- Hi guys, so the video that I just recorded was literally
ten minutes of me just wingin' it,
chattin' away, gobbledygook, bits and pieces,
tons of accents, but,
didn't really think about it so no judgment, please.
I've just given it my best shot.
Alright, enjoy.
So, like, when I do me job, like,
I find that a lot of the time I'm havin' to do an accent.
Like, people come up to me and they're like,
"Would ya give us an accent?"
And I'm like, "Well, I dunno want accent you want me to do."
And they're like, "Oh, go on then,
"give us a Cockney accent."
So, yeah, I'll give it this.
And then they're like, "Well, what else can you do?"
And I'm like, "I don't know, like,
"I could try a Scottish accent if you like."
I think the funny thing is is that,
being that I do accents,
people just think that I can't do them.
They're like, "Oh right, you know, I'm gonna really
"try and trick her and be like, do South African."
And then, I have to think about it in my head,
then go, "Okay, now I've got to move to Afrikaans."
And it's quite hard, I have this thing where
I have to spark my accent.
And so, I have these triggers that get me into the accent.
When I'm talking, I know I had a bit of a slip there
going from the Scottish accent to the Afrikaans accent.
But, it's quite hard to jump from accent to accent.
So, for my spark in to
my Welsh accent,
in my head I'll say, well I won't say it in my head
I'll actually do it out loud to you
so that you can hear what I'm going to say.
But like, I go "Oh hello there, my name is Saffir
and I'm from Wales.
And I know that I probably shouldn't do that.
Because if Saffir ever sees this video
she's going to be like, "What are you doing Sarah?
That's quite weird, isn't it?"
So I have a little spark for every accent that I do.
Like Liverpool, Liverpool actually if I say the word,
that's what gets me into the accent.
It's like, I love the Liverpool accent.
I like it, cause it's stutter pitched,
and, I love the way that they speak,
like, famous people that have got Scouse accents,
Priscilla Black,
and the Beatles, and stuff like that.
So, I love it, it's a really, really cool accent.
Geordie, like,
in my head there, I said, "I didn't give a shit."
Cause like, with my Geordie accent,
it's like, really harsh, and
it's just like from right up in England,
It's Newcastle upon Tyne,
that's where this accent comes from.
So, I do like it a lot.
I don't really know what I say though cause, I'm kinda,
makin' it up as I go along.
So, now I've gotta think of another accent.
I think I'll go for Southern, because,
I said 'Bammy in my head, so, like,
if I go 'Bammy Alabama, and that gets me in to my
Southern accent, I love this accent as well.
I quite like that I gotta think about
how I gotta talk, cause, like,
with these people, not that they do this,
this is how I do it, I feel that I gotta
slow down a little bit, and really relax into my accent.
British RP, is probably the closest to my natural accent.
But, of course, when you're talking
with an extremely
posh accent,
I always imagine that I've got quite a large plum
in my mouth so that I can make those beautiful round sounds.
But I was brought up down in Devon, so like,
when I was down there, I started my life
speaking in that posh accent before,
and then when my parents broke up,
we had to move down to Devon and I had to learn
how to speak like this pretty damn quickly, I gotta say,
cause it was pretty hard goin',
speakin from one accent to the other.
So, I learned how to do this one pretty fast.
Dr. Ian Paisley gets me into my Northern Irish accent.
This is such a beautiful,
rounded sounding sort of accent.
I've actually never been to Ireland,
and there's probably Irish people watching this going,
"That's not an Irish accent."
But, give us a thumbs up if you like it.
The Southern Irish accent, again, I'm maybe doing
I think that, like, with the Southern Irish accent,
it's just lovely and soft, and I will go to Ireland,
I must go to Ireland, because I think it's,
alright, well, I feel like it's quite similar to
New Zealand in terms of its,
you know, the land is all green and grassy,
and there's lovely pubs everywhere and I'd like to go
do a night in an Irish pub somewhere.
California.
I love the California, Standard Californian accent is
probably one of my favorites.
I lived in Los Angeles for a short while in the 90's.
And, it was a time where
I had no cares in the world.
And, I worked at the Banana Bungalow,
which was a youth hostel where we had to do
four hours a day for food and board,
and so, I did that.
I got to see a lot of the States,
and on my 26th to 27th birthday,
I drove, crazily enough, from Los Angeles to New York.
And, when I got to New York, I was so excited because
one of the things that I wanted to do when I got there
was to slam my hand hard on a taxi and go,
"'Ey I'm walkin' here."
And I did it and the guy nearly fuckin' killed me,
like, it was the worst move I'd ever made.
And, I just slammed my hand on that car
and I just gave it a really good smack,
and that was a bad idea, the taxi driver did not like it,
and I thought that I might go to jail, so not good.
One accent that I love to do is French English accent,
French English for me is so beautiful, how you say,
they have so much flavor in the way
that when they are speaking it sounds so romantic.
And, it is really lovely.
This is one thing that I do when I do my French accent
I pretend that I don't know what I'm going to say
so I have this, like, pause for when I am thinking,
for the change of,
I do this, how you say.
Because, obviously, I am a French person
and I am speaking English so I have to think about
how I translate from French to English.
I think people think I am actually from France
when I do this.
This German, this probably is one of the accents
that I'm not liking,
so much,
as when the German people are talking with their accent,
I really hate, then, they mix the
w which they use as a v,
and, the v word is a w.
So, it's quite difficult for when
German people come to speak English,
because they have a big problem with this.
So, when the Germans come to New Zealand,
and they want to go to Wellington,
they say, "Vellin'ton," and this makes me
a little bit crazy.
Birmingham, people from this part of the world,
sound a little bit, funnay.
I've got a really good friend, who suddenly passed away now,
and he come down from Birmingham to visit,
and it always sound like he was thinkin' about something
before he was talking.
He always was a little bit, "Y'know, y'know."
I like the way,
they really sound out their words.
But, I feel like I'm being a bit rude now,
I don't mean to be, I'm just trying to do the accent.
And, I find that when I'm doin' accents,
me character changes.
Cause I'm acting, y'know.
It's doing accents, it's what you gotta do.
But, yeah, that's me Birmingham.
Now I have to see about this accent,
like a lotta people don't like me doin' this accent.
But, the reason why I like a Jamaican accent
is because a long while ago, when I was traveling,
I met a white Jamaican, and I thought to meself,
"Why can't a white girl do a Jamaican accent?"
Because there's white Jamaicans, not that I know that
at the time, like, because,
I was sitting there
and she started talking, and I was like,
"You got to be taking the piss, now,"
because I never heard a white Jamaican.
But, she were white and she was talking like this,
and so I love this accent.
I would like to go live in Jamaica,
just so that I can really get the right sounds
with this accent, cause it's pretty damn special, y'know?
'Dat's what I'm sayin'.
Awright, me goin' to say now, peace out.
I got a few accents down, I'm gonna put it up
on me YouTube, and hopefully you're gonna
catch a little bit of what I do for me life.
Hear me accents, y'know!
(laughs)
Okay.
So, hey look, if you've enjoyed this video,
it would be amazing if you could give it a big thumbs up.
And, if you could give me some comments below and say,
"Hey, Sarah, do this accent."
Then I'll do it.
So just pop us a comment below, give us a big thumbs up,
ding that bell so that you know when my next video's
coming out, and I'll just keep trying to upload when I can.
Alright guys, thanks for watching, seeya.
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