A Newfoundland Language Lesson with Mark Critch, Candice Walsh and Travel Yourself 

I’m from Montreal and I had a Newfie teacher in college. The whole semester I just assumed she was from Ireland. One day I just asked her and she said she was from Newfoundland, I was shook.

my first time in newfoundland when i got drunk i could understand everyone all week hammered on the last day i was sober and couldnt understand anything they said lmfao

even the slang is the same...these guys could stroll into parts of ireland and nobody would even think they were foreign. lol

And they say Ireland never colonised anywhere 😂 up the lads, we made it!

This is incredible. I never realised how many different Irish accents are still alive in Newfoundland. Must visit!

Newfoundland is a somewhat hidden treasure of Canada. I highly recommend visiting, it's absolutely beautiful as well as being full of character (as the video indicates).

I love the fact as someone from Northern Ireland I understand most of this

I’m from Toronto... but Irish/Scottish roots... I’ve had Brits comment that I sound British. I’ve met Newfies I thought were straight from Ireland... and Irish I thought were Canadian because their accent was identical to mine. It’s unbelievable how accents can be so varied and yet so well maintained through generations of migrating. I picked up the phone once and answered in a standard Canadian accent, but the woman on the other end was Scottish and I instantly defaulted into a Scottish accent because it’s an accent I grew up with... I also default to a French accent in Quebec because I have French relatives... kind of hilarious. Newfies do the same... they change their accent and lingo depending on who they’re talking to... it’s quite the skill, lol.

"Deadly auld time" Yep, we use that in Ireland

Once I met a Cape Breton lady and I asked her what part of Newfoundland she was from. I've never seen a lady got madder. In order to calm her down I had to say sorry several times and ask if anybody else is made that mistake. As soon as I said as anybody else made that mistake she became very calm and said a lot of people.

Funny to see a guy from Newfoundland impersonate an Irish Newfoundland accent with his own Newfoundland Irish accent.

THIS IS EXACTLY LIKE THE WEXFORD ACCENT. YOUS EVEN SAY "I LIKES", "I WANTS" AS WELL. ITS CRAZY.

"I'm not talking to fast, you're listening to slow". epic lol

My wife & I were in Ireland in 2009. We're from Labrador. The guide had the full Irish lilt telling stories & jokes. Others must have thought we were crazy because we could understand every word & we were laughing our heads off at her. She could tell a story or 2.

There are 10 different dialects of English spoken in Newfoundland, representing the counties or main areas of West Country England or Ireland from which people emigrated. Memorial University's English Dep't. research concluded that Nfld's English is the most distinct form of English on the planet. Each dialect has some words or expressions which are unique to that dialect. Many of the Newfoundlanders known to people from outside the province are the celebrities who've come from St.John's or somewhere on the Avalon Peninsula where immigrants from Ireland settled long before the great Irish famine occurred. They arrived near the turn of the 19th century. Approximately 1/3 of Newfoundlanders are descended from the Irish; 2/3 have English heritage: West Country England cities like Poole and Devon or Dorset.

My family is from Stephenville...they spoke fluent French. Proud to be descended from Newfies! Cheers from the States. :)

It's like if an Irishman lived in Northern Iowa.

I love the Newfie accent and don't want it to disappear. It seems it's starting to fade, though. When that car commercial a few years came back and stereotyped the accent all of Newfoundland was outraged and went out of their way to show they didn't talk like that. I was thinking: "WHY?" They should've said "Yep! That's how we talk! Come to Newfoundland to hear us speak - and bring all your tourist dollars with you!" Lol. x

i'm born and raised in Newfoundland, wouldn't have it any other way. i understand every word. i talk pretty well exactly like that :) fast, and with that amazing accent! Newfies rock

I heard someone say once, that a person who study's dialects and stuff once said, of all the languages and dialects in the world that exist today, Newfoundland's is the closest to Elizabethan English that was spoken in Shakespearean days. Newfoundland is the only province in Canada that has it's own dictionary, thesaurus, time zone and distinct cultural that is completely separate from the rest of Canada. Having it's own time zone separate from the rest of the world even. They are remote and has kept it's traditions and culture. One old Christmas tradition is from England and Ireland - I once asked a British woman about it (she was about 45 years at the time) and she has no clue what i was talking about. It dates back to the 19th century. I guess they don't practice it over there anymore. Although i am from Toronto, I am very proud to say my family comes Newfoundland and every time i visit there, there is a peace that overcomes me and i feel like i am home. I even call it home, even though i really never lived there. Sometimes Newfoundlander's are surprised to find out that i am a mainlander, lol . One day it will be my home.

i've been having a bit of an emotional day today and was looking into places that i could live in the future. came across this, and the idea of living there has really brightened my day ^^

I would move to Newfoundland just to talk to people who talk like this :D I love it!

Mark Critch is brilliant.

Everybody everywhere has an accent! I'm a Nova Scotian living in Vancouver and I got made fun of when I moved here bc I said certainly words different from the locals. So I "adapted". But it still slips out when I'm drunk, haha. I love the Newfie accent, makes me miss back east.

Fucking amazing I'm from Cork and understood everything and I mean everything that was been said :)

They sound like Irish travellers. When the dude did 'the irish accent', that is one accent (A little too Tom Cruise in 'Far and Away' for my liking) but ireland has multiple accents and many are show cased here or rather how some accents would have sounded through the last century.

Great laugh thanks! Im from Nova Scotia and had many a newfie in the family. Good stuff!

The thing is in other provinces we have variations too... like in Alberta there is a distinct accent in the Borcht Belt where dey talk wit de disses and da dats, couple times of years dey go to da big city of admunton

Great video! I lived in Fort McMurray ten years ago, and this video reminds me of all the nice people I met there.

Take this clip for what it is meant guys ...Newfoundlanders are proud tp make fun of themselves ...all in good humour, our language is unique , coming from a mixture of cultures...

I love this because I can barely understand them and I'm a newfie😂

Most these accents are derived from Irish, 4:49 is a Limerick city accent, 4:48 is a Cavan town accent, 5:04 is a cork accent, even the guy and girl in the video speaking in their natural voice sounds Irish, and could almost pass for someone from Waterford.

This is funny haha....Mark Critch is hilarious - made my morning

I'm from Corner Brook but been living in Ontario pretty much all my life. People still comes up to me and ask if I'm from Nfld. I guess its because of hearing the accent all my life from me mudder!!

4:50 sounds like a limerick accent 🤣.. 5:05 is definitely a cork access haha. I'm going to Newfoundland for a visit.

This is incredible and I just learned today that Newfies speak Irish. I thought the Irish language was written and spoken like another language. I have seen Irish words written and I had no idea what was being written.

I just got an urge to watch This Hour Has 22 Minutes.

On behalf of all Canadians, I apologize for the wrong behaviour of Sweiland75! Yes, you are right, even native English speakers from other provinces of Canada have a hard time understanding this beautiful accent. I am from Ontario but love Newfoundland accent and Newfoundlanders. They are really nice people. Actually all East Coasters are great people. Hope you can visit it someday.

I understand this!! Unbelievable! Mental note: Must go to Newfoundland at some point over the next two years.

I really want to go to Newfoundland, I'm Irish and their slang and accents are so similar

This is the best case of lingustic analysis from the inside! Absolutely brilliant!

Thanks for sharing I love Newfies so unique! You guys are precious!

I'm not sure why all of this Newfoundland stuff from 12 years ago is coming up suddenly but I'm liking it! It's impossible not to have a good laugh when there's a newfie in the room.

Newfoundlanders are the greatest people on earth and the Rock is amazing.

Mark Critch is a Newfie legend and a Canadian treasure.

I am from Corner Brook and I cannot understand so much of this. No surprising since we have more accents than any other place in the world. Being from the west coast the French part of the island and I can understand them!!!! Lol Sometime I find myself talking like the people of Stephenville and I've been away for 49 years!

As a Newfie from Central, I love being able to understand this without any trouble. :)

This Guys hilarious. Need to google and watch him now. I was crying laughing with his chip fryers.

Irish born and bred here and I understand 100% of that.

Funny I worked at the airport here in st. johns and when we would have the American military come in we used to have to talk slower and try to water down our accents because they used to look at us and say "...um, what?.." haha

Yes by I'm from nl and I talks just like dat by

Newfoundland accent sounds like an Irish accent

FRom El Salvador, my country , thanks very much for the video ! great video !

Until the early 20th century, there were speakers in Newfoundland of a dialect of the Irish language called Newfoundland Irish. Remember that Newfoundland was a separate country until 1949.

This was entertaining. Not even as someone who likes linguistics but also just as a fun video to watch

I swear it sounds like the guy said, Casper was a rubber ducky?! and the response was, "not much where were you at?" "Oh not much going laying down a wicked wah."

Keep this culture alive! Love from Montreal! :)

Holy hell...i was not prepared for the way that guy talks. WOAH! hehe, i wnna catch a newfie accent XD

My area in NB is filled with families from Cork. And it's also a very Acadian-concentrated area so you'd think we'd all have very thick accents but the closest English school is nearly an hour away so we're affected by the way people talk in that area. I have a bit of an accent, but you'll really notice it if you get me excited or if I'm talking to other people from down shore.

First time I met a newfounese, I thought I was having a stroke. I swore this is english but I don't understand any of it!

Great video! I'm a mainlander but my boyfriend is from the east coast of the Rock and I miraculously understand almost all of this.

I dies at you!

"this one little rock on the side of the coast the coast"... lol. Loves it ere by'

I live close to the city and I find that as you get further into the bay the thicker the accent gets

People from Cork stayed in the one spot and didn't move around. that's Cork people for ya haha

Bi's im from newfoundland u forgot dat when we says up da coast we actually mean down the coast and goin down da coast means goin up da coast

It's a gealic Celtic Irish rouge accent!

I'm in love with this accent or whatever this is. I'm kinda doing it at work and by kinda I'm doing it uncontrollably. New customers are asking what Ireland was like and I'm like... whoops.

There is a town in nfld that my great great great grandparents who came from Ireland to nfld they named after her Mary something my father was telling me the other day ! I cant remember exzactly but I died laughing at this.. I miss it !

Oh right thanks! I'm Irish and it sounds pretty familiar to me, Cork accent specifically. You'd definitely know that it has been derived from Irish atleast! :) pretty cool.

mark critch is a funny guy but he knows his stuff too, he earned my respect.

"You might have yer hospital, but we has the school." I fucking laughed so much, reminds me of my community.

I don't know how many times I've watched this! Love it!

Mark is so correct on 100% of this. His history is not only correct it’s clearly funny as well. I’ve always said, I can tell where someone’s from in NL but the way they talk. BOTwood. Hahahahaha

A month ago I was in Erins Pub. (An Irish pub on Water Street) A pleasent young lady was talking to the bar tender. I detected a distinct accent. I was going to ask what part of Ireland are you from but I decided I may as well ask where in Cork were you brought up. Instead I decided to play the fool and ask and I quote" What part of the Southern Shore are you from?" She was from Port Kirwin, not cork, Not ireland but rather about 60 miles away from that St.John's pub.

True he's been having a crack with the pretty gals down dere. Sounds really fast though like a rainbow Effect🇨🇮 Blessings everyone 😎 I'm from Chicago so I know the diversity why we got many accents

I love how she translated everything i understood and nothing i didn't understand 🤣

Crazy how many different Irish accents all mould into one here

The funny thing (or ting) is, I'm from Cape Breton. I lived in Brampton, Ontario for a few years and there were so many people that thought I was from Newfoundland. At the time I was a bit insulted but not now. My great grandfather was from northern Newfoundland and his father or grandfather was from Ireland. So I start to understand what's goin on. I'm descended from Irish immigrants in the year 1756. Where they settled in Twillingate, Newfoundland. I of course never thought I had any sort of "accent" but low and behold I do. Living in the Sydney area, or Cape Breton Regional Municipality, of Cape Breton Island, we have I would say 4 distinct accents in our small area. I find that sort of strange for our small area but I guess it stems from older days when we were seperate and more isolated as communities and the accents stuck. We don't tend to talk as fast as Newfoundlanders though I don't tink.

Born and raised from Stephenville. I miss home.

I have an uncle who is from Newfoundland and he's been in Manitoba for many years. Still has his accent

I love Newfoundland...lots of love from Nova scotia.

Ik all that they said I'm a newfoundlander. One time mama dad called the US for something he wanted to buy the person on phone said she liked his accent and asked where his accent was from

My nanna is newfi! God I love her!

this was great, made me a subscriber.

i work in northern alberta and im surrounded by newfies and i think they are all happy and good people ..there good for a laugh thats for sure

thanks for the help, traveling there in a week lol

6:00 sounds like the French buddy spent a bit too much time up here in Fort Mac, out at camp. 7:26 haha thus is basically the extent of racism you'll find in Newfoundland :P 8:12 That's gold! I LAUGHED SO HARED! LMAO Betcha can't tell if I[m drunk or not! haha holy frig, this vidoe is epic, gotta add this one to me favourites!

Yes bhy this is EXACTLY how we talk lol

I lived in Montreal for a while and had the opportunity to meet some Newfounlanders. It's crazy how much it sounds like the Irish brogue.

Mark Critch is the best

The different accents he talks about are different parts of Ireland, for instance when he says "they always sound surprised", they're probably originally from cork!

Legit sounds like Wexford was uprooted hahaha! If they were in Ireland, they would fit in even with the slang :D

Best description of our way of speaking bar non

I'm a Newfoundlander and this is so funny for people who aren't from Newfoundland

Must visit Newfoundland, I wouldn't even need a language lesson, brilliant.

I'm from Ireland and I understood every word. Nuts.

You don't "dodge" up, you dart up

Mark ya sounds like a Skeet in this clip! Whahahaha

regional accents are the best.