Teach Yourself To Speak Scottish - 5 - Melvyn Bragg

[StaccatoFeathers]

hagsjda Scotland.. I've been there! uhm for like for 3 days...but..I'VE BEEN THERE ANYWAY. Omg.

[freghorn]

Incomprehensible

[whotaughtyou]

SIGMUND FREUD OOAA 

[miraxell]

Im learning English language and want this accent!

[swilson3d]

@miraxell if you mastered it, no one from anywhere but Scotland would understand a word you say.

[360XboxAddiction]

I hate the stereotype that we are all Kilt wearing, Haggis eating Ginger folk that's just in the highlands....

[teufelstaub]

What? No Frankie Boyle?

[sweiland75]

I know there's more than one Scottish regional accent, but not having been there, I can't tell the difference, however, there is something about how Scottish women (maybe men, too, I just haven't noticed) speak that I find sexy. Something about the inflection. If that's the right word. :P

[wildwomanwisdom]

"Mary Queen of Scots got her head chopped off by Liz Lochhead 1989"! LOL! 

[poneil69]

Melvyn is a bawbag, an aw that

[janejanejane7]

I didn't know Ian Rankin was such a hottie......I know its straying from the topic, but.....

[cinnamonbrandylite]

a small but powerful illiterate nation

there's scary

nemo me impune lacessit, eh?

or to put it in the Auld Tongue:

Nae bugger hurts me and gets away wi it.

h.

[StonehavenFan]

He actually says "a small but powerfully literate nation" - bit of a mangling of the language

[MrBradipo73]

ha ha, for a second i thought he'd said that, i was like "what the..."

of course the bugger would have never got away with it in this day and age of political correctness...

[BonnieBlueFlag1314]

How can he say the Union of the crowns stopped bloodshed in the British Isles? Bishops War, War of the three kingdoms glorious revolution and Jacobite uprisings in 1715,19 and 45!

[rabblue]

ken embra druggy bastards

[horror0vacui]

wow

[travallar]

evelyn glennie tantalizes me

[willyscj]

a hodgepodge of bastardly dastardly scum... great!

[YRUstaring]

I have always been fascinated with Scotland and the people, love the accent and the mystic, wonderful scenery. I hope to go there next year, planning on it anyway.

[zipoidp]

I hate when they put documentaries on about being Scottish, it's always the same old posh tossers being interviewed laying on contrived fake thick 18th century Ayrshire accents! People in general fail to realise that there are a vast amount of different accents in Scotland; at times they can vary from town to town.

[ashlapie]

Aww I love Ewen Bremner, so glad he's in this!!

[Dillboy]

I love him too, he's had a great career so far.Spud Rules.....

[ggw1973]

Is this series available to purchase anywhere? I searched at Amazon but couldn't find anything...I notice you can't find the rest of this show anywhere else on You Tube as well. Can anyone help me out?

[papallacta]

I was wondering why all the presenters at the beginning were women. It's cool, but is Scotland all out of notable men now that Sean Connery and Ewan McGregor have moved away or what?

[papallacta]

Oh, I get it. The men did the man's poem.

[cinnamonbrandylite]

And he made out Rabbie Burns was a misogynist. Like a misogynist could write the greatest hymn to a woman's right to choose, like, ever. or Ae fond Kiss.

Gin a body meet a body coming through the rye...

[tjamassey]

He was a woaniser - not a hater.

[alanabananaheed]

am well pissed off that english bloke had to present this why do they interfear with our country flippin hope we become independant like !!! the gaelic is dying cos the english dont want to learn it and are buy homes on the island.

pog mo thoin na sasanaich!

[brainiacbelle]

And Englishman presented this because it's called "How to teach yourself to speak Scotish". It is a show explaining your rich heritage to people outside of Scotland so it's obvious that it would be an English person explaining otherwise some people might not be able to understand where the programme is coming from. Don't politcally rant over something so silly.

[StonehavenFan]

The programme was actually called "Melvyn Bragg's Travels in Written Britain" and covered a different part of the UK in each episode.

[brainiacbelle]

Well that shut me up.

Actually, if he was doing every country in Britain then it's pretty obvious that there would be a continuing theme. Probably just Scottish English hatred again.

[cinnamonbrandylite]

Thank you for explaining my rich heritage to me.

wanna fuck my daughter now? Only three camels and a mountain sheep.

Plus you got to hope WW ain't watching, 'cos that could get ugly.

WW's big talent wasn't leading Scots into battle, you know. Show a bunch of Scottish lads where the battle is, they're in there no probs.

Afterwards, he got everyone to calm down, walk home and think again. Now that's genius.

h.

[hbunnyo]

Kinda ignorant. Also we kinda benifit hugely from being not being independant so shoost and be happy we're taking them for all they're worth. Also in a 21st century world we should be working on trying to unite the world and realise we're all human.

[LadySimone82]

Thank you so much for posting this! You made my day... :-D

[iloveyouewan]

I Love Scotland <3

I LOVE Fran Healy :D

[PippinPogle]

DITTO. Thanks so much for posting this!

[EraFortuna]

Oh my god, I've been looking for this video for two weeks! I love how they read A Man's A Man. Thank you!

[djrghf]

when the video hits :30 whats the background music???

[nippysweetie22]

Eddie Reader sings Robert Burns, they've just taken the instrumental beginnings

[StonehavenFan]

"Powerfully literate" he says, though he mumbles.

[stabtheimage]

lol i heard "powerful, illiterate" instead of "powerfully illiterate" the first time-was about to get all defensive!

[21GamerZ]

ye... he definately says "powerfully literate"

but te first time sounded a hell of a lot like "powerfully iliterate"

fuckin scottish dogs... they ARE iliterate

[nonconformalism]

Cleary more intelligent than you though

[amerenio]

statistically speaking the scottish are among the most literate people in the world.

Edinburgh is a world heritage site for literature, hence you are talking @#$@#$...)

[librariansith]

Thanks so much for posting this!

[MarciaPetunia]

Thanks for posting would love to see more.