British Girls React to Hardest UK Accents To Understand!!

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[tywco]

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.

[hugom]

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 😂

[doaakhmer]

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 😂

[clips]

You did a horrible job with volume there

[whukriede]

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.

[jesusfernando]

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

[soomascorner]

The girl on the left does not have a queens English accent. I don’t know who lied to her. 🤨

[janew]

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

[nickgermanic]

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!

[shangobunni]

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.

[MightyFineMan]

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.

[Sasfoot]

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.

[robertkukuczka]

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.

[pepsimax]

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!

[jameswoodard]

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

[Lisaaaaaaq]

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 🙂

[spiderliliez]

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. 😅

[asaris_]

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... 🤣)

[oxyjen]

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".

[guillermone]

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 comprehensible.