The thing about British accents is that they're not only regional they're also 'class' .... so within a regional accent you'll have upper class, middle class and working class variations. Invariably the working class variation is the strongest and most difficult to understand. This is rarely pointed out in these accent' videos because they tend to concentrate on what you might hear from famous people or on TV and film ..... and that is usually the middle class version of the accent, By the way she said her family is from Solihull and that is a 'posh' part of the Birmingham conurbation

7:56 First of all, Birming-HAM is in Alabama, Birming-gum is in the UK.

I visited Birmingham - aka Brummy - on Wednesday. At work, we’re co-hosting an event there in May and I was viewing venues. I couldn’t help but smile imagining you running through New Street Station to the train haha! Joel & Lia’s accents were not too bad to my untrained ear.

Jimmy Carr did a standup skit and taught the audience to speak in a few dialects.

Hello Joel and pal. What a Brummer? I used to call a colleague from Solihull posh Brummie. I remember growing up with an affection for the accent as the character Pig from "Pipkins" spoke with it and it was so different from my northern English dialect.

This is my cousin's accent and I hear it all the time on the phone - though his own is not quite so broad as real Brummie. If I do the Brummie accent then I try and focus on how the actress Ann George used to sound. My mother was an avid viewer of the Midlands' soap opera Crossroads and Ann was born in Smethwick. I can stray into Liverpool if I don't keep my mind on it. There's a distinction between the two. Craig Charles is a real Scouser. Paul McGann has tonalities of Liverpool. You can go overboard with each accent. The trick is to go for subtlety and somehow capture them. It really does help to get the music of the accent, rhythms and sounds, having a musical ear.

I miss your old flatmates. Hopefully we get to see them soon. Have a good weekend Joel

I've lived in Edgbaston, Birmingham for more than thirty years and I can tell you, there's a lot of confusion among Brits over the difference between the Birmingham accent and that of the Black Country (an area to the west and north-west of Birmingham that includes Dudley and Sandwell). Black Country folk split syllables with an 'oh' or 'ow' vowel sound into two separate syllables e.g. 'phowan' instead of 'phone' or 'towan' instead of 'town'. Interestingly, the word 'vowel' itself is how Black Country people pronounce 'vole', a type of water rat. This is similar to the way folk from the deep south of the USA pronounce some vowel sounds. Penelope Pitstop from the Wacky Races springs to mind: "Hy-elp! Hy-elp!" Instead of 'Help! Help!' The people of Solihull, to the south-south-east of Birmingham, generally speak with a 'posh' accent, similar to that of Kensington in London. "I say, Old Chap, I'm from SO-lee-hull".

Birmingham is the best place you've visited so far in England , you LOVED it there .

Yeah, Brummie does often sound like the speaker has a cold not to mention chronic depression!

There accents are pretty good for a non Brummie .

Hi Joel @Itsjps , don’t forget that also the accent is different too, once you leave Brum and head into the Black Country, (Dudley, Wolvo, Walsall, Stourbridge) which tbh is the accent that everyone thinks Brummie is. The Famous Lenny Henry is from the region of the Black Country ( Dudley, my home town when a kid) he does a great Black Country accent if you (yow cun fy und it) lol phonetically spelt.)

I've lived in Birmingham for most of my life and I sound nothing like the typical Brummie is supposed to. Most people when trying to do a Brummie accent, fall into a Black Country accent, which is completely different.

Taking a grave risk of motivating Brummie hit squads Joel, with your history. To be fair, they weren't really helping you much with doing it. You need something with a few phrases to learn and tips to get into the flow.

I've heard a few Americans now say the Birmingham accent is really hard to try but it's the opposite for us in the UK because it's one of the most recognised accents, the accent is the first one anyone attempts to copy outside Birmingham and anyone growing up in the 90s will automatically know this reference and will read it in a Brummy accent "I want to be a tree"

Hi both, if you say the words "kipper tie" that sounds like a person from Birmingham saying "cup of tea" 😊

Joel as someone Scottish who went back to Birmingham again to see the amazing Tom Bailey in concert at the Town Hall I honestly don't think you gave Birmingham enough of a chance. Yes there are parts where it's a little rough arounds the edges and what I saw of the Digbeth area might not look the greatest but I think Birmingham has a lot to offer. If only you'd ventured further and saw Victoria Square and the Town Hall, the library and the canals area that runs from the arena over to the mailbox. That part is amazing. When I visited the canal area on my last visit early morning the water was so still and amazing reflections on the water for photographs. I just wish with the greatest of respect that you'd persevered with it. And I'm 21 miles west of Glasgow so it's not like I'm giving a biased opinion on the city just an honest one. It also has an Indian restaurant there that is so good Tom Cruise atw not just one but two curries there.

Hi Joel, just a point of order... It's pronounced Birmin-gum. Not Birming-,ham. Great channel btw.

I think it’s quite a good Brummie accent

Hi Joel. You’re a brave soul lol

I dont know how you dare after your visit to Birmingham.

Incredible bravery Joel. Good of you and Arturo having a go at it!!

Try listening to Jasper Carrott, Jack Grealish or Ozzy Osbourne, their accents haven't changed, Jeff Lynne (ELO) is also a Brummie, although his accent is a bit toned down now.

Looking forward to this one

Worst thing as a non-Birmingham person is to confuse a black country accent with a Birmingham one, neither will forgive you, even though I can't tell the difference!

Or just listen to Ozzy Osborne

The couple on the video have got no idea about the Birmingham accent. Ridiculous! You cannot learn from their examples.

Ha ha so funny when you were trying it! Somffink, nuffink!

I once saw a bloke fishing in Birmingham and asked him if he'd caught anything. He said "I've caught a whale". I said "I didn't know you could catch whales round here?" He replied "no, a bicycle wheel"

Ozzy Osbourne has a Birmingham accent. Her accent sounded reasonable to me as a Scot but probably not to a real Brummie.

I'm originally from the Manchester area, but spent over 30 years in Birmingham, and I'm now living in the Black Country. I've become fond of the West Midlands, and I'm still seething that when Joel came to Birmingham, he proceeded to walk in PRECISELY THE WRONG DIRECTION, away from the City Centre into an area that is being redeveloped. ( The BBC are now going to have a major centre in that bit, and other trendy things.) In this video she does speak Brummie very well, and they're both right in spotting the link with Welsh. English accents from further East fall at the end of sentences, but West Midlanders have a sing-song effect, keeping the last syllable stressed. An example is 'ticket', which West Midlanders tend to pronounce 'tick - itt', with equal stress on both syllables. ( Welsh speakers go up at the end of their sentences.) There are more people in the Black Country - where I've lived for eight years - than there are in Birmingham, although the Black Country's nextdoor. Each community in the Black Country has its own accent, particularly among the elderly, and all are different from each other and Brummie! An important feature of Black Country English are the negative verbs. 'I can't' is 'I cor', 'I weren't' is 'I wor', 'I'm not' is 'I bay'; 'I am' - or even sometimes ' you are' - is 'yam'. The result is that Brummies call Black Country people 'yam-yams'.

You both should try to do impressions of a video of all the UK accents, that would be fun

😂😂😂 brilliant love you guys ❤❤

Also by leaving Birmingham so soon you missed a statue that features my home area's greatest most famous resident Scottish inventor James Watt of whom the unit of power/energy Watt was named after.

Such a pity you didn’t visit the Cadbury factory while you were there. It would have made it worthwhile. Search KZfaq for Korean Billy Birmingham. Korean Billy is a native Korean speaker who’s really good at British dialect accents. His videos are hilarious, because he does excellent accents with Korean subtitles.

I'm a brummie. there accents are pretty good.

Her accent is great - I’ve lived in Birmingham for nearly 15 years some time ago and have friends from there, and when she switches to her brummy it’s exactly what I’d hear from my friends. His is a bit iffy in places. I think you think they’re not good because they keep slipping in and out of brummy and their “normal” English accent.

I'm not from Birmingham but I am English and think her Brummie is pretty decent tbh. The funniest thing I heard of, was an Israeli bar, where the owner loved the Brummie accent so much, that he would only hire staff from England with a Brummie accent! I personally love it. I think it's a hot accent. But most would disagree with me tbh.

I’m Birmingham born and bred and they’re getting our accent mixed with in with the Black Country accent which is somewhat different 😂😂😂

We’re back to Joel (and Arturo) reacting to Joel (and Lia). Also, you have to react to ‘Regional Accent Discrimination’ by Foil Arms and Hog.

Big thing she got wrong was when she said mum, people in the west- midlands say mom

The first thing to learn about the Birmingham accent is, it's not "bRRRming ham".

The closest I’ve been to Birmingham from London is the NEC in Marston Green, England to see a car exhibition there. Brum, like the rest of the midlands use to be one of Britains heartlands for heavy industries, but sadly no more which is why the area went into decline. But the city is being regenerated, so hopefully it will witness a renaissance once again. Also, I remember watching your brief visit into the city of Birmingham. You left as quickly as you arrived, running on your feet so fast, you couldn’t really get a feel for the city in its true colours, bearing in mind every city has its good and bad points.

For starters, you need to learn how to pronounce Birmingham correctly 😁

Try listening to Jack Grealish post match interviews. That will give you a good idea of what the accent sounds like 👍

As a Brummie, who subscribes to your channel, we don't all speak like this, I think they're mixing it together with the Black Country accent, some of it's ok, but some isn't us

I am originally from Liverpool but I lived in Birmingham for 10 years. Everybody thinks that I'm from Birmingham when they hear me talk so my Liverpudlian accent must have evolved into a Birmingham one! Great videos enjoying the content thanks for uploading best wishes to you all!👍🙂

Aw-doo Joel am yaw goo-in? I tried some Shakespeare in a Brummie accent [ or ‘twang’] with a few friends as this is the nearest accent to how this would have sounded in Tudor times only to greeted with hysterical laughter. But Brummie is not just an accent it’s also a dialect though not as strong as that of the Black Country just to the west of Birmingham.

I thought their accents sounded Brummy, but very diluted! Lia’s accent would easily become stronger if she went and lived there after a short space of time, especially as she has family in the area. I can spend a day with my sister in law, who’s from Liverpool and I can walk away with a twang in my accent. 😂

you should do a reaction to cadbury world, its in birmingham

You could try some Jasper Carrot standup to give you sone idea of the accent, but there are videos people who are language experts out there too. The problem here is they are not good at explaining it

With a Brummie accent you only have to include an ‘O ‘ in each word. Five become Foive and Mine becomes Moine!

I’m from Portsmouth, a proper Hampshire hog. My infantry training depot was at Lichfield near Tamworth. The Tamworth accent was almost another language. Bosting!

No matter what they say, Brummie isn't an accent. It's speech impediment.

I read a few years ago in a British newspaper; a poll undertaken in European holiday makers voted the Brummy accent as the most sexiest. It’s a friendly, funny accent. I love it! Literally ‘just up the the road’ is Dudley in the Black Country. The Black Country accent is completely different again. We call them ‘yam yam’s’ because they say ‘yam alritttte?’ = are you alright? Great friendly people the Brummies and Black Country. 🇬🇧🙌 P.S: It’s pronounced Birming’um (often called Brumerg(h)um by the locals).

This is hilarious, I’m a brummie and they do have good points although it sounds funny when they try to do it lol

The hardest accents to understand are Glaswegian ( Glasgow) and Geordie ( Newcastle) and Scouse ( Liverpool). If you want to hear genuine strong accents, then you could do no better than watch a clip from the TV comedy ;" Auf wiedersehen Pet" which is about a group of construction workers , working in Germany, from Newcastle, Liverpool, Wales, Birmingham, and London.

My fav joke that only makes sense if you say the punch line in a brummie accent: Q: what’s the difference between a buffalo and a bison? A: yer cart wash yer hands in a buffalo (So - a wash basin in Brummie sounds like “wush bison” …at least, close enough that the joke works)

Shakespeare didn't speak in a Brummie accent, as it didn't exist back then. He would have spoken in a Warwickshire accent that existed at the time, that we have no record of.

If you want to emulate a Brummie accent all you have to do is imagine your utterly mind numbingly bored with existence itself let alone having to put in any effort to actually speak.

Joel. Arturo. 😂😂 you guys crack me up. Hilarious. Her accent is good, but they’ve both gone into massive in-depth explanations here. They seem a bit over the top. Should have just done a load of talking like a Brummie so you’d pick it up better. Would have been hilarious had you both attempted to do the accent. As it goes, I like Brummies. I’ve only ever met 2 Brummies I didn’t like, so overall, they’re good eggs too.

I live close to Birmingham I’m not sure where you found these pair from but they don’t sound brummy at all

The ending on a minor note is true. And maybe that is why they are considered untrustworthy. When I lived in England thought the Brummy accent excellent and interesting.

YAYYYYYYY i am from Birmingham so this should be fun for me.

I'm from the Midlands originally and most people from my town are influenced by Southern pronunciations, but I was influenced by Northern pronunciations. So I will use a sharp 'a' in words whereas my friends will all use a longer sounding 'a'. Quite a few people say they can't place my accent, I've been asked by an Irish person which part of Ireland I'm from. Someone from the East said they had never heard an accent like mine before. Now I live in the South West, some people say they can pick up on a 'twang' but can't ever quite guess where I am from. In the Midlands when it comes to discussing accents we tend to joke that we don't have an accent because we are from the Midlands. Her accent has quite good. But I'd say some Lancashire accents are worse than Brummie ones. Have a listen to the Speaker of the House of Commons, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, he doesn't sound like he should be there at all.

Om yow ore rite ar kid, luving the videow, cape up the grate work yow om doing. HAHAHA The brummie accent is something I can live without. I am from the Black Country, our accent gets confused with a Brummie accent. How we say words and pronounce them is very different, well to our ears it is. To be honest the Brummie accent does tend to vary across the birmingham area. You need to watch Peaky Blinders or Boon. Her accent is ok, not perfect, but it is ok. Look forward to the accent once you get it perfected Joel. Have a great weekend both of you.

After feeling ill, a thorough examination and a MRI scan, Mr Green attends an appointment with his GP to hear the results. The doctor looks uncomfortable and says "It's bad news I'm afraid Mr Green, you have pancreatic cancer and its terminal." "How long have I got?" asks the man distraught and the medico replies "Six months." The man blanches and implores "Are you sure? is there nothing you can recommend?". The GP scratches his head and after a moment says "Well you could move to Birmingham and marry a Brummie." "How will that help?" snarls Mr Green The doctor replies sympathetically, "Well it will make the next six months seem like a lifetime."

I’m from the Black Country which neighbours Birmingham and to be honest her accent was good, a little exaggerated but it’s probably to prove a point. 😂 try watching like ozzy osbourne or jack grealish if you know who that is. They have pretty strong accents

Watching from birmz right now

I think you're better of listening to some jude bellingham interviews lads. People trying to imitate us always tend to pull weird faces when speaking and sound like the surrounding areas. Keep up the good work 👏

You guys should listen to South Yorkshire accent! I have it but mine is mixed with a Derbyshire accent so sounds abit posher. 😂

Try and do a Manchester accent with slang, that would be good! So for instance we say 'innit' for isn't it..Another thing we say is 'where's the bog?', which means 'Where's the toilet'..

Ozzy Osbourne as a strong Brumy accent good video

As a brummie, I think people who try to imitate a brummie accent exaggerate it a tad. The g thing on the end of a word like going is exaggerated, the g isn't even pronounced, so it would be pronounced goin, or in some parts of brum and the black country which is by birmingham as gooin. Different parts of birmingham sound different.

Now try geordie (Newcastle/Gateshead) you'll have fun with that 1!

You need to find a video of Man City and England footballer Jack Grealish speaking. A wonderful Birmingham accent.

Guys, Joel is auditioning for ‘Peaky Blinders’ and he’s practicing to nail it lol jk

you should visit birmingham next and you can woander wround confused all dya lool

Also just be mindful of the difference between a Birmingham and Black Country Dialect as they are very different but get generalised together when non natives take about brummie accents.

Most of the actors in Peaky Blinders were having to put the accent on and only a few of them managed it properly. Well the girl in the video was doing kind of ok but she was forcing it too much which made it sound a bit Black country . I think to learn to speak Brummie you two need to listen to a Jasper Carott Video rather than Peaky . . looking forward to seeing you try the accent lolllll

Because of my accent I'm unable to consistently do other accents. So I've got a glasweig accent and I lived in London and Essex so I'd often try do an English accent around my ex and her family or so a cockney accent but I'd always butcher it lol. BTW my exs family or mum would pronounce house without the h so she would say ouse.

8:15 Self-consciousness is absolutely normal. No judgement.

Joel, to get a proper sense of the Birmingham(Brummie) accent look up Jasper Carrott, he is a Brummie comedian.

I was born there, but moved to little villages since. I've just started dating a lady from up north. She's constantly laughing at me. Brum with a dabble of countryside. It's not a great accent that I've gained 😂

American ears are generally not as finely tuned to accents as Brits. It's because our own regional accents aren't as well-defined.

Don't point out that someone is from the west Midlands/Birmingham. They get really sore arsed about it. Probably gut a cold kipper tie.

2:39 Lol Lia already gave a disclaimer she’s not an expert

Spent the first 18 years of my life in Brum, somehow managed to escape without the accent.

Do yourself a favour and watch lettersLive. Especially the Olivia Coleman and Miriam Margolyes readings. Sounds boring but I promise its not. Ive been to three shows and loved every one. Also Queen my all time favourite band, check out Who wants to live forever. I was at Wembley stadium on 11 July 1986, that song bought me to tears. Still love it now.

Any place name ending in -ham is pronounced “ ‘um” not “hæm”

It is a good Bergenham accent

I might be wrong but I’m pretty sure you should check out peaky blinders. Sure they’re Brummie

NNNnnnoooo!, going is pronounced Gooin as mom arm gooin down the road. And hello is pronounced Worro . I’m Black Country born and bred and I’ve talked brummy most of me life If you want to hear brummy or black country accent look for Black Country accent

If you had anything to do with the British music scene, especially rock, in the 60s and 70s, a Brummie and West Mids accent is treated with respect. I stand with the Brummies.

Have a listen to Ozzy Osbourne or Rob Halford, 2 famous Brummies.

When you visited Birmingham I don't know how you got into back streets, Birmingham isn't that bad a town it has its good / bad parts just like everywhere else there are Arena's for Concerts ( Billy Conally, Peter kay, Elton John, Madonna, Queen, Madness, etc ) all have played there, it has art gallery's, and libraries, it has Cadbury World that's a working chocolate factory you can walk around they give you free chocolate and you hear about its history, it has a large train station, and the Commonwealth games were held in Birmingham in 2022, the Birmingham accent is also called a black County accent, I live in Staffordshire I have the accent but a milder version because I live a little further away it sounds different between regions but the underlying tone is there Jasper Carrott the comedian is from Birmingham check him out, ozzy Osborne he came from Birmingham, Noddy Holder ( slade ) is from Walsall ( Staffordshire ) but sounds like he is from Birmingham

Lads, just watching a few episodes of "Peaky Blinders" should help with the basics.

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The Dudley accent just 5 mins away is far worse. I live here and they have their own language. How are you = ow bin ya I'm good = bostin' Where are you = where am ya

8:20 I’ve been waiting for the video where you practice accents but I know it’s not happening. I’d be happy to be proved wrong.