Isn't life wonderful. I am 60 years old and have lived in Australia for 58 years and yet I understood everything Sophie was saying. It has brought tears to my eyes as I have just realised that my mother whom passed away some years ago spoke Geordie. I new she was from the north of England but it was only now that I have made the connection. The funny thing is that I now feel home sick for the north. Time for a visit I think. I have never been back to England in those 58 years.
Music for the ears it is. My parental grandparents came over from Glasgow in the 1930s & settled in Detroit, Michigan forever. When I was a young lad I had trouble understanding their brogues which they kept all their lifes. I loved hearing stories of their life in Glasgow, the boat ride to America & adapting to American life. They both made super delicious scones. He cooked as much as she & did the dishes also. They lived far into their 90s & I miss them so much. RIP pappy & nanny.
@@malfromthetoon6705 Wow, how little do I know about my mum. Think she was born in Speenymoor and lived in Durham for a period of time. Time to get out the family tree.
I can still understand Perrie's accent from time to time. But never Jade's accent without subtitles! Nice, sometimes even the subtitle doesn't understand Jeed..😂😂
I gave up years ago. No point. It looks like it's anarchy out there. Whats the point in memorising for instance if one word is with the short "a" or long "a" if then depending from where you are from some use the long some use the short?
When non-native speakers learn English, it tends to not be a regional accent but rather a RP or 'received pronunciation' accent. Focus on using that, as it is the form of English that most people can understand.
As a foreigner, I found the Geordie accent to be quite charming compared to the stiff Southern English accent we learn in school as learners of a second language.
Strange how we learn UK english in school, but nearly everyone still speak in an american accent anyway, it becomes a weird mix of english words with an american accent.
I was actually thinking the same watching this video, "bairn" is quite similar to "barne" from Norway. Did you find more examples in the conversation as well? I love it too (big viking fan here haha).
Not really. The accent derives from the settlement of the 'Angle' people from Angeln, in southern Denmark, from about 500 to 600 - two hundred years before the Vikings, who didn't settle much in the NE. They mainly settled in Yorkshire.
I’m Norwegian so that was my first thought when she said hjem or yen or whatever, but it was pronounced pretty close to ‘hjem’ which is our word for ‘home’
Quite frankly I’m offended that geordie and Scottish has “it shares a lot” in the same sentence. Struggling to see the similarities as an outsider looking in
Not a geordie accent but a really good pit yacker accent. Geordie is Tyneside (Newcastle), mackem is Sunderland, pitmatic/pit yacker is Durham and smoggy is middlesbrough/Teesside. We don't group ourselves as having a geordie accent. Each area is proud to have their own accent.
Came here to say this, being grouped in with Durham made me a lil sad. we all have our own proud roots, let them be themselves without only being recognized as geordie.
The original 'Geordies' were the Durham miners. It is only recently that the term 'Geordie' has been appropriated by Newcastle. Right up to the 1970s the term was used to describe all folk from Durham and Northumberland.
Back in the 1960's I was one of five 12 year olds trainspotting on Bournemouth Central station. A train came in and a man got off near us. He said something completely unitelligible to us. We just looked at him speechless so he repeated what he said. More silence from us until one said "why is he trying to speek to us in Russian?". He spoke again more slowly, and then agian more slowly. It sounded something like "way orz thur tree ayn tar poo ell". Finally he spoke one word at a time for us to guess its meaning, like a game of charades. He was asking "Where is the train to Poole". I came to realise in the following years that he wasn't Russian he was a Geordie.
When German speakers with different accents fail to understand each other they use English. I wish we native English speakers could use another language in the same way when in the same position
I am American, and I have been getting to know many English accents. The Geordie accent has become my favorite. Something about it feels warm, sincere, friendly, easygoing and unpretentious. What's not to loove? ;)
@@Person-gk5ee As a non native English speaker, this makes more sense for me than the Royal English where there are only 60-70% correlation between the written and pronounced words. They pronounce the sounds as it is in a Latin language. Without knowing the Geordie accent I could figure out 90% of the sounds after watching 2 minutes of this video.
Moved to Newcastle some years ago from Canada. Couldn’t understand anyone for 6 months! Most locals have much stronger accents than the woman in this video. Moved back to Canada but now I can understand a Geordie accent (and several Scottish regional accents) perfectly well.
Crystal Phoenix It took me a while to understand people. You do eventually learn to understand if you have to. Especially if you live and work with them every day. It helped that my husband was a Geordie too. 😁
That "Yem" is pronounced "hjem" and means "home" is super interesting to me. In Danish, "Hjem" is indeed "home". And "Børn" means "children" which is suspiciously close to "Bairn". There are more words, although that is not surprising, considering our shared history. :)
@@gavt5816 and most importantly Northumberland was Anglo-Danish and not Anglo-Norman for a long time. A lot of Anglo-Saxons went north when William I invaded. After the Harrying of the North, the remaining population were fiercely anti French/Norman.
I'm not native English speaker, and I'm no more than intermediate level speaker, but I want to say that I like Geordie accent more than any other British accent.
Choosing someone from County Durham was a faux pas. Their accent is more closely linked to the Wearside (Mackem) accent than the Geordie. The vowels are pronounced quite a bit differently. I’m from Gateshead and you’ll hear a traditional ‘Geordie’ accent anywhere within a 5 mile radius of Newcastle city centre. Beyond that and it incrementally changes
The original usage of the term 'Geordie' was to a slightly patronising term to describe Durham miners by the posh folk from Newcastle. And Geordie was used to describe anyone from Durham and Northumberland as late as 1970. As there has never been a working mine in Newcastle (that Norman implant in the North East), Toonies from Newcastle are the last folk that should be allowed to call themselves Geordies.
@@tomarmstrong5244 hi, actually it’s not quite that. I cover history in my channel and there’s no definitive origin, although it does go back to the Jacobites rebellion. Miners from Newcastle and Tyneside were also referred to as Geordies. There are plenty of mines from this region, the mine at Spital Tongues is one of many. Oakwellgate in Gateshead is one of many from the Gateshead side. They were collectively called Geordies due to the use of the George Stephenson safety lamp, as opposed to the Davey lamp used in the rest of the country. Although Co Durham miners were also called ‘Geordies’ their accent is labelled as ‘Pitmatic’, more closely linked to a wearside accent. Since your video was about the ‘Geordie’ accent, I just thought I should mention it. Thank you for your response 😊👍🏻
My accent is Pitmatic. There certainly were mines on Tyneside, but so far as my research has shown none that ever produced coal in Newcastle itself, though one in Jesmond came close. Growning up, all let's say Northumbrian accents were referred to as Geordie, and then sub-dived into Toony, Tynesdide, Wearside (I'd never heard the word Makem before about 1972, and I'm from the red and white tribe), Pitmatic and Northumberland. Anyhoo, keep up the good work.
@@tomarmstrong5244 Hi Tom, yeah, coal was produced in newcastle. The famous Victorian tunnel alone transported coal from Spital Tongues during the mid 1800’s. To the Tyne. There are more on the Tyneside belt. All miners locally using the ‘Geordie lamp’ were referred to as Geordies. It gets even more interesting when the German King George I took control in the early 1700’s resulting in the Jacobite uprising. Newcastle closed the town wall gates when the Jacobites came and the term was used by them to mock the folk of Newcastle for supporting the ‘Geordie Whelp’ king. George is a Greek name with many derivatives, including Geordie and probably came across with the Romans. Of course, all the other terms you refer to are correct as well. These cultural nicknames are fluid and non binding, with several overlaps. All the best Tom 👍🏻
The further north you go, the more "norse" words can be found. Some words they use in Scotland are words we use in north norway, or not to far away from the sound of it. Like Geordie "Gan"-Norwegian "Go",(go, going), Geordie "Bairn" - Norwegian "Barn", (child, children), Geordie "Yem" - Norwegian "hjem" (home). Great channel, love it.
John Helms this is true for most northern counties, as well as Scottish English and even scots. This is because of Viking Invasions I believe in Scotland in I believe the 12th century.
@@tubular7752 Incorrect. Anglo-saxons were the first germanic peoples on Britain, who were speaking the old English, they were who pushed back the celto-roman or romano-british people to West (Welsh) and North (Scottish). The viking were speaking the scandinavian germanic language, probably they still could understand each other quite well in that time. The difference between South and North is rather that fact, the Normans have conquered England, and they were speaking old french, and their influence was stronger in Southern England.
geordie reatains much of the old english / anglo saxon words and inflections which is why some local dialect slang and sounds are similar to scandanavian languages, as well as newcastle as a city having historic ties to begen in norway which still gifts newcastle with a magnificent christmas tree every year
Two things struck me: As an American I was surprised from time to time when the words were pronounced exactly as I would pronounce them, but generally the accent is a little hard to follow for me. And second, Sophie was having way too much fun. :)
I LOVED NEWCASTLE, ITS PEOPLE AND GEORDIE LANGUAGE! Thanks for this video so I can keep practicing Geordie ❤️ I am Neapolitan from Italy, kisses and hugs
I'm Scottish, and I can generally understand Geordies better than I can understand some Londoners/southerners. I live only about 100 miles north of Newcastle, and only 50 miles from the English border. There are so many words that are very similar in my Scots dialect: doon, toon, divvent, canny, bonny, bairn, gaun hame (gan hyem/go home), hen (hinny), dae (dee/do), the night (tonight), the day (today), and pronunciation of four like fower, and film like fillim, so all of these are fully understandable to me.
I lived in Newcastle for a while and ever since I can understand scots quite well. I'm not sure if it was BT or EE but they have customer support based in Scotland and the person I spoke to was quite surprised I can understand him quite well. Apparently that's not what he experience on daily basis.
I'm Geordie living in Australia, I've lost my accent, but my dad and Granda spoke Geordie. A lot of people told me my dad was hard to understand but I never had a problem. I miss the dialect.
Hi Anna, just wanted to say I've always loved your videos. I'm a native speaker from London (estuary for life!) and it was pretty much down to you and English with Lucy that I became a TEFL-certified online teacher (mainly business English with professionals in Russia). One of my specialities is British English Pronunciation and I bloody love perfecting my British accents and for some reason ended up watching this again!!
I'm an American born and raised with the Western Pennsylvania variant of the North Midlands dialect. I love Northern British accents but Geordie is definitely my favorite.
Absolutely love the Geordie accent - thank you to Sophie for speaking proper and helping me learn the accent - I love it because of it's rhythm and flow. And yes it's gentle and inviting.
Thanks for lots of interesting videos on English accents. Such as this one. Being Norwegian myself, I find it interesting and nice to register Geordie accent obviously has similarities with our language too. E.g the Norwegian word for kid is 'barn'. Quite similar to Geordie's 'bairn'. And Geordie 'yem' (home) sounds pretty much like 'hjem' (silent 'h') in Norwegian. Same meaning. I'm no expert on old languages/ linguistic influences, not at all, but I'd think these similarities have to do with the influences from Norse tongues in Britain some 1000+ years ago?
As a Swedish speaker, and native English speaker you're 100% correct. You'll hear the word "bairn" (barn) for child or "bairns" to talk about kids, particularly your own from Scotland to Yorkshire. Ye ken me? Hyem (hjemme/hemma) in Geordie and hame in Scots dialects of English definitely have their roots in the conquests of the "Danes". The linguistic fingerprints of the Norsemen are all over the accents and slang terms in the Northeast in particular, and the north in general
The accent derives from the Angles (who became the English) who came from southern Denmark (Angeln) atout 500-600 AD. I'm from Co.Durham, and to say, for example, I'm going home to see my children I'd say 'Am gan yem to see the bairns'.
@@basedxennial6269 if we’re talking about the North East, the slang didn’t come from the Norsemen. The Vikings didn’t settle in large numbers in the North East and spoke Old Norse; also, Danelaw territory didn’t go any further north than Durham. These Geordie words come from Old English spoken by the Angles who came from the Schleswig-Holstein region. These Angle tribes began to settle in the North East in the 400s - several centuries before any Norseman set foot on English soil. Geordie dialect can be traced back to Old English, not Old Norse. But then again, these were sister languages and had similarities.
She sounds much more 'normal' when speaking to the other woman compared to the exaggerated 'faux' geordie accent she uses in the examples at the start. The Mackem joke will be lost on anyone not from the area.
I am a person from Kazakhstan and I fond of Germanic languages especially the western branch and English included, I find this girl's accent very interesting. When I heard her ''Gan'' and I was like - whoa! This is, in fact, the archaic form of the verb Go which was spoken in the middle and old English periods. Possibly the Londoners adopted Gan as Go, but in northern accents, it had not occurred I assume. And the same with Lass which is actually from old Norse laskura. Looking for another accent video!
Hi! I’m from California. I think it depends on how much exposure an individual has to different cultures, backgrounds, and diversity someone has throughout their life. I understood her perfectly! ♥️
Geordie is a very unpretentious accent. I love it. It reminds me of my own Texas accent -- not in the way we pronounce things, but in the way it's received. Hollywood usually uses my accent to indicate someone with a lower IQ, and they invariably butcher it when they try to emulate it. I try not to be offended. Beautiful accent, Sophie!
I hate that all the southern dialects get used this way, I grew up in GA. so I sympathize. I tend to pick up the accent of my area though, I've been in northern Ontario nearly 12 years and now I sound like a total hoser! 😆
@@greatwhitenorthlife2327 also from GA (grew up in the SW but went to college in Atlanta) A lot of people over 50-60 in SWGA still speak the nonrhotic dialect and there are tons of variations even where I work. It’s such a difficult accent for most Americans to do and I hate that it’s dying with the older generation so I still speak it occasionally so it won’t die as quickly. Funny enough my “pet voice” has always been nonrhotic haha
I've loved Northeastern accents every since the first time I heard it. I love the way they say the letter "H" as "haiche" and the long "A" and "O" sounds. I don't care if its considered lower-class.
Yes, that's true! Geordie was voted the most friendliest in the UK like. I studied there for a year (I'm from Texas) & it was a massive learning curve, even as a lingusitics student 😅
My local ASDA Supermarket in Byker, Newcastle actually has the baby goods aisle labelled as Bairns and the sweets aisle as Kets , 100% true and I love it 😀
I'm from New Zealand, and without sounding patronising, the Geordie accent is my favourite, I had never heard it until I started watching "Auf Wiedersehen Pet". If you could understand OZ, you could understand any accent.
Useful video, Geordie to me is really one of the most difficult accents there is to understand, especially when people speak fast. Thank you. You ladies look lovely by the way :)
No way, Glaswegian is orders of magnitudes harder! I've been by them (on a ferry) & not realised they were even speaking English until after a few minutes when a key word was spoken!, lol. (I'm from SE England btw)
I’m from Hong Kong 🇭🇰 and I studied in Durham like 10 years ago. I lived with a host family and listening to Sophia speaking does remind me of the days I lived there. Awwww I miss Durham so so much! Btw my host mum always called me “pet”. If Sophia reads this, would you mind explaining the meaning to me as well? Cheers!
It's just what we say...for example, little old ladies, gays, and lesbians call me 'pet'. It's not meant to be patronising but some from the South think so no matter what you say to them.
I’m from Newcastle, so I’m a geordie. Sometimes we say ‘Quid’ meaning a pound. It would be like this in a sentence as a geordie, “alreet? Can I borrow 5 quid mate? I’m getting the bus to toon”
I'm a Geordie who lives in Germany for the last 25 years .my accent is as strong as the day I left That lassy speaks next generation Geordie it's softer /posher accent then mine. Because she's living in the south she's adjusting so people understand her where with me it's a totally different language so I didn't have to adjust. Words she left out. For hinny you can also say pet. Eight =eyt Hey you =Who yee Walking= wa-kin Working= walking Wirl = aworl A horse= a gallowa Around= aroond Long=Lang Alright= alreet/areet depending on your generation. No= na or nor I would say 90% of Geordie is slang and 10% is Scottish.
Let's imagine I travel across the UK and decide to visit Geordie region.Wouldn't it be a problem to ask a random person to speak to me in normal english or it sounds kinda offensive??
@@jackisbadatgames6068 aye ya reet (yes your right) Viking invaders to Scotland who became settlers as the years went on. Then moved down into north of England.
i love the geordie accent, my nan who very sadly died on the 24th July is from south shields and I've always loved her accent. it is such a friendly, happy accent definitely.
In the British Army in the eighties and our signals officer always said that if our codes were ever compromised he would just put Geordies on all the radios and get them to speak normally to each other and any enemy listening wouldn't have a clue what they were saying....:) Also, one thing that didn't come over in the video is that Geordies tend to speak much faster than the examples and also have a tendency to string words together in a sentence? "Are you going down the town" comes out as "areyagannindoonthe toon".....
Yeah I mentioned the same 2 years ago. They speak so fast it's unreal and everything sounds like a single word. As a non native english speaker going straight to geordie land was far too ambitious on my side. First year I barely could understand anything at all. But it was a good learning curve. If you can understand geordies you`ll not struggle with any brit accent. Including scots. I`ve worked alongside people from all over UK and never really had issues to understand anyone. Mackems, Scausers, Brummies, mancs and so on.
I'm a native New Englander from Massachusetts in the United States, and the Geordie pronunciation is the most similar to the dialect here in my state, albeit without a heavy "accent". I'm often told I drop my "r's" for example. Obviously, Massachusetts was one of the original 13 colonies here in the United States, so there was definitely a British influence to our dialect here in the Northeastern United States.
Sophie is georgeous! I Just fell in love. Not only because of her accent! I`m german but i love to developed my english language skills into several dialects. Usually native speakers put me somewhere into Australia. Sounds a bit similiar to this dialect. Also i think its one of the loveliest english accents and im perfectly understanding it even as a non native english speaker.
As an American (Kalamazoo, Michigan in case you're wondering) I find these regional accents fascinating. I also wonder how people in Britain keep them all together; probably the same way we recognize and tell apart a Boston, Long Island, Deep South, Cajun, Texas or Minnesota/Upper Peninsula Michigan accent. But as a "non-British English-Speaker" the nuances are hard to keep together. Not between a Yorkshire and an Essex accent per se, but between competing northern accents for example. Anyway, I love these videos, cheers!
I'm from Long Island most people on the west coast will lump me with downstate NYers or even with Boston, but once in awhile someone will single me out as a long Islander, I couldn't do it, but some people have just that good of an ear. I suppose this would be true with some dialects of England and elsewhere.
@@tangofett4065 I'm sure this is the case in other states as well, but there are different accents in Michigan. Someone from the UP sounds much different than someone from SE Michigan/Metro Detroit. West Michigan and the northern Lower Peninsula sound about the same and are sort of a blend between SE Michigan and the UP. Good rule of thumb is the more Canadian a Michigander sounds, the farther north they're from and the more "Chicago" they sound the farther West/SW they're from.
Good to see one video on the Geordie accent. I'm still patiently awaiting a video on the Potteries accent/dialect (as I probably mentioned in the Yorkshire accent video) and if you are considering any more accent videos in the future I would suggest videos for the Cheshire dialect (probably the most overlooked and least highlighted dialect of Northern England), a traditional rhotic Lancashire accent (since Braidley's accent in the Yorkshire/Lancashire vid to me sounded closer to Mancunian), Cumbrian dialect, East Midlands (e.g. Derby or Nottingham), Edinburgh accent/dialect and some Welsh accents (preferably one on a separate area/region like Cardiff, Swansea, South Wales Valleys, Mid or North Wales as Welsh accents are just as different as the ones in England). I guess its probably too much to ask but those are just some suggestions from me.
Hi Anna, Your lessons on accents are great . Thank you for yor efforts.They help me alot in improving listening and speaking skill. I hope all the best for you, With regards.
As an American, I find Geordie to be much friendlier than other accents. One of my favorite comedians is Sarah Millican; she's gotten quite popular, she's straight up Geordie, and I think her accent is a big part of her success!
Geordies seem to get made fun of a bit in British TV from my American perspective but there are many elements of Geordie present in various American regional accents especially the American south which is odd since Geordie is from the north of England. Maybe a majority of early immigrants to the US were from Northern England. Sophia is bubbly and adorable.
A lot of people make the mistake that geordie is a scandanavianised accent not true the dipthongs and the vowel sounds are pure northumbrian Anglo-Saxon it's one of the oldest and most authentic of English accents a true gem a living history book coming from a yorkie that's some praise!!!
Yem is pronounced "hjem" and is pure Scandinavian ("hjem") for "home". Also "Bairn" is so close to "børn" (Danish for "children") Look up where those Anglo-Saxons came from, and how they interacted with the Norse-speaking people. There is a great deal of Norse influence on the British language, the northern dialects in particular.
@@martinburke362 Well, none of us know how Anglo-Saxon sounded like. But point taken :) However, Anglia was what is now the southern part of Denmark, so we are entering a territory of language that is very muddled :) Anglo-Saxon came a couple of hundred years before Norse. See th-cam.com/video/CDAU3TpunwM/w-d-xo.html
@@JacobMoen just a suggestion here but next time your reading some Anglo-Saxon text try reading it in a North Eastern accent if you know how it sounds you will find all the peculiarities of anglo saxon spelling fall immediately into place
@@martinburke362 That's not really surprising, considering that the Norse invaders/settlers moved into Anglo-Saxon territory. We still don't know how English evolved from Old English into the English we have today, but if you're looking for Anglo-Saxon then you will find it, and likewise with old Norse.
Go to the Pakistani accent video it's exactly the same. Here are some watchwords. "ALLAH"!! "DIE IN THE NAME OF ALLAH"!!! "ALLAH IS THE GREATEST"!!! "ALL KNEEL TO ALLAH"!!!! Hope this is of some help to you.
I found this very fascinating. I live in the southeastern United States and when Sophie explained how her grandparents would say "walk" and "talk," it sounded very similar to how we say those same words here - very interesting!
I’m American and find the Geordie accent a sort of playful sexy (if that makes any sense). The glottalisation of so many consonants is *so* unique and I’ve never noticed that elsewhere. As a Hawaiian I’m used to a rather hard glottal stop, but this one is soft and very easy to interpret as the consonant it’s replacing.
All of these wholesomely adorably women. I think this is the accent where I'm lost whether they're Scottish or Irish, not telling the one from the other. Like the gray-area accent.
That's an amazing lesson .. hhhh this accent is funny and I love it .. thank you so much .. you make me better Anna .. We love you , ANNA .. I'm from Sudan.
Everyone loves the geordie accent. Both my parents have a geordie accent. My dad can do a posh voice but my Mam tries but can’t her accent is strong but I love it. I don’t understand how people don’t understand this accent (although it’s probably cos I’ve grown up with it) whenever my mam goes into the shops there is always someone who wants to talk to her. 😂😂❤one of the friendliest accents there is ❤
What a neat accent. It's wild to think about where those accents were pulled from historically, and how they still exist hundreds of years later in just that small little area.
I’m really enjoying these accent videos. In parallel, I’m watching videos on the evolution of the English language and when you get a breakdown of words you can see how much Old Norse is in there. The vowel shift didn’t happen in Geordie perhaps because of remoteness so words like house are very close to the way it would have been pronounced a 1,000 years ago. It’s been fascinating and understandable how people from Wolverhampton claim that their accent is very faithful to original Anglo Saxon pronunciation. Liverpool fell under Danelaw in the 10th century and broken down, word by word, you can hear the Scandinavian influence. It’s true the energy and delivery of the actors really helps and it would be good fun to present the academic aspect off this in a spin-off channel.
I was just thinking that the Geordie accent sounds like English with a heavy influence of Danish. And then when she said Bairn (barn in Danish / Scandinavian languages) and Yem (hem / hjem in Scandinavian languages), well, there you go! It seems the Vikings have had quite an influence 🙂
Originally from Mauritius, been living in Gateshead (just south of Newcastle) for 6 months now, and Geordies are the absolute nicest people I've come across. Warm, honest, always helpful and genuine. I use the local slang whenever I can and howay man, the locals luv it!
“Hinny” is an interesting word. It’s mainly used by older people (50/60+). It doesn’t literally mean “honey” as so many people - even Geordies - seem to think. Yes, my parents used to call each other “hinny”where others may have used “love” or “pet”. But I’ve also heard men calling each other “hinny” - sometimes older men when speaking to younger men - and it’s not considered inappropriate, just an alternative for “mate” or “pal”, or even “son”. You’d never hear two younger blokes using it to each other, if they even use the word at all!
At first I thought, why do we need a English program on speaking Geordie (I love the accent), but I have only heard it in fiction/drama, and from people living in London where I am. This video was stunning. I'm amazed how broad regional accents can be here in modern Britain (sheltered life)! 😊
Just to give some clarification on when Sophie said she's a Pityaka: Pitmatic is a different accent/dialect to Geordie and is found in Durham and Northumberland, it developed with Coal Mining communities in those areas and some words have completely different meanings in Yaka than they do in Geordie. It's dying out/merging into the standard english with a Geordie accent, but can still be heard with the older generations. E.G. I would say "Dog" with a short o sound, Pityakas would say "Durg". Similarly, the accent (Geordie/Northumbrian) can be divided into about four different regions, North for the Borders/North Northumberland (say from Wooler to Rothbury) , South for South Northumberland (Morpeth to Blyth), Tyneside (Geordie*) and West Tynedale (say Wylam to Haltwhistle). So for example, Home: NN = Hyem T = Yem OR Hyem OR Hee-yem SN - Hee-yem WT = He-em More distinct in the past since it's all blending together nowadays, but there are still differences to be heard. While we do have a LOT of scandanavian words in our Dialect, Nothumbrian is closer to Old English than is is to Danish/Noregiean/Swedish. One thing we have almost lost is the Northumbrian Burr. Hard to explain without hearing it, but it is a peculiarity in British English apparently: Wikipedia: "According to Påhlsson (1972),[1] the Burr is typically pronounced as a voiced uvular fricative, often with accompanying lip-rounding ([ʁ(ʷ)]). Approximant, voiceless fricative, tapped and trilled uvular pronunciations occur occasionally. The data for Northumberland and northern Durham in the Survey of English Dialects (gathered in the 1950s) suggest that in addition to full pronunciation in syllable onset, uvular /r/ in these dialects was usually maintained in syllable coda position, typically as uvularisation of the preceding vowel". *Geordie is a touchy subject amongst us, what constitutes at true Geordie differs from person to person. Not so important these days as our accent has been standardised and diluted, but call someone from Sunderland a Geordie and you'd be glared at, both by the Geordie you''re speaking too and the person from Sunderland.
Very interesting but I was always told a true Geordie is someone born within the sound of the foghorns on the Tyne (as I was) so anything else is Northumbrian or Wearside etc. And the Teesside accent is definitely not Geordie
Exactly 👍and several other words to like yem means home in West Scandinavian Hjem in Norway and Denmark. And the sounds of the letter's it's like a Scandinavian speaking English without correction. Greetings from Scandinavia.
That is correct a mix of old Northumbrian , Dane Viking , and Anglo Saxon . Kip means sleep or bed in Anglo Saxon if my memory is correct , large herring fishing villages on Northumberland coast had rows of huts for their workers to recouperate in , waiting for the next boats to return the catch , ie kip huts . Craster . springs to mind Seahouses was another ., Northumberland had a large Viking contingency . Also Norwegian ie scandinavian countries . As is yem in Geordie , meaning home , ie hyem. Sweden ,also bairn in Geordie is barn in Scandinavia . There is the strong unmistakeable Scandinavian connection . Well spotted . .
It makes me think of the word "bare," as in to bare children. So maybe a past participle form like "given" is to "give," so could be "bairn" to "bare."
@@heartsthekitteh6239 We have " bare" in Scandinavian also is the same mening to carrey something you can say. Bära på ett barn ( bare children) We have the word given also ( giver, ger, and so on) We have a word in Swedish very similar to children but it's means animal children to goats ( killing) and kid means animal children to roedeer and it's spelled exalty like English kid. Very interesting thoughts and ides and can be connected to word bära bare to carry. The English for us Scandinavians are very easy because we contect the words to very commen things that in English has lost the meaning from old Anglonorse. Greetings from Scandinavia and Sweden.
I'm a Canadian who lived in Newcastle in 1990-91 and I would have to say that the accent has mellowed since then - I suppose all the regional accents will homogenize eventually. I know that a dynamic demographic and media influence are major factors but the British attach so much class-related baggage to accents that people have also felt they had no choice but to change how they speak to succeed. I was shocked at that time at how there almost seemed to be a caste system in England - nothing was merit-based and people were accepting of their assigned ceilings. It's changing thankfully.
Its still the same as you remember, the lass in the video isn’t a true Geordie, she has a tinge of mackem or smoggy in her pronunciation, if you want to find if a person is a true Geordie get them to say the words book or school.
for someone who didn’t live here for long i’m impressed how much you know on why the accent is changing. i hate the class division that you mentioned, im from the NE but my accent doesn’t really exist bc my town is seen as posh and people speak more “profoundly” or “correctly” as they like to say
I'm American. Met a woman from Newcastle on Wednesday. Mistook her for Scottish. Always heard of Geordie but had no idea what it sounded like. Wish I had been prepared. I'd have told her to "loak, it's ah floh'in goht." They really love to lean out face first over their vowels!!!
All British accents have their qualities that make them well worth listening to, and there's something about Geordie in particular that always puts a smile on my face whenever I hear it.
As an American, with no particular preconceived notion of what this accent would sound like, it does seem… “friendly”. The way she pronounces “laugh” and “bath” are basically identical to American English. Surprised by “for” and “four” having such a variance to each other! “For” doesn’t jump out, but “four” sounds like a super-extreme American southern pronunciation.
My Grandad was from Newcastle, came down to Liverpool and met my Nan from North Wales ... my eldest sister moved up to Newcastle in the mid 80s ... I LOVE All the people from The North East Makem'es and Goerdie's.
If i have a accent like this i will never shut up
Its music to the ears isnt it ;-)
sounds about like a geordie, yup
In England if you’re not from Newcastle we hate the geordie accent
@@Person-gk5ee where you from?
@@Person-gk5ee I keep seeing this sort of comment….for what reason??
Isn't life wonderful. I am 60 years old and have lived in Australia for 58 years and yet I understood everything Sophie was saying. It has brought tears to my eyes as I have just realised that my mother whom passed away some years ago spoke Geordie. I new she was from the north of England but it was only now that I have made the connection. The funny thing is that I now feel home sick for the north. Time for a visit I think. I have never been back to England in those 58 years.
Please,get back!
Music for the ears it is. My parental grandparents came over from Glasgow in the 1930s & settled in Detroit, Michigan forever. When I was a young lad I had trouble understanding their brogues which they kept all their lifes. I loved hearing stories of their life in Glasgow, the boat ride to America & adapting to American life. They both made super delicious scones. He cooked as much as she & did the dishes also. They lived far into their 90s & I miss them so much. RIP pappy & nanny.
If she was from Newcastle she would be proud and tell you , most other places they say near Newcastle .
@@ionerosin2523 I would love to. Stupid covid :-( But inspired now to do some research and plan a trip.
@@malfromthetoon6705 Wow, how little do I know about my mum. Think she was born in Speenymoor and lived in Durham for a period of time. Time to get out the family tree.
Jade thirwall bring me here😭😂😂😂
Hi I'm Jeed!
same
same
Lmao same 😂
Same😂😂
I love Sophie - she's hilarious and expressive. If she had TV show, I'd watch it.
I was like wait, is this meant to be funny? Why does she shake her head so much?! LOL!!! I want to hang out with this person!
I came here to learn Jade and Perrie's while talking
omg same
I can still understand Perrie's accent from time to time. But never Jade's accent without subtitles! Nice, sometimes even the subtitle doesn't understand Jeed..😂😂
If English is like that, I will not bother myself to correct my pronunciation, I will let it as it is
Try skottish, it's the best
@Sredni Vashtar sko'ish
Don't bother. Not worth it.
I gave up years ago. No point. It looks like it's anarchy out there. Whats the point in memorising for instance if one word is with the short "a" or long "a" if then depending from where you are from some use the long some use the short?
When non-native speakers learn English, it tends to not be a regional accent but rather a RP or 'received pronunciation' accent. Focus on using that, as it is the form of English that most people can understand.
Sophie has an amazing energy that transfers through.
I agree but this will not teach u the geordie accent
True
@@nastyleon5857
Very true. The video needed someone who actually lives and is from Newcastle.
zx50 P exactly
I want to throw her into lava.
Sophie sounds like she ran away from a Game Of Thrones episode
She’s my cousin
She hasn't went through the Great Vowel Shift.
Or maybe luny assylum.
@Werewolf O. London, Esq. Uel, vet's vud bi enaver stori ven.
Did a Geordie end up on the Iron Throne?
As a foreigner, I found the Geordie accent to be quite charming compared to the stiff Southern English accent we learn in school as learners of a second language.
Hi
And goodbye
Strange how we learn UK english in school, but nearly everyone still speak in an american accent anyway, it becomes a weird mix of english words with an american accent.
I lived on Tyneside for 11 years and am watching this just because I love the dialect. This concentrates on words but Geordies sing when they speak
There’s multiple southern English accents
Stiff? You've not been around, mate.
Sounds like Geordie has retained a lot of Norse/Norwegian features from Viking times. Like it a lot!
I was actually thinking the same watching this video, "bairn" is quite similar to "barne" from Norway. Did you find more examples in the conversation as well? I love it too (big viking fan here haha).
@@maggy8197 "hjem" for home is the same in Norwegian, although in Norwegian the "h" is not pronounced.
Not really. The accent derives from the settlement of the 'Angle' people from Angeln, in southern Denmark, from about 500 to 600 - two hundred years before the Vikings, who didn't settle much in the NE. They mainly settled in Yorkshire.
It carries a lot of cross pollination with Scottish due to the north's border region nature.
I’m Norwegian so that was my first thought when she said hjem or yen or whatever, but it was pronounced pretty close to ‘hjem’ which is our word for ‘home’
Sophia is lovely. Geordie sounds like it shares alot in common with Scots from what I can tell from this video.
where she comes from is the DMZ between England and Scotland, it's a lawless place
@@erinquinn215 Lol.
Erin Quinn 😂
My mother is a Geordie with a Scottish mother, and the two accents do blend together quite smoothly.
Quite frankly I’m offended that geordie and Scottish has “it shares a lot” in the same sentence. Struggling to see the similarities as an outsider looking in
Not a geordie accent but a really good pit yacker accent. Geordie is Tyneside (Newcastle), mackem is Sunderland, pitmatic/pit yacker is Durham and smoggy is middlesbrough/Teesside. We don't group ourselves as having a geordie accent. Each area is proud to have their own accent.
Came here to say this, being grouped in with Durham made me a lil sad. we all have our own proud roots, let them be themselves without only being recognized as geordie.
Tyneside isn't just Newcastle
What's Cumbrian?
But technically how different would it sound to a non native speaker. I guess it will be very similar for us. True though, every accent has its roots.
The original 'Geordies' were the Durham miners. It is only recently that the term 'Geordie' has been appropriated by Newcastle. Right up to the 1970s the term was used to describe all folk from Durham and Northumberland.
Back in the 1960's I was one of five 12 year olds trainspotting on Bournemouth Central station. A train came in and a man got off near us. He said something completely unitelligible to us. We just looked at him speechless so he repeated what he said. More silence from us until one said "why is he trying to speek to us in Russian?". He spoke again more slowly, and then agian more slowly. It sounded something like "way orz thur tree ayn tar poo ell". Finally he spoke one word at a time for us to guess its meaning, like a game of charades. He was asking "Where is the train to Poole". I came to realise in the following years that he wasn't Russian he was a Geordie.
lmao
Dasvidanya nyet problema , wor kid . Lmao .
When German speakers with different accents fail to understand each other they use English. I wish we native English speakers could use another language in the same way when in the same position
lmfao
@@nicholasthorn1539 😁 No.
I am American, and I have been getting to know many English accents. The Geordie accent has become my favorite. Something about it feels warm, sincere, friendly, easygoing and unpretentious. What's not to loove? ;)
We hate it here in England.
@@Person-gk5ee 🤣🤣🤣country bumpkins
@@Person-gk5ee i love it
@@Person-gk5ee As a non native English speaker, this makes more sense for me than the Royal English where there are only 60-70% correlation between the written and pronounced words. They pronounce the sounds as it is in a Latin language. Without knowing the Geordie accent I could figure out 90% of the sounds after watching 2 minutes of this video.
Mine is Mancunian.
She says everything in a weird way then suddenly says "Mouth" normally. 😆
I expected her to go "moof"
traditionally, Geordies pronounced mouth as mooth. A lot still do, but some of the younger people pronounce it like she did
@@GandalfTheGay98 Exactly true! One of the Geordie lasses on Geordie Shore once said “moof”, and I was puzzled by that! 🤣
I should’ve kept my MOOF claused!
Moved to Newcastle some years ago from Canada. Couldn’t understand anyone for 6 months! Most locals have much stronger accents than the woman in this video. Moved back to Canada but now I can understand a Geordie accent (and several Scottish regional accents) perfectly well.
Ibraheem M. Yeah sometimes. 🙂
Crystal Phoenix It took me a while to understand people. You do eventually learn to understand if you have to. Especially if you live and work with them every day. It helped that my husband was a Geordie too. 😁
Shes not from newcastle man she doesnt represent us at all shus pua shite
Did you not watch Spender? I read you guys got it in Canada. Bit of a triage. I mean I'd watch Due South(and did) if it was the other way round.
Jonny A Never heard of Spender. Never watched due south. Nobody in Canada acts that way anyways.
That "Yem" is pronounced "hjem" and means "home" is super interesting to me. In Danish, "Hjem" is indeed "home". And "Børn" means "children" which is suspiciously close to "Bairn". There are more words, although that is not surprising, considering our shared history. :)
Yep, when I went to Norway a few years back I could pick out bits of speech, recognisably similar to Georgie.
Geordie even!
The Geordie accent is still remarkably close to Freisian!
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I'm Danish and also noticed the similarities to Danish words as well.
@@gavt5816 and most importantly Northumberland was Anglo-Danish and not Anglo-Norman for a long time. A lot of Anglo-Saxons went north when William I invaded. After the Harrying of the North, the remaining population were fiercely anti French/Norman.
I'm not native English speaker, and I'm no more than intermediate level speaker, but I want to say that I like Geordie accent more than any other British accent.
Its one of the most unusual ones from England, along with Scouse.
@@ajs41 mancunian is better than scouse
Don't copy a Geordie accent, no one will understand you!
“SUPA BES” - jade from little mix
Choosing someone from County Durham was a faux pas. Their accent is more closely linked to the Wearside (Mackem) accent than the Geordie. The vowels are pronounced quite a bit differently.
I’m from Gateshead and you’ll hear a traditional ‘Geordie’ accent anywhere within a 5 mile radius of Newcastle city centre.
Beyond that and it incrementally changes
The original usage of the term 'Geordie' was to a slightly patronising term to describe Durham miners by the posh folk from Newcastle. And Geordie was used to describe anyone from Durham and Northumberland as late as 1970. As there has never been a working mine in Newcastle (that Norman implant in the North East), Toonies from Newcastle are the last folk that should be allowed to call themselves Geordies.
@@tomarmstrong5244 hi, actually it’s not quite that. I cover history in my channel and there’s no definitive origin, although it does go back to the Jacobites rebellion. Miners from Newcastle and Tyneside were also referred to as Geordies. There are plenty of mines from this region, the mine at Spital Tongues is one of many. Oakwellgate in Gateshead is one of many from the Gateshead side. They were collectively called Geordies due to the use of the George Stephenson safety lamp, as opposed to the Davey lamp used in the rest of the country.
Although Co Durham miners were also called ‘Geordies’ their accent is labelled as ‘Pitmatic’, more closely linked to a wearside accent. Since your video was about the ‘Geordie’ accent, I just thought I should mention it. Thank you for your response 😊👍🏻
My accent is Pitmatic. There certainly were mines on Tyneside, but so far as my research has shown none that ever produced coal in Newcastle itself, though one in Jesmond came close.
Growning up, all let's say Northumbrian accents were referred to as Geordie, and then sub-dived into Toony, Tynesdide, Wearside (I'd never heard the word Makem before about 1972, and I'm from the red and white tribe), Pitmatic and Northumberland.
Anyhoo, keep up the good work.
@@tomarmstrong5244 Hi Tom, yeah, coal was produced in newcastle. The famous Victorian tunnel alone transported coal from Spital Tongues during the mid 1800’s. To the Tyne. There are more on the Tyneside belt. All miners locally using the ‘Geordie lamp’ were referred to as Geordies.
It gets even more interesting when the German King George I took control in the early 1700’s resulting in the Jacobite uprising. Newcastle closed the town wall gates when the Jacobites came and the term was used by them to mock the folk of Newcastle for supporting the ‘Geordie Whelp’ king.
George is a Greek name with many derivatives, including Geordie and probably came across with the Romans.
Of course, all the other terms you refer to are correct as well. These cultural nicknames are fluid and non binding, with several overlaps.
All the best Tom 👍🏻
Sophia is so nice and funny! Geordie accent definitely adds up to her appeal. I love Northern accents, they are so friendly, informal and cool.
Sophie seems so warm and friendly. I love her!
Semper Mutabilibus Geordies are like that :)
She’s my cousin
@@georgegarside1776 whats her @
Luck! Itsa flawden gaw!
Geordies have a reputation for being warm and friendly.
The further north you go, the more "norse" words can be found. Some words they use in Scotland are words we use in north norway, or not to far away from the sound of it. Like Geordie "Gan"-Norwegian "Go",(go, going), Geordie "Bairn" - Norwegian "Barn", (child, children), Geordie "Yem" - Norwegian "hjem" (home). Great channel, love it.
That is fascinating! 👍
i like the none posh accents. KEEP IT REAL! geordie, cockney, yorkshire, essex i love em
Big up Yorkshire we’re deffo the best
Haa nah yi radge cu*t Geordies for the win hahahahaaa @@Person-gk5ee
The way her mouth looks when it rests after speaking. 😂 another thing I noticed is she looks either extremely happy or extremely surprised
Love these local English accents. Once you know what they're saying, they're so charming! This is such a wonderful accent!
It’s fascinating how the Northern accents tie into US southern accents. The “fawer” for “four” is very typical for many inland southern accents.
Exactly! I’m from South Carolina and recognize a lot of the sounds
I was thinking the same. You can find alot of these sounds in American accents.
Some Geordie words seem to derive from Old Norse, such as “bairn” (barne) for children and “yem” (hjem) for home.
John Helms this is true for most northern counties, as well as Scottish English and even scots. This is because of Viking Invasions I believe in Scotland in I believe the 12th century.
but i think old anglosaxon also had hem as home. in austrian german home is also Heim. but her pronoucation rememberrd mi a bit to jiddisch.
I’ve never heard anyone say that?
@@tubular7752 Incorrect. Anglo-saxons were the first germanic peoples on Britain, who were speaking the old English, they were who pushed back the celto-roman or romano-british people to West (Welsh) and North (Scottish). The viking were speaking the scandinavian germanic language, probably they still could understand each other quite well in that time. The difference between South and North is rather that fact, the Normans have conquered England, and they were speaking old french, and their influence was stronger in Southern England.
And the letters are pronounced as in Nordic languages, atlest as in Swedish.
I’m American and this is my first time knowingly listening to a Geordie accent and I love it. I think it sounds very friendly, open, and energetic!
omg I love Sophies facial expressions along with her pronunciation haha
"Rollah Coastah, Poopah Schoopah, Oompa Loompah, Kawasaki!"
Okay, I think I got it packed down.
Ah good old Jimmy Car
geordie reatains much of the old english / anglo saxon words and inflections which is why some local dialect slang and sounds are similar to scandanavian languages, as well as newcastle as a city having historic ties to begen in norway which still gifts newcastle with a magnificent christmas tree every year
Think you mean BERGEN .. larn ti spell man will yi. . 😁 .
Two things struck me: As an American I was surprised from time to time when the words were pronounced exactly as I would pronounce them, but generally the accent is a little hard to follow for me. And second, Sophie was having way too much fun. :)
christ
THIS IS NOT A GEORDIE ACCENT
I LOVED NEWCASTLE, ITS PEOPLE AND GEORDIE LANGUAGE! Thanks for this video so I can keep practicing Geordie ❤️ I am Neapolitan from Italy, kisses and hugs
I'm Scottish, and I can generally understand Geordies better than I can understand some Londoners/southerners. I live only about 100 miles north of Newcastle, and only 50 miles from the English border. There are so many words that are very similar in my Scots dialect: doon, toon, divvent, canny, bonny, bairn, gaun hame (gan hyem/go home), hen (hinny), dae (dee/do), the night (tonight), the day (today), and pronunciation of four like fower, and film like fillim, so all of these are fully understandable to me.
I lived in Newcastle for a while and ever since I can understand scots quite well. I'm not sure if it was BT or EE but they have customer support based in Scotland and the person I spoke to was quite surprised I can understand him quite well. Apparently that's not what he experience on daily basis.
Love it. This is a lovely, lovely accent and people who speak like this seem 100% more genuine than others.
I'm Geordie living in Australia, I've lost my accent, but my dad and Granda spoke Geordie. A lot of people told me my dad was hard to understand but I never had a problem. I miss the dialect.
Sophie radiates such positive energy, it’s adorable.
Hi Anna, just wanted to say I've always loved your videos. I'm a native speaker from London (estuary for life!) and it was pretty much down to you and English with Lucy that I became a TEFL-certified online teacher (mainly business English with professionals in Russia). One of my specialities is British English Pronunciation and I bloody love perfecting my British accents and for some reason ended up watching this again!!
I love this accent! The word "yem" actually sounds a lot like the Norwegian "hjem", also meaning home.
I can happily say I’m proud to be a geordie
I'm an American born and raised with the Western Pennsylvania variant of the North Midlands dialect. I love Northern British accents but Geordie is definitely my favorite.
Sophia is super friendly. This video brightened up my day.
Absolutely love the Geordie accent - thank you to Sophie for speaking proper and helping me learn the accent - I love it because of it's rhythm and flow. And yes it's gentle and inviting.
Thanks for lots of interesting videos on English accents. Such as this one. Being Norwegian myself, I find it interesting and nice to register Geordie accent obviously has similarities with our language too. E.g the Norwegian word for kid is 'barn'. Quite similar to Geordie's 'bairn'. And Geordie 'yem' (home) sounds pretty much like 'hjem' (silent 'h') in Norwegian. Same meaning. I'm no expert on old languages/ linguistic influences, not at all, but I'd think these similarities have to do with the influences from Norse tongues in Britain some 1000+ years ago?
As a Swedish speaker, and native English speaker you're 100% correct. You'll hear the word "bairn" (barn) for child or "bairns" to talk about kids, particularly your own from Scotland to Yorkshire.
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Hyem (hjemme/hemma) in Geordie and hame in Scots dialects of English definitely have their roots in the conquests of the "Danes".
The linguistic fingerprints of the Norsemen are all over the accents and slang terms in the Northeast in particular, and the north in general
The accent derives from the Angles (who became the English) who came from southern Denmark (Angeln) atout 500-600 AD. I'm from Co.Durham, and to say, for example, I'm going home to see my children I'd say 'Am gan yem to see the bairns'.
@@basedxennial6269 if we’re talking about the North East, the slang didn’t come from the Norsemen. The Vikings didn’t settle in large numbers in the North East and spoke Old Norse; also, Danelaw territory didn’t go any further north than Durham. These Geordie words come from Old English spoken by the Angles who came from the Schleswig-Holstein region. These Angle tribes began to settle in the North East in the 400s - several centuries before any Norseman set foot on English soil. Geordie dialect can be traced back to Old English, not Old Norse. But then again, these were sister languages and had similarities.
Geordie sounds like a totally different language to me (non- native speaker of English), but I still love it!=D
If I heard that unprepared there's no way I would get anything... And I am working in intentional company for 9 years, speaking English every day
The "learn geordie from a mackem" tutorial
She certainly doesn't sound like a proper Geordie.
She sounds much more 'normal' when speaking to the other woman compared to the exaggerated 'faux' geordie accent she uses in the examples at the start. The Mackem joke will be lost on anyone not from the area.
Shes a reet divvy like
Literally we don't pronounce things the same🤦♀️🤦♀️
@Werewolf O. London, Esq. neyone gives a toss if ya geordie or not ya pillock
I am a person from Kazakhstan and I fond of Germanic languages especially the western branch and English included, I find this girl's accent very interesting. When I heard her ''Gan'' and I was like - whoa! This is, in fact, the archaic form of the verb Go which was spoken in the middle and old English periods. Possibly the Londoners adopted Gan as Go, but in northern accents, it had not occurred I assume. And the same with Lass which is actually from old Norse laskura. Looking for another accent video!
That's pretty interesting, thanks for sharing.
Hi Borat
@@kevino4372 how is your mum?
Hi! I’m from California. I think it depends on how much exposure an individual has to different cultures, backgrounds, and diversity someone has throughout their life. I understood her perfectly! ♥️
Geordie is a very unpretentious accent. I love it. It reminds me of my own Texas accent -- not in the way we pronounce things, but in the way it's received. Hollywood usually uses my accent to indicate someone with a lower IQ, and they invariably butcher it when they try to emulate it. I try not to be offended. Beautiful accent, Sophie!
I hate that all the southern dialects get used this way, I grew up in GA. so I sympathize. I tend to pick up the accent of my area though, I've been in northern Ontario nearly 12 years and now I sound like a total hoser! 😆
@@greatwhitenorthlife2327 also from GA (grew up in the SW but went to college in Atlanta)
A lot of people over 50-60 in SWGA still speak the nonrhotic dialect and there are tons of variations even where I work. It’s such a difficult accent for most Americans to do and I hate that it’s dying with the older generation so I still speak it occasionally so it won’t die as quickly. Funny enough my “pet voice” has always been nonrhotic haha
I've loved Northeastern accents every since the first time I heard it. I love the way they say the letter "H" as "haiche" and the long "A" and "O" sounds. I don't care if its considered lower-class.
I fell in love with Geordie accent. 😘
Yeah it’s not very formal I talk like that lol
All north english accents are so cute
I fell in live with Sophie!
Ney way Have yi actually mate that’s pua fuckin wicked
@@tedarcher9120 Nope . Blunt . Not nice
Yes, that's true! Geordie was voted the most friendliest in the UK like. I studied there for a year (I'm from Texas) & it was a massive learning curve, even as a lingusitics student 😅
My mate frank was originally from Austin Texas he spent the majority of his adult life in Newcastle so sounds geordie with a Texas drawl !
@@garysmith4425 haha, love that!!
Any culture that associates a mule "Hinny" as a term of endearment must be friendly indeed.
My local ASDA Supermarket in Byker, Newcastle actually has the baby goods aisle labelled as Bairns and the sweets aisle as Kets , 100% true and I love it 😀
I'm from New Zealand, and without sounding patronising, the Geordie accent is my favourite, I had never heard it until I started watching "Auf Wiedersehen Pet". If you could understand OZ, you could understand any accent.
The original series is still in the top 5 TV shows ever imho.
@@johneyton5452 the original and second series were great, I felt that the third and fourth series were a bit naff in comparison.
Useful video, Geordie to me is really one of the most difficult accents there is to understand, especially when people speak fast. Thank you. You ladies look lovely by the way :)
No way, Glaswegian is orders of magnitudes harder! I've been by them (on a ferry) & not realised they were even speaking English until after a few minutes when a key word was spoken!, lol. (I'm from SE England btw)
I’m from Hong Kong 🇭🇰 and I studied in Durham like 10 years ago. I lived with a host family and listening to Sophia speaking does remind me of the days I lived there. Awwww I miss Durham so so much! Btw my host mum always called me “pet”. If Sophia reads this, would you mind explaining the meaning to me as well? Cheers!
It's just what we say...for example, little old ladies, gays, and lesbians call me 'pet'. It's not meant to be patronising but some from the South think so no matter what you say to them.
Some words are definitely Germanic/nordic. The chatting part is the best. Love it!
I’m from Newcastle, so I’m a geordie. Sometimes we say ‘Quid’ meaning a pound.
It would be like this in a sentence as a geordie, “alreet? Can I borrow 5 quid mate? I’m getting the bus to toon”
Geordie is one of my favourite English accents as well, I like it even more after listening to Sophie , she is great !.
I'm a Geordie who lives in Germany for the last 25 years .my accent is as strong as the day I left
That lassy speaks next generation Geordie it's softer /posher accent then mine. Because she's living in the south she's adjusting so people understand her where with me it's a totally different language so I didn't have to adjust. Words she left out.
For hinny you can also say pet.
Eight =eyt
Hey you =Who yee
Walking= wa-kin
Working= walking
Wirl = aworl
A horse= a gallowa
Around= aroond
Long=Lang
Alright= alreet/areet depending on your generation.
No= na or nor
I would say 90% of Geordie is slang and 10% is Scottish.
Let's imagine I travel across the UK and decide to visit Geordie region.Wouldn't it be a problem to ask a random person to speak to me in normal english or it sounds kinda offensive??
@@happyman8938 smack. Hahahanee bother kidda, divnt tak tha piss.
I was gonna say, there seem to be significant parallels with Scottish as well as the Norse. From my limited ear-time with it, that is.
@@jackisbadatgames6068 aye ya reet (yes your right)
Viking invaders to Scotland who became settlers as the years went on.
Then moved down into north of England.
@@badtimesprepper6913 I cannae believe I’m reet! Divvent tell naebody! Haha
i love the geordie accent, my nan who very sadly died on the 24th July is from south shields and I've always loved her accent. it is such a friendly, happy accent definitely.
In the British Army in the eighties and our signals officer always said that if our codes were ever compromised he would just put Geordies on all the radios and get them to speak normally to each other and any enemy listening wouldn't have a clue what they were saying....:)
Also, one thing that didn't come over in the video is that Geordies tend to speak much faster than the examples and also have a tendency to string words together in a sentence?
"Are you going down the town" comes out as "areyagannindoonthe toon".....
Yeah I mentioned the same 2 years ago. They speak so fast it's unreal and everything sounds like a single word. As a non native english speaker going straight to geordie land was far too ambitious on my side. First year I barely could understand anything at all. But it was a good learning curve. If you can understand geordies you`ll not struggle with any brit accent. Including scots. I`ve worked alongside people from all over UK and never really had issues to understand anyone. Mackems, Scausers, Brummies, mancs and so on.
I'm a native New Englander from Massachusetts in the United States, and the Geordie pronunciation is the most similar to the dialect here in my state, albeit without a heavy "accent". I'm often told I drop my "r's" for example. Obviously, Massachusetts was one of the original 13 colonies here in the United States, so there was definitely a British influence to our dialect here in the Northeastern United States.
Sophie is georgeous! I Just fell in love. Not only because of her accent! I`m german but i love to developed my english language skills into several dialects. Usually native speakers put me somewhere into Australia. Sounds a bit similiar to this dialect. Also i think its one of the loveliest english accents and im perfectly understanding it even as a non native english speaker.
As an American (Kalamazoo, Michigan in case you're wondering) I find these regional accents fascinating. I also wonder how people in Britain keep them all together; probably the same way we recognize and tell apart a Boston, Long Island, Deep South, Cajun, Texas or Minnesota/Upper Peninsula Michigan accent. But as a "non-British English-Speaker" the nuances are hard to keep together. Not between a Yorkshire and an Essex accent per se, but between competing northern accents for example. Anyway, I love these videos, cheers!
What do you mean by keep together?
I'm from Long Island most people on the west coast will lump me with downstate NYers or even with Boston, but once in awhile someone will single me out as a long Islander, I couldn't do it, but some people have just that good of an ear. I suppose this would be true with some dialects of England and elsewhere.
I’m from Georgia and I can pick a Michigan accent out from maybe a couple of words. We have a lot of Michigan transplants down here.
@@tangofett4065 I'm sure this is the case in other states as well, but there are different accents in Michigan. Someone from the UP sounds much different than someone from SE Michigan/Metro Detroit. West Michigan and the northern Lower Peninsula sound about the same and are sort of a blend between SE Michigan and the UP. Good rule of thumb is the more Canadian a Michigander sounds, the farther north they're from and the more "Chicago" they sound the farther West/SW they're from.
@@Jon.A.Scholt most of the ones here pronounce it “Michi-gaaan”. I think that might be the western side, closer to Wisconsin.
Good to see one video on the Geordie accent. I'm still patiently awaiting a video on the Potteries accent/dialect (as I probably mentioned in the Yorkshire accent video) and if you are considering any more accent videos in the future I would suggest videos for the Cheshire dialect (probably the most overlooked and least highlighted dialect of Northern England), a traditional rhotic Lancashire accent (since Braidley's accent in the Yorkshire/Lancashire vid to me sounded closer to Mancunian), Cumbrian dialect, East Midlands (e.g. Derby or Nottingham), Edinburgh accent/dialect and some Welsh accents (preferably one on a separate area/region like Cardiff, Swansea, South Wales Valleys, Mid or North Wales as Welsh accents are just as different as the ones in England). I guess its probably too much to ask but those are just some suggestions from me.
Hi Anna,
Your lessons on accents are great . Thank you for yor efforts.They help me alot in improving listening and speaking skill.
I hope all the best for you,
With regards.
As an American, I find Geordie to be much friendlier than other accents. One of my favorite comedians is Sarah Millican; she's gotten quite popular, she's straight up Geordie, and I think her accent is a big part of her success!
Geordies seem to get made fun of a bit in British TV from my American perspective but there are many elements of Geordie present in various American regional accents especially the American south which is odd since Geordie is from the north of England. Maybe a majority of early immigrants to the US were from Northern England. Sophia is bubbly and adorable.
A lot of people make the mistake that geordie is a scandanavianised accent not true the dipthongs and the vowel sounds are pure northumbrian Anglo-Saxon it's one of the oldest and most authentic of English accents a true gem a living history book coming from a yorkie that's some praise!!!
Yem is pronounced "hjem" and is pure Scandinavian ("hjem") for "home". Also "Bairn" is so close to "børn" (Danish for "children") Look up where those Anglo-Saxons came from, and how they interacted with the Norse-speaking people. There is a great deal of Norse influence on the British language, the northern dialects in particular.
@@JacobMoen correct but where talking accent here geordie is pure anglo saxon
@@martinburke362 Well, none of us know how Anglo-Saxon sounded like. But point taken :)
However, Anglia was what is now the southern part of Denmark, so we are entering a territory of language that is very muddled :) Anglo-Saxon came a couple of hundred years before Norse. See th-cam.com/video/CDAU3TpunwM/w-d-xo.html
@@JacobMoen just a suggestion here but next time your reading some Anglo-Saxon text try reading it in a North Eastern accent if you know how it sounds you will find all the peculiarities of anglo saxon spelling fall immediately into place
@@martinburke362 That's not really surprising, considering that the Norse invaders/settlers moved into Anglo-Saxon territory. We still don't know how English evolved from Old English into the English we have today, but if you're looking for Anglo-Saxon then you will find it, and likewise with old Norse.
A lot of thanks, Anna! :)
"Learn accent" videos are very interesting! And useful, of course!
Birmingham accent, please
Yes that one is being edited at the moment.
Liberpool to pleeesae
@@mikr0bi no thanks
Go to the Pakistani accent video it's exactly the same. Here are some watchwords. "ALLAH"!! "DIE IN THE NAME OF ALLAH"!!! "ALLAH IS THE GREATEST"!!! "ALL KNEEL TO ALLAH"!!!! Hope this is of some help to you.
I'll look forward to hearing Black Country then.
I found this very fascinating. I live in the southeastern United States and when Sophie explained how her grandparents would say "walk" and "talk," it sounded very similar to how we say those same words here - very interesting!
I’m American and find the Geordie accent a sort of playful sexy (if that makes any sense). The glottalisation of so many consonants is *so* unique and I’ve never noticed that elsewhere. As a Hawaiian I’m used to a rather hard glottal stop, but this one is soft and very easy to interpret as the consonant it’s replacing.
All of these wholesomely adorably women. I think this is the accent where I'm lost whether they're Scottish or Irish, not telling the one from the other. Like the gray-area accent.
That's an amazing lesson .. hhhh this accent is funny and I love it .. thank you so much .. you make me better Anna .. We love you , ANNA .. I'm from Sudan.
She is so funny, why?😂❤
Is she high(ed)...... maybe?
Surely you mean whyeye! Mun.
Ikr, it's cute 😂
She said she went to university so I think she studied drama
Trust me, it's not funny when you piss a geordie lass off. Accent totally changes and cuts you deep!
Everyone loves the geordie accent. Both my parents have a geordie accent. My dad can do a posh voice but my Mam tries but can’t her accent is strong but I love it. I don’t understand how people don’t understand this accent (although it’s probably cos I’ve grown up with it) whenever my mam goes into the shops there is always someone who wants to talk to her. 😂😂❤one of the friendliest accents there is ❤
I love how diverse the English language and accent truly is!
What a neat accent. It's wild to think about where those accents were pulled from historically, and how they still exist hundreds of years later in just that small little area.
I’m really enjoying these accent videos. In parallel, I’m watching videos on the evolution of the English language and when you get a breakdown of words you can see how much Old Norse is in there. The vowel shift didn’t happen in Geordie perhaps because of remoteness so words like house are very close to the way it would have been pronounced a 1,000 years ago. It’s been fascinating and understandable how people from Wolverhampton claim that their accent is very faithful to original Anglo Saxon pronunciation. Liverpool fell under Danelaw in the 10th century and broken down, word by word, you can hear the Scandinavian influence. It’s true the energy and delivery of the actors really helps and it would be good fun to present the academic aspect off this in a spin-off channel.
I was just thinking that the Geordie accent sounds like English with a heavy influence of Danish. And then when she said Bairn (barn in Danish / Scandinavian languages) and Yem (hem / hjem in Scandinavian languages), well, there you go! It seems the Vikings have had quite an influence 🙂
True good sense you have
Originally from Mauritius, been living in Gateshead (just south of Newcastle) for 6 months now, and Geordies are the absolute nicest people I've come across. Warm, honest, always helpful and genuine. I use the local slang whenever I can and howay man, the locals luv it!
“Hinny” is an interesting word. It’s mainly used by older people (50/60+). It doesn’t literally mean “honey” as so many people - even Geordies - seem to think. Yes, my parents used to call each other “hinny”where others may have used “love” or “pet”. But I’ve also heard men calling each other “hinny” - sometimes older men when speaking to younger men - and it’s not considered inappropriate, just an alternative for “mate” or “pal”, or even “son”. You’d never hear two younger blokes using it to each other, if they even use the word at all!
I feel like i'm not the only one who's here because of jade and that makes me so proud ❤✨
I love Sophie’s playful attitude 🥰😜 and accent
I love the Geordie accent, if not to fast spoken I ( as a german) have no trouble understanding it.
I literally struggle to make out what they are saying coz I'm not a native speaker.
I love sophie's attitude
At first I thought, why do we need a English program on speaking Geordie (I love the accent), but I have only heard it in fiction/drama, and from people living in London where I am.
This video was stunning. I'm amazed how broad regional accents can be here in modern Britain (sheltered life)! 😊
Just to give some clarification on when Sophie said she's a Pityaka: Pitmatic is a different accent/dialect to Geordie and is found in Durham and Northumberland, it developed with Coal Mining communities in those areas and some words have completely different meanings in Yaka than they do in Geordie. It's dying out/merging into the standard english with a Geordie accent, but can still be heard with the older generations. E.G. I would say "Dog" with a short o sound, Pityakas would say "Durg".
Similarly, the accent (Geordie/Northumbrian) can be divided into about four different regions, North for the Borders/North Northumberland (say from Wooler to Rothbury) , South for South Northumberland (Morpeth to Blyth), Tyneside (Geordie*) and West Tynedale (say Wylam to Haltwhistle).
So for example, Home:
NN = Hyem
T = Yem OR Hyem OR Hee-yem
SN - Hee-yem
WT = He-em
More distinct in the past since it's all blending together nowadays, but there are still differences to be heard. While we do have a LOT of scandanavian words in our Dialect, Nothumbrian is closer to Old English than is is to Danish/Noregiean/Swedish.
One thing we have almost lost is the Northumbrian Burr. Hard to explain without hearing it, but it is a peculiarity in British English apparently: Wikipedia: "According to Påhlsson (1972),[1] the Burr is typically pronounced as a voiced uvular fricative, often with accompanying lip-rounding ([ʁ(ʷ)]). Approximant, voiceless fricative, tapped and trilled uvular pronunciations occur occasionally. The data for Northumberland and northern Durham in the Survey of English Dialects (gathered in the 1950s) suggest that in addition to full pronunciation in syllable onset, uvular /r/ in these dialects was usually maintained in syllable coda position, typically as uvularisation of the preceding vowel".
*Geordie is a touchy subject amongst us, what constitutes at true Geordie differs from person to person. Not so important these days as our accent has been standardised and diluted, but call someone from Sunderland a Geordie and you'd be glared at, both by the Geordie you''re speaking too and the person from Sunderland.
Very interesting but I was always told a true Geordie is someone born within the sound of the foghorns on the Tyne (as I was) so anything else is Northumbrian or Wearside etc. And the Teesside accent is definitely not Geordie
I haven't heard the northumbrian burr for years!
Bairn makes me think of Icelandic (as well as Norwegian, Swedish, …): the word for "child" is "barn".
Exactly 👍and several other words to like yem means home in West Scandinavian Hjem in Norway and Denmark.
And the sounds of the letter's it's like a Scandinavian speaking English without correction.
Greetings from Scandinavia.
That is correct a mix of old Northumbrian , Dane Viking , and Anglo Saxon . Kip means sleep or bed in Anglo Saxon if my memory is correct , large herring fishing villages on Northumberland coast had rows of huts for their workers to recouperate in , waiting for the next boats to return the catch , ie kip huts . Craster . springs to mind Seahouses was another ., Northumberland had a large Viking contingency . Also Norwegian ie scandinavian countries . As is yem in Geordie , meaning home , ie hyem. Sweden ,also bairn in Geordie is barn in Scandinavia . There is the strong unmistakeable Scandinavian connection . Well spotted . .
It makes me think of the word "bare," as in to bare children. So maybe a past participle form like "given" is to "give," so could be "bairn" to "bare."
@@heartsthekitteh6239 We have " bare" in Scandinavian also is the same mening to carrey something you can say. Bära på ett barn ( bare children)
We have the word given also ( giver, ger, and so on)
We have a word in Swedish very similar to children but it's means animal children to goats ( killing) and kid means animal children to roedeer and it's spelled exalty like English kid. Very interesting thoughts and ides and can be connected to word bära bare to carry. The English for us Scandinavians are very easy because we contect the words to very commen things that in English has lost the meaning from old Anglonorse.
Greetings from Scandinavia and Sweden.
I think it had something to do with the Vikings, raping and pillaging their way through Northumberland.
I'm a Canadian who lived in Newcastle in 1990-91 and I would have to say that the accent has mellowed since then - I suppose all the regional accents will homogenize eventually. I know that a dynamic demographic and media influence are major factors but the British attach so much class-related baggage to accents that people have also felt they had no choice but to change how they speak to succeed. I was shocked at that time at how there almost seemed to be a caste system in England - nothing was merit-based and people were accepting of their assigned ceilings. It's changing thankfully.
Its still the same as you remember, the lass in the video isn’t a true Geordie, she has a tinge of mackem or smoggy in her pronunciation, if you want to find if a person is a true Geordie get them to say the words book or school.
for someone who didn’t live here for long i’m impressed how much you know on why the accent is changing. i hate the class division that you mentioned, im from the NE but my accent doesn’t really exist bc my town is seen as posh and people speak more “profoundly” or “correctly” as they like to say
I'm American. Met a woman from Newcastle on Wednesday. Mistook her for Scottish. Always heard of Geordie but had no idea what it sounded like. Wish I had been prepared. I'd have told her to "loak, it's ah floh'in goht."
They really love to lean out face first over their vowels!!!
All British accents have their qualities that make them well worth listening to, and there's something about Geordie in particular that always puts a smile on my face whenever I hear it.
This made me laugh remembering my granda Peever born and lived in Jarrow into his twenties. He still had the accent at 80.
sophia what a gem.even for a young geordie lass.
Not a geordie
@@garysmith4425 people in the north east are always called geordies,its a generic thing.
@@lesjames5191 not to geordies it's not lol
It feels great to listen to you both of beautiful ladies.
Thank you so much. I am glad you enjoyed this video.
As an American, with no particular preconceived notion of what this accent would sound like, it does seem… “friendly”. The way she pronounces “laugh” and “bath” are basically identical to American English.
Surprised by “for” and “four” having such a variance to each other! “For” doesn’t jump out, but “four” sounds like a super-extreme American southern pronunciation.
My Grandad was from Newcastle, came down to Liverpool and met my Nan from North Wales ... my eldest sister moved up to Newcastle in the mid 80s ... I LOVE All the people from The North East Makem'es and Goerdie's.