PresidentialWinner Here’s your assignment when you’re ready: go into a McDonalds near you and order a meal in your accent! Have fun.

Also from Finland. Thank you for this excellent video. Even not quite Alabama, check out the BlacKKKlansman movie. There is a Finnish guy from HeLLsinki Jasper Pääkkönen speaking some kind of "southern" pretty well. Sounds a little like Georgia...

Dude being from Alabama this is quite interesting😂 but y’all have fun!

I live in one of the really small town of Alabama called Guin

@@RoyRRJ Funny. I'm from Jasper Alabama

Same

I'm Texan and I kinda felt the same way haha

We Southerners don't have an accent, it's the rest of world that does.😂

+Thanks BamaChelle! Thanks for the feedback, that means a lot. Ya'll have a beautiful accent and my students have enjoyed learning it!

I'm in Inverness!

lol vestavia hills is a small town yeah right man keep thinking that its not even out in the sticks...

Haha Vestavia aint a small town!!! Im from Helena man hahaha

Jamie Rollan compared to new york city it is very small!

Glad you liked the lesson! - another one is on its way specifically for Brits (I’m based in Yorkshire meself) - and yes, there’ll be a singalong!

lol good luck Y(*^*)Y

@@sarahhey1849 thanks bud

How did it go?

@@kenji2342 I appreciate you asking. He was quite impressed, as I offen vary between a british, german, american and southern accent. But most of the time I talk in a nix between southern and "standard" american accent

@@ocean7849 glad to know it went well

You’re right. I live in the UK now and I MISS that southern hospitality - although Brits are very chirpy and cheerful. Tell me a good coastal summer place in Turkey to visit - I’ve only been to Istanbul...

@@NeuroActing The nicest places are Marmaris if you like to party hard, and Muğla if you just wanna be fascinated by mother nature. y'all welcome folks

@@Astronomad thanks, Mugla looks like the place for us and I’m a sucker for ancient amphitheaters! Stay well Astro Nomad.

@@NeuroActing sir let me know if you need help with anything at all...wish you all the best.

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Talk to the older people. A couple of these examples are only found in people like my dad. However, if you catch me drinking or emotional, it's pretty bad lol

You know what gives it away everytime? Enunciation. We don't use the whole words.

Fantastic Laura, thanks! Glad I could be of help, and enjoy exploring this beautiful accent. I think it does something to our serotonin levels…

Hi Ashleigh, I'll admit I took it a bit slowly but that's all in educating young northern English actors who may never know the beauties of Cheaha State Park around this time of year! Thanks for listening though, it was a pleasure to explore your beautiful accent (compared to my Texan).

Right. Most of us don't talk like this. It sounds like most other Americans with just a slight southern twang on some words. It comes out more the faster we talk or the more excited we are.

I'm from Mississippi, and I thought it was pretty accurate for my accent. It sounded like he was just being careful to let them hear all of the sounds in each vowel. I never heard of a triphthong (sp?), but it made a lot of sense. My school children struggle a lot with spelling because the sounds they HEAR are not the ones that go in the word. Great job!

I've traveled in Alabama and have people I know in Dothan that speak exactly like this, and then others who are in Birmingham who speak nothing like this

Excellent Dana! Thanks for the nice feedback. Glad I could help. And Break a leg with your part.

Good for you. Now sing My Darling Clementine one more time and get to bed! And sleep tight.

Raymond Jones thank you sir, very kind of you to say that!

Arcade CherryGrove Glad it adds to your overall costume! Hopefully the accent will help you stay warm up there.

Thanks Pewin! I’m so glad you liked the structure of it. I can’t help myself: here’s your monologue that you can use to keep up with the Southern accent. It’s from the play “A Walk in the Woods” by Lee Blessing. HONEYMAN: I was almost arrested this morning. It was nothing. I threw a gum wrapper on the sidewalk. I threw this wrapper, and suddenly there was this little old man beside me, grabbing me. I thought he was a lunatic - he was yelling at me in German. Why did he yell in German? Do I dress like a German? He was trying to make me stop. I speeded up - I didn't know who he was. He yelled at me louder - in French this time. I stopped and stared at him. I didn't say anything, I just stared. He kept right on yelling, only he switched to Italian. This went on for a solid minute - like I was a bad child - all in Italian. Finally I broke in. I said, “I don't speak Italian,” and he went back to French. So I said, “I don't speak French,” and he went back to German. So I yelled back at him: “I don't speak French, German or Italian! I'm an American, damn it! What the hell do you want?!” And he turned and pointed at my gum wrapper. And then I saw he was a cop. He was a Swiss policeman. He had his hat in his hand, and he was so... old, that I... But there he was, in a uniform. He must have been going to his retirement party. And he tried to drag me back to this gum wrapper. He literally tried to drag me. I said, “Tell me what you want.” and he said, “Aufheben!” to the paper. “Aufheben!” which I found out later means “Pick it up.” Well, I didn't pick it up. I pulled my arm away. I wanted to say, “Look - I spend all day, every day, working to prevent the total destruction of every living thing on this planet. The whole planet. Even Switzerland. I'm trying to preserve the last few precious days of life you may have coming to you. But I can't do it if I'm not allowed to throw gum wrappers on the sidewalk. Do you understand? It's too much pressure! I can't worry about everything!” But I didn’t say that - I actually pushed him back, this little old man, and said, “Look, I’m a very important person.” (Beat.) I am turning into something here. Some kind of monster. Some kind of littering, old man-pushing, diplomatic... monster. Some special, newly created kind of... thing. (Beat.) What are we doing here? CIRCUMSTANCES: Honeymoon is a young American diplomat. He is speaking to his older Russian counterpart. To clear the air, these two superpower arms negotiators strike up a friendship in the evenings as they walk in the woods. In this moment, filled with embarrassment and exasperation, Honeymoon reveals to the experienced diplomat his job is changing him.

VonTyrant thank you for the feedback, glad you liked it.

MonaLisa Sweetheart Thanks very much! More helpful videos coming up this summer, so subscribe if you want to hear about them. Break a leg MonaLisa!

Hi Sey, thanks, you’ve inspired me to get back to work on the General American accent video...which I know you’d love! Anyway thanks and Merry Christmas and good luck in your career.

@@NeuroActing Way to go! Thank you so much and I am looking forward for more contents like this!

You’re welcome! Remember your hottest day on record this summer? That’s the Southern US from May until October. We all gotta start takin it easy!

Miguel DelaCruz thanks very much Miguel! Glad you liked it.

Yeah isn’t it fascinating? My wife’s family comes from S. Ireland and I do believe we Americans got our accents from the Irish, maybe more so from the English…. We love those /r/ sounds!

@@NeuroActing Yep, beautiful and interesting. Well, no shocker there - I met unforgettable Irish all over the States and every Irish family I spoke with in the UK either already had someone in America or was planning to move there or both. [r] is such a versatile sound. And perhaps a bit tricky to learn sometimes. I used to use the Oxford r quite a bit for a few years, for fun, and I grew up (and even now seem to be) surrounded with the Czech and German and Russian and, to a degree, also the French r's, together with some American ones . Loads of fun.

Thanks MarceMellow, that’s sweet of you to say that! I’m glad it made sense. The General American accent is coming soon as I’m directing an American play in the U.K. - just scratching my head for a song-along…

Helena Green we’re always our own worst critics! Keep plugging away, a little and often always gets it done, until you get the muscle memory. And try the listen and repeat routine with the Alabama governor here: www.al.com/living/index.ssf/2017/11/gov_ivey_has_betrayed_all_wome.html. Thanks for watching and break a leg! Bryan

You're so welcome! Glad it help you and BREAK A LEG!

I can testify - her name was Rachel Albright…

Hi Elle, thanks for your kind comments, and I'm glad I did your beautiful accent justice. And just think: there's a posse of Yorkshire students here in the UK who now talk like your librarian! All best wishes, Bryan

Please don't even think about losing that drawl! Would you believe it but the Brits (and most of the world), love the Alabama accent. It's like a nice spoonful of honey. And I'd take your heat and mosquitos for a while if you could take our clouds...around this time of year I call us The Mole People because we never see the sun! All best wishes, Bryan

American School of Acting in Yorkshire Hello, Bryan! Thank you so much for your kind reply! I am so happy to know that the Brits often love our accent!! I LOVE their accent as well. They always sound so cultured and intellectual. I am just happy someone is training actors for this accent. When I hear Scarlett O’Hara type accents it makes me cringe. I usually cannot even watch it. One of the best southern accents that I have heard was from the tc show True Blood. I loved Nelsan Ellis, but he is from Birmingham, so he is a natural of course! But there was an actor that sounded just like every single guy I knew from high school. It was the guy who played Jason Stackhouse and the actor’s name is Ryan Kwanten. Interestingly, he is from Australia. I have always thought that the reason actors get the southern accent wrong is because they drawl the end too much-as in “an” instead of “and”. I always feel we drawl the middle instead (at least in my section of Bama)-more like “ayahnd”. Of course there are plenty of folks who leave the “d” off, including me when I am tired. I had a new doctor who was from Philadelphia. He had just moved to Muscle Shoals which is my area. He said “well, you have definitely blown apart one myth I believed about southern speech.” I asked him what that was and he said “I have always heard how slow southerners speak, but I can barely keep up with you!!” You can tell from my messages I am a big talker! Haha. I will never change my accent and probably could not do it if I tried. I am just so grateful someone is helping make the southern accent much more relatable for real southerners!! Good luck with those students, have a wonderful week and..... ROLL TIDE!!!!!

Praise indeed! Thank you. There’s an old country/western song with Chattahoochee in the lyrics. I’m wracking my brains…

Thanks Timm, glad to have you back! God willing and the creek don’t rise I’ll work up the General American accent this summer.

@@NeuroActing Can't wait for it! 🙂

Thanks George, glad you enjoyed it!

Fair, but lesson stuff like this usually puts a little extra stress on the point their trying to show you, so it comes out sounding like the accent, but a little not right.

Try Baldwin county buddy it’s so thick in the rural parts.

Dude from walking dead, Andrew Lincoln.... He did pretty well but for the most part I agree. Brad Pitt in Inglorious Basterds was great too tho. The word gonna is dead on. I never thought about it but I don't think I've ever said I'm going to somewhere. I'm gunna is more it. We cut words like a warm knife through butter. We also tend to blend words. I got her a gift would sound like I gotter a gift.

@@melissablevins4429 If you're real country you would just say "I'm fixin' to go downtown," but in the "I thought I was gonna go" sentence it would never be "going to" it would be gonna/gunna like you say. I had a high school student in Valley who would refer to the day after today as "tommer" I died laughing every time.

@@melissablevins4429 Fun fact: Brad Pitt IS from Alabama though. Or was it Oklahoma? Near enough anyway.

Queen Isali My pleasure, Queen Isali! Good luck with the project and your career.

American School of Acting in Yorkshire Thank you it turned out great I have used this video multiple times. Blessings

Simon Cederqvist thanks Simon, glad you liked it! All best wishes, Bryan

You bet. BREAK A LEG!

Don't rely on this too heavily. His accent is a bit heavy like a learned one from a not so good teacher.

Otter InBham thanks for your kind words! I could only generalize with my Yorkshire students, but I’m glad I generally got there. And I have a sneaking suspicion that Alabama has the most favored accent of all the states, judging by international viewers who’ve seen this.

AxezFC Indeed! We had a guy from India who won an arts festival delivering a speech in your accent! We all love it.

Pedro Luiz You’re welcome. General American accent video coming soon. We’ll be singing Home on the Range!

Damn that’s good writing Blake. Hope you got some joy from it. Mine was ‘Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon Wine’ but I finally had to attend to the well-being of my liver!

Quetzala tecca that’s great...I admire your guts. We’ll see a book in the self help section, Win Friends and Influence People with Accents by Quetzala. I’ll write the forward for you!

Deon Elen You’re welcome. They’ll have a beautiful Calabama accent. Good luck with your move!

It won't help

lanslater thanks very much. So many accents so little time. Tell me what you want and I’ll see if I can work it up in the new year!

yeah I was thinking the same I was like damn that's dark I've never heard the whole song before. This song became a synonym of drunk John Marston (rdr2) for me. Lol

This is very interesting!😁

Claire Magnuson that’s funny! I’m sure your accent is lovely. But I must confess there are some young people in Thailand who speak English with a Texas accent because they had me as a teacher! Stay well.

Yep Sam it’s a delicious accent. Going to use the same format to do a General American accent in the next few months, only it’s going to be wackier!