British Girls React to Hardest UK Accents To Understand!!

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  • @tywco
    @tywco Год назад +4751

    I remember two Scottish people asking me for directions (I think) in Portugal after they heard me speaking English. They’re probably still lost out there, twenty years later, confusing the hell outta people.

    • @multilingualsltty5267
      @multilingualsltty5267 Год назад +69

      😂😂😂

    • @myheartbroken1121
      @myheartbroken1121 Год назад +13

      Hi

    • @uliuchu4318
      @uliuchu4318 Год назад +108

      same experience in Berlin with an Irish guy. Didn't help that his Intoxication made him slur to no end. Hope you're still alive out there!

    • @lxportugal9343
      @lxportugal9343 Год назад +29

      Don't worry we understand Scottish... they are probably at home by now

    • @swissboleh2746
      @swissboleh2746 Год назад +1

      😂😂😂

  • @hugom5391
    @hugom5391 Год назад +1927

    As a foreign student in London I got depressed when almost a year trying to learn English I just couldn’t understand a word when I met an elderly Scottish man, I remember the feeling of failure, awful, but now watching these two British girls struggling to understand them I feel that it wasn’t really my fault 😂

    • @NazriB
      @NazriB Год назад +34

      Lies again? The old man was just mumbling not moving his mouth properly to pronounce his sentences

    • @gggmoney77
      @gggmoney77 Год назад +59

      American English would probably be easier to understand lol

    • @philcollinson328
      @philcollinson328 Год назад +13

      Scots or Scottish, scotch is a drink.

    • @ElPayasoMalo
      @ElPayasoMalo Год назад +9

      Scotland is like a third of the island of Britain.

    • @XXXTENTAClON227
      @XXXTENTAClON227 Год назад

      @@philcollinson328 Scotch-Irish is a thing though

  • @whukriede
    @whukriede Год назад +2788

    I thought it was especially intelligent to play the voices, which were poorly recorded anyways, at a really low volume, put some music over them and then finally talk a lot at the same time. This made the exercise extra entertaining for us viewers, lol.

    • @iamironclaw
      @iamironclaw Год назад +278

      I had the same reaction. I mean, I could maybe have understood more than I did, if I could just frickin' hear what they were saying, but yeah, shitty recording, stupid added music on top of it...

    • @frictyfranq321
      @frictyfranq321 Год назад +47

      At first I thought you were being sarcastic.

    • @psychosocialbadass7236
      @psychosocialbadass7236 Год назад +9

      I wouldn't understand even if was me..

    • @SansNeural
      @SansNeural Год назад +68

      I especially enjoy the echo - like they're sitting in front of a white paper partition in a parking garage. No, wait, a little more confined space than that. A WWII bomb shelter?

    • @SmaugySpeedruns
      @SmaugySpeedruns Год назад +11

      Same, i had to stop after skimming through 20sec over the first 2 parts where they play the video.

  • @jesusfernando978
    @jesusfernando978 Год назад +711

    I am really satisfied to see that native english speakers also couldn't understand the old rifle man 😅. Thank you Girls

    • @thomsboys77
      @thomsboys77 Год назад +62

      Because his heavy accent was intentionally exaggerated for comedic effect in the film

    • @jesusfernando978
      @jesusfernando978 Год назад +5

      @@thomsboys77 hmmm got it. Do you understand his accent?

    • @mookiestewart3776
      @mookiestewart3776 Год назад +5

      Native speakers have rules too lol English has an insane amount of accents to understand but we have limits lol

    • @ianmontgomery7534
      @ianmontgomery7534 Год назад +1

      or that it was a shotgun not a rifle! he got you twice LOL.

    • @dougsmith3499
      @dougsmith3499 Год назад +11

      From the movie, that is why there were 3 police officers, 1 to translate the farmer, the second to translate the first, and the 3rd who actually knew what he was doing

  • @nickgermanic8505
    @nickgermanic8505 Год назад +667

    I'm shocked that England, a tiny country that can be travelled in less than 15 hours from south to north, such tiny country can have so many different accents!

    • @Chris-uh7cw
      @Chris-uh7cw Год назад +97

      15 hours? Were you on a pushbike ? 😁

    • @magicmulder
      @magicmulder Год назад +1

      Sitch a toiney cuntray, innit?

    • @HYDROCARBON_XD
      @HYDROCARBON_XD Год назад +51

      Netherlands:💀💀💀💀

    • @Lauren88nl
      @Lauren88nl Год назад +48

      You'd be more shocked in the Netherlands then xD We even smaller and you can travel through in about 3 to 4 hours. Loads of accents.

    • @andreacantieri3364
      @andreacantieri3364 Год назад +46

      I'm Italian, hold my beer

  • @doaakhmer1119
    @doaakhmer1119 Год назад +223

    As an English learner, I fell great that I could understand those two British girls , also satisfied that even native speakers may not understand each other’s accents so it’s ok if I can’t 😂

    • @artemislogic5252
      @artemislogic5252 11 месяцев назад +2

      yeah exactly

    • @theseangle
      @theseangle 9 месяцев назад

      You can't help but fall greatly right

    • @Mattmerrison
      @Mattmerrison 9 месяцев назад +1

      I’m British and could only understand scouse. You’re doing great

    • @Jimmy_The_Kid
      @Jimmy_The_Kid 6 месяцев назад

      Feel*

    • @georgezee5173
      @georgezee5173 4 месяца назад +1

      I will always remembet when I had been to London for only a month (my first time in an English-speaking country), working as a bartender. This was a restaurant franchise, with 40+ venues. It was Christmas time, so they decided to bring people from head office (99% of them British, unlike the people who worked in the restaurants) to mingle with bartenders and waiters giving us a hand, as an "exchange experience". They put a 50 yo English lady that was very nice to me. At some point, a British man came to the counter asking for a cider. He was asking the English lady, and even though he had an accent (I think it was Cockney, but can't remember now), I could understand what he wanted due to context. She was totally cluelss, to the point she made the gentleaman ask like three times until I intervened and told her he wanted a cider LOL It was thanks to that incident that I started to feel more conformtable with English and understood that even between native speakers they don't understand each other some times, so I shouldn't feel stupid if I'm having a hard time with someone's accent.

  • @robertkukuczka6946
    @robertkukuczka6946 Год назад +278

    When I first went to London in 1992 after 6 years of having studied English, when I asked one man for the way I did not understand a word of the answer, and I was afraid to ask again. Next time I dared to speak English with Polish accent and English people tried their best to make themselvs undestandable. :) Nowday I do not play pretending I am an English man.

    • @billyjean7169
      @billyjean7169 Год назад +3

      Lollllll

    • @Carrylane
      @Carrylane Год назад +2

      Why exactly would you pretend? I have never

    • @shryggur
      @shryggur Год назад +7

      @@Carrylane Fear of embarrassing yourself, the one that too many L2 learners know too well. Especially those who think that the only indicator of your knowledge is your ability to speak like a native at least

    • @Carrylane
      @Carrylane Год назад +9

      @shryggur ok i also get embarrassed when i pronounce some words in English wrong, but that's how it is. I'm a bookworm i read so much stuff in English that i just translate the word but i don't hear the pronunciation.
      A wise one will correct u so that u will learn.
      That's how i see it 🤓

    • @bojo88
      @bojo88 Год назад +10

      Lmao I did exactly the same thing when I went to France! I rehearsed my sentence so many times and finally asked, in my best French accent, where I could buy a stamp. I was horrified when the response came back like two chapters of War and Peace and I didn't understand a single word! The shop assistant took once look at my face and said, "English?" and I nodded sheepishly. She was very nice though and did tell me that my accent had been so good that she thought I was French which I thought was a lovely compliment! 😄

  • @shangobunni5
    @shangobunni5 Год назад +92

    I was driving with a friend in the far north of Scotland in the early ‘90s. The narrow two-lane road we were on (which was the main road or highway) was closed ahead due to an accident and a police officer was telling the few cars that came along how to take a detour. He had an EXTREMELY thick accent with, I swear, a significant number of Gaelic words and phrases mixed in. The roads all wind around and are not marked very well with signs, so he was telling us to use landmarks (I think) to know where to turn. It was a complicated detour and this poor guy had to explain it to us 3 or 4 times with a lot of pointing and gestures. My friend and I were just staring at him, slack-jawed like, “Huuuhh?” the whole time. We finally thanked him and went on our way because we couldn’t ask him to explain it again. Still can’t believe we made it.

    • @gerald4013
      @gerald4013 Год назад +8

      If it were me I'd have asked him to speak Gaelic, because I understand Gaelic better than English with weird accents :-D But actually, Gaelic is now mainly used in the Hebrides, and in a few places in the Highlands.

  • @pepsimax8078
    @pepsimax8078 Год назад +98

    Just a comment:would be a bit easier to try and understand it myself, if there was no music when the videos play, and also that the audio of the videos were a bit louder 😅
    But really did love the video!

  • @spiderliliez
    @spiderliliez Год назад +148

    When I was a kid, I was exposed to a lot of Scouse accent, because I was a big "Sporty Spice" fan, haha! I love this video. UK accents are soooo fascinating to me. I can easily copy American accents, but dang... the various UK accents are just so much more fun to hear, and yet so difficult to copy. 😅

    • @myspeakingmind4065
      @myspeakingmind4065 Год назад +1

      indeed😂

    • @mulkanmulkan5620
      @mulkanmulkan5620 Год назад

      Standar american accent... can u copy american souther accent... 😆

    • @seandonohue6793
      @seandonohue6793 8 месяцев назад

      Sporty Spice was born on the border Liverpool but grew up in Cheshire, which is not Liverpool. Cheshire typically only has a small Scouse twang.

    • @notgadot
      @notgadot 3 месяца назад

      @@mulkanmulkan5620 southern usa is basically british descent

    • @mcrichton46
      @mcrichton46 Месяц назад

      Give the long and looow Loos-iana accent a go and see what you make of it

  • @janew6059
    @janew6059 9 месяцев назад +66

    Sorry but no one’s gonna talk about how Emily is in fact NOT speaking Oxford 😂

    • @HannahCooper94
      @HannahCooper94 4 месяца назад +30

      I thought I was going crazy 😅 There is a standardised English accent there, but she sounds Eastern European.

    • @user-eh3uy1se7l
      @user-eh3uy1se7l 3 месяца назад +9

      @@HannahCooper94 sounds and looks

    • @phoenixrose1192
      @phoenixrose1192 3 месяца назад +2

      @@user-eh3uy1se7l Not really, if I couldn’t hear her, I would have thought she was English! 😂

    • @tarirai
      @tarirai 3 месяца назад +6

      Sounds East European defo!

    • @metehankanmaz8805
      @metehankanmaz8805 3 месяца назад +2

      @@user-eh3uy1se7lNot really. There are tonnes of English people straight look like her.

  • @NarsFromMars
    @NarsFromMars Год назад +13

    Iran here. I did Translation Studies at uni. Over here people show clips from random parts of the UK/US, and if you miss 1 single word they'd go "so what the hell have you learnt at uni?!"

  • @henri_ol
    @henri_ol Год назад +135

    Emily didn't appear on the channel for a long time, I mean a really long time 😅, April 18, 2021 was her last appearance, a year and four months ago.🤔 , World Friends didn't even have 150k subscribers 😂

  • @henri_ol
    @henri_ol Год назад +161

    I can see that both girls may be from UK 🇬🇧, but their accents are different , Lauren did a video with accents before with Callie 🇺🇸 and the hardest was the Cockney accent , i'm used to hear more accent from US 🇺🇸 because of TV shows and movies , but I absolutely love the UK accents

    • @deutschmitpurple2918
      @deutschmitpurple2918 Год назад +2

      I totally agree with you 🥰🥰

    • @fernandolora1905
      @fernandolora1905 Год назад +1

      Man youre everywhere 😅

    • @dutchgamer842
      @dutchgamer842 Год назад +3

      In every country there are several accents

    • @startersheep821
      @startersheep821 Год назад +7

      @@dutchgamer842 Exacly, like for example China has many different accents, like Beijing accent etc, but I think all accents are awesome :D

    • @NicholasJH96
      @NicholasJH96 Год назад +4

      @@startersheep821 China is a much bigger country than the UK & people are usually surprised how many accents there are in the uk in such a small space South Korea is actually bigger than Wales & I said so you can see how small one part of the uk is.

  • @asaris_
    @asaris_ Год назад +34

    Aw man, now I have to remember that dude from Edinburgh I used to play MMOs with. He loved to talk to me but I couldn't stop giggling about his accent...
    That's so hard to understand for me (btw, I'm not a native speaker. I'm German. I've only been exposed to Oxford English at school).
    And it got worse when he was drunk. He then subconsciously switched to Scots. That sounded even more hilarious but I understood even less. You don't want to know how long it took me to figure out what was going on.
    (I know that's a bit off topic now, but once I asked him about his clan. It resulted in a three hour lecture ranging from the history, over associated clans and families, motto to tartans and famous members of his clan. He finished it with "And now that you know everything about my clan, what about yours?" Me: "You do remember I'm German, right?" He: "Yes, of course! And I know absolutely nothing about German clans, so I'm super excited to find out more." Me: "Uh... Sure... Here's everything you need to know about German clans: We don't have clans." He was genuinely shocked. It never occurred to him that clans don't exist everywhere... 🤣)

    • @hmu05366
      @hmu05366 Год назад +2

      I’m sure he was probably being sarky mate, you’re German afterall therefore have a humour bypass. Patter is lost on ye

    • @artemislogic5252
      @artemislogic5252 11 месяцев назад

      @@hmu05366 lmao

  • @Sasfoot
    @Sasfoot 4 месяца назад +17

    I'm American but have watched alot of British programming over the years and can definitely tell that the girl in the light brown shirt does have a more northern accent. Some of her inflections and pronunciations are very similar to Christopher Eccleston. His northern accent was even mentioned during his one season on Doctor Who.

    • @VanDiemensLander
      @VanDiemensLander 3 месяца назад +1

      Haha make sense because Christopher Eccleston is from Lancashire, one of the accents she said that she has a mix of.

    • @Ned-Ryerson
      @Ned-Ryerson Месяц назад

      When she said "Lancashire" at the start, she had the typical north-western English nasal sound, it was quite amusing. It is a bit like trying to catch Tricia Helfer's Canadian underneath her Hollywood roles' standard North American.

  • @purplestringsmariamichelac3391
    @purplestringsmariamichelac3391 Год назад +38

    Gosh, thanks for this. It's such a relief to learn that you also might not understand each other at times 😁

    • @inoox
      @inoox Год назад +3

      Not really, we do. Most of these clips are from tv shows with exaggerated accents where youre not supposed to understand or the audio was too quiet.

    • @purplestringsmariamichelac3391
      @purplestringsmariamichelac3391 Год назад +3

      @@inoox 🤣🤣 right, I'm back to earth from planet Relief

  • @WhatDayIsItTrumpDay
    @WhatDayIsItTrumpDay Год назад +73

    Yes, you two made a great point about the huge variety of accents in the UK in that every village has their own accent. And you know why? Because of a lack of mass communication on at least a national level. And you'll notice accents are more differentiated or maybe spread across the older generations. It's because if you don't have access to nationally broadcast accents from like TV or radio back in the day, you're gonna get extremely localized accents.
    Same thing goes in the US as well, however because the US is the entertainment capital of the world, going back almost 100 years now, people have gotten accustomed to nationwide standardized accents or dialects. But again, the more localized accents are still more prevalent amongst the older generations. But for those who grew up with Cable/Satellite TV and the Internet are quickly losing their local accents because there's what we call American Broadcast Standard accent that every nationally syndicated program uses whether it comes from L.A., Chicago, Atlanta, or New York. I included Atlanta because it's becoming Hollywood East. A lot of TV and movies are now shot in Georgia. But anyway yeah, I would say Gen X'ers and younger Gens will all roughly speak the same accent within the next 10 years all across the country. If not sooner.
    And you'll probably see that in the UK as well. The Internet is probably your greatest equalizer when it comes to exposure to a standardized Queens English accent. Because as you saw, all those samples of hard to understand British accents were from Boomers.

    • @nickgermanic8505
      @nickgermanic8505 Год назад

      Brilliant Mr Molinarolo.

    • @poppinc8145
      @poppinc8145 7 месяцев назад +2

      Spot on. It goes even further. The Bible or any other similar book in a single language and dialect was used to standardize a language in a given area because everyone was reading the same book using the same spelling and grammar. Later national radio and TV played that role. Most importantly it's public schooling that standardizes language and lingua-franca. Look at Italy which has dozens of languages (so-called dialects) but across the 20th century they've slowly become accustomed to knowing "Italian" as L1 or L2. Most Italian emigrants to the Americas didn't speak "Italian" but only their regional languages.

    • @WhatDayIsItTrumpDay
      @WhatDayIsItTrumpDay 7 месяцев назад

      @poppinc8145 yeah, good point about books, like the Bible, in helping at standardizing language. Never thought of that, but yeah, excellent point, but written text doesn't help with pronunciation. At least not 100%. Hell, with the Ukraine War, with trying to learn Slavic language pronunciation rules, it's insane on hiwn many people who report on the war can't seem to agree on how to pronounce these Ukrainian town names.

    • @poppinc8145
      @poppinc8145 7 месяцев назад

      @@WhatDayIsItTrumpDay That's why I specifically left out pronunciation but mentioned grammar.
      As for Ukrainian, not that I'm an expert but I'm pretty sure the difference you're talking about is the difference in Russian vs Ukrainian pronunciation rather than differences within Ukrainian. Russian doesn't have an H-sounding letter. It's substituted with the hard G-sounding Russian letter which is *Г* (or the Kh-sounding letter which is *X* in some cases) whereas Ukrainian pronounces *Г* as an H while having a completely separate letter for a hard G which is *Ґ* (e.g. Good/Gang). It's actually pretty straight forward.
      Long story short: Russia uses G and Ukrainian uses H in most of these names.

  • @prashantmishra1994
    @prashantmishra1994 5 месяцев назад +2

    His Emily and Lauren! A beautiful lesson because you both explained the beauty of the UK in respect of different acents.
    Thanks & regards.

  • @Vacheron7
    @Vacheron7 Год назад +25

    Fun Fact. The actor who plays the Geordie porter Michael in Alan Partridge (Simon Greenall) is actually from the Scottish Borders, but as a Geordie myself, it's one of the best Geordie impersonations I've ever heard.
    The part where he sits on his steak and kiney pie at Alans party still cracks me up to this day!

    • @Blaydon-Mag
      @Blaydon-Mag Год назад

      Really? I'm a Geordie nd can hardly understand him, it's more scottish than Geordie, saying "aboot" and a few other geordie words doesn't make it good 🤣 one if the worst I've seen personally.

    • @philcollinson328
      @philcollinson328 Год назад +2

      I'm from Durham and agree his accent was perfect Jarrow speak :D

    • @thegrinderman1090
      @thegrinderman1090 4 месяца назад

      He also voices Aleksandr Orlov, the meercat from the Compare The Market adverts!

  • @oxyjen11
    @oxyjen11 Год назад +10

    Honorable mention: South Wales Valleys accent. I spent some time in Wales years ago (as a foreign student) and noticed that one even left many native speakers absolutely confused by the end of a "conversation".

  • @88marome
    @88marome Год назад +14

    Imagine an accident or something equally serious that you have to convey but everyone is just laughing at your cute, funny accent😭🤣

  • @ShinmenTakezo1234
    @ShinmenTakezo1234 Год назад +2

    This is very refreshing somehow, seeing two women focusing on a conversation in English and then one says Ok, I'm getting it. So much refreshing~~

  • @rizaldiaulia7496
    @rizaldiaulia7496 Год назад +12

    the scouse accent to my Southeast Asian ears sounds like the softer version of Scottish accent, suddenly reminding me of my Scottish english teacher back then.

  • @guillermogonzalezlavin4613
    @guillermogonzalezlavin4613 Год назад +56

    I'm from Spain, I love your beautiful language, and makes me feel better that when for you it's hard to understand many accents, I thought it was only me for not having lived abroad! Thank you thank you

    • @holliswilliams8426
      @holliswilliams8426 Год назад +3

      If it's any consolation I studied Spanish and found it difficult to understand a lot of South American accents.

    • @DavidAlvarez-he6sd
      @DavidAlvarez-he6sd Год назад +6

      @@holliswilliams8426 But even so South Americans accents are more understandable than these english ones.

    • @thomsboys77
      @thomsboys77 Год назад

      @@DavidAlvarez-he6sd No

    • @everyojaniromerosifuentes5612
      @everyojaniromerosifuentes5612 Год назад +1

      @@thomsboys77 SI

    • @oscaralegre3683
      @oscaralegre3683 Год назад

      @@DavidAlvarez-he6sd latin american spanish is better than spaniard spanish. 100% proven

  • @valerijavolosciuk3181
    @valerijavolosciuk3181 9 месяцев назад +7

    After five years of living in the UK I'm still often have a situations, when people talk to me and I'm like "could you say it again...pleeease?" It's actually a relief even locals sometimes struggling to understand each other🙈 Makes me believe I'm not so bad in mastering English😅

  • @albertoaguayo4607
    @albertoaguayo4607 Год назад +10

    Still remember my b2 speaking exam. Was funny because I was with my partner in the hall waiting for our examinators to call us and, meanwhile, they were talking to each other and we couldn't understand any word they said. This completely changed the moment we arrived, though. That came across to me as such a different language.

  • @MightyFineMan
    @MightyFineMan 10 месяцев назад +5

    Saying “announce” is wrong for this. Announce is when you give a speech or message to a group, usually from a podium, a PA system, or other ways to give a message to a large group.
    “To Enunciate” is the proper term for this context.

  • @guillermone1
    @guillermone1 Год назад +15

    It's amazing to see that for such a small country the great variety of accents. The US is so much bigger, but the regional variations are not many, and most of the accents are pretty much understandable.

    • @briansmith48
      @briansmith48 Год назад +3

      I think that's because of modern technology. Before the radio, television and movies.
      I'm sure that each region had it's own dialect.
      🇺🇲

    • @LionXV1
      @LionXV1 Год назад +2

      @@briansmith48 you're right about that but they wouldn't have been as unqiue or varied as in the UK mainly because people haven't been settled for anywhere near as long. In the UK you can get a unique accents every 30-50 miles, but this is also diminishing as a result of technology. Appalachia is a good example of a settled American accent as they've been isolated up in the mountains for centuries. Louisiana likewise with the French being isolated in the swamplands. Minnesota had a unique accent too as a result of the large Scandinavian immigration.

    • @poppinc8145
      @poppinc8145 7 месяцев назад

      @@LionXV1 The UK's longer history is largely irrelevant because prior to Modern English, it was a completely different language called Middle English and before it Old English. They're not mutually intelligible anyways. These regional accents didn't independently develop from Old and Middle. They're all based on a quasi-standardized Modern English (itself evolved from Middle) that further diverted into regional variations of ME. The first reply is largely spot on.

    • @LionXV1
      @LionXV1 7 месяцев назад +2

      @@poppinc8145 It's not just about the longer history it's about the settling of peoples, Britain's longer history means people have been settled in regions for significantly longer than in America where people moved and resettled regularly thus preventing enough time for the creation of as many unique regional accents.

  • @cinthialemos7578
    @cinthialemos7578 8 месяцев назад +2

    I went to scotland this year and took a taxi with a very caring driver in glascow. He was explaning to me that he was trying to improve his accent to be more understandable to non english speakers - as me - and in the final I understood just this piece of information 😂 but I really appreciate his effort to talk to me, tho

  • @AlessioQ
    @AlessioQ Год назад +3

    I really like the scouse accent and also the girl from the smallest village outside of liverpool😍 she is soooo cute and sooo genuine

  • @pandamanda5606
    @pandamanda5606 Год назад +60

    Emily doesn't sound totally RP. She definitely has a twang to her accent that isn't from the UK. Her accent sounds to me like she grew up around ESOL speakers, or English speakers from outside Britain.

    • @craigsb92
      @craigsb92 Год назад +27

      Yeh she doesn’t sound like she’s from the UK at all to me

    • @Sirusholuvyou
      @Sirusholuvyou Год назад +3

      Agree!

    • @mimi.94x
      @mimi.94x Год назад +8

      I don't know why she said she had a RP accent because you can tell she isn't from the UK...I'm confused 😩

    • @amyw6808
      @amyw6808 Год назад +2

      Totally agree. There’s definitely something else there. Maybe she lived in another country for a while?

    • @tkegs6492
      @tkegs6492 Год назад +15

      I 10000% agree! I’m from the UK. Up north. She sounds so Eastern European to me lmao

  • @tzmcneill
    @tzmcneill Год назад +28

    You need to do one with American, Canadian, and Australian accents. I wonder what you’d find most difficult, an accent from rural Maine, or Nova Scotia, maybe the mountains of West Virginia or Tennessee. Actually, you’d probably become utterly confused with a Cajun accent from Louisiana.

    • @shangobunni5
      @shangobunni5 Год назад +5

      Yeah, Cajun would be great.

    • @ianmontgomery7534
      @ianmontgomery7534 Год назад +5

      with Australia you would have more of a problem with slang and idioms rather than straight out accents (some a very broad though)

    • @BumblebeeTuna8
      @BumblebeeTuna8 Год назад +2

      As an American dealing with Aussies from time to time, I had no trouble understanding them or Canadians. Scottish and Irish Accents were the hardest to understand for me. Cajun Accent is just a French North American Country Person trying to speak English.

    • @allewis4008
      @allewis4008 7 месяцев назад

      ​@@ianmontgomery7534Same with East Coast Canada, a lot of slang with an Irish lilt.

  • @rlaw8658
    @rlaw8658 7 месяцев назад +3

    I really enjoy listening to English accents, especially yorkshire. it's fascinating yet a bit funny.
    I live in Ph. From where I'm from, the accent differs from the district. when you get to another region, the language changes 😂. Hell, even in my hometown, the outskirts has their own language (native language) where I only understand one word. 😂😂

  • @mickybricks1113
    @mickybricks1113 Год назад +3

    6:12 its a scene from a film called hot Fuzz. The point is that you're not supposed to understand what the guy in the hat is saying and the guys in the left and right of the other angle are translating what's being said

  • @RexFuturi
    @RexFuturi Год назад +8

    I'll be honest, as a Midwestern American, for most of these I just blinked and gave up.

  • @78nailbomb
    @78nailbomb Год назад +29

    I had 2 Englishmen from a sister plant visiting my workplace about 15 years back. I don't know which part of UK they were from but they had very thick accent. 1st they asked my buddy and me if we spoke English. We said yes, but what came next was like ducks speaking to chickens. We managed to get through the convo but at the end I had to ask my buddy if they were even speaking English.🤣🤣🤣
    Edit: We are Southeast Asians.

    • @richardreinertson1335
      @richardreinertson1335 Год назад +2

      Indians speak English also, but with a very thick accent compared to standard UK and American pronunciation. And for Indians, their version of English is "standard." All Indians speak with that accent. That is THEIR version of English. So for Southeast Asians...yeah, probably similar, I would guess. So I am guessing that is why you had difficulty understanding the two Englishmen from the UK. They were probably speaking in a fairly standard UK accent, but the Southeast Asian version of English is different. Just my guess...I could be wrong. I have spoken to a LOT of Indians in English, and I usually find it difficult to understand their accents. However I'm better at understanding them than a lot of other Americans I know.

  • @btsr2553
    @btsr2553 7 месяцев назад

    Thank you 🙏 for this video. It's so funny that your common English language separates you at the same moment. I’m a Bavarian and in my mid 50's, so not native English speaking. However, I grew up across the street from American soldiers. Have been professionally active in various international companies for over 30 years, now. I think, sorry thought I have heard quite a bit. But honestly, with most here I would have been lost there as a non-native English speaker.
    Please more of this and please always resolve what was really spoken. Servus from Bavaria

  • @seeker1432
    @seeker1432 7 месяцев назад +1

    The part scouse , Lancashire northern is also me. As i live outside of liverpool within a villsge. So i slip accents also.

  • @silverhawk911
    @silverhawk911 Год назад +24

    I find that the pure Northen accent can be alittle bit difficult to understand (especially people from Liverpool or the Scottish accent) at first. However, being a supporter of Liverpool FC, I kind of gotten used to hearing it. Former Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher speaks English with a very strong scouse accent.

    • @GermanTaffer
      @GermanTaffer Год назад +1

      I agree . I got desperate in Liverpool.

  • @ahorrell
    @ahorrell Год назад +3

    I'm glad they got to hear the voices, cos I sure couldn't.

  • @Marvelous1616
    @Marvelous1616 Год назад +3

    I worked before with 118118, and one of the hardest accent as far as I could remember is from Glasgow. The towns with the most difficult spellings are from Wales.

  • @osys7832
    @osys7832 8 месяцев назад

    This video is a huge relief for me, thx to you, I'm not afraid of the UK anymore. Event British people doesn't understand accents LOL

  • @fasteddie406
    @fasteddie406 Год назад +10

    Question to Lauren, have you soften your accent since you moved abroad?? if so when you return home do you notice the difference to family and friends and do you pick up you accent after a few days back home??

  • @DieBlutigeLynn
    @DieBlutigeLynn Год назад +4

    I love Lauren in this video, I find her really pleasant and fun to listen to! :) I would be happy to see more videos with her and Emily.

  • @angelgoyim
    @angelgoyim 3 месяца назад +1

    I'm an American but I grew up listening to shows of people from the British Isles as well as watching some old BBC shows. I love Scouce as well as the Essex accent. Funny enough, I encountered a gentleman from Glasgow and I was able to understand most of what he said. I basically slowed down my brain and concentrated enough to the point where I was able to get quite conversational with him.

  • @seeker1432
    @seeker1432 13 дней назад

    Im from a simular place outside Liverpool and also a mixed accent. Its amusing to hear her explain my accent basically.

  • @shadevp8924
    @shadevp8924 Год назад +9

    With English as my foreign language, I was once in UK and managed to understand everything without sufficient difficulties. Both in London (we spend dozens of hours walking and enjoying the views and sightseeing) and in Cardiff (there I was even able to impress my colleagues by being able to read the signs in Welsh since I had some knowledge of the lingo due to my specializing in Arthurian literature). Can't boast that I managed to grasp 100% of what's been said at all times but still, generally I had no issues with communication. Till I meat a guy on a buss from Wales back to London. I just wasn't able to understand a thing he was saying... And it wasn't in some comical manner that old actor in the movie scene was slurring. The guy just had such heavy accent and was talking fast that I was completely baffled.

    • @notgadot
      @notgadot 3 месяца назад

      *specialiSing

  • @igory3789
    @igory3789 Год назад +4

    The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain 😊. I wonder how it will sound in Glasgovian 😂.

  • @user-zz3ie8uu3o
    @user-zz3ie8uu3o 7 месяцев назад +4

    did the ginger come to the uk from another country or live abroad? Her accent doesn’t sound like a regular Oxford one. 2:59 3:05 2:48 sometimes she slips up when she pronounces things. It sounds like her mother tongue could be Arabic or French Eastern European?

    • @-shayldn
      @-shayldn 6 месяцев назад +1

      thats what i thought

  • @travellolo
    @travellolo Год назад +43

    It always amazes me that such a small country can produce so many accents. Your whole country fits in California.

    • @keyos1955
      @keyos1955 Год назад +2

      Like 10 accent, lol? You have never been in Europe, I suppose

    • @emaan05
      @emaan05 Год назад +5

      More than 10, one city can have so many different accents.

    • @Rawan-sl1ms
      @Rawan-sl1ms Год назад +7

      if youre american it only seems like a lot bc your country is too young to form more than a few

    • @stephenhaw9177
      @stephenhaw9177 Год назад +4

      @@keyos1955 10 accents? What? From where I live I can drive 5 miles in different directions alone and get 4 stark opposite accents, so not sure how you’ve managed to generalise the entire country to 10 😕

    • @nba2kaii12
      @nba2kaii12 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@keyos1955 10 accents😂😂 try 100 times that mate

  • @lemagreengreen
    @lemagreengreen Год назад +3

    Their own accents are wild, like posh Southern-English/American hybrids.

  • @PaddingtonSoul
    @PaddingtonSoul Год назад +65

    Wow. British accents can be very complicated. I think American accents don't get that hard.

    • @deutschmitpurple2918
      @deutschmitpurple2918 Год назад +6

      True, my friend.

    • @grzegorzg447
      @grzegorzg447 Год назад +5

      they do

    • @anndeecosita3586
      @anndeecosita3586 Год назад +6

      I’m American and I struggle understanding some American accents. One that comes to mind is Cajun. A lot of times I have no idea what they’re saying or can’t discern if it’s English they’re speaking. Most of my younger Cajun friends are the type to switch up for outsiders. There is a movie called Water Boy where the joke is no one can understand anything the Cajun guy says. Also in some deep South rural areas of like the Appalachian Mountains or the Low Country I can’t understand especially most older people because they tend not to enunciate. You kind of have to try to get the gist of what they’re saying.

    • @tonycrayford3893
      @tonycrayford3893 Год назад +1

      @@anndeecosita3586 I thought Cajun was its own dialect.

    • @Sadedits1888
      @Sadedits1888 Год назад +1

      There is only one accent in the whole USA

  • @01ivi3r
    @01ivi3r Год назад +24

    Your normal accents may well be London/Oxford & Scouse/Lancashire but they've become international (almost Americanised) British English.

    • @MrsLizziee
      @MrsLizziee Год назад +5

      British english? You mean english accents? Because "british" is not just England.

    • @liamsohal-griffiths1094
      @liamsohal-griffiths1094 Год назад +5

      In some places their accents were noticably Americanised. This made me wonder whether they even realise this themselves. I'd imagine it's because they're both RUclipsrs and probably consume lots of social media on a daily basis.

    • @01ivi3r
      @01ivi3r Год назад +1

      @@liamsohal-griffiths1094 I think it's more down to how much they absorb from their peers. They seem an international group based in Korea, so there are probably some Americans among them. Also regional British accents can be difficult for non-native English speakers to follow sometimes, so Brits living abroad after a while tend to neutralise to be easily understood.

    • @01ivi3r
      @01ivi3r Год назад +2

      @@MrsLizziee I'm well aware that within the UK there are different accents, but I specifically said an "internationalised British English".

    • @samdaniels2
      @samdaniels2 Год назад

      @@01ivi3r Yeah just to be clear; Britain is not the UK, the UK is Britain plus N.Ireland

  • @Anna-yw8yg
    @Anna-yw8yg 3 месяца назад +3

    The girl on the left probably lives in the UK but I think she's not English or British. Her accent is definitely not standard Oxford/ English accent. Nothing wrong with that but just stating a fact. She could be bilingual too and switches between two accents. It's pretty common for immigrant kids. That's what I do 🙂

  • @noza26
    @noza26 Год назад +119

    I, as a person who studies English, calmed down when I saw that even native speakers do not understand the accents of other native speakers 😅😅

    • @mlpricebr6301
      @mlpricebr6301 Год назад +2

      Me too hahaha

    • @liukin95
      @liukin95 Год назад +5

      Yeah as a native speaker even we have a hard time understanding sometimes! So don't stress haha

  • @crimemastergogo7878
    @crimemastergogo7878 Год назад +3

    There are many place in this world where the people speak the same language but has different accent region wise. So sometimes the people from the other side of the region might get confused of the same language that is spoken by the other person.

  • @---is8zn
    @---is8zn 8 месяцев назад

    in many cases its not just accents, many of these episodes its dialects. Accent - its about how different people pronounce same words.. Dialect its local modifications of languages, there are different words, local slang... the more dialects we understand - the richer we are, dialects of languages its our wealth..

  • @jameswoodard4304
    @jameswoodard4304 Год назад +4

    As an American, I can say posh girl has more than a bit of generic American creeping in.

  • @lolatana
    @lolatana 11 месяцев назад +3

    I'm a French person living in a black country for 13 years. Can you imagine the state of my accent? Lol, I swear, now everyone I speak to thinks I am from a Slavic country. Even when I go to France, they ask me where I am from.

  • @tab5e53
    @tab5e53 Год назад +7

    GLASWEGIAN OLD GUY
    "well its very hard to bring out me mind.
    this is the thing.
    it's alryt, alright, he's ours. there's no point.
    ian hart, he is ours.
    you understand?"
    i think he's talking about Scottish football. Most likely glasgow football club rangers director ian hart, or less likely the football club hearts. Rangers are 1 of two top teams in Scotland that everyone supports. other being celtic.
    he's abbreviating the sentence and cutting it short, by using context of the topic to make her fill in the blanks. so without knowing the topic it's harder to understand what he said.

  • @saintcrispan5068
    @saintcrispan5068 5 дней назад

    "Small town outside Liverpool"... is it Wirrel, pehaps? Visited there in '99. Lovely place.

  • @darthvader3910
    @darthvader3910 Год назад +6

    the red haired woman on the LEFT really sounds like she's putting on an rp accent. like she's faking it. LOL

    • @thefirepenguins74
      @thefirepenguins74 Год назад

      I even thought she sounds a little bit american, it was just too easy to understand.

    • @darthvader3910
      @darthvader3910 10 месяцев назад +2

      @@thefirepenguins74 no it sounds like English is quite literally her second language.

  • @newsreal4994
    @newsreal4994 Год назад +2

    The "language" at 4:44 minutes in is amazing, lol.

  • @scifyry
    @scifyry Год назад +7

    When I served in the Marines ( U.S.), I trained with British Marines once but couldn't understand most of what they said. I've spoken to other British people since then with no issues other than names for items, places, etc. The Marines I trained with were from Newcastle. Is that area known for its strong dialect?

    • @Bella-fz9fy
      @Bella-fz9fy Год назад +5

      Yes,Geordie.

    • @darrenjones1413
      @darrenjones1413 Год назад +1

      Ye geordies basically Newcastle is northern England close to the Scottish border. More of a working class area famous geordie online is true geordie podcast type thing he has interviews with top boxers celebs on ytube

  • @davidfromamerica1871
    @davidfromamerica1871 Год назад +3

    These types of accent dialects are typically developed by the uneducated and undereducated groups living in communities often isolated from the general population for a hundred years or more.
    This is how different languages and dialects where first formed hundreds of thousands of years ago with the development of the very first language structures through long term isolation. Example: India has over 700 different dialects spoken.
    There are languages that are extinct today. This is typically from the conquering of cultures and civilizations unification into one culture and language spoken.

  • @charankol
    @charankol 8 дней назад

    i have never bored this much before waiting to hear an accent i could hardly understand

  • @evaandava2439
    @evaandava2439 Год назад +1

    I got them All apart from the one with the West Country one they’re pretty easy for me to understand bc I’m very used to hearing strong accents 😂

  • @revolution3638
    @revolution3638 Год назад +31

    Emily has so much personality... she's perfect...the most beautiful girl on world friends I've ever seen❤️

    • @Stupha_Kinpendous
      @Stupha_Kinpendous Год назад +2

      Amen. Total smoke-show.

    • @CorvusCorone68
      @CorvusCorone68 Год назад +1

      sometimes the term personality is used as a euphemism

    • @mohicantheluststar2550
      @mohicantheluststar2550 Год назад

      U should be going out of ur moms basement so often my friend

    • @revolution3638
      @revolution3638 Год назад

      @@mohicantheluststar2550 lolololololo u should join IQ classes often my friend

  • @stefanicooper7644
    @stefanicooper7644 4 месяца назад +5

    The Oxford woman has quite a strange accent, slightly American? In any case, it’s ‘enunciate’ not ‘announce’!

  • @Sabbathissaturday
    @Sabbathissaturday 12 дней назад

    I’m a 6 generation native Texan and I absolutely adore the northern England and Scottish accents. I could chat all day to a Geordie or Glaswegian! Every time I visited nobody would guess I was a Texan. I even got Canadian a couple of times. 🤣

  • @tbishop4961
    @tbishop4961 Год назад +1

    Very clever top. I almost didn't notice the bandage😳🤣

  • @felipebelmiro7200
    @felipebelmiro7200 5 месяцев назад +4

    This is such a relief. Even in my main language Portuguese I find myself struggling with the accents of my in laws. Specially when they are talking to one another. It feels like a totally different language. Glad to see I’m not that bad at languages it’s just a matter of how strong an accent is. Not matter ur knowledge in a language , the stronger accents are gonna be hard to get. And that’s ok. Keep calm! 😂

  • @mattleistner313
    @mattleistner313 Год назад +4

    Me when I was on my holidays in Scotland - as a German!🤣

    • @italixgaming915
      @italixgaming915 Год назад

      Holy Moly, did you make it back to the airport? 😱

  • @yul498
    @yul498 Год назад +1

    A few years ago, on the exhibition in Milan, guy from Bangladesh transfer for us English from Kentucky. Staff from New York, London, Australia, Moscow, Berlin, Miami, Belgium, Italy - understood nothing in English from Kentucky;))

  • @tanjimahmed1637
    @tanjimahmed1637 7 месяцев назад +2

    I used to teach IELTS in my native country.I've been residing in Doncaster for three months.I feel so embarrassed since, aside from a few words, I have no idea what they are saying.I feel relaxed now after watching this video because, if British people from other parts of the country cannot understand different English accents, I am nothing. 😂

  • @Noa_h19
    @Noa_h19 Год назад +17

    Lauren is from Liverpool , good , as a football fan I know about this city 'cause of the team , one of the greatest in UK and Europe , i know that The Beatles were from Liverpool , but i like more the team

    • @heidi_bavarian1725
      @heidi_bavarian1725 Год назад

      England has the best football is why is they have best singing to

    • @Neo-Reloaded
      @Neo-Reloaded Год назад +2

      One of the greatest in history. It seems you haven't been reading the news of the premier league.

    • @dutchgamer842
      @dutchgamer842 Год назад

      UK and Europe? The UK is in Europe

    • @Noa_h19
      @Noa_h19 Год назад +2

      @@dutchgamer842 Europe as a whole , many football teams in Europe and Liverpool is big in UK and in Europe , it's not like Zenit from Russia , it's just big in Russia and nothing more 😑

    • @dutchgamer842
      @dutchgamer842 Год назад

      @@Noa_h19 It is not in UK&Europe. Since the UK is in Europe, the UK is part of the European continent. Russia doesn't have to do anything with this at all, yes it's also in Europe and it's part of Asia as well, it just doesn't have to do anything with it at all.

  • @mimosomim
    @mimosomim Год назад +3

    The scout accent is soo fun. Lol.

  • @beautifulmind08
    @beautifulmind08 Год назад

    I love you Lauren, what a beautiful personality

  • @jonathanaldecoa1099
    @jonathanaldecoa1099 11 месяцев назад

    Awesome video. I’m from Southern California and understood everyone in the presented videos. I’m an accents geek however. I have a friend from Scotland who’s been here over 20 years and still has a strong Scottish accent, especially when he has some single malt scotch in his belly. That’s when he starts speaking Scottish. He tells me, Ah Jonny “haud yer wheesht!”. 🤪😂😎

  • @clips9294
    @clips9294 Год назад +10

    You did a horrible job with volume there

  • @vertigo35000
    @vertigo35000 Год назад +15

    I love Lauren : humble, very warm and so funny. Emily is elegant and her accent sounds very classy to my French ear.

  • @JapaneseAccentChannel
    @JapaneseAccentChannel Месяц назад

    Ohhhhh. From Accent lover, this is beautiful!

  • @rosemarionnaud2027
    @rosemarionnaud2027 7 месяцев назад +1

    I'm glad to see English people struggling to understand other English people, makes me feel better for all the times I don't understand English people 😂 Just at lunch, I was with people and it was the same as the red-headed girl on the elderly's house, like I smiled and nodded but didn't know what was going on 😂😂😂

  • @EnglishWithStuartIngles
    @EnglishWithStuartIngles Год назад +12

    You don't have a Liverpool accent or Lancashire accent but the closest accent you have, if it needs to be classified (it doesn't) is a North Cheshire accent, similar to Warrington, Northwich, Altrincham, Stockport (although there are variations within these).

  • @annabergman1166
    @annabergman1166 Год назад +5

    Some parts of Sweden have diverged so much from swedish that they're basically talking a different language. I assume that's a common occurrence around the world. But it's funny when two people with the same mother language don't understand each other and they argue about who's talking incomprehensibly

    • @magicmulder
      @magicmulder Год назад

      Low German is also mostly incomprehensible to people from other parts of the country. It’s closer to Dutch.

    • @voidseeker4394
      @voidseeker4394 Год назад +2

      I think it's not the divergence, it's actually the opposite: the local accents come from the old times, when most people stayed at their villages and towns and rarely traveled anywhere. So local dialects evolved in parallel instead of merging and spreading to the whole nation. This is why US accents are not that different, as USA is a young country and nation and settlers were mixed up more evenly, so dialects of settlers were able merge more evenly.

  • @TetsuyaMcCuddin
    @TetsuyaMcCuddin Год назад

    1:56 - THE DOG!! (Look at it, it's adorable.)

  • @OptikSinoptik
    @OptikSinoptik 2 месяца назад

    I love you guys to react more videos coz some of abroad can’t understanding English

  • @davesalmon2492
    @davesalmon2492 Год назад +9

    Gornal Black country had its own way of speaking, this plus the accent made the old guys very difficult to understand in the 70s if they thought you were being annoying you would get “quit the the tricks you play on we” sadly this has died out with more movement around the area. But within 20 miles I still find four distinct accents wolverhampton, Dudley Stoke, and Derby the uk is still slightly weird.

    • @grapegripe
      @grapegripe Год назад +2

      I’m Gornal born and bred! Very strange to see it pop up on RUclips…!

  • @danutorr
    @danutorr Год назад +17

    The sound editing here is pretty bad. Can barely hear the videos they're reacting to and i think the little we can hear is coming from their mics. You guys should probably re-edit and re-upload

    • @CrisOnTheInternet
      @CrisOnTheInternet Год назад +1

      yeah, defeats the purpose of the video if the audience don't get the whole content.

    • @fordhouse8b
      @fordhouse8b Год назад +1

      Yes, the accents they are listening too should be louder to us, the audience, then the voices of the reactors.

    • @ELeviathan33
      @ELeviathan33 Месяц назад

      I had to scroll so far to see this kind of comment, it's crazy, I can't understand almost ANYTHING just because...the sound is awful.
      All of the audio has echo on it, even the clips that were added on, and then they place music OVER it all....YUCK

  • @helderaraujo7593
    @helderaraujo7593 10 месяцев назад +1

    I came defeated from London. I thought I knew English but I came back home so frustrated. Thanks God now I know it’s a region issue 😂😂😂

  • @carlisroy6666
    @carlisroy6666 2 месяца назад

    Also worth noting that Steve Coogan who plays Alan Partridge in the clip of "Michael" the Geordie, is Mancunian.

  • @ish4638
    @ish4638 Год назад +7

    A lot of Scottish people do speak a different language: it's called Scots, and it's officially separate from English.

    • @gerald4013
      @gerald4013 Год назад

      + 57,000 speak Gaelic, mainly in the Hebrides. Mur a bheil ach Beurla agad, cha tuigeadh tu facal sam bith.

    • @rachelcookie321
      @rachelcookie321 Год назад

      The vast majority of Scottish people can only speak English though. Most Scottish people don’t know Scots.

  • @cr9153
    @cr9153 Год назад +7

    The people with the accents in Hot Fuzz are supposed to be impossible to understand that's the joke.

  • @user-kr5hh1ev1n
    @user-kr5hh1ev1n 6 месяцев назад

    This gives me flashbacks to 2019 when I taught an 11 year old kid at Lostock High School. I was an Australian teaching overseas until COVID. He had the West Country accent and literally sounded like a 50 year old man.
    Being unable to understand him, I picked a kid to translate.
    Unfortunately, he was from LIVAPUL.
    Needed a translator for the translator.

  • @lilzieeeeee
    @lilzieeeeee Год назад +1

    Glad that i am a mixer -> Little Mix fan (a girlband in UK) and 2 of 3 has geordie accent so i kinda familiar with the accent, yes it's a HARD accent to understand

  • @TheMartianGeek
    @TheMartianGeek Год назад +6

    These two girls almost sound American, honestly. Their accents are very mild.

  • @tkegs6492
    @tkegs6492 Год назад +5

    Ok that girl does not have a standard Oxford English accent. Not the queens English. Confused.

  • @MikoZeda
    @MikoZeda Год назад

    To "Enunciate" your words.
    This was fun to watch ^.^

  • @azevedoalysson
    @azevedoalysson Год назад +2

    The best part "Oh, look at the dog! Get a grip, woman."