THIS is what Gerald from Clarkson's Farm said.

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  • @JasonCoulls
    @JasonCoulls  ปีที่แล้ว +432

    For anyone asking - Season 2 is coming. I spent a few hours going over it, to produce a 10 min video, but then TH-cam did a copyright claim so I withdrew it. I'm going to rework it and try again. It may take a day or two to accomplish this though.

    • @Simon_W74
      @Simon_W74 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I live in Norfolk and we really have seen a lose of the Accent from a lot of the youngsters here. It is possible down to a few things, a good size influx of people from outside the County as well those from farther ashore, then there is the influence for both Film, TV, and then more recently social media platforms. When I first moved here some thirty years ago the local accent was very much alive and kicking. Now it is mainly the elderly that have the Norfolk accent. It is quite sad to see it disappear over the years and it will be gone in the end. I only ended up here in Norfolk due to my Father being in the RAF and settling here. I have two children and we live in a village and neither have the accent in any shape of form or there friends. I took a while to tune into the accent when I first lived here and I really like to hear it when it is from someone with a very strong accent.

    • @KarlHamilton
      @KarlHamilton ปีที่แล้ว

      @@shayler1991 brilliant lol

    • @vani9831
      @vani9831 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I read an article about your video and came searching for this here. Thank you so much for this wonderful post!! You're doing the world an act of public service 👏 Your words on documenting the accent specifically drew me in, as I too strongly believe in preserving languages and accents and all the knowledge and wonder they hold of a world we will never experience! For all this, and for everything I have learnt and rediscovered (including a child like wonder in watching animals), I think this show will be my favourite forever. Gerald and his ever smiling wisdom are a big part of it. I really really look forward to your video on season 2 😃 It's sad to hear about the copyright claims. May I suggest experimenting with shorts to circumvent this?

    • @GNeuman
      @GNeuman ปีที่แล้ว

      We just finished season 2.
      What can I say? Heartwarming, tearjerking, a never give up attitude, full of humanity, compassion and the frustrations of dealing with unnecessary bureaucracy with those penpushing little Hitlers...
      We have to support our farmers at all cost. Without them we are truly lost. Just look at what that globalist WEF puppet in the Netherlands is trying to do to the Dutch farmers.

    • @JasonCoulls
      @JasonCoulls  ปีที่แล้ว +20

      As polarizing as Clarkson can be, I think he did farming a service by showing at least a portion of the stupidity farmers face and are expected to just compensate for.

  • @pim1234
    @pim1234 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2460

    And as by a miracle when it is written out I suddenly can understand Gerald !

    • @JasonCoulls
      @JasonCoulls  3 ปีที่แล้ว +119

      Glad to help! LOL

    • @CliffChroust
      @CliffChroust 2 ปีที่แล้ว +68

      I felt that magic as well!!!

    • @ReeceLittle1988
      @ReeceLittle1988 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      i concur

    • @JamesTyreeII
      @JamesTyreeII ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Same!

    • @therickman1990
      @therickman1990 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Same thing with heavy metal songs and grunting, once you have the lyrics of one song you can pretty much understand other songs from the same band

  • @stephenbaylis5233
    @stephenbaylis5233 2 ปีที่แล้ว +923

    When I met Gerald in pub I asked him has being on the TV changed your life he said no I've always been well known around chipping Norton nice guy always has time to talk

    • @halfbakedproductions7887
      @halfbakedproductions7887 ปีที่แล้ว +109

      When Clarkson's Farm season 2 had the photos of Gerald in the football team back in the 1970s, it was hilarious. He had such a stereotypical look for those days i.e. perm and crazy tache.

    • @sjoroverpirat
      @sjoroverpirat 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      That is hilarious

  • @beeveearr
    @beeveearr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +868

    It's so clear when looking at the subtitles but once they're gone I struggle so much

    • @ereder1476
      @ereder1476 3 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      that's how the brain works.
      You can do the same for foreign language music with fake subtitle. The lyrics will seems obvious even though they are false

    • @JasonCoulls
      @JasonCoulls  3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      Now you’re reminding me of the early web… “Irrational exuberance” or “Hat baby” (‘Hatten ar din’?) were classic examples of wrong lyrics on foreign songs….

    • @KaladinVegapunk
      @KaladinVegapunk 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      What's funny is I watched it on Amazon with the subtitles and it does 50/50 of translating him, and just saying "unintelligible" hahaha
      But I was able to understand his first command, the come up alongside one
      The rest is definitely impossible haha

    • @lisabowenhospital
      @lisabowenhospital 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They couldn't either hence the lack of subtitles .

    • @mikiqex
      @mikiqex 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I've seen recently a video that played the same voice twice with different subtitles each time and you heard exactly and quite clearly what the subtitle said both times.

  • @CristiNeagu
    @CristiNeagu ปีที่แล้ว +260

    Educational indeed. I was expecting this to be a comedy series throughout, featuring Jeremy Clarkson, ape man extraordinaire, bashing farming equipment with a sledgehammer, and doing donuts in the fields. But it seems to me that this series is currently *_the most important British series one can see on TV or online._* Clarkson has exposed some very existential threats to our way of life. It is absolutely unbelievable just how hard life is for the average farmer, and how keen the government is on making that life even harder, on purpose! And we're talking about the people making our food. The stuff we need to survive. It really is vital that we learn from this and hold the government responsible for this mis-management and abuse.

    • @bass_rhino
      @bass_rhino ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It seems to me the government wants to make everybody’s life harder. Except the super rich maybe.

    • @CristiNeagu
      @CristiNeagu ปีที่แล้ว

      @@bass_rhino And isn't it weird how people keep voting for the left, wanting more and more social care and social programs, and all that happens is just making the rich even richer. Meanwhile they refuse to even listen to the argument from the right because they say the right just wants to make the rich richer. I think the nation is thoroughly confused... And we will never get out of this until everyone realises that the people who keep telling you the right wants to make the rich richer are also the people getting rich off of government schemes.

    • @webbergj
      @webbergj ปีที่แล้ว +14

      My wife's been involved in agriculture here in the States for years and was absolutely incredulous at the number of hoops that the British farmer needs to jump through and the amount of red tape they need to deal with. The badgers being as protected as they are was especially striking; in these parts if any wild or domesticated animal is threatening your livestock in any way you've pretty much got carte blanche to put them all down.

    • @MrLegendra
      @MrLegendra ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@webbergj Is there a lot of red tape around what you can do on your farm land in the states as well?

    • @Fix_It_Again_Tony
      @Fix_It_Again_Tony ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@webbergj I'm also from the US and am much less connected to farming, but my impression of small farmers is it can be incredibly hard to make a living even without all the red tape.
      The whole badger thing is a shame. It sounds like the species was over-protected and now they are running amok spreading TB to livestock. It's completely unacceptable and a change needs to be legislated immediately. It should clearly be legal for a farmer to take reasonable measures to protect his investment.

  • @bigb5681
    @bigb5681 3 ปีที่แล้ว +787

    as silly as this sounds geralds accent is a piece of british history and i'm glad it got recorded a lot of people now are speaking with very neutral accents so seeing what people used to sound like will be interesting for the coming generations

    • @JasonCoulls
      @JasonCoulls  3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      I totally agree!

    • @neilclare7497
      @neilclare7497 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Im from a small village in Warwickshire and i could, tell the accent of local people, what we all called from the other side of the bruck.you wouldn't be able to understand the local people in the pub locals would stop drinking and listen to the person entering the pud to listen to their dialect slightly different sounds in their speach would let you know were they were from .some people never even went to the local city. They used to call me the town 'e because i worked and went to the city tec, collage.they were all great caricatures the had had very little schooling and spent most of their lives driving tractor' on their farms great days these people were true green people how looked after the countryside hedger's drystone wall builders farm contractor,s eqs.

    • @andystensel5909
      @andystensel5909 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Just reminds me of home

    • @neilclare7497
      @neilclare7497 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@andystensel5909 thanks andy.

    • @cloverite
      @cloverite 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I agree the rural Lincolnshire accent has just about disappeared. My Grandads generation were the last of the strong Lincolnshire dialect.

  • @farmerlamb2372
    @farmerlamb2372 3 ปีที่แล้ว +882

    It could've been so easy for Jeremy to take the piss out of Gerald but he didn't, proper respect for this, I think this is part of what makes it a great series!

    • @thedingothatateyourbaby9811
      @thedingothatateyourbaby9811 2 ปีที่แล้ว +85

      For sure, it also helps that Clarkson is having to concentrate so hard he doesn’t have the ability to make fun of him in the first place haha. Gerald is a gem.

    • @masteryoda394
      @masteryoda394 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      Jeremy is not that cruel, he wouldn't do that.

    • @matteosusani4072
      @matteosusani4072 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      @@nelapsi. it's a gimmick too now, so he went on calling him "head of security" or some other names just for fun, I'm sure he understands him, but knows almost nobody from home would

    • @CreedBrattonTheOffice
      @CreedBrattonTheOffice ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@nelapsi. They know each other for ages? Jeremy only bought the farm in 2008 and even then had nothing to do with the running of it until the farmer who was tending it retired. That's when he met Gerald. Which was only just before Covid.
      Edit: I shouldn't say met. More like that's when he got to know who he actually was. I'm sure he met him when he took over the property at some stage.

    • @Mel-nc1qq
      @Mel-nc1qq ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Jeremy likes Gerald a lot, he thinks Gerald is very switched on and gave him the idea of this program (sort of).

  • @TastySurrealBowl
    @TastySurrealBowl ปีที่แล้ว +136

    That was BRILLIANT. When the subtitles were used with the replayed scene, every word suddenly was crystal clear for the first time for me. I had to back it up and replay the non-subtitled version because my brain just wouldn’t believe that they were the exact same scene. Having watched both seasons of the show and not understood a word Gerald said, I was STUNNED that I never picked up any of what the subtitles indicated. When the subtitles accompany the audio I hear the words clear as a bell. WOW. Excellent video. You’ve done the world (and Gerald) a HUGE service! 👍🏻

  • @plinpain
    @plinpain ปีที่แล้ว +25

    It's absolutely amazing how clear the message got as soon as the subtitles were added.

  • @NerdInMotion23
    @NerdInMotion23 3 ปีที่แล้ว +288

    I absolutely love Gerald what an absolutely wonderful human.

  • @sukhan9854
    @sukhan9854 3 ปีที่แล้ว +113

    We found a translator for the next season

  • @thetruereality2
    @thetruereality2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +177

    After reading this I can now appreciate how much sense Gerald actually made. I have much respect for him because not only he knew what he was doing but was also trying to let Jeremy know that he could've managed loading the grain as long as he kept a steady speed. This just gives us the glimpse of how much experience he's got.

  • @phillipsmith4905
    @phillipsmith4905 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    I would like to say Jeremy clarksons farm show has been inspirational to me.
    I now work as a diesel mechanic on tractors, combines ect, and my interest sparked from this show.

    • @Fix_It_Again_Tony
      @Fix_It_Again_Tony ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That's a great story and thank you for making it your job to ensure people can eat.

  • @BrokenhornKT
    @BrokenhornKT 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Just wanted to say Thanks for the " Translation of his Accent " Once I heard it with captions, I totally understand him. now im going back to the series and re-watch them and hear his words clearly.

  • @BlindKiller20
    @BlindKiller20 3 ปีที่แล้ว +154

    Gerald is an Absolut gem, hope Amazon Prime Video looks after him :)

    • @CrashHeadroom
      @CrashHeadroom ปีที่แล้ว

      Unfortunately no Anderson that's not the way things like this work in the real world. Jeremy is the money maker and they have dropped him like a fuel rod. What will happen now, is Gerald will be forgotten, amazon will move onto ruining another franchise, shoving them selves onto islands where they don't have to pay as much tax, messing with the livelyhoods of other people and Gerald is not gonna be left with alot, due to how much the UK is screwing its farmers. That is the reality, I'm sorry but it's time to open your eyes.

  • @fatbelly27
    @fatbelly27 ปีที่แล้ว +86

    Gerald is my favourite character. I wish Jeremy would send him to do the acceptance speeches of the awards this series wins

  • @lordmfitzgerald3rd754
    @lordmfitzgerald3rd754 3 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    Don’t mess with Gerald, he’s head of Security! Lol

    • @alimar0604
      @alimar0604 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      🤣🤣🤣🤣🇬🇧

    • @nairocamilo
      @nairocamilo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      He's gonna kick your wall down, no shame

    • @kaidenhall2718
      @kaidenhall2718 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@nairocamilo he would do that just to say hello and have a cup of tea

  • @MsHeyAAA
    @MsHeyAAA ปีที่แล้ว +28

    I usually get one to two words. I am happy he recorded it. I love listening to older dialects. I am from the United States, and my mom told me that when she was growing up in the 40s, people still had thick European accents. My grandmother spoke differently from a lot of people and used old scottish terms. (We are from the south, and people were spread out due to farms and countryside) thank you very much for this video. I think Gerald is a Star!🌟

    • @RichardABW
      @RichardABW ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I’ve watched recent-ish videos of people from small villages round the east coast of the US with accents that sound like regions in England. As a general rule I find American pronunciation has more in common with non Home Counties accents because of your ‘a’ (a not ah).

    • @RichardABW
      @RichardABW ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Found it. The guys at the end sound more familiar to me, probably will be more obvious to you. Not as new a video as I remember.
      th-cam.com/video/NxVOIj7mvWI/w-d-xo.html

    • @JasonCoulls
      @JasonCoulls  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ha, this is similar to “Newfies” (Newfoundlanders) in Canada. There’s a common folk song “Is the bys that builds the boat and Is the bys that sells ‘em” (I’m the boy that builds the boats and I’m the boy that sells them) up in Canada. And just to put things high on the Morissette scale, the rocks in Eastern Canada and US match up with Western Scotland in the same way Brazil and Africa match up.

    • @VividFlash
      @VividFlash ปีที่แล้ว

      @@JasonCoulls its funny, he is using all the proper words and i still have a hard time hearing without subtitles

  • @kennethskeldon2552
    @kennethskeldon2552 2 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Gerald is an absolute legend, a proper character.
    Love this show.

  • @icantsurf89
    @icantsurf89 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Thanks for clearing it up. Seemed something was up because Gerald said a line that was much easier to understand in that final scene when they were drinking beers together.

    • @JasonCoulls
      @JasonCoulls  3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Yes. He’s largely understandable unless masked over the radio in heavy machinery. Ha ha!

  • @debhill2450
    @debhill2450 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    What a trooper Gerald is a true farmer
    He’s been a key person in Clarkson's farming journey - hope he’s well rewarded and appreciate. This programme would be nothing without Gerald’s heart 💜 love him 👏

    • @rebeccaanderson5191
      @rebeccaanderson5191 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I think this show is not only about the struggle farmers are in to provide us with good healthy locally produced food, how many hats they have to wear and sciences they need to know (mechanics, husbandry, biology, climate and meteorology, local and global economics, accounting, etc.) but it is about relationships and personal motivation to work together for things beneficial to the farm, the community and society beyond. Farming is a really big deal and most poor sods can't do it no matter how smart they think they are.

  • @Fix_It_Again_Tony
    @Fix_It_Again_Tony ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I think your comments about the accent are a window into what makes the series so charming. You have Clarkson, who by no means is someone who is thought of as a farmer or really even a hard worker, trying to make his farm profitable. I watched the second season first, but then when back and watched the first season. With the very first episode of the first season it was a Clarkson who had just arrived from a Grand Tour taping with his usual bravado and lack of nuance. By the end of the first season you could really see the respect he developed for farmers and farming more generally. The second season is great because Clarkson is trying to open this small farm store stocked by a co-op of local growers. He's brought real awareness to the importance of farming and the issues small farmers struggle to overcome. This is applicable even outside of the UK or Europe. In the US many small farmers struggle to make ends meet while providing one of the most fundamental services to a society.
    As for Gerald, I was thinking his audio was edited a bit. As an American I was able to make out a couple words here and there but it was clear to me there was something funny going on. The subtitles really help to understand what he is saying.
    I come from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania which is knows for a rather unique accent and it always enjoy seeing highly localized accents of other areas of the world. As the world becomes more expansive and interconnected it is a bit of a shame that unique features of remote places will continue to become less and less pronounced.

  • @popeye5989
    @popeye5989 2 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    I love hearing strong accents and local dialects! It almost strengthens a person's character and ties them into not only their land but the history of that land. It seems that local dialects are dying away which would be a great shame.

    • @sussertheoriginal
      @sussertheoriginal ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Totally with you with that sentiment. Here in Norfolk, our Regional accent is being mixed with "Estuary English" as people find that they can sell their shed and move to Norfolk to buy a house. Also, the very local variations are being lost as the older generations die out, replaced by more mobile offspring.

    • @xinpingdonohoe3978
      @xinpingdonohoe3978 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yorkshiremen and Lancashiremen however seem to be doing just fine.
      Even if they do hate each other.

    • @popeye5989
      @popeye5989 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@xinpingdonohoe3978 unfortunately not, I lived in Yorkshire for about 8 years and even the young locals don't have as strong a accent or dialect as the older generation

  • @NowZoomer
    @NowZoomer ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Fascinating! I hadn't managed to 'tune in' and understand before. Thank you

  • @kevinrandall01
    @kevinrandall01 3 ปีที่แล้ว +78

    Gerald is definitely a character. He should come with subtitles as standard, this is the first time I have understood even one syllable of what he said & I used to work in that area. It is also the best ever demonstration of why you shouldn't auger out on the move with a combine driver & trailer driver that can't work as a team - Jezza at fault there, it isn't that difficult to position the receiving trailer.

    • @JasonCoulls
      @JasonCoulls  3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I'm not from that part of the country, as raised in a half Cornish/half Kent household, but I spent a lot of my time as a youth around a number of rural accents, and I guess some of that experience has stuck. ha ha!

    • @kevinrandall01
      @kevinrandall01 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@JasonCoulls I lived just outside Warwick for 20 years, had a property in Stow on the Wold & still have friends in Moreton in Marsh & Great Rollright & I still can't understand anything he says.
      Great character though & thanks for your translation. Have a great weekend.

    • @JasonCoulls
      @JasonCoulls  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@kevinrandall01 You too!

    • @philt6440
      @philt6440 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Giving Gerald subtitles would defeat the purpose of the comedy element of his scenes.

  • @tjessem81
    @tjessem81 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you Jason :-) Gerald is just amazing. All the characters in Clarksons Farm are amazing. The show is renewed for a season 3, and hopefully there will be many more. This kind of TV is educating, and very funny. And touching. I cried during the last scene of season two. "Lisa, we got a pet cow" just brilliant.

  • @JoggingWithForks
    @JoggingWithForks ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Gerald is such a gem! What a wonderful man.

  • @MrJules1977
    @MrJules1977 3 ปีที่แล้ว +79

    I grew up with strong accents in somerset, there were two people i struggled to understand but could get the rough idea of what they were saying, i think its quite sad that a lot of accents seem to be fading away. Gerald is a loveable chap with a good sense of humour.

  • @Willberight2moro
    @Willberight2moro 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

    He's clearer than many "customer service" help lines.....
    Go G dawg....

  • @THEonlyAEON
    @THEonlyAEON 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    There was a guy at my last work who was welsh, but his accent was so thick I couldn't understand a thing at first, I slowly got used to it and could recognise his speech but it definitely took me long time, a lot of pardons and even more awkward confused laughs.

  • @bryjushumway
    @bryjushumway 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I knew they were editing it to make it more unintelligible than he really is! Thanks for confirming, and thanks for the subtitles!

  • @spoedkoeriereindhoven040
    @spoedkoeriereindhoven040 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I can not understand one word but when reading the subtitles, I hear every word. Well done!

  • @clockwork9827
    @clockwork9827 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    yep. perfect with the subtitles. to be fair, Jeremy's radio is on full-volume & that makes Gerald even harder to understand. i never would have got Gerald's 'take off like in a racing car' ! thanks

  • @adamduncan6172
    @adamduncan6172 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    When the subtitles came up it felt a strange clarity like a new part of my brain had unlocked and I had learnt a new language!
    Thank you for making this video 👍

  • @markharrison9021
    @markharrison9021 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for this video .... with the subtitles it's amazing to hear how what Gerald says does actually make sense .... and conversely without the subtitles I'm as clueless as Jeremy. I have to confess I binge watched all of season 2 ... I just couldn't help myself.

  • @Max_m
    @Max_m 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thanks for providing this and in other seasons as well. Though as an American, even while reading the subtitles I struggle to make out what he says

  • @tef0801
    @tef0801 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks for making this video, it has helped me to understand Gerald!

  • @TrainsOfDorset
    @TrainsOfDorset 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    The only two things I’ve ever understood from Gerald are “Just to off the subject”, which he says a lot, and “as long as you don’t go too fast”. This video’s definitely helped.
    Very well documented both here and on Amazon.

  • @Turbine030
    @Turbine030 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thanks for the clarification. Being German I could not decipher his talk, but as you said: it totally makes sense! Love the series and the people involved.

  • @Meitti
    @Meitti 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Its a funny scene and the joke is understandable for foreign audience as well, UK is not the only country with very thick accents that even the locals struggle to understand. I have a thick south ostrobothnian accent in my native language too.

  • @kassiep
    @kassiep 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This video is so cool to watch. Thanks for making it

  • @chemillexo
    @chemillexo ปีที่แล้ว

    Super appreciate this, as many have already said - having it captioned out properly really was a magical moment. Hope you'll do other captioned clips of Gerald in the future!

    • @JasonCoulls
      @JasonCoulls  ปีที่แล้ว

      I’m in the process of doing season 2. We are currently up to episode 4!

  • @connerymartin2952
    @connerymartin2952 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for putting this out, a big help, really! Reminds me of the guy on Britain's Got Talent years ago from Newcastle.

  • @ebabananu
    @ebabananu ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you so much for your help. We all love Gerald but in all honesty, without the subtitles I'm lost...

  • @sandrastone7019
    @sandrastone7019 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you so much for this. It really is appreciated. Regards from Sydney, Australia.

  • @honeydocraftsman4504
    @honeydocraftsman4504 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Truly one of the more pleasant videos I've seen.
    Thank you.

  • @jgreen2015
    @jgreen2015 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    It's weird how even being slightly baffled like Jeremy was I often got the jist
    And it reminded me of this fantastic explanation of the difference between American and English speakers.
    English speakers..even very posh, south east English speakers like me... Tend to use emphasis in speech by mumbling the unimportant conjunctions and speaking the key words clearly. Whilst americans tend to say every word clearly an emphasise the key words with volume and stretching
    So the simple sentence 'I'm sorry that I'm late, but I was caught in traffic'
    In American "I am SOR-RYY that I am LA-ATE, but I was CAU-AUGHT in TRAAAFIC"
    In English becomes "sorry 'm late, caught 'n traffic"
    Gerald and west country is that same tendency to mumble/ smooth together/ leave out those middle words.. just taken to the extreme
    Like 'racecar' was the only word that was clear every time. Whereas things like "if you are going to go off like that" were smooshed into "ifya go'n go'ff li'dat"

  • @4gloat
    @4gloat 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I think it's hilarious, even though they do play it up a bit for the show. In the final episode you can hear him talk clear as day. I remember Jeremy saying that Gerald was the original inspiration for the show because he thought he would be a good character.

  • @Spy653
    @Spy653 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love to see him being translated, I was fairly confident he had been told to amp it up a bit for the camera. Regarding your closing point, I reckon we'll all sound something like Gerald when we're in our 70's and talking to friends.

  • @oAPXo
    @oAPXo ปีที่แล้ว

    ... Jesus christ, you adding the subs REALLY helped me out, its like turning on easy mode for a video game, everything is just clear!

  • @zAngus
    @zAngus ปีที่แล้ว

    Holy dhooly! This is like a miracle! He makes PERFECT sense when captioned!

  • @DarrLaw
    @DarrLaw ปีที่แล้ว

    🤯 This is incredible! Thank you for this video.

  • @charliebristow3305
    @charliebristow3305 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "an 'edge is an 'edge, he only chopped it down because it spoilt his view"

  • @reggieman02626
    @reggieman02626 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That was very cool im glad you made this

  • @amandafisher1780
    @amandafisher1780 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you so much for this! I love this video!

  • @akrebsie
    @akrebsie 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Some how it is more funny with the subtitles, jesus what a character.
    I am Australian and got a job mustering cattle on a station outback. Those guys were easy to understand in person but on the radio it was a lost cause.

  • @notused.
    @notused. ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Hi Jason. I hope that you will be available from 10th Feb to do some more translating of Gerrald on the new series of Clarkson's Farm 🤪🤣

  • @Phat737
    @Phat737 ปีที่แล้ว

    Brilliantly done. Thanks for the translation. That accent is truly a cherished bit of history.

  • @MrGarryGrey
    @MrGarryGrey 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    That's very interesting and makes a lot of sense. Amazon has their own subtitles and it seems like they couldn't understand him either, as most of his dialog simply says "[speaking indistinctly]".

    • @JasonCoulls
      @JasonCoulls  3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      It’s better than TH-cam’s guess which is it’s playing music when he talks. Ha ha!

  • @mdouhan
    @mdouhan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What a great video, I love to learn and this was a great 5 minutes spent learning something I had no idea about, keep up the good work

  • @judithbaban5150
    @judithbaban5150 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I’m from Norfolk and I can understand him perfectly.
    His sentence end with ‘accordingly.’

    • @michaelbriggs8940
      @michaelbriggs8940 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I have Norfolking idea what he's saying. 🙂

    • @carmadme
      @carmadme ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeh he has always made sense to me bit difficult to hear but not to bad

  • @Fydron
    @Fydron 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I think the problem with this scene mostly is the radio it just distords the voice so much. On other scenes i can understand Gerald quite well when i just focus but then again i grew up surrounded by people who had quite thick accent and it helps a lot even if i am not from England.

  • @msnitejar5637
    @msnitejar5637 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you for this, my Grampy had such an accent, and journalists keep on getting it wrong calling it West Country, we know it's not! It is Oxfordshire/Berkshire area and has its own particular markers. There's a gradation of accent change in each generation around here, as the influence of TV and the Internet has become part of daily life and people travel more. It has affected accents all over the world. I think it's sad that rural accents are dying out, but I guess it's inevitable.

  • @audiohazard1203nut
    @audiohazard1203nut ปีที่แล้ว

    Yeah lucky talkies really make it difficult to understand people. But it did greatly help seeing the text and then being able to hear the words. I'm glad you made this video.

  • @metastract
    @metastract ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Brilliant, thanks for making these valid points. I can understand him quite well but I also speak other languages and studied linguistics. So I also appreciate linguistic diversity and feel sad about its demise.

  • @countblue
    @countblue 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Marvellous. I am no native speaker but it got us all here in my family interested if somebody could make something out of Geralds "slang". We are a sort of english afficionados here.
    So thank you for yor video.
    I understood some of the words but I could not find any sense in it.
    Some of the stuff like that sequence on the combine now makes sense.
    But there is more stuff in another part when the chain equipment together.
    That one is a complete miracle to me. I dont get anything out of it.

  • @CrazySeanYT
    @CrazySeanYT ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I think Gerald's biggest issue with communication with those who cannot understand the accent (lack of better words, certainly not negative) is that he does like to go on about things that you wouldn't expect to hear, when Clarkson is trying load up, he is not expecting someone to mention a "racing car" , then that just confused your brain because your listening out for important farm words, or directions, so even words you can make out, you assume you are hearing wrong because they don't make sense without context, context you wont get if you don't understand the full sentence. Gerald loves a good story i have noticed.

  • @MarkRose1337
    @MarkRose1337 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you for this. Now that I know the accent he's speaking with it's a lot easier for my Canadian ears to understand him

  • @Afeeq1011
    @Afeeq1011 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    ngl being a non english and english as a 2nd language, after comedy effect during the 1st viewing. After a few viewing of his clips, I can now at some level understand Gerald in the show.

  • @Ultra4115_
    @Ultra4115_ ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Funny thing is, I'm only 15 (Welsh farm boy) and I understand most of what he's saying. Probably because there's some old Welsh farmers that are even harder to understand in Welsh. Plus it doesn't help when they switch between English and Welsh lmao. It's really annoying because my dad can understand it but I struggle a bit. Don't get me wrong, I was raised speaking Welsh with my dad so I'm not lying that it was hard. Aside that, I did notice in season 2 episode 1, that they copied and pasted a clip of audio from season 1 when Gerald was having trouble with the touch screen.

  • @WhiteTiger333
    @WhiteTiger333 ปีที่แล้ว

    So cool how much was understandable with the text to see at the same time. Haha - hearing anything through a radio warps the speech already. I was just laughing at the wagon getting ahead of the combine, causing it to dump, and him saying 'there's some at back there on the soil again'. Haha - there's that section pre-planted.

  • @CrumbsDM
    @CrumbsDM ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love listening to Gerald. He creases me up every time and Jeremy's reactions are just priceless 😂

  • @jamesemery1
    @jamesemery1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I'm from south yorkshire and grew up learning the old yorkshire dialect (tyke) and most of the old boys had a very thick accent. There was very few words other than the edited together gibberish that I couldn't make out. The last missing word when he is in the combine is "according" (accordingly). The tyke dialect does the same thing of just removing letters or just not pronouncing the letters that are in the word.

    • @joshhills1635
      @joshhills1635 ปีที่แล้ว

      Exactly that... 'I can do the combining according'

  • @Thatsme849
    @Thatsme849 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for showing me the light. It’s like magic

  • @fus149hammer5
    @fus149hammer5 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Just finished the third series. It is genuinely one of the best shows on any streaming channel let alone terrestrial TV. Clarkson really does care about the farm and it's livestock. The characters like Gerald who has recently beaten cancer and Caleb are pure gold.
    His battles with petty bureaucracy and the highlighting of ridiculous EU and british government rules have shown how difficult it is to make a living through agriculture.
    More please...

  • @mell3109
    @mell3109 ปีที่แล้ว

    Bizarre! I wish I saw this video last year, when you put the text it becomes very easy to understand. I need to see season 2 now to see if I can crack Gerald on my own hahaha

  • @fueltoblaze1554
    @fueltoblaze1554 ปีที่แล้ว

    Its amazing that I had no idea until I read the subtitles, then it was crystal clear

  • @silverbackag9790
    @silverbackag9790 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Oh shit, clear as a daylight (on an overcast day anyway) with the subtitles on. American here...but from farm country...been trying to get back home for 20 years (stuck in an Asian city right now). Loved this show. Liked it even better than old Top Gear.

  • @Pwecko
    @Pwecko ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Gerald is my favourite character from Clarkson's Farm. It always disappoints me when I manage to decipher something that he's saying. The fun is in being completely bemused by him.

    • @JasonCoulls
      @JasonCoulls  ปีที่แล้ว

      Well, the joke goes two ways; there's the joke that most of the urban audience can't understand him, and the joke that those of us who can see Jeremy can't understand him.

    • @Pwecko
      @Pwecko ปีที่แล้ว

      @@JasonCoulls That makes it even more brilliant.

  • @CliffChroust
    @CliffChroust 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    By god you’ve cracked it! That exchange has had me wondering for days.

  • @notused.
    @notused. 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thank you Jason for bothering to do this. You must have had a lovely country childhood

  • @Grishhak
    @Grishhak ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Oh god that's amazing. I'm German and obviously not a native speaker, but it is utterly amazing how I can understand him once I read the subtitles.

  • @Paul.74.
    @Paul.74. 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I'm used to this. My gramp used to speak like this and I would have spanners flying towards me because I had no idea what he was saying. It took some time to understand him but we had some grate times on the farm 👍🙂

  • @djctoafn
    @djctoafn ปีที่แล้ว

    That's amazing, well played mate!!

  • @johncartwright8154
    @johncartwright8154 ปีที่แล้ว

    Old chap up the road in our Hamlet spoke a local dialect called 'Aysum' (named after the area's market town of Evesham).
    Took me about 5 years to get attuned to what he was uttering.

  • @DeTomaso55
    @DeTomaso55 ปีที่แล้ว

    Funnily enough i can understand everything with subtitles. And even when played back without them i can now understand it way more clearly than before.

  • @NoleOx
    @NoleOx ปีที่แล้ว

    Wonderful video, thanks for sharing!!

  • @captnaberystwyth2879
    @captnaberystwyth2879 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    First time i heard Gerald, i thought.. There's a man with an arsenal and a sea mine in his shed..

  • @RedEyeDefence
    @RedEyeDefence ปีที่แล้ว

    Can't believe how clear it is with the captions, although I can imagine the walkie talkies aren't helping with understanding Gerald

  • @georgefoord7087
    @georgefoord7087 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    as soon as the captions are there I know exactly what he is saying.

  • @voiceoverguyharris
    @voiceoverguyharris ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Brilliant. Thank you for this. You can tell Jeremy loves him and thinks the world of him and the shows success is made up of ALL the characters.

  • @hettro-cv6082
    @hettro-cv6082 ปีที่แล้ว

    You know after I watch your video, now I understand what he is saying! WOW!

  • @lukeorlando4814
    @lukeorlando4814 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    That’s neat. I could not understand anything he said. But reading the captions I was able to get the hang of it and in fact managed to comprehend even some of the bits where the caption said gibberish.

  • @DiedLiu
    @DiedLiu ปีที่แล้ว

    Sadly, even TH-cam auto subtitle system can't understand what Gerald saying, the system think it was [MUSIC], not someone was talking.

  • @gtirmad
    @gtirmad 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    A young Welsh bloke was working in a burger shop in Queenstown NZ. Nobody could understand what the heck he said with the menu items. Turns out listening to him he was eating the Vowles. Words like tomato were very interesting. Does anyone have a link to video to understand the lingo.

  • @deathrowtodisneyworld5030
    @deathrowtodisneyworld5030 ปีที่แล้ว

    I’m an American woman. I love Top Gear, Grand Tour, and season 1 of Clarkson’s Farm. My husband couldn’t stand any of them, couldn’t stand Clarkson. I was delighted when season 2 was on and happily watched the first episode. Hubby, who had been in the room countless times when I watched the other shows actually paid attention and watched the whole episode. He LOVED IT. He’s now a huge fan and I had him watch the first season. He thinks it’s excellent and is now a Clarkson Convert.

  • @tomgosy
    @tomgosy ปีที่แล้ว

    It's interesting that, as someone who lives and works in a rural area, I can understand parts of what he says. It doesn't help when the recording is so muffled or cut off

  • @adammerza5745
    @adammerza5745 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The last bit wasn't actually gibberish, he said he could do the combine 'according' ( to the speed of the trailer)

  • @OzzieBo
    @OzzieBo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    All I could make out from it is “don’t go too fast”.

  • @albertapeet
    @albertapeet ปีที่แล้ว

    Watching the second season it’s clear that the play with the volume when Gerald is speaking to make it worse than it is.