Top 10 Hardest UK Accents To Imitate 

What accent does everyone find hard to imitate?

can you just keep it quiet,, and let us hear the accents?

It’s crazy how in the U.K. you can drive for about ten mins and get a different accent. Especially when crossing the English/Scottish border.

I'm Welsh , I was in a cab in New York . Chatting to the driver while we were stuck in traffic . He asked where I was from . When I said Wales , he said that's in Denmark isn't it ? Sometimes you just can't win ! 😂

10. Cockney 09. Mancunian 08. Ulster English 07. West Country 06. Scouse 05. Glaswegian 04. RP 03. Brummie 02. Welsh 01. Geordie Yep. I listed all of ‘em lol

They speak 3 words and get interrupted by your explaining. Impossible to watch

More accurate title: "Ten most well-known British accents with bad impressions of each"

6:34 me putting something too hot in my mouth.

10. Cockney 0:43 09. Mancunian 1:17 08. Ulster English 1:50 07. West Country 2:28 06. Scouse 3:12 05. Glaswegian 3:53 04. RP 4:35 03. Brummie 5:12 02. Welsh 6:00 01. Geordie 6:45

Less explaining about the accents sound, and more examples of the accents!

How did you miss the Yorkshire accent

When I heard the "West Country" 2:28 accent in real life for the first time, I had the exact same reaction and the most interesting part is they're making noises and understanding each other 😱

As an Australian it's mind boggling to hear so many variations of English coming from the UK, being such a small area in comparison with such variety! It's incredible to hear so much difference.

*_"Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch"_* had to be a Welshman's idea of a *practical joke.* _(I've had to edit that name about 23 times...)_

Cockney is literally the easiest accent to imitate even easier than red kneck

Any English accent cose I'm Ukrainian and try to learn English.

as a person from Ulster who speaks Ulster English I can tell you for definite that there's at least 10 variations of the Ulster English accent.

I’m Northern Irish and I’ve literally never heard it referred to as Ulster English before

Ozzy Osbourne doesn't speak "Birmingham", he speaks "Ozzish-Bournish", something only he and his wife can possibly comprehend.

Thanks for the two words we get for each! Very generous of you

Presenter also has something going on: we poblish a new video every day

Would have loved to actually hear some examples of the accents instead of the three or four words we could hear over the V.O.

I don't have an accent, it's just everybody else who doesn't come from my town.

I’m Dutch. But several years ago I had a colleague from Glasgow with a slight Indian accent mixed into it. She also spoke really fast! That was probably one of the biggest English accent challenges I had.

6:30 - That might have been the highlight of his career.

Liam Neeson speaks Ulster English in Taken? I thought it was just a bad American accent done by an Irishman.

I find it hilarious when British people can't understand each other's accents. There's no hope for us Americans at that point!

I traveled nearly 1 thousand miles from one end of the uk to the other and it’s actually crazy how the accents change from area to area

Thanks for this video. Even though I love language and pay attention to people's speech, I didn't realize until I viewed this video that, as a Canadian, I can barely distinguish these accents from each other. Very interesting topic.

I had a Glaswegian accent until around 12 years old andthen I developed the Newcastle Geordie accent (Ashington pit, accent) after moving and living here for a couple of years at the time. It mostly sounds Geordie but there is a tint of the Glaswegian still there. Apparently, I can sound aggressive even though I am just speaking normally in my eyes. I don't notice it. lol.

None of the Geordie accents shown were done by geordies, they were all southerners imitating them, show a real Geordie accent

I find almost no uk accents hard because I’m British

Before this video the only UK accents I knew was Harry Potter, Beatles, Monty Python and Mr Bean. Um salve to UK people 🇧🇷🇧🇷

Ironic that you claim the Manchester accent is "relatively unknown" and then use a character from Corrie with a broad LEEDS accent as an example!

Props to the weather guy for pronouncing that name.

Omg, that Egypt episode of The Ricky Gervais Show is my all-time favourite! I love how Karl says he doesn’t know what the washroom attendants do with the money given to them because “the place has never seen a mop”, major emphasis on the p!! Hahaha, hilarious.

Can’t believe you found the clip of Jo Guest bumming Ant/Dec with a satellite dish on Bo Selecta! Classic Television.

did you just say "ulster english"? *THE IRA WANTS TO KNOW YOUR LOCATION*

I love the Yorshire accents. Someone from England called me by accident the other day and it was the highlight of my day!

The Yorkshire Accent: Am I a joke to you?

I was waiting the whole time for Welsh, because it's genuinely the one that throws me the most. It's not necessarily the most difficult to understand, but the intonation is just very different and unexpected.

The hardest one for me to understand is Cornish. As a Swedish person engaged to a guy from Worcestershire with grandparents from Devon and Cornwall, my fiancés 80yr old Cornish grandfather is utterly impossible for me to understand. I was so embarrassed when I met him, I had no clue what he was saying haha

English (US) English (UK) English (Big Shaq)

All those accents seem like a delight to the ear. Greetings British brothers from Uruguay. You guys have a beautiful country.

I'm so impressed that the Meteorologist at the welsh part managed to say Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch so perfectly and without even repeating himself at that XD

It seems strange to talk about Cymru (Wales) without referring to the fact that Cymraeg (Welsh) is a separate language with much older indigenous origins than English.

So to learn a Mancunian accent I have to listen to David Platt from coronation street,even though the actor is from and speaks with a Yorkshire accent,ok then.

"Ayy-up! 'Ya forget those from Yawrkshurr! Thurz trubble at 'th' mill, lads!". My Dad's West Yorkshire accent was as thick as the fog on the moors. I love hearing folks from Yorkshire speak. When we bought a house, the builder was a transplanted Sheffield fellow. I offered to translate Yorkshire talk into Canadian English for my wife.

Nice to see jo guest at the end

I am from the West Country and I don’t speak bloody gibberish

This is just a list of 10 accents. It has nothing to do with how "difficult" accents are - it's patronising, embarrassing and a poorly researched waste of time, with no real effort put into the production. A checklist of one Scottish accent, (the biggest city), a generic Ulster, and a catch-all Welsh accent, followed by an evenly spread tour of England. Where's Dundonian? How about the accents to be found in Lincolnshire, Suffolk, North Ayrshire & the Western Isles., and I'm sure that there will be others.

My mother was a "true Cockney" i.e. born within the sound of the churchbells of Stratford-atte-Bowe AND before the bells were removed. But she knew her accent would hamper her and, coming from a poor working class family, she needed to get a good job to bring in a good wage after her dad died prematurely. So she left school early (had hoped to go on to further education) and took elocution lessons. The contrast in accent, speed of delivery and pitch was amazing - she'd do almost like a party-piece where she'd speak and constantly change from one to the other.

When I was in my teens (mid-1960s) I an old man in his 80s who spoke only mid-Cheshire dialect. Despite him living 10 minutes walk from where I grew up I could not understand him a lot of the time. The local accent since then has shifted towards a variety of Scouse.

Fair play to that weather man, he nailed that

As far as Ozzy Osbourne goes, it should be called "Drug-Addled Birmingham".

6:33 "Just up the road from **proceeds to drop a barrel full of pots and pans down a staircase**"

I’m a weird case, born in Newcastle but moved south young so never picked up the geordie accent however can understand their slang. Whenever I visit there, this makes them hilariously confused as I stand out sounding entirely like a posh southerner.

Out of all of these the one I find hardest is welsh And I’m welsh

The day I learn to pronounce Worcestershire sauce that day will be victory.

If you wanna learn British accents, go to Steven Gerrard (Scouse) Liam and Noel Gallagher (Manc), Gemma Collins (Essex), Jack Grealish (Brummie) Alan Shearer (Geordie) YUNGBLUD and Louis Tomlinson (Yorkshire) Andy Robertson (Glaswegian I think) Niall Horan (Irish)

I remember when I was watching Geordie Shore I had no idea what was being said for nearly the entire season. Took me two to sort of get the hang of it.

Why did I watch this video

Legend has it that the Northumberland Fusiliers are the only regiment in the British Army that employ their own interpreters. :rofl:

I’m a Geordie and I wasn’t expecting it to be on here at number 1 because barely anyone talks about it 😂

From clevedon near Bristol in the southwest (where broadchurch was filmed) and I can confirm it is actually all haystacks and combine harvesters

Best Geordie accent I’ve seen by an actor is Liam Cunningham who plays Ser Davos on Game of Thrones (a Fleabottom accent in the show). He’s actually Irish. I’m not a Geordie myself but from what I can tell it’s really good.

2:29 Sounds like, "The Lannisters send their regards."

I find a lot of accents not too hard. I have lived in Bristol and South Wales, grew up up in London with maternal grandparents from Lancashire and Irish grandparent. I have lived in the Fens for 17 years and find it really hard to copy. Lots of people agree it is quite hard to get right.

I once knew a man that was from Newcastle, I loved just listening to him speak

How the HELL did a country the size of Indiana develop ssssssssssssoooooooo damned many accents is beyond me. It's like the accents and dialects change every couple of blocks in the city and every village in the country. America has several accents too but they change after hundreds of MILES not hundreds of FEET

Ulster English? Northern Irish.

The norfolk accent is always done wrong on tv, usually sounds like the west country accent...

Became a bit fascinated by regional British accents after hearing loads of variations from gap year backpacker 18-22 kids in Australia of all places. So... eventually jumped on a bicycle and rode 1200 miles from Land's End to John O'Groats to see what's what. Aside from trying every sort of "real ale" place to place and a few single malt whiskeys in the Scottish highlands, I determined the least discernable accents were from the outskirts of Glasgow and a bit north around Fort William and Glen Coe. Some of the farmers up there, wholly fok could barely understand a word, but charming non the less. A particularly joyful moment also came when I plopped at York train station with my decorative rucksack and freshly tanned skin and bleached hairdo. Some fat bloke holding a tin of lager threw a 20p coin at me and said something like "Fuggin 'Strayin Coont". P.S. I'm not Australian ;-)

“Ulster english” dont let any irishman hear you saying that...

Also there is a new accent in England that has developed in London. It started with all the foreign people who have moved to London and it sounds like a mixture of Jamaican, middle eastern and London accent. Loads of English people talk like it now. Its the accent most rappers from London use. Some call it the 'roadman' accent.

I love how the thumbnail for this video is the guy with a load of guns from hot fuzz

Christ! That weatherman is my hero the way he just rattled off the name of that place. 😲

I died with laughter when it reached the hot fuzz part.

I'm fairly certain that David Platt in the Coronation Street clip is from Leeds.

The West Country dialect had a profound influence on some northeastern American tongues. You can still hear it today in parts of Canada and northern New England.

Hubby and I enjoy watching the tv police procedural "Vera", set in Northumberland and Tyne & Wear (i.e. mainly Newcastle-upon-Tyne). For years I thought actress Brenda Blethyn had totally nailed the Geordie accent, until hubby said that in his office (then in Newcastle) the show was very popular but his colleagues thought her accent "hilarious".

I like to quote jimmy cars "chicken an a canna coke" scouse accent, I cant do cockney though I'm too northern. Great video.

“Alright my lover” Skins also sticks the country accent onto the mainstream

The example of cockney given didn't even sound like real cockney, and I'm not even British.

I live in London and met a guy from Yorkshire a few years ago. I couldn't understand a word he said, it took weeks before i could sort of understand him.

If I was going to make a video about regional accents, I'd probably be inclined to include some spoken examples of them. I'm seriously none the wiser as to what you're on about, but I definitely know what you sound like.

It seems strange that, when showing examples of a Manchester accent and mentioning Coronation Street, you didn't choose to show someone like Kevin Webster or Tyrone, but instead choose to show David Platt. David Platt is played by Jack P Shepherd, who does, in fact, have a quite obvious Yorkshire accent, having been born in Pudsey!

"Ulster English" could of just said northern Irish

I learned Geordie account from me friend. Love it

How is Yorkshire not on here? Anne Hathaway’s appalling attempt in One Day alone should be proof that’s a difficult accent to get right

I'm afraid I find labelling "Welsh" as one accent unfair. Northern and Southern accents are utterly different and valley vs town accents are also different

Always loved the Bristol accent , as my favourite Bristolian was Cathy Barry the page 3 model, beautiful brown eyes and a full figure a Gorgeous lady. Bristol steeped in history, and have produced some of the best Pirates and bare knuckle fighters of all time .

As seen 1:16～(Mancunian), in many cases hardship in comprehending regional accent is exacerbated by the class-based diversity of accent. To comprehend What Liam Gallagher was saying here you must do some analytical dissection to see Juwymean= Do you know what I mean, which must be rather hard especially for a non-native speaker. Juwymean can be heard not only in Manchester but in a not so posh downtown everywhere in the UK, because it is not a regional thing but something specific to social class.

The Suffolk accent is quite hard to imitate. Although there are different variations of it just in the county

I'm a black American who just returned from Dublin. The Irish people made me feel really comfortable. Too comfortable because I understood one in every 6 words spoken.

I'm from Ireland and the first time I met a Welshman was at my work.....finally after about 2 months I asked him where he's from "because he sounded like and Irishman that lived in England too long"☺

Yo I hope that weather guy got a vacation to recover from saying that word 😂😂😂😂

Non Brits can do cockney, south west & RP. But none of them can do any northern accent like Lancashire or Yorkshire

As a scotsman myself I'd say the hardest regional scottish accent to imitate is either fife or one of the rural highland ones between Inverness and Aberdeen. English accents are easy to understand if it's a main city but again like Scottish the rural accents are the difficult ones to understand let alone imitate. Irish and Welsh I can't even understand half the time so if I was to try copying it id fall flat on my arse frustrated (I'd say derry girls Irish and Gavin and Stacey Welsh are the 2 accents I can get 75% of what they're saying if they don't go into lingo speech aka slang, both are comedies for those who haven't heard of them (derry girls was used in the clip)).

This is hilarious cos my dad was a ‘posh ‘ scouser or so was said at his funeral, and he grew mould in coffee cups on the windowsill !!!