11 Difficult English Accents You WON'T Understand
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I’m from Appalachia. I hated my accent so much growing up. I was ashamed of it, and would get made fun of when visiting anywhere. I did my best to lose it and I mostly have. I wish I’d known then that it was nothing to be ashamed of and the people mocking me were ignorant.
aw. I am sorry to hear that. Just keep going
@@dalubwikaan161thank you. It’s totally fine. It’s just I wish I’d known then what I know now.
I'm from Appalachia to and you did the right thing
I'm right there with you!
Very sorry to hear that. I grew up with kids from all over the world, so I learned a lot about accents.
I’m a Texan, and I understand my Appalachian countrymen perfectly well. I love hearing all the dialects!
Appalachian is easy to understand.
The "Scotch-Irish" dialect of U.S. English came out of southern Appalachia and spread from East Texas to Virginia and Southern Maryland. It's basically working class and rural Southern.
He should have done a Texan dialect segment.
I am from Boston and didn't understand about half of it.
I'm a New Yorker and understood Appalachian easily.
I'm New Zealander/Australian and I have no trouble with Appalachian English. I did an online University course and some of the content was delivered by an agriculturalist in Scotland - could barely understand a word. I think maybe the english accents you think are difficult depend on which type of english accent you have.
Definitely the New World dialects were easier for this American than those further out, and Appalachian is no sweat. I've had more exposure to those and related dialects. Georgie- that's incomprehensible to my ear. 😂
The whole South is heavily Scots-Irish.
I once called a customer service number in Australia from the U.S. I could not understand the guy. I felt terrible. I told him I knew we were both speaking english, but it wasn't helping. The one word I remember him having to spell was pin.
i agree, as a maritimer with a lot of family with newfie accents, and some with the western new brunswick accent (biggest giveaway of west new brunswick accent is they pronounce garage as gerrej) i find appalacean scottish and irish accents easy to understand, but then find many of the american accents in the south and carribean confusing.
What do you mean that you're New Zealand/Australian are you half and half?
Proud Appalachian and voice actor here! My grandaddy used to say "I'm so hungry, my stomach thinks my throat's cut," all the time!! It's true you can find Shakespearean phrases spoken by older people. I wish it wasn't dying out! My favorite Appalachian thing is adding an "a" to the beginning of "ing" verbs, as in, "I was just a-sittin' on the porch." I also love the addition of the word "done" to past -tense verbs: "I'm not hungry. I done et." I've heard dialects in the UK use the word "et" as past tense for "eat." I've also heard folks in the UK use "I reckon" in the same way we do. One more good'un: we pronounce "wh" at the beginning of a word differently than a "w." "White is not "wite," but 'whah-ite." (We push air through by pronouncing the "h" sound. Love this video!
That throat-cutting expression of hunger is widely used in England still, despite what this video says, as is ‘reckon’. I still say ‘et’, which is the more traditional Brummie way of saying ‘ate’, though many Brummies now say it as ‘ite’ and most of the rest of England as ‘eight’ unfortunately.
Me too. I love my home. I never want to leave.
My mother, who was born and brought up in the US State of Maine, used the expression, my stomach thinks my throat’s been cut.”
We still say my belly thinks my throats been cut in the UK. In many parts of Yorkshire we say thee, thou etc. We say reckon etc as well. Yorkshire has many accents and dialects hundreds every five to ten miles they can change a little.
Appalachian English is such a comforting sound to me. My family lost it a few generations back when they moved to the cities for work, but I’m certain our ancestors all spoke that way. Incidentally, most folks from the region say “App-uh-LATCH-an” not “App-uh-LAY-shun.” I often hear the joke, “If I hear you say Appalaysha, I’ll throw an apple atcha!”
Yep, lived there for almost a decade and you're right.
I'm not from here, but I've lived in western North Carolina for about nine years. I recognized Appalachian as being spoken somewhere in eastern North America, though I wasn't sure if it's in the mountains, the Outer Banks, or what.
I got Appa-LATCH-an immediately, as that’s where I’m from originally (and my family still lives there). I’ve lost most of it myself, but it’s like music to my ears now! Next time, Olly should do the Hoi Toiders of the Outer Banks.
And EOSborne, thank you! Every time he said “appa-lay-sha”, it was like finger nails on a chalk board!
I almost picked up a bit of an Appalachian accent when I went to school right near the mountains. Now I'm the only one in my family who says Appa-uh-latch-an and not the other way.
When the Appalachian started, I got such a big smile. My great-aunt spoke this way. Apparently my grandfather used to as well, but he did his best to tone it down so the grandkids could understand him. My great-aunt had no such reservation. She was a hoot, a huge storyteller, and I would listen to her tales for hours.
It's just the language of the elder story teller to me.
That was the only accent I could understand.
Dude same. I’ve spent my whole life trying to avoid it because my mom spent her whole life trying to lose it…
You guys need to watch Beau of the Fifth Column. He spent a long time hiding his accent too. In fact none of his friends new he had one. Then he got drunk one night and it came out. He now has a huge You Tube channel and uses his real accent for it and does just fine. Of course you have to be understood, being able to choose like Beau is pretty cool too.
i'm originally from nw Arkansas (Ozark mountains) and we talk pretty much the same way. I've had people in other parts of the country think I'm from one of the Carolinas.
I experienced the same with French accents. My mom's side is Acadian (Acadien) from PEI. They immigrated from the west coast of Brittany in 1604 and settled "up west" in PEI (except for the mid-1700s and the Expulsion of the Acadians/La Déportation des Acadiens). So it's a very isolated ancient French. We lived in New Zealand in elementary school and my mom taught me French so I'd be ok whenever we moved back to Canada and I had to take French class. ... But French was Parisian/standard French and I knew the equipment of circa 1600s French (with some Irish Catholic Gaelic influence). I had no idea what was happening! My Nana (grandmother) in New Zealand was a Geordie - occasionally when I'm tired or one of my cats is especially naughty out comes some random Geordie (She had a naughty cat.). So apparently I was picking that up along with Kiwi English and Acadian French. .... which led to the following... I read text books onto tape in university for a friend who was blind. She had a first degree in linguistics. She said that she couldn't have me read for her because she spent all that time decoding my accent and not focusing on the material I was reading. I was waiting for Newfoundland English! I've spent much of my adult and teen years in Toronto, Canada, so I actually either got most of the accents or was close. BTW Hello to "cousins" in Louisiana who speak Cajun. Thousands of Acadiens ended up in Louisiana after "La Déportation des Acadiens" in the 1700s.
It's complicated but basically, when Napoleon lost his war in Europe, the British made him forfeit all French occupied territories in north america, including Acadia and the Louisiana territory (Mississippi watershed) So the British wanted to consolidate/extend New England northwards wanted to settle Acadia (such beautiful place name!) so they evicted the Acadiens
A friend of mine grew up in Nova Scotia speaking Acadian French. Her school to a trip to Louisiana and all the kids were speaking Acadian French on the bus. There was this elderly couple Cajun couple who burst into tears saying they hadn't heard young people speaking their language in so long 😢
Fun fact: the word "Cajun" comes from "Acadien", pronounced in the Acadian accent.
I'm from Berlin Germany, when Bavarians confuse me, I couldn't do the same, my dialect is comparable to a Cockney without jargon words.
As french man, the mix french / english is understandable but the cajun accent is difficult for me.
im ethnically guyanese and trini. one of my great grandmas was actually arawak and carib! im so happy to see caribbean culture featured in this video ❤ much love!
I’m Australian. I understood significant parts of most of the accents. The development of accents and dialects is super interesting.
I love the Australian accent! It's my fav hehe! Too bad there is a lot of racism in Australia, it actually shocked me.
@@vertigo2894there's lots of ignorant people everywhere but scratch the surface and they are good to their families and easy to make friends with. Australians are generally fun and friendly and racism can be wiped out with a bit of communication.
@@joythought Of course there are wonderful Australians; I am guessing you are white? We don't tend to have the same experiences and it's often drastically different. From all the places I have been, it's sadly the worst in this context.
@@vertigo2894 not white australian here and I was wondering what type of racist situations are you referring to cause I personally don't find that bad.
@@RockinFootball_23 Are you a black male?
Got Trinidad, Guyana, and Jamaica. Only because I'm West Indian 😅 Side note: Each English speaking Caribbean country has a unique and distinctive dialect also, so whenever Caribbean people meet, we usually can tell where they're from just by their dialect😊
if you ask all the english speakers of the caribbean to write a statement in propper english, you will not be able to tell where they are from. American english is dialect of standard english, be cause it has different spelling and grammer. we all use the same spelling and grammer in the carribean . So i am from jamaica and I speak two languges, Enhlish and Jamaican Potios, its not a dialect its a language
@JimCarner so what if @@nicholaswjamrock didn't capitalise some words to your liking. His statement is informative and intelligible, which puts him well ahead of half the USians I encounter online.
bajan (barbadian) here, can confirm. also, all the carribbean ones were quite easy for me to understand and differentiate since i speak in a bajan accent.
From Trinidad and can confirm. A lot of times our islands can't understand each other.
Yes!! I’m Guyanese and got the trini accent within one second lol (loved seeing so many West Indian countries in this). A lot of people say trini/Guyanese sound similar, but to us it is so different!
Before I retired in 2018, I worked for a US Midwestern Bank's call center (It was Harris Bank Chicago, later absorbed into the BMO Canada corporation). Soooooooooooooo many times, I had clients from the southern part of the US say to me, "Slow down, I can't understand that fast Northern speak!"
That's surprising given the overwhelming media exposure that uses a broad standard US English. I found that throughout the world, when people learn English as a second language, they often have problems understanding various accents, but find a general American accent easiest to follow if it's spoken slowly. If somebody from England goes to a non-English speaking country, and the other person who supposedly understands English can't follow, faking an American accent might help.
I'm from Trinidad. Just wanted to point out a small error in your video caption: the original name of the island was "Iere", not "Lere", i.e., the first letter is uppercase i, not L.
My late husband came from Appalachia, and his family speaks this way. He trained it out of his voice because he felt it was holding him back in his career, but when he'd speak to them on the phone, it would come right back. The accent he ended up with was so soft and lovely, I miss it. When my mom (native Philadelphian) came to our wedding at his parents' home, she didn't understand a thing anyone said!
Hello from Gatlinburg 😍 I trained it out of my voice as well... it's coming back as I get older though. I loved reading your comment, and I'm very sorry for your loss. I know what you mean too, everyone can tell if I've spent the day with my papaw bc my accent gets pretty heavy. I speak very fast though lol it can really confuse people...
@@rosemadder5547My Philly comes back when I've been talking on the phone w/ back-home friends! We all adapt.
I understand applacian english better then the weird uk accents
@@DeezNuts- I watch a lot of UK tv, so I understand most of them by now!
Weird I get that, as a citizen of the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 I don’t hear many different ones unless I travel, and I have a posh accent as I grew up around Buckingham and never heard anything else and the first time I heard an American accent I had no idea what they were saying learnt the hard way though as I have had many different horse riding instructors and tutors
I trained with the Singapore military. Not all had the same accent, but I'd say 75% could easily converse with the American Marines. Great group of guys.
We can code switch easily. ;)
Yeah, they are real filli faleh! (filli faleh, filli faleh). Who knows what I'm talking about? My Singaporean sister-in-law used to say this.
Yes, that's why the government is trying eradicate Singlish.
@@Fuzzy_Llama many just think they can 😜
@@Fuzzy_Llama ORD loh !
‘My stomach thinks my throat is cut’ was an expression used by my mum to express feeling hungry. My family all born in Liverpool England but Mum’s heritage was Ireland / Welsh. Nice to know this expression is medieval Irish xx
My dad use to say the same thing and he was from Barbados. Many irish were sent to Barbados by Cromwell.
The only one I knew about and understood with ease was #4 - Appalachian. While it isn't exactly the same, it shares enough of the characteristics of my native Southern English that communication isn't much hindered. My own accent has become much more 'standardized' American English over time, but my grandparents spoke in such a thick Southern that some of my friends from other places found it difficult or impossible to understand them. I find myself slipping back into it when I'm around others speaking it.
I love Singaporean English! I knew that one. My late wife and I lived there for a year. After six months, my daughter came to visit. "Dad! You talk like them!" My wife and I were so proud! 😀
I am ashamed of singlish as a Singaporean
@@mingzmings88why lmao??? It’s a valid way of speaking. Stop trying to cater to white people
@@mingzmings88sad for u 😊
Years ago I stopped at a cattle station in the Aussie outback that was larger than some European countries and spoke to the old bloke that had been left in charge of the homestead while the owner spent the next six weeks or so inspecting the boundary fences. Yep. Six weeks. His Aussie accent was so broad that I struggled to understand him and I’m actually Australian! What a character. Not many of them left now. I still think about him all the time…
Strewth! lol
> *I still think about him all the time* You should definitely go pay him a visit!
@@RendallRen it was about 30 years ago near Lake Eyre in SA. He was an old fella then. Long gone by now I’m afraid
I'm from East Tennessee and my whole familys from Appalachia. My grandmother taught me to speak without my accent cause people would think I was stupid if I used my hillbilly English. Today I can speak without it but I'm proud to have my accent and usually just talk regular. We say things like toosdee for Tuesday, haint for haunt or ghost, holler for hollow, and use lots of phrases like ive know him since he was knee high to a grass hipper and well im finer than a frogs hair split 3 ways. I love that you included Appalachia in the video I only have one issue with you... its Appalachia with a soft 3rd A no with a long 3rd A. i aint really sore at you but it is a soft A lol
South Africa has so many different accents. Each group has their own accent. Very diverse. The cape colored accent is very unique in itself
The main thing I've noticed with SA accents, is they all have the slight afrikaaner sound to them. And that is unique to SA I believe.
That's not very accurate as in reality it some people sound like they have a British accent coz some teachers are from there whilst anothers sound American coz of Saturday morning cartoons whilst others sound more like their home language so the real answer would be it depends@@mrvwbug4423
cant confuse the afrikaner accent
I grew up in South Florida and later moved to Georgia so I got the Trinidadian, the Jamaican, and the Appalachian right off the bat. I really appreciated learning the history.
Grew up in Georgia! My wife is British and I have to translate my uncles for her lol
I'd highly recommend you confirm with your own research before taking what he presents as historical gospel. He has a few pretty blatant errors with history of some of the languages here. Most of it is great tho.
@@yondie491 I totally agree - you want to seem kind saying "most of it is great" - most of it is actually for likes/money and not correct
As an American Southerner, the Appalachian was super easy to understand. I hear the north GA version of it daily in north metro Atlanta.
Im certainly accustomed to it but i imagine it’s not nearly as hard to understand as the previous ones even for others who are not used to it
I'd have to agree.
I think the Appalachian is probably the easiest in this list for a broad English speaking audience to understand aside from Singaporean English.
Although we think it would be easier to understand for a broad group, that may not be the case. I tend to slip into a deeper Appalachian/southern accent when speaking with another southerner. A coworker who'd recently relocated to Atlanta from LA overheard one such conversation and couldn't understand us. She was totally lost.
Probably due to it being the closest to the general American dialect, but my wife grew up in California and it took her a good couple years to be able to understand my grampa that grew up in rural north Georgia in the 40s
I live in Cornwall, U.K. … I think ppl here would be blown away knowing a little island in Chesapeake Bay sound just like the Cornish!
Yeah same here I heard it and thought it was my people but it’s in America!
I got the Scottish variants and was happy that you included Tangiers! The second video you used for it was shown to my class during our phonetics and phonology class in college and I've never forgotten how round it all was
I'm Trinidadian and was pretty impressed with the view of my nation's accent. The Cape Flats was fascinating. Thanks for the knowledge.
You have noting to be impressed by. He is a shame and disgrace to the British education system. Did you realize he got the basic history of the country wrong? He said GERMANS made up the population of Trinidad. He has the make-up of many of the countries wrong. His historical information on many of the places in this video area very wrong. He said that people in Trinidad / Caribbean only learned STANDARD ENGLISH recently...LOL When.... Jamaicans, Trinidadians and Guyanese and others have been citizens in the UK since the very early 1950's. How were they able to move to the UK if they didn't speak standard English.? and English has been the only language thats ever been used SCHOOLS, BUSINESS, AND GOVERNMENT and used in theses former BRITISH colonies, and the official language. This dunce is just disrespecting you .
I've never been to Trinidad but I had a strong hunch about the accent. That combination of how the people in the example look with that sound in their language was a giveaway to me.
It's crazy because I can hear the carribean, Indian, Chinese accents all mixed up in there.
Back in the mid 90's I met a young lady from Tobago and when that first clip came up I guessed 'Tobago'. Is it the same thing, do you have the same agent on both Islands? I suppose there has to be differences a local would pick up. She looked Indian, the country not Native American 'Indian'.
Trinidadian here! Happened to stumble upon this video. Thank you for accurately capturing demonstrations of the accent as well as its historical origin!
Also Trini here! My sister's sent this to me haha
Not Trini, however I LOVE a Trni accent! ❤Beautiful!
As a Canadian who has lived in the Caribbean area of Toronto, I was able to identify the dialects from Trinidad, Guyana, and Jamaica. Of course, I also recognized the Newfoundland accent.
I guess I got to brag: As a Finn who has never been to Canada or the Caribbean, I was able to identify the Trinidad, Jamaica and Newfoundland accents! Not the Guyana one though.
So glad we can now stream so many TV shows from the UK. A couple of times I have found one that it's hard for me to understand the dialect and accent. Fascinating how many versions of the English language exist. I enjoy learning a bit about the different accents and the history behind them.
I got all the Caribbean dialects, Newfie and Appalachian, but I’m a Jamaican Canadian who’s spent a lot of time in the South so that makes sense 😂 Respectfully: These days the Indigenous Caribbean peoples who migrated from the southern mainland are not usually referred to as ‘Arawaks’. Arawakan is a language family. Pre-contact, the eastern islands were populated by the Caribs and western islands by Taino. They were enemies, not one group referring to themselves as Arawaks. I believe the Ciboney were also a Caribbean group but I don’t know about them. It was common in colonial curriculum to call all of the groups “Arawaks” and claim they are fully extinct. Now curriculum teaches about the culture of the groups like Taino in Jamaica and Puerto Rico.
Excellent information! Thank you! Gracias!
I'm from Toronto. Parents from Guyana. I got all but the Singapore one lol. I think we both are lucky having the upbringing we have. We expose to a lot more of the world than the average person both because of the Caribbean and being Canadian. Something I never realized until I was older.
Much appreciated insight.
The cibony I think we're on carriocou island
Yeah, nobody cares. Were you there? How do you know any of what you said is true? Where are these people now, eh?
Im from newfoundland! The accent has sadly died down quite a bit, although many of the youngsters have maintained the vocabulary. Yu most often find the accent as strong as that in the remote communities, and in our older population. Another piece of our interesting history is Newfoundland used to be an independent dominion of the UK, but due to economic crisis we became more dependant on the British until 1949 when we joined Canada. Also, its pronounced more like like newfenland, then newFOUNDLand which is how a lot of mainlanders and foreigners pronounce it!
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I learned to pronounce it Newfenlin here in Michigan on the border. The city on the Canadian side had a lot of workers coming in from around Canada to work in the refineries. Newfies had to adjust their accent a lot to communicate with the other workers, and of course the other workers had to learn a bit of Newfie as well. The border used to be more open back then. Now I'm cut off from family over there.
Rhyme it with understand...un-der-stand New-fen-land, or at least that's what I've been telling people for decades.
@@tomfitzpatrick8303 smart! I'll have to use that one
All the Newfonies I sailed with sure did keep their accents. Especially the Murphy girls. There were three women's last names was Murphy, they could drink any hard core alcoholics into an early grave. Good folks! I definitely would have like to marry a girl from the rock!
Thank you Olly for this well done and informative English Language Accents video. Excellent. I subscribed from Washington DC ! Cheers !
I'm a northern English man. My best mate was a witness in a murder trial in London. The court had to get a translator in because they couldn't understand him
Enjoyed listening to the Appalachian speakers. My mom's people mostly came from Kentucky and Tennessee. The accent hasn't changed a great deal over the years.
Thank the Lord for that. Would you mind recording them before their dialect of English disappears completely because it will owing to generational changes in language use. It's a very normal progression. Cheers from NYC!!!
So long as they don't do that annoying mush mouth thing where they can't annunciate and sit there and buzz thru their nose. That's not an accent that's a speech impediment and it goes uncorrected among a lot of Appalachian zones
My best friend is from Kentucky and calls is ‘Kentuckian”.
@@f0rmaggi0 I have cousins from there. Appalachian is very recognizable once you've heard it.. and you can hear echoes of it all throughout the south of the US.
Appalachian English sounds normal to me here in San Antonio.
Hi Olly. Ewan Bremner (Trainspotting clip) is from Edinburgh and his accent is East coast, not Glaswegian. He is speaking fast because he is speeding, not because he is a Weegie. The most difficult dialect in Scotland is probably Doric from one of the fishing villages along the Moray Firth coast, or some of the islands, like Orkney. kzhead.info/sun/n8lsk6aKo4mJeHA/bejne.html
I was able to pick out about half of it
@@tonyennis1787 My wife, who is from Fife, has little problem with Glaswegian but needs me to translate Doric. Aberdeen residents speak quite slowly, but it gets faster the further west you travel, especially in the fishing villages, like Buckie, Banff and Burghead (less fishing and lots of incomers have diluted this somewhat.)
Fraserburgh is by far the thickest Doric ever!!! I live in Doric-land
@@elaineb7065 i was at school in Forres, swam for the Bluefins, travelling round Grampian and my parents still live in Burghead. Most of the fishing villages and towns are indecipherable to anyone from outside the area.
I was once at a wedding in Cullen surrounded by fishermen and fisher's wife's. Nae fecking clue what they were sayin. I've live in Glasgow for 20 years now so know the accent pretty well. My biggest issue is getting taxi drivers to take me to Crow Road. They have no clue where I want to go! I just can't seen to shake the plumy English for that one!
This was a very interesting lesson. Thank you for posting!
I really enjoyed this. Thank you. I got 2,3,4,6 & 7. As a Canadian I am lucky to have been exposed to many of these beautiful dialects.
Every Canadian recognized the Newfies. They do tone it down when they talk to the rest of us but it's still pretty distinctive. BTW the emphasis is on LAND in both Newfoundland and Newfoundlander.
Non - Canadians tend to pronounce it and "-Lund", too, instead the typical pronunciation of "Land".
Actually there are a few acceptable pronunciations. Just never emphasize the second syllable (New FOUND Land). And never reduce the last vowel (Land not Lund). Mind you, no one will get upset if you get it wrong.
I knew it was Canadian, but I wasn't able to pinpoint it any closer than that. I don't know enough about Canada to be able to pick out any regional accents.
@@corinna007 How do Canadians pronounce the "found" part? Like "found," or like "fund"?
@@bigscarysteve It's found, but spoken very quickly so it sounds more like fnd. And the syllable emphasis is very much like the word understand. There are some slight variations, depending on where you're from on the island.
I’m Afrikaans and living in Cape Town, since I understand it, it was so weird to think others can’t understand it..haha. Happy to be respresented 🙌
Right? Seems clear to me, lol
I'm Nigerian. We speak very different here. But whenever I hear Afrikaans English, I know it's them. It's almost Australian sounding, but with a lot of "A" sound to my ears. Friend sounds like Fr-Aynd Letter = L-Ay-tar (later?) Nigerians would say fr-EH-nd, or leh-ta
I fink you fweeky an i lahk you a lot
Same , from sa too here, its so eazy to understand😭
me as a zulu person ,i can hear you but some words can be difficult to understand jusl like the one in this video ,i doin't know the f what that kid said
Love the shout out to Newfoundland! My parents and I left NFLD for Western Canada when I was very young but whenever we would go back to visit, there were always certain relatives I struggled to understand 😅I appreciate it now as a beautiful place, with a beautiful dialect. Your videos are very cool and I appreciate the chance to learn the backstory behind some of these accents!
I love that you included the South African Cape Town English.
Being Guyanese and Trini myself, we never thought what our communities were speaking wasn't English, we just thought it was just English with an accent- and most people around us found that to be the case too... At least, here in Toronto. Put a bunch of us together and the accent gets stronger, but there's a difference between that, and the patois or Creole that is much more difficult to understand.
I'm also a born Trinidadian with a Guyanese grandfather raised in Toronto and thought the same, that Trinidadians just spoke English with an accent not that it was a dialect. Oddly enough some Trinidadian expressions my Newfoundland born wife also knows.
@@Siloguy Yes I found out that people form Newfoundland understand alot of Caribbean English because....both are using old english words and terms from the 1800s, because both were isolated...they also use all the salt fish and salt beef. If you swear the older people could of understand
@@zochbuppet448 love that!
It IS English that I'm familiar with. There are simply some language...nuances...that differ from "standard" English. Living with people from the West Indies for any amount of time will make you familiar with them. That goes from Jamaica to Trinidad...and any island in between. In this video, the Guyanese dialect was the most difficult for me to understand...but not COMPLETELY. Trini was easy.
@@SiloguyThere’s a really fine line I guess. I suppose it’s considered a dialect because of the presence of unique set phrases and loan words not from English
I was surprised the Australian indigenous dialect/s didn’t rate a mention. Their patois is very distinctive and most Aussies find it hard to understand unless you live amongst them
I was surprised too but then I realised it's easier to understand than most of these.
None of these seemed any more difficult than West Texas English “es geets” (let’s go out for lunch).
😂 I love that video of the public health announcement being translated by the aboriginal lady. I remember she says "sick one".
'pucken' oath :-)
A lot of multiple generation cattle station managers, especially in the Kimberley, have picked up the lilt of the patios and I can tell you now, unless you've grown up around it, it's almost impossible to understand. My mum lived in the Kimberley for most of her childhood, and can understand it well, I get so lost because it's so foreign to me having grown up in the metro area.
What a fascinating video. Thanks, it was really interesting to hear all those wonderful accents. I even guessed a few!
Thank you, thank you, thank you for including Liberian English! ❤ Every time you counted down another one I kept thinking, he can't have left it out - and you didn't! I was born and grew up there, it's so nice to hear it being covered in a film like this. "Tenk you ya" (That's an emphatic thank you in kolokwa)
I’m from Indonesia 🇮🇩 , so I’m very familiar with Singlish 🇸🇬 and their sister Manglish 🇲🇾. Influences don’t only come from Chinese dialects (Hokkien, Teochew, Cantonese, etc) but also from Malay and Indian dialects (mainly Tamil). But as former British colonies, both Singapore and Malaysia have a high proficiency in English (especially the former) and they have no difficulty adjusting to your English level. It’s just that they prefer to speak Singlish and Manglish as they sound more natural and less pretentious 😁
You nailed it.
Can la 👍🏻
I Heard singlish isn’t even intelligible to standard English (uk, Canada, Merica, australia)
@@Worldaffairslover I don’t know, did you understand what they’re saying in the video?
Don’t forget about Taglish in the Philippines. I’m surprised that didn’t make the list.
Coming from Canada (Toronto area) I had no problem identifying and understanding Trinidadian accents ☺️ We have a large Trini (and in general, Caribbean) community 😍
I lived in New York City for a time, so that one, Jamaica, and Guyana were really easy to identify. I was waiting for Patois and Tangier to show up in this list.
Aye, I think most of my Guyanese family are in or around Toronto these days
Bruh I was dying the whole time when that part came on. Being from Grenada and growing up in Toronto you hear it a lot. The only time I've gotta confused is when I seen an Asian person with a Caribbean accent. But that was years ago
For those interested to hear or know more about Singlish, here's a very good video (there are two parts....here's the first). kzhead.info/sun/msWmgL6FoWSmomw/bejne.html&ab_channel=CNAInsider
For somebody who is interested in languages and conversely in people, you presentation is fascinating !
I lived in Maine for 35 years and I made a good friend at my first job. There are a lot of French Canadians there and it’s not uncommon to hear French being spoken. A version that might not be well understood in Paris. My friend bought me to his family and I was introduced to his grandfather. I couldn’t understand a single word he said and asked my friend what language his grandfather was speaking. He replied English! After he started interpreting for me his grandfather turned out to be a real hoot!
@@curmudgeonaf don't forget the Acadians also speak Shiac
I'm in the Niagara region of southern Ontario, and besides small communities in Northern Ontario, very few speak, or even understand French. I sure don't. We can't understand them either, and we were forced to take French in school. And the dialect they speak is different from France after the British forced France out of North America cutting them off from native French speakers.
They aren’t French Canadians. They’re Acadians.
I'm 100% french Canadian and Acadian. My memere speaks Frenglish. 😆 I I have to pay close attention when she talks. I speak with a subsidiary of long island/ NY English. Wish I would have learned more French than the occasional cuss words.
@@janp2800 it's Chiac from Shediac, and it's got its own grammar rules, so it's more of a creole than plain Frenglish which is just mixing the two together based on your own vocabulary.
The first accent for Glaswegian was actually an Edinburgh accent, Trainspotting is set in Edinburgh and Ewen Bremner is a native. Scottish people can hear the difference, but they're both lowland Scots accents. There's a different rhythm to the Edinburgh speech which is demonstrated in this clip. The second two people in your example did sound like west coasters though.
I'm Canadian, and lived in Glasgow for a few years. Even I could tell that first one wasn't a Glaswegian accent. I also did some research and his claim of Italians being lied to/not wanting to go to Glasgow and wanting to go to America but being taken to Glasgow instead seems to be insubstantiated as well. Odd!
@@ashleyfunnell2654 yeh and the example he used “gonnae nae do that” is just wrong, it’s “gonnae no dae that”. For the Italian thing, there are lots of Italian Scots, like I think 1 or 2% of the population. I’ve never heard they thought they were going to America though, that sounds dubious,
came to the comments to say the same things, especially to point out the "gonna nae do that" which just sounds awful to say out loud. Second clip is the guy who did that 'here you' ned song and he's from motherwell afaik
Absolutely. Ewen Bremner’s accent is an Edinburgh accent. And it should be “Gonnae no dae that” rather than “Gonnae nae do that”.
Yes, I immediately noticed the same thing, it's such a strange mistake to make since Trainspotting is so famously set in Edinburgh. It is THE quintessential Edinburghian movie, both in good and bad, so I was surprised when it was linked to Glasgow. Some of the scenes were filmed in Glasgow, but that's just a technicality, the movie or the accents are not representative of Glasgow at all.
As an Air Force brat with a Pennsylvanian father and a Georgia mother, I was exposed to quite a few American accents. I did have a Southern accent most of my childhood, but it went away in my teens, after living in central California and then Delaware. If I could have any kind of American accent, it would be a Tidewater Virginia accent, which is slow and stately, and has some similarities to a Canadian accent - the "ou" in "house" is the same. It's said to be close to the English spoken by the original settlers in the 1700s.
I'm from Pennsylvania and there are different dialects for different areas. And not even a far distance away. I'm from the northeast where we have what's jokingly referred to as "coal speak" (which has a home at Google) But I can tell by speaking to someone what part of PA they're from. Down near Philly they have their own, even an hour south in Allentown they have their own. It's pretty interesting. And they all make fun of us definitely lol
I've heard that area-Maryland, Delaware, DC and Northern Virginia called the 'Mid-Atlantic' accent and, you are correct, that is supposed to be the US accent closest to Britain! That was what they used to train actors to talk like for the stage and ealy talkie movies!
My dad is from Pennsylvania (Philly) and my mom is from South Georgia (near Savannah) also. Growing up, people would ask me if I was from "down south" and they never believed I was born and raised in Philly. My great grandmother was Amish and spoke Pennsylvania Dutch so I grew up hearing some of the language from relatives. Now I have a mixture of different accents and no one ever guesses what part of the country i'm from.
@@mrssaunders2 Wow! You’ve got 3 really distinct accents that shaped your early talking development years!
@@tiffanyshanley1419 my cousins from the Philly-Wilmington area have that "Delaware Valley accent" - one mark of which is saying "whuter" for the fluid that flows in the Delaware River.
I knew the Appalachian, Cape Coloured, Singaporean and Scottish ones immediately. With clues I got Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago and maybe another one. For myself, I have a pretty stereotypical "southern suburbs" accent - the southern suburbs of Johannesburg, that is. But the kids I teach can't tell - they're always asking me if I'm from England. (Nope, that's two to 10 generations removed, doll. Oh, and it's not Af (like as)-rikaans. It's Af (like uh)-frikaans.
To be fair, an Afrikaans accent tends to sound vaguely English to us Americans if we are not familiar with it, and yes, I've heard it. My school regularly had exchange students from South Africa, and I was a customer at a winery where one of its staff is an American Citizen from South Africa. People wonder how a white guy can claim to be African American until I tell them it's because he and his family are from South Africa. Something I was able to tell the moment I heard him speak.
There are some Cajuns down in Louziane, not just the French words. Many influences all spiced up! They got kicked out of Canada and kinda got stuck in them swamps. But when they speak 'English'...it's like Gumbo.
So interesting!
Yes! Cajun is fun to listen to.
@@rutht2023 Well... Cajuns in general are fun; food, music, dance, fiddles, crawdads, especially when you add some hot sauce!
I'm from Alberta up in Canada, and my ancestors arrived in Acadia in 1605. Instead of heading south once kicked out, they went further west. What's crazy for me to think about is that I almost certainly share ancestry with some Cajuns.
@@WretchedRedoran Acadia = 'Acadie' in French - Acadiens - 'Cadiens' - 'Cajuns'. You DO share DNA with the swampers, shrimpers & fiddle-players down on the bayou. Laissez les bons temps roulez!
I worked in Singapore for a year. I really liked all the variations of English there, influenced by the styles of all the different cultures that were present, and the hyper-brevity was awesome. I worked with a lot of Filipinos there as well and they had a huge language mashup too.
I am ashamed of singlish as a Singaporean
Yeah, it's terrible... can barely understand what they're saying...
@@adrianlean9628 ya blame everyone but our own system..
@@mingzmings88 Why? Singapore has developed as a country with a confident world identity, a nation that punches far, far above its weight. Singlish is a reflection of that. As an Australian I always think that about Singaporean.
@@adrianlean9628 suffer from Australian slang? Err what?
Wow, very interesting. That's the first video of yours I have seen so far, but I will stick around here, thank you. Subscribing.
I nailed these. Step father grew up in Sunderland, probably one of the ones most people can't understand, it prepared me for the worst. Recognized most of these accents and generally can understand them. Picked out Newfie quick, they have some crazy slang. I've spent a lot of time around Guyanese, Trini, Jamaicans. Uncle was Scottish too. Libeerian was probably the toughest for me
I'm from New Zealand, it would be good to cover some of the English dialects spoken in the Pacific, as well as the creole (pigin) spoken in Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, and the Solomon Islands. Even in relatively young countries, such as Australia and New Zealand, there are variances in accents.
Pidgin English.
@@elzelinakriek-breet3092 yes, or Tok pisin, or Bislama.
I agree. As a kiwi, I'd love a side by side comparison with a strong kiwi and a strong Aussie accent. I find it frustrating that so many people can't tell the difference. It's not the mocking our accent that l mind, it's being mocked by someone using an Australian accent that they think is kiwi that gets to me.😊
@@nikiTricoteuse - I hate a kiwi accent, even worse is an Aussi accent! No need to have an accent, except when it is your second language!
@@elzelinakriek-breet3092 Yes and no. I taught English overseas for almost 20 years and was proudly "accentless". When l first came back, l used to have idiots asking me where l was from, then arguing with me that l couldn't possibly be a New Zealander when l told them. The stupidity and pointlessness of it all did my head in. I don't know where you're from but, when l first came back, Lyn of Tawa was all over the TV and l was HORRIFIED to think we sounded like THAT. Didn't realise for quite some time that it was a comedian playing a part. Been back 30 years and although I don't think l have a particularly strong kiwi accent, definitely NOT Lyn of Tawa level, l sometimes catch myself with a vowel sound that l'm not thrilled by. My point was more that l'd love someone to demonstrate the differences between the two. Although l don't really have a problem with accents, l DO find it offensive that many TV commercials are voiced by someone pretending to be a NZer and getting the accent wrong or that someone using it to make jokes about it can't even get it right. Our accent and manner of speaking here in Aotearoa, has been shaped by the forces that created us and l love that it tells our story. Also, without accents how could we tell the Canadians from the Yanks or the lrish from the Poms and, losing that glorious Welsh accent that sounds like they're singing even when they're not or the wonderful Scots lilt would be a crime against humanity!
I'm glad you included Liberian English, because there's a whole continuum of English-based pidgins and creoles stretching along the coast of West Africa from Cameroon (where I live) to Sierra Leone. Additionally, I'm from Canada so I picked up on the Newfie and Caribbean accents pretty quickly
What's important is to develop an "ear" to the way words are pronounced in different accents to help one selfs comprehension of what's being said , It takes training and perseverance
Wonderful video, one of the nicest informative ones I saw in recent times.
ahaha the Singlish breakdown from entire paragraphs to one word has me creasing lmao
My Grandpa spoke with a deep Appalachian accent. That was perfect like listening to one of his stories right there.
I'm a native Dutchman, and I got Trinidad, Cape Town, Appalachia, Jamaica, Newfoundland, and Glasgow on first listen. I have to mention I enjoy exploring English dialects and accents, but I'm most familiar with those of the UK and Ireland.
Cape Town has several accents, and that can even differ from suburb to suburb. We have such a variety of cultures that it doesn't really come as a surprise. The German English from Tamboerskloof may differ from the Fresnaye (pron Fre-naye) French English, or the Bo Kaap Cape Malay English. The Afrikaans semigrants have several accents, and the worst among them have the various Highveld ones. They tend to speak Afrikaans that borrows directly from the Pedi languages and even that can be very regional. They turn "wil jy nog kos hê" for "would you like more food?" into "soek jy nog kos?" which means "are you in search of food?". Most don't know they speak a Afrikaans mingled with Setswana Sepedi Sesotho et . 🇿🇦
Think you can get Bahamian Dialect? I have alot of Jamaican friends, Haitian, Trini and alot of them tell me they can't understand me.
@@X_Bless90 I don't know, I'm not sure I've ever heard it.
@@ilya.petersen hey man, ok. Have you heard of the Gulla Geechee people from South Carolina in America and I just found this out, we sound a little like they do but it's more of an island tone...I'm sure there is a good Bahamian creole vid on here. Real awesome that you can get the Trini, and New Foundland and more, the Glasgow had me at first listen lol but awesome man.
I guessed Trinidad & Tobago, Appalachia, Jamaica, Newfoundland, Guyana, Glasgow. Had no idea the Tangier Island accent existed - so cool! I can hear how that carried over into how mainland Maryland folks speak. love this!
I love how he acknowledges how great the wonder of dialects is.
I thought for sure you would mention the Outter Banks of North Carolina. Their accent is the closest English to 1500's English, and is very beautiful to hear. It is even "more English" than Tangier Island.
Same here!
I'm Australian and we say "My belly thinks my throat's cut" over here, too. I recognised four of the accents straight off - Newfoundland, Appalachian, Jamaican and Glaswegian and had a good idea of the other Caribbean accents as coming from that area although I couldn't pin them down. I found this a very interesting video and you've won another subscriber here!
Aussie here too, found Appalachian and Glaswegian accents understandable.
Texan and guessed all the same ones. I could get Jamaican, Appalachian, and Glaswegian by sound, but could only guess Newfoundland after he gave the hints about the history of settlement.
Hi-I've never heard the "My belly thinks my throat's cut" idiom before. Do you know why people say this?
@@RS54321 Hungry 😂
@@uppercut147 American, grew up in the US midwest. Although I didn't grow up in the US south my cousins grew up in Kentucky and I heard that a LOT.. so Appalachian was an easy one to identify. Jamaican I've known since I was a kid. Glaswegian also (part of my family is scottish) And my bro is married to a Newfie.. So those were fairly obvious.. The rest? As mystified as could be.
Thank you for this! A totally awesome demonstration that my beloved English language survives because it is welcoming and inclusive of all new variations. English has a huge vocabulary, over 150,000 words, and this is thanks to contacts with other cultures.
6:25 thanks for this one, you made my day... Oh, that weird joy of self-employed linguist.
I guessed Appalachian, Jamaican, South African, Scottish accents. I've never heard the Newfoundland accent nor the Singaporean English. I loved this video, and felt like I learned something. So fun!
As someone from Newfoundland there are many different accents on the island depends where they are from on the island.
Skooshin…..the act of jumping on the clampers.
What about English accents from England?
Dialect 2 🇹🇹 I am half Grenadian the accent is so similar. Just over the sea. The entire Caribbean has a very similar history. Every Island has a form of rice and peas.
Tru dat 🇯🇲
Loved it, thank you! I always thought that in parts of Nova Scotia in Canada's Maritimes that it sounded like Cornwall from hundreds of years ago, but west of England/ east of Ireland makes sense!
How to correctly identified six of them! I personally am from New York in the United States. There were a few other dialects I was at least able to narrow down the general region and/or identify a few of the originating languages that they were composed of. Great video! Thank you for sharing
Jamaican Patois is a lot more English influenced than many realize. The bulk of its vocabulary is actually derived from English. There are some other words from African languages like Akan. But the majority of the vocabulary derives from English with slight changes. For example "Look pon dah gyal dey", is literally "look upon that girl there!" They've contracted the word "upon", shortening it to "pon". It is these kinds of little changes and the variation in pronunciation that makes some of the words hard to understand for English speakers unfamiliar with it. Another interesting feature with Jamaica Patois is that it is filled with many idioms - phrases or sayings that don't literally mean what the literal words would suggest. So even if you can recognize the English equivalents of the string of words spoken, that doesn't mean you understand the idea being communicated by the phrase. So it's not just about recognizing the words, you have learn the meaning of whole phrases.
From my experiences after living in Canada for many years, most people here assume that Jamaicans only speak English with a heavy accent and are completely unaware that Jamaicans speak Patois.
He said the dialect was mainly african influenced but if we break down each word in the Jamaican patois we'll see that its mainly English based. Information was a bit off.
It depends on the region & dialect of patois being spoken. The more you get to the more tourist area it becomes more intelligible with English but the more you go inland the more it diverts into it's own language especially when it comes to the maroons. They speak deep patois
@@kevinmorris4994it's region based. The more closer you are to tourist areas vs far deep inland is different. A Kingstonian will find it difficult to understand someone from saint Elizabeth. Or even worse a maroon speaking deep patois
@@kevinmorris4994 Jamaican Creole/Patois is actually a creole "language" and not a dialect. Other than that, you are correct.
Glad you included Glaswegian. I went as a 16 year old, on my own, in 1971 and stayed a week or so. For the first couple of days l had no idea what people were saying but my ears adjusted. Love the city in the way people love rainy, grimy cities.
Not sure why he included a clip from Edinburgh based Trainspotting though! 😂😂😂
There was a Glaswegian guy that used to stay at my step mum's B&B when I was a kid. He used to sit in the living room watching Star Trek. Trying to understand a tough accent when they're speaking in sci-fi language is top tier difficulty. I've since worked in a lot of call centres so it just takes me a few sentences to tune in to someone's accent. Having security questions like name, date of birth and post code is super helpful to tune in to someone's speech patterns and match them up to letters, numbers and words.
Thanks to videogames, I heard the Trinidad Creole and was reminded of George (who's from Guyana, according to the game). The Guyanese was recognisable because of complaints about how badly the game represented the Guyanese dialect. I recognised and *mostly* understood the Appalachian too. Definitely recognised more than I understood though, and can't say I recognised more than half of them... Great video, lots of fun to watch!
I'm an American who grew up in Southern California and now lives in Texas. Im also an actor and a student of English dialects. I got North Carolina Hillbilly rifgt away, since my grandmother was from there. I also got Trinidad, Newfoundland, Jamaica, and Glasgow. Singlish and that Cape Town dialect were new to me. Liberia was also a surprise.
I'm a North Texan with Southeast Asian ancestry, and I surprised myself. I got Trini, Appalachian, Singaporean, Jamaican, Newfoundlander, Guyanese, and Glaswegian right! I do watch a lot of international film, which certainly helped, and I've moved around a lot within the United States which exposed me to more cultures.
You got Glasgow right did you? Lol he mistakingly used two examples from Edinburgh and one speaking gibberish for comedic effect. 😂😂
Good job, man!
I'm a Canadian living in Jamaica for 12 years, and back and forth a lot for 10 years before that. It took me a while, probably too old when I started, but now understand Patois quite well. A correction, Jamaica wasn't first settled by Arawak, it was Taino.
The Taíno are an Arawak people
@@cthrugrl They spoke an Arawakan language. Here in Jamaica, they aren't regarded as having been Arawak.
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@JCO2002 Taino are a subgroup of Arawak. Saying Taino aren't Arawak is like saying a banana isn't a fruit because it's a banana and not a fruit.
@@Kaneki6386 aye
😂 Glad to see Singlish here, I've known people who complain they don't understand what we're talking about when they come here, then we start speaking standard english
I can't understand everything said in Cape Flats English, but I recognized it immediatly. Would've been weird if not, after living in Cape Town for almost half a year. And, for some reason, I love hearing it.
I’m from central FL. I hear most of the north and south American accents everyday. The hardest accent here for me to understand is Cajun. It’s especially difficult if it’s an older Cajun person because they mix a little French in there by nature. When I’m in Europe the hardest accent to understand is Welsh. Out of the hundreds of Welsh I’ve spoken to, I’ve probably understood a handful of words.
I moved to central Florida in 2014 from New York state, I find it so interesting how many different accents I hear even from people born and raised here. One family can sound Southern and the people in the next house sound like me.
I was from Ohio, left at 18 fir the military, dealt with Germans, and Americans from all over. I left the military and came south (I'm now near the Florida-Georgia Boarder..) and my "Accent" went from plain to a mix mash.
@@brandonmeyers8249 Florida is the real melting pot. I grew up in Miami and Orlando in the 70s and 80s and all my friends were either immigrants from Latin America or Northern transplants escaping the snow. And then there's my relatives, who identify with the Deep South and Dixie. I tell people that growing up here was like being in a foreign exchange program without ever leaving home.
I grew up in Polk County 50 years ago, and the accent was either Deep South or mainly Michigan with a little Upstate NY and Ohio. Now, of course, it'a much more diverse.
I grew up in southern Louisiana and I was hoping he would include that area.
I'm French and know close to nothing about English and its accents. The best I could do was roughly locate a few of them like "sounds Scottish" "somewhere in Africa" 😂 Although the clues helped actually finding a few ones, so that was cool. Interesting video as a whole, it's fun learning about how the language and its accents evolved in different parts of the world!
I'm proud of myself for knowing many of these! Helps with my Caribbean and Welsh roots (I appreciate the amount of caribbean dialects 💕), and many people I've met along the way from South Africa and Scotland!
I'm South African (and have never lived in the Cape), and I have never struggled to understand the Cape town accent. So I think most South Africans would understand it, but I could see why the rest of the world would struggle
Honestly the accents in the clips shown here aren't as heavy. I don't usually have trouble understanding the accent but every now and then I come across someone with such a heavy accent that I can't understand it and I've lived in CT for the past 12 years now. I do think it's also because they have their own slang terms that aren't commonly used by other English speaking South Africans.
I’m Dutch and I could understand it pretty well, It also kind off reminded me of how people with heavy Dutch accent speak English
In Newfoundland, we still use old Irish words such as "Sleeveen." Many parts of Newfoundland have their own distinct dialect. I was at a foot all game in Alberta a month ago, and a man sitting next to me asked, "Are you from town?" Meaning are you from St. Johns? He was from another area of Newfoundland. He could tell I was from St. Johns by my accent.
We still use 'sleeveen' in Ireland. It's funny, I was at an airport in south America a few years back and overheard a lad on a phone with a bizarre Irish-sounding accent. I got chatting to him out of curiosity and yes, he was from Newfoundland. It was fascinating to listen to him speaking. 😊
@musashidanmcgrath That's a great story, I can imagine your surprise. I was transferred to Scotland in 1998, and they all thought I was Irish. They were quite surprised to learn I was actually Canadian. My hometown was settled by O'Brien, Madden, Doyle, Hannaford, Kielly, Hearn, and McGrath, among others.
Its not hard to tell a townie. You do speak different from the rest of the island. My family is from the western part of the island and I can hear a townie a mile away.
@samurphy Yes, we speak a different dialect compared to the rest of Newfoundland. What's surprising is that I left Newfoundland in 1998 and didn't return until 2019. Then I moved to Edmonton in 2023, but he could still hear that Townie accent.
I was visiting my sister in Texas and asked for something in the store one day and the clerk asked if I was from Ireland….when I said Nfld. he said he never heard of it… @@jaydawg4632
The Appalachian accent was the only one I truly for sure knew! I was born and raised in and around the Monroe, Louisiana area so I KNOW most southern accents! :) Certain expressions my maternal grandmother used, I just didn't understand why she used them. Reading novels set in 18th century and before England made me realize where some came from! Someone would ask how she was and she'd say tolerable. My sister and I would ask her if she meant did she barely tolerate how she felt? There were a lot of things similar that she said that finally made sense when reading those novels! I've never tried to get rid of my southern accent BUT I vividly remember my 5th grade teacher trying to make us pronounce certain words correctly! Like it is FIRE, not far, WINDOW, not winder, etc!
Nacogdoches, TX, and I wanted to hear some coonass, or Houston hood rat.
OMG how did I not know number 2, I literally know someone FROM TRINIDAD! She sounds exactly like that, that’s actually super cool to learn more about it
I got eight right !! Am really pleased wiv my score 'cos thought I wouldn't do that well ! Great video, enjoyed it so much, thank you
I also got Guianese, Trinidadian, Jamaican, Singaporean, and the Newfies because I worked in tourism in NYC for 25 years. I have a Brooklyn accent that almost qualifies as a dialect. There is no R on Noo Yalk/ Noo yauk. When I was growing up in Brooklyn, people pronounced Oil, Earl, and Toilet Ter-let. And a battery was a Bat-Tree. They say the accent comes from the original Dutch settlers In New Amsterdam.
*Guyanese*
@@SonWsp Heh, I'm from Manhattan so my accent is short Os and colored Rs. "The KAH-fee is in the AH-rinj AH-fis down the LAHNG KAH-rid-orr."
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In our traditional Newfoundland dialect, oil is pronounced, “iol.” Toilet is pronounced as, “tylit.” Egg is pronounced, “aagg, or “haaggs.” The “L” sound within a word is flattened, last letter is a word may be dropped. Cold was be pronounced, “coo” rhymes with, “o.” We exaggerate or drop h. We inhale with a yes. Lots more.
As a Singaporean, allow me to express my appreciation for our feature in this video in my native Singlish: Sibeh steady sia this angmoh
Latinamericans hearing Jamaican English after growing up surrounded by dancehall: "hey, do we know each other?"
I was close on a few of them, but bloody far from on the money! Nice vid!
This was fun to watch! When I was about 10 years old my cousins from Ireland came to visit us in Canada. I didn't understand a word they were saying when they arrived, but after a week or so of them speaking slowly for my benefit, I did learn to comprehend and appreciate my Irish heritage. As an adult I've worked with many people who've emigrated here from all over and love the challenge of interpreting there new found English.
I find that interesting as everyone in Nova Scotia apparently sounds straight up fucking Irish to me (English born, Irish grandfather)
I’m from Newfoundland. My brother and I were in a pub in Halifax. We met some Irish people. We had to show them our drivers licenses to prove we weren’t from Ireland. They were bewildered.
I was not expecting to see Trinidad on this list. I grew up with this and the Jamaican accent and I never fully appreciated that most people can't understand what is being said. I got every Carib accent. The Liberian accent sounds like the Belter accent in The Expanse.
I had a teacher from Trinidad, none of us could understand him. We live in Canada
I've never heard the Trinidadian accent before, but it was one of the few on this list that I could understand.
@@bigscarysteve that might be possible because in the school system they might have stressed a more English accent. I'm Trinidadian by birth but know some Trinis that sounds as if they were raised in England.
It only takes a few words for my ear to calibrate and I could definitely just understand. Worked with some guys from Scotland, Had no idea what they were saying a few hours later understood perfectly.
😅I never felt so confuse. I'm Guyanese and I understood all my Caribbean Dialects along with some words from the other dialects.🥰 Honestly We here in Guyana and most Caribbean Can change our accents to the standard English when we want...for example... 🥴In Guyana the official language is English however majority of the population tend to speak a more subtle creoles when communicating. Think yuh notice the difference???😭😭😭
I’m from Newfoundland. Our accent is a melange of West Country and Waterford/Wexford Irish. It is a fast vernacular whose calling card is maintaining 3 conversations at the same time at a house party. Peppered with arcane and archaic words, it’s a dialect like no other.
Got in with a newfie gang in my university days and since. Great people and the kitchen parties are certainly a thing! As a Canadian I can just barely keep up - a lot to like about the dialect.
@@vls179 I have friends who can talk fast enough to call a dog race. Eminem might have been the first white rapper, but there’s guys in St. John’s who can tell you a story at twice his speed.
I grew up in SE Kentucky and I realized that Newfoundland English is similar to my family’s accent. So I understood a lot of what he said.
@@mrwyatt6006 The Appalachian accent from north Georgia to the border of Tennessee and North Carolina has some similarities to Newfoundland English. The original population of Newfoundland was about 40 000 people. These people were pretty much hermetically sealed for 350 years. The dialect was frozen in time until Newfoundland became a Canadian province in 1949.
I had a friend from Nigeria. My hubby was raised in rural Arkansas. We all went to visit hubby's family and friends in rural Arkansas. We needed a translator. I understood my friend from Nigeria, so I would tell hubby what she said. He would tell his friends, again in English, what she said. They would reply and again, he would say what they said, I would have to tell my friend from Nigeria. It's a real thing to have to translate dialects.
Separated by a common language!
I understood every word of the Smoky Mountains guy but I grew up in NC, so I've certainly heard it, and others very similar. I also work with many incredible people from many different parts of the world with some very unique accents, so I'm getting better at understanding a variety.
I'm from the NYC/ north Jersey area, I was surprised I immediately recognized Trini and Guyanese accents, but it sounded so familiar to me because of two friend's moms I've spoken to many times! I couldn't tell you the difference but I heard it!