Top 10 Hardest UK Accents To Imitate

can you adam and eve it welcome to watch mojo uk and today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 hardest uk accents to imitate when i was there and i really needed to go to the toilet i was thinking our tribe i wonder what their toilet facilities are like before we begin we publish new content every day so be sure to subscribe to our channel and ring the bell to get notified about our latest videos for this list we've focused on core uk accents that can prove particularly awkward to copy so clear your throat warm up those vocal cords and let's see how many of these regional wonders you can recreate am i ryan what have you been hunting today but you're then robbing people robbing my stuff it's important to them number 10 cockney this job is bigger than anything bridge has done up until now with the sheer size of london it's no surprise that the city boasts multiple accents but none are quite as famous or as difficult to master as good old cockney everyone recognises how it sounds and most can copy a few key phrases although the rhyming slang does confuse the issue for some all right you're not doing it the way he speaks but dick van dyke's infamous portrayal of bert in mary poppins proves that cockney isn't exactly easy to grasp all right i'll do it myself number nine mancunian these things i want i can't have i do without it's not usually listed as a particularly prominent uk accent but it is difficult to do right thanks to a barrage of popular comedians entertainers and a certain brit pop band the monk accent has become much more well known that's what it's about you know what i mean it's like everyone's a bit square at the moment i mean everyone's just a bit serious and miserable you know what i mean in fact if you did want to try and add it to your own intonation you could do worse than to listen to a back catalogue of british rock music for inspiration or just watch a few episodes of corey perhaps i should stretch out on the couch and we could do this properly number eight ulster english you know you live in your little bubble here behind your wall with your maids chauffeurs and servants everyone loves a good irish accent but there's so many variations that it can be tricky to separate them and ulster english brings a whole new dialect on top of a very distinct tone of speaking and because it's so distinct it's immediately obvious whenever it's done badly are a very particular set of skills skills i've acquired over a very long career the unpracticed will often find themselves slipping into other accents and generally getting more and more frustrated has his sudden tragic death interrupted your study well that's a bit actually yeah number seven west country mumbo right what did he say our next entry touches on various regional twangs each as difficult as the next to recreate from bristol to cornwall these accents are actually widely used on tv especially by some of our favorite comics i said five minutes but nothing women like you were the reason this chicken's late in the first place you'll be lucky if you get any of my lovely chicken if you give up this kind of behavior stereotypically the west country rumble is obviously associated with farmers but it's not all hay fields and combine harvesters the hard-hitting crime drama broadchurch also puts the accent onto primetime telly i love you very much and if you remember i smile give it go for me would you number six scouts where's me coffee cup with the mold in it i threw it away sir but i was breeding that mold as one of the most recognizable british accents the liverpool tone is also one of the most often imitated but that doesn't make it any easier to copy i just think we should go to the toilet another favorite for tv comedians there are famous liverpudlians throughout british popular culture so there are plenty of examples of how it should sound from paul mccartney to steven gerrard you know we didn't know anything about any of that so uh no so we got ripped off but uh but harry enfield is still a standout resource for anyone who's not from the city what's going on here number five glaswegian all right all right trying to nail a generic scottish accent can be challenging enough so throw in regional deviations and it's even more complex not a school your keeper i don't want to yeah at best most people channel mel gibson by shouting freedom as loud as they can for anything else and it all goes a wee bit wrong and a bit groundskeeper willie still at least there's a long list of famous glaswegians to study for this particular sound including the controversial comic frankie boyle and the 12th doctor peter capaldi getting into your head rewind today in your head okay stop explaining it to me number four received pronunciation wallace is not just some woman i'm carrying on with we intend to marry closely linked to queen's english received pronunciation is arguably the most stereotypically quintessentially british accent of all even though it's rarer than a lot of today's other entries to your average brit it's essentially labeled as a posh accent supposedly in line with how the royal family speaks and it's typically associated with the south of england well then let's not over complicate matters unnecessarily often a go-to tone whenever american shows include a british scene it usually takes professional training to get it just so number three birmingham i see the next time you'll come back and talk you'll be a talking guest instead of a singing guest oh right when's that next week an accent with the unfortunate distinction of having previously been rated as britain's least intelligent the birmingham or brummie sound seems to be constantly copied but anyone who tries to feign it usually falls short in fact the accent is so difficult to understand that when birmingham city council set up an automated phone service even it couldn't comprehend the local inflection at first and she was pregnant i don't think so and i don't know if she can get pregnant anyway when you're little however with shows like peaky blinders pulling in massive audiences opinions could soon start to change you're a good man and a good soldier number two welsh what the bloody hell is this don't tell me this is meant to be me it's another that can split into lots of local variations but for anyone who's not from wales most welsh accents are almost unfathomable i've never seen the human condition illuminated in such a way with vowel sounds unlike anywhere else general welsh languages and dialects seem an ongoing fascination for the rest of britain and the rest of the world naturally that interest leads to lots of mostly unsuccessful attempts to imitate the welsh way of speaking but even if you do perfect the accent pronouncing the place names is a whole new challenge just up the road from clan by the porsche queen to silence the temperature got to 21 celsius at 70 in fahrenheit number one geode sometimes it's difficult to understand the uh the geordie people you know what i reckon is that if they had the says proper jobs it wouldn't be up to all this you know every night what newcastle a city famous for ants and deck alan shearer and for having its own reality tv show it's no wonder that the northeast accent has become so popular or so synonymous with the uk they make a cunning noise lake but while it's often considered as one of britain's friendliest accents it's not the easiest to get to grips with for anyone who's trying to forge it it's usually the case of a few candies here a tune or two there and a why i'm on to finish but true jodies will spot the copycat a mile off it better not be noted last week the crack is still burning this week we will be doing our new pet do you agree with our picks check out these other great clips from watch mojo uk and subscribe for more great content

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Keywords: Accent, British accent, Impression, Copy an accent, Imitate an accent, UK accent, Local accent, English accent, Geordie, Brummie, Scouse, Welsh accent, Received Pronunciation, Queen's English, Manchester accent, Ulster English, Language, Speech, Top 10, Top 5, List, WatchMojo, WMUK

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Length: 7min 44sec (464 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 23 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/mackduck]

I speak RP, when pissed my chin drops and Queens English comes forth ( rind the highses) - but my sibling gave either vague Manc or Scouse drawls or North Welsh. Oddest of all is one sister, perfect mesh of North Wales and Cockney. It’d make your ears melt