Welcome to anyone who has stumbled upon my channel. I am Colin Maltman a 34 year old English teacher from Scotland currently living in Poland. On Colin Maltman English you'll find a range of videos to help you improve your English vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation and everything inbetween. Everything here is done with a Scottish accent as I am obviously from there and I look to help students of English improve anything they need help with. Here your grammar and vocabulary will definitely improve and because I do videos on things like idioms and phrasal verbs, your nativeness is sure to excel too. If you have any enquiries, do not hesitate to contact me on one of my socials listed on the page. Thank you for stopping by! Leave any kind of video tyou'd like to see under the comments sections and I will try my best to get it done for you
Another enjoyable and useful video! Thanks for taking the time to do this. I'm from Florida, well that's where I live now, lol. I've lived all over the US. I was born in Arizona, but was only there till I was 5 mo. old, lol. I've lived from Washington State to Texas, and California to the Carolinas. The only states I've never been are the New England areas (nor Hawaii and Alaska). I've been to Canada and Mexico to visit, but that's as far as I've been from the states. If I could travel oversees, it would be to Scotland!
Many of the more exotic words you mentioned here, such as braw or greet or bairns, are actually the same in Swedish. So they were most likely adopted from the Vikings.
I noticed some similarities to our Pennsylvania German. When it was cloudy, we would say dreep. We would say ken, meaning to know someone. The older folks would say ga brucha (which means broke) for vomiting. When a child was good, they were brawf.
Some of these sound Olde English, and some sound Gaelic. I sold my soul to a green owl to learn Scottish Gaelic and then learned I should do better to hear more Scots! 😂
This is weird and a bit fun as well. I am from southern Denmark, a small Island named Als. We used to have a distinkt dialect here, that only few speak to this day. We have a word similar to mauchit, with the excact same meaning and almost the same pronounciation. Its pronounced a little more like "mauche". Meaning dirty. What a weird coincidence.
Czechowice-Dziedzice was known in entire Poland from matches factory, recently closed. Regarding pronounciation of nasal vowel "ę" - it is nothing wrong with pronouncing it same way regardless its place in a word. What you have said about different pronounciation when the "ę" vowel ending a word, and therefore is pronounced like "e", without nasalization, it is a lazy way of pronounciation. Many Poles speaks like that, so it is not even considered as mispronounciation , however, if you want to use a perfect Polish like it should be, you should pronounce "ę" always as nasal wovel.
Going to the pictures isn't a Scottish thing. It's more generational. I'm a 70s child so I heard adults both in Scotland and Englandshire say it. So I say it myself.
First: I'm German. But I hear so much words here.. sounds familiar, for example: oxters. In Germany this part of the body is called "Achseln", here in Bavaria it sounds like "Axeln" (the A like a mixture of A and O)... or: Ah dinnae ken here in my dialect: "Nah..Kenn i ned" Funny.
Thank you for sharing your language and culture. It's very important in this modern world. Our differences are the special features, not a bad thing, and we gotta keep them. As a non-native, I enjoy listening to English accents, they are so interesting)
When I was in England, I knew teachers with differents accents. It was a great experience. I like more the british pronunciation. Although, when talking to people, older people have a clearer pronunciation. I like your channel..thank you so much!!
I was born in Falkirk but lived in Condorrat till I was five then we moved to Australia - we still use these words exept the armpit one I have never heard of that one.
Aye! Awright! As a Geordie and also being descended from Scottish living in Newcastle, we use words like "Bairn", "Lad/Lass", "Numpty", "Bonnie", "Aye" to name a few. I love Scottish words and I find "Honkin' oxter" so funny! 😅. Glad to have found your channel. Thank you.
Pleeeeease don't say "the way proper folk speak". I'm Scots and deal with languages professionally and I get really pissed off at Scots people denigrating their own language and idiom. It's a gey braw leid, yaise it.
Hello teacher I'm your new subscriber my friend recommended to me your channel. I have a little query In causative we have sentences like Get Active - I will get someone to do this work ( means persuing or convincing someone to do something) Passive - someone will be persuaded or convinced to do this work . ( I don't know about passive. is my passive correct or if not then what is . Have Active - I'll have my assistant take a look . Passive - my assistant will be asked to take a look . { I don't know whether my passive sentences are correct if not let me know the correct ones } Get + someone/ something + v3 Active - I will get it done .( Means I'm not going to do the someone else for me ) Passive - it will be done . Have +someone/ something +v3 Active - I'll have it completed.( I'm not going to do the work some else for me ) Passive - it will be completed Have + some one / something + v3 and Get someone / something + v3 Both have the same meaning but "get" is informal and " have" is formal # For an unfortunate situation what do we use You are gonna get yourself killed Or You are gonna be killed Since I know get is used but which get Get + v3 ( informal passive form ) Get + someone/ something+v3 ( causative verbs ) Which get would you prefer indicating for an unfortunate situation ? Thank you I have sent video links to many learners And they find it essential.
