American Shocked by ENGLISH from England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales l Can You Understand?
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Is every English speaking countries speak with the same expressions?
Today, we compare which words they use!
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They found the most feminine Scottish man, the sleepiest American and the coolest Irishman.
Lol
I was just about to comment about the feminine Scottish guy
lmfao
@@brunyplayswastaken same
@@brunyplayswastakenits for the wokeness
Shout out to the American girl who was able to stay awake for almost 12 minutes 😂🎉 👏👏
So sad!
She sounds so annoying
I thought she was stoned 😂
I thought she was gonna fall asleep soon 🤣
She was at x0.5 speed while the others were at x1
I’ve traveled to 47 of the states and I’ve never once heard a (sober) American speak with that accent and/or pace.
Also, if this is how she is while being “shocked”? Her relaxed moods must be like going backwards in time 😵💫
Ikr
She's a sleepy-american
Yea seriously... I'm American and struggling... She sounds like she's on a load of Valium
shes high
I didn't know valium was an accent until the american spoke
I actually did lol at that comment!
This was the reply I needed.
Lmao
I snorted 💀
LMFAOOO BEST ONE 😭😭😭
She's not shocked, she's half asleep.
or high
I fell asleep too, listening to all of these people. Not one of them had a proper accent of their countries represented , they all sounded very neutral, i.e middle class. If you want to hear a real proper strong accent you need to go to the working class areas of these countries. These people all sounded alike as if they were all brought up watching American TV shows..
Overdose of loratadine
The Americans they have on this channel usually sound so dumb. 😕
Fentanyl
It's my first time seeing an American who speaks slowly, and it's good for me to deep learn English. Thank you, Sofia..
Don't learn English from an American 😂
Nice easy to understand 👍🏻
Yes. She does not apparently come from the American South but speaks slowly, much more slowly than I do.
It sounds sexy
In Switzerland we say Hus for house, as well. And we say I gang for I go. Like the Scots.❤️ And brroon for brown.
I’m from the U.S. and to me Sofia speaks soooooo slow. It’s almost hard to listen to without wanting to fall asleep. I’m not sure if she’s trying to speak slowly on purpose, but generally, it’s more common for people from the United States to speak much quicker than what’s represented here.
She definitely blends her words. It's just a string of noise without a break between words.
I think it was a case of serious jet lag. well, I hope it was ;-)
I couldn't even finish the video because she's so fucking slow. I can't even do what I would usually do and turn the video up to a higher speed ... because the other people in the video can actually talk... So they sound far too quick
It was actually ticking me off a little 😂 I felt so many Europeans laughing at me. In reality she’s probably just a valley girl.
Twice as many words, twice as fast. Yeah, she's not the best representative of the standard American accent
5:13 I'm from Wales and, even from a non-Welsh-speaking region, we'd always say: *_Ych a fi_* as a way to say yuck or disgusting. So much so, I didn't realise it was actually Welsh until I grew up. I just thought it was a normal phrase.
Im from Wales to, which part you from? Im from north
This fascinates me - the Swedes have a (now somewhat archaic) expression _usch och fy_ meaning pretty much the same thing. I wonder if there's a common heritage there somewhere!
Only my dad is welsh, but i never knew 'ych a fi' was welsh omg. I also only recently realised that 'cwtch' was a welsh word 💀 i grew up in Gloucestershire tho
I have to watch this video at 1.5 speed ‘cause the American girl speaks so lethargically
I like it though. Feel like genius people talk like that. Like that game creator in the movie “Ready Player One”.
OMG I thought I was the only one god that’s hilarious
heavily medicated
why you mad though, I like her slow speaking a lot, just relax and take it easy
Relax, I think she’s from the south of the USA and they talk like that. Y’all Get over it.
This American girl always talks as if her batteries were running out 🤣🤣
She looks high lol. But I like her, it doesn't bother me
Fr but shes cute
I was waiting for her to fall off her chair 🤣
She talking like a stereotypical caricature of a 90s pornstar 🥲
Idk why but I find it really cute lol.
I'm beginning to worry that the American girl is being held here against her will and forced to make these videos endlessly without sleep while on tranquilisers to keep her from rebelling. There is no other explanation.
Think the scottish accent goes to a whole other level once you get to glasgow, even other scots are left looking bewildered when they hear our accent 😅
It's quite odd. I always hear people saying they can't get the Glaswegian accent but I, an Englishman, have never had much trouble understanding it. Same thing with a thick Scouse accent. I just find it so easy to understand while others always complain about not getting it. And I'm not a northerner. On the other hand, some thicker Northern Irish accents and certain older Geordie people from a generation where the Geordie accent was still quite rough around the edges... nah mate, can't get a word.
@@brendanm6921 yeah there is the softer spoken glaswiedgens and there is the proper rough type lol. Yeah the jordie accent I can understand no problem. Alot of the Irish accents are definitely hard to decipher
@@getmwi aye I lived in glenrothes for a while with my kids mum and they always thought I was pissed off cause of my accent lmao.
Aberdonians are illegible XD
in renfrew 15 minutes doon the road somtimes i even struggle (na very very raerly tho
The american girl is actually just an alien in a human suit that smoked a big fat blunt at the local MacDonalds and went there to troll people
😂
Why does the American girl look like she's going to fall asleep any minute?
Jet lag?
She's an anthropomorphic dormouse
as an american girl with narcolepsy, it’s not what I have
Y’all leave that poor girl alone. Bless her heart.
Bless her lungs after whatever she just smoked
@@irishduck2826 Oh shoot, i just died! LOL!
@@Ecthaelyon 🤣 I had to speed up the video 2x just to listen to the american girl
The Scottish person seems to be holding back. A Scot would be more like "awright hen how ye daen? Ye be'n daen awright aye? Hows yer maw 'n' fether keepin' an'aw?" 😂
I think he's a ringer. The real Scot didn't turn up so they put a Scotland shirt on some English guy who's just finished his first term at St. Andrew's University.
The American gal is so quiet spoken, slow speaking and proper, she's kinda a rate type of American, her speech pattern is not common at all. She seems like a sweetheart
The American lady talks at 0.5 speed. Id go insane
I just tried it at 0.5 speed. My word! hahaha!!!
I like she doesn't rush words, her vibe calms me down and I love that energy, I'd like to hear some whispering ASMR from her. ☺
The USA is so large and diverse that there are huge varieties of dialects/accents throughout the states. I'm from southeastern Kentucky, which is in the Appalachia Mountains, and we don't talk anything similar to the American girl in this video. A good idea for a video would be to get a group of people together from 5 to 10 different American states and sections of the US and have some fun comparing dialects. For instance, where I live and all through the South we pronounce pin and pen the same, but in the north and other sections of the country they have separate pronunciations for those words.
Do you know the "Tour of North American Accents" videos with Eric Singer by Wired? Before I watched those, I didn't realize how many different American dialects there actually are (I'm German). And it's incredible how Eric switches dialects right in the middle of a sentence.
Love the accent in Appalachia side of Kentucky, very hillbilly
Accents in the UK can vary even between streets ...
There are more accents on the British isles than in the USA. There’s something like 60.
@@amyw6808 .. Way more than that in the UK
About the accent used for the ogre 'Shrek'. The voice was performed by Mike Myers, a Canadian. Mike used a different accent when he first recorded Shrek's voice. Mike decided that Shrek should have a Scottish accent. The producers of the movie were annoyed but eventually agreed to the change. So Shrek has a Scottish accent by a Canadian, softened for North American viewers. In the original 'Star Trek' tv series, the character Montgomery "Scotty" Scott was played by James Doohan a Canadian born in Vancouver BC. As Scotty was the Chief Engineer, James felt that the character should have a Scottish background as the Scottish have a reputation for Engineering. As the old saying goes - If it isn't Scottish, it's crap! 😀 🎸😎
His parents are English
@@101steel4His Scottish accent was on a par with Dick Van Dyke's cockney😂😂😂
I don’t know weather your US centric. For saying that or weather he really did that accent with North American’s in mind.😂
Why’s she talking so slowly omg
It's like she's on something
well-kempt =))
Maybe a Californian? I saw a vid once that New Yorkers were so annoyed at Cali’s slow accent.
Fentanyl. Its a huge hit in the US atm.
@@greatdude7279 You know fentanyl is fatal in even the smallest of doses, right?
Man the yank is a walking lullaby. And that's one UNCHARACTERISTICALLY soft spoken Scotsman right there.
I knew an Irish teacher who got into trouble in his first job in Australia, while talking to teens about how they date in Ireland explained that "well first they like to have a bit of craic"..............
American girls is looks like she just woke up high and running out of battery,with eastern European (accent/background)
For sure , she is from Eastern Europe
As an American I don’t think it odd that the Irish are calling the restroom the Jacks because in the USA we call it the John. “I’m going to the John” Jack is sometimes a nickname from John. Like John F. Kennedy’s nickname was Jack. I found this online. The John Sir John Harrington was the inventor of the forerunner of the first flushing toilet (known as the Ajax), so it’s only fitting that his first name should have become synonymous with the toilet. The Jacks The jacks is Irish slang for toilet, derived from the older English word for toilet jakes. Jakes itself comes from ‘The John’.
"I found this online"= I just made it up.
My parents always referred to it as the john.
Doesn't "Ajax" sound like "a Jack's"?
I have never heard Jack for toilet. Why do Americans portrayed as hot but dum
Is the English girl from Liverpool
Haha... I am from North West England, or the border with Wales, and my father was from a Scottish family, with my Grandad from Glasgow. So I was exposed to a a lot of phrases and words from these countries. So I understood most of these people...except not so much the Irish stuff. I think the Welsh language sounds really nice, and I am planning to move to North Wales later in the year and just started to learn the language. The welsh guy in this video would make a great Welsh language teacher! I have no idea how difficult it is to learn, but I learnt to speak, read and write Thai, so I hope it might be a bit easier than that (because that took me years).
No he would not believe me he would not I’m welsh with a English step mother and let’s just say no we don’t say half the stuff he said the only one I can think of is tin iawn and I’m from the north 😂😂 he is deff not in the right north side
Thank you for learning the language, the language is the most important thing to the Welsh, if only you knew how great it is that an English person wants to speak Cymraeg ❤
American here. Regarding the American girl: I’ll have what she’s having.
Lol
They found a Scotsman that only speak straight standard English with very little accent. They might have got an actual Scots speaker but of course that is not English it's another language. Problem it allows this man to imply that what is spoken in Scotland is just English with an accent.
That's exactly what it is. Apart from the English girl they're all speaking someone else's language.
The title does say ENGLISH so we can assume that it refers to Scottish English and not Scots. Having a Scots speaker in the mix would have been confusing especially since Scots uses its own spellings and therefore isn’t really comparable with the standard English spoken in the other countries.
@@101steel4 But the Welsh guy gave several examples in Welsh as well as English as spoken in Wales. Their Scottish representative's weak contribution was disappointing - apart from "minging" for disgusting. "Bog" or "cludgie" for toilet would have given the others something to talk about!
@@robertfoulkes1832 speaking Welsh in a video about the English language. Pretty pointless.
@@101steel4 It's not pointless if the local language (Welsh, Irish, Scots or Gaelic) has influenced the words used in English speech in those areas.
8:39 Funly enough in European Portuguese we say a lot "casinha" (little house) for toilet as well. The most standard way to say toilet anyway is "casa de banho" (lit. bath house) so that's why. Apparently describing it as a house came about because the toilet was very often detached from the main building of a house. Like a small house next to it for washing and physiological needs
In Brazilian Portuguese is very common to say "casinha" (little house) too.
@@pauloguimaraes2010 No, it's not.
@@Capirotinho In my region, it is.
@@pauloguimaraes2010hell to the no! I've never heard that!
@@Gush12 Countryside of RS, SC and PR do it. We are a HUGE country.
Methinks Sophie’s a wee bit stoned.
Having Yorkshire roots I certainly would say 'grand' for 'that's great'. For number 6, you can also say 'where's the bog', in some parts of England, with 'bog' being a slang term for toilet. We can also ask for 'bog roll' too, instead of toilet paper.
Agreed, it's just bog and bog roll. She says she's from the north west but she's really posh north west if she is. I'm a slovenly southerner living in the north west and I use slang from both regions frequently, and I don't think she uses the words the same.
Aye duck.
Also saying " 'ow do" and 'O'reyt" for asking how are you, calling something disgusting "mingin'", saying "it's peeing it down" to say its raining (usually saying peeing as a slightly stronger version of the word though lol) for the other ones. For someone from the north west, she talks like she's from the south
@@emospider-man6498 She's from Manchester, they don't tend to sound as strong as Liverpudlians or Yorkshiremen, let alone Cumbrians which is the proper north-west in my opinion.
I'm already used to American accent by Sophia and also Lauren's accent 'cause of her presence on the channel often , but nothing from Wales' accent 😂 and just a little bit of Scottish
In parts of Scotland the bathroom is also sometimes referred to as the "bog" or "cludgie", additionally I've heard the terms "crapper" and "lav/lavvy" - short for lavatory - used across the UK. For rain I'd also add "it's coming down in sheets" for heavy rain, and when it's that odd weather somewhere between rain and fog (where the droplets just hang in the air) we might say it's "mizzle/mizzly" outside. "Smashin' " is another way to say you're doing fine or well.
What about the shitehoose?
no we do not say were going to the crapper LOL, possibly class may come into this. But if you called the toilet the crapper or bog, I would think twice about who I surround myself with HAHA. thinking of that scenes out of national lampoon Christmas vacation.
@@samuelhastings6859 I have heard it used in situ, I don't tend to judge people based on socio-economic status.
@@stephenroney2366 I forgot about that one!
@@pumpkinbubbles1162 I'm judging them on the use of words. If you were to use crapper or bog in an office setting you would be seen as not being respectful to the facility. maybe a porta loo? camping maybe.
Canadians are known to say where are the rest rooms... or wash rooms and sometimes facilities.. like in public spaces. However in personal homes .. we'd say I have to use the wash room, bath room... the can.. or the john. Depending on your comfort level.. who you are and if you are trying to be funny. I know we also have many more.. but those are the ones that sprang to mind quickly. 🍁
I call it "going for a William". As in William Pitt.
"Where's the toilet ?" Seems more an specific question and i think any person willl understand , but "where's the jacks ?" I would totally get lost 😂
How would you do with- Ble mae'r ty bach, os gwelwch yn dda? 😄
Is the American high or something? lol she seems very chill!!
Omg! I was interested until the American girl started speaking. And I’m American!!! That’s not a slow southern drawl (which I’m used to) it was more someone who’s been sedated or on drugs.
Exactly. I’m from the American south and I have lived 67 years in several southern states. She just sounds like she’s on drugs.
in Ireland you could also say "ooh that's deadly!" for something that is insanely cool, like meeting a celebrity we also say "aw that's rank!" for something disgusting
I had the exact same thoughts, just wondering what county are you from??
Sounds like a Dublin way of saying it. I'm from Cork, same as Irish guy, so I would have said it the same way as him. Just some regional variations but everyone understands.
We in America use to say something similar that kinda died out in the late 90s, we would say that's killer or you're killing it which meant something was awesome or cool.
I’ve heard “mank” (not just “manky”) to mean “disgusting” in Ireland as well
It was a bit interesting that the Scots say 'bucketing' in terms of raining. In Norway we say "det pøser ned" or "det bøtter ned", both means 'it is bucketing down', the first one is more maritime, since a bucket was/is called "pøs" on a ship.
In Russian, it is "(льёт) как из ведра" - "(it is pouring) like from a bucket".
We have quite a few Scots language words that are similar to Scandinavian languages. For example "bairn" for child, "oot" for out, "efter" for after, "flitting" for to move, "greeting" for crying, "hoose" for house and "keek" for to look/peek. There's loads more too, most likely due to the vikings. On islands in Scotland Norn was still spoken until 19th century. Quite interesting how language can intertwine😊
We say "lashing" here in NI.
also the braw one. bra in norway means good
So Luna Lovegood has an American sister???
In Canada, we occasionally call toilet rooms "the john", and "Jack" is a common nickname for people named John, so I get that. Generally, though, we call it a washroom (there's no bath in public toilets, why would it be called a bathroom?)
In America the more fun ways to say ask for the restrooms are shitter,pisser,Jhon and if you know where the restroom already located and you’re letting somebody know that you have to use the restroom the fun ways to say that are I have to use the porcelain throne, i’m about to go use the urinal, I have to take a leak, I have to take a shit I will be right back, And there’s more stuff you can say
In Ireland "the Jacks" is a very informal but common term, exactly the same context as "the John". We don't normally use the term "restroom" but it's understood if you asked for it. Bathroom/toilet or gents/ladies room would be the norm. Personally I find "where's the toilet" a bit blunt and prefer to use "where's the bathroom" but each to their own. If you ask for the pisser you'll be pointed in the same direction.
Yea I'm from Ontario, and I've heard "the John" quite frequently when referring to washroom
Funniest ones: squeze a Douce, pinch a loaf, or drop a chalupa
Ive heard and used most of these terms. I come from a Scottish family so a lot of these aren't new to me the Welsh is a bit different though. I like this video it does show how we express ourselves differently in America and in other places. If you are in the South some will say where is the washroom? which can mean bathroom or laundry room. A lot of the times it is used as bathroom. Ive always said where is the toilet or thunderbox? hahah
I'm the same he said so much shit I've never heard before
In Glasgow you can have an entire conversation composed of '"Awright?" "Awright?" "Awright. Awright?" "Awright." "Awright."
No one mentioned 'bogs' for the toilet. That's what I grew up with in England. Disappointed. I've heard that in bith England and Scotland. I've always understood Ty Bach to be Southern (Welsh) and Toiledau to be Northern, but there's more nuance obviously, I learned Llefrith as Northern for milk and Llaith as southern, Gallu as Southern and medru as Northern but not so in the North East of Wales. But this is about English, so I want to hear about going to the bogs for going to the toilet.
It's "the bog" for me when speaking either Welsh or English - my parents always said "tŷ bach" as did I, when I was much younger. For me milk is "llaeth" (not "llaith" which means damp). I grew up in mid Wales, just south of the border of the language dividing line, which is reckoned to be Machynlleth.
@@jinxvrs yes sorry llaeth, I spelled it wrong! But yesss, bogs
Depends where they are from, as a northeasterner we share more in common with the Scottish than English as we often say “Manky” “That’s rank” “Minging” etc.
@@jinxvrs So you're by Aberystwyth? Do you actually say 'llaeth' and 'llaith' differently, because down south we don't. We also say 'tŷ bach' generally, contrary to what the gog said.
@@timeastwoodbagpiper 'Pisspot' and 'shitter' are also acceptable for those of us who are a little more irreverent haha.
I'm from South Wales, here's what I'd say: 1. "Alright butt?" 2. "That's brill" or "That's sick" 3. "That's grim" or "ych-a-fi" 4. "It's absolutely tipping down" 5. "Get in the queue" 6. "Where's the toilet?"
5:13 It’s normalised around me in South Wales that when we say: “That’s disgusting” people normally would say “Ych-a-fi”. 8:00 Here I was taught in school “Ga I fynd/(Mynd) I tŷ bach” or “Ble mae’r tŷ bach?” the first one would translate to “Can i go to/have the toilet” and the second is “Where is the toilet?” x
I say ych a fi lol.
In Geordie (Newcastle) we'd say 1. alreet?, 2. that's class/mint/cush, 3. that's minging, 4. it's pissing doon, 5. get in the queue, 6. where's the bog?
The American girl is talking like she is about to sleep
I reckon in all of these countries you’ll get different variations depending on your region…it’s true for Ireland at least. To contribute, I could say “that’s mint” for “that’s great!”. “That’s pure mint!” would be something similar to “that’s really great!”. Coupled with a strong rural accent, I probably wouldn’t be understood. Lethal or deadly are also used, but I think they’re a few degrees higher than mint. Don’t know where this usage of mint comes from but I suspect there may be a connection to mint quality collectibles which would be unopened and be valued highly.
Similar vein.. I visited the South Coast once, I heard the expression "that's lush" so many times I wanted to punch someone lol
Bathroom was quite the confusing word for me when I was a kid, cause I grew up hearing bathroom, washroom, restroom, and lavatory. In addition to like the john, and I've actually seen w.c. as well, tho not as common Not to mention my family didn't speak eng, so at home, I'd hear either the korean word which sounds like it means "makeup room" or japanese "toilet"
Loo os from French "l'eau" (guarde l'eau) which was yelled when dumping chamber pots out the window (watch out for the "water").
The way the American talks reminds me of Ariana Grande playing Kat in Victorious
Also reminds me of the Paris Hilton.
Yeah, i thought the same. it's not really an accent I think, just a unique way of talking
So nice to have a North Welshie representing for a change! 💕
i was pretty much expecting the american girl to fall asleep any moment lol
Fun fact: Ty Bach, the Welsh for "Little House" is very similar to the Irish Tí Beag meaning Small Home
Same in Scottish Gaelic. Taigh-beag.
Sophia hitting that blunt again 🚬
I had to put video on 2x to sound her normal 😂😂
@@moktan289bruh 😂
I think she rolled a jumbo blifter then found out the others were non-tokers so she smoked it all herself.
In South Wales for "That's great" we would use Tidy. (and for a while in the 80's there was a phase of throwing up the bull horns hand gesture while saying Moist for some reason lol). disgusting would be minging or rank. And it's raining cats and dogs in Wales would just be Tuesday lol.
Yeah I automatically said minging too. Also, 'Alright, Butt?' In the greeting section. So it's interesting to see that isn't something commonly said by the Gogs. XD
I like the Tuesday reference
Moist 🤣
As an American, I ask this out of love and concern, is she ok? I have to be honest that I get frustrated by most of the Americans featured on this channel. They come off less sophisticated and knowledgeable than the Americans I know. We’re a big country, that’s true, but it’s almost every American on this channel. Strikes me every time
Ikr. I was thinking maybe she has some condition or something.
Also incase youre wondering we do have straight men in Britain.
😂😂😂😂
Paul is triggered by a couple of campy dudes. Hilarious.
no one was wondering ❤
Calm down Paul, your masculinity is safe.
As someone from Ireland, I would have answered all of these differently than how Eoin answered them
How would you have answered them? I'd love to hear variations 😊
@@ponyxaviors4491 I'm from the North and would mostly agree with Eoin, but there are a few variations. I'd say "what's the craic?" but not "what's the story?" If someone said "story?" to me, I'd not know what they meant. We'd also say "what's happening?". I'd understand "that's unreal" but would be more likely to say "that's class". For "that's disgusting" I'd be closer to the Scottish guy - "that's minging", "that's dirty", etc. For "it's pissing it down" we'd say "it's pishing it down" and I'm surprised the Scottish guy didn't say that as well tbh. For "stand in line" we'd say "queue up". For toilet's we'd just say "toilets", or maybe "the bog". I think "jacks" is a distinctly southern word. For me, a bathroom has a bath in it. I'd understand any of the suggestions though, bathroom, WC, restroom, etc.
@@deyfuck Thank you for replying, and specifying where you're from 😁 I know there're a lot of phrasal and accent variations across countries, but people seldom differentiate between them. I like hearing about the distinctions.
@@deyfuckin Dublin we say Assalamu Alaikum السلام علیکم
@@ponyxaviors4491 In Dublin we usually use السلام علیکم And مرحبا Marhaba And يعطيك الف عافيه yateek al arfiya if you adress groups
In some parts of Canada we say 'can' instead of bathroom/toilet, like 'I'm going to the 'can' or 'they're in the 'can'.
In Australia we say the dunny, a corruption of dung probably.
Same here in the Chicago area.
Forgot about can
I love the English girl asking her “do you understand what everyone’s saying” zero faith in her to be able to understand four people speaking clear english to her
For me i would say the Welsh guy from North say's stuff we don't really say in South, like if raining i believe we say it is Pouring down, saying You Alright is common in south but never heard much of what he stating, so i feel for Wales it isn't enough for 1 person for North alone, needed a Southern Welsh person also
In Swansea in South Wales, which has been speaking mostly English for centuries and centuries I think, it's definitely quite different to North Wales. I don't actually know that much about North Wales, I definitely should... Unfortunately there's very very little Welsh used in conversation (though all the signs have Welsh across Wales), I wish I knew more than just a couple very basic phrases. The accent definitely tends to be stronger, but I got a vaguely English accent from my teachers at school and I'm so mad about it because I think Welsh accents sound so nice (I moved to Wales when I was 7 from Australia and born in New Zealand, but lost maybe 95% of those accents).
Think south is more culturally diverse especially recently like cardiff and swansea, lots of students and people like yourself whose moved here, as soon as you pass those big city areas welsh is more common and the more your around it the more you learn and carry with you, if you get a chance to go to north wales go for it, beautiful part of the country
Yes Wales in the southern regions have maintained English as its dominant language to modern factors like being multicultural... but history also plays a part in that too... en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_Not - it's a very disheartening part of Welsh history
I think it depends where you are in North Wales. There's a BIG difference between NE and NW Wales in terms of numbers who speak Welsh and accent. I live in Conwy County, where nearly 50% of people were born outside Wales (mostly in Northern England, which impacts hugely on language, accent, culture). To see North Wales as homogeneous is wide off the mark. I wonder where Leighton is from in North Wales? His accent and some of his contributions don't resonate with any part of North Wales in my mind....
@@davidowen2396his accent sounds like a softer South Welsh, like what you'd find around Machynlleth or Aberystwyth. People from Bangor and Caernarfon sound completely different to that area, who sound totally different to the more nasal Blaenau Ffestiniog 😂
@@JohnSmithKZhead We like to go on holiday to the Machynlleth/Aberystwyth part of Wales (gorgeous estuaries!) and most of the Welsh accents we hear there are much stronger than this guy's. They seem to have chosen very 'light' accents for this video, even the English one was VERY mildly Northern. It's not a criticism - all accents are valid and interesting - but to illustrate differences better, stronger accents would have been more of a contrast (and likely belong to people who use more varied vocabulary for different things).
As a Spanish speaker I find the video quite funny and instructive but the speaking speed of the American girl is getting on my nerves.
You should get angry with super fast of your language.😂
I wanted to shake her out of her coma.
Aprendiendo español. Me encanta español
A lot of what the Welsh guy is saying is definitely typical to North Wales as a southerner, I'm like, I have not heard most of what he is saying.
I lived in South Wales for a year and people didn't have a clue what i was talking about 😬🤣
I was at a bar in the States and an American woman told a Scotsman that he speaks really good English.
I’m an older American and have never said “What’s cracking!” I have heard of the idea of it but never actually heard anyone say it & it was never traditional
Where did they find those people? People i know from wales, Scotland, Ireland and USA talk very Very different.
Wales, scotland, Ireland and the US 😂
They've picked the softer versions of each accent. If the English woman was from Liverpool and the Scottish guy from Glasgow, then I doubt any foreigners would be able to understand 😂
@@Martin-88 She’s apparently from somewhere near Liverpool, it’s come up before, and the Scottish accent sounds like more of a central belt one than a highlands or islands or Aberdeen accent. I wouldn’t be surprised if he does come from Glasgow but he’s also got a very toned-down version of his accent, that’s true.
@@Martin-88 yeah, subdued. Suspected they live in the US for quite awhile.
Ask your Welsh friend, 'Alright, Butt?' And if they don't get it- that explains why they are talking differently to this guy from North Wales...😆
Sophia speaks like one of my friends from university, in slow motion. Maybe she is just very shy. This is not a judgement just an observation.
Kind of ironic that whoever did the subtitles doesn't seem to be able to understand what these people are sying. The Welsh guy, for example. Every time he says says "South Walian", the subtitles say "South Valley". Then at 1:18 when he says "With our dragons", the subtitles say "with sound tracks".
lol, they cut out the Irish for asking to go to the bathroom, which is something we all HAD to say in Irish in Elementary School lol. Asking in English not allowed. Lost the context a bit. For those curious its: _An bhfuil cead agam dul go dti an leithreas?_ Literally: can I have permission to go to the toilet. it’s been twenty years but that phrase is still deeply ingrained in my brain lol.
Hope to see Leigton more here, he has a good sence of humour😁👍 PS you should also add comparison of Welsh/Scottish/Irish languages
In Scotland we say it's stoatin for heavy rain For the bathroom where's the cludgie or bog 😀
Google tells me that "the Jacks" is from a man named Jack Power, who invented the first multi-cubicle toilet system.
Welshman is so proud of his language. I hadstudied in cardiff. Good memories. Love from 🇮🇳
She's either super jet-lagged or been enjoying the devil's lettuce 😂 In Scotland kids refer to the toilet as 'the bog', or at least we used to in high-school trying to be cool! 😂
Im from a European country whom does not have English as a first langauge but we are still pretty good at english so we are basically bi-lingual and in School they would familirazie us to all the different accents (Írish, Scottish, Wales and brittish) so I can understand all of them for the most part. Its hardest to understand children and older people becuase they tend to speak a bit unclearer but I had no issue understanding the people in this video. Any other non-english speaking european country who has had similar education that agrees? Maybe its just an european thing to be able to understand all european english accent im not sure.
Not Brittish, or British. But English.
You mean English
@@101steel4 U w0t bri‘ish mate?
@@AbuHajarAlBugatti I'm sorry, I only speak English.
Oh look, someone who believes English people means British! Ah bless….another person who isn’t caught up on history. British in terms of historical culture means Welsh! British in terms of Geographical identity means Wales + England and Scotland.
When it said comparing American English with British English and I saw the Irish man sitting there all I could hear was that interview with Cillian Murphy telling the interviewer, "no I'm Irish". 😂
"Oh, yah, it's rainin' buckets out dere!" "Oh yah you bet! Wouldn't wanna be caught out dere wit' a broken down car, oh heck no!" "Yah, no, for sure no." - Average Minnesotan conversation.
Does no one use the shitter or crapper anymore?
Among friends and such, then shitter for sure 100% It's difficult sometimes of what to say on KZhead as some comments just seem to get randomly deleted without you even knowing until maybe later, just for speaking normally/commonly. 42m from Birmingham UK here.
It's funny how many Irish terms are exactly what I would say. I'm Australian born of UK and Australian parents and Irish, Scottish, Welsh, German etc etc background. 💙
I love the Irish "story" when you meet someone. Like i demand a tale now.
In wales (south). 1. "Alright butt?" 2. "aww that's mega that is." "Sound" "thats great" "thats banging", "TIDY!!!" 3. Minging, gopping or 'uch a fi!' - the fact leighton didnt bring 'uch a fi' up i'm super confused. 4. It's pouring it down. Its pissing down. It's minging out there. Raining cats and dogs, "duw that's torrential that is!" 5. Get in the queue... mun/get in line... mun. 6. Where's the toilet, bathroom, loo, restroom. "Ty bach?" I have never in my life heard anyone use "where is the toiledau?" 7. How'd it go?
If you use dead as in 'dead wrong' why dead is used becomes more apparent. To be dead wrong is to be the most wrong that you can be. In this instance you can also see that the deadness itself carries the negative connotation that agrees with the negative of being wrong. It is a common thing to then take that and apply it to a word where the meanings disagree as in the provided example 'dead good'. In this case you retain the ultimateness of 'dead' while dropping the negative part of the connotation. The disagreement provides a jolt of cognitive dissonance which adds a little bit of emphasis when your brain resolves the meaning and feels really satisfying in bringing its point home.
Someone should point out that there are many other less polite terms for "bathroom" that are commonly used in the US. I'm sure that's also the case in the UK and Ireland.
Like which one? I'm curious about It.
@@davidjose89 The john, the head, throne, privy, crapper, pisser, etc. That's off the top of my head.
@@gregmuon Thank you, I appreciate it.
@@davidjose89 👍😁
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I was half-expecting a Brummie “That’s bostin, bab!” Or “How ya keepin, mite?” 😂
I'm with you on that one.Get someone from Dudley or Wolverhampton.
I'm not american, I'm indonesian but for me i'ts kinda make sense where queue sounds more abstract like it doesn't have any physical form, so for me it's more understandable to use "get in the line" in real life where you have the literall people stand on a straight line instead of "get in the queue"
The word queue comes directly from French. It means a tail.
It's too late now with so many videos already made, but the background music is obscuring some of the words and the accents. No need for muzak at all but the content and the interactions of the speakers is very interesting and entertaining - thank you!
i'm not from the south, but the american girl let down the entire south by not using: "it sounds like a bull pissing on a flat rock" or "the devil is beating his wife" for it's raining hard. and yes, they say both of those lol
Devil beating his wife is more for a sun shower. The first expression is new to me.
@@MrJovon321 oh yeah you're right, rain while sun is out. i don't live in the south if you couldn't tell 😅
Its really funny, how in Scotland and Ireland the use bucketing, because in Germany we also have the saying with basically translates to "It's pouring out of buckets" and i really like that term. Really cool to know that this also exists in other languages.
English has its own kettle of fish. Northern, midlands, southern, and then SCOUSE
I like the way Sophia talks, it's kind of a vibe
As a black American, I think it would be also interesting to add an American who speaks AAVE to compare. BEcause, for like 3:35 we might say "That's dope!" or for 5:00 we might say "That's trifling." and I'm curious to see if these terms have made it across the pond (in either direction lol)
From what I gather AAVE was influenced by west country Brits. That's dope I think I would associate with the US but that's trifling, it's in the UK but more as like mildly concerning rather than disgusting.
@@MikeRees I'm curious to know how it evolved from Brits to Black Americans, if that's true. Like, not being snarky, I legitimately can't figure out where that would start and end, but I'm curious to know if it does connect somehow. The actual definition of trifling is small, insignificant, or the meaning you just gave. And we do use it that way in American English. But in AAVE it also means disgusting, gross, vile, ect.
@@SpicePrincess1890 I suspect it has origins in the slave trade. Bristol was basically our biggest slaver port and it's in the heart of the west country. I suspect that a fair few of them settled in the south of the US since there was a lot of traffic headed that way, impacted local dialects and from there impacted what became AAVE.
@@MikeRees That's possible, but still not sure. Especially since AAVE also developed outside of slave states and through our own culture. Plus, it wasn't black slang for "cool" until around the 1980s. I know dope as in "dopey" like dumb/stupid was around well before that, but that wouldn't correlate either really. Did a little reading. Someone was suggesting a possible connection being that since "dope" was used to refer to drugs and eventually mean the "real, pure" stuff that was good quality and not tampered with, perhaps it carried over from that. Until it meant something that's just the "real deal", really cool, really "top of the line" or whatever. I dunno. I wish I had the time/resources to do a deep dive of the etymology of a lot of AAVE slang.
@@SpicePrincess1890 yeah, the slang is probably much more recent. I can't remember where I heard it, I think it was some linguistics KZhead channel, but it was at a more basic level than slang, we're talking like 400 years ago after all. Turns of phrase like "it do be like that" etc that remain common between them
In Northwestern US, we say it's pissing down rain.
Standing in a line is just standing in a line. Standing in a queue has a goal you’re aiming for at the end. So if someone jumps it expect some attitude lol. It is the same thing but queue would be the proper word.
Smartest American: Ireland is in the UK
The funny thing is...there are American accents that would be un-intelligible for Europeans as well. You just don't hear them with this, particular American. Southern or Appalachian English can be very difficult to understand...even for native American-English speakers.
Cajun accent too
In Welsh, when something is disgusting you say Ych a fi (quite sad he didnt mention that)
“we say .. WHAT CRACKING” 😂😭😭🤣🤣 LMFAOO YEAH ONLY IN THE HOOD SHORTY LIT OFF THE ZA 🤣🤣🇺🇸🇺🇸