School Of British Accents - WEST COUNTRY
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- Watch as an Italian girl takes on the challenge of mastering the West Country English accent, attempting to say 'ouse,' 'spuddling,' and the classic 'Alright, me'ansum. Will she blend in like a local in the land of cider, sunshine, and pasties?
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“I’m from Devon” *holds up a Cornish pasty*... hmmmmm, uh, ok. You do you boo 😂😂
Bit of a contended area that, I've heard one bloke call it a Devon Pasty.
We fight em at the Tamar bridge boys
cuppa tea with the lads we’ve taken torpoint
cuppa tea with the lads this is war
Glad someone said it.
People from Bristol be like I've never heard an accent this thick,
That's because you're from Bristol mate
Got em
Bristol baby! Lol Only Tennesseans will get that one!
Hey! You don’t disrespect us Bristolians like that!
@@2doright647 hi 😊
@@Will1am_idk There's a Bristol in Tennessee....it's not disrespect...it's a compliment about the racing that happens there.....
"What is this made from?"
"Apples"
xD
Well, mainly apples.
I just read that as I heard it lol
No, real cider, that we drink in Somerset/Devon/ Gloucestershire/ Hereford, nothing but apples. Anything else is fake.
@@DYWYPI Scumble!
You're a wizard Harry.
@gnilttbs *Yerr a wizzer, 'arry
You'm a wezzard, Arry.
YahmMerizzarArry
Ooo arr!
Yerrawizadarry
2:05 The guy said arrivederci like Aldo Raine in Inglorious Basterds
Hahaha so true😂😂
Say it again - *with passion*
Son Of Montreal
STICKYYYY FINGEEEERS
me: we don’t like cider TOO much
also my family: goes to an annual apple festival and buys sm cider
West country is the American South of England.
@@user-hf9hf6hw8j what does that make the isle of wight?
@@stonedape2406 okrakok island
I am from rural Devon and spent time in the Navy which included several years as an instructor/tutor. On one occasion I spoke with the class and waited for a response to a question - silence. Then somebody said ‘I am sorry, but we could not understand a word you said!’ I was mortified because I understood every word I said! So I spoke slooower and the they understood. I was quite broad with my accent in those days and it certainly went against me. Funnily, though when I moved to the US, in the early 90s, they clearly understood me and thought I spoke beautifully.
I was just writing that I'd read about Swindon's "strong" accent and went and watched some clips of people there and they sounded almost American to me, is this something people are aware of?
Probably because you pronounce your r’s just like we do
As an American that is probably the easiest to understand English accent I've ever heard.
Haha ... his accent is almost none existent. Type "West Country yap" into TH-cam and listen to some of the proper old farmers.
The American accen came from here. 😂
@@ingridlaskova8526All of England used to talk like the West Country. That's when America was first settled. Later, London started dropping Rs and it spread out to most of England.
@@ScottJB And in fact you can still hear it in the Brogue accent of Ocracoke, North Carolina
Cause it sounds like some of the old hillbillies from the Carolinas 😂
I’m from Dorset and I have actually heard a few people with accents this thick. It’s more among older people but it’s definitely not that rare. Also one of my science teachers was from Somerset and he had a thick accent like this.
I think that people move around so much now that regional accents are dying. I'm from Bristol but I don't talk like my dad and his family, who are West country and Cornwall based. Possibly because I moved away 10 years ago 😅
@@kerryh3833 So sad that these accents are dying out. I'm all the way over in Australia. My dad's family moved here 50+ years ago from Bath, but my Nan (who is almost 90) still talks with the thickest Somerset accent you've ever heard. Give it another few decades and we'll probably only have recordings of how they used to speak :(
@@fmkwvejf 🙁
yes! i’m also from dorset and i had a spanish substitute teacher with this accent- and it was hilarious! also most of my mums friends have this accent! it’s not rare at all! i low-key want an accent like this as it’ll be awesome to keep the tradition of this accent alive :-)
I’ve grew up in Dorset my whole life so has my family and my accent is so mixed it’s strange 😂
ive lived in bristol my entire life and ive never heard a west country accent this thick...
Sia Janjua bristol isn't devon is it?
must live in Clifton then.
You should try north devon, utterly unintelligible.
I'm Welsh.. I hear that thick accent every time I'm in Bristol.
Bristol accent is different.
Sounds like a pirate/American accent mixture.
hetrodoxly The West Country "pirate accent" is just a myth and was invented for the movies. In reality, there was no particular pirate accent.
Yeah, one of the first ever movies with sound was about Blackbeard, and used a West Country actor with a strong accent so that's how the stereotype got started!
E1819 thank you, you have made my day as I come from the west country
It is also known as Jannerease....all reet me luvver...
The "pirate" accent comes from Robert Newton, who played Long John Silver in movies. He came from Dorset in west country, while he was filming the movie he originally did it in received pronunciation like most actors of the time, but the director asked him to change it up to make it more exotic and he defaulted back to his west country accent. And that became the pirate accent.
He's gorgeous! I love that shade of dark ash blond with not a hint of red. Quite rare in fact.
Same I love his hair color
I *love* the West Country accent! Love watching the "Time Team" videos with Phil Harding and his broad accent.
j4d3 goat God I watched it every Sunday when I was little
Same, it's so cute!
Ooh aaahh
I’m from Newfoundland. A lot of our ancestors came from the West Country. We pronounce ‘house’ almost exactly like that. And we use the word “mang”. Lol
Jamestown settlers came from that part of England and pronouced final "r". New England settlers came from East Anglia where final "r" is dropped. Rhotic versus non-rhotic.
Explain why rhoticity is dropped in the American South
@@blackbogbrewing3186 Complicated answer. Most southern accents are actually rhotic. Southern port cities like Charleston and Savannah have a famous non-rhotic accent, but that is because those two cities had close ties with the UK, with shipping, commerce, education, and culture. Savanah and Charleston were both known centers of Loyalists during the revolution, as was NYC. Even after independence, these ties lasted in the port cities of Boston and New York, which also have non-rhotic dialects. That old "southern plantation" dialect you hear in movies no longer exists. Originally, most accents in England were rhotic, but began to change after the American Revolution. Cities with close ties to the UK after this shift likewise adopted this affectation, starting in the upper classes( the upper classes often sent their children to school in the UK) and moving on down. Thus, New York and Boston have non-rhotic dialects, and so do old-timers in Savannah and Charleston, whereas the rest of the south and country have rhotic accents.
My ancestors settled Jamestown haha I’m here to learn their ways - I traced them back to Wiltshire.
People from other parts of England also pronounced the rhotic 'r' ...and still do. I hear it when I visit friends in Shropshire (which is in the West Midlands, and further north than East Anglia and the West Country).
@@blackbogbrewing3186 rhoticity is class specific in the American south. It is not universal. The most famous non-rhotic accent of the South you were probably thinking of is that of the upper classes although that is fading. It’s nowhere near as common as it was 40 or 50 years ago. American aristocrats were trying to sound like the English. Specifically, they wanted to sound like upper class English. This also goes for the Brahman accent of Boston. If you have a chance to hear the real thing, you’ll stop and do a double take because it sounds very close to RP. The most common accent in the American south is rhotic and was heavily influenced by Scott’s Irish immigrants.
This is the accent of the founding fathers! I wish Americans still spoke like this.
Want to hear Americans who still speak like this (for the most part)? Go to upstate New York, upper Minnesota, far northern New England, parts of Oregon and Washington state. Find some old folk. Ask them where to get a coffee. You'll hear it.
As a Canadian; you can go to the far east coast of Canada to "'ere 'dem 'bays" speaking like this, the first homesteaders of the crisp, sea-salty aired land... wonderful people
(They also make up a bunch of northern Alberta (province/territory) hard working oil and gas company tradesmen/women)
peace to you
I'm Devonian. Never heard of mang. He sounded like he was playing up the accent a bit.
The Pope does actually have a second home in Paignton -- mainly for it's proximity to the local cinema and arcades, known juvenile hot spots -- so up yours.
Positive Comment yeah. I've been in Devon for over 25 years. Never heard of mang and my accent isn't that strong
Positive Comment i lcome from somerset all we got her is mangols and mingers
NEVER HEARD SUCH A RUBBISH ACCENT LOL IM FROM DEVON
@@burthabard8316 Bit do you have *_M O N G O L S_* ?
Duck (Montague) from Thomas the Train brought me here. "The great Western Way!"
What people think of as a pirate accent is largely associated with Robert Newton, the actor who played Long John Silver and who was from Dorset so would have been familiar with West Countrymen. The West Country was strongly associated with the sea and privateers, Drake was from Devon and Blackbeard was thought to have come from Bristol a hot bed for pirates in days of old. My own father was from Minehead in Somerset though the other half of my family are mostly Welsh/Scots
Devon my arse!!! Hate it when they clump all the west country accents together. They're all different, and if you are from that part of the UK you can usually tell what county people come from.
Yes its offensive i agree with what you said.
As an American it sort of tickles me how many accents you have for such a small area...I'm from Pennsylvania (about half the size of the uk) and we have about six distinct accents but that's nothing on you lot
@@CD-qx6mb yeah. We're interesting like that. I remember my linguistics professor talking about prestige accents, and how usually the prestige accent was that of the upper class in the capital city (political/cultural). Take Received Pronunciation for an example. Then you have the US, where the prestige accent is the Midwestern accent.
Devon is different dialect from Somerset and Cornwall is different again. I'm in Somerset.
He sound irish in some bits...
I'm from Bristol, I know what i'm talking about.
Well I’m Irish so I know this is not correct 😂
@@JenQuinn94 There are different accents in Ireland, I know. But West Country (Especially Bristolian) sounds more similar to Irish than to Midlands or South-East
@@thegreatestshenfan6484 no I'm really telling you he doesn't 😂
@@JenQuinn94 Well then I am clearly speaking to someone with deaf ears
@@thegreatestshenfan6484 are you Irish?
Hahahaha😂😂 I love the west country accent, brings me right back home
"Mang" makes sense. We still use the words "mengen" and "vermengen" in German!
Woah!! Thats really interesting =D
‘Ere ar kid cant do a proper West country accent mind! ‘E sounds like a right proper keener mind!
Ere you sounds like a keen bean!
@@Rosiecrossley1 Oy vey ;)
In the Pacific Northwest of North America, we over-pronounce our r's, making the "Penzance pirate sound" sort of natural to us. I should visit Cornwall, and Devon also.
I'm not sure if its intentional but this is fuggin hillarious son. Keep it up!
These are great little videos :))
No no no. That's more Bristol than Devon . As a Devonian it's insulting
Now repeat after me
GET OFF MY LAND YOUNGUNS
it sounds closest to American accents.
Yep. An English friend of mine told this sounds the most like my Texas accent.
No your accents sound like ours you thieving bastards
@@stevenhoskins7850 Hardly. But it DOES sort of sound like some northern American accents, not a Texas accent.
don't ever disrespect the South West like that again
Maybe because American accents are mostly derived from West Country accents
Found out that Greek pop star wham! Woke up with a West Country accent after being in coma
'Ow be on me luver?
Fully expected this to go on longer and for the poor girl to end up in a cider coma.
"Arriverderci" is what I heard lmao
Sam sounds just like Duck from _Thomas & Friends_ (just see Duck's appearances in the CGI incarnation of the show and you'll see where I'm coming from), and that's because they both have West Country accents!
The "West Country" includes all or part of at least six counties, so you can't talk about just one "West Country accent", any more than you can lump all of, say, Northern English together. Truro people don't talk like Plymouth people, who don't sound like Exeter people, who speak differently from those brought up in Weymouth, Taunton, or Bristol, etc.
Besides, this chap is "putting it on" and overdoing it in places (0:55 -- it's not "urr sip", it's "uh sip", or in many places "uh zip"). The one thing that people who sound all their r's do know is when there's an r in a word and when there isn't. (This is something lost on the likes of the actor who plays Eddie Grundy in "The Archers": the only person in the whole world who celebrates the feast of "Christmurrss".)
A "urr sip" thing does sound extremely out of place but it is a feature that's possible in multiple accents, R colouring schwas, like formula being pronunced formuler. I don't think it's common to do it on the word "a" though. That being said, this is being put on a bit for the video
@@dimitriousdrake Yeah, I agree, I think this guy is overdoing it with his criticism. Over course there's no such thing as one West Country accent, but there are broad strokes, and for someone not accustomed to the minute differences, like someone from London or even an American like me, they sound similar enough to where it's hard to differentiate. I'm from Georgia, and while I don't have a Southern Accent myself, there is a huge difference to my ears between a Virginian, Georgian, and a Texan, whereas to someone from the Northeast or England, they'd probably sound about the same. Hell, the concept of accents and language are based on broad strokes in the first place; no two people talk exactly the same!
I'm on another channel, learning about Sir Walter Raleigh who was said to have spoken in a "Broad Devonshire." Now I know how he spoke. And that he drank cider. Thank you.
I was reading that this is where the Newfoundland accent stems from.. can defnitely here it in some of the words he is saying
Love the way he was getting her pissed to throw one up her 🤣🤣🤣
Well Hagrid, now i know how to imagine you voice
Wait so the Empanada was actually a Cornish invention?? Wow!! I'm amazed!!
There is not ONE West Country accent. Every county in the south west sounds different. It’s like saying northwest England has one accent!
Me: wanting to learn to talk like Sam Gamgee
This guy: Oim Sam
This sounds almost identical to the "high tider" accent in North Carolina
He sounds like Duck from Thomas the Tank Engine.
I can tell you, as someone who hails from Swindon, we all dont sound like Duck the Great Western Engine.
Though, I sorta do.
Supposedly this stuff is supposed to be the basis of American English. It is fairly close if you get rid of the slang and a few badly pronounced words in this video.
When he pulled out the pasty I thought that’s a packaged pasty right there
Me granny's pasties were gurt lush. Me muckers would hide them from the grockles what used to stay at Me mum's 'ouse. We'd laugh whilst they literally were betwaddled!
When I first came to Devon, some people do not pronounce H when words has H in it. But they pronounce letter H as hhheyj and not eyj
Harry, me' ansum. Where's the rest o' the trainin' to?
He is defo putting it on
"Yeah, that's close enough" - most West country part of the whole thing
Who wants to talk like a farmer? ;)
Well my friend can't say tractor she says tra'er
is there much demand to hire Monica Bellucci 's stand-in to play an English farm girl !~~~??
His son.
love fool Is your friend from Norfolk?
I don't have much choice to be honest
I love the West Country accent ugH 🥺
This is what Four sounds like.
"Squares!"
"I'm a square!"
"Very big square!"
"ROUND THING!!!!!!"
Who is the teacher? There are other Sams at Babbel but are not the same person.
Has he done anything else for Babbel?
Ayyy im from devon and i have a west country accent
I'm from Dorset and our accent doesn't sound like this 😂 We love a cider though
That "Arrivederci" sounded like Brad Pitt in Inglorious Basterds.
WE ARE: RIPPED APART BY BADGERS
I'm trying to find out what Regional accent the character 'Brian' from the British comedy 'Man Down' has? Or what's the name of his style of speaking?
Yer a Harry, Wizerrrd!
Mang actually kinda sounds like ming (short for mingle) with an accent, so mix makes sense
Sweet!
As an American I can easily understand it because they aren't swallowing all the consonants like a "Cockney" accent, which would be the most stereotypical "British" accent.
Id say the Received pronunciation accent is still way more popular in media than Cockney. There are no cokneys in Lord of the rings, narnia, star wars etc etc
Here from Wiltshire
'house " sounded Canadian and "cider" , Aussie. migration, migration...
It's not proper cider (scrumpy) if you can see through it and it's not served in an old 4-pint plastic milk bottle! Good effort though
Rioght that one's too aged. You mean it is served in a milk jug?
Most scrumpy is made in small private orchards/farms, so they bottle it in whatever they have, like old plastic milk containers. It's very cloudy and usually has thick yeasty lumps lumps in it, called motherin'. proper falling down juice it is too!
Also needs a farmer to tell you " don't mess with it, cos it'll ave you" when you buy it 😂.. *past experiences*
@@tokumas OK ots ooo, what do you think cyder is made from?
I was born in Devon & I've lived here all my life. cyder IS made from apples!
NOT PEAR CIDER.
There is a similar drink that's made from pears called Perry, not pear cider as the big commercial companies are marketing it recently.
@@tokumas
Of course cider is made from apples. That's all it's made from. Cider is just fermented apple juice.
I feel like I'm listening to someone accept quests in that game "Fable."
Chick'n chaserr whyda they call ee that, d' you chase chick'ns
All I can hear is big 'ol Hagrid xD
it sounds like if Ramsay Bolton were a hobbit
I dont like it when people call dorset west country cos its not
Shropshire,Shrewsbury
Not sure why this was funny but this was funny.
The American accent came from here. 🥰
Ooo arr, I'd like to give 'er me combine 'arvester!
Oh arrrrr this be interestin
Alright my lover!
I feel the letter T is optional, Wes' counr'y perfectly acceptable
learning accents, The Great Western way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
slip coaches
Geddon 'ansom! 😂
so... pirates
of course the second word of the lesson is "cider"
Lovely people in the west of England
I Love Plymouth ❤❤❤
Big up plymouth massive
I’m from Plymouth and unless you go to like Swilly you don’t really hear this accent very often.
I got all of them right and I live in California lol
The “pirate accent” is based on this regional accent.
im from dorset and ive never heard mang in me life
Genuinely the best accent
People from Devon don’t sound like this, maybe a few people around Bristol or Wiltshire.
Cornish people and Bristolians do
So that's the accent Hollywood "pirates" use?
As an American I really like his "r"s. Kinda like I talk.
Your a wizard arry
I’m from Devon!
very similar to the Herefordian accent
Mainly because Hereford is a cider county, and is a bit of a grey area when it comes to accent. Being part of the Midlands, right next to Wales, and sharing a lot with the West Country, tends to muddle how sound you a bit.
I'm Lux, from Italy, learning English since I was 11,(I'm 17 now.) and I don't have a definite accent so I was trying to learn the Bristolian one(that I think is the best one), any advices?
Yes.
I prefer Everyone using His or Her natural accent with any language.
That means I prefer You to be proud with Your Italian accent. It sound beautiful to Me.
It gave colour. :)
Learn the Texan accent. As an American who doesn't have a Texan accent, I can say it's objectively one of the best. Either Texan, or Scottish. Those are your two choices.
@@owlblocksdavid4955ewww
Anyone else from he South see so many similarities??
I'm from the west country i live in Slough
I'm from the west Country, too, I live in America.
He is putting that accent on.
I actually speak like that.
cidaaarrrrrrr