Can British Accent Expert guess Where 6 British come from by Listening to their Accents? 

Almost non of these people have accents representative of their areas. These accents are typically of performing arts students trying to leave thier roots behind.

The mistake you made was choosing people living in korea. Those people will of course more than likely be middle class and above. And thats the key thing with British accents, its not just region, its also your sodial class within that region that determines your accent.

It was my pleasure joining "World Friends"! I had a lot of fun! 😆🇬🇧🇰🇷

Ahh yes, that place in the UK called "Lankshear" 💀

"How many UK people do you want to put in one video" - world friends : yes

He was actually pretty good. I was guessing along as well. I think you might actually have to be British to zero in on specific areas, but he got general regions.

All these accents are fairly neutral versions of their respective regions, they all have relatively middle-class accents. Even the Glaswegian accent was quite toned down - but I suppose that's because he's from a village not the metropolitan area.

They all sounded middle class with a standard English accent and no regional accents except for the Glaswegian and even he sounded like a middle class weigie lol , I would have found that hard

Kind of disappointed in the lack of diversity with the accents because they were mostly very similar (no scouse, brummie, Yorkshire, mank, jordie, Essex, Ireland, welsh, Bristolian, etc) but otherwise interesting.

I didn’t think the Scottish guy had a strong Glaswegian accent. He fooled me.

Italian here. Lived in London for about 10 years and I can confirm he’s done a great job at guessing the accents! Apart from the Scottish accent, which was pretty obvious, and Lauren’s - which sounds clearly Northern/Lancashire to me - all the other accents are quite standard British/posh accents. Considering that some of them are English teachers who live overseas, I would assume they must have worked on their accents and it shows, as they’re not your stereotypical regional accents. It would have been interesting to hear an Essex, a Brummie, a proper Scouse, or a Geordie accent as well. :) I suspect that even a born and raised British person would struggle to clearly identify some of them.

You should give him an East Anglian accent (Suffolk/Norfolk) ! Lots of people think we sound Australian.

Devonshire is an older name for Devon. It's still used sometimes now, but generally when describing something... like a Devonshire cream tea.

How many Southerners do you want to guess a general posh accent for? "All of them" Needs way more Northern accents, Yorkshire, Geordie, Mackem, Carlisle, Manchester...and so on.

Idk why but emily's accent is so addictive. I can listen it over and over again as listening practice. Thank you emily 😭😭🎉🎉🎉

A neutral/normal/BBC english accent is called Received Pronounciation or RP. Most of the people on here mainly spoke RP. There weren't many strong accents tbh

Please make a similar video with Spanish accents (not only from Spain, México and Argentina), there are so many countries who speaks Spanish. Best!

Stacey's voice sounds lovely. Like something you'd hear in an ASMR program.

So happy to see my friend stacey on here 💜💜💜

Not guessing where they are from by accent; guessing by collecting data about where they are from.

Wow! That Billy is great!! Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.

The voice of the girl from Cheltenham was so poised and calm.

This guy did a great job with this.

That was a very good video! Knowingly that the UK 🇬🇧 has so many regional accents, it was great to get everyone together to compare. Lauren, aka Lily now 😂. It was great you got Korean Billy on! I used to enjoy his YT comparison videos with the US John, UK Sam, AU Bella/Walter and SA Chantélle years ago. He’s definitely as demonstrated today he’s an British accent expert.

I'm sure he said Cornwall is not a county. It most certainly IS a county. One more point is that after the Merseyside girl said 'bath' he started saying that was from Yorkshire rather than Merseyside or Lancashire. He knows SO much about British accents that I'm surprised about this big mistake. The so called 'trap-bath' divide is a hugely important factor in British accents. Everyone in the north of England from a point just south of Birmingham upwards pronounces the vowels in the words 'trap' and 'bath' the same with a short 'a' sound. In the south they pronounce them differently with 'trap' having a short 'a' and 'bath' having a long open vowel rhyming with general UK pronunciation of 'half'. So her saying 'bath' with a short vowel is a sign she is from the north in general (which she is) not Yorkshire in particular.

Very good job, Billy!!

Well , hello Lily , or should i say Lauren🤣 with another made up name

This video is great...👍🏻

so many accents to chose from and pretty much everyone here had an accent from a generic southern accent lol. Even the ones supposedly from other areas didnt have their local accents. Should do this again but with actual variety.

It's funny, because you can hear a slight Souse twang in Lily's voice sometimes - particularly when she was talking about her mates back home at the end, so maybe a touch of it coming on subconsciously there. But it's not consistent enough for you to think "I know where you're from".

This is a giggle - I could immediately think of accents that would have been much easier to recognise, like in London, blimey, the world's your oyster!

Very interesting. Billy is good at guessing UK accents

uh- how is asking about location, city size, sports teams and tourism the same as recognizing accents?

Wow!!! Love this!!!

Great to see Billy on here!

he really didn't guess through accent and more through geography

Srry, I missed this video. I was AFK, but wooow. Surprised to see Korean Billy guest star!

Stacey's voice is so nice!

the fine lass from Dorset is a beauty

He knows so much. I grew up in Britain, he knows more British accents and geography than I do.

Lancashire = Lankshear 🤣 Plethora = there are four 🤣 Borough = barrow 🤣 Take the mickey = take the, make it 🤣

These are the most neutral accents apart from the Glaswegian 😂

I'm not entirely sure why the blindfold was needed.. You're not about to look at someone and be like, oh, they're scouse lol

First Claire, then Sophie and now Lily 🙃 Lauren made me laugh 😂😂😂

I've watched this videos for ages and never saw anyone from my town of Cheltenham before! Haha. It's weird hearing your own accent back at you. Haha

Long time no see Billy!

He’s also using the words that they use and tbh he is asking a lot of geographical related questions.

This was incredibly difficult. Most of those people don't speak with their regional accents at all! (I'm British and hadn't a clue.)

"It's globally famous" from UK and then anyone would say London

That woman did not have a Greenwich accent I am from Greenwich but she did say she came here from South Africa and she seems to have developed a tiny bit of the multicultural London English accent which is a standard thing these days to be honest.

Me watching till the end just to see Emily , cute as ever ❤

I really wasn't expecting Korean Billy to be in a World Friends video, and it's about time for Billy to see if he can spot accents from different parts of the UK! 👍

None of them had a strong accent, that's the issue. Even though I've lived in Glasgow for 4 years now, I thought the guy was from somewhere else, because his accent was so soft

Oh wow, the girl who is from Greenwich, I guessed before she said where - I thought we sounded really similar, and I am actually born and raised in Greenwich and Blackheath☺️

You're so lovely Emily.

❤❤

What difference did the blind fold make?

Well that was impressive

these captions are wild

I was thinking Dorset for the last one (because that's where I'm from so I completely got what she was saying about the typical farmer's accent, but nobody uses it haha) but she threw me off when she said she was 30 minutes from Bristol - there's no way anywhere in Dorset is only 30 minutes from Bristol 😂😂

More tricky or just trickier but not both!

Can someone PLEASE tell me when this guy goes back and forth so much between a British accent and a Korean accent?? It’s not a blend, it’s like he has both accents and switches mid sentence

I can also trick Mexicans when it comes to my accent, Sometimes I just change to a somewhat neutral accent or sometimes I pretend I'm a foreigner with a foreigner accent(I do it pretty easily cause I know English), etc I love tripping em up

I wish their was a Cumbrian peorson in This

Great to see Korean Billy on the channel. That was bare japes, fam.

That girl with the pink jumper and black skirt has some funny inflections that remind me of Asian accents. I’m wondering if she’s picked up a few Korean inflections. If I heard her say some of the sentences she says, I’d even say she was a Korean person speaking very good English. I lived near Cheltenham and she sounds a bit different. I’m a bit confused by his geography - “the black country/ Yorkshire border”… um… where’s that then?! Derbyshire is in the way! I was raised in Devon but don’t have a Devonian accent. I’m more RP, like she is. My husband is Devonian and his accent comes through with a/r/ar sounds. His parents both have thicker accents and his grandparents had even thicker accents. Cornwall is a county. The old name for Devon is Devonshire and it’s used in certain contexts still - such as another way to say something is from Devon (like ‘Devonian’). A Devonshire cream tea, for example.

From her accent, I think Lilly is probably from Southport or somewhere nearby.

Why is he blindfolded for this?

Nice

Felix is so handsome and cute~ I really like him~~~

I'd really appreciate if a Mackem or Geordie had been in that game

Lankshear? Not Lancashire? Seriously? 😂😂😂

As these Brits live abroad they have all slightly weakened thier accents, little point talking fast with strong accent using local dialect as your just be asked to repeat yourself so the accent becomes weaker, Scots hard to hide but I would not have said Glasgow, more Stirling to me, London accents were all pretty middle class harder to pin point in city as more RP, Lauren is well Lauren and I actually guessed Cheltenham correct thx to word festival (racing) and it clearly was in that region but not coastal.

Lily is like Lauren, is it her sister 🤔? The Korean guy is actually not so bad. He didn’t totally guess everything but analyzed their accents very well and made close guesses.

Johnny is just 😍😍😍

Okay so I am stoked seeing korean billy and lauren in a single screen

Wait that’s billy lmaooooooooooooooo his tiktoks are funny as fuckkkkkk

I have really loved this video. The reactions are really great

2nd girl knew straight away she was from merseyside, not all "scouse" accents come with a tsunami of phlegm, some are much more subtle

Wjrn be says: 'so, don't & know...' He sounds exactly like a geordie 🤣🤣

Wasn't he supposed to be an expert?

I’m curious why he always says “there you go”

Baybee, God is real with the creation of this Felix person and his voice. lol 7:55. Wow.

Did anyone check the subtitles before this came out ?? Glaswegian = Glasgow region, Lancashire = lankshear....

I’m British but in recent years I’ve been asked where I’m from whilst in England and in my home town, apparently I don’t come across as British I don’t know why.

Haven't seen Billy for ages. Is his 'Billyonaire' channel still going?

They spelt Lancashire wrong they spelt it lankshear

This was a bit of a shame. Of the 6 people, you chose 4 posh people with homogenised SP accents. So it's kind of irrelevant where they come from in terms of accent identification.

"Korean Billy" sounds so much like a Karl Pilkington friend. Then again, it sounds like a nickname that could definitely stick to someone in some town/ housing estate or something. Probably someone who is not Korean.

Yay Gloucestershire representation 😂

Why is he blindfolded for a hearing challenge?

Is Lauren from Southport?

OK, so the expert is going to guess where that person is from by checking their accent but the last girl does NOT speak in that accent? Are you joking me?

Lankshear is Lancashire

Good try at being Henry Higgins .

That girl from Dorcet on 14:16 this is actualy a very very Korean way to shake hands. Interesting

you didnt need an expert, just grab a random man from the pub and ask him to come for the video, the video will be shorter but more accurate.

The person doing the subtitles had absolutely no clue...

Lankashear? What it with these subs?

Lauren changed her name from Claire to lily??? What’s next Samantha? Emily!! 😂I love this channel!