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Hey Eoin here. This was so fun to do and so nice meeting Lauren and Rowena. Now realizing I speak so fast. Maybe it's an Irish thing. I'll try speak slower for the next video 😅 Anyone catch the lord of the rings reference? Hahah
Lauren here! 🏴 Had so much fun filming this with Rowena 🏴 and Eoin 🇮🇪 it was so funny comparing these accent after such a long time! Definitely looking forward to filming together again soon (please comment any content you’d like to see!) thank youuuuu 💚
Hey guys! Rowena from Scotland here! I had lots of fun filming with Eoin and Lauren❤️ Hope you guys enjoyed watching the video as much as we enjoyed filming it! PS: regarding my accent, i was born and brought up in Edinburgh city (the capital), so my accent is specifically an Edinburgh accent. If you were expecting something stronger (aka. Glasgow or West Scotland) I’m sorry! Haha I hope you guys enjoy the video regardless and keep watching WORLD FRIENDS! Have a great day everyone!
I love your accent, everything is still intelligible too 😆 Stronger Scottish accents are fun to hear unless you really need to understand them! Then I just feel rude asking "what?" repeatedly.
I don't think the separate words chosen are pronounced very differently in the three countries. You have to hear full sentences to appreciate the differences.
Exactly. I'm Scottish and pronouncing words in isolation is entirely different to pronouncing them in a sentence or free flowing speech. Scots tend to speak quite fast and make use of the 'glottal stop' frequently. I'd say in many ways Scots are influenced more by the Germanic languages and so it can sound very guttural when we speak. When asked to say words in isolation, we tend to think about it more and put a bit more emphasis on the pronunciation.
We have the same sound in Irish, loch is the Irish word for lake. But when we speak Hiberno-English that gets softened to lough, which sounds more like a k than a Gaelic ch.
@gerard dearie Rowena literally made the throat sound when she said 'loch'. 100% the same as in German. The German 'r' is just the voiced variant of the 'ch', which is unvoiced
As an American, I found the Dublin accent easier to understand than many English accents. The accent in Cork however... It ranged from difficult to impossible. With some people I could make out perhaps every third word.
Thanks mate. I'm French and I travelled to Cork once. First day I was thinking they were speaking Gaelic because that was so much different from the accent I was used to ! What a bloody accent !!!!
Amazing video! I'm still learning English and I have to Focus more on accents, so I really appreciate this kind of conversations. Also I'm really interested about differences between English, Scottish and Irish cultures. Thank you guys, greetings from Italy 🇮🇹🙏
Love these language comparison videos. Would definitely like to see a video with this trio again, but perhaps with some more carefully chosen words that highlight the different accents a little better.
I always feel like the more north you go in the UK the closer the accent gets to english's germanic cousins like german, frisian, danish, swedish and dutch
I’m Scottish and speak fluent Dutch and there is a massive overlap of Dutch/Frisian in our version of English. The rolling R’s come from Anglo-Frisian languages. They lost that in England when the Norman’s invaded and made Latin England’s language. Scotland wasn’t conquered by the Norman’s so our accent sound more Germanic/Scandinavian.
@@yukongetit4603 a great deal of 'the north' is England. In my home city, one of the most northerly in England, our beginnings were established by the Angles and later the Anglo saxon domination of the land was established. The early north was the learning centre of England. Northumbria was the dominant region for many years and played an important part in the early church with oswald and cuthbert and Bede's history. The north was then much more aligned to its germanic roots. York then was the second most import city in England. So yes my knowledge of the Geordie dialect and Northern English in general I'd also say have a much stronger link to our Anglo saxon descendants. In the south they were far more French/Norman inspired.
To be honest, personally until now I still don't know the Welsh accent really sounds like because Welsh accent is just sounds like another English accent. Especially for a Cockney speakers I have to say that Welsh accent is posher than my accent. But some of accent expert says that famous Welshman who has a really strong Welsh accent is Matthew Rhys but tbh until I heard that I never know that he's Welsh. There is a lots of Welsh actors that I thought to be English at first such as Ioan Gruffed, Luke Evans, Taron Egerton. Even in my friends circle in London, all of my Welsh friends I was thought that they are English. RU-vidr Simon Wilson, I thought he's from somewhere in Northern England, probably Yorkshire, but after the recent euro football I saw his Instagram post, and he turn up to be Welsh. So yeah, I don't know how Welsh accent sounds really like.
Welsh doesn’t sound like an English accent because it’s Welsh. Yeah some accents of Wales are softer and less fully accented than others but you can still definitely tell that they’re welsh. The same with English accents ( they vary in many ways) but they’re still English and you wouldn’t confuse them with a Welsh/Scottish or Irish accent. But to be fair no one seems to even remember Wales half the time and it shouldn’t surprise me that they don’t know how we sound. But, Wales has more than one accent and shouldn’t all be grouped together with the southern accent of Wales.
@@Stark_Fox do you have any references of actors or some Welsh public figure who speaks Welsh accent, because some of the Welsh people that I know, even my own friends, they sound like English people and I always mistaken, I thought they're English at first but turns out they're Welsh
@@herreach6955 Have you never watched the comedy Gavin and Stacey? Stacey has a broad Swansea accent and Ness has a broad Cardiff/Barry accent, they’re completely unconfusable with English people.
@@joshuawatson3054 Yeah comparing accents....it remains she is not scotish. If u were born in egypt or china, you are not egyptian or chinese for obvious reasons. U get the point
@@joshuawatson3054 Nope, im talking about accents and the representation of the accent. When someone is about to learn chinese from youtube they are likely to go a chinese person not a white or black person who speaks it and have a video for it. Normalized citizen still dont represent the country from a norm point of view. A blond person born in zimbabwe clearly doesnt represent zimbabwe....a black person from zimbabwe does
Yeah that implies you are a racial discriminator and your point of view how someone should represent a certain nation is simply outdated given that this is 2023 not 1950 or before that. A Chinese person is not necessarily someone of a Han ethnicity only because in China there are 56 ethnicities including the blonde and blue eyed Uyghurs people so your point is invalid and besides, Zimbabwe was colonized by uk so having white people in Zimbabwe is normal and again your point is just simply invalid.
@@joshuawatson3054 You know you have to tag people. And who said Scotland has only a Glasgow accent?! Where did I say that?! My experience from living in Edinburgh is that a lot of people (both Scottish and foreign) comment on how strong a Glaswegian accent is, but you seem to have some jumped up issues over absolutely nothing. Weird.
Whit the fuck!! Some Chinese woman representing Us True Scottish!!! They talk Wie a Scottish accent doesn't make you Scottish. To us true Scottish we know what a true Scottish native is🏴🏴🏴🏴❤️✊.
Explain why she was born in Edinburgh Scotland and grows up in Edinburgh Scotland then? This video is about comparing accents not comparing ethnicities at all.
@@joshuawatson3054 Did you even listen to the clip??? She is claiming to be Scottish? Because you can speak Scottish doesn't make you Scottish. It's very simple.
Still doesn’t change the fact that she was born in Edinburgh Scotland and grew up in Edinburgh Scotland so again this video is about comparing accents not comparing ethnicities and if you regard people in the United States and countries other than Scotland or even in uk as Scottish just because they apparently have Scottish last name or look Scottish to you then you are just comparing ethnicities anyway.
That's a nice friendly group. It was a good twist to have a Scottish girl, as we are more used to seeing and hearing Scottish men speak. For the Scottish language I often think of watching the Graham Norton show and he has a Scottish guest on and I can only make out one word in 5 spoken. But as Rowena said, once the get to talking quickly and throw in some slang, it can be hard to understand. I agree that they should have ended the show with some examples of longer sentences to really show off the differences best.
@Don Donson No, she's scottish. What country is "Asian". You're confusing ethnicity with nationality. My and ethnicity is Scottish and English but I was born and raised in the USA. I'm American, not Scottish or English, right?
@@joshuawatson3054 The impersonator of yours @joshuawats0n3054 using number zero in place of letter "o" and another one with an additonal "i" @joshiuawatson3054 of which both are the same person is making himself feel better that way without realizing his account was made 3 days ago while yours was created 3 years ago. And he is referring to himself only about wetting past 20 years old not you.
I totally felt that when they said they have so many different accents in Ireland and Scotland, because it's the same here in the U.S. we definitely don't all sound the same ❤️
I've never even been to the US, but I'd definitely know the difference between New York (especially Brooklyn), Texas, Boston, Alabama, Minnesota, and California. Of course there's more distinction among those areas, and even smaller local differences... But I feel like the ones I mentioned are pretty easy to differentiate, even for a non-American.
@@daniel73211 some of the Northern Irish and Scottish accent are very difficult as are some rural Irish accents. Dublin and Waterford accents are easiest to understand.
This is so funny ...three middle class people that don't have regional accents comparing accents ... After working on the channel tunnel with just about every different accent there was in the UK at the time ( late 80's ).... I got very interested in accents ... for example Liverpool to Manchester is around 16 miles but the accent changes so much Coming from Kent myself i find that every 15 miles accents or dilect change all the way up the country
I went to a wedding reception where many of the servers were Irish students in Colorado for the summer. They sounded very American on most words. Just a word here and there were pronounced such that I could tell they were Irish.
us irish people can generally mimic a vague american accent well enough, but that's not a reflection of our actual accents at all. the commenter above is most likely right on what they said as none of us sound naturally american at all, unless we've lived over there and naturally picked up on whatever accent is most prevalent in the area.
I grew up surrounded by lots of accents so my brain kinda learned to automatically translate every accent I hear. So it makes it really hard for me to tell what accent someone has or for me to do a fake accent because it all sounds exactly the same to me! When I was watching this the words all sounded like exactly the same to me until they pointed out the different way someone said it.
Same. My siblings married guys from Australia and New Zealand, my mother learned British English in school but speaks with an American accent, and we have friends from other places in Europe and Asia primarily that I can't imitate accents either. I don't have a problem understanding them, but I can't say what's exactly different about them either. I can identify what broad area or continent one's from, such as eastern european or southeast asian, but no specific country or region within one.
Very funny and instructive ! When I was in Dublin I met american girls who had issues to understand Dubliners. Although I'm french, I've never had that kind of problem. The scottish accent was way harder for me, and this video confirmed it !
Me and my husband visited Scotland for the second time last year for good two weeks we went east west north the east it was difficult for me to understand the accident. They speak very fast and like you said they cut out quite a few letters so it takes me a while I can understand a little bit better up north and out west actually have not been as southern Scotland so the next time we go in a few years we’re gonna go down there and hopefully the next time will be three weeks and I’m in love with that country. I’m America. I’m from the south. I’m North Carolina right in the middle, I fell in love, but it is surprising how similar you know words are just the pronunciations are a little bit different but it’s it’s just so awesome and I love hearing all the different dialect and Scotland and Irish. I just love it all so I appreciate y’all doing this video. It was awesome. I say erb by the way lol
super annoying that they picked her because her accent is so soft .. not a good choice but oh we need diversity don't you know? ugh the history of my people butchered everywhere because we are just welcoming in anyone to replace us and forget about the history of us because why would they care about our history since they have no roots in it?
Explain why her British birth certificate says that she was born in Edinburgh Scotland and grows up in Edinburgh Scotland then? Do you even realize this video is about comparing accents not comparing ethnicities at all?
@@joshuawatson3054She is from Scotland but doesn't have representative, typical Scottish accent, neither do other two have typical accents of their countries.
I’m American and when I visited Scotland years ago, I remember having NO idea what the waiter at a restaurant was saying to me. I was embarrassed because I felt like I should have been able to understand him, but he might as well have been speaking a different language. I couldn’t pick out a single word! In contrast, I’ve heard some Irish accents that were virtually indistinguishable from American accents, maybe because so many Irish people immigrated to the U.S. (including my own ancestors). Americans hear a lot of English accents on TV so we’re more familiar with them, although there is a lot of variation and some of them can be harder to understand. All the accents are great!
O Flower of Scotland, When will we see Your like again, That fought and died for, Your wee bit Hill and Glen, And stood against him (against who?), Proud Edward's Army, And sent him homeward, To think again. 🏴
This summer, my family stayed in an apartment on the top floor above Whistlebinkies bar in Edinburgh. Middle of the night, out of a raucous crowd at the bar, we hear "Freeeedommm!" Like, 2 AM. A stand-out moment on our trip to Scotland.
Don't even bother with that Texas Mac because Rowena is her real name and she was seriously born in Edinburgh Scotland so she is not even an immigrant and he is just insecure of her as he himself is a racial discriminator having his own racial discriminating propaganda actually and whatever he claims is invalid as no proofs at all to back his claim anyway.
Adam b is northern Irish and Northern Ireland is part of the uk so technically Adam b is British but northern Irish people sound kinda between the Scottish and the Irish accent.
Love this video! it's a reminder of how Europe is truly a collection of "micro-cultures" so to speak, each of them in close proximity yet fiercely loyal to their own story, history and in this case, a pride in how they preserve their own nuances while sharing a similar language. There's some stereotype busting here as well especially through the lady on the far left.
Complete phrases highlight an accent more. For me the lilt of a Scottish accent comes out more when they say something like "the squirrel in the tree". I have a Scottish friend with a fairly strong accent who would be mimicked by others with those kind of phrases. I could listen to him talk all day.
She says in Scotland there is lots of different accents, he says in Ireland there is lots of different accents. In England you can drive less than 10 miles and get a different accent. The whole of the British Isles which includes the Republic of Ireland (Geographically) is unlike anywhere in the world for accents, it’s totally unique. England, Wales, Scotland, N.I & Ireland have no end of accents.
@@user-nu2it6kf2m I’m not debating that buddy, but the UK is well known for its variety. And the fact is that in the Uk & Ireland you can drive less than 10 miles and there is a different accent, it’s quite unique.
Nah every country where the language has been spoken for centuries has a huge variety of accents. You are probably comparing the uk to the usa where the language didn't develop naturally over centuries. In some countries the accents are so different that could be regarded as dialects and each dialect has its own different accents. You clearly haven't been exposed to other language or you only speak English i suppose.
@@jimjk7 I lived in Holland for 7 years and speak fluent Dutch and they have nowhere near the amount of accents the British isles have. These accents are thousands of years old in some parts. Old Irish and Brythoic languages like Welsh are much older than ‘English’.
I'm Portuguese. A few years I went to visit some Portuguese friends in Dublin. After getting out of the airport there was a lady there organizing a queue of people getting into taxis. When it came my turn she turned and asked me "Are you on your own?" - in the strongest Irish accent I could imagine - I said "sorry?" She repeated twice and only then I understood. I was so much fun. After that I kind got into a conversation with the driver so I was attuned to it :)
Hi, I am Korean and used to 'Californian accent'. Watching Derry Girls, I felt like Irish accent sounds like whole different language to me so I watch the show with subtitles on😂. I want to learn the accent!
There is lots of very different Irish accents that dont sound alike. There isnt just "the Northern Iris accent" and the "rest of Ireland accent" . The Waterford accent is completely different to the Wexford accent. The Dublin accent(s) are completely different to the cork accent etc etc. Then there is the "neutral" soft Irish accent that you get in every county (with slight regional variations). The Derry accent is one of the "Northern Irish" accents (along with Donegal/Belfast accents etc) . People dont sound like that in the rest of Ireland.
Fun fact for anyone not familiar: People from England and Ireland don't really agree that there's a universal accent in these countries like how, well, because there really isn't! In Ireland for example, if you set foot outside of Dublin, you'll instantly hear a different accent and in Dublin there are 2 distinct accents also haha.
There isn't a 'universal accent' in any country per se, as in all countries have degrees of regional and class variation. However what we do see is 'Supraregional' or 'Supranational' accents/dialects in most western countries now (tending to be most prominent among the middle classes who consider themselves 'upwardly mobile' and are more prone to dropping the features of regional dialects in favour of 'standard forms'). It was always the case that dialect features spread from urban centres of population density and prestige to replace regional dialect features over time, and with the advent of mass media in everybody's homes this process seems to be able to happen a lot faster, instead of a feature taking years to reach the edges of a sphere of influence they can reach farther distances with less of the long process of dilution. So in England for example, they used to have the same 'r' sounds they have now in Ireland (when Ireland was within Englands sphere of influence in the past the English r replaced the more 'tapped' kind of Irish r's they used to have when they initially transitioned from Irish Gaelic. Most Gaelic features in Irish English speech were replaced via this process), but certain classes in London started leaving the 'postvocalic r' silent and this feature, along with others, spread over the years to encompass the whole of England (barring certain smaller regional dialects and some older rural men in certain areas) It's quite interesting, you'll notice that Americans have this English r (though in 'standard' American it became more of a retroflex r in recent history) whereas Australians and New Zealanders don't. This is because the original English settlers of North America still had this feature, whereas by the time Australia was colonised it had become rarer in England (though it still exists there today among some very old rural dialect speakers). The effect of the new player in the game, mass media can be seen in Ireland, where the (linguistic) population centre of prestige is Dublin (their National Media also happens to be based in an affluent area of Dublin) where the middle and upper middle classes of Dublin basically have a hegemony over what is considered the 'standard' way to speak. A new fast spreading dialect has arisen from this known as 'Supraregional Irish English', which has almost completely replaced regional dialects among certain sections of Irish society (most effected are younger middle class women, least effected are rural elderly men, with working classes far more sheltered from it than middle classes). In New Zealand, the hegemony of the 'Auckland dialect' was so complete according to linguists, that almost all regional variation has been flattened in that country, and you basically just have 'the New Zealand dialect'! American influence has international 'linguistic reach' via mass media. Many young people in English speaking countries have accepted this influence to some degree without realising, though features also get consciously rejected for identity reasons. The international reach of American media is a whole other story though!
@@greenmachine5600 nobody thinks that. But considering the size of the US compared to the size of Ireland and the UK, you have far less change in the accent over short distance. This is due to the fact that the accents in Ireland and the UK have had literally thousands of years to develop in such relatively small spaces of land
@@cigh7445 Not in all countries, I know that the russian language is extremely homogeneous, despite a large territory and a thousand years of history. So there literary Russian is a universal accent. Surely there are similar exceptions in other countries
Irish spring soap. It has a manly scent. And I like it too. If I had to do an Irish accent, I would do the above 3 lines -- they're from a commercial for Irish spring (bath soap).
As an American, it sounded like they were slipping in and out of American accent. I don't know if they hear too many foreigners speak, but if so maybe it's the alleged American "anti-accent" that is a mix of a whole bunch of places.
It blows my mind how very little distance there is between the different regions . Especially how within each region there are even more pronounced variations of the accents . As someone from Texas , that’s like telling me between my city of San Antonio to Dallas that there is an entirely different dialect.
@@cactustactics i agree, as an aussie, it sounds very australian most words. It doesnt sound like billy connelly or sean connery where you struggle to understand what they are saying. Maybe men have a thicker accent or its s different type of scottish accent. It's like English I suppose. If you've seen Geordie Shore, that accent is real thick and hard to understand than the English guy in this.
@@gunlean7738 A really thick Geordie accent can be hard for me to understand too, yeah! It's kinda famous for that - but you can get much "milder" versions of the accent too, it depends on the person. Billy Connolly has a pretty neutral accent to me - obviously Scottish tonally, but not so far from a kind of "standard" English accent that people would struggle with it. Which makes sense, he's a very popular comedian and presenter! Same for Connery, guy's an international film star who doesn't change his accent even if he's playing someone who's definitely Not Scottish. I feel like generally, he wouldn't be successful if he had a "difficult" accent, y'know? (Not that I'm saying you don't personally find it tricky, but for everyone in general I mean.) And that's what I think the vibe is here - they've chosen people with fairly "light" accents, because ultimately the audience (which seems to be pretty international!) needs to understand them. They could easily find some people with really strong Scottish accents, but then most viewers would be like "...what??" if they weren't familiar with it
You are not even from Scotland you so called true native scot cause you are just insecure someone doesn’t fit your mentality or satisfy your stereotype especially she was born in Edinburgh Scotland and grew up in Edinburgh Scotland so she is a Scottish and this video is about comparing accents not comparing ethnicities at all.
Explain why her birth certificate says that she was born in Edinburgh Scotland and grew up in Edinburgh Scotland? And you even believe Scotland is about Glasgow only? Scotland has many accents anyway so your point is invalid and this is comparing accents not comparing ethnicities at all.
@@joshuawatson3054In my opinion, the origin of the speaker is important in terms of biology and genetics. I don't think it's possible to convince the video watcher that the expat speaks by feeling like she's Scotland origin. Finding someone of Scottish descent shouldn't be too hard
Nope. This doesn't change the fact that this video is about comparing accents not comparing ethnicities and video watchers like you should learn to face the truth about her birth and upbringing. Looking at her ethnicity alone is not a direct conclusion given that anyone can be born and grow up in anywhere. The world is for everyone to live in. Don't even bother with Scottish blood thing because nobody in Scotland is 100% Scottish anyway.
@@joshuawatson3054 Just because she was born in Scotland never makes her a Scottish origin. Keep that in mind. The fact that the world is for all people does not mean sacrificing races. People should not forget their own origin. They should always remember their own race. This does not degrade them, but rather exalts them. The current generation is so slippery. When they are born in another country and get a passport, they immediately think they are from there. They just go into that mode.
The thing is you are degrading someone just because of the ethnicity rather than the birth and the upbringing. And this video is not even about sacrificing races because it’s about accent and like I said it’s about accents not ethnicities and the reason you are claiming the current generation is slippery because you are in fact one of them anyway for degrading someone with such a mentality.
Seriously you X DJ xgates, you are so insecure that she was born in Edinburgh and brought up in Edinburgh and she has the accent regardless what kind of racial discriminator you are. You haven’t watched her personal uploaded videos to judge her at all.
And as an example one of the Edinburgh accents for Butter is actually Butter (as in the Posh way) not butrrrrr. But yea tar me with the racist brush. Always a good one to use
