I say "bro" "I'm down" "hectic" "yeah no" "no yeah" and "like" all the time. it's a kind of a Californian problem🤣

Another thing people from Southern California say: No yeah=Yes Yeah no=No No yeah for sure=Definitely

I’m a monotone Californian and I get asked frequently if I’m stoned even if I’m completely sober lmao. Never understood why until I looked up Californian accent

As a Californian this video is great to reinforce my Californian accent.

For those outside of Cali wondering. This is so cal talk. In the bay we don’t say fersure we say fasho. We also say hella. But one thing that all Californians say and I mean all Californians and we say it allll the time is “like”

Californian accents are basically 1)Valley girl 👱‍♀️🌄 2)Surfer Skater dude🏄🛹 3)Urbanite Metropolitan denizens, Black and Latino 👨🏽🌆👨🏿

Dude, your accent is super sick 😍

so Californians mostly talk about food and parties, what a blessed place

Nice, dude! You actually represent our accent without being self conscious. You mumble and your inflection is natural.

You forgot to put the word “foo” for all my Mexican people lol, but yea as a Mexican who grew up in OC (ghetto part of it) I do use a lot of the words written on the board, for example “let’s kick it” “I’m down” “dude” “sick” “dawg” “dope” and that’s about it.

Born & raised 🙌 most of these words are totally in my vocab 😂

I’m from LA and I endorse this message. Interestingly, thanks to movies, most people from other states understand these terms.

Just give any Californian a couple drinks or rips and the accent comes out strong

I’m not even Californian and the accent and those words seem like normal English for me. I should be Californian

As a native LaLa girl I never hear "narley" I hear and say "like" alot. Use like and dude as filler words without the vocal fry lol.🤣

As a californian, the “No yeah, yeah no” I feel in my soul LOL

I'm also born and raised in California and didn't realize I had an accent until I went out of state(Oklahoma). People asked me where I was from when I was over there and that they liked my accent. I guess we do!!

As a Californian native I use “I’m down” for compliance or going along with something and “I’m up for that” to convey voluntary enthusiasm. Also, you hit the nail on the head with (wa)sah. It’s typical for us Californians to blend words of a sentence and take out parts. Example: y’wana get that? Good video. Recently moved to Washington to 2 years ago… now reflecting back used a lot of these words while speaking to my Supervisor LOL 🤦🏻‍♀️ I feel lame but she calls me “cool” 😎 so whatevs. Btw, I’m also from The South Bay of Southern California or the “beach cities” as the freeway off-ramp labels it. Oh yeah, I had to drop “the” when speaking about freeways and streets in Washington… total giveaway of a Californian. I say “foo” a lot to be exaggerate and “so truuueee,” like a stoner but not a stoner. I say “that’s cool, no it’s cool, yeah sure it’s cool, we got this” a lot too. No wonder why when I had to speak in meetings at work in Washington people just blankly and quietly stared at me…

A common misconception that people have of Californians is that we either sound like Surfers or Valley girls. The only true part is the slang, the accent will vary depending on where you grow up in Cali. I’ve met surfers and skaters that sound nothing like surfers and girls from other states who sound like Valley girls.

yah......you definitely nailed many!! you should really do a part 2, though.....definitely missing a lot.

i haven’t ever used guy or dude on objects but as a southern Californian this is pretty damn accurate

As a 4th generation CA beach-girl, I am embarrassed to confirm that this is 100% accurate. Going to hide in my room now. Later

Me, a Californian who’s lives there my whole life: Yeah I need to Learn this.

I’ve been in So Cal all my life and you are right on the money!

I'm Spanish. Is very funny that you use "fuego". In Madrid we use "a fuego" in the context that is like "go for it".

I'm originally from Southern California. You forgot other Cali slang like "Totally", That's totally rad", "I'm stoked" and "Bitch'n" like for example "That's a Bitch'n car." Also "That's wicked." Also "That's killer dude." And if you grew up in the 70's like I did you would here phrases like "Mellow Out" and "Just kicking back."

FUCK. I've been using California slang my whole life! >

Love the abrupt cut off at the end, lol.

This was spot on bro 😂 dope realizing we got our own slang. Another one we say a lot is “ hella “ or “ foo “ or some people say “ you know what I mean “ .. “ you know what I’m sayin “ .. “ you feel me “

Dude thats some sick gnarly dank weed bro

I was getting ready to type “ this sounds more like So. Cal” and then I read the description and started the video over 🤣 but most of these words I do use😂. I’ve never heard anyone use gnarly here in N. Cal. Also, “like” and “hella” should be on the list.

Thank you for this video

Dude I’m Californian, you got this to the tea 🍵. I wasn’t born here, but raised in California for 40 years, I have and American Californian accent now. You could barely hear my Latin accent. Lol 😂 you are good 👍some words I definitely use not all.. lol 😂

More videos like this plz 😊

Dude is literally the name for our only brother in the fam. It's awesome how we got an accent cuz I thought we did but not in the way I assumed. Bruh far out and amazing, I hope you vibe on!

I have californian origins and i learned some words 😂 thank you so much for that video, that was FREAKING AWESOME!

We also say BOMB

Dude..for sure I’m down to subscribe to your channel bro. Super sick dog! This video was mad fuego 🤙

Dank ! 😂 I haven’t used that in soooo long

Trying to figure out which type of person you are in SoCal.🤔 I was getting laid-back, hippie, blue collar, casual beach goer vibes at first but as I cont to watch, I started thinking naaaah. He's gotta be a valley type or whte collar OC dude. Something I've always touched on is the diff types of accents and lingo within SoCal. Ethnicity and class are definitely factors when it comes to the way one speaks here. I grew up mostly in an L.A. County barrio and the way ppl speak there (Chicano and thick Mexican/Latino accents) greatly differs frm the way many blcks in L.A. speak AND whtes. But I love the great diversity of our great state. Go GAVIN NEWSOM.📢🔊😁

I’m from Nor Cal SCruz to be exact now in Oakland Ca I often say all that with Hella thrown in now and again

Hello from Boston and a fellow English teacher on KZfaq 😊

Red states looking at this to find the Californians living among them.

We are the same up north, BUT we have some other stuff…. Like.. We say “huhhhh” when we agree with someone A LOT. Or sometimes it’s “I know reyt” We say “like” in every 2-3 sentences. We call each other “fool” but only to certain people. And of course, we say “hella/hecka” to emphasize something. “Dude, that meal was hella bomb huhhhh. I was like, what the hell is this crap and like I tasted it and like, it was just hellla bomb bro. I’m hella down to eat there again.”

What a useful video thank you so much❤

As an old California dude I can say a few of those have been around for decades. Fer Sure, dude, bro. Sick. Down . Gnarly I’m surprised is still around .

I have to admit dude is definitely in my vocabulary I say it all the time

“Sketch” as a San Diegan

LMAO this is so accurate! I was told I have an socal accent and I see it now hahah

This is hilarious dudeee.. good work

I’m an oldie who’se lived in Cal nearly all my life. A lot of this language is age-related-your words & phrases are more ones that younger people use. Us baby boomers had many other slang & phrases. We don’t use most of them anymore, but we don’t really use your words too much either. I was into the surf scene in high school-we used words like BOSS, BITCHEN, FAR OUT, COOL, GROOVY, etc. Those are pretty much passe’ ! Interesting! All generations have their own lingo, & I guess it all depends on who you hang out with: surfers, hippies, valley girls or whoever!

Cazh presentation dude. (So Cal 70’s for “casual “, meaning “really good”)

I was born in Orange County and raised in the San Fran suburbs until I was 7…then we moved to New Jersey. I went to college in DE, and now live in New York City. I tell myself my residual accent from CA and NJ cancel out (ouueeeet).

As someone from Boston I use over half of these lol

As a Cali girl, I'd say this vernacular is more like OC or Bay Area speak. Most these words aren't that common in the IE or SD.

Basically, we have the open vowels of the South and the nasal inflection of the Great Lakes, throw in definite articles before a freeway, dropping the middle "t" in place names, loan words from Mexican Americans and few eccentricities all our own and that's our accent.

*Barrett: Only one thing you missed. Born in SoCal and lived there for short time, this never occurred to me until I landed in MA. There, some gal said to me "Hey, you're from California." "How did you know that?" I asked. She replied "Because your "R" is so hard." Well hell, for turkey-herders that letter doesn't even exist!*

As a regionalist from Cali (my home states) this helps a lot

I use gnarly as a synonym for big and/or crazy. “She got this gnarly ass scar on her leg from the car accident” “I went to a gnarly party last night”

Even his chuckle was socal lol

I'm from California but my parents made us move to Arkansas 3 years ago and ppl will say that I talk werid. So ce I always talk like this lol 😂

As an L.A. native from another generation and another part of town, this is really fascinating to me--but I would still define it as the accent of a cultural subset: sort of "surfer speak," as was made reference to. There are many, many accents in L.A.--in most cases I would say relating to what part of the country or what part of the world one's parents come from. In number of speakers, I'd guess that those from various Hispanic language backgrounds and their particular speech patterns and accents would far outnumber those who spoke in this way, and distinctive speech patterns of those of other language influences in their background would as well.

How many states besides California know the "California" burrito?

From Detroit,lived in Huntington Beach for a year in the 80s.I just remember everybody talked sloooow & they all thought I was from New York 😅

Funny, in NY we use these words too. Do people not use them everywhere else?

I from Paris mais j'aime beaucoup la Californie je rêve de visiter cette region

SHREDDED

Mob is also used here for speed, something fast. Whoa that car was mobbin' !

Bro should have been on your list. “That shit was GNARLY BRO!”

A lot of those phrases we use in ny

So true I was born in Los Angeles I talk like this

At what point did getting shacked mean wiping out? I have never heard that phrase used when not referring to actually getting a good barrel. I’m pretty sure it has nothing to do with falling. We would all say “got worked”.

fudge Dude Im down to it.

I live in california I love this state :)

I guess I never thought about Californians having accents or different vocabulary...haha. Interesting though. When someone has a thick accent, I can't understand them but just smile.

I say “gnarly” a lot for like negative things. Like the other day I saw something gross and I was like “that’s gnarly!” I also say “sick” for something that others may find awesome 😅

As an Indian in california this has really helped me integrate better.

Rolly for really,prolly for probably and " Oooooh myyyyy Gaaaaaaaawd!!!!" Grew up in La Mirada (So Cal.) in the 60's-90's.

A lot of this is more so-cal/surf talk. Up north we use for sure"fasho" completely different.

How do I imitate your accent?

This is accurate, but it's also dependent on the generation you're from. For Millennials, it's more common because rock and skate culture was very prominent in main stream while growing up. There was a time where everyone skated and it was weird if you did not. So much so that people would use fingerboards all the time. Most people would shop at skateshops for fashion. So a lot of people no matter ethnicity used these words as they were ingrained in skate culture which was blended by extreme sports in general (surfing, snowboarding). And like I said, this is also when nu metal started to gain ground, and you had many punk pop bands dominating. At the same time, hip hop was still listened to by a big portion of the generation, so there was just a general amount of tolerance towards any type of music influence. I almost forgot how weed legality was pretty big in the 2000s which blended all cultures together. That's the context for why this accent is still very prominent amongst millennials Probably in the OC the culture is still like that, but maybe not as dominant as it used to be during the late 90s to mid 00s.

“Nah fer-shur man!” for “yea!” is something I say a lot and I’ve had this pointed out many times.. lol sounds like a mouthful but it feels natural ya know?

the list is pretty good. As a SoCal gal, i only use about 60-70% of it tho.

Hectic is not common, I use Sketchy or Sketch. "Sus" might not be Califonian, more general usage. "B0mь," used to be said a lot, could mean "bad-ass" or could refer to an old 1940s-50s car of a particular style.

I remember hearing 'dawg' in the movie Gran Torino and trying to figure ou what the guy meant.

NorCal is very similar. Things we also say: I’m down, for sure, dude, sick, hectic, dope, lit, snag (situationally), yeah no/no yeah, freakin’, kick it, sketch/y, & sus. Things we don’t say: gnarly, dawg, pitted, shacked, dank, cruise, mob, wa/sah, guy, and fuego. Additional things we say: hella, lush (used like dank), janky, man (like guy or dude), stoked, butt hurt, doing too much, legit, deadass, trynna, outta pocket/outta line, finna, dip, head out, came in clutch, etc.

Third generation Long Beachian, yeah you're pretty much on point.

🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷👏🏻, That was awesome !

Just make sure every other word is "like"

Fully

California is AWESOME!! ❤❤❤

Being a SoCal native, this so accurate. Also, you can drop the Y on sketchy and just say Sketch … same meaning . “Dude, that was sketch”

The music for this is giving Me Charlie Brown/Peanuts vibes! 🤔😁👍🏻 I'm ALWAYS "down," to eat, especially spicy egg ramen! 🍜

The algorithm took me here after I watched SNL's 'the Californians' 😆

I love how many of the comments are just other Californians lol

Great job. I still don’t like using stoke. I just don’t like using that. Chicano Surfer Downey California

Oh I think we also say “I luh you” or maybe it’s just me lol

As a Californian, most of these are accurate, like, the only one i rarely hear is gnarly, but god, we use "like" a lot, like, a whole lot

I’m from California I’m just checking what do they sound like even I don’t have an accent I was raised in a different state in florida

The surfer dude ones are a little unknown to me, but apart from that i have heard all of these and i gotta say, this is exactly how Californians speak (I am Mexican btw)