How to do a Scouse accent (Liverpool)

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This is a guide to the accent of Liverpool - Scouse. It's a melting pot of sounds heavily influenced by Irish immigration, Welsh English and Northern English dialects. It's spoken by film star Jodie Comer, footballer Trent Alexander-Arnold and comedian John Bishop. Special thanks to @theredmentv for allowing me to use clips from their channel. If you want more examples of Scouse accents go check it out.
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Chapters
00:00 Introduction
00:39 Famous Scousers
00:50 History & Geography
01:48 The /K/ sound
03:46 Free Resources
04:03 The /T/ as /H/
05:14 The Tapped /R/
06:03 The /T/ as /TS/
06:54 Free Resources
07:14 The /ɜː/ Sound
08:28 The /H/ Sound
08:40 The /ʊ/ Sound
09:05 The /æ/ Sound
09:41 The /ð/ as /D/
10:06 Intonation
11:07 ACCENT TEST
12:00 Outro
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@saundersdachicken6197 3 ай бұрын

Have to say as a Dubliner, the Scousers are the best people in the world.

@mi-moon_ 4 ай бұрын

The first time I went to Liverpool I cried because I thought I couldn't understand English

@birukdamtew 3 ай бұрын

Have u tried Geordie yet?

@zachary_m691 3 ай бұрын

@@birukdamtew Got to give it to you there, When Newcastle came to Anfield i could not understand them at all. Friendly but quite hard to understand. Scouse is hard even from a scouser it's still hard to understand.

@carlrose4877 2 ай бұрын

I'm from Liverpool, and if I don't "tune in" to what I'm listening to, it can seem like a foreign language especially with really thick accents, so don't beat yourself up.

@wenterinfaer1656 Ай бұрын

Because it ain't English

@jaimetabilo2005 7 күн бұрын

Same here. I visited Liverpool in 2015, and I chatted with a Liverpoodlian man in Wavertree. It was hard at the beginning, but at the end I was able to understand almost everything.

@nitishsaxena1372 6 күн бұрын

Love the Scouse accent!! from India. I wish there was a movie in only this accent 😂

@GK-bs2wu 5 ай бұрын

I lihe Scouse accent. Beautiful and fantastih.

@EatSleepDreamEnglish 5 ай бұрын

Nice!

@sandradowling-horgan4221 5 ай бұрын

As an Aussie Anglophile and mad Beatles fan, I love this video and the Scouse accent. I did a Beatles tour in Liverpool many years ago, and I hope to go with hubby one day in the future. Such friendly people in Liverpool. Thanks for this interesting video 😊

@EatSleepDreamEnglish 5 ай бұрын

Very cool Sandra! I did a video on Paul McCartney's accent too a few years ago. Thanks for your comment and for watching all the way over there in sunny Oz!

@bastianray6334 Ай бұрын

Yes but really none of the Beatles spoke with this kind of accent at all that's why they are not even included in this video , probably because they come from an older generation?

@bastianray6334 Ай бұрын

@@EatSleepDreamEnglishPaul McCartney never spoke Scouse at all he had a different way of speaking

@lornamarie5544 2 ай бұрын

Best of all the British accents

@mohammedumarfarhan9900 5 ай бұрын

How r u Tom? It's been a long time. I used to follow you religiously back in 2017-20. It's so heartwhelming how ur channel as grown and how u help thousands around the globe to improve their English. Mah u always stay blessed mate

@EatSleepDreamEnglish 5 ай бұрын

Awww thanks so much mate, I appreciate you watching back in the day and returning for this video. All the best my friend : )

@mohammedumarfarhan9900 5 ай бұрын

@@EatSleepDreamEnglish I must tell you, you helped a lot to improve my pronunciation in British English. Thanks a lot mate for the free education that u had provided.

@KibyNykraft 4 ай бұрын

@@EatSleepDreamEnglishThe tapped r is the spanish,but only in Spain proper and a few other areas (like a part of Colombia). Also the finnish one, and the icelandic. Many other countries have a softer version of it like Poland, Sweden, etc.

@signalenergie Ай бұрын

I have been learning English as a non-native speaker since 1981 and the language always surprises me anew with its many words, phrases, and dialects. #OxfordComma

@ju2b295 5 ай бұрын

Great video as always! Also a fun fact: in Hamburg the local dish is called “Labskaus” which is the same stew that “scouse” originated from. Both cities have important ports so the sailors probably spread the recipe :) same pronunciation but different spelling

@EatSleepDreamEnglish 5 ай бұрын

Ohhh that's super interesting! I wonder if sailors from Hamburg brought it over to Liverpool. There is also another link between the two great cities: Kevin Keegan.

@ju2b295 5 ай бұрын

⁠@@EatSleepDreamEnglishand of course the Beatles gained a lot of fame during their time in Hamburg :)

@onlyforthecomments Ай бұрын

They also eat lobscouse in Bremen, where it is a bit like corned beef hash - but served with pickled red cabbage or beetroot, just like in Liverpool

@Isilwern 26 күн бұрын

I went to uni to Liverpool John Moores. Im Spanish, Asturias. And I love scouse because although sometimes is hard to get.... is really has the same musicality, the ts sound... as my regional language )Bable/Asturian) where we also mix and match Asturian worlds in Castillian. So, this feels like home to me and makes it easier for me to speak English without renouncing my homeland accent. Actually,when I was living there no one believed me when I said I'm Spanish, so imagine!!

@DLtranssexual 4 ай бұрын

It's my favorite British accent, easier for me to imitate as a Californian.

@EatSleepDreamEnglish 4 ай бұрын

Really? It's very distinct, isn't it?

@moncrnn5858 3 ай бұрын

just dont go into town trying tha accent or else ye will get called a wool

@davidc3808 20 күн бұрын

A scouse friend was asked what her name was. She said in her broad scouse accent “Margaret” The woman said “Isn’t that a nice name, I’ve never heard the name Margritsss before. 😂

@mariomauriciomartin8981 5 ай бұрын

Great lesson ,liked si much mate,been taught that Liverpool is the most irish city in England

@denniscain5738 29 күн бұрын

It's the most Irish city in Ireland

@emilbayramov5102 5 ай бұрын

Liverpool has two famous football clubs, Liverpool and Liverpool U19

@EatSleepDreamEnglish 5 ай бұрын

Ufff that's a burn!!!

@jennydunn9014 2 ай бұрын

That's original! Did your tell you that?

@nep401 16 күн бұрын

😂😂

@millinutz 11 күн бұрын

Wrong lad, there are 3, you forgot our LFC W.

@jennydunn9014 11 күн бұрын

@millinutz you forgot that Liverpool wouldn’t exist without Everton? So do your research on history before you go on a journey of making up a story

@NK-qp1ho 7 күн бұрын

reminds me of an interview with Ross Barkley (Scouser) and Antonio Ruediger (German). I thought, Ruediger probably wouldn't understand much. Ruediger just grinned throughout and when asked why, he said, he didn't understand a word Barkley said. 🤣

@kimika53 3 ай бұрын

Very well explained. I think I can enjoy this type of accent more than before. Thank you !!

@EatSleepDreamEnglish 3 ай бұрын

Glad to hear that!

@tigradigra 5 ай бұрын

It's fantastichh, greatchh! Thanks, Tom! I love it!

@EatSleepDreamEnglish 5 ай бұрын

Glad you like it mate! Thanks for watching

@luxpursuits 5 ай бұрын

I love the Scouse accent.

@sonicfan2403 19 күн бұрын

Practicing while watching, might need to make a habit and come back to this and other tutorials.

@absoluterefusal 22 күн бұрын

Yes. Always one of my top 5 (at lease) favorite sounding languages. I am US born, never traveled to British Isles, etc.

@yenloong151 5 ай бұрын

Thanks. I love it.

@georgiaemb 4 ай бұрын

You are amazing. I've only just seen this. I'm having to learn the accent for a audition of Blood Brothers.

@EatSleepDreamEnglish 4 ай бұрын

Ohhh fun! Good luck with the audition. I've got my fingers crossed for you : )

@brazy1892 5 ай бұрын

Very well done and informative video!

@EatSleepDreamEnglish 5 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it mate : )

@thekidsfankhauser4991 Ай бұрын

Yes love it! thank you so much

@kanzeon7729 3 ай бұрын

Scouse is an amazing accent. One of the more richest when it comes to phonetic features and intonation

@akmalkhirman563 5 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot man.... My fav scouse accent is from Paddy Pimblet... When he speaks it's kinda difficult for me to like understand so even know I'm even curious and want to learn a bit of scouse accent

@ffm_house 8 күн бұрын

Fantastic video. Could you maybe do one on Manchunian English too?

@mydarwis 5 ай бұрын

I'm from Malaysia and Liverpool fan. I like this video.

@EatSleepDreamEnglish 4 ай бұрын

Awesome!

@francescomanetti01 5 ай бұрын

Hi Tom! Thanks for your work, it's fantastic for English learners like me! I would love to see a video on Gary Lineker accent who's in my opinion a great communicator (with a lovely accent) and one of the leading figures in sports broadcasting

@EatSleepDreamEnglish 4 ай бұрын

Ohhh that's a really interesting suggestion. He's from Leicester and still has a very soft local accent. You are so right about him being a great communicator : )

@walterhernandez8623 5 ай бұрын

Fascinating!

@journeytothinify 5 ай бұрын

I absolutely love the Scouse accent!! Could you breakdown the Mancunian one next time? Love that one as well!

@EatSleepDreamEnglish 4 ай бұрын

Great suggestion! It's another wonder accent : )

@utemima 20 күн бұрын

Hallo from Germany🙋🏻‍♀️We also have a lot of accents in the German. I love accents it’s always interesting to hear it and it makes a language kind of lively, sometimes rather funny too, at least f e the Saxon accent in German. You mentioned the Irish influence in Scouse and the Singsang in the accent Scouse, this reminds me of an Irisch actor, Jamie Dornan, because he has a slightly Singsang and a lift up at the end of his sentences too. Thank you for the interesting insight into the different accents. I appreciate it very much.

@JoeJigsy 5 ай бұрын

Great video as always, but at 10:55 surely brummie also frequently has this upward sound?

@EatSleepDreamEnglish 5 ай бұрын

Yep, I think you are right mate.

@auldfouter8661 5 ай бұрын

In the 1960s when I was a child watching Till Death Us Do Part I had no idea what Alf Garnet was saying , when he insulted his son in law. To me it sounded like he was saying " scarse" which isn't a word. What he was actually saying was " scouse git" in a cockney accent with an intrusive R !

@matthewschwoebel8247 5 ай бұрын

Geordie. That one was difficult when I visited Newcastle recently.

@denniscain5738 29 күн бұрын

I'm ex scouse but I love the Geordie accent Know lots of Georgia's here in BC Very similar personalities as scousers

@amerikawoche8243 5 ай бұрын

The Bunnymen were my guide growin up.

@blueboy189 14 күн бұрын

Kudos for finding a clip of a Scouse lad outside Anfield after the game. As a Blue, I can confirm that is a rare find indeed!

@jennydunn9014 11 күн бұрын

laughing my head off at this comment! It’s so true x

@patriciamcdonald8309 3 ай бұрын

Love a Scouse accent

@marysobczak2078 Ай бұрын

I love your site, true Scouse accents. I'm from Birkenhead, but have lived in Australia for 50 years. I still have my Scouse accent and proud of it.

@blueboy189 14 күн бұрын

Your accent ain't Scouse lad if you're from over the water 😂

@stormede1564 3 ай бұрын

Best example of the sound of the”k” is the pronunciation of the sweet bar Caramac

@schummy07 4 ай бұрын

Fantastic video! I really enjoy it!

@EatSleepDreamEnglish 4 ай бұрын

Thank you very much my friend! More accent guides to come : )

@salaheldin00 Ай бұрын

Brilliant accent, indeed

@fiberofmybeing7869 5 ай бұрын

I would love to see one on the Yorkshire accent!

@EatSleepDreamEnglish 5 ай бұрын

Good shout buddy!

@SimoneSoccol-zi3db 5 ай бұрын

Hi Tom, I'm slower getting used to scouse accent because I follow the Champions League Tv show on CBS hosted by Kate Abdo (a Manc but slighlty American as well), Micah Richards (a Brummie) and Jamie Carragher (a Scouser). It' beautiful spotting the differences, even though it's a bit tough... I also think that as an Italian, I have a little advantage in understanding northener accent, beacuse at school they tent to teach RP but actually when reading or speaking we spell all the words with open vowels. In fact the Italian language has many, many wider sounds than english one and in some way we adapt the italian pronunciation to english language. Last but not least, I wish you a merry christmas!🌲

@EatSleepDreamEnglish 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for the observations Simone : ) The CBS show sounds like a great way to expose yourself to new accents and Jamie Carragher's Scouse is one of the strongest I've heard on TV. Micah Richards is a Manc btw. All the best, Teacher Tom

@marqueo7916 5 ай бұрын

Micah's actually from Leeds! @@EatSleepDreamEnglish

@SimoneSoccol-zi3db 5 ай бұрын

@@EatSleepDreamEnglish No way is he? According to Carragher he's a bit rough and makes fun of him because of that. Actually Carra himself isn't the poshest person in the UK while speaking😂

@revanab-va664 2 ай бұрын

My fav!!!🥰

@fnjesusfreak 3 ай бұрын

The "ts" thing would explain me hearing "suyomo" when others heard "to Jorma" at the beginning of the Beatles' "It's All Too Much". And I've definitely heard the "er" thing, like from John Lennon in "Polythene Pam" - "she's the kind of a gehl who makes the News of the Wehld"

@kareemdjerdjouri2231 5 ай бұрын

You know this through our instagram chats - I obsessively love the Scouse accent. I literally spent two years leisurely examining each of its features, recording myself, and mimicking it. There are other famous Scousers such as Frank Carlisle and Wayne Rodney. Posting This video first is fittingly conducive to making one about the Mancunian accent, which I recommend posting next. Happy Holidays Lad or as Liverpudlians say in their accent apply oildays la. Sometimes they drops ds at the end of words.

@EatSleepDreamEnglish 5 ай бұрын

Hehehe love it Kareem! Thanks and glad you liked the video. Mancunian coming soon : )

@marthaloamividalperez8738 4 ай бұрын

When Peter Crouch joined Liverpool, he started to speak like them ❤

@user-oe1bu5qw1w 5 ай бұрын

Funny case: i heard many times that russian ы-sound is pretty difficult for english speakers, but pal at 2:20 said exactly this sound in the end of the word "fantastic".

@jaimetabilo2005 7 күн бұрын

As a Beatles fan, I'd love to listen to them singing in scouse. The closest to it was George singing Roll over Beethoven, but not 100% scouse

@zxenon_ 5 ай бұрын

Jamie Carragher has that really heavy scouse accent 😅

@EatSleepDreamEnglish 5 ай бұрын

Yeah, good shout! His accent is fantasticchhhh!

@MatusalemRamosRguez8822 5 ай бұрын

He's Steven Gerrard.

@KibyNykraft 4 ай бұрын

@@MatusalemRamosRguez8822They turn it off when interviewed by non-Liverpool reporters

@fernandomilicich8160 5 ай бұрын

Quite difficult, but I love it

@psikodelriot6754 2 ай бұрын

Here in northern germany, we also have "Labskaus"/"lobscouse" as a meal. Sweden and denmark too, but in other variations. Here Labskaus is mashed potatoes, with grinded beef and root beet/beetroot all mixed together and upon on top that, comes a rolled fish called "Rollmops". 😅😆🤮🤮😅 No joke. In south germany noone knows about Labskaus.😅 Maybe better for them... Cheerz!!

@delivreahanga2322 5 ай бұрын

Could you consider doing a review on the estuary accent, and why not your own accent? Cheers) I reckon you have a standard southern accent.

@EatSleepDreamEnglish 5 ай бұрын

That's a good shout mate, I might just do that at some point in the future. Maybe I should get other teachers to analyse my accent.

@patmcguirk5299 28 күн бұрын

What about the glottal stop in bottle, kettle, etc?

@tonydalton459 3 күн бұрын

The dis, dat, dese and dose is common in Dublin as well. We flatten the th sound to a d.

@ruwangikasamarasinghe6504 Ай бұрын

you should analyse west country accent

@RichiEnglish 3 ай бұрын

my 4th favourite UK accent

@tonydalton459 3 күн бұрын

If you listen to Paul McCartney and the way he says words ending in ng. He elongates the g sound. For example he will say song-guh.

@astraaj435 5 ай бұрын

Glaswegian please - my daughter lives there for a few years and obviously has got around it but when we visited her this year there was no way I could understand what the lady told us about the rules in the cat cafe as we got there.. I live in Sussex for all 11 years that I am in UK. Around the border between East and West Sussex 😊

@EatSleepDreamEnglish 5 ай бұрын

Ah that's a great idea. Glaswegian is one of my favourite accents so I'd love to explore its pronunciation features and help you understand your daughter's friends : )

@ZaniaJ 5 ай бұрын

Fab Four accent!

@zxenon_ 5 ай бұрын

Incredible... 😅

@EatSleepDreamEnglish 5 ай бұрын

Cheers mate! Glad you enjoyed it : )

@JeromeKurtis-yf9gl 21 күн бұрын

That /x/ sound is pretty common in the Irish language, so we're all nodding here. One of those sounds we all get to learn at school, if our own regional English accent has lost it. Found in words like, for example, president: uachtarán.

@martinhughes2549 8 күн бұрын

In Welsh "CH" is a very common sound. The north Wal 11:07 es dialect of Welsh is a profound influence on the accent in Liverpool. The phonology of North Wales accents is quite similar to Liverpool, because a lot of features are found in Welsh. You'd realise this if you prounonced Llanerch or Bach. Irish is the other big influence of course. Many Welsh people settled in Liverpool, the Wirral and Chester from the beginning of the 18th Century to the mid 20thC. Hence all the people in Liverpool, called Jones, Davies, Roberts and Hughes. TJ Hughes& Lewis's shops ? All the Welsh Chapels?

@ericmartin3681 5 ай бұрын

Scouse is the most difficult accent to understand for me… hard to get used to it. Highlanders aren’t easy to understand either.

@EatSleepDreamEnglish 5 ай бұрын

Really Eric? What makes it so hard for you?

@ericmartin3681 5 ай бұрын

@@EatSleepDreamEnglishI would say the /k/ sound and /t/ as /h/ makes it difficult for me… I need to be listening to it for a while until I get used to it every time.

@onlymise2758 28 күн бұрын

A Dubliner here .. I lived in england for a few years . The Pool was the only place I did not continually have to repeat myself .. Big Dub Influence in the scouse accent

@jackfoulkes2047 6 күн бұрын

Liverpool as a city takes a huge amount of pride in our Irish heritage. As a Liverpudlian (with no Irish blood) I find speaking with Irish people is like being at home. Huge amounts of similarities in wit and humour.

@IssyOneX Күн бұрын

I am in Liverpool 14 years and i still can’t use to that accent… even though my kids speak that 😅

@glennfolau6959 2 ай бұрын

I have heard George Harrison sing and say "take care", but it sounds more like "take kerr", I don't know if that's a Scouse trait.

@jesusdiaz4089 5 ай бұрын

More of that K sound in different accents. ❤️😍

@mottahead6464 3 ай бұрын

Paddy the Baddy is the first who comes to mind.

@soulman1419 Ай бұрын

Born and bred scouser me but don’t understand why anyone wants to learn scouse?? Unless you live in Liverpool what good is it ???

@toobatooba5334 5 ай бұрын

❤❤❤💕

@millinutz 11 күн бұрын

Martin Freeman has gotta be the best non-scouse Scouser! I'd love to know who his language teacher is/was.

@herrprofessor 5 ай бұрын

Other celebrities with a Liverpool accent would be late TV hostess and singer Cilla Black as well as comedian Les Dennis (Family Fortunes).

@EatSleepDreamEnglish 5 ай бұрын

Ahhh yeah Cilla Black was THE famous Scouse speaker until she passed away. Hearing her say 'lorra lorra love' on Blind Date is a major childhood memory of mine.

@mariotabali2603 Ай бұрын

What about Book? if it sounds Boo'ch' then it s german Buch

@AdiA976 4 ай бұрын

Bruh the first ad I got was about Man City 🤣

@Brix96 11 күн бұрын

Whats he talking about how else do you say brick

@user-st1hz2pd3p 2 ай бұрын

Why didn't John and Paul have a scouser accent?

@Dimasshard 2 ай бұрын

Scouse is the best accent in the werrrrlld

@victorcastillo-dx9vh 6 күн бұрын

Actually, which Beatle has the most scouser accent? Does Paul?... What about John?

@willlit 3 ай бұрын

When I started studying English as a 12-year-old boy, I used to listen to the Beatles a lot. So I would say “werk” instead of “work” 😅😅😅

@luxpursuits 5 ай бұрын

No Beatles???

@zc6036 4 ай бұрын

Please analyze Jude Bellingham's accent

@EatSleepDreamEnglish 4 ай бұрын

Such a great idea! He's sooooo cool!

@zc6036 4 ай бұрын

@@EatSleepDreamEnglish yes yes yes I thought his accent is an interesting one also he's so well spoken at such a young age + I love your content so I will wait for it :) ♡

@fernandokuran1636 5 ай бұрын

So Kostas Tsimikas is the greek scouser so that means he is also from england

@EatSleepDreamEnglish 4 ай бұрын

Hehehe does he have a Scouse accent?

@3DInnovations70 4 ай бұрын

It’s so goofy I love it. People make fun of my regions accent all the time so hearing an even sillier one is hilarious to me

@andresiaw7895 4 ай бұрын

you forgot to address the..... nyeeeeaaaaahhhhh courseeeeeee........

@andromedacassiopiea 4 ай бұрын

Tbh trent is not just 50 50 mixed so it depends

@Sukma_dik 4 ай бұрын

Shadio maney😅😂

@EatSleepDreamEnglish 4 ай бұрын

Hehehe that 'Shadio' pron is amazing

@guguigugu 3 ай бұрын

but where exactly is this eponymous pool of liver?

@philipcochran1972 3 ай бұрын

May i suggest that not all Liverpudlians are Scousers.

@luxpursuits 5 ай бұрын

Wait a second... Scouse is similar to the same singy-songy Trini accent.

@luxpursuits 5 ай бұрын

Next week - Geordie

@victorcastillo-dx9vh 4 ай бұрын

I like scouse but difficult to understand

@reezevlog Күн бұрын

those are thick Scouse accents… unlike the likes of Michael Owen and DJ James Hype… much more subtle… i think depends on which area of Liverpool u are from..