9 Difficult Scottish & Irish Accents You WON'T Understand

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  @storylearning · 2 years ago · pinned

  Ready for another accent challenge? <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTViP7QoW0k">https://youtu.be/jTViP7QoW0k?si=vnJQmxHS5GF327kt</a>

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  @TheUffeess · 2 years ago

  It&apos;s funny that as a Swede, I understood most of the Scottish dialects.🙂

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  @steve3291 · 1 year ago

  My wife is Hebridean. She doesn&apos;t speak, she sings and it is one of the most beautiful ways of speaking.

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  @Lucien234-i2z · 2 years ago

  I am Scottish and I don&apos;t understand how anyone could mistake an Irish for a Scottish accent vice vera even when talking in a strong dialect! It honestly baffles me! You can hear the distinct Scottish accent despite the dialect.

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  @jamiejaycar · 2 years ago

  Hey thanks for featuring my content 💚☘️🇮🇪 and happy Saint Patrick’s day

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  @CezTV · 2 years ago

  As an Irish person I can tell you that banjaxed is not exclusively Northern Irish, it&apos;s used in the republic as well. Does my head in as well

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  @lisalally · 1 year ago

  I’m Irish, and I’ve always loved the Scottish accent. It wouldn’t bother me if I didn’t have a clue what they were saying! I’d still listen to it all day. 😍

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  @samuelazura7334 · 2 years ago

  Try watching this with automatic generated subtitles 😂

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  @deirdrebeecher3508 · 2 years ago

  Yeah I&apos;m from Cork, but I&apos;m rural so I have a completely different set of slang from the City. Was in the pub once with a newly arrived English college and there were some Northsiders at the table next door. He would not believe me that they were Cork born and bred. He thought they were speaking some hybrid Polish/Irish accent. <br>If you ever want a real laugh, get a Cork person to speak Italian words. There is something about the way we draw out our vowels which makes us absolutely mangle Italian.

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  @scarv7544 · 1 year ago (edited)

  As a Scottish person I can definitely understand people having a hard time grasping Scottish/Irish accents, but I cant get my head around getting them confused or mixed up. They have clear distinctions between the two<br><br>To me its the equivalent of an English and an American accent, they sound completely different!

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  @spacelab777 · 2 years ago

  The difference between dialects and accents are very apparent in Dundee where I am from. &nbsp;The older generation, sadly dying out, speak with a very distinct Dundee dialect, whereas the younger generation it is more of an accent. Both recognisable as Dundonian but many differences. The transition from dialect to accent is from words that are distinct from English to English words &nbsp;said with a Dundonian tilt. &nbsp;In Aberdeen 60 miles further up north the Doric dialect is completely different. &nbsp;There is actually a comedy film fully in Doric &apos;One Day removals&apos; available on YouTube that is worth a watch.

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  @colmoni5d · 2 years ago (edited)

  Disappointed Northern Ireland got clubbed together as one accent. It certainly isn&apos;t - Dornan has a generic middle class accent, but the north coast sounds a bit like the Shetland accent, while the long vowels and rolling consonants of the Fermanagh lakelands are starkly different from the harsh, flat Belfast accents (yes, that&apos;s plural). And then there&apos;s Derry/Londonderry....<br>The differences are great than Edinburgh v Dundee.<br><br>There&apos;s a clip of Kenneth Branagh speaking in his native North Belfast accent, and despite being 20 miles east of Neeson&apos;s home town, it&apos;s starkly different.<br><br>P.S. Northern Ireland actually has no official flag atm. The one with the red hand was retired in the 80s and not replaced.

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