@@ТОКХЭНД "so far" means "up to that time". so when I said "this is the best explanation so far", it means up to the time i said it, no other video gave better explanation.
@YouAintFromEndz why is it so? I also heard people tend to hide it when they go out of Birmingham looking for jobs or study as if they’re ashamed, why shouldn’t be proud of how they speak
I love how she transforms her vocal tone when she is explaining anything in Birmingham accent. She is talking like a normal person when she speaks in RP but the moment she switches into Birmingham accent she suddenly turns into a SHELBY😂
Trouble is Bikram Singh, the so called Shelby's are IRISH and what they speak in Peaky Blinders is an Irish Accent. They do not speak in a Birmingham accent, take it from a true born and bread Brummie.
I think this is great but where do you actually come from? I say the flat 'a' in South Staffirdshire. Some Brummies say a very long "'ad a barth" and "the gardin' parth". I've never worked out the geography of it.
I believe this accent to be very comfy for native Spanish speakers, you roll the rs like us, you pronounce the U more or less like us, you pronounce the A exactly like us as well as the I.
I'm a Brummie, but haven't lived there for over fifty years. Watching this I noticed I still sound a lot like my foredays even though the people I know say I don't have a Brummie accent. I know I still do, and a weekend visit to my sister really brings it out.
I found your channel by accident and browsed for a bit. My family is from England in the 20s! I’m so captivated by your site. But I came to say what an EXCELLENT teacher you are!! Bravo.
I'm actually from Birmingham, England & i think this video is hilarious 😂. I'm not offended by this at all. In fact i think this is brilliant. I was born & raised in the West Midlands County of England for 43 years since birth. This woman is not only very funny but she is actually quite attractive as well. We need more people like her in Brum as us Brummies would say. Brum is a nickname for Birmingham. Residents of Birmingham (or Brum) are called Brummies.
Birmingham/Black Country accent is the best accent of the land. Yes I know they are slightly different and people will get offended but they are very close...Class accent.
Lived 7 months in Birmingham during my studies. I can understand brummie. Took me only 2 months. It gets really funny when I need to translate for people who speak English as well or better than me 😂
As a German speaker, I often despair of English spelling, which only gives you approximate hints on how to pronounce something. The Birmingham dialect seems to be clearer, and the vowels are also closer to German, as I note with amazement.
As a speaker of both german and english ( and swedish ), as i lived for 10 years in Brum ( Shard End, not far from Small heath ). The Brummie way of pronouncing vowels are much closer to how we do it in the rest of the germanic language countries.
I'm from the black country and ive noticed that the main difference is that a lot of ppl with the brummy accent have a much deeper sounding voice while back country accent is a little higher and sing songy
Sin saber mucho de inglés, entendí todo el vídeo. Gran profe!! Me encantó. Soy muy fan de la serie y este video me ayuda a entender más ese acento particular que noté sin saber las diferencias, solo de oído. Tu vídeo hizo que ahora conociera la fonética de esa particularidad que notaba en el hablar de los actores de la serie ya que la vi siempre en idioma original. Celebro haberte encontrado
Wow... It's close to old english Saxon speech.... For me as a German it's sound very familiar.... Indeed we are Anglo-Saxons and Saxons.... I would say the closest ties in Europe... English and Germans are family... Let's stick together..... 🏴🇩🇪❤️✌️
You're hilarious 😅 I'm Australian, and I've always thought our accent sits between Cockney and RP - but watching this video, I hear echoes of the way we pronounce the a, i and o vowels.
I m polish living in West midlands i looove the accent here and I guess I acquired it accidentally 😃 everyone thinks im brumi🤣 and I looooooove peaky blinders 💖🖤🖤🖤🖤 oiroight mate! Nice one, taraaa!
I know it's kinda silly, but, I've been feeling quite comfortable with this accent. I learned American-English when I was a child, and to about the age of 8 no-one noticed I was a foreigner; then as time passed by I lost my edge because of the lack of practice, and when someone called out the flaws in my accent it hit hard. So now, I find it easier to hide my accent behind this thick one, and the slight r-rolling is really fluid in casual conversations! Teaching slowly.... now that's another story....
I have watched this video over and over again just to listen to the BRUMMIE ACCENT ahhh I'm absolutely in love with this accent and Peaky Blinders (even though I'm not a native English speaker and I find it very difficult to understand the show without subtitles)
If you can understand Irish, you will understand Peaky Blinders, as the characters in peaky blinders do not speak in a Brummie accent, they speak with an Irish Accent, take it from a Brummie who thinks peaky Blinders is just a joke and it is not even filmed in Birmingham.
@@peterwilliamallen1063How did you expect them to film it in Birmingham? The Birmingham depicted in the show was completely destroyed and/or built over. Of course they had to film elsewhere, it's not exactly realistic to build half a city in sets.
When I was staying at Wrightington Medical Center where Sir Charnley developed his famous surgical procedures and devices and my friend and I went over to Wigan and met some girls. We could not understand one word they said their Wigan accent was so different. I am from USA and my friend is from Birmingham but literally could not understand them. They could understand us so we had a fun dinner together but it was a real experienced. Thanks for your videos. They are both fun and educational.
The Birmingham vowels sound like our vowels in brazilian portuguese. Specially the "i" and the "u". That's very interesting. Thanks for the video! Cheers from Brasil :)
Fun Fact : you really didn't need this video if you watched all the episodes of Peaky Blinders, hence, that's why your sitting and feeling proud that "hey, I already know this fookin shit".
A great explanation. I left Brum in 1965 to go to Uni, as they say now. I was last back home in 2004 and went to the place where I learnt to drink beer. I couldn't understand a word a guy said to me. Strange as I was brought up on a council estate. I have been told that when I become agitated the Brummie comes out of my mouth.!
I have a fairly weak Birmingham accent but it's there, my sister as a stronger one. Despite never living too far apart from each other or leaving the city. Most people I know, including myself, drop a lot of the t's at the end or middle of the words. So not just soft t's, but pretty much not there. I dunno inconsistent t's. I remember visiting New York City a few years ago and the first bar we walk into, I talk to the bar tender and the guy sitting there turns around to us and asks if we were from Birmingham. From my accent a lot of fellow Brummies can't detect much. Turns out he has family from Coventry and he occasionally visits these cities.
Good effort! Just a couple of points: in Birmingham, the long vowel sound does exist in working class Brummies- they are just as likely to say path, class, bath with a long as a short vowel sound. I'm from north of Brum originally so I stick to the short a as in cat, but either is fine. Just don't do a Lady In Red and get your long and shorts in a twist ike Chris De Burgh. Second, we would be more likely to say 'Tara a bit' for goodbye, than ta ta (I've never heard anyone say ta ta)- tara is most common; tara a bit= bye for now. I completely agree with what you say at the end- when you can travel, come to Brum; it's the best city in the UK by far.
@@peterwilliamallen1063 well of course you do, this is for people who aren't brummie who wish to learn to speak the accent. - from a person from the black country
@@sameerdodger Problem is Samwise 8, you can not be taught to speak an accent, it is what you are born with and the crap about long and short vowels is utter nonsense no wounder people from abroad don't understand English and as a Brummie of 66 years to me this video is utter nonsense and to involve the Peaky Blinders is rubbish as the Peaky Blinders did not exist, it is just a hear say name for a group of gangs that wore flat caps that have no reference in any History books or DVD's on the History of Birmingham, even Carl Chinn who claims to be a top historian on Birmingham gets tied up in knots as he sounds more Black Country than Brummie. As a Brummie I have a fantastic laugh at people, especially on TV trying to mimic a Brummie Accent and instead they sound like they are doing a Black Country Accent. As you mention you come from the Black Country, you should know like me that the Brummie and Black Country dialect are very similar, but the Black Country accent is a bit more stronger in tone to a Brummie accent which is where people get mixed up with.
I like it, she made it specific and perfect. It’s annoying because she isn’t wrong - if she made it less exaggerated she would sound like a casual brummy in today’s modern world instead of the dramatised peaky blinder version ahaha
Oh, my! What a great job! It motivates even more to learn Engkish and dive deeply into it! Thanks for the amazibg performance!!! I'm gonna warch this many times!👏👏👏🙏🥰
Es curioso como este acento se asemeja a la forma que tenemos los latinos al pronunciar el inglés. El but con la u pronunciada, el fit con la i acentuada, la h muda, la manía mexicana de sobre-acentuar el "sh" o "tsh", el ocultar la r en palabras antes de un consonante se conoce desde que se habla el inglés británico. En fin, por su pollo que voy a adoptar este acento si la manera de hablarlo suena muy parecido al español-alemán
" me boss gave me a rise" instead of raise.. the sun rise..you see. I was born in Swansea moved to Manchester when I was 5 then at 20 I moved to NYC. Brooklyn. Im 46 now so me accent is all mixed up..lol..it's fun to watch these videos.
The problem is, most of the accents in Peaky Blinders are dreadful and nothing like a Brummie accent. I'll give it to Cillian Murphy, he actually does a good job. Don't know why they just didn't get local actors on the job for.
I had to laugh at this - I am a native born Brummie but my parents didn't want their children growing up with what was then a very despised accent (1960s). My mother trained as a GPO telephonist and they were made to use RP at work and she taught us a lot of RP at home as well. My elder sister sounds much more Brummie than I do but I have been away from Birmingham now for a little over 30 years. If I visit, I can slip into the accent very fast but once I am back home, I have to really, really think and concentrate to produce a true Brummie accent. I remember, in the local amateur dramatic society where I live, being asked to take a part in their production of "An Inspector Calls" which is set in Birmingham but I literally couldn't sustain the Brummie accent for an entire performance!
As a nonnative speaker of English who has learned the American accent all her life, I have to say that watching this TV show without subtitles added WAY TOO MUCH to the knowledge I had of this language at the time. However, I cried sweat and tears trying to understand the accent.
This is just bostin! Everything is spot on! I’m from the ‘posh end’ of the conurbation but I can _still_ hear myself uttering some of those pronunciations. Ta ta a bit.
*As a South Yorkshire lass, it’s very amusing to me how similar some parts of our accents are but at the same time Brummies sound like they’re talking a different language* 😂😂😂
My friend, actually it's really easy to articulate the sound "r" in russian as we put our tongue before the upper teeth. Your R is absolutely correct!!! like your phonetic videos !
Hi there, as a fellow linguist I am astonished by the beauty and variety of English accents. (Im Serbian btw.) If there is a slightest chance, It would be great if you could find some short story from Birmingham author and read it with accent. Best regards
If you listen to Carl Chinn, you'll hear a genuine, current Brummie accent: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BZx2iD_yJHo.html Carl is right in what he says about the gangs- one of his relatives was a gang member.
Petar, try this: it's not a short story but it is a short history of Brum read by 'Kev' in a Brummie accent. He obviously loves the city as I do; I hope you enjoy it! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-R2dxHG-MpmI.html
@@theQueen. It's true, Carls grandfather was involved in one of the gangs; Carl is a well-respected social historian working for the University of Birmingham. I used to work with his son.
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8uHHjAsPbLc.html and try this by Birmingham's very own Benjamin Zephaniah, reading a poem he wrote years ago but even more relevant today.
I’m an American male with slight hearing loss. I have to use subtitles for British made movies. The accent, speed and mumbling of words drives me insane. I love the Beatles accent . Wish all of you talked line them .
No. I wish all you Americans wouldn’t talk at all because you all speak in an annoying accents that make you sound like loud 5 year olds on a sugar rush. “OH MY GAAHHHDD! THATS LIKE TODULY RHAAAHHHD!”
I’m a Brummie and I think the accent has two slightly different sounds. She sounds more like a Black Country accent in this video but I find with the Birmingham accent, it can have two slightly different sounds. The way she’s speaking in this video, I don’t sound like this and I’ve lived in Birmingham all my life. Quite a lot of us here don’t sound like this if I’m being honest. This is a more harsher and harder Birmingham accent. For instance, in this video, she says we don’t pronounce the H in horses and she’s right, some Brummies don’t but then there’s a lot of us that do. As I said, with the Brummie accents, there’s two versions.
Trish Adudu (apologies if I spelled incorrectly) has a wonderful pure accent. Unfortunately this demonstration seems to tend to sound part Liverpudlean.
Lived in Birmingham my whole life. This was all very familiar except the part about words with a T at the end. Mostly we drop the T completely! (I speak both RP and Brummie)
