, so cockney by the traditional definition of being born within the sound of Bow Bells not the East End gangster/estuary type. Or maybe the accent you are more familiar with is Dick Van Dyke's?
Became a bit fascinated by regional British accents after hearing loads of variations from gap year backpacker 18-22 kids in Australia of all places. So... eventually jumped on a bicycle and rode 1200 miles from Land's End to John O'Groats to see what's what. Aside from trying every sort of "real ale" place to place and a few single malt whiskeys in the Scottish highlands, I determined the least discernable accents were from the outskirts of Glasgow and a bit north around Fort William and Glen Coe. Some of the farmers up there, wholly fok could barely understand a word, but charming non the less. A particularly joyful moment also came when I plopped at York train station with my decorative rucksack and freshly tanned skin and bleached hairdo. Some fat bloke holding a tin of lager threw a 20p coin at me and said something like "Fuggin 'Strayin Coont". P.S. I'm not Australian ;-)
Also there is a new accent in England that has developed in London. It started with all the foreign people who have moved to London and it sounds like a mixture of Jamaican, middle eastern and London accent. Loads of English people talk like it now. Its the accent most rappers from London use.
Some call it the 'roadman' accent.
The Jaw Breaker That is very true. I have never seen a more multicultural place.
The Jaw Breaker I know right? it’s now full of many interesting and beautiful cultures!
Ali G style
Emily Shadick yeah beautiful cultures that like to throw acid in your face
U talkin' bout "roadman" blud?
2:29 Sounds like, "The Lannisters send their regards."
I was trying to remember OMG
Catelyn: Walder, let my son go!
Walder: 2:29
An Irishman doing a Brummie accent? Unreal. No one outside of Ireland can do a decent Southern Irish accent except Julie Walters. Her accent in the movie Brooklyn was spot on! She does a mean Scottish accent too in another movie
Always loved the Bristol accent , as my favourite Bristolian was Cathy Barry the page 3 model, beautiful brown eyes and a full figure a Gorgeous lady.
Bristol steeped in history, and have produced some of the best Pirates and bare knuckle fighters of all time .
The day I learn to pronounce Worcestershire sauce that day will be victory.
Wuh-stir-sher is how most Brits pronounce Worcestershire, best of luck. Mind you, I still have no clue how DeNiro's pronunciation of Hereford as 'Here-ford' rather than as 'hair-eh-furred' in Ronin was never addressed, since saying it that way was a dead giveaway he'd never actually been there himself.
I learned the proper pronunciation in bartending school and then forgot it. It's there somewhere in the back of my tongue. Heard a lady pronounce it correctly in an episode of true blood, season 1 I think. Its embarrassing being a bartender n not knowing.
I personally say it wus ta but that’s probably because of where I’m from
@@nicholascross3557 I thought that Hereford was originally pronounced with two syllables (something like "Heer-ford") centuries ago, but that it gradually changed to be pronounced with three syllables later.
I say it like wuster sauce, without the shire. I'M Yorkshire though and other may pronounce differently.
Why did I watch this video
i don't even speak english and i still don't understand why i'm here
i'm of to watch an old b/w movie khomol love
khomol I find the subject of The UK’s many accents fascinating. The problem being that WatchMojo manage to make everything awful somehow
British accents are wonderful. great storytellers
Why did I start scanning the comments? lol
I'm a Geordie born and bred but when I'm on holiday I try to hold my accent down because I have a ' broad Geordie ' accent, and I know most foreigners wouldn't understand me , but on a Caribbean cruise I got talking to an American who asked me what kind of accent I had , I told him I'm from the UK and a Geordie and he said it was a bit hard to understand me, I told him I was holding my accent down and that if I didn't he probably wouldn't understand a word, so he said try me, so I said ' after I finish my pint I'm going to go home and get some sleep ' in my normal accent, he looked at me and said he didn't understand a single word I said because it sounded like i was speaking in a foreign language, we both had a good laugh about it and had another beer.
I was getting a train home to the midlands from scotland and i had to stop in Newcastle, fk me man you lot have a different language
if anyone wants to learn Geordie just remember jade from little mix got that
And Perrie
ahahah yess
This is just a list of 10 accents. It has nothing to do with how "difficult" accents are - it's patronising, embarrassing and a poorly researched waste of time, with no real effort put into the production.
A checklist of one Scottish accent, (the biggest city), a generic Ulster, and a catch-all Welsh accent, followed by an evenly spread tour of England.
Where's Dundonian? How about the accents to be found in Lincolnshire, Suffolk, North Ayrshire & the Western Isles., and I'm sure that there will be others.
And Essex. And Sussex.
And Stranraer! Gretna? Carlisle? Aberdeen?
@@mcburnski I wasn't going to run through the whole gamut of them - I'm sure that you understood exactly what I meant.
@@ianmacfarlane1241 yes. I was agreeing with your comment and providing more examples.
@@TF2CrunchyFrog I wouldn't know a Sussex accent at all, and I'm not too bad at spotting English accents.
Ulster English? Northern Irish.
I think it depends where are ya developmentally growing up either in a city or a country side each area in a accent has some differences and difficulty to understand .
The most important is to learn and interact to getting better comunication so it's like 🇺🇸 And 🇬🇧 for me I'm Hispanic from my dad is from 🇲🇽 and really he speaks very rancher and very fast !!! sometimes I said my dad whaaat? So he teaches me how to say the words in Spanish to learn the language THAT'S COMUNICATION IN THE ACCENT which is also very acknowledgable to be proud 👍to learn and explore 🌎 👍🙂.
flip inheck Ulster Scots is a different language entirely. They meant a Northern Irish accent, Ulster English does not exist.
I smell Republicans.
Nice to see jo guest at the end
Hubby and I enjoy watching the tv police procedural "Vera", set in Northumberland and Tyne & Wear (i.e. mainly Newcastle-upon-Tyne). For years I thought actress Brenda Blethyn had totally nailed the Geordie accent, until hubby said that in his office (then in Newcastle) the show was very popular but his colleagues thought her accent "hilarious".
“Alright my lover” Skins also sticks the country accent onto the mainstream
0121 in the house!
I get asked all the time to say things like tractor and combine harvester all the time by non West country folk 0117 yer
I'm from Leics and now live in Bristol, and my family notice I've taken on a Bristolian twang - words like burger and other r-containing words are where it's most prominent, because where I'm from we barely even pronounce the r's lol. Love it down eer though :D
But Brissol is different from Swindon which is different from Bridport. At least to my ear.
davidzof Bristol is different depending of which side of the river you are from but all the west accents are very similar with some small but noticeable differences
How the HELL did a country the size of Indiana develop ssssssssssssoooooooo damned many accents is beyond me. It's like the accents and dialects change every couple of blocks in the city and every village in the country. America has several accents too but they change after hundreds of MILES not hundreds of FEET
Well, I guess that it's true for most, if not all of Europe..
America's regional accents are much, much more spread out.
This theory is unsubstantiated but it may be due to the fact the British regions have been populated for a lot longer before it was possible to move any sort of great distance where as America was heavily populated when it was easier to get around so the dialect spread was more fluid and thus became less varied other than over great distances
Most people were born, lived, and died in the same town village. In the middle ages, there were many different languages of which Welsh and Cornish are two of the remaining examples. if you have ever seen "Pygmalion" by Shaw or "My Fair Lady" the musical, it is a major theme and accents in cities like London/NYC would vary according to neighbourhood.
You think that's amazing, where my family are from in the Yorkshire Dales, the accent and dialect used to vary from village to village! Smaller villages like where my family are from used to be pretty cut off from the rest of the UK and television had only become a thing for my family in the late 60's! Travelling was also difficult with few train lines or motorways. My Dad can remember the first 'A road' being built and travelling down it!
My mum once smoked a bloke out who said he was a Scouse, she identified his as from Runcorn.
Try and find the place on the map and see how far it is from Lyme Street Station.
I find a lot of accents not too hard. I have lived in Bristol and South Wales, grew up up in London with maternal grandparents from Lancashire and Irish grandparent. I have lived in the Fens for 17 years and find it really hard to copy. Lots of people agree it is quite hard to get right.
The norfolk accent is always done wrong on tv, usually sounds like the west country accent...
Yeah it’s annoying 😂, ah ya gettin orn buh?
I came here to say this. So, thank you.
My poor daughter is a bit sad she talks Narfuk, but oi think ets a bootiful accent!
I’m from Norfolk and to us I really don’t see how it is
shame its getting rarer here, only really older people and proper faaaamer boys still have it. most kids from city end up with an atrocious fake london gangster accent these days 🤮🤮 u aint from south london ur from thorpe behave yourself
How is Yorkshire not on here? Anne Hathaway’s appalling attempt in One Day alone should be proof that’s a difficult accent to get right
Most Americans just can't do UK accents. They suck pretty heavily at Australian accents too. They usually end up sounding Kiwi or South African.
If you thought she was bad you should check out the Yorkshire accent Josh Hartnett tried to do in Blow Dry, lol
Yorkshire is too vague. Narrow it down to 1 town because Yorkshire probably has around 30 distinctive accents.
Luubelaar actual Australian actors in the US are required to "enhance" their accent too, so everyone ends up sounding like the chick from transformers, or the one from that stupid fucking Nurofen Zavance ad with the racecars.
edbadyt yeah it pains me when I hear people do the typical farmer type Yorkshire accent when most people don’t even sound like that
I'm afraid I find labelling "Welsh" as one accent unfair. Northern and Southern accents are utterly different and valley vs town accents are also different
Atleast Wales got recognized as its own country. Northern Ireland got 'Ulster English'
@@justamagnet5332 So THAT'S what it meant, thank you, I genuinely didnt know what he was on about. And of course the accents in Wales won't all be identical, but I'm guessing not enough for the common ear to differentiate, or if they do, wouldn't be able to identify where about in Wales. I'm sitting here in Aberdeen thinking "generic Scottish accent is hard enough without adding glaswesian speciffically" really? I reckon it's the go to for anyone outside of Scotland and is the easiest in Scottland, I'm sure I could find many non Scots that would try "Generic Scot" and it would be completely crap but closer to Glasgow than anything else, and god forbid anyone attempt Doric :/
Becky Griffiths literally live a few miles away from people and we have completely different welsh accents, you can hardly ever find two people with the same sounding accent so to even put us as 1 country is bad enough. At least south and north would’ve been better
It was clearly said that there are many Welsh accents.
jees je whizz, yachhyd da ! Loved going to the notrh west and first langauge is welsh, so many people dont know about Welsh outside, in Europe or elsewhere and I love to tell them about it, say a few words ( as I know some )
have to look for a better documentary for that analytical detail tho ! it is the same in Norfolk ! Accents change around the whole region ! Also, people think Norfolk and Suffolk sound the same ( which they do to an outsider and in fairness, they are the most two similar accents in the whole of the UK ! BUT - obviously local people can easily spot the differences in pronunciation of some words, sentence structure and slang !
I'm so impressed that the Meteorologist at the welsh part managed to say Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch so perfectly and without even repeating himself at that XD
I’m a weird case, born in Newcastle but moved south young so never picked up the geordie accent however can understand their slang. Whenever I visit there, this makes them hilariously confused as I stand out sounding entirely like a posh southerner.
It seems strange that, when showing examples of a Manchester accent and mentioning Coronation Street, you didn't choose to show someone like Kevin Webster or Tyrone, but instead choose to show David Platt. David Platt is played by Jack P Shepherd, who does, in fact, have a quite obvious Yorkshire accent, having been born in Pudsey!
If I was going to make a video about regional accents, I'd probably be inclined to include some spoken examples of them. I'm seriously none the wiser as to what you're on about, but I definitely know what you sound like.
I once knew a man that was from Newcastle, I loved just listening to him speak
As seen 1:16～(Mancunian), in many cases hardship in comprehending regional accent is exacerbated by the class-based diversity of accent. To comprehend What Liam Gallagher was saying here you must do some analytical dissection to see Juwymean= Do you know what I mean, which must be rather hard especially for a non-native speaker. Juwymean can be heard not only in Manchester but in a not so posh downtown everywhere in the UK, because it is not a regional thing but something specific to social class.
I'm fairly certain that David Platt in the Coronation Street clip is from Leeds.
Don’t forget WillNE for being Geordie haha
Also what about Black Country? It’s not rlly the accent but more of the words that you won’t understand (hands up if you’re from the Black Country lmaoooo) 🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️
I was going to suggest black country myself.
Pronounced of course "Black Cuntray"
Dudley/wordsley born
BLACK COUNTRY BORN N BRED N PROUD
I learned Geordie account from me friend. Love it
From clevedon near Bristol in the southwest (where broadchurch was filmed) and I can confirm it is actually all haystacks and combine harvesters
“Ulster english” dont let any irishman hear you saying that...
I would have put the Strabane accent as the No1. Must be the fastest talking accent in all the English language all over the world.
I was in Ulster last week and the accent is so much stronger than the example given(so it is)
Oh god mate, we don't. Fuck the British and prods, a unified Ireland would be better than having no fucking government for like a year
see, this is where dialect and accent need to be separate.
truthseekerUK other than northern fenians everyone would agree like the actual Ulster people.
The Norfolk accent (and by extension that of Suffolk and north Essex) is traditionally the hardest for actors to imitate. Most get it wrong and do a west country accent, which is not the same.
2:29 that's just broad Gloucester. The rural arable parts of neighbouring Herefordshire have a similar but noticeably different mumbo.
The West Country dialect had a profound influence on some northeastern American tongues. You can still hear it today in parts of Canada and northern New England.
My wife went to a Geordie hairdresser.
He says to her, 'Would you like a perm, pet?' So, she says 'Yes, please,' and he says, 'OK, then,' - and then he starts going:
'Uz wandered loonly as a clode...'
Even in text (especially in text) I'm lost lol, what did he ask before telling his story?
TH3C001 perm - poem(?) I wandered lonely as a cloud... make any sense now?
+Cyberdon Blue yes, thank you lol.
You've just enriched my day. Thanks for the smile :)
Brilliant
As a scotsman myself I'd say the hardest regional scottish accent to imitate is either fife or one of the rural highland ones between Inverness and Aberdeen.
English accents are easy to understand if it's a main city but again like Scottish the rural accents are the difficult ones to understand let alone imitate.
Irish and Welsh I can't even understand half the time so if I was to try copying it id fall flat on my arse frustrated (I'd say derry girls Irish and Gavin and Stacey Welsh are the 2 accents I can get 75% of what they're saying if they don't go into lingo speech aka slang, both are comedies for those who haven't heard of them (derry girls was used in the clip)).
As an example of mancunian they showed actor Jack P Shepherd, who's from Pudsey, near Leeds.
And Leeds is in Yorkshire
I’m a Geordie and I wasn’t expecting it to be on here at number 1 because barely anyone talks about it 😂
I like to quote jimmy cars "chicken an a canna coke" scouse accent, I cant do cockney though I'm too northern. Great video.
'Ginger and community'
"It's me gran's birthday. She's thirty." 😆😆😆 Americans and Canadians also rely on Liam Neeson or Mike Meyers in "Austin Powers" and his Scots in SNL/"So I Married an Axe Murderer".
“I want some chicken and a can of coke"
StolenInsanity ey! Calm down!
I was born in the cockney part of London, my Dad has a cockney accent, my mums dad accent was described as one of the most cockney accents have ever heard., but I grew up in Hampshire and I can't do a cockney accent at all, while sober.
I think you're confusing accent with dialect in some cases. Accent is mostly about vowels, but dialect includes the uses of pace, rhythm, tone contractions, and colloquialisms.
All that would go over the video makers head, they have no idea whatsoever.
Everything listed in this video was an accent, so I don’t see the problem.
@@tonyfranklin8306 It's WatchMoJo, you know how they'll create any video based on other popular videos.
@6:33 i literally spit my drink out when he said that! lol