Hi I'm Joel and I'm Lia and today's video is all about the quickest way to
learn a new accent so today's video is really exciting it's very kindly been
sponsored by the Real Accent App and we're really lucky that we're working
with them because we've actually been a big fan of their apps for quite a while
yeah we already own and use the USA version of their app and the
English version yeah but very recently they released two new ones they released
the Celtic nations and the European app. Both are accents that I think neither us are
that familiar with I'm certainly not very familiar with either of them Celtic
accents or European. The Greek accent on the European app I'm familiar with
because my family are Greek so I loved listening to that part. So this app
is super handy especially for professional actors who need to nail an
accent before they go into an audition or stepping into a role yeah it feels a
little bit like having an accent coach but just in your pocket on your phone so
whereas before probably you'd have to call up a friend and be like "ahh do we know
anyone who's got a Scottish accent?" it's just like having real
people from that area it's just amazing can't recommend it enough
yeah so I think a real selling point of the app is the word real that's in the
title because all the accents are on the app are from real people that actually
speak that accent yeah so the developers don't sit in their studio and just
record what they think an Edinburgh accent sounds like they actually go to
the place, they speak to real people they'll record a male a female and then
maybe someone older so you can get a real variation of the same accent so
I've chosen an accent from the Celtic nations app, I'm going to be working on
a Scottish accent and more specifically an Edinburgh accent and I've chosen an
accent from the European app and I've decided to go with French we want to see
if we can learn a new accent in two days so what we've done is we filmed
ourselves saying three sentences before using the app and three sentences after
practicing for a couple of hours 48 hours later. "Edinburgh is the capital of
Scotland" "Edinburgh is the capital of Scotland"
so the next sentence is something that you will only really hear in Scotland it's
something very specific and it means you're looking a bit weird you're
looking a bit off-colour or ill "you're looking a bit peely whally" "you're looking
a bit peely whally" the next sentence is something that highlights the "oo" vowel in
Scottish which i think is a really fun sound that they have so I'll give it a
go "the gloomy group of suitors were moved by the beautiful moon" "the gloomy
group of suitors were moved by the beautiful moon" as we know I've chosen
French so here we go with my three sentences one of them's going to be
informative and two of them are going to be to do with specific vowel sounds okay
"often people discriminate against a French accent"
"often people discriminate against a French accent" so the next sentence has
got the H sound in it which I've heard is quite difficult for the French so
here we go "this is my house" "this is my house" and the last sentence
is using the th sound "the tuck shop is over there"
"the tuck shop is over there" so I think what was really interesting whilst
learning and spending time on the work was the things that actually really make
a huge difference are really tiny changes like for instance with the French I was
learning that the H sound is sort of dropped entirely so instead of 'house' it
was 'house' so for me that was quite a nice discovery along the way
definitely and the other thing was just sort of going for it yeah oh definitely
I think for me Scottish is an accent that I have never really done my
automatic thing is to tell people no I can't do Scottish I can't do it but I've
just learned that the only way you're gonna get better at an accent is by
practicing and putting the work in and it's not perfect yet I still need to
work on it a bit more but for two days work you know I think that's pretty good
that's pretty damn good I think. What would you say your favourite thing is on the app. I've really liked the real
stories so you know at the end of when you've worked through at the end there's
a thing that says real stories and basically they interviewed each
different person who speaks with that accent and it's probably about five to
ten minutes per person they just give their life story I
really love that it's all on auto play so you can just have it on repeat while
you're on public transport or while you're in the car and it's also good
because it doesn't just help you listen to someone with the accent but because
they talk about their life in Scotland and in it in Edinburgh you sort of learn
a bit about the culture and the city as well see you're not just learning about
the accent you're learning about the real people that live there I think for
learning the best thing on the app is the record and compare feature so you
type your name in so I typed Lia and then I practice listening to a native
speaker saying a sentence and then I just record myself saying that same
sentence and I'm able to listen back to how good or how bad I was yeah I think
that's the hardest part isn't it is when you haven't quite made that standard yet
yeah but you have to acknowledge that you're learning and that you're
gonna sound rubbish to begin with yeah definitely and then by the end of it
you're just playing theirs and playing yours and you're like I sound pretty much the
same yeah I think the most helpful thing that I've been telling myself is that no
one has to hear this well now they do because it's on YouTube which is why it's so
scary because you make yourself vulnerable and you're like oh no people
are gonna hear me doing something that I'm not good at but when you're
practicing at home you can just be saying to yourself yeah I'm probably
gonna sound stupid for a bit but no one's gonna hear it I'm only sounding
stupid to myself so that takes the pressure off a bit I think and the other
thing I've noticed is that it's very easy to go quieter because you're scared
that you're gonna amplify your mistakes if you if you speak on voice any louder
so just sort of being able to just have a go at it loudly loud and proud yeah
you should fail spectacularly or not try at all. definitely that's the perfect attitude
to have. So thanks once again to the developers of the Real Accent App for
having us try this yeah it's really fun. As we said we've been using this app for years so we're
really excited to finally be able to work with them and I'm pretty sure that
they're working on an Africa app at the moment which will be insane
please let us know in the comments if you enjoyed this video if you like this style and we
would love to hear if you're learning any accents at the minute yeah what
you're dealing with if you've you tried this app definitely we will link them
down in the description below you can find their apps on the App Store it
works both with Android and with Apple devices so you're covered there definitely
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