American reacts to 'British Accents: LIVERPOOL / SCOUSE'
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Aussie here. Scouse is my fave British accent. It's so lyrical 😊 And Ryan, if you can't tell the difference between a Scouse accent and an Aussie one, there's no hope 😂
*LOL* I think the same thing as someone who grew up in Australia. Had I not emigrated to Scotland, I would have moved to Newcastle-Upon-Tyne.
@@Rionnagan I thought Novocastrians spoke with a Geordie accent, not a Scouse one?
@@FionaEm Yeah. Not sure how but I responded to the wrong comment. It was supposed to be under the comment about Geordie accents.
Here's hopoing this reply is under the correct post.
That was something that came through how weird a single word sounds and then when you put it in a actual sentence the scouse Accent really comes alive. My Dad is a Scouser so always loved the accent, but it was weird hearing single words, and then you hear a whole sentence with the word in and.... yeah
gday gdangah my holiday to australia was amazing. As a 10 year old i was thrilled and at least i can say ive seen an egg fried on a shovel and dimmies are tasty AF
Liverpool people are so friendly! I am American and lived in the UK for many years, and I can honestly say they are some of the nicest people anywhere.
It's a wonderful accent. And the extraordinary thing is, thirty miles up the road is Manchester, with a TOTALLY different accent!
The accent changes 10 miles from Liverpool in Prescott and even more a few miles further away to Wigan etc!
Lol
I'm actually a scouser and it was fun watching this. You need to visit Liverpool, you ain't heard nothing yet 😂.
It’s a unique accent mainly because it’s heavily influenced by its maritime history with a myriad of sailors from around the world passing through the city and settling there, influencing its language. At one point the city had very large populations of Irish, Scots, Jewish, Welsh, Chinese and Afro-Caribbean. Many Europeans also passed through the city on their way to the US and inevitably some settled there.
It tends to be spoken at a fast pace as well which adds to the difficulty of comprehension.
The word “Scouser” comes from a popular Scandinavian stew called “Lob Scouse”.
Can't wait to see you discover the glaswegian accent. And we french do NOT sound like that! XD
No that's definitely Dutch! 😝
Same. I just wanted to suggest, but u already did.
So we'll wait for it.
Hey Ryan, don't disappoint us :D
I'm not a native speaker and i live pretty close to Glasgow. I was learning American English and pronunciation, so i definitely can say: Glaswegian accent is kinda fckd up
Scottish/Glaswegian is probably my favourite accent lol.
@@SatieSatie Mine too, for all time! ❤️🏴(🇦🇺)
It's like an English eating a Dutchman. 😂
True, many simulareties up-op and come-kom, the fricative g-sound
German here. I really like her vids on accents. Her channel was the first I watched to get some idea of British English. When I watched the Great British Bake Off, understanding a Scouse granny was really tough and I gave up...
At least now you know how to pronounce the composer Bach correctly 😂
My favourite "English" (within England) accent is the Geordie accent, which you find in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne.The dialect is lyrical and charming.
Geordie lass here ….Aw thanks pet. Have a canny weekend 😊
Are you half deaf?
Nah my favourite is the West Yorkshire accent...mush
I moved from Liverpool to Newcastle when I was 13. Traumatic!
We used to use the word 'scran' in the Royal Navy for food too! lol Not just a scouse word.
Yeah we still use it in West Yorkshire
My hubby's from Germany and they have a gazillion accents. In fact, towns can be a block apart and sometimes they wouldn't understand each other! But the do have a standard High German that everyone knows. My guy can do a lot of the accents and it's really entertaining and interesting how crazy different some are!❤
I had a German colleague who spoke with a received pronunciation except a few words she learned working in Liverpool. Most odd to hear her order a 'butty' from the sandwich shop. (pronounced bu' 'y in the scouse way but with the rest of the sentence sounding like the Queen. )
Cilla was big mates with the Beatles. Search for her singing "You're my world".
Your Liverpool accent was getting better each time there 😊
its always funny to see how close scouse slang and accents are to northern irish. Not suprising since so many moved over to liverpool during the troules.
I love it when Americans do their "Australian" accent
Scousers get the name from a stew called SCOUSE.
KHAKI is a colour NOT a style of TROUSERS.
Cigarettes in the UK start at about £13 a pack of 20.
Fake Bake is a fake tan.
" day do do, don't day, do " is a phrase used in a comedy sketch show about people from Liverpool.
Khaki is a color as well as a style of pants. Both is correct
@@RandyMahnke Not in the UK. Pants are underwear 🩲
@@enemde3025 khaki is a style of trousers in the uk as well. Dunning kruger seems to hit hard with you
@@enemde3025 I’m from Newcastle Upon Tyne and I say pants for trousers, also , khaki’s are pants… or trousers as well as a colour.
Thank you for trying! You really do seem interested, unlike some other US/UK comparison channels, who try to fake it, but fail abysmally. The man on the left and the two gurning ladies.
He also has a very popular US/AUS channel and a US/German channel too I think- and of course his twin brother has a popular US/UK channel.
I'm from Birkenhead, a town, one mile across the river Mersey, from Liverpool. My Birkonian accent is not as strong as the Liverpool accent but, having lived in the US, for the past 40 years, I've had the most terrible trouble being uderstood. Mostly, at drive ups, I gave up ordering food 40 years ago, because I always got the wrong food, these days, I only order inside and, still, with difficulty. 😂 I can see that a scouser, would have much more trouble than me. Also, the word scouser comes from a food dish, made in the Liverpool/Birkenhead area, usually a type of cheap stew. I was born during the second world war, and scouse was a popular meal.
Liverpool is a port city and so you have people coming from all over the world all the time. Since it's across from Ireland and next to Wales, Liverpool is made up of a lot of Irish people and Welsh too, both of whom have added their own inflections and pronunciations to make up what is the Scouse dialect.
Cilla Black was a fantastic singer who was a friend of the beatles and had the same manager
It made me laugh when you said "what's the point in different ledders if you're just going to say them all the same" 😊
Lol so true pronouncing his ts as ds 🤣
I love your reactions !! You made my day 🤣🤣
Scouse is heavily influenced by Irish, because of migration across the Irish sea. Scots also has the och sound . It's not compulsory to speak in a local accent or dialect. Some of us were encouraged to speak English that any English speaker could understand!
Recommend listening to Cilla Black's "Liverpool Lullaby" sung with her accent.
I can't speak for Scousers but, when I was growing up in the South of England, "Bifter" did not mean cigarette exactly. More of a "herbal" cigarette. A Jazz Woodbine.
From France 🇫🇷 I can tell British 🇬🇧 language is way more sofisticated than English from USA 🇺🇸 languages.
'Scouse' is just a word for a stew. Comes from a Scandinavian word for a stew that sailors used to eat (I think). It is a port city. It apparently used to be an offensive term for people from Liverpool but doesn't have that connotation these days. You can still get a bowl of scouse in some places. Proper scran that la (la = lad). I've lived up here most of my life now but don't have the accent alas. I had family from up here so I knew most of the words already but still had some things to learn. The first time someone said "Sorry for gegging in". You're doing what now? Are you feeling OK? Thought she might have meant gagging and that she was going to be sick or something. Can't believe they talked about the scouse 'k' without mentioning chicken. That always seems to come up. There's a series of videos about British accents by a channel called Babbel which I'd recommend.
I did hear once that due to its location and the port of Liverpool, that the Scouse accent is close to the Irish one in many ways. They way she says though sounding as it did would get me teased as I would say it the same way. I was sent to a speech therapist as they wanted to teach me to speak as they could not understand what I was saying being from Drogheda, Bloody racists.
As someone who has lived in Yorkshire (northern England) my whole, I don't believe there is a standard British accent.
As a Scouser yes, we do have our own version of english always have and always will and Scouse is also a stew , which us Scousers eat.
Some of these Scousian peculiarities might well suit a native German speaker whose tongue never got around to correctly pronounce 'th', for example.
As a German Aussi English is my favorite language. It´s so cute that they shorten most of they words. In addition, the pronunciation is very easy to understand.
You do wonderful Dick van Dyke Ryan lol. The art is in listening really. If you spend maybe an hour in the company of someone with a different accent you do (embarrassingly) start to copy it.
We use different parts of our mouth to speak from with our accents. Australians use the back of the mouth, we lift up the back of our tongue. Millie Bobby Brown the actress is really good at explaining this and doing accents
I'd never heard about them saying cob on until a different American reacted the other week, and i assumed it was a play on hard on as well when i heard it first,lol
When watching videos like this, I often wonder why many Scandinavians put so much emphasis on "correct" English pronunciation (usually meaning RP, Oxford, or American). Because there is often an english accent where our way of saing a certain word is "right". In this case "come" and "up". The scouse version sound almost exactly like casual Swedish "kom" and "upp".
As in Dutch. So is the fricative g-sound
You need to do a yorkshire accent. I think you’ll find it amusing to.
This is just one of many more British accents - so believe me, it's hella colourful!
I'm a scouser, and I'm dying at this 😂😂😂
Hi, Ryan! For me as a german "fake bake" (with a Liverpool-accent) sounds like dutch, and "come here" sounds german! 😀 ....and "th" sounds like a german trying to speak english who is not able to pronounce the english "th" with his tongue an his teeth. In this case the german would say "d" or "s". Mostly "s".... Maybe TOTALLY wrong, but my OWN imagination about all this is that in the early days - maybe middle age - many people have had bad teeth/ or to few teeth or something like that - espacially the poor, right? So I think, that parents passed this mispronunciation on to their children and so on. Who knows, maybe also a well-respected person, so that people began to speak like him! Sometimes this still happens even today, because of a famous pop star or actor or even youtuber or whatever. But today there are much more influences than in former days. And everything gets faster...🤓. Can someone agree with that???😶
Liverpool is a port city, the accent came from many different origins all being thrown into one melting pot, one of the main influences being Norway and the sailors stew lobscouse aka ‘Lapskaus’ is supposedly were the name scouse originated from. So the accent is deprived from many other languages and accents.
Ryan, it's always funny to me to see how baffled you are by things you would learn in linguistics classes. If you're ever looking into studying something new, I'd recommend linguistics to you. Even better when accompanied by learning a new language. I think you'd be blown away regularly.
Starting with linguistics in your 30s is really hard.
@@RandyMahnke I was 28 when I first started studying linguistics, so while it's true that it is hard, it's definitely not impossible.
@@RandyMahnke So what? People should try not being so defeatist. As with anything in life, you'll never know how far you will get if you don't even try, and that goes for every age. Also, even just learning the simple beginners' stuff is already very illuminating.
@@DidrickNamtvedt never said it was impossible
@@scelestion I just clarified that learning anything that's related to language is really hard once you're out of adolescence. That's all, chill out
Never heard the word bifters in my life my Uncle would usually call them ciggies. 😂
It still isn’t definitive though coz my dad is from Liverpool and he says Luke for look and Buke for book. Accents have changed over time too, the younger Liverpudlians say things very differently to how my Dads generation would’ve said it.
Lol!! I wish they would have done the D sound?? Have a great day!!
I love that
All countries have different "dialects" in ever county, some times even in every village.
I’m crying here 😂😂😂😂. I’ve moved to Liverpool 15 years ago from non-English speaking country and I wish I have seen this video back then. My first few months I could always hear people saying ,,fork,, and ,,forking,, and ,, all rice mate,, 😂😂😂 and I was so confused. But I love it here they are mega friendly 😉
Lol, you must have wondered why there was always so much rice! 🤣👍
cilla black lived facing me on the famous scotland road .scotty road
I live in and Im from Liverpool but I don't know anybody that pronounces though like dough
I think when she said Google Cilla black she meant listen to her accent 😂
Bevvy, keks, scran are used in other places. They aren't specific to Liverpool
So my spoken english is not broken. It's just a rare accent from a little village of eyyweedowytrach that almost nobody speaks.
the pronuncian of a lot of liverpoll-words reminds me on 'dutch' and some on 'danish'
It always makes me laugh when Americans say "khaki pants". To my Londoner ear it sounds like "cacky pants", which means "sh*tty underwear"! 😄
Don’t worry I can barely understand a word scousers say. I worked with one Brookside nice geezer but took a lot of effort to decipher him but if you want an accent where every word is unintelligible. We had a geezer from Glasgow and whenever he came upstairs we would say alright and he would say a line and we would all go yeah yeah not having understood a single word. I worked with him for years and the only word I remember correctly was his Christian name.
G'day Mate! You should really check out the Geordie accent from the Northeast...Cheers!
Love the Geordie accent myself.
They didn't mention that in Scouse, the 'er' sound is pronounced 'air'. For example, 'German' rhymes with 'airman'.
True, such as work being like 'werk', phonetically
@@michael_177 More like 'wairchhh'!
Isn't it the other way round? 'air' is pronounced like 'er' 😀
@@what-uc Absolutely! I'm washing me 'er tonight, do you 'ave som shampoo to spur?
Yup, and words that genuinely should be pronounced like 'air' are pronounced like "ur' or 'er'.
Bifters punches gegon never heard of it
7:23 You actually said "up" ("upp") in Swedish right there!
A good video of Cilla Black's accent is at czcams.com/video/jtDBs8YGPTo/video.html She was famous for saying "fair hair" as "fur ur".
There is no standard British English. There is Received Pronunciation, which is basically Southern English and it’s classified as “British English” ignoring all of the other 3 countries that make up the UK and the rest of England. It’s like claiming the Texan accent as the standard American accent.
she has a very broad liverpool accent, mostly found in the north of liverpool
Very strong in her isn't it..that was my thought too..my Scouser friend lives in Speke close to John Lennon airport and his accent isn't as broad..still difficult enough for me as a London Cockney though..my mate sounds closer to Jamie Carragher ex Liverpool footballer
I don’t speak like that and I’m from north Liverpool… lots of variables across the city.I love the Liverpool accent, though and many different accents across our fair isles x
I know Scouse because of the Beatles. That is the most famous accent the world!
*RYAN*
We have over 40 accents, if you drive half an hour down the road the accent starts changing. The Scottish and Irish accents are when I start to think i need a translator on standby...and I'm British through and through! 🤣
It all stems from our original separate tribes / invaders / settlers etc from hundreds if not thousands on years ago. English itself is a Germanic language, but we also have a lot of french woven into it.
The way she was teaching is pretty much how we are taught English, lots of emphasis on correct pronunciation of letter sounds or letter combos. They messed around with curriculum since I was at school, and not for the better in my opinion, but children are taught phonetically, how it should SOUND not necessarily how it looks like it should sound. It's probably why we say that Yanks have butchered our language.
I get why you would find English and Australian English as similar sounding, a lot of us Southerners in England have Australian twangs in our pronunciation, i even hear it in myself particularly if I say the word no. Daft but true. 😁 They also speak at a similar speed to us, and have the same way of expressing themselves. They have a ton of slang words that we don't use but do know, so their sentence may have completely different words in it, but the way they've used those words is very similar to us. They also have a far more relaxed attitude to swearing, same as we do. We both swear a LOT! It's a silly concept to me, to consider some words as bad...the context in which they're used should be what matters in communication.
A good example of that is the N word....ending gga amongst black people, acceptable Vs ending in gger from a white person to a black person, let's hope you know how to fight! The word itself is not the issue, it's the context in which it's used that matters to us and Australians typically, whereas Americans often get caught up on individual words being "wrong" and miss the overall meaning. If I ever have to explain my meaning to someone, 95%+ of the time, it's an American taking offence to something that wasn't even intended to be offensive. I've never once been misinterpreted by an Australian. Watch them all come for me now I've said that! 😂
I went out with a scouser for two years, it took six months before my Mum understood a word he said! 🤣 I could mimic the musical tone of their accent, but their T sounds and K sounds are EXTREMELY difficult to do. It's a bit like how easily the French can roll their R's without thinking about it, and I just cannot do it!
Thinking about it, I've noticed that everyone BUT America it seems, is very acquainted with other English speaking countries' slang or alternative words. I'm sure there are some Australian terms I'm not familiar with, but like i said, they structure their sentences very similarly to us, so it's often fairly easy to guess what it means by the context in which it's used. Most of the UK I'd say, knows a TON of Americanisms and word usage, but you don't tend to know our versions in return.
One that gets me is "do you want a soda?" and I know that means a can of fizzy drink....but like, is that as specific as the question gets? Are tea, coffee, juice or water not to be offered to guests and reserved for members of the household only? That's not a deep question, I'm being curious, sarcastic and humourous all at once, so don't take me as ridiculing your way of speaking. I understand what the question means, but we just wouldn't say that here, as there's a variety of fizzy drinks available, and the question doesn't tell us what options you currently have in your fridge. We would say "do you want a drink" and the person would reply with, tea or coffee or just some water please, at which point we may say, "well if you'd prefer a cold drink I do have fresh apple juice, coke or lemon squash instead of plain water?" so we're just more detailed and specific with our words.
Have you done Glasgow yet?
Hi there! I’m an ESL speaker, I was lucky enough to have an opportunity to spend 5 days in Liverpool in ‘98. Still a marvellous memory, it is a lovely place! I have to admit though that our local host was needed as a translator, as I didn’t catch a word of what the waitress said:) And the same thing happened again and again, at a certain point we were involved in a short discussion with a local aristocrat (I learnt that later, when we met I just thought: poor guy, sg is really wrong with him), I have no facts, but up to this day I think he was talking about Ukrainian prostitutes. In a nutshell, as an ESL person there you can tear apart your language certificate papers, have them blown by the wind, while yourself roaring a satanic laughter:) But a gourgeous place still❤️
Some of these words and phrases are never heard in Liverpool. I'm just going up the apples and pears for a peepo.
Damn, for a non native speaker it's kinda hard to imitate the accent 😂 but I tried
You should watch some John Bishop - scouser comedian, very thick accent.
The double oos is like 'ui' buik liverpuil luik
Liverpool accent is weird in respect of is geography and the striking differences to english in even close areas Most of the surrounding county of Lancashire does not have it. I've always liked it though.
You should watch her video about the Birmingham and Black Country accent. That accent is one of my favs (but all of them are great *g*). Featured in "Peaky Blinders". :)) Also a good channel for the Brummie accent as it's also called is Smashing English. The lady on that channel is from Birmingham herself and uses the TV show for teaching that accent.
If you meet a scouser ask them to say 'furry fairy '
Us Australians use the word bevvy
I always say our slang is similar to Aussie slang, we both shorten everything
@@Rose-cj7wi what other words do you think we both use? My family is from Worcestershire, I’m the only one born in oz, so I get a lot of the slang for different counties.
@@bblake5116 pretty much all the shortened versions of words, but most of the time it’s just knowing what Aussie slang means because it makes sense to me
@@Rose-cj7wi we could talk with no one knowing what we are saying 😆
@@bblake5116 most people can’t understand scousers anyway😂
She ment Lob on.
This guy has some old pewdiepie influence in the way he talks and acts
I ve got a cob on , I’m being sherious lol ❤❤
We do love Scouse in Australia, probably because we love Scots, and we loved the Beatles and we love watching Heartbeat (8 repeats so far), and Yorkshire Vet and My Yorkshire Farm - come bye, by gum! "Ferry Cross the Mersey"! 😁 Good try Ryan! 👍
Scousers aren't Scottish
@@101steel4 Yes I know, but the accents are just as endearing, unrelentingly traditional and both are strong proud, quirky people! 🤗
@@jenniferharrison8915 agreed, but it's still nothing to do with Scotland
@@101steel4 There are quite a few similarities from my experience! 😊
@@jenniferharrison8915 I don't see (hear) it myself. Totally different.
If your not a scouser its not easy to mimic tge accent.... The girl on the left tried it at the end and it was awful... The scouse girl was fun and she was enjoying it as you could tell by her genuine laughs.
Rebecka looks very much like "Al Bundy's daugher" :)
here is Cilla Black for you : Cilla Black - Anyone Who Had A Heart (Live) -
czcams.com/video/ZUxn6JLwdDY/video.html
first omg!!!!!!
Cigarettes are $ 6,15 for a pack of 19 in Sweden today. Crazy.
That's cheap.
It's about £13 in England for 20 cigarettes.
And about £20 for 30 grams of rolling tobacco.
@@NGT4LIFE Thats stealing.
If a Scouse is shouting at you better put up your umbrella 🌂😂
Or 'Y' berra poorroop yeroombrella' 😀
Brolly
IT'S CLOSE TOO DUTCH.
Can’t see why you question it? It is what is, leave it out. Which is cockney for stop it.
Is this why ppl use the term "slack jaw"? Makes one wonder what local plant was generationally ingested to numb out their mouth muscles.
Haha shickenn is the best one. Chicken btw
Calm down, calm down!
Nuttin wrong with Cilla Black! She's a lorra laughs 😁 pls check out the Dublin accent 🤗
Some of these are more general British English rather than just scouse. Water, made up, etc. Dey do dough don’t dey dough is stereotypical.
hello Ryan
Cigarettes in the U.K. cost £10 to £20 a pack.
Really? Wow I'm glad I don't smoke.
I've watched this video about ten times now. I was wondering why initially but it's because I find the two ladies sexually exciting and they make me smile. Sorry Ryan mate!
It's a mixture of Irish and English a lot of Irish moved to Liverpool for work .
With a big sprinkling of Welsh.
@dardavi8901 Sorry of course.
Patterson will pay !!!!
Scouse accent sound like Scottish accent. Isn't it?
hard on is lob on
Cigarettes are £12 for 20 here