The 5 Hardest British Accents to Understand!

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Today, we are talking about accents, in  particular British accents, in particular  

the five hardest British accents to understand.

Now a few disclaimers, okay. We have many,  many, many different accents in the UK.

Some of them are so far away from each other that  they don't even sound like they're from the same country.

So when people say "I love the British  accent" or "I want to learn a British accent",

it doesn't really make sense because  a British accent can sound like this:

"And then I messaged her back and then she  messaged me back and it was pretty glorious"

But also a British accent can sound like this:

"Can I ask the Honorable Gentleman, what work is being done to make sure that this place

is more accessible, particularly for some  of our colleagues who have a disability?"

Or like this:

"Oh and she went 'that's lucky I'm going that way, I give him a lift!'"

So if you are at all interested in British English, you really need to get familiar with the accents of the UK.

If by a British accent you mean how I'm speaking right now, you actually mean an RP accent or a Standard English accent.

So, it's really good if you can start calling it 'Received Pronunciation' (RP) or 'Standard English' rather than 'British Accent'

because as we've seen it doesn't really work that way.

So I have made a list of what I think in my opinion are the five hardest British accents to understand

for people who aren't from Britain.

This is because I think they are the furthest away from what people expect

and they have sounds  in the accent that are very different from say  

RP, how I'm speaking now.

Okay, let's start with  the one that is closest to my heart:

the Black Country/Birmingham.

My homeland, the place of my people.

"I mean you'll be familiar with the Brummie accent. Are you familiar with the Brummie accent?"