I live in Scotland, at low a tone the Polish women and scottish women sound identical

hahaha, im swedish and i understood to

As an Latino American I fully understand what he said word for word idk how even Brit's can't pick it up

@@anthonymelendez949 Londoners. Lots of them barely know the rest of the country. My cousin went to university in London and one of her classmates who was from London didn’t know where Scotland was, she thought it was in mainland Europe.

@@anthonymelendez949 Its mockery, scotland is consider by the english elite and I suppose ireland too, backwards, or not as civilised so to speak.Its funny because scotland has had "civilization" on Britain, along side the welsh(the original Britons),and cornwall thousands of years before an anglo saxon or norman set foot on the british shores,while also having a shared language with other people in europe and a time before rome and germans was the vast majority of middle and western europe (with the slavs being a massive part of eastern europe still to this day),and I think thats part of the twisted humour of the English take a peoples language culture spread them throughout the world keep them poor and then pretend to act surprised when they dont speak with a posh english accent,strange thing about scotland my last name and the majority of the population is Irish they've tried to erased scotland and have just created more scotland people than before

"oh no, you're welsh!"

funny thing is the accents arent old at all. even independent america is older.

@@Alexandros.Mograine How so?

@@Alexandros.Mograine ?

@@Alexandros.Mograine what?

nice try on the joke but nah

@@quetzal3000come on man, give him some credit 🤣🤣

I dont understand. Can you repeat that?

I died

Yeah he used the Scottish alphabet

Was thinking the same and I love how both are still smiling and stay open, seems like both are good people

tequila sunset as i live and breathe

@@joekreissl4499 The one and only bratan!

I might believe he was deliberately attempting to humiliate the English MP but his non-verbal language makes me believe he's earnest & sincere. And possibly over-caffeinated.

In my southern American city we speak very slowly 🐌. We are ever so languid but perhaps we merely like to hear ourselves go on and on. Years ago we visited Scotland, and it being a Sunday, no one was out and about except one gentleman who gave us his tie for some reason. He invited us back to his club for a cozy pint. And even tho we did not understand half of what anyone said, it was just a lovely, lovely memorable day. 😊

Absolutely brilliant "I'm Welsh so God help you!" 🤣

so why is he here ? the welsh have their own assembly

@@frenzalrhomb6919 because you bunch off robbing twats stole everything from us and made us a principality. Trust we dont want to be there. Let you have london and no.10 still illeagal to speak welsh in parliment to.

@@frenzalrhomb6919 lmaoooo you're pathetic m8, screaming at nothing. Keep it up I love being reminded I'm sane.

@@benspiller455 What woman?

For real

An insane statement in this contex

Exactly smh

satisfactory!

I love politics

😂😂😂

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@@ApEvaristo Why I'm answer the why talking me to dyslexia?

@BltchErica Some people just want to be c*nts online. That's how it be sometimes.

@@BltchEricabecause it’s really not that hard to understand? Also, you’re a non English native. It’s assumed that Scottish will be hard for you to understand. The man asking him to repeat the question is English.

@@ApEvaristo as a non-english native who lives in your mum, I advise you to pluck a chicken and roast your carrot.

What’s a non English native?

and he was elderly, which probably meant his hearing was not as sharp

@@en1909s9iah ironically he was asking for help with his disability and everyone laughed at him

Plus he's talking unnecessarily fast.

This should probably be the top comment.

trueee

It’s pretty easy pal

@@musti12312 not English, NZer

@@musti12312 I'm English, have never lived in Scotland and I understood him perfectly!

I can too. And I am French Canadian, english is not even my first language. It takes a few minutes getting used to, is all.

i think he was being sarcastic.

Indians will never not be cringe.

Would you be as entertained if they mocked u?

​@@notrealatall196 don't people do that on internet already. Every country is mocked Here.

Nah, it didn't sounded like sanskrit, it was completely difference

@@notrealatall196 why are ya getting pissed brother , he's just making a joke

@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?

Im terribly sorry I couldn’t follow your statement. Could you please repeat it slowly so I can understand what you’re trying to say. Thank you.

i have been disabled

@@dariogreggio7981 who disabled you?

@@SnaKe23599 because of this video my chromosomes got fkd up

By disabled he means they also have thick Scottish accents.

Gotta help him..

@Jerry god help him cause he was about to ask his own question and if he didn't understand the scottish accent then he's screwed with welsh one

@Jerry god help him. Wouldn’t say ‘gotta help him’ here for quite a few reasons.

I think he said "I' m welsh so i could help him" which cracked me up

@@user-eo7wi5hu3b lol I thought he said 'im a wheelchair so godfrey helped me' that was hilarious 🤣

Scottish accent sounds manly

same here.

It's worth noting, that we're hearing their microphones, and they are in a big echo-y room, with noise etc

i couldn't

Is the MP being questioned Australian? I can hear a bit of an accent on him. I can understand the Glaswegian accent clearly, love scottish accents!

@@maxwkh antipodean means from the southern hemisphere colonies

I’d say because when people are nervous they tend to speak faster 😭😂 which didn’t really help

gentleman? you mean the fat politician that needs a hearing aid?

Kinda defeats the purpose of repeating the question.

No he spoke noticeably slower and broke down his sentence a lot more to make it clearer.

Exactly hahaha

You got the point

Well, that's nice. The guy in this vidwo actually spoke FASTER the next time.

@@jacquelinestephenson323 Vidwo? Nae wonder.

@@Weejie2011 nae under oi coldent er enthin! Ets uh vidwo naught uh video!

@@TurkeyOW Mince.

Ha ha ha

😅😅

well it is totally different when you hear someone speaking in the feont of you and on youtube....

😂😂

I am the mixed, I understood his words somehow. 🙄

Aye right, Ye dinnae ken it. 🙄

😭😭😭

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best comment by far.

😂😂😂

Love it

@Meadowfrost Excuse me? I’m talking about ME, what I PERSONALLY understood, not how understandable it is tf

@@BijinMCMXC 🤣🤣

Me, too!

I'm American and I didn't understand him. After replaying a few times I understood some of the words.

@@lmlm-ph4pp funny because its not event that strong an accent

Thats how bad his english was

@@SteveJobIess lmfao

Yeah, to understand it in your native language? 😜

I also understood it very easily. I am baffled how that gentleman had trouble understanding it. Especially given that he seems old and must have encountered Scottish accent once or twice in his life.

These racist British still hate Scottish. It reminds me of how China mistreats the Hmong people.

Furry boots?

I thought he’s scottish lmao

@@guinevere5666 you don't get it

​@@bramstokes7156explain pls

​@@mrkillyourselflolhe's saying even Scottish people can't understand that thick accent

Estonian? No he was asking in plain Arabic about the recent increase in chicken price.

@@wiszak9370 😂🤭

Seto in british Parliament

Racist.

HAHA!

Ikr can’t believe he couldn’t understand him, the fact he was speaking very clear Spanish with a Scottish accent is also incredible Jk he wasn’t even hard to understand I just think the guy didn’t want to answer the question

Where is everyone?

I'm not even a native English speaker and I understood him perfectly. There are much stronger Scottish accents.

It's because we are surrounded by different accents that use different vocalizations to pronounce words. It's like we were set up before something like this. Over there they are gonna stay close to familiar dialect/accent to make their lives easier.

Americans in the southern region can understand him with ease, because that is the root accent twang and cadences

im glad we are here

@@inrodu_1027 Together.

i love your comment most of all haha

@@goodluck1070 We can be e-friends.

@@ItchyKneeSon what does it mean e-friends?

He speak in Glaswegian accent, when they speak slow, you can understand every words they said

Combination

It’s like they’re constantly speaking Eminem

@@Kutsuhimo8 good comparison

Glaswegian here, we do speak really fast.

@Demon Slayer The United Kingdom is a country consisting of four distinct nations. Some claim the nations within are countries, which they may be depending on your definition of country; however, most definitions don't count England, Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland as countries. They do not have independence from the UK, nor external recognition, embassies, UN seats etc. In these ways it's more apt to compare them to US states than to US and Canada.

The second time he speaks, what does he say after "getting around certain parts"? Sounds like a whole other language, some kind of other germanic or maybe slavic language

So, what?

Nah, Sarah J, he's a Kiwi & a naturalised British citizen. He was born & raised in New Zealand. We dont even know if he's an indigenous Brit. He could be German New Zealander.

@@2Zemog your right, you can compare them to one person from New York and another person from Tennessee, both states are in the same country but they have different accents

Check out some of Limmy's sketch comedy from his BBC Scotland show, "Limmy's Show". You'll soon become acquainted with harder-to-decipher speakers!

Same here!!

It's not just the thick accent, but how fast he speaks (maybe out of nervousness). Even when replaying the video already knowing what he's talking about it's still hard to me to understand every single word he says, and it's more a matter of context and deduction. I'm not native in English, but I've been living in England for almost a decade and yet I struggle with thick Scottish accents (like Glaswegian).

The microphones probably also project they’re voices through speakers and into the chamber

@@danielmacintyre4170 only to a certain extent. At least in my experience watching the Ontario Legislative Assembly live, it is harder to hear inside the chamber than watching on TV.

"across the entire House of Commons", trying to make it sound like he was far and there were many people. No, it was basically an empty room with them very close to each other. Just an excuse for a brit making fun of somebody's accent

@@aliancemd oh shut up.

@@aliancemd you do know because it’s empty it’ll do this thing called an echo, yeah amazing so a 60 or so year old with no doubt some hearing issue will hear double of a Scottish accent

ye like that youtube video where the girl asks their name a billion times but still can't catch it!!

Yes I find that I can understand even Glaswegians in videos, but in real life all that goes out the window for many different reasons

In my opinion, when he had to repeat it he made a mistake. If someone asks you to repeat something, it’s quite obvious they didn’t understand you, so you should try to communicate in a way that would make you more understandable for the other person, e.g., by speaking more slowly.

I live in Scotland and I never have this problem. But when they talk to me and I ask to repeat, they slow down or they try to standardise their English. Maybe they don't do this with you because your accent is a native one?

It happened to me once in France. I am Algerian and I was brought up speaking proper French. In the early 2000, I visited France for the first time. There, I met someone from the South-Ouest of France. He was from a rural area known for its heavy regional accent. I asked him to repeat a sentence 3 times. I was very embarrassed. My ears are more trained now...

😂

Well the man is old and it's in a room, so echoes

That is not a French accent lol, I can tell you I'm a French speaker 😭

Man said “desabelity” 🤣 stfu

@@orpha521 He said French probably wasn't his first language so of course his accent wouldn't be French either.

Well said lol

I speak extremely fast too. Difference for us is that we need to keep up with our thoughts and if or when we slow down, we're lost. I struggled with this at school and so much of my work life, until I saw an interview with JRR Tolkien. He spoke at an unbelievably fast pace. I no longer apologize for the way I speak.

waves in fellow maritimer (it does help that my grandmother was scottish, but even she spoke very softly + slowly)

It's not that he was particularly fast. His accent made the sentences seem like one long slurry of wrds

Howdy, fellow maritimer! I too understood him perfectly. It's probably the New Brunswick/Scotland connection. 😆

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You guys are the worst.

The French aren’t allowed in the parliamentary

German here, would be the same lmao

@Kuncu As a French speaking person myself, I agree. I barely speak it now.

Antipodean technically means relating to the geographical location on the Earth diametrically opposite where you are, but in modern parlance, it almost always refers to anything from Australia or New Zealand.

@@joshandallo2170 the guy is a Kiwi so makes sense

@@the_sad_wallet1553 he has dual citizenship and has lived in the uk for most of his life though.

@@rachelcookie321 I can hear an NZ accent coming through!

@@joshandallo2170 I think he's using it in a rhetorical sense, implying that he is coming from a background entirely different to that of the MP asking the question. 'Separated by a common language' and all that.

But...I'm Aussie and I understood him perfectly.

@@anniesamuel4787 To be fair, we're hearing the audio directly from his mic. The other guy is having to interpret him from the other end of a big echoey room.

I'm Canadian and it made perfect sense to me.

@@sn0wdon maybe they could invest in earpieces. 🙂

Yeah! he spoke too fast like chased by the tiger.

Greetings 🖖

Ha.😄

hahahahhha lol

So you're a weegie like me? Noice

You win

Thank you!😊👍

Yeah it's not bad Just don't go to Glasgow, that's where they start speaking their own language

​@@bhanksshuggy5158agree. Only English language I didn't understand and needed to read the subtitles on one occasion.

Q

He cant officialy answer for a question that he partially heard. Guess works wont work there 😊😊

​@@bhanksshuggy5158Dundee too

I was so scared that you were gonna say “asking about gardening” but thank god you didn’t.

lol

"The right honorable gentleman requests desayuno?" jaja

He wants a taco.

Scotch eggs with beans on toast.

Yaa omoisia 😂😂😂

eh? Are you saying the Kenyan dialect Kisii, sounds like Scottish accent? Is that swahili?Jambo bwana, habari gani, mzuri sana. Though we don't speak very many languages over here, I am glad we learn a little bit here and there.

@@ravinraven6913 He was being sarcastic brother.

😂😂😂

unatuhaibisha

Ahahaha😅 whaat

are you married? I feel I need to ask this question

I’m an American and I can understand the New Zealand English accent a lot better than the Scottish English accent

@@waldemarmoskalecki7891 down bad

Probably some Scottish jeans ✋🏻🙄 You carrying miss

@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?

Exacly good fello'

When I was working at a hotel desk in a national park with many foreign visitors I quickly learn to speak at a slow/normal speed and very clearly. I had more than one guest who's first language wasn't English tell me that I was easy to understand. Even if you have a thick regional accent just slow down. People will figure it out.

This must be a Scottish thing then because I think he’s talking at a perfectly normal pace (and talking very clearly) lol

Naw it’s no just listen

We've had to learn to understand the mad variety of accents around the UK, maybe the English elite could maybe bother learning ours?

They aren't though, they can't be or they wouldn't use the room, since that's it's main purpose

House of Commons is built specifically for the purpose of speaking to someone from the opposite bench. No, the acoustics is good and well-planned.

Yeah I can imagine

@Sally Rees his accents not a big deal, but when he speaks fast it gets jumbled. He should've just slown down

@Sally Rees The other guy is a New Zealander, but as he'd already been in the UK for years, he should have known better. I suspected him of prevaricating because he didn't have an answer to the question.

...being done to make sure this place is more accessible...

@@hoseinamirkahrizi4988 Yep.

I had to come to the comments section to be able to understand what he said. Young people talk too fast these days.

As a native English speaker, thanks for translating cuz I really didn't understand most of it. 😂

Stands to reason - everyone knows Hindi and Scotch are in the same language family.

This!

@@Stadtpark90 aye if you're into bollocks

You re right, i was thought like that

OMG 😂

True, but if you're a representative in the UK of the UK people, should you not take the time t listen to the accents? I'm so fed up of being told our accents are unintelligible but somehow everyone understands Geordie's and Scousers? I agree he could have slowed down and the chamber is echoey though. Isn't that the point though - if it makes it hard to hear, it is the building itself that's an accessibility issue.

LOL!!!

🤣

Born in London, grew up in California, lived in Suffolk for almost 50 years now - no problem understanding him at all.

It was just an excuse not to give him an answer .. I thought this was clear ?

Well you hear Scottish accents on the news and in media etc

@@hannahdyson7129 I think you're right, it's a prevarication technique, avoiding the question. :c As a politician he should be able to understand people clearly

Same here, from Dover, I could understand him quite clearly

The way he speaks does remind me of the rhythm/patterns of Finnish (I'm neither a Scot or Finn, however).

Scots language has Nordic links amsure

@Bobb Grimley clearly the joke flew over your head

@Bobb Grimley I don't know what your problem is but I'm guessing its hard to spell it.

@@truthseek4107 No, Scots is of West Germanic origin, same line of ancestry as English. However, I do believe a few hundred years ago people in the northern islands of scotland did speak something similar to norse

on a more serious note, I’m appalled by how an english person cannot understand his scottish accent - i can understand it very clearly, and I don’t consider english to be my native language.

@@alxrnexlj thats not how singaporean sound like.

@@takeshisatou2371 ah yes, i forgot. Singlish is our official language obviously, how could I forget? it’s my native language

@Jack Smith who tf actually says mandarin

@Jack Smith it may be mandarin but no one i know actually says mandarin. we just say chinese. you know, cause we speak it

Idunnowaturgoinonaboottisveryclarewat easetrinetotellya

@@thomasr1051 wow this is perfect

What is "Scottish lol"?

Are they like the peaky blinders....lol

@@Weejie2011 seriously?

Some might consider the Sean Connery part as an er, backhanded compliment.

i'd rather like a translation for the second part of his speech, as the first one was actually quite clear. If it's not too much of an inconvenience

@@seanscanlon9067 Sean Connery is my favorite Scottish actor. My second favorite James Bond.

Me as a guy from the Netherlands could understand his first question easily as well. The second bit had some parts that were a bit more difficult but I understood his point clearly

@@Gumaonetwothree Get the old men with bad ears out of the courtroom. If they can’t hear, they should not be judges.

An Indian owned fish and chips was opened near where I live in the uk and I struggled to understand their accents cus they moved here from Liverpool

There was nothing for you to be ashamed off. People with different accent should speak slowly. Same is true when we south east Asians speak English to the natives. It's sometimes hard for them to understand

Years ago I was in a pub in Belfast. It did take me a few Guinnesses to understand the local dialect.

​@@OfficialBruceLeeDumbF, India is in South Asia, not South east asia.

@@OfficialBruceLee Maybe you're looking for your long lost father, but sadly I'm not the guy you're looking for, keep trying maybe one day you will find him.

Even Londoners who speak fast or mumble a bit can be very hard to understand

Yep. Some thing happened to me in a pub in Aus. I'm a Kiwi too. A Scottish guy said a sentence to me and I didn't understand a single word. It's odd, as lot of New Zealand's early migrants were Scottish; Dunedin & Invercargill are cities in New Zealand. However I find Scottish English harder to understand than say Indian English or Singapore English.

I’m from Birmingham and when I was a around 10 in holiday I met a kid from Glasgow & he asked if I wanted to meet his meeva & Feeva … I didn’t have a clue what he was saying but he took me to his mom & dad & ask me to speak to them because my accent was so funny to him , even at that young age I understood the irony 😂😂

@@mjkrbjcw Just wondering, why does a (loud and) 'PROUD_BRIT' "from Birmingham" use US spelling - 'mom'? Is that Birmingham, Alabammy?! Or are you ashamed of your own culture and heritage? Resist US cultural colonisation.

If he gave you the death stare then if meant harm from the beginning. Bad people.

In Canada we do this helpful thing where if someone didn't understand us we just repeat ourselves and speak louder and louder until the other person nods

It seemed like he just went faster the second time

Nah second time was a bit clearer. I still didnt undertand the question properly but I could make out more words during the second going haha

It’s because they were far from each other

When I visited Belfast my brain was on a 5 second delay as it processed what people were saying. Hard to believe we are all speaking English. Haha.

❤👏🏻

😂🤣

Oh really, you speak Greek? Χαίρομαι γι'αυτό φίλε μου, θα ήθελα να μιλήσουμε ελληνικά παρέα 😊

But not English thank the Queen

Preety good for an American. You should be proud of yourself… 🥴

That's a lot of dumb Americans. I am truly impressed man!!

Cheers when any American admits not understanding anything

​@@LeeGeewe only good at a few things.

hhhhhhhhhhh can you imagine you are american but you understood 40% even me i live in nova scotia ,scotish english so stressfull

U haven’t heard South Indians mate

we had exchange students in our school and one of them literally dropped a class because the teacher was glaswegian and she couldn't understand him

Lmao francophones is very true. At some point the words they just combine together and it's nearly only the vowels that you hear when you speak really fast.

😂😂 you can add Somali too

I have a Philippino buddy who speaks about a nose slower than light speed.

Sounds about right.