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I sat across the table from a drunk Irish man having a heated conversation with a drunk Scott, I didn't understand one word of what they said, but I listened for 20 minutes! 😂🤣
I'm from Latin America and whenever I speak english (good thing I worked really hard to lose my accent) but a few years ago it was cause of mockery and questions about me being legal in any country, I would rather be called a vampire any day.
+Nickinthefrozennorth - i thought he was scottish, too !! even in his normal accent, he even soujnded scottish! he even could come across as being ...... canadian!
+ AM G + tiarnan + Myah Mason These four comments made me laugh so hard I couldn't function for about 15 minutes. Every time I thought I was done laughing, I thought of them and started again! Wah-ha-ha-ha-ha!!!
I'm from Alberta and when I first spoke to Newfie family with a very strong Newfoundland accent, I kept thinking they sounded Irish but also Canadian. Had no clue they were from Newfoundland until they said (while laughing quite a bit since they knew how strong their accents were to many). You can certainly tell there are Irish roots in the Maritime provinces because I've noticed a lot of pronunciation similarities between them and the Irish. It's pretty dang cool. I adore the Scottish and Irish accents (ALL of them). I'd love to travel there someday. Thanks for sharing your missionary memories with us, Elder.
+Franko Guerrero More on account of his clothes. His outfit looks like it could easily compliment a scottish or irish setting. He just needs one of those hats to complete the look.
My mom was the only 100% Irish person in our family. My dad was half-Irish and half German so all my brothers and sisters(and me) were 75/25 Irish/German
Lovely to see his enthusiasm these different accents! Funnily, me being German, I don't very much like listening to regional accents/dialects in my mother tongue, but I love hearing almost all the varieties of spoken English.
I am from the Netherlands near the German border so I learned German from very young due to being able to receive German television broadcasts. I have to say that I like the German Bavarian accent very much. I guess in all languages one could love the sound of a particular accent if one would listen to them all.
its probably like how humans just instinctively dont like hearing themselves on recordings. like we think we know how we sound, but the recording of yourself is proof that what we thought is not the truth, so the brain is like "who am i?". i dont even like saying or hearing my name, so i can totally believe you not wanting to hear regional dialects of your language
+casperld I want to disagree with you but I don't think I can. I think you are on to something there. We share so many words with the Irish that I think it wouldn't be too difficult for an Irish person to pick up on the most broad of North East accents. Perhaps Pitmatic might confuse the Irish a bit... but there will be enough context from the rest of the sentence for them to get the gist of anything being said.
he was talking to me- my name's Alex I live in Utah and interview returned missionaries from our church about things they learned and experienced abroad. Hope that helps!
actually the best attempt at a Scottish accent I've heard from an American. even though you did pronounce dreicht wrong... today in Scotland it's so unseasonably hot we'd call it "taps aff weather"
The southern accent (USA) is often said to be “sing songie.” The area was settled by English, Irish, Scots-Irish, with a few Germans thrown in the mix.
Understanding accents is about exposure and patience. Not being in a hurry, and not getting upset. And about the speaker having patience and not getting upset because someone doesnt understand him. Language, like everything else in life, is about cooperation, compromise, tolerance, and willingness to learn/assist.
James L can I print this? I really like what you said and what words you used. I want to print that on a sticker as my motto for learning accents. Thank you!
Man! This is fantastic! Just the RU-vid subs did not know how to interpret if this was Scottish or German! It went mad! Soooo fun and so instructive! God bless you, fella! 🍀
Excellent! Well done on your accents. As a life long Northern Ireland citizen you've been pretty much spot on. 2 things though( not to nitpick) Your Portadown accent was actually a Belfast one and in Ireland North and South we never say the Scottish "Noo". It's more like "noiy" in NI and " naow" inRepublic of Ireland. The movies haven't always done do well with their Irish accents. They tend to roll their rrrr's which is never done in Ireland . Well done. Really enjoyed this. It definitely made me smile 😊
Actually it's more like Irrelan silent d they kind of roll their rrrs. Barry from Ghost Hunters International is Irish and that's how he would pronounce it especially when he was speaking Gaelic. I'm still trying to learn the Scottish accent as it is part of my Steampunk persona Moira Mackintosh daughter of Chief Malcom Mackintosh 10th of Mackintosh and 11th of Chattan. The best part is they are my ancestors! 💜
We say 'pure dreich' not drist! I've had a Canadian visiting Scotland ask me 'What's an och a dinnae ken?' They thought it was an object or something haha.
Im from the central belt, and even people here have trouble understanding anyone north of dundee lol. Only the northern parts say dinnae ken "like", where as down here we just say "dunno" lol. People speak so fast in Aberdeen, I needed my mate to translate it for me because he was working there for a while.
A lot of people cannot do Irish accents at all (especially Americans, I've noticed- not hating, just saying!) but your accent was really good! And your Northern Irish accent was better than mine- and I've lived in (South) Ireland my whole life! 😂
I'm from the mid-east of Ireland (Dublin) and we sound normal in the north. In town is were the scangers are and the junkies and drug dealers town is in the middle of the county
ah I've to disagree, the north and cork one was grabd, but the dublin one? we don't talk like that in dublin, only places like D4 (Dublin 4, how they split Dublin up like little section within the county) but the rest was top notch
Fantastic, man! Youve definitely captured the *Sco'ish* accent. I had an ear-to-ear smile listening to you. I heard my long gone step gran dad and got the chills.
Captain Moriarty Don't bother, man. He's obviously a trooper from the United States of Political Correctistan and doesn't know what he's talking about. Everyone who has ever had the pleasure of meeting an Irishman knows that they are genetically incapable of getting offended. Ever.
The word is 'dreich'. Also, plenty of Scottish accents sing, and some Scots and Irish accents are quite similar, due to shared Gaelic heritage and Scots settlers in Ulster. The biggest mistake non-Scots and non-Irish make is underestimating the accent variations in both lands, despite being small. It's therefore inappropriate to use accent in the singular. In Scotland (where I come from), each of the 4 cities have completely different accents, and you can throw in the Borders, Ayrshire, Perth, Inverness, the Highlands, outer Isles, Orkney and Shetland as all having distinct accents (and verging on dialect). The Scottish accent most commonly imitated is the Glasgow one, which is, ironically, one of the youngest and least typical in Scotland as a whole, since it is influenced by Irish and Highland settlers, and has very few old Scots words (ok, you can say 'dreich', but try saying 'ken' for know, and folk will just stare at you). It's sounds like the accent Mel Gibson attempts in Braveheart (no' that bad, but crap film), but set in the 13th century, entirely inappropriate.
That's a decent-enough Scottish sound, straight off the top - and you look the part of a Glasgow dock worker, besides! Btw you learnt your slang right well, ken? Well done, then! 😁
Coming from Northern Ireland, family down south, and now living in Scotland, I know the accents very well - this guys attempts aren't half bad! Although Cork is south not west Ireland!!
When I visited County Down in Northern Ireland whilst doing my A-levels in Bedfordshire, my cousins us’d to say things like (‘Git in the Cyarr, Donal, you’ll be lyte fer yirr Tay !!’) LoL
Не устаю изумляться, как в таких маленьких странах столько акцентов. Московская область всего в два раза меньше Ирландии, и я не представляю, как бы мы жили, если бы на границе с Тверью говорили вообще иначе, чем рядом с Тулой) конечно, для филолога это кайф, но в простом человеческом общении, по-моему, ужас
I've never been to the countries, but I've met quite a few Scots and Irish and it seems like you picked up the accents quite well. It seems like you have a talent for accents; have you ever considered becoming a voice actor? You would be good at it. Props
I want to do exactly what you do. I find accents fascinating. I find you talented and you have a rare gift to synch yourself with others through appreciation via fascination and it is beautiful.
Wonderful video, I had different languages spoken in my family, and I also enjoyed all the different ways we make different languages and then we increase it by inventing new Dialects, and more. I think there's about 6000 languages that have existed in the world at one time or another. If it's one thing humans can do, it's language!!! Also Lifey you've done really well in your learning, you can speak like a native ! Way to go!!!
You did a pretty good job with the accents. My father was Scottish, so I grew up with hearing the accent. Plus my parents had a lot of Irish friends, so I heard both my whole life. Lol
Nah, not really. At schools in my country (Poland) they teach you to speak slowly, very official, nothing about the slang or the way normal people speak (not using the whole sentences, using shortcuts etc and a lot of random accents), all records for learning are also not realistic (because seriously, who's speaking like that). And even if you think you've learned language well, you travel to Ireland or Scotland, you're having mindfuck and understand 1/4 of what people say, you have to ask them to repeat what they say 100 times, and beg them to speak slowly. The only way to REALLY learn language is watching movies and reading books in original language, and (the most important) living in the country for couple of months, because normal education is school is a joke.
not true. i was watching a british show "geordie shore" and the geordies on the show were often subtitled. this show is for a british audience so apparently they need help understanding regional accents too.
I'm from the Caribbean and I have a hard time uderstanding some other English Caribbean Accents even though we all basically speak the same language. As for Scottish and Irish Accents it's like they're not speaking English.
Rjkooljay2 Dude I am scottish and lived in england for 5 years whn i came back i coudnt understand what the scots were saying it took weeks for my ears to tune back in
Jakers this guy is good when it comes to the Northern Irish accent...none of them are perfect but to be able to switch from Northern Irish to South Irish to American to Scottish is good haha...although in Northern Ireland alone we have different accents like i dont speak like his Irish accent.
My great grandparents on my Mom's side were from Cavan in Ireland and I wished we could have met them. They died fairly young, the Mother in a streetcar accident in Chicago and then the Father on a voyage back to Ireland to bring family to help take care of their 7 children. So my Grandpa became an orphan and he died when I was very young. Just love hearing Irish people of all kinds talk😍
Loved this, it made me smile!! One small correction, the word is dreich (think loch) but that is extremely minor when you are trying to listen to Scots rather than read it (not always easy either!!). Thank you from Scotland! :D
thank you so much - i was always wondering what the differences were exactly - this guy is fabulous and is great at these accents even if they don't think so. the only sound i can pronounce in Scottish is ou as in you. i love doing it. i find Irish harder, but he did it so well. and he's right, it is sing song lilting accent. i've been tryin' the Australian accent, too, from watching Bondi Vet. i'm beginning to get how pronounce the vowels. it's so fun. i can pretty much do American accents except for Boston - haven't been around people who talk that way a'tall a'tall. LOL Keep safe everyone :)
Love this guy! Really embraced it! But Scots and Irish, we're the same breed, all love a drink, all sing the best songs, all support one another at Rugby. Love Ireland (North Or South)! Mon the music!
I lived in the British Isles for 3 years. He is absolutely spot-on. You never exactly get Perfectly Used to the different sounds dialects and words. Seems that you are always running into something new and it always makes you chuckle LOL. Not to poke fun at anybody... Because that's where some of my family came from long ago. The British Isles gets in your blood. I'll always miss it and I know that I probably can never return financially. But I surely miss it and always will
Not bad attempts at all, although the Cork accent is hard to get right. We in Cork smile when people try it, usually unsuccessfully, but God bless their efforts!.Accents vary so much within Ireland, even within cities. I'm sure it's the same in many countries. But well done, interesting video ( ps, and thanks for your positive feedback on Cork).
Omg I knew this guy in middle school! Creytn Crosby, I remember him being really nice. I still have him as a friend on Facebook even though I don't use it anymore. I just happened to see him in the thumbnail and thought, "hey, that guy looks familiar...", and sure enough, it's him. Wow.
You make a good case that there can be many accents even in nations with one language. We Americans often forget that we are not the only nation like that. I live in Tennessee but I have heard more than one "Southern Accent" and I can tell the difference between one from Arkansas and one from North Carolina.
Even the accent from North and South Carolina is different. North Carolinians have a more "Hills Have Eyes" sort of twang, where South Carolina is more ... Deliverance. lol (accent wise, not story wise, mind you)
Mark Wilson Perhaps this shows the ignorance between nations. I always felt all Irish sounded alike but I don't live there. I have lived in different parts of the US, so I don't quite fit anywhere but I probably most sound like one from Eastern Tennessee. Many see any southern accent as a sign of ignorance and I am seeing some of it go away but that's really kind of sad. The world we be a dull place if "we-all" sounded the same. For instance, a gal from Georgia could be as ugly as a toad but one might still want to jump her bones just because of that gorgeous accent.
I am from a not native english speaking country but we learn english from very young to get around in the world. Ofcourse we also had all the american tv series and movies so the american accents are easier to understand. That said I ABSOLUTELY LOVE LOVE the sound of Irish and Scottish english. They are by far the best of all accents. From the United Kingsom(counting Scotland as a separate country) I love the new castle accent the most. Don't ask me why I love these accents. The sound is just so great :) 'drisht', We have a word in Dutch called 'triest' and it means also the same like a German commenter already stated. I understood the sentence right away :) But then again German and Dutch are rather close languages but not close enough to understand each other without study. In my language 'Triest' also means 'a bit sad'. Not sure if that is also in German.
Paul G Scots living in the western isles are descended from settlers we call the Gales or Scotti, to call them Irish though is ridiculous as Scotland and the Scots completely pre-date Ireland and the Irish. Not to mention the fact that archaeology doesn't support the theory that the Gaels settled first in what is today the north-east of Ireland. But even if the theory were true, the accents used today certainly didn't exist 300 years ago, let alone over 900 years ago.
MacTrollie Those Gaelic speakers in the West of Scotland came from Ireland, that is a matter of historical fact. The Scotti is nothing more than what the Romans called the people of Ireland who later migrated to Scotland. The language spoken by the people who lived in Scotland pre this Gaelic migration was probably similar to Welsh. Not sure what you mean by the Scots pre-dating the Irish really. 1500 years ago their was simply a Gael living in Scotland and a Gael living in Ireland
Paul G Again. " Scots living in the western isles are descended from settlers we call the Gales or Scotti, to call them Irish though is ridiculous as Scotland and the Scots completely pre-date Ireland and the Irish. Not to mention the fact that archaeology doesn't support the theory that the Gaels settled first in what is today the north-east of Ireland. But even if the theory were true, the accents used today certainly didn't exist 300 years ago, let alone over 900 years ago". Elite origin myths based on nothing are what you spout, good luck proving them because nobody else has.
Talked a friend from Lowlands a few times. Was hell to understand her for me and I'm GOOD with scottish and irish accents since I have family from there! lol
This was very interesting and helpful. I love both accents, but probably Irish most of all. It sounds like music to me - very melodic. Scottish is cool, but Irish has a distinct beauty to it.
Oh man, your Scottish and Northern Irl are good going on great. But Cork is in the South of Ireland way down and the West of Ireland accent is a lovely soft one not at all like the Scottish. Anyway hope this helps you to improve on your take on Irish love ya Colette
As a French fella who have spend one year in Ireland and who is currently living in Scotland I totally agree. It takes time to understand an accent, then you have to learn everything again :')
Kaela O'Hara It's a teuchter word for shite weather. No one in the lowlands uses it, apart fae Edinburgers probably, because they just love being different lol
1984LizardKing We're from a town on the West coast (not far from Glasgow.) We use "dreich." We also use "smihrr" which means a soft drizzly rain that you can barely feel, but you still get soaked through.
fiona diaz Never heard of smihrr lol doon the west coast in the shire they use ken a lot, no one from Glasgow area uses it, slight differences I guess.
1984LizardKing I agree, maybe a bit of the teuchter influence creeping in I think. My weans are both half American, when my son tries a Scottish accent it's like listening to Navid from "Still Game" if he was a bit drunkish.
