Liverpool people are so friendly! I am American and lived in the UK for many years, and I can honestly say they are some of the nicest people anywhere.

Aussie here. Scouse is my fave British accent. It's so lyrical 😊 And Ryan, if you can't tell the difference between a Scouse accent and an Aussie one, there's no hope 😂

I'm actually a scouser and it was fun watching this. You need to visit Liverpool, you ain't heard nothing yet 😂.

It's like an English eating a Dutchman. 😂

It’s a unique accent mainly because it’s heavily influenced by its maritime history with a myriad of sailors from around the world passing through the city and settling there, influencing its language. At one point the city had very large populations of Irish, Scots, Jewish, Welsh, Chinese and Afro-Caribbean. Many Europeans also passed through the city on their way to the US and inevitably some settled there. It tends to be spoken at a fast pace as well which adds to the difficulty of comprehension. The word “Scouser” comes from a popular Scandinavian stew called “Lob Scouse”.

I moved from Liverpool to Newcastle when I was 13. Traumatic!

It's a wonderful accent. And the extraordinary thing is, thirty miles up the road is Manchester, with a TOTALLY different accent!

German here. I really like her vids on accents. Her channel was the first I watched to get some idea of British English. When I watched the Great British Bake Off, understanding a Scouse granny was really tough and I gave up... At least now you know how to pronounce the composer Bach correctly 😂

Cilla was big mates with the Beatles. Search for her singing "You're my world".

Can't wait to see you discover the glaswegian accent. And we french do NOT sound like that! XD

Recommend listening to Cilla Black's "Liverpool Lullaby" sung with her accent.

My favourite "English" (within England) accent is the Geordie accent, which you find in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne.The dialect is lyrical and charming.

My hubby's from Germany and they have a gazillion accents. In fact, towns can be a block apart and sometimes they wouldn't understand each other! But the do have a standard High German that everyone knows. My guy can do a lot of the accents and it's really entertaining and interesting how crazy different some are!❤

We used to use the word 'scran' in the Royal Navy for food too! lol Not just a scouse word.

From France 🇫🇷 I can tell British 🇬🇧 language is way more sofisticated than English from USA 🇺🇸 languages.

I love it when Americans do their "Australian" accent

Your Liverpool accent was getting better each time there 😊

As a Scouser yes, we do have our own version of english always have and always will and Scouse is also a stew , which us Scousers eat.

its always funny to see how close scouse slang and accents are to northern irish. Not suprising since so many moved over to liverpool during the troules.

Scousers get the name from a stew called SCOUSE. KHAKI is a colour NOT a style of TROUSERS. Cigarettes in the UK start at about £13 a pack of 20. Fake Bake is a fake tan. " day do do, don't day, do " is a phrase used in a comedy sketch show about people from Liverpool.

I’m crying here 😂😂😂😂. I’ve moved to Liverpool 15 years ago from non-English speaking country and I wish I have seen this video back then. My first few months I could always hear people saying ,,fork,, and ,,forking,, and ,, all rice mate,, 😂😂😂 and I was so confused. But I love it here they are mega friendly 😉

Thank you for trying! You really do seem interested, unlike some other US/UK comparison channels, who try to fake it, but fail abysmally. The man on the left and the two gurning ladies.

I'm from Birkenhead, a town, one mile across the river Mersey, from Liverpool. My Birkonian accent is not as strong as the Liverpool accent but, having lived in the US, for the past 40 years, I've had the most terrible trouble being uderstood. Mostly, at drive ups, I gave up ordering food 40 years ago, because I always got the wrong food, these days, I only order inside and, still, with difficulty. 😂 I can see that a scouser, would have much more trouble than me. Also, the word scouser comes from a food dish, made in the Liverpool/Birkenhead area, usually a type of cheap stew. I was born during the second world war, and scouse was a popular meal.

It made me laugh when you said "what's the point in different ledders if you're just going to say them all the same" 😊

Scouse is heavily influenced by Irish, because of migration across the Irish sea. Scots also has the och sound . It's not compulsory to speak in a local accent or dialect. Some of us were encouraged to speak English that any English speaker could understand!

I can't speak for Scousers but, when I was growing up in the South of England, "Bifter" did not mean cigarette exactly. More of a "herbal" cigarette. A Jazz Woodbine.

Liverpool is a port city and so you have people coming from all over the world all the time. Since it's across from Ireland and next to Wales, Liverpool is made up of a lot of Irish people and Welsh too, both of whom have added their own inflections and pronunciations to make up what is the Scouse dialect.

Cilla Black was a fantastic singer who was a friend of the beatles and had the same manager

As a German Aussi English is my favorite language. It´s so cute that they shorten most of they words. In addition, the pronunciation is very easy to understand.

As someone who has lived in Yorkshire (northern England) my whole, I don't believe there is a standard British accent.

I love your reactions !! You made my day 🤣🤣

'Scouse' is just a word for a stew. Comes from a Scandinavian word for a stew that sailors used to eat (I think). It is a port city. It apparently used to be an offensive term for people from Liverpool but doesn't have that connotation these days. You can still get a bowl of scouse in some places. Proper scran that la (la = lad). I've lived up here most of my life now but don't have the accent alas. I had family from up here so I knew most of the words already but still had some things to learn. The first time someone said "Sorry for gegging in". You're doing what now? Are you feeling OK? Thought she might have meant gagging and that she was going to be sick or something. Can't believe they talked about the scouse 'k' without mentioning chicken. That always seems to come up. There's a series of videos about British accents by a channel called Babbel which I'd recommend.

I did hear once that due to its location and the port of Liverpool, that the Scouse accent is close to the Irish one in many ways. They way she says though sounding as it did would get me teased as I would say it the same way. I was sent to a speech therapist as they wanted to teach me to speak as they could not understand what I was saying being from Drogheda, Bloody racists.

This is just one of many more British accents - so believe me, it's hella colourful!

Am a scouse in me 40,s,never heard fake bake in me life man

I'm a scouser, and I'm dying at this 😂😂😂

You do wonderful Dick van Dyke Ryan lol. The art is in listening really. If you spend maybe an hour in the company of someone with a different accent you do (embarrassingly) start to copy it.

Ryan, it's always funny to me to see how baffled you are by things you would learn in linguistics classes. If you're ever looking into studying something new, I'd recommend linguistics to you. Even better when accompanied by learning a new language. I think you'd be blown away regularly.

We use different parts of our mouth to speak from with our accents. Australians use the back of the mouth, we lift up the back of our tongue. Millie Bobby Brown the actress is really good at explaining this and doing accents

Some of these Scousian peculiarities might well suit a native German speaker whose tongue never got around to correctly pronounce 'th', for example.

You need to do a yorkshire accent. I think you’ll find it amusing to.

When watching videos like this, I often wonder why many Scandinavians put so much emphasis on "correct" English pronunciation (usually meaning RP, Oxford, or American). Because there is often an english accent where our way of saing a certain word is "right". In this case "come" and "up". The scouse version sound almost exactly like casual Swedish "kom" and "upp".

A scouser born in Toxtoth!!U heard nothing yet!!!

*RYAN* We have over 40 accents, if you drive half an hour down the road the accent starts changing. The Scottish and Irish accents are when I start to think i need a translator on standby...and I'm British through and through! 🤣 It all stems from our original separate tribes / invaders / settlers etc from hundreds if not thousands on years ago. English itself is a Germanic language, but we also have a lot of french woven into it. The way she was teaching is pretty much how we are taught English, lots of emphasis on correct pronunciation of letter sounds or letter combos. They messed around with curriculum since I was at school, and not for the better in my opinion, but children are taught phonetically, how it should SOUND not necessarily how it looks like it should sound. It's probably why we say that Yanks have butchered our language. I get why you would find English and Australian English as similar sounding, a lot of us Southerners in England have Australian twangs in our pronunciation, i even hear it in myself particularly if I say the word no. Daft but true. 😁 They also speak at a similar speed to us, and have the same way of expressing themselves. They have a ton of slang words that we don't use but do know, so their sentence may have completely different words in it, but the way they've used those words is very similar to us. They also have a far more relaxed attitude to swearing, same as we do. We both swear a LOT! It's a silly concept to me, to consider some words as bad...the context in which they're used should be what matters in communication. A good example of that is the N word....ending gga amongst black people, acceptable Vs ending in gger from a white person to a black person, let's hope you know how to fight! The word itself is not the issue, it's the context in which it's used that matters to us and Australians typically, whereas Americans often get caught up on individual words being "wrong" and miss the overall meaning. If I ever have to explain my meaning to someone, 95%+ of the time, it's an American taking offence to something that wasn't even intended to be offensive. I've never once been misinterpreted by an Australian. Watch them all come for me now I've said that! 😂 I went out with a scouser for two years, it took six months before my Mum understood a word he said! 🤣 I could mimic the musical tone of their accent, but their T sounds and K sounds are EXTREMELY difficult to do. It's a bit like how easily the French can roll their R's without thinking about it, and I just cannot do it! Thinking about it, I've noticed that everyone BUT America it seems, is very acquainted with other English speaking countries' slang or alternative words. I'm sure there are some Australian terms I'm not familiar with, but like i said, they structure their sentences very similarly to us, so it's often fairly easy to guess what it means by the context in which it's used. Most of the UK I'd say, knows a TON of Americanisms and word usage, but you don't tend to know our versions in return. One that gets me is "do you want a soda?" and I know that means a can of fizzy drink....but like, is that as specific as the question gets? Are tea, coffee, juice or water not to be offered to guests and reserved for members of the household only? That's not a deep question, I'm being curious, sarcastic and humourous all at once, so don't take me as ridiculing your way of speaking. I understand what the question means, but we just wouldn't say that here, as there's a variety of fizzy drinks available, and the question doesn't tell us what options you currently have in your fridge. We would say "do you want a drink" and the person would reply with, tea or coffee or just some water please, at which point we may say, "well if you'd prefer a cold drink I do have fresh apple juice, coke or lemon squash instead of plain water?" so we're just more detailed and specific with our words.

So my spoken english is not broken. It's just a rare accent from a little village of eyyweedowytrach that almost nobody speaks.

My missus hates it when I come back from Liverpool (my home city) as she can't understand a word I say.

It still isn’t definitive though coz my dad is from Liverpool and he says Luke for look and Buke for book. Accents have changed over time too, the younger Liverpudlians say things very differently to how my Dads generation would’ve said it.

Never heard the word bifters in my life my Uncle would usually call them ciggies. 😂

I think when she said Google Cilla black she meant listen to her accent 😂

They didn't mention that in Scouse, the 'er' sound is pronounced 'air'. For example, 'German' rhymes with 'airman'.

I live in and Im from Liverpool but I don't know anybody that pronounces though like dough

Hi, Ryan! For me as a german "fake bake" (with a Liverpool-accent) sounds like dutch, and "come here" sounds german! 😀 ....and "th" sounds like a german trying to speak english who is not able to pronounce the english "th" with his tongue an his teeth. In this case the german would say "d" or "s". Mostly "s".... Maybe TOTALLY wrong, but my OWN imagination about all this is that in the early days - maybe middle age - many people have had bad teeth/ or to few teeth or something like that - espacially the poor, right? So I think, that parents passed this mispronunciation on to their children and so on. Who knows, maybe also a well-respected person, so that people began to speak like him! Sometimes this still happens even today, because of a famous pop star or actor or even youtuber or whatever. But today there are much more influences than in former days. And everything gets faster...🤓. Can someone agree with that???😶

I love that

Bevvy, keks, scran are used in other places. They aren't specific to Liverpool

Hi there! I’m an ESL speaker, I was lucky enough to have an opportunity to spend 5 days in Liverpool in ‘98. Still a marvellous memory, it is a lovely place! I have to admit though that our local host was needed as a translator, as I didn’t catch a word of what the waitress said:) And the same thing happened again and again, at a certain point we were involved in a short discussion with a local aristocrat (I learnt that later, when we met I just thought: poor guy, sg is really wrong with him), I have no facts, but up to this day I think he was talking about Ukrainian prostitutes. In a nutshell, as an ESL person there you can tear apart your language certificate papers, have them blown by the wind, while yourself roaring a satanic laughter:) But a gourgeous place still❤️

I know Scouse because of the Beatles. That is the most famous accent the world!

It always makes me laugh when Americans say "khaki pants". To my Londoner ear it sounds like "cacky pants", which means "sh*tty underwear"! 😄

You should watch her video about the Birmingham and Black Country accent. That accent is one of my favs (but all of them are great *g*). Featured in "Peaky Blinders". :)) Also a good channel for the Brummie accent as it's also called is Smashing English. The lady on that channel is from Birmingham herself and uses the TV show for teaching that accent.

There is no standard British English. There is Received Pronunciation, which is basically Southern English and it’s classified as “British English” ignoring all of the other 3 countries that make up the UK and the rest of England. It’s like claiming the Texan accent as the standard American accent.

cilla black lived facing me on the famous scotland road .scotty road

Don’t worry I can barely understand a word scousers say. I worked with one Brookside nice geezer but took a lot of effort to decipher him but if you want an accent where every word is unintelligible. We had a geezer from Glasgow and whenever he came upstairs we would say alright and he would say a line and we would all go yeah yeah not having understood a single word. I worked with him for years and the only word I remember correctly was his Christian name.

A good video of Cilla Black's accent is at kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oNp0ddZpvq20hKM.html She was famous for saying "fair hair" as "fur ur".

All countries have different "dialects" in ever county, some times even in every village.

Damn, for a non native speaker it's kinda hard to imitate the accent 😂 but I tried

Some of these words and phrases are never heard in Liverpool. I'm just going up the apples and pears for a peepo.

she has a very broad liverpool accent, mostly found in the north of liverpool

If you meet a scouser ask them to say 'furry fairy '

This guy has some old pewdiepie influence in the way he talks and acts

The double oos is like 'ui' buik liverpuil luik

I'd never heard about them saying cob on until a different American reacted the other week, and i assumed it was a play on hard on as well when i heard it first,lol

Bifters punches gegon never heard of it

Nuttin wrong with Cilla Black! She's a lorra laughs 😁 pls check out the Dublin accent 🤗

I’m a scouser but some of the words here I have never heard , I’m 87 years old🤔

G'day Mate! You should really check out the Geordie accent from the Northeast...Cheers!

Us Australians use the word bevvy

If a Scouse is shouting at you better put up your umbrella 🌂😂

You should watch some John Bishop - scouser comedian, very thick accent.

Lol!! I wish they would have done the D sound?? Have a great day!!

We do love Scouse in Australia, probably because we love Scots, and we loved the Beatles and we love watching Heartbeat (8 repeats so far), and Yorkshire Vet and My Yorkshire Farm - come bye, by gum! "Ferry Cross the Mersey"! 😁 Good try Ryan! 👍

Liverpool accent is weird in respect of is geography and the striking differences to english in even close areas Most of the surrounding county of Lancashire does not have it. I've always liked it though.

She ment Lob on.

Rebecka looks very much like "Al Bundy's daugher" :)

7:23 You actually said "up" ("upp") in Swedish right there!

If your not a scouser its not easy to mimic tge accent.... The girl on the left tried it at the end and it was awful... The scouse girl was fun and she was enjoying it as you could tell by her genuine laughs.

It's a mixture of Irish and English a lot of Irish moved to Liverpool for work .

IT'S CLOSE TOO DUTCH.

Cigarettes are $ 6,15 for a pack of 19 in Sweden today. Crazy.

geggin in on a video video

the pronuncian of a lot of liverpoll-words reminds me on 'dutch' and some on 'danish'

Kecks aren't trousers, they're underpants.

I ve got a cob on , I’m being sherious lol ❤❤

Can’t see why you question it? It is what is, leave it out. Which is cockney for stop it.

Have you done Glasgow yet?

5:52 This sound is actually very common in the Dutch language

Some of these are more general British English rather than just scouse. Water, made up, etc. Dey do dough don’t dey dough is stereotypical.

Patterson will pay !!!!

Calm down, calm down!

Not gonna lie even Brits don't understand most accents. Go to black country (Cornwall and Sommerset) like talking an alien language

Haha shickenn is the best one. Chicken btw

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