Well, as a Bristolian who's done quite a few videos of my own on the Bristol accent I must confess to being pretty sceptical about outsiders' attempts to do the accent. Too many sound like a cross between East Anglia and Somerset on a bad day but you guys are really good. Well done!
As a Bristolian, we also don't say the letter 'T' unless its the start of a sentence or depending on the word. For example, 'toast' we say the 'T'. But 'Motor' we don't.
for some reason many accents try to avoid the letter T. Americans replace it with a "d", so "butter" becomes "budder", whereas Brits make "butter" into "bu''er". I guess no one likes T :(
When I lived near Bristol almost heard everyone say love a lot in their sentences. Sounds so nice especially from an American. Really loved the Bristolian accent and Welsh accent.
@@matthewlewis2072 as a Welshman I don’t see why it should be offense to be confused for being Welsh! Welsh is a great thing to be, so I think it’s a compliment 👍 The accents don’t really sound similar anyway 👍
A lot of older bristolians are quite hard to understand. The ones that speak proper bristolian (the lost language) sound like they're speaking a completely foreign language but its just old english
Fantastic job! Very instructive. I love the detailed explanation of the vocal structure. Also, Bristol is incredibly important in the history and development of UK popular music. So many bands and musicians originate Afterall, Glastonbury isn't far away. Great work! Keep it coming! Love and cheers! 👍💗😘🇬🇧
As a German, for me it's really tough to tell any difference between British accents because I'm not a native speaker and my ears are not so "tuned" to listening to English and detecting deviations from RP. But I get your points and you did a really great job explaining - dropped a "subscribe" as well as a thumbs up :-) Love what you guys are doing! I remember my first time at a British railway station in 1985 when someone (obviously not Bristolian) asked me "Kutcha plaaese gemme o looid?" and got me baffled because I simply couldn't understand. Never before had I heard anything like that and it didn't even seem English to me. I learned a lot since then and heard loads of English in movies so I might do better today. Loved GoT for their fooling around with accents.
As a foreigner who started learning english in Bristol, this video brings me great memories. It took me years to drop the accent a bit, as people would not understand me outside of the UK. It was so much fun. I lived together with a chatty gambian and an always drunk irish bus driver, that helped a lot... :)
Amanda Andrews depends where in Bristol you come from the closer to the centre you are the weaker your accent tends to be I find I sound exactly like the older generations lol
With this accent, I've also noticed a Canadian-like "out, about" and even words like "pronounce". Anything with an "ou" sound kind of gets done that way but again, the level to which it's exaggerated just depends person to person I guess :) You two are really good because you teach mouth posture as well which most people talking about accents don't.
As an American who is currently running a tabletop RPG campaign set in the Golden Age of Piracy with a Bristolian villain: THANK YOU. This is an excellent resource.
Fun fact Blackbeard was born down the road from me in Bristol, it makes me think the reason pirates depicted in the modern world have that accent is because Blackbeard would of had a Bristolian accent and being as he’s so famed across the world that became the standard for pirate voices lol
This is so interesting. I actually looked this up after seeing Stephen Merchant on The Big Bang Theory and was confused by his British accent. I had to see where he was from. I love the history of different accents. The northern accent here in America is much like the Bristolian accent with an emphasis on R’s and a glossing over on the T sound in the middle of words. It’s amazing how different accents are in different areas of the same country.
Being British: Joel & Lia some things you need to add into your Bristolian accent is the pronounciation of some sounds for example "th" in Bristolian is a "fff" or sometimes a "vv" sound so father becomes "favver" and bath becomes "baff" and three becomes "free". another thing you can do I think you kind of touch on it in the video (although it's hard to explain in writing) is OU sounds the best way I could describe it would be like an over pronounced "ow" mixed with a little "aye". just my two pennies from a Bristolians point of view you are both very good at the Bristolian accent if you'd have started the video talking with it I would've thought it was your natural accent so good job 😁
I have to applaud you two, because that is a really, really good take on the Bristol accent. And i should know, i was born and have lived in the best city in the world all my loife (sic) Excellent video guys (and the girl is rather gorgeous)
my great grandmother was from bristol, she moved around a bit due to war and moved to australia in the 1950s, she passed away in 2017 so i wanted to see if her accent had changed very much, this sounds about right lmao, everything was pronounced really different to how the rest of us being raised in australia spoke, but sometimes i say things and realise i got the sound of it from her and have to laugh a little.
I’m from Swindon which is 40 miles east of Bristol but have a lot of friends down there from college days. And most don’t believe me when I tell them I can tell difference’s between some one from a South Bristol estate such as Knowle West&Hartcliffe (ie A city supporter), and someone from North Bristol like Patchway or Filton (Rovers fans). South Bristol sounds a lot faster, where as North sounds more rural farmer type and drawn out.
Do you see any differences based on ethnicity . Because in more Asian black areas in east central Bristol they seem to not really have the accent . It's more like London
Just a note: I received emails from former students in China and they have managed to receive your channel over The Great Firewall. It wasn't blocked! You guys are great! Love and cheers! 👍💗😘🇬🇧
Thanks for your reply. I've received additional emails from them and because of their position and status government censors view your channel as "content neutral". They are simultaneous translators for visiting professors and have some difficulties with UK English. They watch your videos to increase comprehension. Also, they discovered that they can subscribe and like! So if you see an uptick in subs it may be some of them. Sorry for the long comment but they wanted me to forward their appreciation. Keep up the great work! Love and cheers! 👍💗😘🇬🇧
Thanks to your explanation, I finally worked out how to pronounce 'r's. I have a slight speech impediment which makes my normal speech non-rhotic. It's usually not a problem, except that my name has an 'r' in it. (So Mark sounds like "Mahk".) But now I can pronounce the 'r' in my name if I think about it. I'm 59 and for the first time in my life I can say "Mark"!
Could you please do a series of videos related to the RP English Phonetics? I profoundly think it would be beneficial for all of us who are trying to acquire this accent. Thank you in advance guys! You are amazing!
Thank you guys! As it turned out, speaking as if you had a cold isn't that easy😂 but practice makes perfect indeed. There should be some words and expressions which are typical for that area)
Perhaps I'm being pedantic, though as you're providing us with information, at least you might get it right...the TV series "Our Country" is actually called This Country. As for it being set in Somerset, I think the clue is that it's about life in a Cotswold village.
Thank you for all your help in understanding the accent of Bristol.The Host (both) are very handsome infact your resemblance to our Bollywood actors . My Indian cousins speak and I couldn't understand, but I have no problems with BBC news . Kumbhoj village Jai Maharashtra.
Legend has it that Edward Teach aka "Blackbeard" was originally from Bristol. This could be why in many a pirate movie you hear attempts at a very thick heavy, almost comedic Bristol accent.
4:15 As a born and bred Bristolian and even though my own accent isn't particularly strong, I have to say that is an incredible job you do there. lol Amazing.
Hello Joel and Lia: My dear cousin Ángela lived in Bristol in 2011 and found its accent very funny, but some people consider it typical for yokels/bumpkins/farmers. A good example of it would be the famous 1970s series "Poldark", with those amazing landscapes such as Land's End. Best regards and all the best of luck for your professional careers from Spain Carlos M.S.
It was interesting what you said about the tongue...if I get really anxious, I feel my tongue doubles in side and I can't talk properly, because I'm chomping on my tongue at the sides 😂 I went to primary school with Donner (Donna), Pauler (Paula), and Joanner (Joanna) 😁
This is fun! I'm from Bristol but I've lived away a long time, and now if i try a Bristol accent i just make a silly pirate noise! I can't remember my own original accent!
Greetings from Sweden. Thanks for yet another great video. Have been a somewhat crazed fan since I first stumbled upon the videos, so much so that I have used one or two in my listening comprehension exercises in English class. They always go down a treat especially as most of the girls and some of the chaps have a crush on Joel ;)
Great video and so reminiscent of the fabulous time I spent in Bristol when I was a student there. Thank you, Joel and Lia; you're dope. Granted, it's good to be aware of as many accents/dialects as possible, and it's all grist to the mill when it comes to learning a language, which goes without saying, and I'm singing from the same hymn sheet as everybody else in this regard. The logic behind it being: well, you might as well pick up a thing or two along the way while you're at it, and that's par for the course. However, without wishing to rain on anyone's parade or being disrespectful, I'd allow myself to slightly go off on a tangent, if I may, and pose a question, controversial though it may be: why would anyone want to learn English, (it applies to any language, really) copying, imitating, or mimicking some regional variety of it, without becoming proficient in the norm first, which happens to be Received Pronunciation?! Well, I fully realize that I'm setting the cat among the pigeons there, but isn't that a case of putting the cart before the horse?! Do you know what I mean? I don't see the point of that, I'm afraid, unless, for instance, you're engaged in the thespian trade and cast as someone whose role requires/expects you to have a regional accent/dialect, then it's fair enough. Another reason you can think of would be someone planning to move into an area where people speak a local dialect/accent, the desired goal being to sort of blend in so that they can assimilate faster and communicate more effectively. That makes perfect sense to me. Next, someone may probably have taken a fancy to Scouse, Mancunian, West Country, Brummie, Yorkshire, or whatever the case may be, well, just because it's cool, for example, and that's fine too. But at the end of the day, all you've got to primarily aim at is acquire the RP accent - it being the holy grail and, therefore top of your pecking order - and getting it right, and then, perhaps, venture out and explore a bit more, as far as accent/dialect variation is concerned. Concur? I could be missing something, though, and should that be the case, I stand corrected. Have a cracking day, everybody! *Disclaimer: you shouldn't even try to speak like Jacob Rees-Mogg at the risk of sounding pompous, contrived, and ridiculous. That's a bit of a throwback (he sounds a bit like a P.G.Wodehouse character). I could be wrong, though.
Ah yes... that's a Bristol accent? I had no idea. I naturally believed they were Americans just easing into a British accent and culture, and they got the culture right before the accent. Heh, so thanks for the education :)
I was born in Bristol and my parents moved when I was 12 and people still say I roll my Rs. Bristol has a kind of farming accent. I must admit Joel has a great Bristolian accent.
I from hartcliff, which is the rough end of Bristol and you sounds like your from Clifton (the posh end) 😂😂. Lover we dont pronounce the T's or the H's but we are a big fan of are R's . . . Love this vid innit mate
Okay so ima French person living in Bristol, going to an international school and I can tell y’all my accent’s very very weird. It is a mix of American, British, Bristolian, French accent...🤣
I just started watching Toast from London or something on Netflix. It is funny. Saw him on the IT Crowd which I've watched about 20 times. I could name 100+ comedies that I've seen. I think I saw this woman on Toast that played a teacher on House of Anubis. Enjoy your Monday.
MY God, you guys are so young, you didn't mention the most famous Bristolian of ALL--Cary Grant, who may have learned to unrhoticize his r's some, but carried much of the rest of his Bristol accent forever. I saw some segment on some BBC show where they were talking to a man, and I thought, "Who does that guy sound like?" Then I realized it was Cary Grant. It's not only the tighter jaw, there's a certain lilt, which comes either from tone variation or vowel length (not officially recognized as a factor in Standard English of either the Brit or Am version, but certainly present in some dialects). Yes, the guy was from Bristol. Cool dialect, with a little more musicality than most English dialects (except maybe Liverpool and Geordie).
Serious question: Is this one of the accents Benny Hill used to use when he'd do his more "innocent" voices, like when he'd do double entendres? I'm trying to really hear it in my head. I'm writing a story, and even though I'm not "writing" the accent," I'm imagining it so I get the character right. Thanks in advance.
It’s interesting how since I left the UK the RP accent is incorporating the London glottlestop. Your pronunciation of words like water (wa’er), and got to (got’a), daughter (dor’er). Also I noticed a lot of upspeak incorporated from the states, where everything is a question?
I used to live in bristol for 9 years from when I was 0-9 but then I moved to Wales and ive lived in Wales niw for 3 years but I visit my familt in bristol alot
As a born and bred Bristolian I think your accent is better than mine! Well done.
Ashley Smith Yeah, I’m Bristolian too 😂
Bristol accent is so beautiful
Same
Rothic r! It sounds great!
So um i
Well, as a Bristolian who's done quite a few videos of my own on the Bristol accent I must confess to being pretty sceptical about outsiders' attempts to do the accent. Too many sound like a cross between East Anglia and Somerset on a bad day but you guys are really good. Well done!
As a Bristolian, we also don't say the letter 'T' unless its the start of a sentence or depending on the word.
For example, 'toast' we say the 'T'. But 'Motor' we don't.
for some reason many accents try to avoid the letter T. Americans replace it with a "d", so "butter" becomes "budder", whereas Brits make "butter" into "bu''er". I guess no one likes T :(
@@yourrockdog its just a really awkward letter to use in the middle of a word
When you live in Bristol your either a pirate or a farmer depending on where you live.
So I’d be a farmer
Or a gardener like Samwise
Me to but moved to Hanham from knowle west so my accent has changed a bit
I’m from bristol
@@gabrieljr5410 same
Or a posh bugger
When I lived near Bristol almost heard everyone say love a lot in their sentences. Sounds so nice especially from an American. Really loved the Bristolian accent and Welsh accent.
"mind", "like" also. Always completely superfluous, eg "You're off to America(wl)? 'S a long flight, mind"
DO NOT tell a Bristolian they sound Welsh! (And vice versa)! Just...no.
Source: Bristol boy, Grandad from Cardiff, mind
@@matthewlewis2072 as a Welshman I don’t see why it should be offense to be confused for being Welsh! Welsh is a great thing to be, so I think it’s a compliment 👍
The accents don’t really sound similar anyway 👍
probably my favourite English accent.
Mario Aliprandini so is mine! Definitely!
Mine no doubt
It's my favourite too
I hate my Bristolian accent whatttttt 😂😂
Are you kidding hahahaha
havent quite nailed bristol, you've hit the accent that is common further south in somerset and devon. bristolian is a lot harsher
It's more brutuow
@@MasonBryant we’d say it like brutaw and we’d even half pronounce the t, broken down it would be “bru awe”
your accents are more of a posh Bristolian like from up Clifton in some of ur words
In henbury we’re proper chavs yeah? 😂
@@HDotShitALot yess🤣🤣
BritzzBandit I’m from Whitchurch
A lot of older bristolians are quite hard to understand. The ones that speak proper bristolian (the lost language) sound like they're speaking a completely foreign language but its just old english
Meader in the house!
Fantastic job! Very instructive. I love the detailed explanation of the vocal structure. Also, Bristol is incredibly important in the history and development of UK popular music. So many bands and musicians originate Afterall, Glastonbury isn't far away. Great work! Keep it coming! Love and cheers! 👍💗😘🇬🇧
In Somerset it’s a bit more toned down of an accent. My lover is also a common phrase and easy to say in the accent
Never ever had an accent explained to me in such thorough details. Thanks folks.
As a German, for me it's really tough to tell any difference between British accents because I'm not a native speaker and my ears are not so "tuned" to listening to English and detecting deviations from RP. But I get your points and you did a really great job explaining - dropped a "subscribe" as well as a thumbs up :-) Love what you guys are doing!
I remember my first time at a British railway station in 1985 when someone (obviously not Bristolian) asked me "Kutcha plaaese gemme o looid?" and got me baffled because I simply couldn't understand. Never before had I heard anything like that and it didn't even seem English to me. I learned a lot since then and heard loads of English in movies so I might do better today. Loved GoT for their fooling around with accents.
As a foreigner who started learning english in Bristol, this video brings me great memories. It took me years to drop the accent a bit, as people would not understand me outside of the UK.
It was so much fun. I lived together with a chatty gambian and an always drunk irish bus driver, that helped a lot... :)
I live in Bristol and I really don't understand how we talk like that😂
Rhianna Sessions same here
Same li wha thu fuck
Agree, it is how my gran and previous generations spoke, before we had tvs, radios and travelled.
Amanda Andrews depends where in Bristol you come from the closer to the centre you are the weaker your accent tends to be I find I sound exactly like the older generations lol
Same😂😂
With this accent, I've also noticed a Canadian-like "out, about" and even words like "pronounce". Anything with an "ou" sound kind of gets done that way but again, the level to which it's exaggerated just depends person to person I guess :)
You two are really good because you teach mouth posture as well which most people talking about accents don't.
Yeah about
I've been here 7 years, there are different Bristololian accents within Bristol. Weirdly I don't notice them anymore on a daily basis. Love Bristol
I hate it
I’m from Bristol , big up south west
AYEEEE
Sounds American
@@2jcward u high g
As an American who is currently running a tabletop RPG campaign set in the Golden Age of Piracy with a Bristolian villain: THANK YOU. This is an excellent resource.
Fun fact Blackbeard was born down the road from me in Bristol, it makes me think the reason pirates depicted in the modern world have that accent is because Blackbeard would of had a Bristolian accent and being as he’s so famed across the world that became the standard for pirate voices lol
This is so interesting. I actually looked this up after seeing Stephen Merchant on The Big Bang Theory and was confused by his British accent. I had to see where he was from.
I love the history of different accents. The northern accent here in America is much like the Bristolian accent with an emphasis on R’s and a glossing over on the T sound in the middle of words. It’s amazing how different accents are in different areas of the same country.
*One of the programmes we mentioned is actually called 'This Country', not 'Our Country' as Joel said in the video. Sorry!*
Man, Joel is so hot though. So manly and handsome... what a stud!
And their accents are Wiltshire and not Somerset. I think they come from Swindon or near by.
Being British: Joel & Lia some things you need to add into your Bristolian accent is the pronounciation of some sounds for example "th" in Bristolian is a "fff" or sometimes a "vv" sound so father becomes "favver" and bath becomes "baff" and three becomes "free".
another thing you can do I think you kind of touch on it in the video (although it's hard to explain in writing) is OU sounds the best way I could describe it would be like an over pronounced "ow" mixed with a little "aye".
just my two pennies from a Bristolians point of view you are both very good at the Bristolian accent if you'd have started the video talking with it I would've thought it was your natural accent so good job 😁
@@youandwhosearmy6339 Seem to remember they're from Cirencester? The programme's set in the Cotswolds, anyway.
And set in Gloucestershire not Somerset.
I have to applaud you two, because that is a really, really good take on the Bristol accent. And i should know, i was born and have lived in the best city in the world all my loife (sic) Excellent video guys
(and the girl is rather gorgeous)
Bristol Born Bred and Proud, currently an exiled Gashead from Kingswood/Hanham or 'Anum. Now living in Street in deep dark Somerset
I haven’t been to England but this accent sounds the most natural to me.
my great grandmother was from bristol, she moved around a bit due to war and moved to australia in the 1950s, she passed away in 2017 so i wanted to see if her accent had changed very much, this sounds about right lmao, everything was pronounced really different to how the rest of us being raised in australia spoke, but sometimes i say things and realise i got the sound of it from her and have to laugh a little.
I’m from Swindon which is 40 miles east of Bristol but have a lot of friends down there from college days. And most don’t believe me when I tell them I can tell difference’s between some one from a South Bristol estate such as Knowle West&Hartcliffe (ie A city supporter), and someone from North Bristol like Patchway or Filton (Rovers fans). South Bristol sounds a lot faster, where as North sounds more rural farmer type and drawn out.
Do you see any differences based on ethnicity . Because in more Asian black areas in east central Bristol they seem to not really have the accent . It's more like London
Just a note: I received emails from former students in China and they have managed to receive your channel over The Great Firewall. It wasn't blocked! You guys are great! Love and cheers! 👍💗😘🇬🇧
Woah! That's amazing! Wonder how they did that! Clearly they're geniuses!
Thanks for your reply. I've received additional emails from them and because of their position and status government censors view your channel as "content neutral". They are simultaneous translators for visiting professors and have some difficulties with UK English. They watch your videos to increase comprehension. Also, they discovered that they can subscribe and like! So if you see an uptick in subs it may be some of them. Sorry for the long comment but they wanted me to forward their appreciation. Keep up the great work! Love and cheers! 👍💗😘🇬🇧
Thanks to your explanation, I finally worked out how to pronounce 'r's. I have a slight speech impediment which makes my normal speech non-rhotic. It's usually not a problem, except that my name has an 'r' in it. (So Mark sounds like "Mahk".) But now I can pronounce the 'r' in my name if I think about it. I'm 59 and for the first time in my life I can say "Mark"!
Well done! That's amazing! Very happy for you! 👍🏼💙
To be fair, there are plenty of American dialects and accents that are non-Rhotic.
As a born and bred bristolian i would like to point out that we also emphasize the letter s for example i talks propeerr i dos
Josie Gibson has the most authentic genuine Bristonian accent
Still crazy and funny listening to the soft accent as darth vader
"Gurt lush"
I think this accent attractives us North Americans because of fond remembers ce of Disney films such as treasure island and Blackbeard.
Could you please do a series of videos related to the RP English Phonetics? I profoundly think it would be beneficial for all of us who are trying to acquire this accent. Thank you in advance guys! You are amazing!
Jeffrey Rotschild Yes, it would be very helpful!!
We will add it to the list and see what we can come up with! Thanks for the suggestion!
Liverpool accent seems like another language, you should talk about it too! Luv u, guys!
Will add it to the list!
Glad to hear that it doesn't deviate much from Standard English.
As I am not a native speaker I hardly can hear any difference at all.
I live near Bristol and everyone talks like this and I’ve grown up knowing no different
UTG
@@MasonBryant heard barrow away is meant to be nice, enjoy
Lovely win yesterday mucker
@@shahee6579 proper nice
You should add Stephen Merchant to your list of native Bristolian speakers.
A bristolian girl was talking about clubbing at Hassy-enderrr on the bus to Portsmouth one day, she and her mum were on ollyday, she sounded lovely
Thank you guys! As it turned out, speaking as if you had a cold isn't that easy😂 but practice makes perfect indeed. There should be some words and expressions which are typical for that area)
haha, yeah its tough, but just keep trying! We will try and make these lessons easier, I realise sometimes we're not as helpful as we could be!
Perhaps I'm being pedantic, though as you're providing us with information, at least you might get it right...the TV series "Our Country" is actually called This Country. As for it being set in Somerset, I think the clue is that it's about life in a Cotswold village.
Thank you for all your help in understanding the accent of Bristol.The Host (both) are very handsome infact your resemblance to our Bollywood actors . My Indian cousins speak and I couldn't understand, but I have no problems with BBC news . Kumbhoj village Jai Maharashtra.
Legend has it that Edward Teach aka "Blackbeard" was originally from Bristol. This could be why in many a pirate movie you hear attempts at a very thick heavy, almost comedic Bristol accent.
This is helping me with an audition. Nice one guys!
4:15 As a born and bred Bristolian and even though my own accent isn't particularly strong, I have to say that is an incredible job you do there. lol Amazing.
I’m Bristolian and you got it spot on! Most people don’t.
Love watching you guys! You guys are so fun and hilarious! Thanks for all the videos!! :)
Aw thanks Rachel! We love making them!
Really good. As a born Brizzle boy. You have pretty much nailed how I sound.
I was born in Bristol but moved to Australia when I was 2 so its good to know the accent
Studied at UWE in another life. I want to get my Bristolian accent back! Honest hard working people
Your brizzle accent is actually spot on it sounds slightly Bedminster or the outskirts towns where I was from.
I watched the serie Skins. I loved the accents.
Catherine tate. Is that also south England?
South west
As a Bristol Ian.... Fascinating
Hello Joel and Lia:
My dear cousin Ángela lived in Bristol in 2011 and found its accent very funny, but some people consider it typical for yokels/bumpkins/farmers.
A good example of it would be the famous 1970s series "Poldark", with those amazing landscapes such as Land's End.
Best regards and all the best of luck for your professional careers from Spain
Carlos M.S.
It was interesting what you said about the tongue...if I get really anxious, I feel my tongue doubles in side and I can't talk properly, because I'm chomping on my tongue at the sides 😂
I went to primary school with Donner (Donna), Pauler (Paula), and Joanner (Joanna) 😁
Surely, you went to school with Donnal, Paulal & Joannal?
Thanks, my friend needed this! She's going to Bristol
This is fun! I'm from Bristol but I've lived away a long time, and now if i try a Bristol accent i just make a silly pirate noise! I can't remember my own original accent!
Pure bristolian accent is way sharper than what your doing, you got the techniques right tho
im from bristol and i didnt realise how strong my accent was until now lol
Bristolian here, brilliant!
"Get over it"
You smashed it there, Joel has a pretty good Bristol accent, me babber
I’m from Bristol
Greetings from Sweden. Thanks for yet another great video. Have been a somewhat crazed fan since I first stumbled upon the videos, so much so that I have used one or two in my listening comprehension exercises in English class. They always go down a treat especially as most of the girls and some of the chaps have a crush on Joel ;)
Aw thank you! So glad you find them useful and your students!
Hi again! You are more than welcome! Keep up the good work =)
By the way... I don't want to seem rude but may I request a video on modal verbs? Maybe then my students will *BEEP* get it! =)
Canadians: sorry sorry sorry
Bristolians: *I WILL NEVER, APOLOGISE!*
Great video and so reminiscent of the fabulous time I spent in Bristol when I was a student there. Thank you, Joel and Lia; you're dope.
Granted, it's good to be aware of as many accents/dialects as possible, and it's all grist to the mill when it comes to learning a language, which goes without saying, and I'm singing from the same hymn sheet as everybody else in this regard.
The logic behind it being: well, you might as well pick up a thing or two along the way while you're at it, and that's par for the course.
However, without wishing to rain on anyone's parade or being disrespectful, I'd allow myself to slightly go off on a tangent, if I may, and pose a question, controversial though it may be: why would anyone want to learn English, (it applies to any language, really) copying, imitating, or mimicking some regional variety of it, without becoming proficient in the norm first, which happens to be Received Pronunciation?!
Well, I fully realize that I'm setting the cat among the pigeons there, but isn't that a case of putting the cart before the horse?! Do you know what I mean?
I don't see the point of that, I'm afraid, unless, for instance, you're engaged in the thespian trade and cast as someone whose role requires/expects you to have a regional accent/dialect, then it's fair enough.
Another reason you can think of would be someone planning to move into an area where people speak a local dialect/accent, the desired goal being to sort of blend in so that they can assimilate faster and communicate more effectively. That makes perfect sense to me.
Next, someone may probably have taken a fancy to Scouse, Mancunian, West Country, Brummie, Yorkshire, or whatever the case may be, well, just because it's cool, for example, and that's fine too.
But at the end of the day, all you've got to primarily aim at is acquire the RP accent - it being the holy grail and, therefore top of your pecking order - and getting it right, and then, perhaps, venture out and explore a bit more, as far as accent/dialect variation is concerned. Concur?
I could be missing something, though, and should that be the case, I stand corrected.
Have a cracking day, everybody!
*Disclaimer: you shouldn't even try to speak like Jacob Rees-Mogg at the risk of sounding pompous, contrived, and ridiculous. That's a bit of a throwback (he sounds a bit like a P.G.Wodehouse character).
I could be wrong, though.
Ah yes... that's a Bristol accent? I had no idea. I naturally believed they were Americans just easing into a British accent and culture, and they got the culture right before the accent. Heh, so thanks for the education :)
Snow Leopard 🤣
Well. I don’t sound like that and my family has lived in bristol for many generations
I just posted this. They sound more American to me. As an American, I can understand this accent better.
Sounds American
Not a bad attempt at all to our accent fair play, not only do we pronounce things differently but we’d structure a sentence differently aswell
I was wondering where James May's accent is from, this video is spot on.
I was born in Bristol and my parents moved when I was 12 and people still say I roll my Rs. Bristol has a kind of farming accent.
I must admit Joel has a great Bristolian accent.
James May (Top Gear/The Grand Tour) is also from Bristol. I could listen to him talk all day long.
The Bristol accent sounds a lot like the Devon and Cornwall accents where I’m from. Maybe it’s because they are all South West?
Great video guys! You should make a video about Newcastle accent,that would be really different and interesting :)
Ecem m I agree!
We will definitely do one on Newcastle soon!
Joel & Lia Awesome! I'll be waiting :)
GOD!!! Lis is soooooo gorgeous, I am actually salivating
Spent a year in Nether Stowey.I know your accent.At Quantock school 1969-70
I from hartcliff, which is the rough end of Bristol and you sounds like your from Clifton (the posh end) 😂😂. Lover we dont pronounce the T's or the H's but we are a big fan of are R's . . . Love this vid innit mate
Hartcliffe
@@mgcgaming3700 People in hartcliff cant spell 😂😂
Paige Dowle I live in Hartcliffe i can spell 😂
@@mgcgaming3700 its probably just me then 😂😂
Paige Dowle ahhh best go back to school then 😉 haha joking joking
I am a born and bred Bristolian I come from knowle. Very good impression 👏👏
You guys are amazing! Keep doing good jobs!
Thank you! 💙
Okay so ima French person living in Bristol, going to an international school and I can tell y’all my accent’s very very weird. It is a mix of American, British, Bristolian, French accent...🤣
Bristol is british...
@@DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek He/or she is probably talking about like the standard british accent and then the bristolian accent
@@AP0NKY3 what's a standard british accent?
I’m from Bath! But been just outside Bristol for 35 years so I’m a bit of a yokel now like
I just started watching Toast from London or something on Netflix. It is funny. Saw him on the IT Crowd which I've watched about 20 times. I could name 100+ comedies that I've seen. I think I saw this woman on Toast that played a teacher on House of Anubis. Enjoy your Monday.
Hi there, I’m from Sunderland and usually us Mackams speak mackam. But I realised maybe I speak more Bristolian than Mackem, is this possible?
Is Bristol the only place where English 🏴 people make their R sound??
I'm from Australia. You could stack the whole of the UK back to back 20 times, and the accent still won't have changed
MY God, you guys are so young, you didn't mention the most famous Bristolian of ALL--Cary Grant, who may have learned to unrhoticize his r's some, but carried much of the rest of his Bristol accent forever. I saw some segment on some BBC show where they were talking to a man, and I thought, "Who does that guy sound like?" Then I realized it was Cary Grant. It's not only the tighter jaw, there's a certain lilt, which comes either from tone variation or vowel length (not officially recognized as a factor in Standard English of either the Brit or Am version, but certainly present in some dialects). Yes, the guy was from Bristol. Cool dialect, with a little more musicality than most English dialects (except maybe Liverpool and Geordie).
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This is very interesting. I'm a yank, but my great grandfather came from Bristol.
as a bristolian, That Lost The accent This really helped
Serious question: Is this one of the accents Benny Hill used to use when he'd do his more "innocent" voices, like when he'd do double entendres? I'm trying to really hear it in my head. I'm writing a story, and even though I'm not "writing" the accent," I'm imagining it so I get the character right. Thanks in advance.
Benny Hill came from Hampshire. A Hampshire accent which is very similar to Bristolian.
I love this accent a lot!
shes gorgeous
you're too kind!
You are, and you have really got the Bristol accent down to a tee.
Is Wheatley's accent from portal 2 bristolian?
‘RP like we sound’
I think of RP as David Niven
I would say the way these two talk is South East
Yer but no but yer
@tunne oma vaenlast possibly. Home Counties
So it seems like a country accent in England. (I'm American). Bristol sounds more American.
Depends if your fromm Knawww,Artcliff or Soufmead tho ! .. all talks different if you knows ;)
It’s interesting how since I left the UK the RP accent is incorporating the London glottlestop. Your pronunciation of words like water (wa’er), and got to (got’a), daughter (dor’er). Also I noticed a lot of upspeak incorporated from the states, where everything is a question?
Australia is patient zero for the up speak. Supposedly it spread to California some time in the 80's.
Lia, you always have the best lipsticks! What are you wearing in this video?
Have you made a video on how to dress to work when in Bristol? I really need some help there. Especially weather fitting shoes, clothes, etc
Saying 'Stoke Gifford' really brings out the accent.
Maisie Williams (Arya in game of thrones) has a Bristolian accent as well!
Yeah but it's a pretty weak one. She grew up in Clutton which isn't in Bristol.
I used to live in bristol for 9 years from when I was 0-9 but then I moved to Wales and ive lived in Wales niw for 3 years but I visit my familt in bristol alot
Active Abbi33 same
"The Bristolian accent on the west side of town is more long than the east side of town" - Because England.