Accents: Northern Irish

hello and welcome to English like a native my name is Anna and today we're discovering a new accent so who are we meeting today this is joel joel is from northern Ireland say hello Joel hello Joel many people love the Irish accent it's a little bit cheeky it's certainly friendly but sometimes it can be hard to understand so let's have a listen to some of the most common phrases you may hear from an Irishman bearing in mind Joel is Northern Irish so here are five common phrases what's the craic what's going on dead on fine Eejit idiot scundered embarrassed let's do some of those phrases together so apart from scundered those phrases are phrases you might hear on a regular basis scundered is something to be aware of but not used commonly no no now let's have a look at some of the common features of the Northern Irish accent there are many many more features than we're going to cover today we're going to cover some of the most obvious features now so first of all we're going to look at the long vowel ..... which in standard English would be dropped jaw long vowel .... as in calm or father how would you say this sound calm father so we just got ...... so let's look at those words individually calm calm calm calm Keep Calm keep calm my father my father my father my father wonderful the next sound is probably my favorite of the Northern Irish sound and this is the diphthong ..... Isn't it lovely. I love it so let's look at this in action in some words so let's look at the word how how how now now I need it now I need it now cow cow how now brown cow how now brown cow. it's so nice. In Northern Irish the r which we normally ignore in standard English if it's in the middle or towards the end of the word Northern Irish is more rhotic so they color the r a little bit more for example when a word ends in AR OR ER in standard British English we do the schwa sound water but Joe would say water water water mother mother mother mother doctor doctor doctor doctor the next sound is the NG sound when you have a word ending in ing in standard English we raise the back of the tongue and make the nasal ... sound for example walking or king however Joel will bring up the front of the tongue and make it an ..... sound. so I would say walking Joe would say walking talking talking speaking speaking and swimming swimming now the last feature we're going to look at is the final plosive we discovered that when a word ends with a T Joel omits it but not completely so what he'll do is bring the tongue up to the roof of the mouth as if he was going to make the T but then flattens the sound so no sound passes through that movement for example if i was to say that Joel would say Cat, his tongue moved up but he didn't make a sound he stopped the sound in other accents that omit the final T for example cockney they omit the T but keep the mouth open Cat Cat but Joel lifted the tongue other examples would be that, hat that cat is wearing a hat that cat's wearing a hat. now before i let Joe go there's a really interesting little thing we wanted to share with you these three words I would pronounce paw poor and pour and I would pronounce it ... crazy i love this accident so much so all that remains me to say is thank you very much to Joel for joining us and if you enjoyed this video then please do give it a thumbs up don't forget to share it with your friends and do press the big red subscribe button if you're interested Joel actually did appear in a series which is here on YouTube and the link to that will be in the description box below so do go and check that out do you do it in an Irish accent and that yeah yeah I'm using my own accent yeah brilliant so if you want to get some more examples of the Irish accent then go watch joel in his podcast series, comedy web series yeah, a comedy web series so go and check that

Channel: English Like A Native

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Id: OEaT4W7LL60

Length: 6min 5sec (365 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 08 2017