I remember two Scottish people asking me for directions (I think) in Portugal after they heard me speaking English. They’re probably still lost out there, twenty years later, confusing the hell outta people.

As a foreign student in London I got depressed when almost a year trying to learn English I just couldn’t understand a word when I met an elderly Scottish man, I remember the feeling of failure, awful, but now watching these two British girls struggling to understand them I feel that it wasn’t really my fault 😂

I thought it was especially intelligent to play the voices, which were poorly recorded anyways, at a really low volume, put some music over them and then finally talk a lot at the same time. This made the exercise extra entertaining for us viewers, lol.

I am really satisfied to see that native english speakers also couldn't understand the old rifle man 😅. Thank you Girls

I'm shocked that England, a tiny country that can be travelled in less than 15 hours from south to north, such tiny country can have so many different accents!

As an English learner, I fell great that I could understand those two British girls , also satisfied that even native speakers may not understand each other’s accents so it’s ok if I can’t 😂

When I first went to London in 1992 after 6 years of having studied English, when I asked one man for the way I did not understand a word of the answer, and I was afraid to ask again. Next time I dared to speak English with Polish accent and English people tried their best to make themselvs undestandable. :) Nowday I do not play pretending I am an English man.

I was driving with a friend in the far north of Scotland in the early ‘90s. The narrow two-lane road we were on (which was the main road or highway) was closed ahead due to an accident and a police officer was telling the few cars that came along how to take a detour. He had an EXTREMELY thick accent with, I swear, a significant number of Gaelic words and phrases mixed in. The roads all wind around and are not marked very well with signs, so he was telling us to use landmarks (I think) to know where to turn. It was a complicated detour and this poor guy had to explain it to us 3 or 4 times with a lot of pointing and gestures. My friend and I were just staring at him, slack-jawed like, “Huuuhh?” the whole time. We finally thanked him and went on our way because we couldn’t ask him to explain it again. Still can’t believe we made it.

When I was a kid, I was exposed to a lot of Scouse accent, because I was a big "Sporty Spice" fan, haha! I love this video. UK accents are soooo fascinating to me. I can easily copy American accents, but dang... the various UK accents are just so much more fun to hear, and yet so difficult to copy. 😅

Gosh, thanks for this. It's such a relief to learn that you also might not understand each other at times 😁

Aw man, now I have to remember that dude from Edinburgh I used to play MMOs with. He loved to talk to me but I couldn't stop giggling about his accent... That's so hard to understand for me (btw, I'm not a native speaker. I'm German. I've only been exposed to Oxford English at school). And it got worse when he was drunk. He then subconsciously switched to Scots. That sounded even more hilarious but I understood even less. You don't want to know how long it took me to figure out what was going on. (I know that's a bit off topic now, but once I asked him about his clan. It resulted in a three hour lecture ranging from the history, over associated clans and families, motto to tartans and famous members of his clan. He finished it with "And now that you know everything about my clan, what about yours?" Me: "You do remember I'm German, right?" He: "Yes, of course! And I know absolutely nothing about German clans, so I'm super excited to find out more." Me: "Uh... Sure... Here's everything you need to know about German clans: We don't have clans." He was genuinely shocked. It never occurred to him that clans don't exist everywhere... 🤣)

Fun Fact. The actor who plays the Geordie porter Michael in Alan Partridge (Simon Greenall) is actually from the Scottish Borders, but as a Geordie myself, it's one of the best Geordie impersonations I've ever heard. The part where he sits on his steak and kiney pie at Alans party still cracks me up to this day!

Emily didn't appear on the channel for a long time, I mean a really long time 😅, April 18, 2021 was her last appearance, a year and four months ago.🤔 , World Friends didn't even have 150k subscribers 😂

Just a comment:would be a bit easier to try and understand it myself, if there was no music when the videos play, and also that the audio of the videos were a bit louder 😅 But really did love the video!

His Emily and Lauren! A beautiful lesson because you both explained the beauty of the UK in respect of different acents. Thanks & regards.

Yes, you two made a great point about the huge variety of accents in the UK in that every village has their own accent. And you know why? Because of a lack of mass communication on at least a national level. And you'll notice accents are more differentiated or maybe spread across the older generations. It's because if you don't have access to nationally broadcast accents from like TV or radio back in the day, you're gonna get extremely localized accents. Same thing goes in the US as well, however because the US is the entertainment capital of the world, going back almost 100 years now, people have gotten accustomed to nationwide standardized accents or dialects. But again, the more localized accents are still more prevalent amongst the older generations. But for those who grew up with Cable/Satellite TV and the Internet are quickly losing their local accents because there's what we call American Broadcast Standard accent that every nationally syndicated program uses whether it comes from L.A., Chicago, Atlanta, or New York. I included Atlanta because it's becoming Hollywood East. A lot of TV and movies are now shot in Georgia. But anyway yeah, I would say Gen X'ers and younger Gens will all roughly speak the same accent within the next 10 years all across the country. If not sooner. And you'll probably see that in the UK as well. The Internet is probably your greatest equalizer when it comes to exposure to a standardized Queens English accent. Because as you saw, all those samples of hard to understand British accents were from Boomers.

You did a horrible job with volume there

Sorry but no one’s gonna talk about how Emily is in fact NOT speaking Oxford 😂

This is very refreshing somehow, seeing two women focusing on a conversation in English and then one says Ok, I'm getting it. So much refreshing~~

I'm American but have watched alot of British programming over the years and can definitely tell that the girl in the light brown shirt does have a more northern accent. Some of her inflections and pronunciations are very similar to Christopher Eccleston. His northern accent was even mentioned during his one season on Doctor Who.

I can see that both girls may be from UK 🇬🇧, but their accents are different , Lauren did a video with accents before with Callie 🇺🇸 and the hardest was the Cockney accent , i'm used to hear more accent from US 🇺🇸 because of TV shows and movies , but I absolutely love the UK accents

Honorable mention: South Wales Valleys accent. I spent some time in Wales years ago (as a foreign student) and noticed that one even left many native speakers absolutely confused by the end of a "conversation".

Imagine an accident or something equally serious that you have to convey but everyone is just laughing at your cute, funny accent😭🤣

Iran here. I did Translation Studies at uni. Over here people show clips from random parts of the UK/US, and if you miss 1 single word they'd go "so what the hell have you learnt at uni?!"

After five years of living in the UK I'm still often have a situations, when people talk to me and I'm like "could you say it again...pleeease?" It's actually a relief even locals sometimes struggling to understand each other🙈 Makes me believe I'm not so bad in mastering English😅

Still remember my b2 speaking exam. Was funny because I was with my partner in the hall waiting for our examinators to call us and, meanwhile, they were talking to each other and we couldn't understand any word they said. This completely changed the moment we arrived, though. That came across to me as such a different language.

I'm from Spain, I love your beautiful language, and makes me feel better that when for you it's hard to understand many accents, I thought it was only me for not having lived abroad! Thank you thank you

It's amazing to see that for such a small country the great variety of accents. The US is so much bigger, but the regional variations are not many, and most of the accents are pretty much understandable.

Saying “announce” is wrong for this. Announce is when you give a speech or message to a group, usually from a podium, a PA system, or other ways to give a message to a large group. “To Enunciate” is the proper term for this context.

the scouse accent to my Southeast Asian ears sounds like the softer version of Scottish accent, suddenly reminding me of my Scottish english teacher back then.

The girl on the left probably lives in the UK but I think she's not English or British. Her accent is definitely not standard Oxford/ English accent. Nothing wrong with that but just stating a fact. She could be bilingual too and switches between two accents. It's pretty common for immigrant kids. That's what I do 🙂

I find that the pure Northen accent can be alittle bit difficult to understand (especially people from Liverpool or the Scottish accent) at first. However, being a supporter of Liverpool FC, I kind of gotten used to hearing it. Former Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher speaks English with a very strong scouse accent.

Emily doesn't sound totally RP. She definitely has a twang to her accent that isn't from the UK. Her accent sounds to me like she grew up around ESOL speakers, or English speakers from outside Britain.

I, as a person who studies English, calmed down when I saw that even native speakers do not understand the accents of other native speakers 😅😅

I went to scotland this year and took a taxi with a very caring driver in glascow. He was explaning to me that he was trying to improve his accent to be more understandable to non english speakers - as me - and in the final I understood just this piece of information 😂 but I really appreciate his effort to talk to me, tho

Wow. British accents can be very complicated. I think American accents don't get that hard.

I worked before with 118118, and one of the hardest accent as far as I could remember is from Glasgow. The towns with the most difficult spellings are from Wales.

With English as my foreign language, I was once in UK and managed to understand everything without sufficient difficulties. Both in London (we spend dozens of hours walking and enjoying the views and sightseeing) and in Cardiff (there I was even able to impress my colleagues by being able to read the signs in Welsh since I had some knowledge of the lingo due to my specializing in Arthurian literature). Can't boast that I managed to grasp 100% of what's been said at all times but still, generally I had no issues with communication. Till I meat a guy on a buss from Wales back to London. I just wasn't able to understand a thing he was saying... And it wasn't in some comical manner that old actor in the movie scene was slurring. The guy just had such heavy accent and was talking fast that I was completely baffled.

Question to Lauren, have you soften your accent since you moved abroad?? if so when you return home do you notice the difference to family and friends and do you pick up you accent after a few days back home??

You need to do one with American, Canadian, and Australian accents. I wonder what you’d find most difficult, an accent from rural Maine, or Nova Scotia, maybe the mountains of West Virginia or Tennessee. Actually, you’d probably become utterly confused with a Cajun accent from Louisiana.

I had 2 Englishmen from a sister plant visiting my workplace about 15 years back. I don't know which part of UK they were from but they had very thick accent. 1st they asked my buddy and me if we spoke English. We said yes, but what came next was like ducks speaking to chickens. We managed to get through the convo but at the end I had to ask my buddy if they were even speaking English.🤣🤣🤣 Edit: We are Southeast Asians.

The Oxford woman has quite a strange accent, slightly American? In any case, it’s ‘enunciate’ not ‘announce’!

I really like the scouse accent and also the girl from the smallest village outside of liverpool😍 she is soooo cute and sooo genuine

6:12 its a scene from a film called hot Fuzz. The point is that you're not supposed to understand what the guy in the hat is saying and the guys in the left and right of the other angle are translating what's being said

I really enjoy listening to English accents, especially yorkshire. it's fascinating yet a bit funny. I live in Ph. From where I'm from, the accent differs from the district. when you get to another region, the language changes 😂. Hell, even in my hometown, the outskirts has their own language (native language) where I only understand one word. 😂😂

Thank you 🙏 for this video. It's so funny that your common English language separates you at the same moment. I’m a Bavarian and in my mid 50's, so not native English speaking. However, I grew up across the street from American soldiers. Have been professionally active in various international companies for over 30 years, now. I think, sorry thought I have heard quite a bit. But honestly, with most here I would have been lost there as a non-native English speaker. Please more of this and please always resolve what was really spoken. Servus from Bavaria

I'm an American but I grew up listening to shows of people from the British Isles as well as watching some old BBC shows. I love Scouce as well as the Essex accent. Funny enough, I encountered a gentleman from Glasgow and I was able to understand most of what he said. I basically slowed down my brain and concentrated enough to the point where I was able to get quite conversational with him.

I'll be honest, as a Midwestern American, for most of these I just blinked and gave up.

As an American, I can say posh girl has more than a bit of generic American creeping in.

This video is a huge relief for me, thx to you, I'm not afraid of the UK anymore. Event British people doesn't understand accents LOL

I love Lauren in this video, I find her really pleasant and fun to listen to! :) I would be happy to see more videos with her and Emily.

There are many place in this world where the people speak the same language but has different accent region wise. So sometimes the people from the other side of the region might get confused of the same language that is spoken by the other person.

Emily has so much personality... she's perfect...the most beautiful girl on world friends I've ever seen❤️

The part scouse , Lancashire northern is also me. As i live outside of liverpool within a villsge. So i slip accents also.

The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain 😊. I wonder how it will sound in Glasgovian 😂.

You don't have a Liverpool accent or Lancashire accent but the closest accent you have, if it needs to be classified (it doesn't) is a North Cheshire accent, similar to Warrington, Northwich, Altrincham, Stockport (although there are variations within these).

GLASWEGIAN OLD GUY "well its very hard to bring out me mind. this is the thing. it's alryt, alright, he's ours. there's no point. ian hart, he is ours. you understand?" i think he's talking about Scottish football. Most likely glasgow football club rangers director ian hart, or less likely the football club hearts. Rangers are 1 of two top teams in Scotland that everyone supports. other being celtic. he's abbreviating the sentence and cutting it short, by using context of the topic to make her fill in the blanks. so without knowing the topic it's harder to understand what he said.

These types of accent dialects are typically developed by the uneducated and undereducated groups living in communities often isolated from the general population for a hundred years or more. This is how different languages and dialects where first formed hundreds of thousands of years ago with the development of the very first language structures through long term isolation. Example: India has over 700 different dialects spoken. There are languages that are extinct today. This is typically from the conquering of cultures and civilizations unification into one culture and language spoken.

When I served in the Marines ( U.S.), I trained with British Marines once but couldn't understand most of what they said. I've spoken to other British people since then with no issues other than names for items, places, etc. The Marines I trained with were from Newcastle. Is that area known for its strong dialect?

I'm glad they got to hear the voices, cos I sure couldn't.

Gornal Black country had its own way of speaking, this plus the accent made the old guys very difficult to understand in the 70s if they thought you were being annoying you would get “quit the the tricks you play on we” sadly this has died out with more movement around the area. But within 20 miles I still find four distinct accents wolverhampton, Dudley Stoke, and Derby the uk is still slightly weird.

I used to teach IELTS in my native country.I've been residing in Doncaster for three months.I feel so embarrassed since, aside from a few words, I have no idea what they are saying.I feel relaxed now after watching this video because, if British people from other parts of the country cannot understand different English accents, I am nothing. 😂

did the ginger come to the uk from another country or live abroad? Her accent doesn’t sound like a regular Oxford one. 2:59 3:05 2:48 sometimes she slips up when she pronounces things. It sounds like her mother tongue could be Arabic or French Eastern European?

I'm a French person living in a black country for 13 years. Can you imagine the state of my accent? Lol, I swear, now everyone I speak to thinks I am from a Slavic country. Even when I go to France, they ask me where I am from.

Their own accents are wild, like posh Southern-English/American hybrids.

I got them All apart from the one with the West Country one they’re pretty easy for me to understand bc I’m very used to hearing strong accents 😂

in many cases its not just accents, many of these episodes its dialects. Accent - its about how different people pronounce same words.. Dialect its local modifications of languages, there are different words, local slang... the more dialects we understand - the richer we are, dialects of languages its our wealth..

Some parts of Sweden have diverged so much from swedish that they're basically talking a different language. I assume that's a common occurrence around the world. But it's funny when two people with the same mother language don't understand each other and they argue about who's talking incomprehensibly

It always amazes me that such a small country can produce so many accents. Your whole country fits in California.

A few years ago, on the exhibition in Milan, guy from Bangladesh transfer for us English from Kentucky. Staff from New York, London, Australia, Moscow, Berlin, Miami, Belgium, Italy - understood nothing in English from Kentucky;))

Im from a simular place outside Liverpool and also a mixed accent. Its amusing to hear her explain my accent basically.

The sound editing here is pretty bad. Can barely hear the videos they're reacting to and i think the little we can hear is coming from their mics. You guys should probably re-edit and re-upload

This is such a relief. Even in my main language Portuguese I find myself struggling with the accents of my in laws. Specially when they are talking to one another. It feels like a totally different language. Glad to see I’m not that bad at languages it’s just a matter of how strong an accent is. Not matter ur knowledge in a language , the stronger accents are gonna be hard to get. And that’s ok. Keep calm! 😂

Awesome video. I’m from Southern California and understood everyone in the presented videos. I’m an accents geek however. I have a friend from Scotland who’s been here over 20 years and still has a strong Scottish accent, especially when he has some single malt scotch in his belly. That’s when he starts speaking Scottish. He tells me, Ah Jonny “haud yer wheesht!”. 🤪😂😎

I love you Lauren, what a beautiful personality

the red haired woman on the LEFT really sounds like she's putting on an rp accent. like she's faking it. LOL

Your normal accents may well be London/Oxford & Scouse/Lancashire but they've become international (almost Americanised) British English.

As an Hungarian who doesn't have sense of language but needs to know English because we are live in 21th century, I feel like girls with those accents. Mostly I hope noone see on my face how I feel lost. Anyway I love the English accents

Very clever top. I almost didn't notice the bandage😳🤣

Glad that i am a mixer -> Little Mix fan (a girlband in UK) and 2 of 3 has geordie accent so i kinda familiar with the accent, yes it's a HARD accent to understand

Ok that girl does not have a standard Oxford English accent. Not the queens English. Confused.

The scout accent is soo fun. Lol.

To "Enunciate" your words. This was fun to watch ^.^

"Small town outside Liverpool"... is it Wirrel, pehaps? Visited there in '99. Lovely place.

Lauren is from Liverpool , good , as a football fan I know about this city 'cause of the team , one of the greatest in UK and Europe , i know that The Beatles were from Liverpool , but i like more the team

I love Lauren : humble, very warm and so funny. Emily is elegant and her accent sounds very classy to my French ear.

I speak RP English with a slight posh accent, the redhead doesn’t sound RP at all. Her accent sounds like a mix of lots of things, at first I heard Irish in there.

I’m a 6 generation native Texan and I absolutely adore the northern England and Scottish accents. I could chat all day to a Geordie or Glaswegian! Every time I visited nobody would guess I was a Texan. I even got Canadian a couple of times. 🤣

A lot of Scottish people do speak a different language: it's called Scots, and it's officially separate from English.

Me when I was on my holidays in Scotland - as a German!🤣

This gives me flashbacks to 2019 when I taught an 11 year old kid at Lostock High School. I was an Australian teaching overseas until COVID. He had the West Country accent and literally sounded like a 50 year old man. Being unable to understand him, I picked a kid to translate. Unfortunately, he was from LIVAPUL. Needed a translator for the translator.

In flanders, Belgium we have a similar problem, people living 30 miles apart can't understand eachother, but sadly that's fading away, I would love to preserve that!

Lauren here! 🇬🇧 Finally we got a scouse accent guys!!! And of course it had to be that classic video😅❤️

The people with the accents in Hot Fuzz are supposed to be impossible to understand that's the joke.

I love you guys to react more videos coz some of abroad can’t understanding English

I see a lot of people use that clip for the Glasweigan accent, as someone from there - please dont, that clip needs to die. Not because of thick accent but because it is heavily cut and modified and there is a huge jump cut that splits whole sentences in half at 7:01 when the camera gets covered - so it is not even a close representation to the accent after the first couple of seconds. Its something along the lines of this, mind you I omitted a couple stuff: "well its very hard to bring them to mind, this is the thing. Its only- its alright- when y-" [HUGE CUT] "-on eh- in eh-, heart to heart- as us?" -> "hm?" -> "you understand?" Thats why when they said the start is fine at 7:18 and how the more he talks the more its lost, thats cause it is - the first like 3 seconds is the only actual sentences and the "you understand" part. The rest is just heavily cut audio or jump cut / edited out.

Emily, my gosh, what a cutie

This video should have been called 'Middle Class British Girls Laugh about and look down on regional, rural and working class dialects'. This attitude exists all over Britain and Ireland, where middle class cosmopolitan people view any variation from the middle class standard of their countries capital city as 'quaint' or 'funny'. It's a very subtle demonstration of class bias and unconscious disassociation from ones own region in favour of either the perceived higher status supraregional standard (which typically comes from the capital city) or in favour of widely recognised 'global' features (North American features, basically). Often this results in a mix, though most commonly the dialect of the 'standard' is taken on wholesale

I'm glad to see English people struggling to understand other English people, makes me feel better for all the times I don't understand English people 😂 Just at lunch, I was with people and it was the same as the red-headed girl on the elderly's house, like I smiled and nodded but didn't know what was going on 😂😂😂

The "language" at 4:44 minutes in is amazing, lol.