The Off Topic Topic

[Richard Hakluyt]

Thanks, guys. I like a lot of English accents, but this one I had to stop watching because it was really grating for me.

I agree that it it is not very euphonic; Yorkshire accents are generally nicer than his.

[The Larch]

I like all British and Irish accents.

Ever heard the Donegal one? Utterly incomprehensible.

[Sheilbh]

Thanks, guys. I like a lot of English accents, but this one I had to stop watching because it was really grating for me.

I agree that it it is not very euphonic; Yorkshire accents are generally nicer than his.

Agreed. Also he speaks very slowly - but I don't know if that's just an issue I've been having because I listen to podcasts at a faster rate

[Sheilbh]

I like all British and Irish accents.

Ever heard the Donegal one? Utterly incomprehensible.

I know there's a famous (West) German TV clip of a comedian doing a tour of Germany's accents - and there is something similar for Ireland by Niall Toibin which is great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhLdKJnY194

[Admiral Yi]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee_N3g4ORLk

I get a kick out of this own.

I'll look at yours to hear Donegal, which this one doesn't have.

[Syt]

You want German accents and dialects, nothing is more beautiful than Holsteinian low German


https://youtu.be/iLBKGXaM7ds
https://youtu.be/JNR0fFMlgs8

[Admiral Yi]

I know there's a famous (West) German TV clip of a comedian doing a tour of Germany's accents - and there is something similar for Ireland by Niall Toibin which is great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhLdKJnY194

Can you give me a time stamp for Donegal?  I didn't catch it.

Larch: incomprehensible can still be pleasant.  Glaswegian sounds like a non Indo European language to me but it still is pleasant.

[Sheilbh]

Ah sorry mine was just a general post don't think he does a lot of Donegal. But in Ireland even more than the UK there'll be multiple accents in a single county it's kind of amazing

[Admiral Yi]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VA9vuId3ds&t=42s

I see your point Larch.

[The Larch]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VA9vuId3ds&t=42s

I see your point Larch.

That's from the south of Ireland, though.  But yeah, some Irish accents are pretty hard to understand.

[Sheilbh]

County Kerry - incomprehensible.

[The Larch]

I looked for a video on the Donegal accent and they spend 7 minutes basically checking every single village there, and each one is different. 

[Admiral Yi]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99wSTVMRkIk

Gravely dissapointed.  Are you grifting me Larch? 

[The Larch]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99wSTVMRkIk

Gravely dissapointed.  Are you grifting me Larch? 

That's the same video I found. The guy I talked with who I could barely understand was from the last place in the video, around the 7 minute mark, although I don't know if he was from there originally. A female colleague of him was much more understandable, but same case, I don't know where she was from originally.

[Sheilbh]

I looked for a video on the Donegal accent and they spend 7 minutes basically checking every single village there, and each one is different. 

Yeah - I mean that's not just a Donegal thing, that's sort of true across Ireland

But I think it's stronger in the Western counties with Gaeltacht where there are places with Irish as the first language.

Is it not the same in Spain? I always assumed other European countries were like the UK (not as extreme as Ireland) in having huge accent diversity.