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B1 Intermediate English 11:10 Educational

Having A Scottish Accent | Power & Chaos

800 Pound Gorilla Comedy Exports · 1,440,847 views · Added 6 days ago

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B1

CEFR Level

5/10

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Subtitles (252 segments)

00:00

terrible uh being an intelligent woman

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trapped in a Scottish accent

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Liv I didn't know this was my voice till

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I moved to England right in my head I

00:12

talk like Steven fry and then uh moved

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down south and started going into shops

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and people just looked at me like a dog

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was barking at

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them

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so I've lived there for 10 years and

00:27

it's largely great the shops are open

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for ages but one of the hardest things

00:31

is every day for the last decade what my

00:34

English friends love to do to me is

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repeat what I'm seeing back at me in a

00:39

bad Scottish accent and they always have

00:42

a look in their eyes like she is going

00:44

to love when I do

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this every day I've got one friend that

00:49

does it all the time her name's Haley

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she's always like fun this is my

00:54

impression of you hello I'm F pretty

01:00

thanks haly I feel so comfortable this

01:03

is my impression of you please don't

01:05

tell everybody about the time I gave

01:07

everyone at Uni

01:10

Medan sorry still not getting that cocky

01:13

accent you [ __ ]

01:19

okay I never really thought much about

01:21

being Scottish then I moved to England

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and I became Scottish faern and then you

01:25

realized that you're meant to live up to

01:28

this cartoon version of scottishness

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where you're aggressive or drunk

01:32

allergic to salad right you all you all

01:36

know the drill it's hard for me to live

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up to this right because I'm quite quiet

01:40

off stage salad can't get enough of it I

01:44

was considered almost quite middle class

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growing up here Scottish middle class

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not English middle class right Scottish

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middle class is where you've been on a

01:53

plane once and mom makes you eat fruit

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regularly

02:00

don't like drinking either this is quite

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a weird thing to say as a Scottish

02:04

person and a professional comedian I

02:06

don't like alcohol and not cuz I'm a

02:09

recovering Al or anything I just don't

02:12

need drink to make me blunt and

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offensive in social

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