Master linguist visits town with world’s most ‘perplexing’ accent and finally meets his match
Some languages are harder to learn than others. Many who’ve tried will say that Eastern languages like Chinese Mandarin and Japanese are extremely difficult for non-natives because of the unique sounds and intricate writing system. Others, like Hungarian or Finnish, have complex grammar rules that are challenging for beginners.
Some people find pretty much all of them simple. Or at least, they enjoy the challenge.
Arieh Smith, a YouTuber known as Xiaoma, is a polyglot, someone who has mastered many languages. He’s known as a linguistics master and his skill and teachings have earned him nearly a whopping seven million subscribers on social media.
Xiaoma recently traveled to a well-known part of the world and finally met his match in the form of a dialect he just couldn’t crack: English.
No, not regular American or British English, but a specific accent and dialect called Glaswegian; spoken in Glasgow, Scotland.
He was lost from the very start
Xiaoma says Glaswegian is known as one of the trickiest English accents in the entire world, and so he was eager to go and see (or hear) it for himself. He quickly meets up with a local guide who has agreed to........
