SCOTTISH ACCENT IN OUTLANDER
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ค. 2017
- SCOTTISH ACCENT IN OUTLANDER
Scottish Stories Ep.5
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Talking about the Scottish accent and reaction to Outlander, the Hit TV series which features the Scottish clans and is set in the Scottish Highlands. Outlander is a British-American television drama series based on the historical time travel Outlander series of novels by Diana Gabaldon. Developed by Ronald D. Moore and produced by Sony Pictures Television and Left Bank Pictures for Starz.
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Shaun, thanks for all these vlogs. Loving them. Just to set straight a couple of things you mentioned in this video - Grant O'Rourke who plays Rupert (of Angus and Rupert) lives in Edinburgh, so the two of you would probably be accent twins. Oh, and the brilliant Bill Paterson who plays Ned Gowan - Ned does keep the MacKenzie accounts, but is really a lawyer. Just a wee bit of Outlander trivia for you. Keep up the good work!
Shaun, you are great and sweet and funny, and you talk soooooo much but it makes me start to learn scotish
LMAO you should be making money, you are really funny. Apart from that, I love that your name is spelled the same as my son, Shaun. :) Shari R
Hate to say it Shaun, but as a Scot myself, much as I like your accent because all Scottish accents sound like home, it is not 'refined' and not really like Sam Heughan's at all. I would not have described you as having a George St accent. You have far too many glottal stops for that and your vowels are too fronted.
I think you also have a mild case of Edinburgh accent superiority. :) Listen to people like Annie Lennox (Aberdeen), Kirsty Young (East Kilbride) or Peter Capaldi (Glasgow), Andy Murray (Dunblane), or Ewan McGregor (Crieff) to hear refined accents from other parts of Scotland.
Also, there are people in Scotland outside the Gàidhealtachd who can do a Highland accent, though I will say that they're mostly older people who heard more Highland accents when they were young. Glasgow especially had a huge influx from the Highlands and many Glaswegians today had Highland grandparents who spoke Gaelic.
In season 2 when Claire got that full wax "down there" and Jamie says, "Your honey pot, it's bare" I never loved the Scottish accent more!
Haha!! Yes. I love how shocked he is
Omg yasss it’s so cute 🥺🥺🥺
Claire! Woht have ye done te yer honeypot!
One of the best parts!
One of my favorite parts!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
There is a French writer of Romanian origin Emil Cioran who wrote: "We do not live in a country, we live in a language."
We basque speakers say that euskera (the Basque language) is our homeland. I understand very well what Emil Cioran meant!
"Nous ne vivons pas dans un pays, nous vivons dans une langue"
This applies so well to Quebec
He was Romanian. Moving to France didn't make him French.
wow, I quoted it in my Chinese blog, I am against Commie China dystopian doctrines which anyone should put country before your hometown/dialects.
I'm a German and I'm watching Outlander. Normally I don't have to switch on the captions, when I'm watching English series, but because of the accent I didn't get anything in Outlander.😂
But I'm soo fascinated by Jamie's accent!😍
😍 I need a Scottish boyfriend. Lol Scottish accents make me swoon.
Heather L I have a Welsh husband. His accent is what caught my attention
Well give me a message if you would like 1 😉🏴👌
Oh God yes. Pair that with a kilt.
@@rachealforrest5542 kilts are so difficult to do I have to get my dad to do mine
@@august8090 but so worth it, in my opinion.
Lol...I tried to scratch that dot on the wall off of my tablet screen. Made me laugh.
Me too! Lol!
Same here hahahaha
Me too!
Just did this!! Lol!
Me too lol
When watching the series i couldn’t help but notice the amazing accent of Fergus, it’s a perfect blend of British Scottish and a hint of French it’s amazing !
The actress who plays Geilis is from the same country as me, the Netherlands, and i think her accent was really good makes me feel proud
Yeah, when I learned she was from Netherlands I was surprised.. she seemed such a natural Scot to me
Also a Dutchie, and god, I love how Lotte Verbeek nailed the Scottish accent while playing Geillis Duncan!
But if you're not Scottish, you're not really qualified to assess the accuracy of a fake Scottish accent are you? Not any more than I am, as a Scottish person, to assess the accuracy of a fake Dutch accent. That aside, prior to the internet-driven mass Americanisation of the Dutch accent, the natural historically spoken Dutch language & the Scottish traditional language, Auld Scots, have many similarities; in pronunciation, in meaning & the further North towards the Highlands you go, also in speech pattern. If anyone was going to get a Highland accent right, it would be a Scottish or Dutch actor; I've heard some atrocious fake Scots accents on tv & I do have to tell myself to relax & ignore some single syllable shortcomings in Outlander because the majority did do a great job. I also can't fairly criticise Lotte's accent when Sam Heughan's accent is so far from perfect lol.
Joanne Carroll I have Scottish family, so, I actually am qualified to assess the accuracy of the Scottish accent.
Maybe not Scottish but certainly not deaf either. To be fair, this actress did well in my opinion
Outlander is one of my favorite series ever. Thank you so much!!
Elsa Ramos amazing Elsa really glad you're enjoying it :)
Elsa Ramos should read the books if you haven't already there's only so much the show can cover after all !
I'm Argentinian and i just think (since the 90's) that the Scotish Accent is the most beautiful english Accent that exist. For real. 🖖🏽🥰
I was very impressed when I found out Geillis Duncan is actually Dutch.
Born in Edinburgh and I am a Mackenzie! Love the show and MOST of the accents are alright. Some of them sound pretty Welsh though!
Hey, Iona! I was wondering which ones sounded Welsh? I'm quite curious!
Omg! It's sooooo cool. I can't imagine how proud you are!
Since binge watching Outlander, I catch myself “trying” to speak in a Scottish accent. 😆 I’m a huge fan, it’s by far the best show. I hope to visit one day. ♥️
I do that too. My Scottish friends make fun of my poor attempts lol
Sometimes I want to say aih
Aye, I too have tried to pick it up as well 😂
I can’t do the rs. :(
Why on earth do people do that? It's so insulting.
Took me 10 sec to understand that my phone isn't dirty hahahaha
Ahahhaahhahaahahahah same!
Would love to see more movies on Netflix from Scotland 😍
I’m from Kuwait and i just fell in love with Scotland because of Outlander 😍
Season 1, episode 6 “The Garrison Commander” features a scene with Dougal Mackenzie & Claire meeting English military men who are dining. At around 6:20 Dougal speaks in such a way that is impossible for non-Scots to understand! It seems that he did so on purpose... given the audience that he clearly despises. This part really stood out to me with regard to accents.
I was impressed with how the character Jaime was so well educated, fluent in several languages even latin.
I wonder how that was supposed to have happened, given that I don’t recall seeing a school on any episode of Outlander.
@@SeasonsChange14 in the books it explains that he was sent to France by his father to attend the university there when he was a teenager.
I’m American with ancestry from the MacCrae clan, they had very strong ties to the McKenzie clan and were the constables of Eileen Donan castle, whatching outlander has definitely given me a feeling of closeness to my family heritage
I'm an American with family from Edinburgh and understand the accent difference as well. Here in Michigan there is a distinction with accents between the northern and southern part of the state.
I am a huge Outlander fan and have been so impressed with every aspect of how they have made the series. I am curious about how you and other Scottish people feel about the Gaelic being spoken throughout the series. I know they brought in Àdhamh Ó Broin to help train all the Highlander actors how to correctly speak Gaelic since many of them had never spoken it before.
The language of outlander is scottish gaelic,but cathriona balfe who plays claire was brought up in co. monaghan republic of ireland went to a gaeilscoil which is an irish gaelic language school and is fluent.Scottish and irish gaelic are different languages,but there is a high degree of mutual intelligibility.So she is in fact the only cast member that would come close to a native speaker of scots gaelic.
irishlongsword boland not necessarily im learning both and there is some similarities which when you consider they are both members of the goidelic group of Celtic languages but the accents of the letters are different and the intonation is very different are two of the differences but Scotland has bilingual signs same as Ireland does and also gaeltachts but another difference is Irish kids learn Gaelic from around 4/5 till 18 whereas gaidhlig is more a choice of learning it or not also rte promotes gaelige in its programming whereas unless you're in a Gaeltacht you are unlikely to hear it spoken . Caitriona would find it easy to pick up on the Gaelic but she doesn't use it in the show only people that do are Garry as Colum , Graham as Dougal and sam as Jamie the rest of the highlanders apart but cait doesn't need to as Claire is a Englishwoman so she doesn't need it !
Never said she needed it .Cathriona balfe went to n irish medium school so she did most of her education through irish not just as a school subject and is fluent.
Very very few people speak Gaelic today and even at the time of Outlander, it was only one of the Scottish languages, Scots was more common what most of the characters in Outlander speak basically Scottish-English with occasional emphasis on Scots words, though generally they don't use the majority of basic Scots words that are different from English. So they only typically use Scots for a small amount of the dialogue and English for the rest.
I have little Scottish blood, but my name is the Gaelic word for church. I think I remember it being used in the series.
I'm in Edinburgh right now#LoveScotland
I've been to Scotland 3 times and had a marvelous time each time I went. I'm married to a man of Scottish descent so we were always interested in the country. About 25 years ago, I came across the first Outlander book and I've been a fan ever since. Before one of the trips to Scotland, I decided I would try to learn Scottish Gaelic since I, too, have Scottish ancestry. I spent about 4 months learning phrases. I was incredibly disappointed when I learned that almost NO ONE spoke the language in all the places we went in Scotland. It's so sad that a language has almost died out like that. I have wondered that since so much time has past since Culloden and the Clearances, would the British not mind if Scottish Gaelic was reintroduced into the schools as an elective class. You could have a Gaelic Speakers Club (or would that worry the monarchy??)
It's on the up, SAOR alba gu bràth.
The decline of the language was due mainly to Royal interference in the 1600s (King James VI & I demanding that Gaelic lairds send their eldest child to Lowland schools to learn English (not Scots ! ) in the 1609 Iona Statutes. That was followed by the repression of Gaelic culture after Culloden, then the Highland Clearances when Gaelic speakers were either forced into emigration or were provided financial incentives to emigrate. A later blow was the 1872 Education (Scotland) Act passed in Westminster - far away from Scotland - which imposed compulsory state primary education but in English only. It took more than 100 years of campaigning before the Gaelic language societies achieved the right in the 1980s to set up Gaelic-medium schools. Since 2005, there has been a Gaelic Language Act passed by the Scottish Parliament, and efforts are being made to promote the language through Scotland.
When Duolingo launched its Scottish Gaelic course in late Nov 2019, the uptake was huge. In March 2022, the course had already passed the 1.2 million learners mark. According to Duolingo's statistics, somewhere between 25% and 30% of those learners worldwide are in the UK. So about 400,000 to date, and most of those will have been in Scotland.
In 2011, the census for Scotland recorded about 80,000 people who said they had some knowledge of Gaelic. We'll have to wait until 2023 for the results of the 2022 census, but it's a safe bet that the numbers will have gone up. The 2021 attitudes survey in Scotland showed that the younger generation in Scotland are more in favour of promoting Gaelic than the older. That said, I'm 66 and am learning Gaelic as an emigrant, while my brother, 69, who stayed in Scitland, is learning it there. We both started without the other knowing.
I LOVE Scottish accent. So pleasing to the ear!
My late Grandfather was from Scotland. I love the accent.
Is it weird i just want to listen to you talk all day?
Doesn't matter about what...
I was in the hospital today and when my doctor opened his mouth i almost melted... he was a scot 😍 I'm such a sucker. This and irish are the 2 accents that will just make me melt.
I’m enjoying your blog, Shaun. The season of Outlander when they went to Paris was outlandish, but I’m enjoying the episodes that take place in the mountains of North Carolina where I live. 😊
Bro, I’m in love with outlander. I love both of the main characters and then their kid you just can’t go wrong with that whole dynamic of the characters in that show. I never thought I would fall madly in love with the Scottish accent, but I am so in love with it.
I am the daughter of a Scottish immigrant to America. I read the books about a decade ago. My gran, who is from Glasgow, caught me watching outlander when it first came out. I thought she would have an issue with the nudity. She said, direct quote, imagine it done in an accent from Coatbridge and an 81 year old woman: look at the arse on that man! She then went on to read all of the books in about 4 weeks. She loves the series!
I'm of Scottish Descent from the Young Clan and McDonald Clan. i love Outlander as well it's so addicting!
The young clan? Me too
@@towacca3548 Ya my grandmother on my dad side's maiden name was Young and her ancestors were part of the clan.
@@natepollen1002 I was kinda adopted in when I found them threw Facebook, still working on digging up family history.
The Scottish accent is absolutely beautiful, charming, & attractive ❤️ I can’t get enough of it
Hi!
I am a french girl and i go To Edimbourg with my friend in february ,
it's outlander that made us want to make this trip.
I live in the US, moved from Australia but a lot of my family are still on the isle of Unst.. I love my Scottish heritage.
In my short tour (9 days) recently to Scotland, I heard only one really great accent from a taxi driver in Glasgow. I could have listened to him all day. Love that Scottish folks love Outlander so much too.
Thanks for these amazing videos, I'm glad I found your channel! :)
Great series, Shaun....thank you!
I love Outlander - been a fan for years. I have all the books including the add ons!
I want more then anything to visit Scotland. I just started learning about my heritage and trying to learn the accent. I just recently came across the family's tartan!
I just found your Outlander v-logs and I'm really enjoying them! Outlander is the best story ever! 💕
Came over from Mosco's channel and Subscribed!! I'm totally in Love with your guy's culture!
Much the same here in the states , each region has its own accent.Mine happens to be southern but not the drawl you would hear in say Georgia or Alabama.
LOVE!!!! OUTLANDER!!!!
very interesting and informative , love Scotland would like to see more of it x
Love the series; hope to visit Scotland one day.
Well, I'm spanish, and I'm fastinated that I could understand you almost every moment
Thanks a bunch for your awesome videos! I'm from France and learning English. I plan to visit Scotland, so I'm practicing the accent with your videos. You're fantastic. Thanks again!
Greetings from Germany! I really love Outlander and so I found your channel, thanks for your videos :)
And yes...your accent ist really nice!
Greeting from Peru in South America.I watched Outlander 3 times in order to understand the story. A lot of pauses for new vocabulary too. It helped me a lot. Eager to visit Scotland. Aye.
Accents in different areas of Scotland does make sense with me. Here in the U.S. we have different accents in various states. 🤗
Scottish accents are just fascinating! It would be awesome if, while on the tour, you could compile all the different accents into one video so we (the clueless rest of the world) can compare and learn the differences. All in all, huge fan of Scotland, Outlander and you! 👏🏻👌🏻
There are a lot if you want a comprehensive list, it varies by city even based on class.
good idea
Outlander is one of my favorite tv shows and I'm from Puerto Rico. I definitely have plans to visit Scotland sometime soon. Very good videos.
My husband from Edinburgh and I'm from Prestonpans in East lothian and our accents are soooooo different
I'm obsessed with this series as well, oh my, I went through 5 seasons - absolutely love it. Glad I found your vlog😍
Yay! Thanks so much! Can't wait for the tour on Scotland, that'll be fun! Thank you for making these vlogs! Honestly I wish Outlander was more popular because the dedication and hard work they put into the series really pays off! Take care!
new here! i always had a deep unexplained love for scotland! i actually cried first time i visited! so strange! i love outlander series :)
Thank you for sharing with us! I have watched some of the "behind the scenes" of Outlander, on how the actors that already didn't have Gaelic.. they brought in a Gaelic coach and from what I heard of the coach speaking, the actors were fantastic!
About the books.. I'm on the 6th of the series and let me tell you.. they are well worth it!
So glad Diana Galbadons work is so well received in Scotland. I read the books years ago when I was just a teenager. I always thought of going to the Scottish highlands and experiencing the culture and the history. At the time I always imagined Kenneth Brannaugh as Jamie, even though he's English. I even wrote Diana Galbadon to ask her if she would release the rights to a movie production company and asked her if she would be ok with casting him. She was very kind in her reply and said she would consider it, that was in 1998. Funny how things go.
Yes, the Scottish accent is quite difficult to master. I've made a good effort but it's really difficult, even the "soft Scottish" is hard.
Kenneth Branagh? Do you know how short and tiny he is? Omg, he could never be Jamie! Sam is perfect, not just his physical body, but his voice, hands, the way he uses everything he has. He IS Jamie. Especially if you read the books, how you came up with Branagh, I’ll never know.
I love Outlander 😍
Nice video 👍
Definitely read the books! I'm rereading "Voyager" before season 3 comes out. It's one of my favorites in the series. Love your videos 💜
Definitely the same good looks and scottish charm... and that piercing stare!😁😍
...Sassenach😜
I'm from Spain and love the series, it has got me interested in the History of Scotland Nd the Highlands
Loved the video!😚
I'm from Argentina and I've always been in love with Scottish culture♡
Yo tambiennn 😋😋😋
Love your videos, Shaun! I am an Outlander fan and am looking forward to the next book in the series. I would be really interested in hearing your impression after you finish the first book. I imagine that the books will capture you and not let you go! I couldn't stop reading! I'm also following the television series and enjoying that as well. All the best from Carol in Delaware, USA
Wow, you're amazing!! I was looking the Scotland language stuff and that's it!! Thank you:)
thank you...........love your show.
I think to watch it as you recommend this new series. Thank you much from Michigan in the U.S I love your vlog keep up the fabulous work sir.
Thank you!! Just started watching the Outlander shows and they are AMAZING!!! Thanks for making this video!!
Outlander is Brilliant! i love it!💜
Hello I'm from Indonesia and I like TV series Starz Outlander thank you for your vlog
I would like to learn more about where Sam Heughan was born and grew up. He is such a fine young man. Learning about his childhood would be very interesting.
In love with outlander and in love with the accent 😍
I LOVE THE TV SERIES OUTLANDER THERE'S A LOT OF HISTORY TO LEARN. PERSONALLY I REALLY ENJOY HISTORY.. I REALLY LIKE THAT TIME PERIOD.
Tina Michaud as do I and like Scottish and Irish history on a equal level as I'm of Irish heritage that explains my interest in that but my one of my cousins in Ireland is of Scots background on his dad's side his dad and mine are cousins so that is where I got interested in it through my Macleod cousins !
WHY ARE YOU YELLING?
Hullo! I'm a first generation Canadian.... My mom was born in Paisley, a lot of my family still lives in Scotland.... I've been reading the Diana Gabaldon books since I was 22... that's 27 years now. Just so you know.... she is a professor in science and does a lot of research in her work before she started writing. now she takes between 3-5 years between books as she does that much research on the time she is writing about. she is very adamant about getting the research right. you will love the books! the show is great but the books are awesome!
I read those books years & years ago when they first came out. Excellent. Diana was an expert research person. That helped a lot. Thank you!
Really enjoyed this video Shaun. I am a huge fan of Outlander and Scotland too. My love for your country started with the movie The Highlander, way back in the early 1980's. Thank you for sharing your insight and info
Totally agree on the good looks and charm :P . Thanks for the videos.
I'm excited to see your vlog on the Outlander filming locations.
I'm from Poland and I really like that story! And I fell in love in that accent 🥰
Absolutely love outlander, and made me definitely want to come and visit to see the filming locations
I like you videos man, I am a Mexican that loves all about Scottish culture, I lived there for 1 year and a half and miss that beautiful country but most of all their lads and lassies, people is so welcoming
Shaun, I'm in love with these episodes! Everything about Scotland is so beautiful and magical! Please, keep talking about your country! ♥️ Salve from Brasil! 🇧🇷♥️🏴
You had me at Scottish accents,. I came across this video by chance and have watched a few more of your videos, to say I'm hooked is an understatement! I have to watch the Outlander now! I'll It doesn't hurt that you've got the accent too.
Hi Shaun! I was born a Finley. I love the Outlander books and shows! Thank you for your insight!
Diana Gabaldon and her wonderful storytelling reels in another one! Really enjoying your channel.
Excellent explanation of accent and dialect differences
my favorite , saludos desde México, outlander fantastic!
Hi Shaun, I'm a new subscriber.
I've been a huge fan of Outlander since it came to us a few years ago. I really love the accent of the Scottish people and their culture - I've fallen in love with your country
Shaun, thanks so much for doing these vlogs. I just discovered your vlog. I am an Outlander fan. I have read all the books and seen every episode.
As an American with some Scottish ancestry, I love everything Scottish. Growing up I was enthralled by the Scottish accent of my grandfather's cousin's Scottish warbride. I'm not entirely sure exactly where she grew up in Scotland, but she had an Edinburgh accent (mostly). She left Scotland in 1945 or '46, and never went back (very sad), but she never lost her beautiful accent. She also taught me to appreciate Scottish history and food. I loved getting to go to tea at her house because her bannocks and scones were amazing.
Keep up the great work!
Oh my! As an American (and sorry about President Douchebag...), I am loving to listen to Shaun as I have always thought that the Scottish accent is the most ear-pleasing accent of all. That being said, I am currently planning a trip to England and Scotland for next year, and I canna wait!
I love this channel. Hugs from Brazil.
Great video Shaun🙌🏾
Thank you for your insight on the Scottish accent!
I died when you got so close to the camera 😂
Sam best watch himself he might be replaced with you 😁
Fun content 👏🏾
I have always loved Scotland and the Scottish accent! I have only recently found out about Outlander myself and binge watched the first two seasons and reading the books now. I finally decided to plan a trip to Scotland for New Year's, and so really glad I found your channel here on youtube! Looking forward to your outlander-themed tour as it will definitely give me great ideas for my own Scotland trip!! Love your videos - Keep up the good work!!
Giulia C amazing Giulia - you'll love Scotland at New Year. Check out my Hogmanay New Year party videos on my channel 😉
I just finished the fourth book and they are some of my favourite books ever read!
I'm glad you're going to read the books because they are amazing. The show is beautiful but can only do so much, the book are truly amazing. The Book series is my favorite series! Thank you for sharing about socttish accents, I really appreciate your analysis and information about the difference in scottish accents in the show!
You struck an interest chord here for me! I love any dialect info, especially Scottish, as my dad's family came from Scotland in the 1760's. My dream trip is to travel to Scotland, and your observations on various accents is intriguing. Keep up the Bonnie work, Shaun!
Your channel is helping me a lot, I love a guy from Scotland, we talk every day and we move on to video calls and I was shocked because of the accent, but even so we got to talk for almost 5 hours every day, I'm starting getting used to the accent and I’m less apprehensive now, I watch all your videos and I’ve noticed that I’m learning a lot.
My 8th grade teacher was a Scottish teacher from Edinburgh,a teacher exchange program. It took me days to understand her speech,as a illinoisan American it was a shock. But we loved her so much! She was the best ever teacher.
✨Shaun: You could be the leader of a whole new generation of Scottish Outlander fans! Very interesting observations about the different accents *within* Scotland. I've had fun mimicking some of the Outlander characters when talking with TwinkleMom (we both have so much of the dialogue committed to memory after having watched every show from seasons 1 and 2 so many times). It just sounds to me like the way the language *should be* spoken (despite the Outlandish general's protestations about "the King's English," etc.).
On another altogether different note, I just discovered that Scotland's official animal is THE UNICORN‼️🦄 How perfect is that?! Nessie, unicorns, devas (the faeries that live in Findhorn -- have you ever been there?) ... you live in a truly magical place.
Keep up the great work and be well!✨
I love your vlog, glad to have found it. I am one of those proud to be Scottish Americans from way way back (McCallum from North Carolina), maybe even the 1700's I don't know. I've promised myself to get to your lovely country one day. On Outlander, I have seen each season and read each book three times! I especially love seeing the Gaelic and the Scottish in written form. Gives me a fun mental activity trying to pronounce it all. I'm thinking of watching all seasons (again) in preparation for the one coming in 2020. will do it with my ear prepped to listen for the accents - they all seem real to this American, even though some are "softer" as you say. All sounds wonderful to me! Hope you enjoy the books, I think you will.
Really great video! I'm a fan of the show too (and the books) and I'm swedish. I have always wanted to go to Scotland and now I have even another reason to do so.
It would be amazing if you did a video on the sites in the show too :D
Just saying 'hi' from Canada! Thanks for sharing Scottish culture. My family comes from there and it explains a good many family traditions, to say the least. Also you, as most Scots, seem a natural story teller. :)