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| Random review Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5784 days ago 781 posts - 1310 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin, Yiddish, German | Message 9 of 17 15 July 2012 at 4:34pm | IP Logged | ||
Which Scottish accent? If you mean Glaswegian (probably the hardest for foreigners to understand) then there are full episodes of Rab C Nesbitt on YouTube. I don't like it (the program that is, not the accent ha ha), I don't like the whole concept, but certainly if you can learn to understand that you'll be on your way to understanding almost anybody. There are a fair few good films set in Scotland, most famously Trainspotting. Edit: Taggart was a much better series set in Glasgow, you might want to check out the STV channel on YouTube here Edited by Random review on 15 July 2012 at 4:47pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| prz_ Tetraglot Senior Member Poland last.fm/user/prz_rul Joined 4860 days ago 890 posts - 1190 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Bulgarian, Croatian Studies: Slovenian, Macedonian, Persian, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Dutch, Swedish, German, Italian, Armenian, Kurdish | Message 10 of 17 15 July 2012 at 5:28pm | IP Logged | ||
@Random review - thanks a lot for the answer. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4829 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 11 of 17 16 July 2012 at 12:37am | IP Logged | ||
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Auf Wiedersehen Pet actually had 3 Geordies, plus representatives from other English
(not Scottish or Welsh or Irish) regions: Liverpool Birmingham or Black Country (they are not the same, but I can't remember for sure which it was meant to be). West Country London - The Likely Lads (and Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads) was set in Newcastle, but the accents were very mild. @OP: If you can find them, there were a series of "gritty" films, often set in the north of England, reflecting perhaps the changes that were taking place in British society, from around the late 1950s,1960s, and to some extent the 1970s. Sometimes known as "kitchen sink dramas". E.g. "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" Have a look at some of the films referenced here, although they aren't all from the North: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchen_sink_realism This may possibly be helpful: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OopNorth As the son of two northerners (although I've lived all my life in the south), ah wish thee lots of luck lad! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| jazzboy.bebop Senior Member Norway norwegianthroughnove Joined 5419 days ago 439 posts - 800 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Norwegian | Message 12 of 17 16 July 2012 at 6:48pm | IP Logged | ||
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I heartily recommend "Life on Mars" which is set in Manchester. It's a cop show with a twist, the main character gets hit by a car in 2006 and when he wakes up he finds himself in 1973. One of the best BBC dramas around.
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| PillowRock Groupie United States Joined 4735 days ago 87 posts - 151 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 13 of 17 16 July 2012 at 11:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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And, of course, if you want to hear some Liverpool natives, you could always go back to the old Beatles movies from the 1960s, most notably A Hard Day's Night and Help!.
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| Rykketid Diglot Groupie Italy Joined 4834 days ago 88 posts - 146 votes Speaks: Italian*, English Studies: French | Message 14 of 17 17 July 2012 at 9:25am | IP Logged | ||
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Wow, I heartily thank everyone, you gave me a lot of material to check out!
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| Tyr Senior Member Sweden Joined 5783 days ago 316 posts - 384 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Swedish | Message 15 of 17 18 July 2012 at 5:27am | IP Logged | ||
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Theres quite a lot of Scottish dialect stuff out there these days that keeps popping up on iplayer.
Auf Wiedersehen Pet is a classic. And definitely look into old films. Ken Loach's stuff is good (Kes is one of the best films ever) and This Sporting Life is very interesting, set in a vanished world, its Yorkshire but they sound more north eastern to me. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| AdamUK Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5155 days ago 12 posts - 39 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Italian, Spanish | Message 16 of 17 18 July 2012 at 10:10pm | IP Logged | ||
Yes, RP was prevalent until recently where there has been a shift to embrace regional accents. Personally, I have always been a keen admirer of the RP accent. I have a Yorkshire/RP accent mix myself. This was done intentionally as I don't like the removal of h and t from speech and I also don't like using words like aznt and ant for 'hasn't'. Kunt for 'couldn't', wunt for 'wouldn't etc. This is just my personal preference. May I ask why you have interest in the Northern accent in particular? There is also an old BBC program called 'Open all hours' which is worth watching. I love the old comedy series; the style of humour is very different to today. Have fun. :) Edited by AdamUK on 18 July 2012 at 10:13pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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