American voice actor imitates Scottish regional accents near-perfectly [Twitter videos]

[Emrys]

With so much nonsense and heaviness around at the the moment. I found this quite a lift. Apart from Aberdonian (an outlier even in Scotland, and I'm sure he'll perfect it in time), Tyler Collins pretty much nails them all (though the auto-subtitles aren't 100% right!).

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Tyler Collins
@two_metre_man

Dispelling rumours it’s impossible for Americans to do this one thing.

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Tyler Collins
@two_metre_man

Follow up.

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Thanks for the lovely reactions Scotland!! Yer aw fit

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[cilla4progress]

1. Fun - thank you!

Presently addicted to Outlander, so doubly appreciate this! 😁

[Emrys]

2. Do they subtitle it for US audiences, or are the accents just not very broad?

[cilla4progress]

3. I would say not very broad,

Tho of course closed captioning available.

[Emrys]

5. Ah, OK.

Funny thing - I live in Scotland, have done since the 1980s, but I've never seen Outlander! Partly because it's on cable, right enough.

[cilla4progress]

6. It's sexy and from a feminist viewpoint,

largely.

Amazing scenery (but of course you know since you are there!).

Are you Scottish?

[Emrys]

7. I'm Welsh, but emigrated to Scotland long ago.

My wife's American. When she first visited Glasgow, she thought people were speaking Italian till she got her ear tuned in. Nowadays, she can sound quite Scottish when in Scots company (not least with a drink inside her). Not to Tyler's standard, though. But neither are many Scots!

[cilla4progress]

8. Great

personal story!

The Welsh indigenous language is Gaelic like Scotland, yes?

[Emrys]

9. No. Both Welsh and Gaelic (Scots and Irish, along with Manx) are derived from Proto-Celtic,

but they're in different branches. Welsh, Breton and Cornish are p-Celtic languages, and the Gaelic strands are q-Celtic.

I can, with a bit of a struggle, sort of understand Breton, Cornish seems fairly familiar, but the Gaelics are not at all similar, though there are a few words that Welsh and they have in common.

[cilla4progress]

10. Wonderful, thanks!

On a famly trip to Europe in the 1970s we went to Wales. I could not BELIEVE the language / words/ spellings: Machynlleth

[Historic NY]

4. Its the marbles they always seem to be in a hurry

[Emrys]

11. Tyler's latest episode

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Tyler Collins
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Tube.

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