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  • I know it's Keltic , but some of the phonetics sound Germanic - both Indo European, I know, but different branches - however, geographically kinda close to one another.

  • I'll just listen to it, despite Scottish background, I'm still mutt enough that it'll be a fail, and my xbox will fry out from spit lol

  • You are quite funny, I enjoyed this clip

  • Quite enjoyable. I do so love your language.... You could read the phonebook and have my complete attention. Cheers.

  • G'day Brad. Thanks for taking the time to post this. I always enjoy having a chuckle at the expense of my ancestors (Clan MacLennan). As Robin Williams said, "If you want a linguistic adventure, go drinkin' with a Scotsman. Because you can't f-ing understand them before." Cheers lad.

  • I've watched this 47,152 times and I still can't gob like you can!

  • "Genetic modification"? Ye're haverin', aye? Onybody can dae it nae bother if they learn fae when they're a bairn.

  • Ah talk aboot ingins an tatties an neeps an goin doon the road, some fowks still talk like that ye ken. I say dinnae, winnae, cannae an aw that. Still hear it spoken in the schemes

  • Sweet! My teenager now thinks I'm nuts for "talking jibberish to a mirror.

  • Dude i hate to sound negative being a fellow Scot but this is just a wee bitty point less because any visitor to Scotland will rarely here any off this Brigadoon Scottish. Most Visitors will visit Edinburgh, Glasgow or Inverness perhaps Glencoe. As you know nobody speaks like this in any of these areas. I think the most challenging Parliamo would be Glasgow patter why dont you do try out some of this in your forthcomming videos.

  • you dont sound scottish ???

  • lmao no one ever talks like that everrrrrrrrrr, maybe 100 years ago but good accent xxx

  • LOL What part of Scotland are you from?? Thanks for posting.

  • East coast around the Dundee area!

  • @BradThunder Ahh thanks! Dad was born in Edinburgh and lived Inverness growing up. He has been in Canada for over 50 years.

  • @BradThunder

    lol Aye a ken he was from the East, just from the Accent, im in the West.. down south Ayrshire way.

    All these i can do obviously as im Scottish so, thanks for the upload..

    Question: What do you think of Scottish Independence ?? ( just an idea for a next video )

    Cheers !

  • A great challenge for English people in the Pass of Drumochtar (spelling?) is to get them to say "Loch Ericht and Loch Errochty". I live and grew up in St Andrews, and when my sister was on a trip to Yorkshire with some other Fife friends one of them went to the shop on a station, pointed at something she wanted, and said to the wifie "Can Ah 'ae wan o' ae hings, hen?"

  • Damn you Sir are hillarious! :D

  • I agree with Scottmau5, we dont all talk like that he is an idiot.

    Scottish translation of what I just wrote:

    I agree wi Scottmau5, wi dinnae aw tock like that he's a dafty,, lol

  • He's quoting Robert Burns he's a fanny baw lol

  • Of course nobody talks like this, anybody with half a brain can tell this is a pastiche of our dialect - like a Chinese person saying 'Flied Lice'. This video is meant to be a bit of fun....only. Besides, I say 'braw', I know people who say 'bricht' and 'nicht' and 'ingins', so really, it's not that far from the truth.

  • paddywhackery: The fakey, out-of-a-box Irishness that insists on the same damned songs and the same damned menu and the same damned Guinness advertisements on the wall of every Irish bar outside of Ireland.

    Seen in nearly every film which features a non Irish actor doing an Irish accent. Notable exceptions include Daniel Day Lewis in "In The Name of The Father" and Bradd Pitt in "Snatch".

  • "Every St.Patricks day Jose liked to emphasize his Irish roots by wearing green, drinking Guiness and referring to the 'old country' but it smacked of Paddywhackery"

  • We call this Paddywhackery in Ireland, don't know what you call it there, how's about some Gàidhlig instead

  • @lughlamh

    I don't think there is a word for it in reference to Scottish culture, but there damned well should be!

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  • would 'tweedery' serve?

  • i think you're sexy:)

  • I hear old people in Inverness say this kinda thing, but never in Glasgow (where i'm from.)

  • Of course people speak like that. He does along with thousands of other Scots

  • folk in scotland spoke like that mibby 50 year ago pal, if i was you i would take this doon because you come across as a complete arse and its a bad advert for scottish people like myself. thank you

  • embrace your heritage, im part scottish and i enjoyed this.

  • ok you are part scottish so you dont understand, no1 talks that way, also he is an idiot lol, it makes us look like tossers lol.

    just watchin it agen makes me cringe

  • Ummm. ...

    We do talk like that though..

    o_O

  • You're a bad enough advert all by yourself mate!

  • He's just makin complicated phrases to try nd get people ti say [=

  • You could use the phrase that was overheard in Parkhead. Celtic where playing badly and where behind. Enrico Annoni was on the bench and was warming up to come on as sustitute. a voice in the crowd turned to his mat and said "Aw naw no Annoni oan anaw noo" Magic.....

  • I looooooove ur accent!!!

  • lol 888 lol

  • :-)

  • Jews like myself who can read Hebrew can also handle the guttural "ch" sound...I tell persons trying to learn this sound to act like they are preparing to spit!...thanks for the video anyway - although I clicked on it to hear a general Scottish accent...(as an American) I've been working on my Scottish accent, but my best results seem to come mainly when I do a thicker accent (as opposed to Sean Connery's milder accent)...the thing is I may fall flat on rolling some r's...ar-r-r-rgh!

  • Aye mate, because Sean Connery speaks wae a 'mild' accent .. bell end.

  • TADGER!!!

  • Iz That Ah Bit O' Dundonian Or Sumthin ?

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  • Mate thats a bit fuckin heavy. Maybed durin' the days a' william wallace nd that but naebudy talks like that anymer'

  • I think this video is why some crazy guy said I was trying to copy you in my videos! I had to look you up (no offence, I just did) to find out who you are and disagree entirely other than the fact that I'm Scottish and sometimes I speak about things...

    I DID make a "Scottish Accent" video though but in my mind it was the complete opposite of this one, me just talking about how I'm losing my accent and how I never even really had one. Unlike you who HAS one and is putting on MORE of one. Crazy.

  • And anyway (ramble ramble) good video! Glad some hater brought me to you inadvertently!

  • Glad the haters are good for something! It's funny, this was just a little vid made as a bit of fun to a video that no longer exists and turned into one of my biggest, erm, successes! And boy have I received some stick for it, although, on the whole, the response has been favorable and what's more, I met my wife because of it!

  • I met my wife in an Ally McBeal chat room... so I guess there's always a good side to even the most negative things!

  • These phrases are antiquated and anachronistic. Nobody ever speaks like here that any more.

  • Obviously. The video was just a bit of fun - a poke at the eccentricities of the old Scottish dialogue. People usually get that.

  • i didnt have much problem with this, (irish, btw) but, are you exagerating slightly, or is scottish more - how will i put this - gutteral? than irish?

    Oh, love your description of a bridie:D

  • YOUR ON BUDDEEEE

    LET ME FIND A VID CAMERA FIRST lol

  • holy shit der buh

  • Dear Brad,

    I loove your video. I've sent it to my niece. I hope you continue with it. I've been studying Scots Gaelic, and so the gutteral sounds aren't that hard--just takes practice!!

    By the way, I'm a Tar Heel from North Carolina!

    Hugs to you,

    Tina

  • Hi Gary loved the video. I am writing a song and making some cultural references. I was wondering if you knew any Scottish terms of indearment or phrases having to do with love or romance. Thanks

  • @Claudia7779

    Read some Robert Burns

  • :D Bile yer Heid is my fav. :)

  • Hiya and THANK YOU!!! :) You helped to teach me a scottish accent and I've used it for my latest video. I have received a good response to the accent - but I'm not convinced. I think I'm doing the *I's* wrong. **shrug** I don't know but I would LOVE for you to respond to my video and let me know it's accent failings. I live to learn. :)

    If you can't see it on your video responses look for "James McAvoy international anthem" . Grill me- I'm game. :)

  • I remember my dad loving his bridies while me and my brother watched on in horror

    If the EU learnt of them, I'm sure they'd be banned.

  • A famous maker of Bridies in Dundee - Wallaces - also made their famous pie that when you took a bite, the hot grease would run down your cheeks. Now that was good eatin'! Few Scots ever see 60.

  • lol do you ever look back at this vid?

  • THANK MAN FOR THE VIDEO. VERY FUNNY and... you are also very funny. :-)

    I am living in London... I have a sottish colleague... man, I love Scottish-English!!

    (I am from Eastern Europe, btw)

  • Ach awan 'an bile yer heid I actually use this one alot actually.

    and I mispelled the last post

  • Ach awan 'an bile ye heid

  • this is actually helping me to understand the visitors at the highland games here in california. hearing the accent clearly helps to understand them

  • are you a linguist?

  • 5 Points from Germany for "Achtung" and "888"....I can't even remember today how I understood my scotish boy friend when I was 16 ;0)

  • What a great accent and how wonderful is your presentation not to mention your humour. You are a hottie, but then again most Scottish men are:-) You would be able to convince me to try Haggis!!!Keep the videos coming.

  • you are one scottie hottie!

  • if you want to learn scottish,type in "STILL GAME"its a brrrrullyint sit-com set in glasgow.

  • * thats only for certain places in scotland , in glasgow we would say ; geese a plain wan an an onion wan anawl

  • thats only for certain places in scotland , in glasgow we would say ; geese a plain wan an an onion wa anawl

  • bahaha funnae mate xD just made me laff,bit scary tho.

  • that is not Scottish English that is just random.

    try Gaelic the true Scottish language

    ALBA GU BRATH

  • Mate the majority of people in Scotland cant say a single sentance in gealic, and your asking someone from another country to do it lol get a grip or ill slap the taste outa your mouth, nigger.

  • wat the fuck are u on about u think ur gona slap me now ?? twat yeah fair enough that is true but it dose not mean that people speak scots. scots has become so diluted that it is hardly worthy of being called a language,

    also like to say that Gaelic should be re-named Scottish

    the Irish call their national language Irish and it is the fastest growing language in Ireland

    obviously not saying that by renaming Gaelic it will become more popular.... ect don't care

  • Doubt as if its fi falkirk, it's a totty we place likes. Plus he wid say ken a lot, i'm fi there.

    haha nice wan mate.

  • hi, i just wanted to say that Scotland is the best country i've ever been to (obviously after colombia ;p my own country)my husband is scottish and i just love your culture...

    i always wanted to get your accent but it comes that because of being arround you people it all get into me

    just that, thnx

  • haha the onion bridie thing was hilarious. never heard anyone say it before though. im from Glasgow and they'd probably say it something like "gees a plain wan n a onion wan anawl."

  • Mmmm, can you do that again with your top off ;)

  • dundee ppl talk funny. suppose u probably hink ppl fae glesga sound funny

  • what in the world are you saying? I do not understand whatever dialect it is you are writing

  • Is that a falkirk accent or maybe Edinburgh? I have a scottish borders accent if that makes sense! Great video Janie x

  • Ehm actually fae, erm, I mean, I'm actually from Dundee, believe it or not! :)

  • l like better the scottish accent rather than the english accent XD

  • Oh don't forget the swiss! They're specialists when it comes to this peculiar genetic modification. In fact they're even much more so than the Germans! The Germans themselves call the swiss dialect "die tönende Halskrankheit" which means "the sounding throat illness"

    sorry for the bad translation

  • ooouuh yeah swiss german!!

  • Swiss German is insanse. I don't know how anyone makes any sese of it.

  • i can do the first n 3rd one!

    woop

    i can do the 2nd one but i have to go really slow :P

  • Ah cannae dae ony a thame at awe - ah mustae been gettin skelpt aff ma maw when yon wiz bein lernt at oor skool.

  • oh and hy shouldnt u face another person or electrical equipment :S

    my gran speaks like that!

    but its the old scottish

    lol

  • haha! woo go scotland :P

    geez a plain one and an onion one as well ....

    basically :P

    ive just eatin ...car tyres! :S

    i think u should go away and boil ur head :P

    i cant speak like that!!

    and im scotish! but i can understand it :P

  • I have to tell you that the Dutch also have this peculiar genetic modification. Being Dutch, Scottish accent is probably even easier for me to pronounce than RP.

  • I am dutch and I can talk like a scottish oh my god!

  • Should be titled

    "Accent challenge - Some Choice OLD Scottish Phraseology"

    Cause nobody talks like that anymore maybe the 60+ age group but still not that much.

    Still this was a pretty good video for the non-Scottish

  • your not scottish mate your not your just not dont think you are cos your not!!!!!

  • Dundee born and bred, mate. Not a great claim to make, but such as it is. Och aye, the noo and all that!

  • stop drivelling on and just hand us the keech

  • i also think it´s nice. im a german too, this is really cute.

  • Nice one, funny! I am German, I'll give it a try! ;-)

  • Nice to see another German, trying things out.

  • willy nilly lol

    hahaha

    gies a plen ain an'an' ingin' ain an' a' thats just brillent lyk!!!

    im frm ireland nd i dnt tink any one in young ireland cud do dat mayb the olders lyk lol

  • Hilarious. xD

  • That was hilarious! I'm Austrian, so I can do the "ch" and the "rrr" (Achthundertachtundachzig :-)), I'll try your tipps this summer when I'm in Scotland and see if the people stare at me in a funny way :-).

  • Wooo thanks BradThunder! more please! Was suprised how much of that I under stood! :D More please :D

  • Love the way you teach!! lol This is fantastic had me laughing the whole way while actually picking up some good pointers - thanks a lot mate!!

  • maggie maggie maggie, out out out was anither wan

  • Great job! I've been laughing for half an hour and added all these phrases to my active Scottish language vocabulary. Actually I am German and spent one year in Edinburgh (pronouncing it in the propper way: "Ednbrraa") during my time at university. It really is easy if your German and your effords trying to speak German are really good. Cheers, Yours Angi

  • it's dutch NOT netherlands:p cuz that's the country :p

  • Achtung!!!......;o))

    I found this really amusing!!

    thanks a lot and gies more

  • You ARE a glutton for punishment! ;) Welcome aboard!

  • it's not German, that is Netherlands:P or Dutch :)

  • Real interesting BradThunder, can you get more phrases?

  • choice scottish phrase no.1 - let's ponce off the english.

  • Independence for Scotland!!!

  • dumbass

  • Independence for England, then!!!

  • Brilliant! I remember the braw bricht minlicht nicht from my Dad. He used to say that from time to time to show us he knew some Scottish.

  • OMG Im Scottish and I havni heard anyone talk and of that crap

  • ach awa an bile yer heid lmao

    sorry *gets coat

    im scottish ( as central as you could get) but i think its more the highlanders that use these very scottish sayings. Havent heard many say these in Glasgow or Edinburgh lol

  • Hi Again,

    I forgot to mention that I liked your video. It was very funny in a deadpan sort of way. May I also be so bold to say (I'm a lady by the way) That you are very cute...too bold? On another note, you really should consider a career in stand up comedy. You're too funny!! Keep it up.

  • Hi Brad,

    I am a Canadian and I had the oppotunity to visit Scotland back in 2002....now then..I don't remember hearing those phrases during my visit. Are you speaking Gaelic outright or are you speaking a mishmash of English with a strong Scottish accent?....just wondering.

  • that sounds wunderful and adorable.. thanks for this i love it and i love scotland as well... your country is soooooooooooo beautiful XD

    bye & greetings from germany!!!

  • well i am scottish and iv never heard anyone say that crap in my life

    imaybe cos i live in glasgow city tho and its all the farmer ppl that talk like that

    in scotland wee call them tuechters and they are idiots.

  • LOL the first example sounds so dutch!

  • Nice accent, very easy to listen to.

  • fookin sexy <3

  • I bow to your abilities and am in awe. I won't even attempt to disgrace myself (or dislodge something important in my esophagus) by trying to get my southern American accent around those phrases.

    Thanks for the laughs!

  • Scottish is a different language killed by the English.

  • Don't carve the epitaph just yet; Scots is alive and well; as is Scottish Gaelic.

  • Theres only two parts of Scotland that still speak Scots. The North East and the extreme South West. I know that and I`m not even Scottish. The rest is just English with an accent.

  • i live in the east midlands and we speak scots here o.O

  • Here here you hit it on the heed.

  • Aye il hae tae agree wi ye there. fin a spik in ma local doric, if yer nae fae the north east yer lost as tae fit am spikken aboot

  • LOL, i used to be taught this at burns night in primary school.

  • Kool very interesting now I might understand my husband.

  • I'm of Scotch, Irish, Swiss-German descent... but I was born in America... Unfortunately, I don't have a camera to post a response, but I swear I can say all that stuff that "English Jim" said. Anyway, sorry I couldn't stun you with my Scotch-Irish tongue. ANyway, "lang may your lum reek!"

    V.

  • grrrr...love your accent

  • Ummm Dude I've lived in scotland ALL my life and the only thing i've actually heard said to me is the first section about the bight moonlight night... only on burns night once lol... and the bridie thing WTF ... never ever heard that... i live around 30/40 miles outside Glasgow.

  • thats all so easy..! Im canadian..

  • What the fuck does being canadian have to do with anything?

  • That's easy, The Scots built Canada

  • Love it! Fantastic! Its grand tae see oor language written and spoken! Its jist a great language!

  • wow... I have to agree, it is like magic, doing the phrases of nonsense and pronunciation, to actually saying a real phrase. It actually worked, and sounded somewhat believable!

    Good on ya!

  • This is magic! LOL! Cant wait to bring my Non-Scots mates by and see em have a go!:P

  • sprecht bitte. hahahhah

    ur funny

  • haha you what? lol

    gies a lick er yer maws gash anaw lmfao!

  • HAHAHA RESPECT MAN!

  • you should make a video of u sayin this joke and see if anyone (whos not scottish) can figure it out.

    a guy walks into a bakers and asks "is that a doughnut or a marang?

    the shop assistant replies "not your quite right it's a doughnut"

    lol :)

  • *shop assistant replies "no your quite right it's a doughnut"

    lol :)

  • lol I like that one =) I'm from Dundee

  • I love the bridie one! ingin ane an a! I'm from Dundee

  • youre quite forgetting the dutch people mate=)

  • Hey are you translating this to Gaelic? Or what some Scottish people sound like? My dad was born and raised in Greenock, I went there for the summer,and some people sounded like you, my dad sounds like you, are you from there? I don't have the accent though, i'm Canadian! Eh!

  • Bets are he's from Aberdeenshire, my dad's from around that area, and my dad's uncles speak the dialect he's using (Doric). My grandma has often actually told me "ge away an' bile yer heed". But he's not speaking Gaelic.

  • my dads from Greenock, and its funny beause the accents can be really easy to understand and then others its like " what?" "are you speaking english" I'm trying to learn Gaelic, its really hard because most of it is like weird noises from your throat lol.

  • interesting! have you tried the aberdonian shoeshop request?

    "Fit fit fits fit".. " which foot fits which"

  • Oh that is brilliant and yet, still as clear as a bell to me!

  • Fit?

    If you achieve anything from this then your "ingin" pronounciation will surely lead to the proper sounding of "minging"! (not ming ging ) .. my pet hate

    cheers!

  • arabians also have that sound by the way

  • I've lived in Scotland my whole life and never used any of these, and never heard them being used (apart from now, obviously), LOL.

  • Nice phraseology!;) I like the scottish language...it's exiting!

  • In 1959 I was on a bus in Glasgow and I heard these 10-12 year old boys I suppose. I didn't have a clue as to what they were saying. But being from Upper Peninsula of Michigan, I do know about pasty brought there by Cornish miners (cousin jacks) and up there we have more a Canadian dialect, eh?

  • was that scottish gaelic language? or just scottish accent english??

  • It was Scottish dragged-through-the-gutter English! ;)

  • What?! Is that even a language.

  • Possibly. Depends who's listening!

  • Well that does away with my theory that Scots spoke English! Guess I'll need to buy a translation book when I visit. This is exactly why I have a difficult time learning Hebrew--can't get the 'hocking a lugey' sound going in my throat! Now I know why my ancestors came to America--to get lazy with their language.

  • I'll help you with it...