A Guide to the Yorkshire Accent

- Today we're talking about the Yorkshire accent,

and we're going to find out why.

Hollywood actor, Timotheée Chalamet said this.

I like the Hull accent. You like

- Hu?

Yeah. Why is everyone cracking up? What? What is that?

Is it not? Is it not a sexy accent?

- Hull is sexy.

Hull is a city in Yorkshire,

and honestly, the accent is so sexy.

You might need to close the curtains and light some candles.

- I've got to go now. - But

before we get to that, do you know

what a Yorkshire accent sounds like?

Well, if you've watched Game of Thrones, you've heard one.

- But winter is coming. We know what's coming with it.

We can't face it alone.

- If you're a fan of One Direction,

you'll also be familiar with Yorkshire accent.

- Personally, again, I'm not like a very outgoing

like social person, like in terms of a big groups of people.

- And if you're a Dr Who fanatic your 13th doctor

who had a lovely Yorkshire accent,

- I eat danger for breakfast.

I don't. I prefer cereal or croissants.

Oh, there's little fried Portuguese. Nevermind. It's not

- Important.

Now, before we jump into the accent itself, you've got

to understand where it all comes from, known

as God's own country.

Yorkshire isn't just a county,

it's the largest county in England.

We're talking about a place so big they had

to chop it up into West Yorkshire, south Yorkshire,

north Yorkshire, and east riding just

to keep it under control.

You want big cities, you've got them Leeds, Sheffield,

York, Hull. Take your pick.

You want endless countryside

that makes you feel like you are wandering

through a Jane Austen novel.

They've got that too. The Yorkshire Dales. The Moores Muah.

Beautiful. Now it's not just the place

that's impressive, it's the people.

I lived in Leeds for three years while at uni,

and I met some of the warmest, friendliest people.

One of my closest friends was a guy called Andy,

who was from Sheffield.

Now, I couldn't understand a bloody word he was saying,

but he was a total legend

and he's not the only one to come from Yorkshire.

We've got actor

and big tea drinker Sean Bean Spice Girl, Mel b Alex Turner

from the Arctic Monkeys, and Jenny and Lee from Gogglebox.

But the true beauty of Yorkshire is the language, the words,

the sayings, the way it sounds.

I mean, who else but a Yorkshire person would come up

with this phrase, "Where there's muck

there's brass" which basically means if you're willing

to get your hands dirty, you can make money.

And that's the thing about Yorkshire.

There's a toughness and warmth to the people, the landscape,

and especially the way they speak.

Now, one thing to keep in mind is there's no one

Yorkshire accent.

It changes depending on where you are.

But today we're going to cover the essentials.

I'll break down some of the most important

pronunciation features.

We'll get expert tips from a true Yorkshireman,

Dan from BritSpeak,

and at the end I'll put you to the test

with a Yorkshire accent challenge.

Plus there's loads of opportunities to practice throughout.

Right? Let's crack on.

Alright, we're starting with one

of my favorite all time UK accent sounds, the /ɜː/

sound replacing an /əʊ/

So when I lived in Yorkshire, a friend

of mine dated a local girl and her accent was amazing.

And she say things like, I don't know. No, I don dunno.

I'm on the phone. Amazing.

I could listen to that all day long.

So you can hear the elongated /ɜː/ sound

where other accents would say, /əʊ/, my understanding is

that this is a particular feature

of the eastern part of Yorkshire.

Like Hull. And maybe this is why Timotheée Chalamet

thinks it's so sexy.

Phone. Go. Home. No.

If Timotheée Chalamet is watching this video, he might want

to turn down the lights because here is comedian

and whole native Lucy Beaumont giving us a few examples

of her wonderful sexy Hull accent.

- And then we, we parked up and he turned to me

and he said, I've got to go.

And I was like, oh, alright then just wait till you get.

He was like, I've got to go now.

I don't know if you've noticed,

but I've, I've started to do a bit of telly now,

- Blimey!

Now if you like that sound, get yourself ready

because this next one is possibly just as sexy

and even more Yorkshire.

The /t/ sound.

Now Yorkshire has a funny relationship with the T sound.

It often drops it in the middle of words

and replaces it with a glottal T like water. Butter. Later.

which is something that, well, to be honest,

most UK accents do.

But it also does something very unique.

It replaces the word the with a true T sound,

or it just omits the altogether.

So for example, I'm going to the shops, becomes I'm going

t'shop, puts it on the table,

becomes put it on' table.

I live down the road, I live down t'road.

Sounds a bit mad, doesn't it? Yeah.

Let's hear it used in context.

- Before I got in banned, I said to anyone who knew me,

I'd never have a tattoo and I'd never smoke cigarettes

- Blimey!

That is quite something.

Later in the video, we're going

to do some shadowing technique exercises so

that you can have some fun with the Yorkshire accent.

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Okay, this next one is a truly classic sound that distinguishes the north

and Yorkshire from the south, it's the /æ/ sound.

So in the south of England, you'll hear the longer vowel

of /a:/, on words like bath laugh ask.

But in the north of England, it's pronounced with an /æ/

So it's bath, laugh and ask.

Now, linguists call this the trap bath split /æ/

and /a:/ trap bath, and it divides England in half.

So the most common time you'll hear this divide is

with words where the A is followed by a th an f

an s or an n.

So in Yorkshire, you'll hear bath laugh

after last chance.

France glass. Here's an example sentence.

I had a right laugh last night.

I had a right laugh last night.

Let's hear the sound used by proper Yorkshire folks,

- I'm allowed to say this out because this goes out past

when kids have gone to bed,

- They tried everything, but he, he stood fast

by what he believed in.

He's the only one with a moral compass.

The only one who, who would you, you you be able to trust

and to be able to rely on and ask for advice and counsel.

- Oh, I can't eat that last bit. Oh, what a waste

- All right, here we go with our next sound,

which is the /ʊ/ sound.

It's used in Yorkshire on words like up come done,

mother and bus in the south of England,

you hear the /ʌ/ sound.

So it'll be up. Come done mother bus.

But in Yorkshire it's the sound. An example sentence.

What time does the bus arrive?

What time does the bus arrive? Does and bus.

Alright, let's hear this sound said in context.

- So I loved like dressing up in suits

and like wearing like specific tied on a

certain way. And like

- Brothers, sisters,

- My boyfriend at the time, now husband who's from Tucson,

got out at Wakey train station and Shat taxi picked us up.

He was like, oh my god.

- Right? Let's discuss more constant sounds

and in particular the th sounds of the,

and the, which often change to /v/, and /f/.

It's a process we call th fronting.

It's not done by all speakers,

but it's a feature worth talking about.

Examples. So brother becomes brother, mother becomes mother.

That becomes that bath becomes bath,

think, becomes think.

And thanks becomes thanks.

Now in Sheffield they do something totally different,

but we're gonna talk more about that.

But Dan later on. But first let's hear the

th fronting in action. There's

- Just one that bothered me and this guy had put

- Our final sound is not really a sound at all.

Yeah, how does that work? All right, let me explain.

So in most Yorkshire accents the H sound,

the /h/ is actually dropped.

So this is, to be honest, this is really common in lots

of UK accents,

especially when it's at the front position of a word.

So for example, instead of saying hotel,

it would be otel instead of house.

ouse. Instead of, hello, ello.

Instead of happy, appy, here's an example sentence.

Hello, love, how's it going? Hello, love. How's it going?

Let's hear it said in context.

- No, no reasoning

behind it wanting something big for me all.

But if you're from the village

and the workers has lived in the village, you are a shatter.

And then now, however many years later,

you're from Sha they all hurt anyone who's saying they

don't, hurt, it's bullshitting. They all hurt

- Okay, I think it's time we got a proper Yorkshire expert

in to help us to understand a few things while we chat

to my mate, Dan from the YouTube channel, BritSpeak.

I want you to listen for any examples of the sounds

that we've just looked at.

So when does he use the /æ/ sound?

When does he use the, /ʊ/, when does he drop his Hs?

Does he use that funny T thing t'shop?

Listen out and pay attention. Alright, here's Dan.

Okay, it's time to welcome Dan from BritsSpeak.

Dan, welcome.

- Hey up mate. How we doing?

- Ah, so good to have you man. So good to see you now. Yeah.

Ladies and gentlemen, Dan is a legit yorkshireman like this,

I, I put you up as the most yorkshireman

yorkshireman I've ever met. Is that fair to say?

- I'll take it. That'll do alright. Yep. Sounds good.

- So tell us about whereabouts in Yorkshire are you from?

- Right, so I'm originally from Sheffield, kind

of South Yorkshire, actually Rotherham, but we don't say that

because it's not as good as Sheffield.

So Oh, born in Rotherham Hospital, but I lived in Sheffield.

So take that for what you like and yeah,

but I moved to Japan, you know, 10 years ago,

so I've lost a bit of my accent.

But you can take the lad outta Yorkshire, but you know,

- That's it.

You still sound as Yorkshire as as it comes, honestly.

So particularly sort of Sheffield twang, right?

There are bits of your accent

that are particularly Sheffield.

Now. Could you just start us off by describing

I guess the different regions of Yorkshire

and what, what is Yorkshire's status within the uk?

Like, how is it perceived?

- So yeah, I mean inside Yorkshire you've kind

of got South Yorkshire, which is like your Sheffield

and Barnsley and Rotherham

and all them places, which is closer

to Derbyshire, like that way on.

Then you've got Leeds, which is a bit more

West Yorkshire North.

It's north of Sheffield, but it's west towards

Manchester, Lancashire, that way on.

Then you've got like east riding of, of Yorkshire

or whatever, where a bit posher up them, up them ends,

and then, yeah, I mean obviously York itself is kinda

capital, if you like, of Yorkshire,

but I don't know, like looking from outside people,

there's a couple of stereotypes

that come with Yorkshire people.

It's like we are on a honest hard working folk, like, you know,

no nonsense from Yorkshire and all that,

but of it often gets to the stereotype,

like not well educated, you know,

from Yorkshire thick in arm and thick in head as it comes.

So there is the kind of that, but we considered quite

friendly I think, but

- Yeah, - Yeah,

Yorkshire people have always got this idea a grandeur

as well, like that we're so much better there.

God's chosen country, you know?

- Yeah, right. This phrase, I've heard it a few times,

God's own country, what does that mean to, to you

and to, to Yorkshire?

- It's a bit daft, but basically it's like

Yorkshire's so perfect.

Only God could have made it for himself.

It's, it's not that good.

I mean, I, I've been

to Barnsley, it's not that great, you know,

- But I mean, it is a beautiful county.

There are some amazing parts of it, right? The countryside.

Yeah, sure. The Yorkshire Dales and all that stuff.

It, it, it is quite a beautiful place.

I can see why they would think that.

- Yeah. But I think it's just like, also Yorks people, well,

you know, we kind of, I don't know, I think it may be like,

'cause it, it were quite insular for a while

and you, we don't want to from of it big ills.

We just want his own thing

and we kinda segregate from the rest of the UK in our minds.

I think it's like, it's his own thing.

So, but yeah, I know what you mean.

- I definitely think as a, as a Londoner,

we have a perception of Yorkshire.

Like people up there are super friendly. Like it's,

- Yeah.

- It's like you can walk down the street

and you people are like, all love.

Alright, love. Alright Chuck, and you're like,

- Yeah, for - Me it as a London, that's just weird

and like it's, it's, I love it, but it's, it's different.

- Yeah. When I first went to London,

like they don't say hello to each other down here.

- Yeah. Sadly we don't. - I will.

- Okay. So we've talked a little bit about the accent

and obviously viewers can hear your beautiful Yorkshire

tones as we go through, I've got a few bits of vocabulary

that are very specific to Yorkshire that I'd love to go

through and you help us sure.

To translate them, if that's okay. Yeah.

So can, first one is aop, aop aop. What, what is aop?

- Well, first of all it's, if I used

to say it in a more polished section, HEOP

as in, hey, hello, hi.

But you know, we, we don't pronounce h at

beginning of words usually.

So a rather than he

and Aop I think is just like a nice way of saying hello,

basically Aup you all right?

And yeah, I say that a lot.

- Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've also heard like how do or how do,

- How do, yeah, how do is other one, how do you do, how do

- Also now then is that

- This is really common now then like somebody, you know,

you're, you're in, you're in pub, you're having a pint

where your mate and another mate walks, ah,

nah, then look who here?

Yeah. Like that kind of thing. So

- A couple of nice little greetings there.

Yeah. One that you say that I've noticed is,

and a couple of my friends from Sheffield are like, it's,

it's re reek good or instead of,

- Right.

Yeah. I mean this, this is also a bit

of a variation in Yorkshire.

In Sheffield it's more like rate, like, dunno,

if you can see behind me on this sign up here, berate, REYT.

So rate is the pronunciation in Sheffield

and it means, right.

You know, so re is more kind of leads

where it is like, all right, all reit,

but for me, all right, but much of a muchness, you know,

but it basically, it's a pronunciation thing where Right,

the kind of the I dip th just becomes e reit. Yeah.

- Interesting. Two words

that I think are classically Yorkshire are nout and out.

Yeah. Can you, can you talk us through those two? Of

- Course.

So, and once again, it depends where you are out and out

or o and note where I'm from.

But it, it's very much the same thing.

O is o wt meaning anything

a note, meaning not anything or nothing.

If you prefer, you know, and the other one that's connected

to that is summit, ah, summit.

Oh, a note, something, anything and nothing.

Aha example might say something like, I'm gonna shop,

do you wanna Yeah.

Get me some? Yeah.

- What's the translation of that?

Then I'm going to the shop. Do you want anything?

Would you like anything?

- Yes, please get me something. You know?

- Okay. All right. Summit. Brilliant. That's so good.

I like outrun now I'm, I'm, I'm starting to use it.

It's definitely a very Yorkshire Northern Oh,

- For sure.

- Phrase, but I, I quite like using it occasionally. Yeah.

Okay. One that I do not understand is,

is it th thou the

- Ah, okay.

Like the the pronouns.

- Yeah, the old fashioned pronouns.

Talk me through all that stuff.

- Yeah, basically, for example, you

and your are the most common ones, and it'd be the, and th

- Okay, - So the and is you

and th is yours.

Right. So I've just seen that, that lad dance street.

- Okay. - Yeah. So,

- So just seeing - Lad this, and it's normal for me.

Yeah, exactly. I've just seen your lad.

I've just seen that lad. So it's a bit old fashioned.

It feels a bit like Shakespeare, like thou, thou, you know,

but we don't really say thou, but the,

and th a hundred percent you'll hear instead of you

and your, but once again,

that means something you might have

covered in the accent stuff.

But we do a lot of th stopping th front in, in Yorkshire.

- Right. - So especially in Sheffield it becomes D

and D, which is why people from Sheffield have got the

nickname D das.

So because we say D and D.

- Right, right, right. I've heard this.

So I went to uni in Leeds and a couple of Sheffield friends

and within the Yorkshire community.

Yeah, they would always refer,

- Call each other.

- Yeah. My Sheffield friends is DDAs. Ah, you're dda.

- Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah.

- Okay. That's that one explained. No, I,

- 'cause of the v and d becomes D and D from Sheffield.

'cause we're special like that.

- I asked my audience for some questions.

Oh, wick could for you

because people are very interested in Yorkshire

and Oh, nice.

Oh, nice. They want to know some more stuff. So let me go

through these questions.

Oh, this is actually from fellow Yorkshire Las

pronunciation with Emma.

Oh. And she asks, what a Snicket,

what's a Snicket Mardi lug.

And to bagsy mean, I know to Bagsy Bagsy is

to say it's yours to claim something.

- Yeah. It's like the Americans say shotgun, right?

Like when you're gonna a car

and you wanna sit in front, you're like Bagsy.

- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. A Snicket. What's a Snicket

- Snicket?

Some people call a gentle

or a gill depending on where you're from,

but it's like the little path between two houses.

- Okay. - So no, sometimes you've got a house and a house

and a little path to walk in between them.

Like a public path that's a Snicket or a Gill

or a Genal or whatever.

Ah. Depends on where,

where in Yorkshire from, you'll pronounce it Gill.

Genal. Snicket. But they're all the same thing. Okay.

So that's a good one. What were the other ones?

- Marty? But I know Marty because,

- Yeah, I've listened - To the Arctic Monkeys.

- So yeah, I think a lot of people know that one Koa,

that song now they're Marty Boom

or whatever. It's Marty. Boom.

- Yeah. So Marty means like moody, right?

- Yeah. Miserable, grumpy, moody, that kind of thing. Yeah.

- Yeah. - That's a

- Good one. And

- And lug was the other one you? Yeah, lug,

- What is it?

Oh, you, your lug hole. Okay. Yeah. You okay.

- And in York, should we say lug all lug oil?

Yeah. The hole in your ear.

- Your lug hole. - Yeah.

'cause the ear hole, like the, we'll say lug oil,

you've got soit in your oil, can't you hear?

- Okay. All I'm learning, I'm learning.

Aino asks How different are traditional Yorkshire puddings

from those served in London or other parts of the uk?

- I think actually it's not that bad.

Aunt Bessie kind took over

and you know, like her mafia of

Yorkshire puddings took over the uk.

So I think it's one of the few things from Yorkshire

that's been exported relatively well

and it's done pretty well all over country.

But I like, if I have a Yorkshire pudding in London,

I'm not gonna sit there and be like, oh, it's not as good

as, actually it's not from Yorkshire, you know, that kind

of, so,

but yeah, I think in, in Yorkshire though,

it depends on whether you're having like one big one

or a bunch of little ones.

Like that's a big thing.

- Yeah, yeah. So you guys almost use it like a

plate, right? Like

- It's, yeah, it's basically like an edible plate.

You bang everything in it. Ton of gravy. Berate

- A genius idea, an edible plate.

- But I did see on Instagram in Camden,

somebody's making like burrito wraps,

but with Yorkshire puddings, I'm like,

good idea that mate. Well the

- Yorkshire Burrito.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Technically you guys have been

to Camden, the Yorkshire Burrito definitely worth the trip.

It it, you need a lot of moisture, a lot

of gravy in there to get it.

- Ah, moist. Get some wet on it,

- Get some wet on it.

But it's delicious. Basically it's a Sunday roast in

a Yorkshire pudding,

- Like wrapped up like a burrito in it.

Yeah, it looks good. Looks good. That it's really good.

So another thing I'd like to add about Yorkshire

that's quite weird is our choice of verbs,

especially third person verbs.

You know, usually it'd be like, I do,

you do, he does, right?

But in Yorkshire we don't really play

that game, for example.

It's never, I was, you were, he was, you know,

they're all were I were you were e were she where they were.

And we don't differentiate at all.

And it's probably the biggest comment I get on my videos is

like, you using the verb wrong?

I'm like, nah, they're just the same thing where I'm from,

- Right?

- So I, were going to shop E, were going to school.

And they're basically exactly the same.

And another great example of it is doesn't

and don't become, don't, it's not even closer either word.

D-U-N-T-I would spell it Dun, I don't know.

He don't know. He don't go to school on Sunday.

And it's quite simple for English learners

because they don't have to worry about

this, which one is it?

But people will assume

that you can't speak English very well.

- That's really interesting. Yeah.

These sort of regional variations

and from the sort of deviate from standard,

standard English.

- Yeah. - And there's this perception that it's wrong.

It's like, no, it's just, it's this non-standard form

that has grown up

or developed in this region of the UK or whatever.

So yeah, we've got lots of examples of that.

That's really interesting that you, you said that,

well I've heard of also like Ant, is it a NT? So like

- Yeah, I haven't done anything.

I haven't but A and the V disappear, I haven't done it.

I haven't done OI haven't done anything.

I dunno if police come and get you or whatever. Right.

- What - Are you doing? I dunno.

- So contract, is it, so will we

describe it as contractions? I guess like,

- I think, I mean when you get rid

of more than half the letters,

can it be considered a contraction at that point?

Yeah, I mean it basically haven't becomes an,

I mean we've literally got two sounds.

'cause the T's G globalized anyway, so that disappears.

And the H we never pronounce it so

the V just disappears for some reason.

We've got, and I ain't done it. I hadn't done my own work.

- Yeah, yeah, yeah. So for listeners

and people who are in Yorkshire are trying to understand,

there's a lot that's missing, right?

That's being, yeah. Sort of alighted out of the word.

- Yeah. We take Glot lies into the next level

where we just glot articles as well.

Like the doesn't exist in Yorkshire

now, it depends where you are.

Sometimes you'll get an actual like dental tea sound going

to shops, you know, this kind of to the shops.

But a lot of times Yorkshire should glot lies out

so people get confused.

'cause they expect, you hear I am going to the shops,

but what you actually get in Yorkshire is I'm gonna shop.

Right. It's, it's not even close to the same thing.

- So different. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

- Wow. So it's really hard to keep up with Yorkshire.

'cause you know, we don't say off at words

and even when we do, we, we don't, we don't see 'em.

Right.

- So I mean, for people who maybe are visiting Yorkshire,

maybe they're, they're going to uni there, like

to Leeds, to Sheffield, to

- York, - And they wanna get used to the sounds of,

of a Yorkshire accent.

Of course Yorkshire accents come in different forms

and different strengths.

What would you say would be a good next step to,

to understanding a, a Yorkshire accent?

- Yeah, that's a good one. I mean obviously with,

with any accent you, the good thing to do is find kind of a

model, you know, go

and find like a famous Yorkshire Sean Bean

or you know, whoever and listen to

interviews with those kind of people.

Art, what's it called? Alex Turner art one.

Like something like that from his early days, especially

before his accent got weird.

Go and listen to it and like, just kind of pay attention

to some of the linguistic features I'm sure you,

you've talked about in your video.

You know, like vowel flattening

and you know, eh, at the end of world

and all this y clipping

and all that kind of weird stuff that we do.

And I think like any accent, it's got

to come down to exposure.

So try and listen as much as you can

and don't feel pressure to do it yourself.

If you don't want to, like, that's fine,

but just be aware of some of the,

the more obvious linguistic features.

And I suppose that's things like foot split

and like bath trap split

and this kind of really obvious stuff that'll point you in

the right direction so you can pick out

what we're actually trying to say.

- Yeah, definitely. Yeah, I think you're right.

I think that exposure to, to the sounds, I guess it's,

it's knowing what sounds to be looking out

for then exposing yourself to them and then Yeah, exactly.

Not necessarily trying to implement it yourself.

Just in terms of like understanding people.

And I mean, let's be honest, Dan,

if they started following you

and listened to you for a little while, they would,

they would start to pick that those,

you know, those sounds up.

- Yeah. Maybe get a bit of it coming through.

Especially, I mean it's hard

'cause I've been in Japan for a while now,

but you can't get rid of it completely.

But when I became a teacher, I did have to learn

to elute a bit more.

You know, I 'cause a point in case is like bus love.

This sound didn't exist in my world.

I had to actually teach myself how to make this sound

because it just didn't exist.

Love and boss. And so even

for me the other way, it was tricky. So, you know,

- Yeah, - Just kind of identify the sounds, isolate 'em,

and then exposure and you know,

before that knows it, it'll be talking like that.

- Are there like thousands of Japanese people speaking

with the Yorkshire accent now? Is that

- I've done me bit, I've done as much as I can do.

But honestly like when I first came here, like I working

with an Aussie and a Canadian

and they couldn't really understand me very well

and I like these little Japanese kids have got no chance.

So I had to really work on the more neutral accent

that people would expect from a British person.

One big problem, one thing that I always try and do,

and I think you try very much to do this as well, is

to be like a bridge between the, the Cambridge CDs

that came with your textbooks.

You know, John is going to the park,

what is he going to see there?

And then, you know, you rock up

in Yorkshire like, all right, what they doing?

They're like, what? What the, aren't we?

And you, there's, there's not enough of a bridge in

between the two things.

So I think I try

and fit in that gap where I'm not

completely like a textbook, but I'm not a hundred percent.

I'm somewhere in the middle. So

- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I think that's exactly, that's a

really great way of putting it.

A bridge between the two

- Extremes. Extremes.

- Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Perfect. - It's a good idea.

- Okay Dan, I would like you

to rate my Yorkshire accent. So

- You are good at accents.

I'm looking forward to this.

- We'll see. So there's a phrase is gonna appear.

I'm gonna say it and out of, out of far, out of 10.

- Alright, we'll do outta 10, - But you're

not allowed to say seven.

So you gotta commit all. You've gotta commit. All right.

Okay, here we go. All

- Here we go.

- Loosen up. Here we go. Alright, come on. Here we go.

Hey, up. How's that doing? I'll do it again. That's not bad.

Hey, up. How's that doing?

- So the only thing I would've said is the, the

longer on the A sound as they're doing. As they're doing.

- As they're doing as, yeah. - Hey.

- Oh, as they're doing. As

- They're doing.

Yeah. So overall good stuff. I'd say eight.

Eight outta 10 on that one. All right.

The only one sound that were a bit off rest of it,

were Bob on.

- All right. Eight, not bad. All right, I'm happy with that.

Okay. Number two, I will reach chuff with that.

I'll re off with that.

- So yeah, this is once again

the re write thing that we were talking about earlier.

I wear re chuffed, re chuff with that

and I thought that were good.

I once again like, you know,

let's even go further nine for that one.

- Whoa. Okay. All right.

- But you have to be careful though 'cause if you say REIT

with too much stress, it sounds like a Jody.

- Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, - Yeah, yeah.

So I mean, they're not far away like,

but for Yorks it's less stress on that.

But chuff with that proper Oh, oh,

right know we didn't follow that foot strut thing

that you guys are down south.

- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

The oh and the ah, yeah. Classic.

- Oh, reach chuffed with that. - Brilliant. Okay, last one.

- Go on then. - Now then. Fancy copper.

- Ah, okay.

This, I'm gonna give you a lower

score, but it's not your fault.

Oh. So I'm going to say, I'm gonna tell you five, but

because we don't say copper

that much up north, we say a brew.

- Ah, of course I should have known that.

- But other than that, the word choice was a bit off.

- Okay. - But it's not like I'm not gonna understand.

You'd be like, what do you mean? Yeah, I can't

- Possibly understand what is ing you a copper A what?

- But yeah, we would probably say a brew fancier brew brew.

That's really important. And then you've got

to do gesture brew, fancier

- Brew, fancier brew.

That's really important. I think that is really important.

It's like, it's those little subtle things

that really tell you where someone is from.

Like the, the, the, the vocab choice is geography. Right?

It's so true. Yeah. Like you wouldn't say tappa,

right? That's really important to know.

- No, growing up we'd say a brew, fancier brew.

And I think the best example

of the geography thing is like, what's it called?

A bread cake, a BA roll, whatever it is, every 10 mile.

It's a different answer. So

- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah. It's, there's great map I think I've seen of the UK

and it just has Yeah,

the the different words in the different places.

- Yeah. Where you're from, what do you call it? Yeah,

- Yeah.

It's like there's 10 different versions.

- It's funny of that. - Yeah. Fabulous.

Dan, thank you so much for your

- Insights.

You are more than welcome my friend.

- And at the end of the video,

we're gonna have some phrases from Dan

and you guys get a chance to repeat exactly what he says

and sound like a proper Yorkshire person.

So look forward to that.

Dan, where can people find you?

You are on Instagram and YouTube. Where can they find you?

- Yeah, so basically my online name is Brit, speak

as in Britain, speak Brit speak.

So if you search, you'll find me my little

face on there somewhere.

But yeah, I'm pretty easy to spot.

- You are teaching fantastic British English.

Love what you do. Cheer me.

Thank you so much for joining us, Dan. Appreciate.

- Oh, you're more than welcome. More than

welcome. Thanks for having us.

- Alright guys, it's time

to take the great Yorkshire accent challenge.

Dan has got three sentences for you

and I want you to shallow him

and repeat the same words exactly as he says it.

We'll repeat each sentence twice.

- Good luck. Hey, up as they're doing.

Hey, up as they're doing

our reach, chuffed our

reach cht.

Fancier brew.

Fancier brew.

Alright, how'd it go?

- Are your proper Yorkshire? Now?

I think you might be, of course you don't need

to actually speak with a Yorkshire accent,

but it's really useful to be able to identify the sounds

that might be in different Yorkshire accents.

So when you hear them, you'll be able

to understand it better.

Now don't forget to sign up

to my free five day British English pronunciation challenge.

The link is in the description below

or you can scan the QR code.

And if you want to learn more about British accents,

you can watch this video here or this video.