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I wouldnt worry about it Im shocking with accents!

I'm Cornish and worked with two men for 4 years one day I asked one of them where in scotland he was from...he said I'm Cornish and have never been to scotland and have no scottish connections.

Case 2. I asked the other man when he moved over here from Ireland...guess what? he said Im from cornwall and have nothing to do with Ireland!

Seriously think theres something wrong with the accent translator in my head when I cant even tell when someone has the same accent as myself! lol

My parents were born and bred in suffolk and have been asked thousands of times when they moved to England from Australia/New Zealand! Accents are tricky for everyone, go figure! lol :)

There's a big difference between the Northern Ireland accent and, say, the accent from Cork, Kerry or Waterford in the far south of the Republic. I think you would notice the difference immediately if you heard the two.

The Northern Ireland accent is very similar to that of the Scottish accent due to the Plantation of Ulster when thousands of protestant Scots were enticed over to Ulster and given free land while the Catholic land dwellers were forcibly evicted from it. The reason being that Ulster was the most fiercely pro Irish province and rebellions against the Crown were more prevalent there.

It was this which planted the seeds for the centuries of conflict in Ireland, particularly in the North.

I don't live in any of the mentioned countries. I can identify certain different american accents, the more well known ones like the southern, the city and the suburbs but most people probably talk similarly in their accents. I find that american people have deeper tones of voice than most other people for some reason.Or at least the ones I've met in person. English, I can hear a difference in suburban, slum and sophisticated. Irish and Scottish don't really sound too much different but again, some speak more harshly and its hard to make out their sentences unless your familiar but others just have the general accent. This is personal opinion.

Northern Irish sort of flows a bit more, listen to Nadine Coyle and Eoghan Quigg, both from Derry. For a fairly general ROI accent listen to Colin Farrell and Johnathon Rhys Meyers. The sort of strong Scottish accent most people think of when you say 'Scottish' is mostly spoken in Glasgow. The Edinburugh accent is softer. If you go to the Orkney Islands then the accent is slightly different again. Just listen to people with the accent, stay in the places.

Well as a Scot and of as a person of Irish descent I am shocked! Shocked! Glasgow accent is rather deep and sounds somewhat un-healthy. An edinburgh accent is more high pitched and they say stuff like ken...and highlanders sound a bit simple because of there accent, but there is a world of difference.

I blame television, no-one with a good scottish accent is ever on telly!

Unless you lived in scotland or ireland or wherever for a while you wouldn't be able to tell the difference, well i think i can tell the difference between glasgow and the rest of scotland but thats it. There's different accents everywhere like French people and Spanish people but unless you lived there you wouldn't notice.

im from scotland the accent from the highlands are so stong i have to translate there accent for my hubbie because hr does not understand it the highland on goes like this i dini ken that which mean i did not no that or gonie no day that which means dont do that you get the jist oh sorry the just of that

people who can tell the difference have obviously been exposed to the different accents and have been told where theyre from so they recognise it better in the future

You are not listening properly, my Welsh Nana could tell which Valley people were from, and whether they lived at the top orthe bottom, just by the way they spoke!

I think it's hard because accents have so many variations.