I'm Scottish. Kevin Bridges is actually slowing down and pronouncing his words more carefully here. Every day Scottish speech can be faster. I don't know why they're struggling so much here. The thing is, and I've said this before, in Scotland we can understand obscure regional American accents, and regional English accents quite easily because we've been more widely exposed to them via tv and film. Whereas the opposite is far less so. Hence the problem. But maybe that's changing a little thanks to netflix and the internet exposing people in other countries to Scottish culture more.

I have Scottish family and as an Englishman with Scottish relatives it can sometimes be very difficult to understand a Glaswegian in full swing. Especially while having a pint with them. Quite often you just nod your head etc as seems appropriate by how they look. They know what they're doing by the way, they love to confuse us, and we pretend we don't notice that they're purposefully confusing us, it's how we get along.

There used to be a comedy program on tv years ago by Rab c Nesbit, real Scot accent, took me a few weeks for me to fully understand, I'm English but my wife is Brazilian and the look on her face as she tried to get even a little bit, made me laugh

You should have persevered with Still Game, that gets so much better with each episode 👌

The Irish influence is what transformed British English to American English, so a lot of the sounds etc. are similar and what probably makes it easier to understand.

Kevin Bridges ‘Bus Stop’ sketch. A must see.

I'm English and have no problem with understanding a Sottish accent 99% of the time. I went out with a Glasweigen girl for 7 years so I'm well trained, I do remember though that when we visited her family in Glasgow (we lived in Nottingham, England) her accent got noticably stronger in a very short amount of time and after returning home again to England her accent then softened back.

Scot here..I always try to slow down when outside Scotland when talking, unless I’m drunk 😂

You'd love Mitchell & Webb's sketch shows & their sitcom Peep Show.

As a Scotsman, when we say we sometimes don't understand ourselves, we don't just mean the Scottish people around us... we literally mean we sometimes don't know what we are saying when we speak

We talk very fast but we'll slow down for you when you ask! There are some accents from the north of Scotland that l have to really concentrate on! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Listen to Lulu and how she sounds, she speaks with a soft English accent when she`s on T.V. but, soon as she`s back up here in Scotland, she switches back to full Glaswegian again. She`s denied doing that in the past but, just listen to some of her previous interviews and it comes across very evidently.

7:07 I seriously doubt that. Try watching *The Young Offenders* (2016) film, and *The Young Offenders* (2018-present) TV series, which are set in *Cork, Munster, Ireland* and you'll struggle to understand it for a few episodes at least.

I’m Scottish and I can understand all English speaking accents. In the UK you can literally drive 45mins and the accent will be noticeably different. It’s not just the accent that changes it’s the alternative words used when explaining or describing something. If you can’t immediately pick up on the change of phrase then you don’t understand rather than the accent itself.

I am Scottish and LOVE the Belfast accent and the Geordie too. That would be heaven having a Geordie talking to me all day

He's actually talking English with a Scottish accent. Generally what people perceive as 'Scottish' is SCOTS, from the East cost. There are many accents and different actual languages in Scotland.

I also think Dubliners and Northern Irish people are pretty easy to understand but if someone is from Cork, I have some big-time trouble. Because I've been listening to Glaswegians since I was 15, they're pretty to understand, but you really gotta get used to the different vowels. From Scandinavia where we are taught a weird mix of RP (BBC English) and Standard American English.

Grew up in Kent, England I understand most accents of English speaking people around the world, the only one I really struggle with is a thick geordie accent. A lot of people I know struggle with Scottish accents but I don't have any trouble with it

You either nod up and own if they are trying to persuade you. You nod side to side if they're not happy. My Scottish pals might punch me for saying that, but they still laugh. 😆

When a Dundonian goes into a chippy he says "Twa pehs an an ingin ane in aw"

3:40 sounds like you smashed a wine glass.

Kevin doesn't have a Scottish accent. He has a Glaswegian accent.

The Graham Norton show is a lot of fun. Thank you so much for posting this. I need my laughs every day. Just for my health. Kevin is so funny. 🤣

It's funny in the UK, sometimes no matter where you are in any of the countries you can get caught out by local dialect, just because they'll have their own micro-language sometimes, I'm Welsh and have travelled all over the UK, sometimes even when I'm in Wales I'll have to stop and think about what someone is trying to say, even if they're just from the next village as they'll use a different word to say hello which is a unique and local bastardisation of a well-known word, but changed just enough to make you stop and think for a second, one funny thing about the Welsh is if you meet a Welsh person with a very strong Welsh accent the likelihood is they can't speak the Welsh language, and most of the actual Welsh speakers tend to have a much more subtle accent, for me one of the most difficult dialects to understand is Cornish, which is funny as they're closely linked to the Welsh.

When they made the movie Trainspotting with Ewan McGregor. They had to dub the original soundtrack with toned down accents for the release in America.

Years ago, IBM were developing speech to text software, and they gave it to us to try. Our bosses gave it to a Glasgow lad called Ewan to test. IBM lost. It did not have a clue with his accent. 😂

Years ago I went to see my English Brother when he lived in San Francisco. On the train, this American mistook my Brother's accent for an Australian. He sounded nothing like an Australian.

Great stuff…enjoying your vids👍

Kevin bridges live don’t get any better than him hes brilliant

The Sleepover from Hell - Kevin Bridges. Kevin Bridges does some good sketches about Chad Hogan, a fictional US character and his epic house parties 🥳

hi mate your reaction videos are quality mate! good work

This is really funny as a British person, Kevin is trying so hard to slow down & enunciate and they still don’t understand him!!! God knows what they’d hear if he was on a full rant 😂

If you want more Scottish humour, I have an excellent recommendation for you -- a BBC comedy series called "Two Doors Down". It's set in a small town near Glasgow, and is about the residents of one street. It is one of those shows that makes the most mundane of events utterly hilarious, and has lots of annoying neighbour themes. I think you'd like it... and they're on the sixth series now! :-) There's one incredibly foul-mouthed character called Christine who has me in stitches every time she's on screen! EDIT: if you do watch this, maybe start with season 1, episode 2 to really get into the comedy of it straight away. The first episode isn't as funny because it's doing a lot of character building / set up 👍

Some of us Scots have very gentle accents, we don't all speak in harsh Glaswegian.

"Come here kids, Jimmy Sue, Bobby Will, Big Fishy Bob,....talk British to my kids" "What do you mean, its English, hello"

I am all for you waiting for Queen Boomer. Love the pair of you reacting to it together

Hey KB👍Kevin is funny as hell, great reaction and people can just damn well wait, the impatient need to understand you have lives to live and it is the law to ensure an inbetweeners reaction is done in her majesty's presence only!! This law must be obeyed at All times and is subject to harsh punishment if not observed 😂😂 take care mate and regards to her excellency 👍✌️🙏

I’m also Scottish but from the northern isles. Usually people understand us fine. It’s the ‘weegie” ( Glasgow) accent that seems to cause issues

King Boomer you need to watch the two Scotsmen in a lift sketch, you'll love it.

Ulster Scots or Scots Irish from Northern Ireland have a big influence in American accents and culture. The word Hill Billy is derived from Northern Irish protestants. Also 17 US Presidents are Ulster Scots/Scots Irish.

im scottish and live in london. Moved down from The Isle of Skye and my god did some people have a hard time of it.

Sometimes us Scots have trouble understanding the Scottish accent too 😂

I am Irish, my Exhusband is from Liverpool. We had a Glaswegian lodger for a while. I hosted two ladies from our twin town in Belgium. The ladies and I were able to converse in a mixture of English and French. They were just about able to understand my exhusband, but I had to translate when my lodger spoke with them!

The more you train you ear to the accent the easier it becomes , and you get to understand it , we do slow it down when talking to non Scottish folks ,or a least try lol

2 Kevin Bridges videos you need to check out are "Sleepover" and "Waiting for a takeaway". To of the funniest bits of stand up I've ever seen!

One of the strangest things anybody has ever said to me was in Scotland. I went skiing there with the school & we had an afternoon in Edinburgh to buy gifts to take home. Two ladies overheard me talking to a friend turned around said "you have such a lovely Irish accent" I was only twelve & didn't know what to say so just smiled. I'm English.... a Londoner to be precise, & had never been to Ireland although I've spent a lot of time there since. Even now I don't understand why she thought the way she did!

Kevin Bridges is probably the best stand up comedian in the UK right now. Him and Micky Flanagan are untopped right now

There is not just one Irish accent every county has different accents the further south or north the thicker/ stronger the accents. Even in Dublin there's a few variations in the accent.

Keep up the content big man

Kevin saying about speaking English - I worked in tourism for four years in central Edinburgh, and got all sorts including that (my colleague laughing just said she learnt it from a very young age)! I'm an AngloScot (lived in both, one parent of each) so my accent veers from posh South Edinburgh to Peter Kay and everything inbetween depending where I am!

It’s funny because any video of Scottish people talking, like here, they are slowing down, talking as clearly as they can, and not using any slang words. If he was talking to a Scottish mate I guarantee you wouldn’t understand a word. I’m Scottish and work for a global company so work with loads of Americans, English, Indians etc, and honestly it’s so frustrating when I have to repeat myself 4/5 times. It gets to the stage where I say I can’t speak and slower or clearer!

It's a possibility that the present N.American accent was strongly influenced by Irish immigration . Presumably the British Colonies would have had a mix of accents before independence . Certainly the Irish republic accent seems the closest . I think most Scots must think English people are hard of hearing .

As with all British accents the accents around Scotland vary greatly, and yes we English do struggle with quite a few Glasgow and Dumfries come to mind, although Edinburgh and Inverness are fine, now if you hear two Aberdonians talking together nobody from more than 10 miles from Aberdeen can understand them, that's a whole other language.

I'm Scottish I've got friends from America and England and family in Australia no one has any trouble understanding me just got to speak clearly and cut back on local slang

I have no problem with Scottish accents. My best mate moved from Glasgow to Australia with his family as an 11 year-old, and a couple of years later we started hanging out in High School. 1977. I became very close with his family...and extended family in Scotland; as I've travelled there five times and spent about a year there in total. Love Glasgow. My Glaswegian has been known to fool the locals. 󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣

I’m Scottish and it’s fun watching KZfaqrs like English KZfaqr try and understand the Scottish accent it’s so funny😂

Weirdly as a scot when i’m abroad people often insist i sound merican…i have what might be a polite central scottish accent…not posh just kinda neutral…often people only register a glasgow accent as scottish abroad and i sound somehow american…weird weird world

Hi king boomer funny film to watch the full monty must watch with the queen guaranteed. Chair sweeps 👍🏻

Please do Kevin Bridges, if Facebook was a pub! 😁

I have no problem understanding Kevin Bridges. But when listening to Frankie Boyle, I'm always rewinding to figure out what he said (and usually wishing I hadn't). I do have some trouble with Johnny Vegas, too, and he's not even Scottish.

As an Aussie, I can normally understand Scottish accents fine, unless it's like two full broad Glaswegians talking together. Most Australians would be the same I would imagine.

The northern Irish accent, whenever I was on holiday I always got mistaken for being Scottish

Every region in the uk has a different region some accents are difficult and you need time to tune in to them thanks for the clips

The Welsh accent, closely tied to the Welsh language, is surprisingly easy to understand. We get the Scots. I presume they get us.

if you want to watch a kevin bridges reaction, there are 2 that are pretty good. the one where he talks about the economy, and the other one i think is labelled "im coming for you Stu"

In the army my first day at my unit first day I shared a room with a Scot an I was like how ya doing, but I'm from Yorkshire so it's as bad for a scot to understand , so I said "I don't know what your saying" and he said "I dinny Ken wat ur sayin" which means same thing an we was just repeating an getting louder an louder until we gave up , took 20 min and me talking with a posh accent to get through to each other 🤣

Please explore the different regional accents and idioms of a small island in Europe! Amazballs!

As an (old) Englishman, I've never really had an issue understanding the Scottish. There are so many dialects and accents throughout Great Britain & Ireland, you just get used to them all, over time.

I never have any trouble with accents...( from a very mixed heritage so that may help) ....but always cracks me up when people struggle with accents

Because Irish accents had a major influence on American pronunciation I would imagine

You need to react to burnistoun - elevator recognition. Sums up how much us Scots suffer haha

Sometimes when on the phone or speaking to Alexa I have to put on an English accent just to be understood, Alexa hardly ever understands 😂

As someone from the North East of England, I've struggled down the South of the country with people understanding me. Bit better these days, but at one point I practically had to spell out everything I was saying, especially on work phone calls 😆

Don't worry, we the English struggle with the Scottish accent sometimes, too! 🤣 Edit: any of Kevin's stand up is epic.

Irish is probably easiest for Americans because it 'lilts'. It follows a pattern like a poem. You can guess what's coming and working it out ahead of time. I'm an Englishman with no hard scottish accented friends.But I talk to them in bars. A couple of times I've sat down drunk next to a passed out scottish stranger. I understood him when he came round. Well, those parts he understood himself. Scottish doesn't faze me. Never has.

It depends what part the person is from.i married a glaswegian and I understood him and I understand Billy Connelly.

Still Game is great, Scottish comedy series, chewing the fat, is a Scottish sketch show, both very funny!

Australia gets heaps of shows from England and Scotland, so there are a lot of people who get the accent, culture, references etc. easily, and then there are the guys who just watch reruns of stuff like the Simpsons etc. There are plenty of British immigrants in Australia too. If you play soccer, odds are that at least half of the team is from all over the UK, so you get exposed to all the accents. The one that makes me laugh the most is the Black Country, just with they way they say certain things. Joe Lycett is from around that area and does a good impression if you look it up. Nicole Kidman was also on Graham Norton with a Scotsman and couldn't understand much, but then Elle Macpherson was on with Frankie Boyle and she didn't have any trouble.

I used to work on the roads many years ago with northern irish im,e english and it was really hard to understand them,try listening to northern irish see if you can understand them,it would be fun to see if you can.

you blue balling me on the inbetweeners bro!!

You may want to watch Still Game, a brilliant Scottish comedy show

As a Glaswegian i can understand almost anyone from anywhere and for Americans to understand us is to just listen to a few videos before coming over over. Once here of coarse i`m sure it sounds like a different language. There are also many words we use that have different meanings depending on the situation the conversation is going and i`m told we tend to speak faster, that`sa because we`re constantly having to repeat ourselves over and over for cloth eared visitors who haven`t a clue what was said the first time. If you come to Glasgow, stand anywhere in public places ( pubs are best ) and just listen, you`ll soon pick it up, just do one wee thing while here, please don`t try to put on a fake accent cause people will think you`re taking the piss and please don`t mention your ancestors - believe me, we`ve heard them all, from decendents of clan chiefs all the way down the chain. If you`re walking in the streets and haven`t a clue where you are, stop anyone and we`ll probably take you to where you want to go rather than tell you, i`ve done it myself many times. We don`t bite so, just ask.

There are different Scottish accents in different parts of the country and some are easier to understand than others. If you can understand Irish then you have to watch Derry Girls which is utterly brilliant.

I once heard an Australian accent so thick that I couldn't tell it was English. And I'm good with accents.

I love the Scots, but used to work with a guy years and years ago from Glasgow, had literally ZERO clue what he was talking about, used to have a co worker translate for me, was funny but embarrassing !

The Irish must have had a strong infuence on the development of the American accent..... So many times I have overheard two Americans talking in public only to discover later that they weren't American, they were Irish. Sounds so similar sometimes. This would explain why you find the Irish accent the easiest to understand.

Talking of accents. Can you say _'I could go for a gram of Graham Norton right about now'_ 🤣

I worked with an Irish lad from West cork, he spoke at a hundred miles an hour, funny

Your first comment satisfies my curiosity as to when the next inbetweeners episode, look forward to your fine lady being shocked

I think, if it is available to you check out Allo Allo (the spelling is deliberate) it's a comedy set in Occupied France during WW2 typically British full of weird characters and at least half the humour comes from the crazy accents mustn't give too much away HA

That's only one accent. I was born and learned to talk in Fife then the family moved to Perth a totally different accent for 8yrs then moved to the west coast to Airdrie and my accent changed again. 3 different accents overtime. My mum was from Dundee she had went posh but my gran aunties, uncles and cousins all had Dundee accents. You don't need to go far for the way we say word's to change in Scotland. I once worked with a man from Aberdeenshire and I couldn't understand him. Lived in England for a while and slowed the rate I spoke at to aid in translation. Scottish English to Liverpool English.

Thick Irish accent is far harder to understand than a thick scots one. Kevin bridges is by far the best Scottish comedian besides Big Billy C.

I honestly didn’t think Chris had a bad accent tbh and also thought it was just vaguely Scottish/Celtic tbh

Alexa is very good with my strong Yorkshire accent, better than Siri for sure.

Had to laugh when you said the Irish accent was the easiest to understand. Ian Paisley hold my beer! People in Britain understand most but not neccesarily all accents here but we grow up hearing different accent of the four countries and realise you have to learn to listen differently! I also think British humour is as varied as our accents compared to America.

If you understand Irish u need to Atcham the Graham Norton show with the Irish Olympic rowers 🤣

You need to react to Kevin Bridges Chad Hogan. It's an amazing story that grew from a throwaway joke to a small sensation on social media up here.

I am Scottish and was in New York for the US open tennis and they thought I was Australian 🤦‍♂️🤣. Love the states would be great if you and the Queen came over to Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

you should check out Scottish people trying to say "purple burglar alarm"

You should react to Chris O'Dowd drunk on the last leg. It’s the funniest thing I’ve ever watched