hello and welcome to English like a
native
my name is Anna and today we're
discovering a new accent so who are we
meeting today
this is joel joel is from northern
Ireland say hello Joel
hello Joel many people love the Irish
accent it's a little bit cheeky it's
certainly friendly but sometimes it can
be hard to understand
so let's have a listen to some of the
most common phrases you may hear from an
Irishman bearing in mind Joel is Northern Irish
so here are five common phrases what's
the craic
what's going on dead on fine Eejit idiot
scundered embarrassed
let's do some of those phrases together
so apart from scundered those phrases are
phrases you might hear on a regular
basis scundered is something to be aware
of but not used commonly no no now let's
have a look at some of the common
features of the Northern Irish accent
there are many many more features than
we're going to cover today we're going
to cover some of the most obvious
features now so first of all we're going
to look at the long vowel ..... which in
standard English would be dropped jaw
long vowel .... as in calm or father how
would you say this sound calm father so
we just got ...... so let's look at those
words individually calm calm calm calm
Keep Calm keep calm my father my father
my father my father wonderful the next
sound is probably my favorite of the
Northern Irish sound and this is the
diphthong .....
Isn't it lovely. I love it
so let's look at this in action in some
words so let's look at the word how how
how now now I need it now
I need it now cow cow how now
brown cow
how now brown cow. it's so nice. In
Northern Irish the r which we normally
ignore in standard English if it's in
the middle or towards the end of the word
Northern Irish is more rhotic so they
color the r a little bit more for
example when a word ends in AR OR ER in
standard British English we do the schwa sound
water but Joe would say water water
water
mother mother mother mother
doctor doctor doctor doctor the next
sound is the NG sound when you have a
word ending in ing in standard English
we raise the back of the tongue and make
the nasal ... sound for example walking
or king
however Joel will bring up the front of
the tongue and make it an ..... sound. so I would say walking Joe would
say walking talking talking speaking
speaking and swimming swimming now the
last feature we're going to look at is
the final plosive we discovered that when
a word ends with a T Joel omits it but
not completely
so what he'll do is bring the tongue up
to the roof of the mouth as if he was
going to make the T but then flattens
the sound so no sound passes through
that movement for example if i was to
say
that Joel would say Cat, his tongue
moved up but he didn't make a sound he
stopped the sound in other accents
that omit the final T for example
cockney they omit the T but keep the
mouth open
Cat Cat but Joel lifted the tongue
other examples would be that, hat
that cat is wearing a hat that cat's
wearing a hat. now before i let Joe go
there's a really interesting little
thing we wanted to share with you these
three words I would pronounce paw poor
and pour and I would pronounce it
...
crazy i love this accident so much so
all that remains me to say is thank you
very much to Joel for joining us and if
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Joel actually did appear in a series
which is here on YouTube and the link to
that will be in the description box
below so do go and check that out
do you do it in an Irish accent and that yeah
yeah I'm using my own accent yeah brilliant
so if you want to get some more examples
of the Irish accent then go watch joel
in his podcast series, comedy web series yeah, a
comedy web series so go and check that
out otherwise take care and goodbye