Year 12s: what will be the first way you research your future options? >>

Hardest English accent to understand

kkboyk

As mentioned on the title.

I think any northern accent are hard to understand (especially Scottish and Geordie)

Scroll to see replies

Reply 1

SaiDuc

Old people with a really strong Irish accent are really hard to understand

Reply 2

Sugarpuffx

Original post by SaiDuc

Old people with a really strong Irish accent are really hard to understand

Original post by kkboyk

As mentioned on the title.

I think any northern accent are hard to understand (especially Scottish and Geordie)

Don't you mean British accent, since Scotland and Ireland are not in England?

Reply 3

kkboyk

Original post by Sugarpuffx

Don't you mean British accent, since Scotland and Ireland are not in England?

Whoopsie

But they still speak English

Reply 4

Sugarpuffx

Original post by kkboyk

Whoopsie

But they still speak English

Yeah I'll give you that :tongue:

Reply 5

kkboyk

Original post by SaiDuc

Old people with a really strong Irish accent are really hard to understand

Still better than chavs anyday...

Reply 6

earthworm

Original post by kkboyk

Whoopsie

But they still speak English

Except when they speak Gaelic.. Or whatever the native languages are.

Personalty Irish or west country.

Reply 7

kkboyk

Original post by earthworm

Except when they speak Gaelic.. Or whatever the native languages are.

Personalty Irish or west country.

Why does the English language have to be this diverse O_O

Reply 8

Vondas

Scottish, Newcastle, Leeds, Northern accents, Birmingham accent...all incredibly difficult to understand.

Posted from TSR Mobile

Reply 9

kkboyk

Original post by Vondas

Scottish, Newcastle, Leeds, Northern accents, Birmingham accent...all incredibly difficult to understand.

Posted from TSR Mobile

Leeds accent isn't as hard as the rest

Reply 10

Serpentine111

Original post by Vondas

Scottish, Newcastle, Leeds, Northern accents, Birmingham accent...all incredibly difficult to understand.

Posted from TSR Mobile

The Leeds accent isn't hard to understand..

Scouse

Don't really understand people from Manchester :/

Brummie accent D:

Scottish people :redface:

Even though I find the accent really hot, I have to listen really carefully D:

Reply 15

Andy98

I dunno, I can understand all the ones I've heard. I suppose a thick Scottish accent would be hard to understand.

Reply 16

sharpies

Geordie, especially when you add in all the slang. I haven't a clue half the time and I've lived here for 5 years...

Reply 17

Astrtricks

Shetland islands- kinda not a accent though as a lot of their words resemble their norse origins rather than the modern english.

Indian accent

Definitely scouse, it's like their mouths have a special gland that secretes phlegm every time they pronounce a c or k

Quick Reply

Latest

Articles for you

What’s your revision personality?

What is an LLM and how could it benefit your career?

Powerful questions business students forget to ask their career advisers

Why I chose a law degree and what studying law was like

Hardest English accent to understand

Quick Reply

Related discussions

Latest

Trending

Trending

Articles for you