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.
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 😂
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.
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...
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?
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".
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
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!
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 😂
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.
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.
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.
@@stefanicooper7644 It is, though it's a rare word. According to Oxford Dictionary of English, it means 'utter or pronounce (words)' and is used as 'hers was the only voice able to enounce words that reached his ears'.
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.
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.
The highland accent is extremely soft and easy to understand I think lol. The accent in the north east they call doric is really hard to understand though. Highland is easy in comparison to a working class Glasgow accent (which I have), a working class Dundee accent (really really hard), and the doric accent from the far north east. The western isles English accent is beautiful, it almost sounds Irish, but they have a wee twang to it that sounds like they're singing every word. I love it.
@@GroßerBöserWolf Orcadians have a similar twang to their accents as those from the Western Isles. I think Shetlanders too, but I've less exposure to those accents.
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.
@@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
@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 🤓
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! 😄
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!
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.
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😅
Either she's been to the US recently, watched too many American movies, or are friends with Americans cause she sounds more American to me than 'English'
She's not got an English accent at all. She absolutely does not have Oxford English either. She sounds like she's been raised in eastern Europe somewhere first.
Hi. My vocabulary is still quite basic. Is that US creeping, what others call vocal fry? It's disgusting. Well, at least for me. In a video, Geoff Lindsay wondered : why do we find vocal fry disgusting, only when done by women?
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. 😅
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
(I am english) the baseline of her accent is definitely generic middle class / slightly posh south-of-England, but she has picked up a lot of American intonations/sounds "cool bored valley girl" on her phrases either from movies, or hanging out with international english speakers maybe. Some people pick up weird accent inflections quickly from whoever they're hanging around with.
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.
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 comprehensible.
@@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.
@@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.
@@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.
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.
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.
@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.
@@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.
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.
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?!"
This is the bane of every language learner/student 😂😢 I was studying German at uni and my uncle learns this one word, very obscure, and him misprouncing the word BADLY. He then berates me me for not knowing the language because I dont know ONE obscure word.
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
@@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.
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... 🤣)
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!
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.
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.
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 🙂
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.
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 😂
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
@@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 😕
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.
I am Scottish, and where I lived in Scotland we spoke a version of Glaswegian in everyday conversation. Glaswegian is frequently called a dialect of English now rather than an accent as it has a great many words not derived from the English language. It is one of the few dialects in the UK which is not just surviving but is actually spreading. It has become so diverse many linguists now think it should be characterised as a separate language of its own much like Scots Leid (Scots) is rather than a dialect. I worked in England for 22 years in the '80s and '90s, 10 of those in London and for convenience I taught myself to speak in an affected pseudo-English accent, many times I was complimented on my English by people who believed I was a foreigner.
did the ginger come to the uk from another country or live abroad? Her accent doesn’t sound like a regular Oxford one. 2:593:052:48 sometimes she slips up when she pronounces things. It sounds like her mother tongue could be Arabic or French Eastern European?
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.
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.
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?
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
When I was an active duty US Marine, our unit were attached with the Irish Hussars and Scots Dragoon Guards, we were having issues understanding one another, but when we start communicating via radio, that's when the fun begins.
The one on the left yes, but the one on the right has a general Northwest English accent. A lot of Englishmen have lived in the US for a bit or have been around a lot of Americans, especially if they're actors so it results in this mixed accent.
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
good grief . I'm European living in East Midlands . I studied Official Modern RP English abroad and all British people knew before coming in UK could say my English were excellent . After few years of engaging and interacting with the local accent my English instead of improving feels have gone twisted . Lol . Fantastic Video ladies . Well done
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.
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.
@@liamsohal 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.
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. 😂😂
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
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.
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??
I speak RP English with a slight posh accent, the redhead doesn’t sound RP at all. Her accent sounds like a mix of lots of things, at first I heard Irish in there.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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. 🤣
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.
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
@@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 😑
@@Charles_200 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.
Greetings from Germany - I understood almost everything, except Mr. Filch. I remembered my first time in the UK, while hearing the Glasgow guy. I was asking some guy for directions and asked him to speak slowlier (like we we`re teached in school), and I immediately felt like a looney, based on the eyes of him, haha.
I like to tell people their celebrity/famous people lookalikes. The person on the right looks like Astrid S, a Norwegian singer. The person on the left looks like the redhead in Riverdale.
They told this anecdote here in Germany where a (German) woman studied to become an English teacher. After graduation, she spoiled herself to a vacation in good ol' England, and then couldn't leave Heathrow because she couldn't find an understandable taxi driver... (Though this is more a comment on German teaching of the English language which has not much to do with real English.)
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.
As an Hungarian who doesn't have sense of language but needs to know English because we are live in 21th century, I feel like girls with those accents. Mostly I hope noone see on my face how I feel lost. Anyway I love the English accents
As a Polish I don't understand how can you have such difference in one language across such a small country. No matter where from Poland we all can understand each other 0 problems. There are dialects here and there, but these use totally different words - not sounds
"I feel like sometimes it's a little bit more difficult to understand older people because they don't announce (sic) it very well" It's not because their enunciation isn't clear, it's because they have much stronger local accents, for fairly obvious reasons! The video of the Black Country couple was from the 1970s when both accent and dialect would have been much more distinct from BBC English.
But it’s also true that older people don’t annunciate as well. Even older people who speak RP English which is very clear, they get harder to understand as they get older. You can hear the same person and it gets harder to understand them when they get older.
At 3:11, when the woman says "announce" or "annunciation", I'm guessing she means "pronounce" and "pronunciation", right? Unless somehow the British meaning of "announce" and "annunciation" is different from that of North America
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.
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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!
Don't worry we understand Scottish... they are probably at home by now
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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 😂
Lies again? The old man was just mumbling not moving his mouth properly to pronounce his sentences
American English would probably be easier to understand lol
Scots or Scottish, scotch is a drink.
Scotland is like a third of the island of Britain.
@@philcollinson328 Scotch-Irish is a thing though
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.
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...
At first I thought you were being sarcastic.
I wouldn't understand even if was me..
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?
Same, i had to stop after skimming through 20sec over the first 2 parts where they play the video.
You did a horrible job with volume there
Yeah wtf also the music in top aswell
Perhaps the operator made it up on the spot after seeing the redhead's outfit - smart-ass ^_^
@@kristofferv yeah it even gets louder at the 2nd one wtf
not a very organized video.
yea i think they were like "girls are pretty no need to actually hear the content on a video about accents right ?"
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".
I am really satisfied to see that native english speakers also couldn't understand the old rifle man 😅. Thank you Girls
Because his heavy accent was intentionally exaggerated for comedic effect in the film
@@thomsboys77 hmmm got it. Do you understand his accent?
Native speakers have rules too lol English has an insane amount of accents to understand but we have limits lol
or that it was a shotgun not a rifle! he got you twice LOL.
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
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!
15 hours? Were you on a pushbike ? 😁
Sitch a toiney cuntray, innit?
Netherlands:💀💀💀💀
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.
I'm Italian, hold my beer
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 😂
yeah exactly
You can't help but fall greatly right
I’m British and could only understand scouse. You’re doing great
Feel*
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.
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.
Haha make sense because Christopher Eccleston is from Lancashire, one of the accents she said that she has a mix of.
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.
The Oxford woman has quite a strange accent, slightly American? In any case, it’s ‘enunciate’ not ‘announce’!
She meant enounce
@@khagen.limbu93 Shame the subtitler had apparently never heard either version of the word.
Does she end sentences with vocal fry? I heard that vocal fry is more common in the USA.
@@khagen.limbu93that’s not a word either lol
@@stefanicooper7644 It is, though it's a rare word. According to Oxford Dictionary of English, it means 'utter or pronounce (words)' and is used as 'hers was the only voice able to enounce words that reached his ears'.
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.
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.
The highland accent is extremely soft and easy to understand I think lol. The accent in the north east they call doric is really hard to understand though. Highland is easy in comparison to a working class Glasgow accent (which I have), a working class Dundee accent (really really hard), and the doric accent from the far north east. The western isles English accent is beautiful, it almost sounds Irish, but they have a wee twang to it that sounds like they're singing every word. I love it.
@@GroßerBöserWolf Orcadians have a similar twang to their accents as those from the Western Isles. I think Shetlanders too, but I've less exposure to those accents.
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.
Lollllll
Why exactly would you pretend? I have never
@@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
@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 🤓
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! 😄
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!
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.
I think she says 'enounce' there
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😅
As an American, I can say posh girl has more than a bit of generic American creeping in.
sadly yes...
Either she's been to the US recently, watched too many American movies, or are friends with Americans cause she sounds more American to me than 'English'
She's not got an English accent at all. She absolutely does not have Oxford English either. She sounds like she's been raised in eastern Europe somewhere first.
@@EKL-qu7iheastern European? no she doesn't 🤣🤣
Hi. My vocabulary is still quite basic. Is that US creeping, what others call vocal fry?
It's disgusting. Well, at least for me. In a video, Geoff Lindsay wondered : why do we find vocal fry disgusting, only when done by women?
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. 😅
indeed😂
Standar american accent... can u copy american souther accent... 😆
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.
@@mulkanmulkan5620 southern usa is basically british descent
Give the long and looow Loos-iana accent a go and see what you make of it
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~~
Sorry but no one’s gonna talk about how Emily is in fact NOT speaking Oxford 😂
I thought I was going crazy 😅 There is a standardised English accent there, but she sounds Eastern European.
@@HannahCooper94 sounds and looks
@@Йельчик Not really, if I couldn’t hear her, I would have thought she was English! 😂
Sounds East European defo!
@@ЙельчикNot really. There are tonnes of English people straight look like her.
His Emily and Lauren! A beautiful lesson because you both explained the beauty of the UK in respect of different acents.
Thanks & regards.
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
If it's any consolation I studied Spanish and found it difficult to understand a lot of South American accents.
@@holliswilliams8426 But even so South Americans accents are more understandable than these english ones.
@@DavidAlvarez-he6sd No
@@thomsboys77 SI
@@DavidAlvarez-he6sd latin american spanish is better than spaniard spanish. 100% proven
Imagine an accident or something equally serious that you have to convey but everyone is just laughing at your cute, funny accent😭🤣
Gosh, thanks for this. It's such a relief to learn that you also might not understand each other at times 😁
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.
@@inoox 🤣🤣 right, I'm back to earth from planet Relief
0:10 never gets old 😂
The girl on the left does not have a queens English accent. I don’t know who lied to her. 🤨
I was thinking the same. She sounds like she's acting. I heard Irish, I heard American. They're trolling us.
(I am english) the baseline of her accent is definitely generic middle class / slightly posh south-of-England, but she has picked up a lot of American intonations/sounds "cool bored valley girl" on her phrases either from movies, or hanging out with international english speakers maybe. Some people pick up weird accent inflections quickly from whoever they're hanging around with.
I just hear American with just a tinge of British accent.
Shes has a bit of a broken flow to her speech, I would have wondered if she speaks another language fluently too.
This must be a catty comment from the js - she is beauti5and has a kinda posh accent - theres a Bristol near me, In NY
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.
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 comprehensible.
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.
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@@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.
@@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.
@@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.
In terms distance you're right, but US accents do vary as much as the Brits if you've been on different states
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.
Brilliant Mr Molinarolo.
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.
@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.
@@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.
This is the case in Japan as well.
girl on the left sounds like 5% eastern european
i'm pretty sure she was born in Russia or Ukraine ..maybe Bulgaria
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.
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?!"
This is the bane of every language learner/student 😂😢 I was studying German at uni and my uncle learns this one word, very obscure, and him misprouncing the word BADLY. He then berates me me for not knowing the language because I dont know ONE obscure word.
@@jones.8004
Haha, do you remember the word?
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
I totally agree with you 🥰🥰
Man youre everywhere 😅
In every country there are several accents
@@dutchgamer842 Exacly, like for example China has many different accents, like Beijing accent etc, but I think all accents are awesome :D
@@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.
I'm glad they got to hear the voices, cos I sure couldn't.
"Nothing like building an empire on stolen treasures and then teaching the world about 'morals' and 'ethics.' Truly inspiring!"
To the sound engineer/editor, we can't hear anything
the entire video is a waste of time...
Dj*
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... 🤣)
I’m sure he was probably being sarky mate, you’re German afterall therefore have a humour bypass. Patter is lost on ye
@@hmu05366 lmao
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!
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.
I'm from Durham and agree his accent was perfect Jarrow speak :D
He also voices Aleksandr Orlov, the meercat from the Compare The Market adverts!
I'll be honest, as a Midwestern American, for most of these I just blinked and gave up.
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.
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 🙂
she sounds american
and cute
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.
Yeh she doesn’t sound like she’s from the UK at all to me
Agree!
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 😩
Totally agree. There’s definitely something else there. Maybe she lived in another country for a while?
I 10000% agree! I’m from the UK. Up north. She sounds so Eastern European to me lmao
Emily has so much personality... she's perfect...the most beautiful girl on world friends I've ever seen❤️
Amen. Total smoke-show.
sometimes the term personality is used as a euphemism
U should be going out of ur moms basement so often my friend
@@mohicantheluststar2550 lolololololo u should join IQ classes often my friend
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 😂
you are obsessed with the britisch
That video was with Christina , i remember that 🤣
wow kiddo you’re obsessed. try watching other youtube videos too.
And?
Get a life dude
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
The left girl is so pretty and the right's a vibe ❤
It always amazes me that such a small country can produce so many accents. Your whole country fits in California.
Like 10 accent, lol? You have never been in Europe, I suppose
More than 10, one city can have so many different accents.
if youre american it only seems like a lot bc your country is too young to form more than a few
@@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 😕
@@keyos1955 10 accents😂😂 try 100 times that mate
Wow. British accents can be very complicated. I think American accents don't get that hard.
True, my friend.
they do
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.
@@anndeecosita3586 I thought Cajun was its own dialect.
There is only one accent in the whole USA
I am Scottish, and where I lived in Scotland we spoke a version of Glaswegian in everyday conversation. Glaswegian is frequently called a dialect of English now rather than an accent as it has a great many words not derived from the English language. It is one of the few dialects in the UK which is not just surviving but is actually spreading. It has become so diverse many linguists now think it should be characterised as a separate language of its own much like Scots Leid (Scots) is rather than a dialect. I worked in England for 22 years in the '80s and '90s, 10 of those in London and for convenience I taught myself to speak in an affected pseudo-English accent, many times I was complimented on my English by people who believed I was a foreigner.
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?
thats what i thought
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.
Yeah, Cajun would be great.
with Australia you would have more of a problem with slang and idioms rather than straight out accents (some a very broad though)
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.
@@ianmontgomery7534Same with East Coast Canada, a lot of slang with an Irish lilt.
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?
Yes,Geordie.
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
Emily remains the most condescending person on this channel.
What wrong with her?
When I was an active duty US Marine, our unit were attached with the Irish Hussars and Scots Dragoon Guards, we were having issues understanding one another, but when we start communicating via radio, that's when the fun begins.
Two Americanised girls from Britain react to UK accents.
Both have an affected American twang common in most young British RUclipsrs and influencers.
Their own accents are wild, like posh Southern-English/American hybrids.
The one on the left yes, but the one on the right has a general Northwest English accent.
A lot of Englishmen have lived in the US for a bit or have been around a lot of Americans, especially if they're actors so it results in this mixed accent.
The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain 😊. I wonder how it will sound in Glasgovian 😂.
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
Hot fuzz? Thanks a bunch
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
good grief . I'm European living in East Midlands . I studied Official Modern RP English abroad and all British people knew before coming in UK could say my English were excellent . After few years of engaging and interacting with the local accent my English instead of improving feels have gone twisted . Lol . Fantastic Video ladies . Well done
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.
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.
*specialiSing
Your normal accents may well be London/Oxford & Scouse/Lancashire but they've become international (almost Americanised) British English.
British english? You mean english accents? Because "british" is not just England.
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.
@@liamsohal 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.
@@MrsLizziee I'm well aware that within the UK there are different accents, but I specifically said an "internationalised British English".
@@01ivi3r Yeah just to be clear; Britain is not the UK, the UK is Britain plus N.Ireland
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. 😂😂
2:35 They were talking about the stems of the leaf, back in the they might be using leaves as toilet paper
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
Low German is also mostly incomprehensible to people from other parts of the country. It’s closer to Dutch.
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.
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??
I speak RP English with a slight posh accent, the redhead doesn’t sound RP at all. Her accent sounds like a mix of lots of things, at first I heard Irish in there.
NGL! OhGosh! Emily is so gorgeous 😍 can't take my eyes off her!
The Glasgow video is from Discovery channel's Lonely Planet travel show and the girl is Megan McCormick. I just love the 90's Discovery.
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.
I agree . I got desperate in Liverpool.
A lot of Scottish people do speak a different language: it's called Scots, and it's officially separate from English.
+ 57,000 speak Gaelic, mainly in the Hebrides. Mur a bheil ach Beurla agad, cha tuigeadh tu facal sam bith.
The vast majority of Scottish people can only speak English though. Most Scottish people don’t know Scots.
I really like the scouse accent and also the girl from the smallest village outside of liverpool😍 she is soooo cute and sooo genuine
Thank you for the video without it I won’t feel confident about my English after several years of studying, practicing,
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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.
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.
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.
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
yeah, defeats the purpose of the video if the audience don't get the whole content.
Yes, the accents they are listening too should be louder to us, the audience, then the voices of the reactors.
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
As an American, I would be totally lost, though I understood these ladies perfectly
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. 🤣
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.
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
England has the best football is why is they have best singing to
One of the greatest in history. It seems you haven't been reading the news of the premier league.
UK and Europe? The UK is in Europe
@@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 😑
@@Charles_200 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.
The ginger girl does NOT have an RP, Oxford or "queen's English" accent. I wonder who told her that? Her accent even sounds foreign.
I was expecting her to say London MLE accent. That is not queens English lol. She even pronounces some things wrong
Greetings from Germany - I understood almost everything, except Mr. Filch.
I remembered my first time in the UK, while hearing the Glasgow guy.
I was asking some guy for directions and asked him to speak slowlier (like we we`re teached in school), and I immediately felt like a looney, based on the eyes of him, haha.
I like to tell people their celebrity/famous people lookalikes.
The person on the right looks like Astrid S, a Norwegian singer.
The person on the left looks like the redhead in Riverdale.
Me when I was on my holidays in Scotland - as a German!🤣
Holy Moly, did you make it back to the airport? 😱
jesus lord the girl on the left
Is it just me or does the girl with the ‘standard RP accent’ in this video sound vaguely Eastern European?
"Small town outside Liverpool"... is it Wirrel, pehaps? Visited there in '99. Lovely place.
They told this anecdote here in Germany where a (German) woman studied to become an English teacher. After graduation, she spoiled herself to a vacation in good ol' England, and then couldn't leave Heathrow because she couldn't find an understandable taxi driver...
(Though this is more a comment on German teaching of the English language which has not much to do with real English.)
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.
I’m Gornal born and bred! Very strange to see it pop up on RUclips…!
Ok that girl does not have a standard Oxford English accent. Not the queens English. Confused.
As an Hungarian who doesn't have sense of language but needs to know English because we are live in 21th century, I feel like girls with those accents. Mostly I hope noone see on my face how I feel lost. Anyway I love the English accents
I thought Hungarians didn't like the British that much?
Only ones that bought the wrong dictionary.
"needs to know English because we are live in 21th century"
Most human beings don't speak English.
Also worth noting that Steve Coogan who plays Alan Partridge in the clip of "Michael" the Geordie, is Mancunian.
As a Polish I don't understand how can you have such difference in one language across such a small country.
No matter where from Poland we all can understand each other 0 problems. There are dialects here and there, but these use totally different words - not sounds
The people with the accents in Hot Fuzz are supposed to be impossible to understand that's the joke.
"I feel like sometimes it's a little bit more difficult to understand older people because they don't announce (sic) it very well"
It's not because their enunciation isn't clear, it's because they have much stronger local accents, for fairly obvious reasons! The video of the Black Country couple was from the 1970s when both accent and dialect would have been much more distinct from BBC English.
‘announceiation’ 😂
Ngl, i was just listening to this girl like... does she know the difference between announce and pronounce (or enunciation)?
But it’s also true that older people don’t annunciate as well. Even older people who speak RP English which is very clear, they get harder to understand as they get older. You can hear the same person and it gets harder to understand them when they get older.
At 3:11, when the woman says "announce" or "annunciation", I'm guessing she means "pronounce" and "pronunciation", right? Unless somehow the British meaning of "announce" and "annunciation" is different from that of North America
It's amazing how different can be accents in the same county with the same language.
Im from a simular place outside Liverpool and also a mixed accent. Its amusing to hear her explain my accent basically.
These two girls almost sound American, honestly. Their accents are very mild.
the red haired woman on the LEFT really sounds like she's putting on an rp accent. like she's faking it. LOL
I even thought she sounds a little bit american, it was just too easy to understand.
@@thefirepenguins74 no it sounds like English is quite literally her second language.