What Accents do the England Players Have?
Harry Kane, Raheem Sterling, Marcus Rashford, Jack Grealish! Amazing players, but what British accents do they have? Let's find out...
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Video Chapters
00:00 - Intro
01:06 - Harry Kane
02:12 - Raheem Sterling
04:47 - Jadon Sancho
06:53 - Luke Shaw
07:59 - Declan Rice
08:24 - Mason Mount
08:51 - Jack Grealish
09:58 - Harry Maguire
10:57 - Kalvin Phillips
11:39 - Marcus Rashford
12:59 - Jordan Henderson
14:35 - Next video
Harry Kane has his own accent.
Yeah Obviously
Yes Sir ,you are very right .He has a slight lisp and his father is Irish ,plus he has humility .All these things affect his speech patterns I believe.He'd be a good guy with ANY accent! I'm not from England but am an admirer of Harry Kane.
@@Pdf.fileMomo it didn’t bang. 😐
He has invisibility too.Cos there was no sign of him in that Final.
His accent is "Slug"
Sancho couldn't be bothered to learn German, so he just had to learn the accent to compensate
Dortmund is a very influential city…
rasford is from african
@@kucingmenangisofficial3139 he’s Nigerian, he’s from Nigeria in Africa
@NWD and his blood is Nigerian u shmuck
@@naturalbby1722 Manchester is located in Africa?! Interesting....
Raheem: no accent Grealish: strong accent Kane: “the World Cup washh great”
Sterling has a London accent
Raheem has an accent lmao. Everyone does
everyone has an accent in this situation Sterling has more of a general accent so it is harder to define and people just say No accent Though a lisp is not an accentits a way of talking in your certain accent
🤣🤣
Raheem: easy Grealish: normal Kane: nightmare
1:05 Harry Kane 2:20 Raheem Sterling 4:46 Jadon Sancho 5:25 Jadon Sancho in Germany 7:23 Luke Shaw 7:59 Declan Rice 8:23 Mason Mount 8:50 Jack Grealish 9:53 Jack Grealish again 10:21 Harry Maguirre (Yorkshire) 10:57 Kalvin Phillips 11:52 Marcus Rashford ( Manchester) 13:14 Jordan Henderson ( Sunderland)
I just realized that this squad scouseless
@@aidanjanemcintosh6919 trent
@@rob_loxxO_o but he wasn't there was he?
Lord harry maguire
Thanks Brodie 👌🏾
There’s English and then there’s Harry Kaneglish.
lol
😂
@dylan murphy wouldn’t say there is a “clear London accent”
@@2trappy2 Wouldn't say there is a 'clear' anything😂😂
😁😁😁😁😁😁😁🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'm not a football fan, but I really appreciate your idea of introducing the players with their accent and to make a video about that, great job !
This video is brilliant. His passion for accents, pronunciation and linguistics is infectious - a work of art 👏👏👏
@@finnbh1703 Passion is gay! Positivity is gay! Feeling things is gay! Liking things is gay! Must... repress... homosexual... thoughts.
Finn BH Very gay (gay equals happy). Actually I’m not, but my boyfriend is.
Xaywin 🤦♂️
@@finnbh1703 how is praising a video gay?
I'm from Argentina. I'm doing an English course to become a teacher of English. To be honest I owe a lot watching Premier League interviews from English players. Thus, I've improved my spelling and communication.
Que?
No escuches a harry kane
No but Sancho speaking to the Germans in an English-German accent to compensate is quite common. It’s something done so that they understand you. I have my own weird mixture of a British accent (English is my first language so I speak it perfectly as any other native) but when I’m speaking it in school my accent switches. I went to a Spanish school so naturally majority of the people that go there are Spanish and speak English with their Spanish-English accent which I’m assuming we’ve all heard. So in English class when having to communicate with them unconsciously I switch to the Spanish-English accent so they can understand me, cuz if I speak to them with a proper English accent, they won’t. Because everyone is speaking in the accent whether it be a Spanish-English accent or in Sancho’s case, German-English, you get influenced by the accent of the others.
We all too
Me having internet accent by watching English, American and Autsralian videos
That's so true
I haven't thought much about this, but I guess you're right. I speak certain words with certain accents now
@@Niyati99, such as?
@Johnt Schmichal how do brits pronounce it?
sounds transatlantic to me
Sancho adopting his accent is similar to what I do when I communicate with native Portuguese speakers in English, I find my intonation and inflictions start to mimic them, it's like you're trying to find the same rhythm.
I always naturally seem to do this a bit when speaking to non-native english speakers. Some people see it is a bit rude though, but I feel like it just makes it a bit easier for people to understand me
@Yair Nahum Evreuklovic To make them understand better, you have to understand that those that are not native speaker are almost always trying their best to speak English as well as possible, but some accents from England are really hard to understand.
I am Portuguese and we have a distinctive accent and I can almost always spot a Portuguese by their accent and appearance
@Yair Nahum Evreuklovic What is the problem? You can tell the difference when they are trying to help and when they are joking about you. If they are joking about you then it makes sense that you get offended.
I feel like a lot of people do that unconsciously. if I'm speaking English to one of my French friends, I do speak with a but more of a French accent and I speak more slowly
Sterling: Normal Pickford: Bit strange but still an actual accent Kane: Dishwasher
Kane is one of a kind and I love his voice. Grealish has the brummie accent
"The key thing is communicate clearly, as long as you can communicate your ideas and being understood" Harry Kane: sorry, what's that
Kane sounds like a southerner whose had his brains kicked in.
I'm only joking, just in case the PC brigade jump on my comment, but Kane has got an odd way of speaking.
@@peterarmstrong6730 I mean you're not wrong tbf
more like "SjfbrWjsstgabt"
Harry Kane: "Shryr, whsss thst?"
Who knew Bellingham and Grealish were Peaky Blinders.
@Minh Pham He was actually born in Stourbridge just outside of Birmingham.
@@ishmaellion6721 pretty much Birmingham
Literally everyone
@@Mvbongobel no it’s not
@@ishmaellion6721 pretty sure grealish was born in Solihull.
Thank you! this really helps me doing my little linguistic research for my project :) great job dude!
"Jack grealish probably has the strongest accent" Trent and jordan henderson: "are we a joke to you"
scouse is a language in itself
@@mcsauce478 how are we I just got chicken some scram
Jordan Henderson has the most incomprehensible accent here
As a Canadian I can confidently say they are from England
What makes you think that
@@joshfewtrell7109 As a another Canadian I can confidently say it’s their accent
Makes a change from being told by Americans that I'm Australian
@Mark Waters yeah every australian i’ve met here gives me big canadian vibes, we’re just a hot and a cold version of the same country i think
Raheem's actually from Kingston in Jamaica
This England team is much more likeable than previous ones. Young players who are humble and respectful. The manager is a class act too. ✌️⚽️
I assume why now the team are more unified because no more Fergie-era Utd players anymore, who always feel better & exclusive among other group of players
they seem more of a team than before... Gerard and Lampard were great players but didn't work well together in the England team...
Yeah, instead of alcoholics, gamblers and drug addicts, we now have England players who do charity work, are awarded M.B.Es at 23 years old, and have genuinely suffered life events that have changed them as human beings, for the better.
Trust me there’s nothing humble about them. Its all fake.
@@stonedvillain79 Rashfords by far the worse one. His helping kids is just to make footballers look good in light of the METOO movement.
There is a large Caribbean community in my part of Brooklyn. I can hear Jamaican accent in Raheem Sterling's speech very clearly.
I can’t hear it mate he just has normal English accent
His family hail from Jamaica. Well spotted
jack grealish’s accent is literally so cute i’m obsessed
what a nice compliment, usually the brummie accent is hated in England
you obsessed with his looks
@@blvckemo_ no that’s just a bonus. i was literally talking about his accent lol
@@lightcase377 might i know why birmingham accent is hated in england?😂
@@rizkaafiahutami2794 it’s so frustrating… Grealish’s is a loooot nicer than most brummie accents🤣
There's a clip of Jack Grealish at the England training camp where he is hanging out with the other players and definitely talking in quite a strong MLE accent - this is normal most of our accents vary in different contexts.
Racist
@@user-zy9yg2eu5t wait how?
lvlyyangyang don’t mind. They’re just trying to abuse the word to make the people who genuinely face racism, and talk about it, to look like their just complaining. 😊
@@potatosquad2819 racist
@@user-zy9yg2eu5t yeah i follow F1
Raheem’s accent is the easiest for me to understand. Cool😍😃
You are right
Nah, for me it was Mason mounts accent
probably helps that he speaks so slowly haha
Way easier than Saka.
No accent is easier than Jamie Carragher's 😂
Excellent analysis with in depth discussion of the vowels. Very useful as a non native English speaker. Thank you.
you've gotta do more of this mate, top content
Your Grealish impression was actually spot on.
Loving your videos so much, they are great for teachers and for students. Cada nuevo video es mejor que el anterior 😍
Thank you so much for that video!!! That’s pure gold ❤ Greetings go out to you from Germany 🤩
Very interesting video. That's what makes English so hard, its variety. Very fascinating topics and I'd love a part 2
My favorite thing about British people is their accents I could listen to you guys talk all day!!!
Thanks. Everyone hates me when i speak so im mute now lol.
You should give yourself more credit! Your impressions are actually very accurate! I myself am from West Yorkshire Leeds and loved your impression! Spot on mate!
Henderson's accent is just the icing on the cake. What a legend.
Hello Tom. It is always a pleasure to watch your videos. I did study English and now teaching it. I was wondering if these varieties of British English are sort of academically recognised or your own classifications as a native?? Hope you could reply
Mount has a very Pompey accent, he speaks proper Portsmouth which is unlike rice
Rice grew up in London though
Rice is London born and raised
Mount has a Portsmouth accent because he was born in Waterlooville. Luke Shaw on the other hand has a Southampton accent, because he was born in Shirley.
How Sancho changes his accent in Germany is common for most British people to do when being in other parts of the country, city, or even social situation. I have an MLE accent but will use RP in some professional situations. I also use RP in situations where I don't want to use slang (in case others don't understand the slang) because growing up I only had an MLE accent and thus most of my slang is tied to that accent. The thing that I find difficult to stop doing when I switch to RP is dropping Ts.
This is a really great point Sass, thanks for sharing it with us. We all alter our accents to fit the context we are in. I use to sound like Prince William with my grandma and Danny Dyer at the football.
Exactly the same in France !
i have RP as my innate accent and sometimes i struggle on my own Ts even though it is instinct to say them... i have heard it even worse for others who are posher, they trip over their words trying to get their Ts out... what i'm saying is it is intrinsically hard to consistently and constantly form that hard sound
that’s literally everyone not just british
@@mehdihaouchine2257 ptdr y a pas d'accent de jeunes issues de l'immigration en France sauf dans les sketchs des comiques
VERY interesting... And informative. Excellent post!!
With jadon sancho, I see myself doing the same with my college team. We have multiple Europeans/aussie/and internationals in general. My way of talking and accent is way different in training and I’m campus than when I’m back home
hello tom! thanks for the incredible video, sending you love x
The Sancho 'German accent' example is great. We all do this and I know I have done it big time having lived around the UK but also in Italy, Spain and France. I have fun memories of my family ripping into to me for talking with a 'comedy Spanish accent' on one visit. It was very slight but enough for them to notice. It's human nature to make these adaptions. A good reason to mention this is my recollection of the massive abuse of poor old, picked on Steve McLaren for speaking English with a 'Dutch accent' while he was doing a stellar job coaching in the Netherlands. An entirely understandable and natural thing to do. Indeed, analysis shows that the more quickly and easily you adapt in this way is linked to how intelligent you are.
"Eeeyy, it'sa mee!"
It's weird but as a Frenchman almost bilingual in English, I started to think about an accent (our professor at the university told us it was better to try an imitate/choose an accent, his English as a French was mixed with UK/US english), I definitely started to do some researches on the differents accents and it helps massively, I would like to get close to Grealish's accent, which is the strongest and the most difficult surely, but as it's very pronounced, I like how it sounds actually The one's missing for me is Lingard, he's got a Mancunian accent as well but for me it sounds different from Rashford's one
@@pn2124I know I realise how much even English people themselves struggle to understand this accent, I'll just go with what I feel comfortable with
I think that is a you problem... you shouldn't judge a person by their accent. Yes the English make fun of eachothers accents, Birmingham ones get a lot of stick in particular. However, we definitely don't actually consider them "stupid or unattractive" - that is utterly wrong.@@pn2124
I'm English but I enjoyed watching this video so much and realising how many accents there is in the uk
What a great, informative video. Thanks for this 👏🏽
Please do Love Island contestant accents! That would be so interesting! Especially this season has a huge variety of accents!
Revisiting this great video. Thank you again!
It's either that Harry Kane is getting unjustified hate or my english is way better than I thought cuz I can understand him clearly
Man, what a lovely accent from grealish, thank you for the video, appreciate it.
funny that you uploaded this video because when I watched the interview of Harry Kane after the game I tried to identify his accent
Jordan Henderson!! I could listen to him talk alllllll day! So pleasant to listen to
Im from Newcastle but feel the 2 things you pointed out about the sunderland accent were just general northeast pronunciations that Geordies say too. A better example of unique' mackem would have been when Jordan Henderson said the word 'seen' as they say it as Sey-en instead of which geordies would just say 'seen'. They say Cue-key for cookie as well etc and Bue-k for book
One of my favourite videos Tom. And good luck for tomorrow
Damn Tom is just a good teacher. Been following him for a long time.
Great analysis, im a speech path major & thought this was really interesting.
Thank you for the video! Jude Bellingham's Birmingham accent is also soo good
thanks for the dedication, greetings from buenos aires Argentina
I'm English, from Kent, but I live in Mexico. Since living my accent has subtly changed. I am more inclined to speak more clearly, to make sure I'm better understood. But also Spanish sounds have leaked into my English. For example, Mexican Spanish has no hard Z sound, only the soft S sound, and my Zs (and Ss usually pronounced as Zs) have softened and mostly become Ss. And you know I've found it to be pretty out of my control. It's been a slow change.
Could you do me a favor? Could you tell all of England for me that the Spanish r is not silent at the end of words? Every time I hear an English person say a Spanish name or word like Javier, they say Javi-ayy.
Great video! Very helpful, thanks a lot :)
this video is great! and very interesting. thank u! from Argentina.
I actually can understand Sterling the most. The most difficult is Grealish. Thanks for the video, really enjoyed it!
Glad you enjoyed it kimkimi ☺️
Sterling speaks well, unlike Grealish who speaks like the person that he is - thick Brummie
@@michaelketley876 unnecessarily good reply
Kane is worse than Jack.
@@avejaly8065 I can understand Kane easily, maybe you’re just going with the trend of: ‘Kane having his own language’.
Jadon Sancho actually speaks chameleon english ;p
Sancho’s accent is pretty much the South London hood accent
I think you mean pidgin English.
@@gillfouche1820 its not pidgin
🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@cbscboys8784 "urban hood accent"
This has got to be the most comprehensive breakdown on regional accents I've come across on the interweb.
Thanks for uploading.
I am subscribed to tens of language learning channels, and this one is the best by a long way. Thanks for the great videos!
Yes, never a boring video!!!
@@pinellafranich6007 Exactly, he is so innovative. Always shows up with different ideas, that's what makes him number one.
Same
Football should be used more in English language teaching. Perfectly explained with great examples. ✌️⚽️
Not sure... I teach English at a girls´ school and they hate me for it! :D. Dissappointed, he didn´t use my fav example - Wayne Rooney. That is where my English knowledge ends :)))
kjamabor haha yes it’s difficult to use football as a topic in a classroom when not everybody enjoys it. But there are so many aspects of football that can be used ✌️⚽️
@@EnglishforFOOTBALLFANS course they are! Cheers, mate :)
@@kjama1 theyre probs snobs too though i bet! lol
@@kjama1 yes i her what you mean! I’m a girl but it’s the opposite for me I go to a girls school and I love football. I’m surprised whenever football is brought up by teachers as their not rlly interested 😄
Really enjoyed the video Tom
I think that the multicultural British English accent uses dipthongs for it's vowels. The stand out for me is how a word like "too" sounds. "Like" is another one. I think that comes from Nigerian influence since Nigerian English speakers make those sounds, as well. It's interesting to be able to identify the features of the MBE that come from Caribbean, African, Cockney and other Englishes.
This is awesome. You deserve a metal. I learned quite a bit.
Brilliant video. Interesting to see the accents broken down like this.
You should do this comparing retired and older players to younger ones in a single area. Would be a great way to show how, for example, the working class London accent has changed
Rahim Stirling was born and raised in the Marverley community in Kingston Jamaica, I think he move to the UK with his mother when he was 8-years-old.
Thoroughly enjoyed this video. Cheers from the U.S.
Just stumbled upon this. Great video I'm gonna show it to my Brazilian fiends
Yoo this a such an interesting video, learned a lot
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As an Asian, glad to know how that these players has their own local accents. The easiest for me to distinguish though is the Scouse which is way entirely different among the English accents. It sounds like a cowboy accent to me. I wish they have 1 scouser in this current roster of players to make this content more complete :)
Trent Alexander-Arnold is a scouser but he was out of the team through injury for this tournament. Look out for him in the next England matches when he’s fit again!
Coady
@@lovelycushionedheader4gerrard Coady was being interviewed after a Wolves game, I, being an African, could hardly understand what he was saying. In fact, I was surprised that the Tv station interviewing him did not bring a translator.
How you're Asian and you have a Spanish Surname(or from Latin America) and a German name XD
@Itibity🦇 i'm a Filipino and for a country who were colonized by Spain and the US, our names are just basically like that especially those who were born from 70's onwards, we have Americanized first names and Spanish surnames
Perfect! I love British cultures and accents and ppl
Great video. As an American (who lived in England for a few years) it was easy for me to tell accents apart, as in these two people are not from the same area, and most of the time the very general region - North or South England, West or East London, but that's about it. This helps with some of the features I can pinpoint to narrow it down more. I always loved the Yorkshire accent the best, I just like how they treat their vowels.
Thanks for the subtitle tho, especially for the Harry Kane one
Love these accent videos! 😍
Not interested in the footy but am interested in the accents. Would love to see something on the accents of the East Midlands, I feel we get overshadowed by the Brummy lot in the West Midlands in terms of accents. I’d also kinda like to see what someone who isn’t from here and actually knows about accents makes of it, what features it shares with what accents, even though I got a decently strong accent for the area I am so used to hearing it I couldn’t tell you what it sounds like lol
I recognised that Jermaine Jenas is from Notts. I was proud of that one, it can be hard to tell. My mate is from there, so I’ve come to recognise it
I was thinking about Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson accent and now I find it!!! It's a gift thanks
Tone switching is a skill that's learnt as you meet different ethnic backgrounds.
Kane doesn't have an accent.. he has his own language..
Yeah exactly, Kanans in the comments will know what I'm on about..
Which is known in linguistic terms as an Idiolect.
Kane sounds like he`s talking through a blocked nose.
Lol
He has a speech impediment who cares, no need to take the piss ..
@@artvid-1915 thank you the first person who doesn’t make fun of his accent. Who actually cares put captions on or something if you want but no need to make fun of him.
Lol
@@kaden.towsey1099 exactly, my step bro has the exactsame way of talking... I wouldn't want someone to make fun of him so I'm not gonna let people make fun of Kane
really interesting channel congratz! :) For me (I am italian) it's waaaaay easier understand US accent than the british one. Sometimes the brits are really hard to uderstand, but with your channel, it makes more sense now :D lol.
Great video. Glad I accidentally stumbled across this. Subscribed
Awesome, thank you!
I feel like this video could have last for hours and hours and it would be still interesting. I love it
Maguires voice😂 dont expect that from a big guy like him
same 😂
Why?😂
Thanks for your interesting video. I like it ❤
A British friend of mine said to me, "Liverpool accent is the weirdest accent he's ever heard", and he was right. You just listen to the way Steven Gerrard speaks. In fact, the comedian "Jimmy Carr" taught two celebrities how to speak Liverpool accent on the Graham Norton show, which I found unbelievable, and funny. Well, I'm telling you this because, I'm studying to become an English translator, so these videos are very useful for anyone who wants to learn English, and like an English teacher once told me; "learning a new language is difficult".
You did stress this but I also want to, as someone from Birmingham, my accent is nothing like Bellingham or Grealish.
Jason in one interview forgot his English accent and just talked like a german
Jadon
It is really interesting, thank you
Oh wow Nice analysis
You could also mention that the Mackems don’t pronounce the “H” when at the start of words so house becomes Ouse, hat is at, etc whereas we Geordie’s pronounce the “H” and we are only twelve miles apart 😂
I hope it will be a good match and that the best team will be the one who wins. Ciao from Venice😊
Great video! Thanks!
I love the story of Joe Baker. He was a No 9 for Hibernian in the 1950s and had a heavy Scottish accent even though he was English. When he turned up to join the England squad a policeman wouldn't let him in because he didn't believe he was English.
People probably talking about Kane. He's got a different accent
I love your videos and love that you did this for the team. Two things: 1. I was sad it wasn't the whole team: no DCL, for instance. 2. Do you think Kane's accent changes or is influenced by his tongue tie? In watching interviews, you can see he has a pretty severe one.
Nobody asked
Fantastic video
Fascinating! I was wondering, is there a part of England where they *do* tend to pronounce 't'? Or is that more an acquired/learned thing (like BBC presenter voices)?