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Nice! Okay, let's get started with today's video! Today we are back and talking about accents,
in particular accents of the United Kingdom! You guys seem fascinated with all the different
accents we have in the UK and my other videos about these accents have done very well, so here
I am giving you more! Today we are going to do a little quiz. I am going to play you some clips
of celebrities from the United Kingdom and you need to tell me where are they from. Obviously,
I don't expect you to get the exact town that they are from but a general area, tell me what
accent they have. The more familiar you can get with a variety of different accents will really
really help you with your listening comprehension. So let's start with an easy one: Olivia Coleman.
What accent do you think she has? Three two one: RP! Received pronunciation, this is the accent
that a lot of people mean when they say a British accent. This is the clean, Queen's English that
you will hear a lot of people using in British media. Okay next celebrity. This is Frank Skinner.
Right okay, so what accent do you think he has? I will accept two answers, if you said
Birmingham, I will accept it. If you said Black Country, I will accept it. Frank Skinner is from
West Bromwich, which is an area in the Black Country so his accent has a lot of features
of Black Country but also a lot of features of the Birmingham accent because as we know
the Black Country accent and the Birmingham accent share a lot of features, so I will
accept either of those answers. I mean ,if you look at the way he says reporter, paper, you know
that's that classic Black Country/ Birmingham. Ah at the end, paper, local paper, reporter. And how
he says mince pies, mince pies, oi oi, it's that Birmingham oy rather than mince pies which is how
Olivia Coleman would say it, he says mince pies. I have made a video about all the features of the
Birmingham accent, I'll link it down below. Okay, moving on, the next celebrity is Gemma Atkinson.
Okay so where do you think she's from, what accent does she have? I'll give you five seconds.
She's from Manchester! Hi guys, wide, Hi guys, Manchester has quite a nasal quality to it,
it's not hi guys down in the throat, it's hi guys, it's up here, hi guys.
Pizza, Toblerone, Toblerone. The way people from Manchester say 'oh's are wonderful,
it's so forward, it's so meaty. Toblerone, pizza, toblerone. Okay moving on to our next celebrity:
Ant McPartlin, Ant McPartlin is part of a double act called Ant and Dec,
they both have the same accent but in this clip we are listening to Ant
and in this clip he is talking about slang that is from the area where he is from!
What do you think? What are you saying?
Five, four, three, two, one: Geordie! Yes, Geordie is how we refer to people and the
accent from Newcastle. Classic way to spot this, when you have a word like country,
rather than going country, what happens is they do a little - they do a little stop in the middle
of the word, so rather than country, it becomes country, country, it's like um,
it's that little - uh- little glottal stop with the T's. And how he says nosey, nosey, oh,
it's a really forward O, nosey. You better not be nosey! I can't do Geordie,
I can't do it, I'm really sorry, any Geordies watching, I can't do it
okay? Moving on to Nadine Coyle, see if you can tell what accent she has!
I love her voice so much, she's got such a cool accent, okay where do you think she is from?
Five four three two one: Derry, Northern Ireland! And Derry has a very specific kind of sound to it,
if you've seen the show Derry Girls, you might have been able to recognise the accent, there.
Girls is such a great way of saying girls, girls, it's it's got so much more
melody to it, girls, it does a whole journey, it's brilliant. It's almost American sounding,
um, obviously historically a lot of Irish people went to America so there's a lot of links
with uh, Northern Irish accents, Irish accents and a lot of American accents.
Okay moving on to Joanna Page, see if you can tell me where she's from.
What do you think, what do you think? What do you think... five four three two one... Joanna Page
is from South Wales, South Wales specifically Swansea. The way she says ever going to come,
come, rather than come. The South Walians as they are called, people from South Wales love to
change those vowels, it's beautiful, ever going to come, it's very smiley as an accent,
you know, what I can almost imagine people from South Wales are just smiling all the time,
you know? It's like, oh I always hoped for it but I never thought it was going to come,
you know that like ah always up here and then over the years, years, that's a very classic
thing of South Wales how they turn the er into ur, over the years, I thought over
the years rather than years. South Welsh has a lovely bounce to it, it's got a lovely rhythm,
so if you ever hear someone talking with quite a lot of melody like they like they're singing
a song or maybe they're going up and down quite a bit they're probably from South Wales, to be
honest. Okay moving on to our next celebrity, AJ Odudu, see if you can tell me where she's from.
Five four three two one, I will accept a few different answers here, if you said
Northern, I will accept, it's quite vague, but I will accept it, If you said Yorkshire,
I will also accept it, but technically she is from Blackburn in Lancashire. Now the reason
why I will accept Yorkshire as an accent even though the answer is Lancashire is because the
accents do share a lot of similarities, a lot of Northern accents so we've got Lancashire,
Manchester, Yorkshire, they share this lovely thing with their vowels,
so the way she says loads of trophies, loads of trophies, it's not loads of trophies, er,
like loads of trophies, my brothers they were so fast and strong, they had loads of trophies,
stretched those vowels. In Lancashire they stretch them, in Yorkshire they stretch them.
There are obviously differences between the Yorkshire accent, Lancashire accent
but technically those stretchy vowels are a huge feature, so if you hear loads or no or
so or hello, it's probably going to be somewhere up in the North, somewhere like Lancashire,
Blackburn, Preston, Bolton, Yorkshire, Leeds, Sheffield, somewhere like that. Okay,
the next person technically is a character and not a celebrity but I thought it was a really
good example of this accent so see if you can tell me what accent this character has.
Okay what do you think?
I will accept Gloucestershire, Cirencester or the West Country. So, let's call it the West Country
accent ,that is the most general term we use to refer to accents from places like Cornwall, Devon,
Somerset, Gloucestershire, um a lot of those places share very similar features in their accent
so we tend to call it a West Country accent and we can categorise this accent by the hard R, that's
a very unique trait in the UK, we don't tend to pronounce our Rs very much, when he says tinder
rather than tinder, like I would say I would say tinder, he says tinder with an R like like an
American R, like how he says further and further and further, rather than further and further and
further. And a bit like Lancashire, uh, the West Country accent stretches the vowels as well but
in a slightly different way, France, so instead of saying France, they would say the radius got
further and further and further until it got France, France, it's like ah wide open mouth,
France, till it got to France. The West Country accent is a hugely underrepresented accent
in UK media, a bit like Birmingham, before Peaky Blinders, there were no Birmingham accents on
the TV, so you might not have heard this one very often but a load of people speak with this
accent so it's a really good one to get familiar with. If you watch something like This Country,
that's the program that the clip was from, they use a West Country, Gloucestershire
accent in that. Okay moving on to Trent Alexander Arnold, see if you can tell me where he's from.
What do you think, what do you think? Trent Alexander Arnold is from Liverpool, he is a
footballer from Liverpool FC, he is Scouse, um, obviously a lot of features of the Scouse accent
um that he has. Pay attention to the slightly rolled R, drummed into me from me parents,
that's a lovely feature of the Scouse accent, it's also very wide and very high.
So education before football, no matter what. Okay moving on to Anita Manning, where is she from?
Where do you think? The answer is Glasgow, Scotland! Silver and crystal, obviously in
Glasgow and in a lot of parts of Scotland, they will roll that R like my Grandmother,
she is Scottish and she rolls her Rs, it's beautiful, so how she said silver and crystal,
lovely crystal, I personally think Scottish is very easy to distinguish from other UK accents,
there's a load of things that are different in their beautiful vowels, beautiful consonants
and tons of Scottish celebrities you can listen to if you want to practice listening to this accent.
And finally we have Scott Parker, see if you can tell me where he's from!
Where do you think he's from? Five four three two one, he's from South London! So like a Cockney,
South London accent, listen to how he says around and flirted, you know drop that T, flirted, and
listen to how he changes the TH to a V, that's a classic feature of a lot of London accents, other,
other than I'm gutted, rather than other than I'm gutted. And there you go, that is your quiz
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