I WANT A SCOTTISH ACCENT

I'm a scot, between the scots and the irish, both of which i have blood lines running from, the language is probably the most complex english you can encounter.

I live in Dundee which is famous for its uninterpretable accent, we speak fast and use words that anyone who isnt native would have any idea what we were saying.

there is no way of picking up the scottish 'accent' because its not the accent you want it is the words, irish is likewise. for example i can type like this but if you heard me saying this it is far more than an accent. its a whole method of speaking aswell as an accent ontop.

example: i was with my mother going to the bakers, my mother asked for a scottish pie aswell as an onion filled pie (english)

until you are able to understand this (eh wis wee meh mither gain tae the bakers, meh mither asked fir eh scots peh in an ingin ain anah) (scotch equivilent)

I have been to england and america, nobody can understand me and i have great difficulty understanding them. we write in english but we speak our own thing, making it impossible to for anyone not raised in scotland (northern/midlands) to develop the tounge.

secondly...breavheart is acted by an austrailian, who does a decent job of conveying what people accociate a scottish accent with, but in reality thats not what highland scots sounds like. (glasgow and edinburgh is lowland scots, far more english mixing and the language/accent has took a stand more towards proper english) eg: billy connolly has a glasgow accent, sean connory has a edinburgh accent. (i recommend Braemarr, Dundee, Aberdeen) for those who want a 'Scottish accent' aswell as getting the thought out of your head, you will have a deeper understanding how deep the accent actually does

Listen to people with scottish accents as they talk. I listened to my grandparents and now I can use the accent properly.

Also, use British pronounciation instead of American. In America, it's Li-ter-all-y... in Scotland its 'Litrally.'

And throw in some Scottish expressions.... If you live in the U.K... you probably know them.

If you're English....then A Scottish accent, you'll find, resembles a North English one, except more pronounced.

a scottish accent is difficult because you have to get your head round the words, and two towns right next to each other can pronounce the word diferently or even have a diff word entirly.

For example heres how a sentence in english." paul wasnt at skool because he was off without permission".

Heres how it would be said in my home town of port glasgow."pol wisny it skool cis e wis skidgin".

The town right next to us is greenock, and the sentence there would be "pol wisny it skool cis e wis dogin it".

If you learn the port say'n then go to greenock and you're bamboozled again. Thats why it seems so hard to get to grips with. A colourful language if you understand it, gobbledy gook if you dont.

I am Italian, two years ago my father and I decided to visit a friend of him who is from Middlesbrough; we decided to spent some days in London, then visit the eastern Wales, stay some days vith this friend and then spent some days in Edinburgh. I am quite good at English, I can understand it very well even if spoken quickly if it hasn't too much accent and I enjoyed a lot listening to different accents during this holiday.

when we arrived in Edimburgh I immediatly loved the accent, even if I think it's not only ad accent but also the vocabulary is very different. I didn't find it too much difficult to understand if people speack slow. I think this is because I always had to pay more attention when speaking with people during that trip because to me also the plainest english is a foreign langage, and because some sounds were very similar to my local dialect! I'm now planning to return to Scotland this year, and I want to learn Scottish accent [or better, dialect]. Luckily, an English teacher in my school is from Scotland so maybe I could ask him some tips

Good evening to ya,

Maybe if scottland u might find something there. I like scottish accents too, not so sure on the irish.

Try listening to scottish movie or something.

Good day las/lad

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