I just watched this video that some may enjoy. It's from polyglot New Yorker Xiaomanyc.
It's an enlightening trip exploring the Glaswegian dialect. He can speak any language it seems, but is genuinely confused at times by how people speak English in Glasgow.
I've been in London going on 20 years, so I'm maybe not as broad (unless I'm speaking to other Scots) as I used to be, but this is my native accent and dialect. I definitely didn't need subtitles, but you might!
You may need a course of Parliamo Glasgow from Stanley Baxter, based on the BBC learn French/Italian/German programmes of the 1970s.
Ari in the video gives it fair go and it's good to see the warm welcome he gets in Glasgow.
He does get a couple of things wrong though and everybody is too polite to correct him because they know what he means. He refers to his kids as "quines and loons". That's something I'd associate more with the Doric dialect than Glasgow. "Boys and lassies" is what you'd say in Glasgow and the west.
He says "ken" a few times, something that's not used in Glasgow. "Ken" is what you'd say in place of "know" "Ye ken?" instead of "Y'know?" as an affirmation. Often people will add "ken?" to the end of almost every sentence in conversation. Again, it's something not in the Glaswegian dialect. I've identified what I call "the ken gap" in Greater Glasgow and (urban) Lanarkshire. You'll start to hear people say it in North Lanarkshire as you move further east. Places like Wishaw (Wishy), Carfin, Newarthill and all points east of there. Ken comes back into the dialect as you go south west of Glasgow again. It's part of the dialect in rural east Ayrshire in places like Stewarton, Dunlop and Kilwinning.
Had to give up watching as I found it difficult to understand what the presenter was saying.
