The Jon Snow Accent! – Game of Thrones Accents Tutorial

my name is John Snow other northerners
who have this accent are Samwell Tarly
Rob Roth Ian Ygritte and of course bran
and the other northerners which include
edit stark but none of the other Starks
not Eyre not Sansa not bran which is
just weird
Robb Stark has a mixed accent between
the North and the South it’s not super
strong either way Theon Greyjoy does
speak with some aspects of the northern
accent but I won’t include him as a full
northerner because his accent isn’t
super strong either way so how do you
speak like a northerner well first we
need to change some sounds for example
the sound R is represented by this
symbol ah now we can see examples of
this sound in words like up come nothing
mother brother
it’s that up sound in the northern
accent the earth sound changes to an
earth sound so up becomes pop nothing
becomes nothing mother
mother brother brother we all know the
famous motto winter is coming
but knowing that the sound incoming
sounds more like an arc this would in a
northern accent sound like winter is
coming also notice that there is our
linking their winter is coming in truth
there is one major difference which
separates northern English accents to
southern English accents that’s what we
call the trap bar split or the trap bar
split and that is where for example a
southerner might say master northerners
would say so that long our sound is
replaced by a shorter ah sound you are
the bastard though the busters in low
that’s me give you some advice bastard
the hell do you know about being a
busted other words that this applies to
would be in southern English bath in
northern English buff laugh
laughs chance chance pass pass command
command and whereas others would say
Castle black
northerners would say Castle black and
we learned something very interesting
you know nothing Jon Snow this one this
symbol represents the O sound there are
two words in her famous line that have
the Oh sound no and snow so listen to
how they sound you know nothing Jon Snow
so the O sound is replaced with an or
sound which is similar to this out
Noor and then we add a bit of drama to
it nor nothing becomes nothing Jon Snow
the Khans Jon Snow you know nothing so
if an old sound changes to more of an
ore sound how do all sounds sound well
we have to look at words like north and
sort they have the or sound North sword
they change to North sword
so let’s have a test read this sentence
like a northerner of Westeros or England
in the southern English accent you’re a
funny man in the northern English accent
you know funny man there are in funny
changes too for funny funny man 2014
also up north is Davos now he doesn’t
sound exactly like Jon Snow although
he’s from the north
his accent in the real world is called a
Geordie accent this accent comes from a
place called Newcastle which is a real
place in the north of England in the
Westeros world it comes from I think
just Davos one interesting difference is
how they pronounce the T let me give you
an example in a southern English accent
we might say there’s a war to fight in
the Davos accent the Geordie accent
there’s a war to fight
notice how it’s not exactly a glottal T
it’s not what a fight it’s
docked by the tongue kissing the bag of
the top teeth there’s a water fight in
fact for most teeth the tongue stops
that sound rather than teeth which
accent which voice should I break down
next you tell me let me know in the
comments and I’ll include it in a future
video until next time hold or parlours
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