You have to remember that these videos are made for people learning English and so the sub-titles are very useful for them. It is also why she speaks so clearly and slowly and seems to over-explain.

TBH most of those accents were NOT as 'broad' as many people would speak them and some are also spoken slower too! That could be because the featured people were already speaking on TV shows or during interviews and may have unconsciously used a more 'gentle' version (like a 'telephone voice', perhaps?). I'm quite confident if, for example, someone visits a Liverpool or Newcastle pub and had to join in with a group of locals, they would struggle 'big time' to keep up with the conversation... 😎

My daughter in law is Polish and she was taught English by an American. She landed in Newcastle pretty confident she knew English. At the train station a guy walked up to her and said eeee lass a thee gannin t toon? (Basically Are you going to the town) She stood wide eyed like a rabbit in headlights. She said she feels she’s had to learn a whole new language. 🤣😂

Thing is, it’s not just the accents, it’s the dialect. Towns 10 miles apart can have different words for the same thing. Makes life much more interesting 😄

i have to say even in Yorkshire the accent differs within a few miles . Leeds (west yorkshire) is very different to South yorkshire (Sheffield, Doncaster etc) and East yorkshire (Hull) is different again

She's chosen people with the softest accents even if you were from another planet you would understand everyone

I'm from Yorkshire and my wife is a Mackem (Sunderland). We went to the states earlier this year and were teaching friendly waiters and people we met how to say hello in our different accents. They found 'Ey up' really difficult to say. And then my wife said 'Yalreet pet' which blew their minds.

If you want to hear a more authentic Geordie accent, it’s the 40th anniversary of Auf Wiedersehen Pet. It’s on the tube and well worth a watch

I'm going to type this out in both English, and my native Doric, which is the dialect from the northeast of Scotland--Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire and north to the Moray Coast. In so doing, I hope it becomes clear just how much the dialect can change over such a short distance, and stress just how different and unique an accent can be from region to region. My qualm is the mainstream media portraying the Scottish accent through Glaswegian (and occasionally Edinburgh, or West Coast accents, while overlooking the impenetrable brogue of Northern/Northeast Scots). This is naturally a video focusing on learning English. It is therefore understandable that The Glaswegian accent is used, since it is Scots English, rather than the Teutonic (roots in Germanic/Old English) of Aberdeen and its outlying areas. The spelling of Doric also varies from area to area, and is not an English dialect; rather, it is officially recognised as having independent language status, in the same way Gaelic might be for example. It is my hope to portray just how devolved and multitudinous dialects are around Britain, and how even a solid grasp of English across the Ilse's many thick accents may be frustrated should you visit rural areas, or the nation's extremities. I trust, if nothing else, you might take delight in the richly flavoured visualisation of my own mother tongue, however difficult and tiresome it may be to follow. :) [Doric transliteration] Ah'm gaan til scrieve ess oot in baith Inglis n ma native Doric, fit ist e dialeck fae e nor'east o Scotlaan'--Aiburdeen, e Shire an' noraard til e Moray Caist. Bi deein sic, Ah hope thon cams clear jist foo muckle e dialeck kin change ower siccan wee distance, an' stress jist foo different n unique an accent kin be fae region til region. Ma qualm ist e mainstream media portrayin e Scottish accent ben Glesga (n eft Embro or Teuchter accents, fyles owerlookin yon impenetrable brogue o Norlaan/Nor'east Scots). Ess is naityirally a video focusin on learnin Inglis. 'Tis as unnerstaunable at Weegie is eesed, syne ist Scots Inglis, rether an e Teutonic (roots in Germanic/Aul Inglis) o Aiburdeen n its ootleif areas. E scrievin o Doric ay varies fae area til area, an' isnae an Inglis dialeck; rether, ist officially kint as haein independent langyij status, in e sam wye Gaelic micht be. Ah hope til show jist foo devolved n mony dialecks are aroon Britain, n fit wye even gwid Inglis athwert thon Ilse's mony steepit accents maun gar yi grue gin ye visit rural areas, or e eyns o e laan. Ah trow, iffen ni'hin else, yi micht fyne yirsel affa tricket wi e scrievins o ma ain Mither Tongue, fyles teuch n puggilt yi micht fyne yon.

I’m from Manchester and about 30 miles to Burnley, 30 miles to Huddersfield, 15 miles to Bolton and 35 to Liverpool. The accents are so different, even I struggle a bit, especially if folk have had a couple of shandies

I love seeing americans struggling to understand the scouse accent, its too funny

I’m from North Wales. The North Walian accents are totally different from the South Walian and Mid Walian accents. The gutteral sounds in the Scouse accent come from the influence of the Welsh language.

I couldn’t stop laughing at your “Welsh” accent. It was so funny. But you did good with many of them fair play. 😂

There was a TV comedy called " Auf wiedersehen Pet " in the 1970s which was about a gang of bricklayers from different parts of the UK, working in Germany. If you watch a clip on KZfaq you will hear strong authentic Geordie, scouse, Welsh ,Brummie, and Cockney accents. I'm from Yorkshire, but my favourite accents are Welsh, and Geordie, as they are quite melodic. Al Murray does a very extreme version of British accents in a comedy routine, which I recommend.

Your Statham impression had me rolling mate 😂

Shocking that Glasgow wasnt #1 lol. She also found herself the most well-spoken Glaswegian ever haha. She needed to have a vid of a NED! The clip she had of a Geordie accent was also favorable. She couldve used a clip of Adam Pearson doing a Newcastle match review, or just a fan coming out of St. James Park after a match.

The Devon accent is something else - I'm from Wales but it always makes me smile

Jason Statham, although he sounds like a "Cockney" isn't one. He was born up in Derbyshire then moved to Norfok as a kid. Maybe he gets the accent from his parents or he just adopted it for acting purposes? Anyone know?

"Ozzy osbourne speaks with a birmingham accent and I could barely understand him" yes but a lot of that is to do with the decades of drugs and alcohol

I really enjoy your reactions as you're genuinely interested and actually take time to think about what you're watching. Good stuff!

These examples are of people speaking to people outside of their region, so they tend to modify the way they speak. I didn't realise how lazy we speak in Yorkshire until I moved to the US in the late 90s and had to drastically change how I spoke because no one understood me.

I swear you're one of the best reactors. Your comments and facial expressions are gold, and I love how you look stuff up too.

Should have had Jasper Carrot. For Brummie, check him out and have a good laugh as well. Jimmy nail for Geordie. The Big Yin and where was Northampton? “Oim gewin dain tain me duck.(I’m going down town). And “Oi shallader be gewin. Tadar air kid.”

I thought you did really well with this sample of accents. I'm very impressed that you were genuinely interested. This was a lot of fun to watch, thank you.

A lot of people in Portsmouth speak with a 'Cockney' accent as many people from there moved to Portsmouth during Victorian times to work in the dockyard. My schooldays involved many bits of Cockney rhyming slang, even though I didn't know that's what it was at the time.

Jason statham isn't cockney, he's from derbyshire and moved to norfolk whenhe was in his teens

I’m Scottish but I love a Geordie accent.It’s so comforting.

I'm a Geordie and Cheryl Cole's accent has been butchered with elocution lessons to make her sound more middle class, if you want to hear a true Geordie have a listen to AC/Dc's Brian Johnson been interviewed, that is a true Geordie accent or watch the first episode of "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet", especially the Geordie characters of Dennis, Oz & Neville, Neville has the softer Geordie accent of Cheryl Cole EDIT: Sick DOES NOT mean cool in the uk, it means disgusting, foul ie That is sick Frankie Boyle's accent is a mixture of Glaswegian & Irish Ps personally I think think those were a very poor selection of UK accents

We have so many accents over here, and then so many dialects on top of that. These people are using their "tv voices" though and slower/clearer than most speaking naturally. Takes the fun out of it haha.

Worth remembering that there is much greater diversity of accents than suggested in this. I'm from Yorkshire and there is a broad range of accents across this particularly large region (made up of multiple counties).

If an Aberdeen accent had featured, we would have probably topped the list - it's only because more people are familiar with Glaswegian that it became the token Scottish accent featured. Similarly some accents in the Welsh valleys would be much trickier to understand than Cardiff.

This was so much fun to watch. Not a bad attempt at all at some of these accents

I thought a clip of Liam Gallagher speaking in a Mancunian accent would be one of the top 3 lol

The issue with many of these accents is that there are many variations, especially "Yorkshire" and "Welsh", given their historical splits, Doncaster and Leeds, despite only being 30 miles apart, and both in Yorkshire, have noticably different accents.

I'm a Geordie, i moved to Somerset around 22yrs ago. When i first got here, i was broad and had to tone my accent down. They said i was rude and abrupt. But when i toned it down, i found they reacted positively. To me they have a sing song voice here, where Geordie isn't, it is quite flat. When i go home for a visit, i come back broad. But i do find if I'm relaxed, tired or with the grandbairns who've obviously been hearing me for years, i can geat really broad again 😆.

She should have had an Aberdonian fisherman!!!!

There are many accents within a regions accent. For instance the yorkshire accent changes in different parts of the county.

Accents are Such Fun 😁 I just adore all our differences…..how boring would it be if we all had the same accent😳! Thanks for sharing…and trying some of them out 🤗👍

I loved your cockney JJ, the gurning was hysterical 😂

God she loves the sound of her own voice. I wouldn't want her teaching me because a great deal is irrelevant.

I love the way you present your videos in that your approach is calm, sensible and non-hysterical. As for accents, I'm a Brit with what they nowadays call an 'Estuary accent' Like yourself, the accent I find hardest to understand is Derry, but my favourite accent in the whole of the British Isles as opposed to just the UK, is a Dublin one (as spoken on the sitcom Mrs Brown's Boys, which if you don't have in the USA, there are plenty of clips from it available on KZfaq, although some, shall we say, colourful language is used at times).

I'm a Brummie, born and bred. I lived in London for 5 years and Durham for 15 years. So my accent has changed, strangely closer to RP now. I do get funny looks from fellow Brummies when they hear me speak.

Big road accident, young woman trapped in her car. The paramedic asked, "What is your name?" "Tracy" "Where are you bleeding from, Tracy? "Romford".

You did that outro in what I call "Scirish", which is the closest most Americans (with he notable exception of the late great Robin Williams) manage get to the Scottish accent, mostly sounding Irish.

Your impression of the Stath had me LOL'ing hard. Can't believe you think Welsh sounds Irish, tho! Ozzy's hard to understand, not just because of the accent, it's also because he mumbles a lot. Remember, there's more than one Irish accent, as much as multiple Welsh, English and Scots accents. I remember that thing with Cheryl and the US talent show, they did a thing on the news talking to Geordies about it and there was a guy on there who's accent was so thick I could barely understand it, but I never have trouble getting Cheryl's.

You made a fairly good job of replicating some of those accents, certainly much better than I could, I have a Glaswegian accent, possibly not as strong as Frankie Boyle as I lived 40 years in London.

I grew up in Somerset lived in London for a few months Earls Court (lots of Aussies and Kiwis) spent a bit of time in Scotland and now live in Wales so I've got used to a lot of accents 😊

I’m a Geordie and when I visited New York last year I had to speak posh for people to understand me. Although I had a few Americans praising and loving my accent.

Some of the "country bumpkin?" accents in Hot Fuzz are fairly challenging, some of it may be exaggerated but there are people whose accents are similar to those used in the film

Lucy picked some easy examples of these regional accents to understand. The Cardiff accent is common I'm from South Wales and it's normalish to me. Further nothing our accent is much stronger.

I'm a Yorkshireman, Specifically Huddersfield (West Yorks.) our accent is recognisable everywhere, My ex was in Beijing where a Chinese lady actually said"excuse Me But are You From Huddersfield?" she'd been a student here!

I would like to see what people make of a group of excited people from the Rhonda Valley talking very fast.

Your Welsh accent! 😂 That was brill! You managed to do every British accent in one sentence lol

I dont think I've ever seen this much of the Queens Christmas Speech ..ever in my life ..

I've been to Liverpool, as an American, when a lot of people are speaking with a scouse accent, it sounds like a foreign language

Posh Girl thinks she knows how Common Folk speak.

Loved JJ doing Welsh via Scotland, Ireland and India.

Her video is not for people who speaks english is for people who doesn’t. I don't really see why you criticize her so much. You are an english speaker of course you can understand everything.

I love that Cockney accent is perfectively understandable, but as soon as they start talking in full slang it becomes comprehensively gibberish.

Mate u are bloody good at accents !!

The part where you impersonated Jason Statham was hilarious! 😂😂

She managed to pick ten very "soft" examples of the accents.

I watched Nadine Coyle say "flour" when it aired & nearly fell off my chair laughing!

I came to a conclusion even before I listened to these accents! They are analysing CELEBRITY accents! Therefore, by definition, they need to be generally understood! Therefore, they are obviously watered down and not really representative of the TRUE speakers of the accents.

I’m from Yorkshire and I love my accent, my mum is ‘my mam’ and it’s pronounced ‘Yorksha’

3rd comment here but man, your efforts at doing these accents is really good. A great addition for the video for comedy purposes but a fantastic effort. I don't know if I could do better than you for some of them, and I know the difference between most of their accents quite well. I can't wait until they get to Scouse and they have Jamie Carragher up there. Good luck lol

If Charlotte Church has a Cardiff accent, then her parents wasted a lot of money sending her to expensive schools. Thats a Cardiff accent from one of the more affluent areas.

Geordie is my fave accent.

~7:00 she sounds slightly Irish because Irish and welsh are Celtic. A lot of the pronunciation for the welsh accent is because of how words are pronounced in welsh

I'm from Birmingham so I can understand how for someone not from the UK that they would have difficulty understanding the accent.

Absolutely cracked me up with that Statham riff dude!

I love your efforts of our very strange, up and down accents 😂👍, I'm from Sheffield in England which is in the region of Yorkshire which does hold very weird accents 😂

A lot of these accents are watered down from what you'd hear in the actual areas they're from. Probably because they're celebrities, so they're used to having to talk with a lot of different people from different places, so you have to learn to communicate in a way that let's you get your point across. In the actual areas, they can be a *lot* stronger. Mine is Geordie, and I've watched people from the south of England smile and nod at a conversation between north easterners, because they couldn't understand a word (especially when dialect enters the chat). I've also been made fun of or treated as though I was stupid because of my accent. Meanwhile, living in Yorkshire (which is only 100 miles or so from where I grew up), there are accents so strong I can only get every second or third word, and I'm the one smiling and nodding.

I dont think you understand - she is a well known professor of English for foreign students NOW. She's not there for the likes of you and me just wanting advice for some future tourist travel, with a slant toward comedy.

I'm surprised she didn't elaborate on some of these accents, tbh. In fairness, she did explain that Essex got the accent due to east-end migration, but there were a lot more that needed explanation or clarification. For example, Louis Tomlinson (her choice for Yorkshire accent) is from a city called Doncaster, in South Yorkshire. He does have a very typical Doncaster accent, but it differs drastically from that of Sheffield (the "capital city" of South Yorkshire) that sits not even 20 miles away, which, in turn differs from Barnsley, which is less than 15 miles from Sheffield. The three locations are in a triangular shape, all less than 25 mins from each other via car, and yet each has a distinctly different "Yorkshire accent." As if that weren't enough, there's also Leeds in West Yorkshire with another different accent, and then you've got York in North Yorkshire, and that's without discussing any of the other large towns or cities in those parts of Yorkshire. This is a long-winded way of saying that there's more than just one Yorkshire accent, and despite being so close together, they vary quite noticeably. She kind of dropped the ball a bit on that. As others have pointed out, too, she chose people who are famous, meaning that many of them have watered down their accents to be more easily understood due to TV presence and interviews requiring that people be able to understand them. If you're really interested in the different accents, do some KZfaq searches on the accents and you'll find locals speaking with much more pronounced accentuation.

Bit pointless having personalites illustrate different accents. Stagecraft has forced them to tone down to be accepted on the national stage. Geordie, deffo my fave; sorry, but Brummie always makes me inwardley giggle. Love All!

Im American, I live in England, my daughter has gone to school in England since she was 4, and is now in her 20s and I still dont understand the education system here.

I speak with a RP accent as I am upper middle class.

I'm from Yorkshire but my grandmother was from Wiltshire. Whereas I would say cuk (cook), buk (book) and luk (look) ie short vowel sound; she would pronounce them coo-k, boo-k, and loo-k with much longer vowels! I wish that they had included a West Country accent - I had difficulty understanding my mum's cousins when we visited Somerset and Wiltshire!

I speak RP. Just a natural upper middle class accent.

As someone from Cardiff in Wales, who visited the States often, I was misidentified by Americans as Scots, Irish and even Bostonian.

The problem with all these examples is that they are all performers/singers/presenters, and while they may have an accent they need to be understood by an audience, so the accent is toned down, real life examples of these accents would be much much harder to understand, it does show the variety of accents across the UK and it doesn't even touch on the different native languages spoken Cornish, Welsh, Irish Gaelic, Ulster Scots, Doric, Scots and Scottish Gaelic.

Ha ha! Where’s the one doing a Somerset accent? That one got me during my first day in Bath when I moved to the UK.😂

if you ever come Aberdeen scotland ill buy you a few beers brother. love the channel.

Ha ha ha 8 loved that Gemma Collins impression, fantastic

The people featured are much easier to understand than members of the public.

As an Australian, none of these accents are hard to understand.

Now we have just got to talk about the brits that have a mixture of accent into something incredibly unique since you moved around lots as a kid and your parents have different accents Can’t wait for that 😂😂

Is it just me who got a tear in the eye when I saw our late Queen?

Yeah we have a ton of accents here. I'm closest to Wolverhampton out of cities. Which has a similar, but not the same, accent to Birmingham. However I live west of Wolverhampton approx 10 miles just into the rural county shropshire. Here we're sandwiched between Cheshire and then Liverpool to the North, the more "farmer" type accents South of us, Welsh to the west and the west Midlands to the east of us. And that makes the accent round here almost a hybrid of all those places.

You are a superb mimic!

By the way the scouse accent in this vid is by a comedian who really puts and exaggerates the scouse accent, he himself doesnt even come from liverpool but from a town called Runcorn which is outside the actual city.

My main takeaway is she's a self declared RP speaker, then says "would have gotten" (instead of 'got'), which is very American and is creeping in more and more nowadays

The default for English speaking accents that Americans aren’t familiar with seems to be default to Irish, Scottish or Australian - have had it a lot in the US. Even Canadian or ‘out of state’ occasionally. My accent is northern east midlands of England

*sigh* from London and some foreigners really don't understand me when I say bottle of water. Like really, even some English people have been like.. "What?"

"Received pronunciation accent" must be an academic term. I'm English & have never heard of this before. She sounds very upper middle class. I can do Brummie, Yorkshire, Essex, Suffolk & London cockney & posh.

The Scottish accent originally comes from Northumbrian Old English with a bit of Flemish Norse thrown in :)

Is she single? It's not always the accent, it's the local dialect that gets you. Even the English from different regions don't understand each other all that well. Relax your hearing and recognition of words, make it more fuzzy, when you hear a word try and remove the 'accent' from the pronunciation.

frankie boyle was speaking posh for the interview and generally speaks well otherwise his audiences definately would not understand him

The face when doing the Statham accent 😂😂😂😂