A Guide to the Birmingham Accent | Brummie
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- čas přidán 4. 06. 2024
- Birmingham has one of the most distinctive accents in Britain. It's called Brummie and it's spoken by famous people such as footballer Jack Grealish, TV presenter Alison Hammond and on the Netflix hit show Peaky Blinders (Tommy Shelby). Here's a short accent analysis for you to enjoy!
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00:00 Introduction
00:48 /eɪ/ as /aɪ/
01:46 Free book offer
02:30 /aɪ/ as /ɔɪ/
03:43 /æ/ on -er / -a
04:55 glottal t
06:11 trap/bath split
07:36 foot/strut split
08:26 h dropping
08:41 th fronting
09:09 TEST YOURSELF
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I think Brummie is my favourite accent! I've got a friend from Birmingham, and I love to listen to him speak!
Love that!
Does he sound like Grealish?
@@kayleeng4505 pretty much, yeah.
Tom, if you're not a Brummie, your pronunciations are spot on. I'm a Brummie, but I have a love-hate relationship with my accent because my dad (different accent to mine) has always mocked the way Brummies talk. I love hearing different accents and dialects.
Thanks Kirstin! I LOVE the Brummie accent. You should be proud of it! It's got such character and charm. I have a few friends in Brum and they are huge defender of the accent maybe because it often gets criticised from outsiders. I'll be honest, I could listen to Jack Grealish speak all day long. Thanks for taking the time to watch the video : )
Be proud of who YOU are. 😊
Brummie accent has now become fashionable due to Jack, Ozzy and Alison... and also, of course, the Peaky Blinders. It used to be frowned upon, but the change in attitude to the Midlands voice has been amazing.
Exactly what happened to the Irish accent in the 90s
Tom, love ya! You are so much fun to watch with all your enthusiasm. And you are brilliantly explaining local sound shifts in pronunciation. Thanks so much! Hello from Berlin
Loved it! Well done Tom, so important for learners to understand different features of British accents to become better listeners. 👍
Agreed! Thanks Sheila : )
I feel ready for a trip to Birmingham now! Thank you, Tom!
Hehehe pack your bags Eric : )
I subscribed ❤Thank you for this video, really learned as myself have been living UK over 20yrs as HongKonger 🎉
As a Brummie I love this video..thanks for giving it a platform 😊
I really enjoy how you break down the various dialects of the UK. As a US native English speaker, many of us get a “blurred” impression and you easily and (I feel anyway) accurately break down and he regional differences. The effort and time in which you invest into these videos is very evident! Thanks Bud/Mate!
That's such a lovely comment mate, thank you very much!
Is this comment in english?
As an official brummie this is pretty spot on, some was more of a black country accent as thats a stronger accent and we call them yam yams. Im very proud of my accent and most of us are 👍
Never be ashamed of where you are from.
Cheers Jamie : ) I've got a few friends in Brum and I've noticed how proud locals are of their accent. I love that! All the best : )
Well said Darren!
You truly are a wonderful Teacher, Tom! Your enthusiasm is infectious. Love everything ESD English! Thank you!
Aww what a lovely comment! Thank you so much : ) More accent videos on the way
Absolutely loved it!!! I’d love to watch Scouse accent, I think it’s gonna be interesting 😍
I Love your Brummie accent Tom
You are so good at doing these types accents
Tom! Appreciate the effort to create this video. ❤ It Tom
thank you so much for the video! You are great!!
Love it! Thank you.
I love your videos so much… Always so accurate and on point
Aye! Thanks mate, really glad you liked it. I try to do as much research as possible and I'm happy to see quite a few Brummies leaving positive comments on this video. More to come ; )
@@EatSleepDreamEnglish since moving to the states when i was 18 yrs old my accent remained the same from Bradford with influences from brummie as well except now i pick up all the California slang with a English accent 😆..
Great! Now I understand where the sounds of "...I am Billy Kimber, I run the races..." come from. Thank you!
Ahhh so Billy Kimber speaks with a London/Cockney accent for some reason. For example he uses that schwa sound on the -er of Kimber whereas Brummie speakers might use an /æ/
Thank you Tom! 💙
Very interesting video! 👍😁
If you could..
Edinburgh accent please 🙏😄
Yes....I guess I'll have to visit Edinburgh and do some on the ground research ; )
Make an extensive video about the Cockeny accent covering all the features there. 🙏🏻🙏🏻please cause it's the best in my opinion
Oh for sure mate! Cockney is on the to-do list.
Thank you!
You're welcome!
Hi. For the next video , can you do a world english accent quiz and explain how to differentshade international accents from around the world? Thxx
Hai baibi! Sounds great 😄
I love love love ALLLLL British accents❤
Interesting accent.
It's brilliantly, smashing, cracking, so interesting ! I ❤ U.
Glad you enjoyed it mate!
Arthur Shelby has perhaps one of the broadest brummie/brummy accent I have ever heard does not sound too different to the actor real accent he just sounds broad general.
Hope you do a video feature the cockney accent
good teacher
Thank you Tom 🌈
My pleasure Patty : )
Can you analyze Jamie Tart from Ted Lasso’s accent 😂😊
I'd really love to hear the Welsh accent, as it is rarely addressed - or Mancunian 🥰
Agreed! It's one I know very little about so I'll have to do lots of research before making it, but I will do!
They sound American to me
Hi I would like to join the class for Birmingham accent it’s very hard to understand how to join your online classes please do reply
Brummie it’s my fav accent in whole UK ❤
Really? Love that!
Yeah! I love that accent 😀
Hello Teacher Tom. What city Speaks the Multi cultural London accents?
Hey Eunice, the clue is in the name.....London! However, through social media and TV shows like Top Boy it is spreading across the country particularly in urban areas. I'll do MLE very soon!
Very good
My friend simps of Brad Simpson of the vamps who’s born in Birmingham, his slight accent is from Brad
During the pandemic i used to live in brum im originally from coventry and picked up the accent quickly whenever i visited my step dad he would always rip me for picking up the accent. 😂😂
I'm from Georgia in the us and to me, this sounds to me like a mix of what we consider a common "british accent" and what we consider a "Louisiana Cajun accent".
my accent is my achilles heal, so it seems, nobody outside brum understands me! which plays havoc with my chosen profession, english teacher in spain!
The North Wales' accent would be good to hear some day🙂 Freshly coming there I got next to nothing.
Great shout!
Impressive
Glad you liked it my friend!
I'd like eat sleep dream english release a mackem/geordie accent video
Have you ever heard any memeber of UB 40's band speaking ? OMG!! That's very really brummie accent!!!😳 Sometimes I've got to hear them twice to understand it
Great video. We want scouse accent of course! Then cockney!
Sure thing! It seems like Scouse is the one everyone wants : )
Please Feature the Multi cultural London accent In the next video!
Yes yes! I can't wait to do MLE!!!!
I'm interested in the Liverpool accent and the Middlesbrough accent😃
Ohh two great shouts! Thanks : )
Most beautiful Brummie accent of all times with that genuine nasal sound was Nick Rhodes accent when he was young, added to that deep and sexy voice. I love when he says " I mean uummm 😅 Now he sounds more like a Londoner, still sounds very enjoyable for me ❤
Baby = babby in Brummie. I love this word.
Love this too!
Does Joe Sparkes from Fireman Sam speak with a Brummie accent?
Hmm, could this have changed over the last 30 years? I’ve been listening to John Taylor, Roger Taylor and Nick Rhodes from Duran Duran speaking for the last 40 years. this sounds really different from how they speak.
Some specifics… if they say “years” it’s Yeaaahs or “something” it’s more like “somethink”. Weird.
Of course I still luv how they all say “Juran Juran”❤
I'm not sure if I'm right, but what I've noticed is that Scottish ppl do vice versa with the sound (ei) - (ai), they say (smeil) instead of (smail) 😅
Brumie?!
just BOSTIN accent...! 😂❤👍
Do you sound Birmingham accent a bit closer to a black (African) English accent? I might be wrong
Please do Glaswegian!
Ahhh yes!!! Bloody love a Glaswegian accent : )
Just to confirm did Jack grow up in Brum? And also Brum is huge so the diversity of Brum accents will match this. To me saying someone has a brummie accent suggests they are all the same and they are not. Think of London the megacity how many versions of their accent do they have ?
It must have had some influence on the Australian accent.
Do the Phelps twins aka the Weasley twins from Harry Potter have Birmingham accent? 🙂
I think they speak with more of an estuary English accent if my memory serves me well. It's from the home counties outside London.
They do. They are from Sutton Coldfield, a part of Birmingham. The films make the Weasley side characters Brummie - Molly and Arthur are both also played by Brummies, and Domhnall Gleeson plays Bill with a Brummie accent.
Just a note, Grealish didn’t use a rolling ‘r’ when saying favourites. The rolling r doesn’t feature as much with younger Brummies and Black Country folk.
You're great teacher and admire your work. For some reason, I don't find the way you speak very pleasant. That is just my personal taste though. This goes to show that accents don't really matter, it's also personal. Probably 99% of your followers like the way you speak. Any accent is fine as long as it's clear. I find the Brummie accent pleasant.
I'm an American but this is amy parents' accent. Oddly enough, it's one of the hardest for me to identify. I think it just sounds like a regular English accent to me.
Thanks for commenting. I guess my question to you would be what is a 'regular' English accent? I'm guessing you mean received pronunciation which is actually only spoken by about 3-4% of Brits. It is the one, however, that gets the most exposure in popular culture and teaching materials. Give Peaky Blinders a watch and after the first few episodes I'm sure you'll have tuned your ear to Brummie : ) All the best from across the pond. Teacher Tom
@@EatSleepDreamEnglishI guess it sounds like regular English to him because he’s used to his parents speaking it.
@@EatSleepDreamEnglish no, it's just the accent I think of when I think of an English accent. Which makes sense but also makes it hard for me to distinguish. To me it's like a flat Midwest accent here in the States.
As A Canadian Lad learning a Birmingham accent and I can speak it accurately
Jude Bellingham ❤
Would Brummie use “thing” or “fing”?
I see Peaky Blinders.... I give a like.
Hehehe nice!
I watched the entire Peaky Blinders series with closed captions on. Absolutely loved listening to these guys talk but man, I can’t understand a word they’re saying. Fookin’ right, Arthur?!
Am I right in thinking it sounds quite a bit like the Aussie accent?
maybe Cumbrian one ain't bad idea either;)
It's a great idea!
What about the R
Northampton accent sounds like Bummie too. Can I say that?
Is this the same accent they use for people in the North in GOT?
No mate, that’s northern English, Brummie is West Midlands accents
All the Brummies I've known pronounce laugh as ''larf''.
Tom: "bastard", how great is that word 💀
What about Welsh accent?
Great shout mate!
Jamie Tart, is that you? 😛
Hahaha
Season 1 episode 1
"Are you Lee boys making fun of my brutha?"
Middle man: Oi! This is Thomas Shelby!! His grandfather was a king!! A Roma!!
Idiot: But his mother was a poxy whore"
Middle Man: 'shrugs, I tried to save your eyes, but I'm not getting in the middle of this..
Tommy and Arthur: 'blinds them with their caps without saying any words.. awesome way to establish their brotherhood.
Reminds me of Cesare Borgia, the commander general of the Papal Army, his own army of mercenaries he paid for, and he was cunning and became best bros with the king of France and the the king gave him another army and a wife that brought him a dowry large enough to hire Leonardo da Vinci and give him complete control over his defenses and Cesare paid with what he wanted access to for years, an infinite supply of corpses, living if need be, because da Vinci was an anatomist and a surgeon and physician and was able to use those bodies for his sketches that ended up getting rid of useless procedures and correcting over 250 incorrection in the accepted medical manual, but Cesare also had a dude in the shadows named Michelleto, he stayed to the shadows and assassinated several high profile targets like bishops and generals that betrayed or planned to betray Cesare but he was always a step ahead cause of his right hand that never came out of the shadows. Just one glance to each other and they knew what the other wanted to do to their captured enemy.. I'm digressed so hard. But I guess this is more like Arthur is Tommy's loyal and highly trained pitbull that will F anyone up when given the right look and he does it without question. Micheleto was a psychopath but knew Cesare was the best master for a killer of his kind and they became total bros
Gila
Often described!? It IS, the 2nd city, knob!
🤣 wow! You touchy about the subject?
@@EatSleepDreamEnglish I'm touchy about poor word usage, people just spit out sentences without actually thinking about the meanings of words, it's lazy and it annoys me.
I'm mildly miffed at you not using "Are" or "are".
I'm asian, my english teacher told me why I don't try to practice British Accent. But I certainly did it. I mean...Brummie accent 😅
Scouse accent next
I think that's a great shout!
Glaswegian accent
Toooomoiey
You’re not Douglas Murray’s son are you?
This is good, but as someone from Birmingham I do get annoyed at these as well. The examples you use - Hammond, Osbourne & Grealish - are all from the same side of Birmingham; Hammond is from Northeast Brum & Ozzy & Jack from Southeast Brum. If you look at west Birmingham accents, they are very different. Northwest Birmingham goes into the Blackcountry, which we all know is something completely different, and in southwest Brum, where I am from, we sound almost more like Worcester accents. In the southwest most of us pronounce laughter as in 'larrrfter' and not 'laffter'. The bath-trip split is not as black and white as you say it is at all. You go into Harborne, or Edgbaston - both middleclass suburbs in southwest Birmingham - and NO ONE speaks like the examples you use, and many use the 'southern' bath-trap pronunciation. Whenever any 'expert' not from Birmingham, who does not have the local knowledge, tries to explain a Birmingham accent, they always do the same as you do, which is highlight one side of Birmingham!
Brummie is easier for Indonesians
I'm here because of Roderika from Elden Ring lmao
"would you rather have chlamydia or a brummie accent?" - first option won in the poll 85-15
I hope your treatment has cured you
Twenty ai een
More Black Country then brum
Ahh, it's bostin!
Who’re you having to call a bastard Tom?😂
I'm a Brummie and never say matter like that. It's more of a younger person speak.
It’s Bahbi or bab not baby
Yeah fair point. I just wanted to exemplify the change in the vowel sound but you are right lexically Brummies would probably choose 'bab'
No wonder I can’t understand ozzy Osborne
1 million? More like 4 mate
Most difficult accent 😂
Explains why my neighbor pronounces shit as shiat
Mate, you’re bordering on South African on a lot of your sentences 😂
Obviously they're not from Harborne 😂
I'm more disappointed in Jack's superfluous use of like rather than the pronunciation. From a Brummie...who is also a bluenose.
Hey Darren, could you explain 'bluenose' to me please?
@@EatSleepDreamEnglish A Bluenose is a supporter of Birmingham City (The Blues).