Learn A Geordie Accent | Newcastle Accent Tutorial 

If i have a accent like this i will never shut up

Sophie has an amazing energy that transfers through.

Jade thirwall bring me here😭😂😂😂

I love Sophie - she's hilarious and expressive. If she had TV show, I'd watch it.

Isn't life wonderful. I am 60 years old and have lived in Australia for 58 years and yet I understood everything Sophie was saying. It has brought tears to my eyes as I have just realised that my mother whom passed away some years ago spoke Geordie. I new she was from the north of England but it was only now that I have made the connection. The funny thing is that I now feel home sick for the north. Time for a visit I think. I have never been back to England in those 58 years.

I came here to learn Jade and Perrie's while talking

Sounds like Geordie has retained a lot of Norse/Norwegian features from Viking times. Like it a lot!

As a foreigner, I found the Geordie accent to be quite charming compared to the stiff Southern English accent we learn in school as learners of a second language.

If English is like that, I will not bother myself to correct my pronunciation, I will let it as it is

Sophia is lovely. Geordie sounds like it shares alot in common with Scots from what I can tell from this video.

“SUPA BES” - jade from little mix

I am American, and I have been getting to know many English accents. The Geordie accent has become my favorite. Something about it feels warm, sincere, friendly, easygoing and unpretentious. What's not to loove? ;)

That "Yem" is pronounced "hjem" and means "home" is super interesting to me. In Danish, "Hjem" is indeed "home". And "Børn" means "children" which is suspiciously close to "Bairn". There are more words, although that is not surprising, considering our shared history. :)

Back in the 1960's I was one of five 12 year olds trainspotting on Bournemouth Central station. A train came in and a man got off near us. He said something completely unitelligible to us. We just looked at him speechless so he repeated what he said. More silence from us until one said "why is he trying to speek to us in Russian?". He spoke again more slowly, and then agian more slowly. It sounded something like "way orz thur tree ayn tar poo ell". Finally he spoke one word at a time for us to guess its meaning, like a game of charades. He was asking "Where is the train to Poole". I came to realise in the following years that he wasn't Russian he was a Geordie.

i like the none posh accents. KEEP IT REAL! geordie, cockney, yorkshire, essex i love em

omg I love Sophies facial expressions along with her pronunciation haha

Moved to Newcastle some years ago from Canada. Couldn’t understand anyone for 6 months! Most locals have much stronger accents than the woman in this video. Moved back to Canada but now I can understand a Geordie accent (and several Scottish regional accents) perfectly well.

I'm not native English speaker, and I'm no more than intermediate level speaker, but I want to say that I like Geordie accent more than any other British accent.

Choosing someone from County Durham was a faux pas. Their accent is more closely linked to the Wearside (Mackem) accent than the Geordie. The vowels are pronounced quite a bit differently. I’m from Gateshead and you’ll hear a traditional ‘Geordie’ accent anywhere within a 5 mile radius of Newcastle city centre. Beyond that and it incrementally changes

Thanks for lots of interesting videos on English accents. Such as this one. Being Norwegian myself, I find it interesting and nice to register Geordie accent obviously has similarities with our language too. E.g the Norwegian word for kid is 'barn'. Quite similar to Geordie's 'bairn'. And Geordie 'yem' (home) sounds pretty much like 'hjem' (silent 'h') in Norwegian. Same meaning. I'm no expert on old languages/ linguistic influences, not at all, but I'd think these similarities have to do with the influences from Norse tongues in Britain some 1000+ years ago?

Not a geordie accent but a really good pit yacker accent. Geordie is Tyneside (Newcastle), mackem is Sunderland, pitmatic/pit yacker is Durham and smoggy is middlesbrough/Teesside. We don't group ourselves as having a geordie accent. Each area is proud to have their own accent.

Sophia is so nice and funny! Geordie accent definitely adds up to her appeal. I love Northern accents, they are so friendly, informal and cool.

I love this accent! The word "yem" actually sounds a lot like the Norwegian "hjem", also meaning home.

I'm Geordie living in Australia, I've lost my accent, but my dad and Granda spoke Geordie. A lot of people told me my dad was hard to understand but I never had a problem. I miss the dialect.

Sophie seems so warm and friendly. I love her!

The further north you go, the more "norse" words can be found. Some words they use in Scotland are words we use in north norway, or not to far away from the sound of it. Like Geordie "Gan"-Norwegian "Go",(go, going), Geordie "Bairn" - Norwegian "Barn", (child, children), Geordie "Yem" - Norwegian "hjem" (home). Great channel, love it.

She says everything in a weird way then suddenly says "Mouth" normally. 😆

I’m American and this is my first time knowingly listening to a Geordie accent and I love it. I think it sounds very friendly, open, and energetic!

It’s fascinating how the Northern accents tie into US southern accents. The “fawer” for “four” is very typical for many inland southern accents.

Love these local English accents. Once you know what they're saying, they're so charming! This is such a wonderful accent!

I LOVED NEWCASTLE, ITS PEOPLE AND GEORDIE LANGUAGE! Thanks for this video so I can keep practicing Geordie ❤️ I am Neapolitan from Italy, kisses and hugs

Sophie radiates such positive energy, it’s adorable.

Some Geordie words seem to derive from Old Norse, such as “bairn” (barne) for children and “yem” (hjem) for home.

Sophie sounds like she ran away from a Game Of Thrones episode

Two things struck me: As an American I was surprised from time to time when the words were pronounced exactly as I would pronounce them, but generally the accent is a little hard to follow for me. And second, Sophie was having way too much fun. :)

Absolutely love the Geordie accent - thank you to Sophie for speaking proper and helping me learn the accent - I love it because of it's rhythm and flow. And yes it's gentle and inviting.

Love it. This is a lovely, lovely accent and people who speak like this seem 100% more genuine than others.

geordie reatains much of the old english / anglo saxon words and inflections which is why some local dialect slang and sounds are similar to scandanavian languages, as well as newcastle as a city having historic ties to begen in norway which still gifts newcastle with a magnificent christmas tree every year

I'm an American born and raised with the Western Pennsylvania variant of the North Midlands dialect. I love Northern British accents but Geordie is definitely my favorite.

I'm Scottish, and I can generally understand Geordies better than I can understand some Londoners/southerners. I live only about 100 miles north of Newcastle, and only 50 miles from the English border. There are so many words that are very similar in my Scots dialect: doon, toon, divvent, canny, bonny, bairn, gaun hame (gan hyem/go home), hen (hinny), dae (dee/do), the night (tonight), the day (today), and pronunciation of four like fower, and film like fillim, so all of these are fully understandable to me.

Geordie sounds like a totally different language to me (non- native speaker of English), but I still love it!=D

I am a person from Kazakhstan and I fond of Germanic languages especially the western branch and English included, I find this girl's accent very interesting. When I heard her ''Gan'' and I was like - whoa! This is, in fact, the archaic form of the verb Go which was spoken in the middle and old English periods. Possibly the Londoners adopted Gan as Go, but in northern accents, it had not occurred I assume. And the same with Lass which is actually from old Norse laskura. Looking for another accent video!

The way her mouth looks when it rests after speaking. 😂 another thing I noticed is she looks either extremely happy or extremely surprised

My local ASDA Supermarket in Byker, Newcastle actually has the baby goods aisle labelled as Bairns and the sweets aisle as Kets , 100% true and I love it 😀

Sophia is super friendly. This video brightened up my day.

I've loved Northeastern accents every since the first time I heard it. I love the way they say the letter "H" as "haiche" and the long "A" and "O" sounds. I don't care if its considered lower-class.

Hi Anna, just wanted to say I've always loved your videos. I'm a native speaker from London (estuary for life!) and it was pretty much down to you and English with Lucy that I became a TEFL-certified online teacher (mainly business English with professionals in Russia). One of my specialities is British English Pronunciation and I bloody love perfecting my British accents and for some reason ended up watching this again!!

"Rollah Coastah, Poopah Schoopah, Oompa Loompah, Kawasaki!" Okay, I think I got it packed down.

I fell in love with Geordie accent. 😘

Yes, that's true! Geordie was voted the most friendliest in the UK like. I studied there for a year (I'm from Texas) & it was a massive learning curve, even as a lingusitics student 😅

Hi! I’m from California. I think it depends on how much exposure an individual has to different cultures, backgrounds, and diversity someone has throughout their life. I understood her perfectly! ♥️

Geordie is one of my favourite English accents as well, I like it even more after listening to Sophie , she is great !.

Useful video, Geordie to me is really one of the most difficult accents there is to understand, especially when people speak fast. Thank you. You ladies look lovely by the way :)

I can happily say I’m proud to be a geordie

Sophie is georgeous! I Just fell in love. Not only because of her accent! I`m german but i love to developed my english language skills into several dialects. Usually native speakers put me somewhere into Australia. Sounds a bit similiar to this dialect. Also i think its one of the loveliest english accents and im perfectly understanding it even as a non native english speaker.

I'm from New Zealand, and without sounding patronising, the Geordie accent is my favourite, I had never heard it until I started watching "Auf Wiedersehen Pet". If you could understand OZ, you could understand any accent.

Good to see one video on the Geordie accent. I'm still patiently awaiting a video on the Potteries accent/dialect (as I probably mentioned in the Yorkshire accent video) and if you are considering any more accent videos in the future I would suggest videos for the Cheshire dialect (probably the most overlooked and least highlighted dialect of Northern England), a traditional rhotic Lancashire accent (since Braidley's accent in the Yorkshire/Lancashire vid to me sounded closer to Mancunian), Cumbrian dialect, East Midlands (e.g. Derby or Nottingham), Edinburgh accent/dialect and some Welsh accents (preferably one on a separate area/region like Cardiff, Swansea, South Wales Valleys, Mid or North Wales as Welsh accents are just as different as the ones in England). I guess its probably too much to ask but those are just some suggestions from me.

Hi Anna, Your lessons on accents are great . Thank you for yor efforts.They help me alot in improving listening and speaking skill. I hope all the best for you, With regards.

As an American (Kalamazoo, Michigan in case you're wondering) I find these regional accents fascinating. I also wonder how people in Britain keep them all together; probably the same way we recognize and tell apart a Boston, Long Island, Deep South, Cajun, Texas or Minnesota/Upper Peninsula Michigan accent. But as a "non-British English-Speaker" the nuances are hard to keep together. Not between a Yorkshire and an Essex accent per se, but between competing northern accents for example. Anyway, I love these videos, cheers!

i love the geordie accent, my nan who very sadly died on the 24th July is from south shields and I've always loved her accent. it is such a friendly, happy accent definitely.

Some words are definitely Germanic/nordic. The chatting part is the best. Love it!

A lot of thanks, Anna! :) "Learn accent" videos are very interesting! And useful, of course!

I’m from Hong Kong 🇭🇰 and I studied in Durham like 10 years ago. I lived with a host family and listening to Sophia speaking does remind me of the days I lived there. Awwww I miss Durham so so much! Btw my host mum always called me “pet”. If Sophia reads this, would you mind explaining the meaning to me as well? Cheers!

I'm a native New Englander from Massachusetts in the United States, and the Geordie pronunciation is the most similar to the dialect here in my state, albeit without a heavy "accent". I'm often told I drop my "r's" for example. Obviously, Massachusetts was one of the original 13 colonies here in the United States, so there was definitely a British influence to our dialect here in the Northeastern United States.

The "learn geordie from a mackem" tutorial

That's an amazing lesson .. hhhh this accent is funny and I love it .. thank you so much .. you make me better Anna .. We love you , ANNA .. I'm from Sudan.

I’m from Newcastle, so I’m a geordie. Sometimes we say ‘Quid’ meaning a pound. It would be like this in a sentence as a geordie, “alreet? Can I borrow 5 quid mate? I’m getting the bus to toon”

In the British Army in the eighties and our signals officer always said that if our codes were ever compromised he would just put Geordies on all the radios and get them to speak normally to each other and any enemy listening wouldn't have a clue what they were saying....:) Also, one thing that didn't come over in the video is that Geordies tend to speak much faster than the examples and also have a tendency to string words together in a sentence? "Are you going down the town" comes out as "areyagannindoonthe toon".....

I'm a Geordie who lives in Germany for the last 25 years .my accent is as strong as the day I left That lassy speaks next generation Geordie it's softer /posher accent then mine. Because she's living in the south she's adjusting so people understand her where with me it's a totally different language so I didn't have to adjust. Words she left out. For hinny you can also say pet. Eight =eyt Hey you =Who yee Walking= wa-kin Working= walking Wirl = aworl A horse= a gallowa Around= aroond Long=Lang Alright= alreet/areet depending on your generation. No= na or nor I would say 90% of Geordie is slang and 10% is Scottish.

Geordie is a very unpretentious accent. I love it. It reminds me of my own Texas accent -- not in the way we pronounce things, but in the way it's received. Hollywood usually uses my accent to indicate someone with a lower IQ, and they invariably butcher it when they try to emulate it. I try not to be offended. Beautiful accent, Sophie!

I found this very fascinating. I live in the southeastern United States and when Sophie explained how her grandparents would say "walk" and "talk," it sounded very similar to how we say those same words here - very interesting!

I’m American and find the Geordie accent a sort of playful sexy (if that makes any sense). The glottalisation of so many consonants is *so* unique and I’ve never noticed that elsewhere. As a Hawaiian I’m used to a rather hard glottal stop, but this one is soft and very easy to interpret as the consonant it’s replacing.

Geordies seem to get made fun of a bit in British TV from my American perspective but there are many elements of Geordie present in various American regional accents especially the American south which is odd since Geordie is from the north of England. Maybe a majority of early immigrants to the US were from Northern England. Sophia is bubbly and adorable.

I’m really enjoying these accent videos. In parallel, I’m watching videos on the evolution of the English language and when you get a breakdown of words you can see how much Old Norse is in there. The vowel shift didn’t happen in Geordie perhaps because of remoteness so words like house are very close to the way it would have been pronounced a 1,000 years ago. It’s been fascinating and understandable how people from Wolverhampton claim that their accent is very faithful to original Anglo Saxon pronunciation. Liverpool fell under Danelaw in the 10th century and broken down, word by word, you can hear the Scandinavian influence. It’s true the energy and delivery of the actors really helps and it would be good fun to present the academic aspect off this in a spin-off channel.

Everyone loves the geordie accent. Both my parents have a geordie accent. My dad can do a posh voice but my Mam tries but can’t her accent is strong but I love it. I don’t understand how people don’t understand this accent (although it’s probably cos I’ve grown up with it) whenever my mam goes into the shops there is always someone who wants to talk to her. 😂😂❤one of the friendliest accents there is ❤

Originally from Mauritius, been living in Gateshead (just south of Newcastle) for 6 months now, and Geordies are the absolute nicest people I've come across. Warm, honest, always helpful and genuine. I use the local slang whenever I can and howay man, the locals luv it!

Just to give some clarification on when Sophie said she's a Pityaka: Pitmatic is a different accent/dialect to Geordie and is found in Durham and Northumberland, it developed with Coal Mining communities in those areas and some words have completely different meanings in Yaka than they do in Geordie. It's dying out/merging into the standard english with a Geordie accent, but can still be heard with the older generations. E.G. I would say "Dog" with a short o sound, Pityakas would say "Durg". Similarly, the accent (Geordie/Northumbrian) can be divided into about four different regions, North for the Borders/North Northumberland (say from Wooler to Rothbury) , South for South Northumberland (Morpeth to Blyth), Tyneside (Geordie*) and West Tynedale (say Wylam to Haltwhistle). So for example, Home: NN = Hyem T = Yem OR Hyem OR Hee-yem SN - Hee-yem WT = He-em More distinct in the past since it's all blending together nowadays, but there are still differences to be heard. While we do have a LOT of scandanavian words in our Dialect, Nothumbrian is closer to Old English than is is to Danish/Noregiean/Swedish. One thing we have almost lost is the Northumbrian Burr. Hard to explain without hearing it, but it is a peculiarity in British English apparently: Wikipedia: "According to Påhlsson (1972),[1] the Burr is typically pronounced as a voiced uvular fricative, often with accompanying lip-rounding ([ʁ(ʷ)]). Approximant, voiceless fricative, tapped and trilled uvular pronunciations occur occasionally. The data for Northumberland and northern Durham in the Survey of English Dialects (gathered in the 1950s) suggest that in addition to full pronunciation in syllable onset, uvular /r/ in these dialects was usually maintained in syllable coda position, typically as uvularisation of the preceding vowel". *Geordie is a touchy subject amongst us, what constitutes at true Geordie differs from person to person. Not so important these days as our accent has been standardised and diluted, but call someone from Sunderland a Geordie and you'd be glared at, both by the Geordie you''re speaking too and the person from Sunderland.

Birmingham accent, please

I love Sophie’s playful attitude 🥰😜 and accent

I love how diverse the English language and accent truly is!

Extremely interesting! Yem sounds almost exactly like the swedish/scandinavian word for home. Suppose there are these kind of similarities because of the common seafaring traditions since the 800s, Vikings and fishermen and traderoutes. Same with bairns, barn, børn and loads of other words of course. Similarities also somewhat applies to the extrovertness among coastal dwellers in the North sea region. My granddad (sailor in the early 1900s didnae speak a word of English but always was able to communicate with his collegues wherever they came from in this region!

I feel like i'm not the only one who's here because of jade and that makes me so proud ❤✨

As an American, I find Geordie to be much friendlier than other accents. One of my favorite comedians is Sarah Millican; she's gotten quite popular, she's straight up Geordie, and I think her accent is a big part of her success!

I love sophie's attitude

Northern English is definitely closer to the (original germanic) scandinavian languages, also the bairn proves it, because child is barn in Norwegian. I guess it is because of the stronger Normans influence in Southern Britain, who were speaking old french.

I love the Geordie accent, if not to fast spoken I ( as a german) have no trouble understanding it.

At first I thought, why do we need a English program on speaking Geordie (I love the accent), but I have only heard it in fiction/drama, and from people living in London where I am. This video was stunning. I'm amazed how broad regional accents can be here in modern Britain (sheltered life)! 😊

Am from co durham chester le street which makes me a pit yakka too. But you have Geordies in Newcastle and makems in Sunderland but all our accents are similar really. You would have to be a born and bred northener to tell the difference.

She is so funny, why?😂❤

All of these wholesomely adorably women. I think this is the accent where I'm lost whether they're Scottish or Irish, not telling the one from the other. Like the gray-area accent.

This made me laugh remembering my granda Peever born and lived in Jarrow into his twenties. He still had the accent at 80.

2 years before this video was released I went to lovely city - Newcastle upon Tyne. I wish I was watching this before ;) being foreigner in England (living up North) it was still difficult to me to understand the native speakers. Thanks for this video. when covid ends I may come back in this beautiful area

I love accent videos! This reminds me of my favourite British film Billy Elliot.

Bairn makes me think of Icelandic (as well as Norwegian, Swedish, …): the word for "child" is "barn".

I was just thinking that the Geordie accent sounds like English with a heavy influence of Danish. And then when she said Bairn (barn in Danish / Scandinavian languages) and Yem (hem / hjem in Scandinavian languages), well, there you go! It seems the Vikings have had quite an influence 🙂

“Hinny” is an interesting word. It’s mainly used by older people (50/60+). It doesn’t literally mean “honey” as so many people - even Geordies - seem to think. Yes, my parents used to call each other “hinny”where others may have used “love” or “pet”. But I’ve also heard men calling each other “hinny” - sometimes older men when speaking to younger men - and it’s not considered inappropriate, just an alternative for “mate” or “pal”, or even “son”. You’d never hear two younger blokes using it to each other, if they even use the word at all!

A lot of people make the mistake that geordie is a scandanavianised accent not true the dipthongs and the vowel sounds are pure northumbrian Anglo-Saxon it's one of the oldest and most authentic of English accents a true gem a living history book coming from a yorkie that's some praise!!!

Im from durham, was nice hearing my accent explained to others lol

I'm American. Met a woman from Newcastle on Wednesday. Mistook her for Scottish. Always heard of Geordie but had no idea what it sounded like. Wish I had been prepared. I'd have told her to "loak, it's ah floh'in goht." They really love to lean out face first over their vowels!!!

I think you're both hilarious!. I love your videos! I am at University now learning Linguistics and these videos are helping me greatly. Thank you so much. xx.