How to Speak with Different American Accents 🇺🇸

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Let's explore some of the different accents you may hear when visiting or living in the US.
I'll talk a little about what's happening with each accent, provide you with some examples, and hopefully this will give you a better understanding as to why these well-known accents sound the way they do.
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@InteractiveEng
@InteractiveEng 2 жыл бұрын
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@edwardamosbrandwein3583
@edwardamosbrandwein3583 Жыл бұрын
Is the "dark l" pronounced only at the end of words as it is in British English?
@edwardamosbrandwein3583
@edwardamosbrandwein3583 Жыл бұрын
Pronouncing /e/ like a short /i/ is also typical of New Zealand English
@xapaga1
@xapaga1 Жыл бұрын
I'm struck by the lack of regional varieties in American English (AmE) to the degree of linguistic poverty, uniformity and dreariness. I find the USA much less diverse than the Americans think despite their ethnic salad bowl.
@anthonyz7023
@anthonyz7023 Жыл бұрын
Where in the Bay Area are ya from? Did you take the AC transit buses ?
@j.goggels9115
@j.goggels9115 Жыл бұрын
_Dropping_ the "R" and using long vowels... Haha! In the UK standard, you _add_ "R"s, in Cornwall and Ireland. That's why I am watching your video. I can easily spot if a British person comes from Yorkshire, South Wales, Liverpool or East-London but with America, outside of Forest Gump's Old South, I am at a complete loss.
@erikschmitz1841
@erikschmitz1841 Жыл бұрын
I am originally from Minnesota, and we would never say "put the soda in the bag". We would say "put the pop in the bag".
@timmy334
@timmy334 Жыл бұрын
I spent a year in Minnesota after high school. It's a completely different dialect from here in Alabama. I loved it though.
@rosemarystrobel3437
@rosemarystrobel3437 Жыл бұрын
No soda here. It's pop once you cross the St. Croix from Wisconsin.
@jenniferpearce1052
@jenniferpearce1052 Жыл бұрын
And it's pronounced "pap", not "pop".
@shw_1957
@shw_1957 Жыл бұрын
You betcha!
@carmensandiego3691
@carmensandiego3691 Жыл бұрын
We say pop in Canada too eh!
@jeanhowell9353
@jeanhowell9353 Жыл бұрын
The southern drawl is varied. People from TN have a distinctive sound as does SC and LA. There is no pure “southern accent” very different from state to state. It’s wonderful.
@Harrison.DuRant
@Harrison.DuRant Жыл бұрын
I'm from SC and have people ask me, "Where are you from?" who are also from SC. I think I sound like everyone else in the south, but my accent is pretty thick. It's still not even close to the top end of the spectrum though. It's always fun when you travel out west or up north and everyone asks you, "Say y'all!" and you just say, "y'all..." then they think it's the greatest thing ever.
@johnbaugh1122
@johnbaugh1122 Жыл бұрын
For sure. I live in Arkansas and the accent here is completely different from GA/SC. Love a proper southern accent.
@ChristopherMHeaps
@ChristopherMHeaps Жыл бұрын
I wish anyone not from the South could understand this.
@solomonrivers5639
@solomonrivers5639 Жыл бұрын
“Hell on Wheels” killed me because Anson Mount is clearly from Tennessee but his character was from Mississippi
@botsareeverywhere
@botsareeverywhere Жыл бұрын
In SC different towns/areas have different drawls, I lived there for 9 years but it took me about 3 years to tell which area people were from
@cracklasco
@cracklasco 10 ай бұрын
Californian here. I was thinking, “isn’t this guys regular voice the Californian accent?” You made me realize things I’ve never payed attention to in my life, I was cracking up thinking “THAT IS HOW WE TALK, MY GOD!”
@neiana
@neiana 8 күн бұрын
This guy is more likely from the north, somewhere east of the Mississippi river. He hides it, but there are tells. And also his example sentence for Cali talk is nowhere near stressed enough, nor does he restrict the back of his throat on those stressed words. He said he was going to overexaggerate but he certainly did not exaggerate much lol. And like, oh my gawd, you have to like, watch like, Clueless or whatever... and also? like watch like, Daria clips, with like, Brittany. Then you'll -really- hear the ultra-exaggerated California sound lol
@taiyang811
@taiyang811 Күн бұрын
Yea he has the normal california accent. Adult accent.
@GGdeTOURS37
@GGdeTOURS37 11 ай бұрын
Strangely as French, many times I don't ear the difference, even way you say it! But I noticed that in the opposite way: We were explaining the different French accents to American friends but they didn"t catch it, even when we were giving examples! It's something very difficult for the foreigner to ear!
@dianaantonova1196
@dianaantonova1196 4 ай бұрын
Yeah! For me , as Ukrainian learner, it`s also very difficult to hear some differencies, even when he accentuate them (especially with New York accent and its "l" becoming "w" - i can't catch it anyway!
@masond7573
@masond7573 2 ай бұрын
I think that's typical if you're listening to a language that isn't your mother tongue. I didn't notice a difference between French spoken in Paris vs French spoken in Montréal
@dennisdonoghue9202
@dennisdonoghue9202 2 ай бұрын
Of course. If that is not your native tongue, its not noticeable. As a French person, you don't notice other French people sounding different than the region you are from? I have always heard the way people speak has something to do with cliamte
@robertwoodrow9650
@robertwoodrow9650 Ай бұрын
That would be > "Hear" the difference!
@excancerpoik
@excancerpoik Ай бұрын
Yeah it's the same with swedish move a few km and its basically another language but people say it all sounds the same
@joseitsme
@joseitsme Жыл бұрын
Here in California, we have several different accents. Not only the SF Valley accent, but the "surfer" accent and the Chicano accent.
@mszafran51
@mszafran51 Жыл бұрын
Yo dude, like, what’s happening man?! 🤣🤣🤣
@Dre_Key
@Dre_Key Жыл бұрын
yep there are several, probably not enough time to cover them all in this video, and it depends on where you are.
@ZackfromNoHo
@ZackfromNoHo Жыл бұрын
The "Val" accent is not real common anymore, even here in the 818 (the telephone area code for the Valley). I listened to the video to find out what he considered to be the California accent. I always thought of the CA accent as being more or less the standard U.S. accent because we have people from all over living here so we get a mixture. My own accent is closer to "surfer dude" but with a mixture of New England (my mom was from Boston) and Texan (I have friends and spent time there before the pandemic). Y'all pahk the cah ovuh theah...
@shaunsteele6926
@shaunsteele6926 Жыл бұрын
valley/surfer/stoner accents are all pretty much the same. I'm not any of those things but I still sort of speak that way from growing up in SoCal
@shaunsteele6926
@shaunsteele6926 Жыл бұрын
@@ZackfromNoHo probably because the "valley accent" was exploited in the 1980s making them all self conscious of it lol
@bonnieb.8040
@bonnieb.8040 Жыл бұрын
Not only does the southern accent vary from state to state, it varies in each state. For example, the accent in East Tennessee is different from Middle Tennessee.
@familysystem
@familysystem 11 ай бұрын
I swear, those people in the mountains in east tennessee have a whole nother language to the people in west tn where I’m from! They’ve got a beautiful sound over there.
@MeadeSkeltonMusic
@MeadeSkeltonMusic 11 ай бұрын
Virginia has many different ones too. In SW VA they are very different from Tidewater.
@BarryBishop
@BarryBishop 10 ай бұрын
Native Texan here and I've noticed that Texas has at least 4 different regional accents: East Texas has a nasal twang, West Texas and Panhandle (but not El Paso) a drawl (esp. noticiable in the L's and R's) South Texas with its Spanish influenced English., Central and rural areas with a general southern accent and all regions with unique Texas lexicon.
@Ethan-fh9lq
@Ethan-fh9lq 10 ай бұрын
Tennessee is really three small states lumped together. Historically East Tennessee was very distinct geographically, economically, politically from the rest of the state. It was for instance one of the only areas that resisted confederate rule during the Civil War- East Tennesseeans voted overwhelmingly against secession even after the attack on Sumpter, and after the war broke out it became a hot bed for Union sympathizing guerrillas and saboteurs. It was also one of the only parts of the South where Republicans had a chance at local elections during most of the century after the civil war. Of course the mountainous valleys of East Tennessee tend to produce pretty different social patterns than West Tennessee’s Mississippi plantation lands.
@Cxrsxn999
@Cxrsxn999 10 ай бұрын
I live in East Tennessee and people say I sound like I’m from Alabama or Texas
@bloxoss
@bloxoss 10 ай бұрын
As an American, there are definitely more variations of dialects, but you hit the big ones! I'm impressed :)
@SophiesDriver
@SophiesDriver 9 ай бұрын
Yes, he has a very thorough embrace of ridiculously stereotypical speech patterns assigned to a variety of English Speaking US Americans
@ExpTube1969
@ExpTube1969 2 ай бұрын
The Valley accent is Hilarious.
@lynnmcrae8655
@lynnmcrae8655 10 ай бұрын
I agree with the comments that there are soooo many "American" accents. It's nice to see the nuances analyzed and explained. I would also love to hear some excerpts from native speakers included in the video.
@AlgaeEater09
@AlgaeEater09 Жыл бұрын
You can DEFINITELY hear how the New York accent originated from the British accent. It's got so many similarities.
@obaidulhaque7687
@obaidulhaque7687 Жыл бұрын
YEA ,, VERY FIRST I NOTICE 😂😂
@wezzuh2482
@wezzuh2482 Жыл бұрын
English itself is from Britain so that doesn't make much sense. If what you are referring to is the "rhotacism", that is the fact that both the British and New Yorkers don't pronounce r's in final positions, then that is actually a change not a preservation. Most varieties of American English, including standard American articulates the r's, but that is a preservation from an earlier form of English. It was British and New England varieties that stopped pronouncing them.
@wezzuh2482
@wezzuh2482 Жыл бұрын
@@skidder67 The modern variety of English that most closely resembles Early Modern pronunciation is Dublin English, not Southern American.
@scrambler69-xk3kv
@scrambler69-xk3kv Жыл бұрын
Hate the no letter R New York accent. That is why I love the mute button on my tv if I hear it I can just hit the Shut up button.
@bchristian85
@bchristian85 Жыл бұрын
Partially true. Because Hollywood typically gives characters modern British accents for films set in the colonial era, people assume that American English slowly over time diverged from British English, but it was more the other way around, with what we now think of as British English (the Received Pronunciation) taking hold in Britain in the 19th century. However, the accent was still more neutral than a modern Southern drawl.
@Sal.K--BC
@Sal.K--BC Жыл бұрын
The overuse of 'like' has spread to the speech of young people in many places, including parts of Canada. Also, 'no worries' has spread far from Australia. When I was a kid, no Canadian would have ever said 'no worries,' but now it's very common.
@broodge45
@broodge45 Жыл бұрын
Or 'no problem' … and why does every sentence now start with "So..."
@zhangshawn2357
@zhangshawn2357 Жыл бұрын
That’s true, Australian teenagers use a lot “like” as well, almost in every sentences
@psychescope239
@psychescope239 Жыл бұрын
Hell, even in places across the globe you can hear teens mimicking this mannerism. I live in Poland and in the past few years the conjunction "jakby" (a literal translation of "like") has come to be used in exactly this way, despite it being, in many cases, semantically incorrect.
@xapaga1
@xapaga1 Жыл бұрын
@@psychescope239 The same applies here in Japan. Young people tend to use the filler, "mitaina" when it's absolutely unnecessary to use it. Whether it's an influence from Hollywood movies, I really don't know.
@SirakawaHaruka
@SirakawaHaruka Жыл бұрын
That’s because young people today are so stupid that they will lose the train of thought while talking if they don’t use “like” all the times.
@citroen143
@citroen143 11 ай бұрын
You are the typical friendly American guy. God bless you! The way you pronounce English is breathtaking. You bring hope to all those foreigners who strive to learn your language🙂 I was impressed by your ability to reproduce so many accents, you are better than many actors. Thank you for helping us with English all over the world. Best Regards😃
@InteractiveEng
@InteractiveEng 11 ай бұрын
Thanks for commenting & checking out the lesson. 👍
@user-ek3km5or1q
@user-ek3km5or1q 7 ай бұрын
Beautiful smile, too!
@user-ek3km5or1q
@user-ek3km5or1q 7 ай бұрын
What's the name of the accent, where some people tack on, 'er' at the end of words that don't exist such as IDEA-ER, Linda becomes LINDER, Cuba becomes CUBER, etc.?
@citroen143
@citroen143 7 ай бұрын
That much is true! A smile that kills (Harrison Ford), posh accent (Annette Bening), charming and amiable manners (Gary Cooper). Cutting remarks and puns (Bugs Bunny), at times despthicable (Duffy duck). But to get -got-got and stop disparaging Mr U's Reputation! No more cruelties against colour and behaviour! Signed: ye friendly neighbour a.k.a. The Merry Man. Shall I pass the fan-test or the ominous verb "to flunk" is downing on my endangered fate? Linguistically Yours 🙂@@user-ek3km5or1q
@88KeysIdaho
@88KeysIdaho 4 ай бұрын
@@user-ek3km5or1q I think that has something to do with "Rhotic" accents. You piqued my curiosity, and I found this video for you: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y6l3fLZ_ypqwon0.html
@katherinebishop9116
@katherinebishop9116 22 күн бұрын
San Diegan here- you nailed it. Regional accents are so intriguing. I moved to Boston for a few years when I was 18 and have been fascinated ever since. When I moved back to California, I would hear the nuances between East L.A. where I taught, Valley, surfer. All very different. I was once chatting with someone in Prague who had me pegged as a Californian right off the bat due to my accent.
@theveryfirst
@theveryfirst Жыл бұрын
I'm English. I love the US southern drawl accent. Beautiful.
@ryanc970
@ryanc970 11 ай бұрын
👍
@brianmilosevic8400
@brianmilosevic8400 4 ай бұрын
Sounds rednecky 😅
@schs1977
@schs1977 2 ай бұрын
A common Southern phrase would be "Tell Momma an 'em I said Hey", which means "Tell your Momma and your family I said Hi".
@My2up2downCastle
@My2up2downCastle Ай бұрын
Me too.... i'm from deepest darkest Buckinghamshire (England) and we have almost lost our country accent..... but i love the Southern US accent. There's a wonderful short video knocking about with a little Southern boy writing out his mum's shopping list..... stroh bearies, tayders, mo tayders, ayaggs,...so bloody cute!
@sabinehalfhill4005
@sabinehalfhill4005 Жыл бұрын
I’m from Southern California. I do agree with the dialect being common amongst kids, but I feel like that was more common in the 90’s and early 2000’s. Also, you should cover the surfer accent which is another Calif classic 😂 there’s also spanglish, amongst others!
@kiajulian4619
@kiajulian4619 Жыл бұрын
I know everybody here still talks like that. And the surfer accent is pretty much the same as a valley accent... And you can't do Spanglish because then you're getting into the difference between how different races of people speak English in different states and that would take like all month. Lol
@TheSnerggly
@TheSnerggly 11 ай бұрын
Very true. My ex was a surfer, I could barely understand him sometimes.
@jonathanaldana4941
@jonathanaldana4941 11 ай бұрын
To me ppl from the OC have that typical surfer accent “Oohhh woah”
@albertovaldivia6132
@albertovaldivia6132 10 ай бұрын
@@kiajulian4619 surfer accent is very different from the valley accent he was explaining, surfer accent is a lot lazier and a longer stretch on vowels, like bro or dude and hella is specifically Bay Area dialect Another example of surfer dialect is dropping the t at the end of a word and replace it with a -d sound to make them flow better like “what’s up” = “wha(d) up”
@yacobz
@yacobz 10 ай бұрын
I grew up in the San Fernando valley in the late 90s and 00s, and have never met a single person that spoke with that caricature of an accent. Aside from bilingual kids, I don't think we really had a discernable accent. If we do, it's definitely nothing like what everyone thinks "valley" sounds like.
@darrenhunt9049
@darrenhunt9049 2 ай бұрын
I'm Australian and always thought the Boston accent was the coolest out of all accents spoken in all English speaking Countries.
@dablaqueguy
@dablaqueguy 11 ай бұрын
I'm a black guy from the Chicago area, who's parents are from southern Georgia. I've noticed the way I speak has a mix of every accent it seems. When I was younger, I noticed how differently I sounded from kids from wealthier neighborhoods, so I worked to pronounce words more clearly. Now i'm older, and not so concerned about how I sound, but I definitely slip into speaking similiar to whoever i'm around. I don't conciously know i'm doing it.
@bigd2829
@bigd2829 11 ай бұрын
Huh that is very interesting
@Svince54
@Svince54 10 ай бұрын
You are not the only one. I have sometimes had to apologize to people whose accent I started using after I was talking to them for a few minutes. Most people don't notice or don't mind. We moved a lot when I was a kid. I think it developed as a defensive mechanism. I have one friend who does the same thing, but I am sure that most people just speak with the accent they learned first, and never developed a blending in skill.
@enjoystraveling
@enjoystraveling Күн бұрын
@@Svince54 I do that sometimes too when I’m relaxed, I don’t know why or where I picked. that up. I did live in several different places when I was growing up, so maybe he was exposed to several different accents and languages.
@bobbynguyen9921
@bobbynguyen9921 Жыл бұрын
10:46 this valley accent is a Southern California thing and “hella” is a Northern California (more specifically Bay Area) thing. You would not commonly hear someone speaking with that accent and saying the word hella. Before it was more popularized, the use of that word indicated which part of the state you were from.
@rexx9496
@rexx9496 Жыл бұрын
Hella spread to everywhere now.
@voongnz
@voongnz Жыл бұрын
Hella is in New Zealand now, and I didn't bring it back from my cousins in Northern CA.
@FreedomLovin
@FreedomLovin Жыл бұрын
"Hella" actually originated in my home town of Hayward, an Oakland suburb. I hella used it as a kid but it seemed dumb when I got older.
@RileySullivan
@RileySullivan Жыл бұрын
“Hella” has definitely spread to Southern California too. Every time I hear someone say that, I ask “are you from the Bay Area?” And often times they say “no”.
@leflores91
@leflores91 Жыл бұрын
Facts. I used to live in South Lake Tahoe. Yeah, that's further north. But, I picked up on certain things. I’m from NY, by the way.
@rbhughbanks
@rbhughbanks Жыл бұрын
People from Alabama don’t have an accent, but you did a great job explaining why the rest of the country talks so funny. 😊
@nc3826
@nc3826 Жыл бұрын
denial, ya'll is not only a place in Egypt 😆
@ChristopherMHeaps
@ChristopherMHeaps Жыл бұрын
Alabama is an absolutely terrible place. So glad I never have to go back.
@rmj7
@rmj7 Жыл бұрын
😂😂😂
@rbhughbanks
@rbhughbanks Жыл бұрын
@@ChristopherMHeaps Mister, I thought everyone would understand that I was joking. My accent is thick and slow. Your comment about Alabama, on the other-hand, was just mean and hurtful. Shame on you.
@DarthVantos
@DarthVantos Жыл бұрын
@@rbhughbanks Im not from Alabama im from Maryland. But people i know from Alabama all say they are glad they left. What are yall doing down there?
@Pimpkin123
@Pimpkin123 9 ай бұрын
Native Massachusetts girl here, it’s pronounced “Packie” with a long A, rhymes with wacky.
@Twistaholic
@Twistaholic 10 ай бұрын
I grew up in California. It's important to note that the valley he is referring to is the San Fernando Valley, not the Central Valley. It's a suburb of Los Angeles. The word hella is more of a Nor-Cal thing and although it has migrated it's way down south it's not a part of the "typical" valley accent. Still loved hearing him do me though.
@mikeluna2026
@mikeluna2026 4 ай бұрын
Oh, good to know, thanks.
@Eskey__
@Eskey__ 3 ай бұрын
A 100% true. I’m born and raised in Southern California and no one says hella down this way. That’s definitely a Northern California thing.
@deanm375
@deanm375 Ай бұрын
Totally accurate. Right? When I was a teen in the early 80's everything in SoCal was "bitchin' or Mega-Bitchin". Surfers might say something is "Tubular".
@caccalot3637
@caccalot3637 Ай бұрын
@@Eskey__you probably live in middle class or higher
@whoahdudeman
@whoahdudeman Жыл бұрын
No native Minnesotan would EVER say, "put the soda in the bag." They would instead say, "Put the pop in the bag." Big difference.
@anndeecosita3586
@anndeecosita3586 Жыл бұрын
My coworkers and I recently had lunch with a guy from Minnesota. I think he has been working to get rid of his accent but it slipped out when he said the word both. Sounded like boath. It was so cute. I love that accent. ❤
@kevinthompson507
@kevinthompson507 Жыл бұрын
I was out west with some coworkers and they said that I don’t have a Minnesota accent. Later in the evening after some drinks they said “oh there it is!” Another time people said I didn’t have an accent and then I got a phone call from my dad. I hung up and they were like, “what was that? You sounded like a different person on the phone with him.”
@mrZanZibar777
@mrZanZibar777 Жыл бұрын
Also the sound in bag is more like ray, say, etc. The video presenter isn't emphasizing it enough.
@bretlir
@bretlir Жыл бұрын
Put the pahp in the bague
@whoahdudeman
@whoahdudeman Жыл бұрын
@@bretlir Yes! You nailed it!
@Jackjohnjay
@Jackjohnjay Жыл бұрын
When I, a native Minnesotan, spent the summer in Maine as a teen, the locals gave me so much grief about how I said the word ‘bag’! They laughed so hard at us! Haha. That was 25 years ago and I couldn’t hear the difference at all! 😂 thank you for finally explaining it!
@Jackal_Blitz
@Jackal_Blitz Жыл бұрын
I grew up in northern Iowa, and definitely heard people saying "bayg". It's way thicker than he does it in this video. Some people even try to work it into the word Chicaygo.
@joeldowell5059
@joeldowell5059 Жыл бұрын
Oh man, I'm a Wyomingite currently living in North Dakota and that was one of the first things I noticed when I got up here, the accent definitely threw me off for a second!
@pizzaboisupreme
@pizzaboisupreme Жыл бұрын
I think it's more a Mid-West-in-General accent. From a Michigander who also says pop and bayg.
@kmstins
@kmstins Жыл бұрын
@Jewels...I will always remember the first time I visited my future in-laws in St. Paul. My fiance's mom told me to get her "a beg". I replied with "what?" She started flipping out and saying "a beg, a beg!". I stood there looking like a deer in headlights until she finally put the word paper in front of beg. 🤣💡🤗😉
@tsoliot5913
@tsoliot5913 Жыл бұрын
bieg
@katerinatessafontana3621
@katerinatessafontana3621 7 күн бұрын
I've been a Valley Girl since 1983. Born and raised here. Using the word "like" is an old stereotype that isn't a common as it was in the old 80s movies. But we do use a lot of filler words such as "actually" "probably" "totally" "really" and "basically."
@jamesdeanharrelson9743
@jamesdeanharrelson9743 10 ай бұрын
i promise you no matter where you are from, once you come down south you’ll start saying “y’all”, its the best word ever
@zekharye1
@zekharye1 Жыл бұрын
I grew up in Minnesota in the 1950s and 1960s. We didn’t say “soda” (except for “club soda”) - we said “pop” when referring to soft drinks. Pop came in bottles back then.
@mike.b90210
@mike.b90210 Жыл бұрын
Exactly
@voiceintheopen345
@voiceintheopen345 Жыл бұрын
That is right, I had a friend, elderly, he used to pop when referring to what we call soda, at first I did not understand but he was drinking a soda and I understood that context, have a great day
@COlson-rh3dg
@COlson-rh3dg Жыл бұрын
Where I live we still call it 'pop'.
@bchristian85
@bchristian85 Жыл бұрын
And if you live in the South, it's all "Coke" whether it's Coca-Cola or not.
@tomfields3682
@tomfields3682 Жыл бұрын
​@@bchristian85My friend from VA called it co-cola!
@davidkasquare
@davidkasquare Жыл бұрын
Wow. Just from the little you talked about and in the Minnesota accent, I can tell it’s an accent that’s been somewhat influenced by the Nordic languages, probably because of the huge amount of Swedes, Norwegians and Finns that moved there. I’m from Finland, and those sounds are really familiar to the English that people speak here.
@broodge45
@broodge45 Жыл бұрын
The cadence as well...
@davidkasquare
@davidkasquare Жыл бұрын
@@broodge45 yes, agree
@BaconDrive
@BaconDrive Жыл бұрын
The Minnesota accent has a lot of crossover with Canada.
@What_Makes_Climate_Tick
@What_Makes_Climate_Tick Жыл бұрын
I come from Minnesota, near the border with North Dakota. My mother was from a very small town where everyone was Norwegian, and some even third and fourth-generation Americans spoke it at home. While the pure o sound is true and highly stereotypical, I think the pure oo sound is even more characteristic. I now live in southeastern Michigan, and when people say "food", I hear it as being shaded by varying amounts toward "feud". My father is from a Nebraska community with a mix of Swedes and Germans, and this was true there too.
@davidkasquare
@davidkasquare Жыл бұрын
@@What_Makes_Climate_Tick … and you even have a Swedish name, Löfgren, Leave Branch, which is a typical Swedish name with two parts of nature combined. My actual surname is Forsberg, Stream Mountain. 😊 And yes, I do agree that it’s the vowels where the Scandinavian “ancestry” can be heard the most.
@cristinaharrison8435
@cristinaharrison8435 3 ай бұрын
Wonderful rendition of American accents.I am an Italian linguist teaching languages in Los Angeles and found your presentation very interesting! Well done!
@stanstanly3812
@stanstanly3812 5 ай бұрын
This was great! Being a Air Force brat I've grown up all over the place and I've heard all kinds of dialects of the english language. Spot on.
@76bwjordan
@76bwjordan Жыл бұрын
Being a native southern speaker that's lived around both the drawl and twangs, I would say the key difference between the two is more about pitch and tempo. An upbeat, nasal, quick "Hey, y'all" would be a good example of a twang, while a drawl would be a slower, deeper, breathy, sometimes almost throaty "howwwalllyalllldoin'?"
@MeadeSkeltonMusic
@MeadeSkeltonMusic Жыл бұрын
I say both, but there is kind of a light twang that isn't so hard on the ear. In parts of Appalachia.
@DoctorSmartyPants
@DoctorSmartyPants Жыл бұрын
And choice of words, right?
@Minorcan123
@Minorcan123 Жыл бұрын
Nailed it!
@NecroTV666
@NecroTV666 Жыл бұрын
I'm from NY and we don't speak that way.
@alexanderboulton2123
@alexanderboulton2123 Жыл бұрын
For the difference between twang and drawl, say “Hell yeah brother!” and then “Hwhell I do declare…”
@lisaalinaaa7765
@lisaalinaaa7765 2 жыл бұрын
I sometimes struggle with pronouncing the ‘r’ in words when talking in english, so it’s actually great to hear that you don’t really do that in NY or in the Boston dialect. Makes me way happier that I could sound like a local if I tried hard enough without having to struggle with the ‘r’!
@greenmachine5600
@greenmachine5600 2 жыл бұрын
yea that is true. There are many non rhotic dialects/accent along the east coast, especially in the northeast. Not just the New York accent and Boston accent, but the New Jersey, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Maine, and New Hampshire accent too. There are some non rhotic accent in the south too. The traditional Georgia accent, Mississippi, and Louisiana accents are non rhotic.
@Shoppinghappens
@Shoppinghappens Жыл бұрын
Boston…where “car keys” sounds like something you wear. (Khakis)
@Fummy007
@Fummy007 Жыл бұрын
British English doesnt pronounce the "r" after a vowel too.
@CreepersNeedHugs
@CreepersNeedHugs Жыл бұрын
Go anywhere in the UK and it's the same thing. As​@@Shoppinghappens said, "car keys" sounds like, "khakis."
@jordanashtonsmith5436
@jordanashtonsmith5436 Жыл бұрын
@@Shoppinghappens cockies??? 😅😂
@brianlabarthe8511
@brianlabarthe8511 5 ай бұрын
Used to work at ValleyFair in MN, it's been over 10 years now, brought me back instantly. I miss people of MN, thanks so much for this video!
@tonyschmitz1997
@tonyschmitz1997 11 ай бұрын
My wife and I are both from Nebraska. She had the standard American accent I had more of a rural western dialect/accent. After moving to eastern South Dakota she’s picked up the Minnesota accent yet mine hasn’t changed or it’s gotten to be more standard but not when we go back to my family ranch I fall right back into the old accent.
@blep668
@blep668 17 күн бұрын
Nebraskan here, I was hoping I’d find someone in the comments to talk about it haha. I feel like I have a mix of the standard American accent with a little bit of the western dialect. But yeah I’ve always wondered what people think Nebraskans sound like lol
@Mahal.Kita_
@Mahal.Kita_ 11 ай бұрын
As a Texan I would say the main difference between southern drawl and twang is the drawl is slow and deep while with twange we speak a bit faster and slightly higher pitched. Another thing, drawl sounds a lot more southern while twang is less heavy but still very southern
@gmichele4603
@gmichele4603 6 ай бұрын
As a Brit, I think the Texan accent/ southern drawl is the most attractive American accent by far: it’s really charming. Are there also big regional variations within Texas itself?
@buddyunderwood5873
@buddyunderwood5873 6 ай бұрын
im from the north of Louisiana where i'm from i'm from when i'm talking on the phone with family or talking to people i know not at school the country comes out. But when im at school i have a mix of the 2 one my friends heared the way i said ten it kinda sounded like tin
@jumpinjee
@jumpinjee 5 ай бұрын
⁠@@gmichele4603 I’m from Texas. There are huge differences in Texas, not only regional but the difference between people in the city and just a few miles outside of the city are dramatic. Much like the differences between London proper and Cockney.
@kevinwilkins7851
@kevinwilkins7851 4 ай бұрын
In upper midwestern states all the way north to Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin there's a distinct twang and especially in the country. Am from Milwaukee and when I talk to my best bro from north of me in the country he has a pronounced twang.
@tonyrodd6348
@tonyrodd6348 Жыл бұрын
I'm from the UK and my daughter says "like" all the time. Obviously picked it up from American dominated SM. Does my head in as we say here.
@CrimsonRaven51
@CrimsonRaven51 Ай бұрын
Also with a New York accent is a hold over from Old English which is to add an “r” sound to words that end in “w” as in “I sore you yesterday,” for “I saw you yesterday.”
@latetotheparty4785
@latetotheparty4785 7 ай бұрын
I’m 66 and was born and raised in NorCal. I say “ like” every sentence. However, I write without fillers.
@michelleonardo4389
@michelleonardo4389 2 жыл бұрын
As an English major, this is definitely one of my favorite topics. ❤️
@InteractiveEng
@InteractiveEng 2 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoy it! 😊
@xapaga1
@xapaga1 Жыл бұрын
In British English (BrE), "an English major" means a British Army officer with the NATO rank code of OF-4 below the rank of lieutenant colonel and above the rank of captain whose ethnic background lies in England. But in American English (AmE), it means a university/college student who studies (or reads in BrE) English and/or its related literature as his/her speciality (or specialty in AmE).
@VivekPatel-ze6jy
@VivekPatel-ze6jy Жыл бұрын
​@@xapaga1 I'm from England, but due to the amount of American media I see, my first thought was the 'studied English at uni' meaning
@xapaga1
@xapaga1 Жыл бұрын
@@VivekPatel-ze6jy As an Anglophile I find the situation quite deplorable. I feel as though I acted more in tune with the English than the real life Englishman.
@trapin68
@trapin68 Жыл бұрын
It’s not just the Minnesota accent, it’s prevalent through North Dakota, Wisconsin, and Michigan’s upper peninsula. I believe it’s actually called the Northern Accent.
@tranquilized13
@tranquilized13 Жыл бұрын
It's the Canadian accent lol
@hankamania
@hankamania Жыл бұрын
@@tranquilized13 Except they punctuate with "ya?" rather than "eh?"
@shionkreth7536
@shionkreth7536 Жыл бұрын
@@tranquilized13 As a Canadian I had to rewatch that segment as I couldn't pick out 'what was different'. :D
@anderander5662
@anderander5662 Жыл бұрын
What I notice is the similarity to the Chicago accent where they say Chi KAAAH go and Minn e SOOOH tah
@buckjones4901
@buckjones4901 Жыл бұрын
Yup people from the Upper Pennisula in Michigan have an accent (Yoopers) compared to lower Michigan. It is very close to Canadian accent.. aye... lol
@enischial965
@enischial965 8 ай бұрын
You did a pretty good job on us New Englanders. The only thing I will point out is packie s pronounced the same way as you would say pack, as in "pack your suitcase". Us and the New Yorkers are the only non-rhotic accents you will typically find in the US. The northeast is a bit of an outlier when it comes to the rule of American accents being rhotic.
@ursulakolb3760
@ursulakolb3760 5 ай бұрын
You never picked up on the Southwest accent or Arizona accent. It's wild and unique. I'm a NYC/Philly transplant. I moved to Arizona in 1980. First up to Northern AZ right of the Apache Rez then to Tucson. In Arizona we mix reservation lingo/sounds with Spanglish and California Valley spill over. Body language and certain facial expressions also play an important role especially among the indigenous peoples.
@RhiannonRaven
@RhiannonRaven Жыл бұрын
I am from the UK and my uncle and aunty who are now in their 70's, emigrated to Boston when they were in their 20's. They have a really interesting accent which is a mixture of Welsh English and Boston, its really fascinating to listen to them talk when they come over. As a native UK English speaker I find it very hard to distinguish between the various American accents other than the New York and the Southern accents. Very informative video, thank you.
@lisaroberts8556
@lisaroberts8556 Жыл бұрын
You may be referring to the American Trans Atlantic Accent. Look for American News reels of the 1920’s. Lots of News Broadcasters of the time. Almost all had that very distinct accent. Today the accent is near nonexistent.
@dylanmurphy9389
@dylanmurphy9389 Жыл бұрын
Same, they all sound the same to me
@sonyavanwoerkom3108
@sonyavanwoerkom3108 Жыл бұрын
Where are you from? I'm hearing ta (to) and cer-in (certain) as you speak :)
@kenstrauss5841
@kenstrauss5841 Жыл бұрын
I grew up in Long Beach New York . You described my accent pretty close BUT I can hear very distinct “ New York “ accents from Bronx, Yonkers, Brooklyn , and Jersey . All within a 30 mile radius of Manhattan !
@paulbedichek5177
@paulbedichek5177 Жыл бұрын
The Bronx accent is from the Dutch,and has lasted all these years. Instead of the, they say duh, all the t's are d's.
@AnvilMAn603
@AnvilMAn603 Жыл бұрын
theres no different accent for each of the boroughs of new york, thats down to racial accents like brooklyn italian and such.
@LUIS-ox1bv
@LUIS-ox1bv Жыл бұрын
@@paulbedichek5177 In Chicago they also use d in place of the t, and there was no large settlement of Dutch, or Dutch influence in Chicago.
@tomfields3682
@tomfields3682 Жыл бұрын
​@@LUIS-ox1bvIt was the German settlers who brought that to Chicago. Germans speak Deutsch, which is often confused with Dutch.
@MetroCollectablesandvlogs
@MetroCollectablesandvlogs Жыл бұрын
Yeah, def does not apply to Strong Island .
@JuliaKrakowiak
@JuliaKrakowiak 10 ай бұрын
as a new yorker here, people have been telling me i have a very strong accent and didn't believe them, this video shut me up real quick
@dustang5.O
@dustang5.O 7 ай бұрын
In the South we would say, “I can’t wait to git me one of them.” We substitute and use “them” instead of ever using “those.” Also, there are about 5 different ways to use “y’all.” It’s quite interesting how we’ve taken one slang word and given it 5 different ways of being used.
@slippperss
@slippperss Жыл бұрын
I was born in California and lived there for 9 years, but am now living in a different state and I just realized that I do have that Valley Californian accent. It’s barely noticeable since I’m so used to it, haha
@nissevelli
@nissevelli Жыл бұрын
Interesting watch. As a MN native, he got the long O’s and the “ayg” concepts correct, but the pronunciations were wrong. We hold the vowels much longer than the examples given here.
@johnford1043
@johnford1043 7 ай бұрын
As a Californian, I can tell you that your presentation is pretty good. The Valley accent used is a bit dated. The word emphasis is still used as well as accenting the first syllable of every word is still used. I think it comes from radio and TV announcement style of speaking.
@c.chanelrienstraroman984
@c.chanelrienstraroman984 7 ай бұрын
I was born and raised in Minnesota, and I have to agree with what another gentleman pointed out, its pop in Minnesota. I have never heard the word soda in Minnesota.
@Mark-sy2bx
@Mark-sy2bx Жыл бұрын
I'm from Minnesota, my daughter did not grow up there, but when in another country talking to an American she was asked if she's from Minnesota because of her accent. I wasn't aware we had one other than the stereotypes.
@miadzag
@miadzag Жыл бұрын
I'm from Detroit, and I went to the top of the mitten and got asked about my accent at a gas station. I was like "um, accent?" Apparently so 💁‍♀️
@nickpaine
@nickpaine Жыл бұрын
"..top of the mitten". Wha...? The UP? Upper Peninsula ?
@merricat3025
@merricat3025 Жыл бұрын
​@Nick Cifuno you don't know the mitten?
@miadzag
@miadzag Жыл бұрын
@@nickpaine nooo lol the north part of the lower peninsula thats shaped like a mitten
@sgtelias2258
@sgtelias2258 9 ай бұрын
My company HQ's are based in MN and I think it really depends. I actually expected everyone to have a heavy MN accent but they don't. Those from up north have more distinct accents than those from Minneapolis. Also, the Wisconsin employees have a very noticeable accent... similar in many ways but slightly different.
@southpaw487
@southpaw487 Жыл бұрын
I thought for sure he was going to do an over-exaggerated New York accent, but it was actually very good. I'm from Brooklyn and when my late husband would do a New York accent, I always had to tell him that, for most people, it was really more subtle than what he was doing.
@justin_your_cousin9273
@justin_your_cousin9273 10 ай бұрын
Upstate NY doesn't sound like that
@pamelamyers9613
@pamelamyers9613 10 ай бұрын
Massachusetts is the exaggerated accent. I like to listen to people talk in that state.
@Stormento2
@Stormento2 10 ай бұрын
@@justin_your_cousin9273 seems like he is doing a more southern ny accent in the video
@its.kaylin.8807
@its.kaylin.8807 8 ай бұрын
@@justin_your_cousin9273 bc nobody cares enough about upstate ny- its very forgetable for someone who isn't from NY/NJ.
@justin_your_cousin9273
@justin_your_cousin9273 8 ай бұрын
@@its.kaylin.8807 NYC smells
@marissa8776
@marissa8776 10 ай бұрын
Being from California I can also tell you we tend to drop the “T” in words like Santa turns to sanna, Sacramento turns to sacramenno, mountain turns to mounin etc lol
@user-ol4dl9ks2o
@user-ol4dl9ks2o 29 күн бұрын
Isn't it just a common English thing? Even though I'm not a native speaker, I've heard many americans and british pronounce words without "t", especially at the end of the word. [start] turns into [stah'] or [star'] (different from star) in words like "mountain" that "t" gets reduced to a glottal stop and so on.
@paulmattt
@paulmattt 3 ай бұрын
3:55. There is also a Brooklyn accent 😉
@terrioestreich4007
@terrioestreich4007 Жыл бұрын
I'm from Minnesota and grew up with my Swedish great grandparents and Swedish and Norwegian grandparents,, even my kids tease me how I say certain words, like bag. I guess that I say it like bayg, just like this gentleman said
@antoniotorres7822
@antoniotorres7822 Жыл бұрын
I'm just here to learn American slangs. Thank you, guys!! I'm learning English language. I'm from Monterrey, Mexico. Best regards!!
@InteractiveEng
@InteractiveEng Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed the lesson. Thanks for your comment. 😊
@agoraphobicadam1171
@agoraphobicadam1171 Жыл бұрын
Loscientos mi Espanol no es buena. Dios teh bendiga mi amigo .
@grimcity
@grimcity Жыл бұрын
Antonio, if your writing is anything like the way you speak, then you are doing a great job!
@paolopetrozzi2213
@paolopetrozzi2213 Жыл бұрын
This garbage is not English, is the garbage version of it, the one spoken in the U.S.
@sahhull
@sahhull Жыл бұрын
If I were you. I would wait until the Americans actually start speaking English. There is British English and incorrect English :-)
@JossZalobu-tu4pt
@JossZalobu-tu4pt 4 ай бұрын
Soy profesor de inglés en Latinoamérica y éste video me gusta.
@dabbingraccoons6416
@dabbingraccoons6416 10 ай бұрын
As a Californian it is super common to use like after every like a few words like the way I just used it, I didn’t do that on purpose like it’s just the way we talk
@hypno117
@hypno117 Жыл бұрын
I’m from Boston but I’ve been living in the Bay Area for 27 years. The Cali accent is the opposite of Boston’s, where they hit the R’s EXTRA hard. Especially in Southern California where sometimes words like car are pronounced “cor”.
@Niteowlette
@Niteowlette 11 ай бұрын
Californian here, and that is so true. Also, the "ar" and "or" sounds are very prounounced. "Orange" is ORange, while in NY/NJ its "AREange." "Marry" in California is "MAREey," and in NY/NJ its "MARRey."
@jpadma9
@jpadma9 Жыл бұрын
Awesome!! I lived in California, Michigan, NC, CO, and TX. I'm a Spanish speaker and now I'm a mix of accents!
@InteractiveEng
@InteractiveEng Жыл бұрын
Very cool! Thanks for commenting & checking out the lesson. 👍
@user-bq7js2gy4x
@user-bq7js2gy4x 5 ай бұрын
As a native Minnesotan, one would say, “up on the rouf”, or “up the crick without a paddle” and of course lasagna is that Italian “hot dish.”
@ausgepicht
@ausgepicht 3 ай бұрын
I'm a born and raised Masshole. I'm 53 and in my entire life, I have never heard a non-native - actor or otherwise - ever get the accent right. But I will say that you did OK with the dropping of the "r" at the end of a word (I might think you were from Rhode Island, maybe the Cranston area), but the rest of the segment would get you a lot of strange looks and 100% would be picked out as obviously not from Massachusetts. FWIW, Massachusetts has been around so long (compared to other states) that accents differ from towns/cities just 15 miles away. For example, I can tell the difference between someone from New Bedford, someone from Fall River 15 miles away, and definitely someone from Boston 55 miles away.
@BORN-to-Run
@BORN-to-Run Жыл бұрын
Good Job. As a native Californian, I think our accent is a conglomeration of all other US accents, seeing that EVERYBODY and their uncle moved to California and pitched their accent into the fray.
@eliteteamkiller319
@eliteteamkiller319 Жыл бұрын
The L.A. stoner accent is unmistakable. I think it's actually a San Bernardino accent.
@shaunsteele6926
@shaunsteele6926 Жыл бұрын
@@eliteteamkiller319 you mean the "valley girl" accent?
@BORN-to-Run
@BORN-to-Run Жыл бұрын
@H WHEN I was growing-up, "EVERYBODY'S" parents were from somewhere else. We children were born in California, but ALL OF OUR THE PARENTS were from other states; None of them were native Californians.
@BORN-to-Run
@BORN-to-Run Жыл бұрын
@@shaunsteele6926 The Valley girl accent is a "Southern" California "Upper Class" accent (not ghetto), that originated in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles.
@BORN-to-Run
@BORN-to-Run Жыл бұрын
@@eliteteamkiller319 Hmm, I need to hear that. I'm from southern California, and we don't hear ourselves as sounding different from others.
@MalluStyleMultiMedia
@MalluStyleMultiMedia Жыл бұрын
Growing up in India, it was Cola. Then it was Pop while I was in Chicago. Now it’s Soda down here in Texas.
@julietalley7087
@julietalley7087 4 ай бұрын
Texas has called all sodas a Coke. Or a Soddy Pop with an East Texas drawl. Soda is a recent thing. I’m 66 and still have the Texas drawl
@DarckyWarcky
@DarckyWarcky 10 ай бұрын
As someone from Boston, I have never heard someone speak like that, but I’m here for it. I mean, I’ve heard r drops and stuff similar but it’s not as noticeable as you speak it.
@ltyrell405
@ltyrell405 Ай бұрын
Penelope Pitstop 'Hayulp, Hayulp'!! 🤣😂🤣😂
@alexanderboulton2123
@alexanderboulton2123 Жыл бұрын
The New York accent water is probably gonna be more “Woatah,” whereas in Boston you might get “waddah”
@daveymeshell6337
@daveymeshell6337 Жыл бұрын
I think that the hardest accent to replicate is the accent between Maryland and Philadelphia. It’s a mix of northern and southern. As well, it would be interesting to see a video about the connection between a Brooklyn accent, and a New Orleans accent.
@jamesp13152
@jamesp13152 Жыл бұрын
Philadelphia here. Meeting people across America for the first time, some thought I was Southern, some Northern.😄. Philadelphia not only has a unique accent they also destroy the language. Hello=( Yo sup). How are you= (How yizz doin.) On and on 🤣
@christopherfritz3840
@christopherfritz3840 Жыл бұрын
Isn't that the accent that Kate Winslet had to Master in that movie she played a detective?
@jamesp13152
@jamesp13152 Жыл бұрын
@@christopherfritz3840 😀Yes. Water= wooter. Singular person is, yizz. Multiple people is, youze. How yizz doin Christofer?
@GeoGuy388
@GeoGuy388 Жыл бұрын
It's definitely a challenging accent. The actor Dominic West, who's from England, played the lead character on The Wire which was a police officer from Baltimore. West had so much trouble getting down the Baltimore accent that he and the producers agreed that he should just go with a "generic northeastern" accent. Very few of the actors on that show were able to speak with a Baltimore accent, and the ones who did were natives of the area in real life.
@daveymeshell6337
@daveymeshell6337 Жыл бұрын
There’s definitely a connection between Baltimore and Philly as far as their accents go. In both places an “oa” sound seems to come out as an “ew” sound as in hoagie to hewgie and a Coke to a Cewk. The mixture of the northern and southern accent is the most interesting thing to me. It seems to be the epicenter where the north and south meet, long-term culturally, at least. Although, you find the same thing in a New Orleans accent. I grew up in Brooklyn and the New Orleans accent is the closest thing to a Brooklyn accent that I’ve heard. The Brooklyn accent really must “still” lean heavily on when Brooklyn was a part of Amsterdam. When I was in Amsterdam, the way they spoke English reminded me of NYC in general. “ee” sounds becoming “uh” sounds. Get the phone, get the door becoming get duh phone, get duh door.
@davidhopkin3312
@davidhopkin3312 5 ай бұрын
I am from the UK (4 countries, together smaller than most states) and we have a different accent every 20 miles.
@Hazem-Gt
@Hazem-Gt 8 ай бұрын
I like how 'coffee' is spoken in a NY accent. Cwah'fee. Charming!
@user-ob3kv8hj1z
@user-ob3kv8hj1z Ай бұрын
Cawfee period 😅
@KentuckySouthernBoy
@KentuckySouthernBoy Жыл бұрын
the Appalatcha areas of WV, KY, VA, NC, TN, GA have there own Southern accent which is originally from the Scottish or Scotch Irish and Irish ancestor's that is different from the other Southern accent's
@theophilhist6455
@theophilhist6455 Жыл бұрын
What a great lesson. We have similar language interests! Having taught for nearly 40 years and having taught in New Hampshire, New Jersey, Virginia, Ohio and Michigan.... when ever people hear me speak they pickup on what I have adapted by long term exposure to hearing natives speaking their accents. I've used these in my teaching style on purpose and for fun. Interestingly for example Ohio ( O-hii ) has several accents within the state such as south-eastern has a West Virginia drawl and Appalachian vocab...and then west of I-75 there's some speak with Indiana and Kentucky-isms...northwest sometimes sounds like Michigan farmers (melk vs, milk)....and the Cleveland historic New England connection has some inflections that the "natives" don't know they have but an outsider from the northeast will notice. Fun stuff...thanks
@alexisgreen-hernandez8604
@alexisgreen-hernandez8604 10 ай бұрын
California here I am so surprised 😮 we have an accent. Wow!! you learn something new each day.
@khadimgueye5015
@khadimgueye5015 4 ай бұрын
How dare you ignore this😅
@choonblaze
@choonblaze 3 ай бұрын
Not really an accent but a way of emphasizing words and vowels that other regions don't
@ethandouro4334
@ethandouro4334 5 ай бұрын
I'm a Brazilian and I got a mindblow by how new York accent is just like our Portuguese accent, we tend to make our Ls at the end of a syllable sound like /w/ too, that's why we say /brazew/ instead of /brazel/ like other languages
@InteractiveEng
@InteractiveEng 5 ай бұрын
Thanks for commenting & checking out the lesson. 👍
@ellalouise5152
@ellalouise5152 11 ай бұрын
I am a Minnesotan and 2 months ago I went to California for a National Competition and this other high school kid who was from Ohio (we were all high schoolers) was purposely trying to find people with a Minnesotan accent. I made him very happy haha!
@Lemoncatsf
@Lemoncatsf Жыл бұрын
Grew up in a coastal, beach community in California but picked up a little of my mother’s Minnesota accent. I love all of the regional US accents but will never forget a childhood cross country trip and my SoCal raised father not being able to understand the clerks at a convenience store outside of Atlanta in the 80s 😂
@manontherails4937
@manontherails4937 4 ай бұрын
Californian and Angelino since 1960. The biggest difference between all the accents you listed and the Valley-Girl accent is, the Valley-Girl accent only spoken in a brief period of time; I think exclusively during the 80s. Not before or after like the New York, Southern, Minnesota, Boston or the Louisiana accent which are deep-rooted and have long time-span ethnic beginnings - and are still heard today. However, you are correct in stating that all these accents are very stereotypical.
@LPMisme
@LPMisme 4 ай бұрын
Doing the New York accent while looking like Joe Gatto is priceless
@criiis
@criiis Жыл бұрын
you do a really good job at not over exaggerating the accents.
@charlesbullghost5491
@charlesbullghost5491 Жыл бұрын
Actually American indian Indian reservation tribes in the US. Has there own different accents.
@tomy.1846
@tomy.1846 4 ай бұрын
I'm from Long Island, NY and this is spot on! Awesome!
@maryefromky
@maryefromky 3 күн бұрын
i'm from KY, born n raised in the Bluegrass region, so we would be the "twangy" accent, lol. you could describe it as either banjos, or hay bales, personified, lol. we tend to drop a lot of syllables, and change around things like -ow to -er sounds ("hollow" i.e. a valley in between the mountains, to "holler", is the most frequently used one.) Appalachian English is apparently distinct from Southern English, as there's a bunch of words and turns of phrase we use here that the Southerners have never heard of, lol. a haint, for example, is what we call a ghost. and instead of a boogeyman, the old-timers often say booger instead, or sometimes they'll just use critter as a catch-all term. we don't wash our clothes, we warsh 'em. follow is foller, borrow is borry. it isn't different, it's diffurnt. i love it!
@KDbelieves
@KDbelieves 11 ай бұрын
As a native New Yorker, I also noticed that we tend to use "like" a lot. Especially the younger generation. Also, the New york accent is mostly influenced by the Jewish and Italian communities, so their accents tend to be stronger than let's say a Latino New Yorker.
@Ellada-hu5tx
@Ellada-hu5tx 11 ай бұрын
And Jewish communities of New York come from Eastern Europe and mostly speak one of the Eastern Slavic languages.
@azufresaurio1346
@azufresaurio1346 11 ай бұрын
That happens in lots of countries with the translation of like, like in Spain's spanish people in Madrid we tend to say "en plan"
@feropont141
@feropont141 7 ай бұрын
Well years ago that was not the case. But now the younger folks just cant stop saying the word like since over time peoples vocabulary got more and more limited so people resort to filler words such as like because they do not know the proper word to convey the meaning.
@czlowiekokap
@czlowiekokap Жыл бұрын
I'm now self-studying my English grammar and speaking and tries to sound like American one (I'm from Poland, right now I'm 19 [I "speak" English for over 2 years] and my "fluent" accent I thank to internet and listening to a lot of sources: games, friends, YT) so that video is really helping me to get better knowledge of different accents in America and maybe one day recreate them as much as I can to the point that people won't notice that I'm from Poland.
@kiajulian4619
@kiajulian4619 Жыл бұрын
Yeah .. good luck with that. lol
@kurtthecat3995
@kurtthecat3995 5 ай бұрын
Say "dude" a lot and people will think you're American.
@SHAWNTESH
@SHAWNTESH 6 ай бұрын
I think the Cockney accent sounds pretty cool. It sounds more down to earth.
@sidimuslim9353
@sidimuslim9353 4 ай бұрын
Dropping the R is also called rhoticity. As a non-native speaker, I searched for a long time for the official word. But I always spoke and speak rhotic English, which is my natural way of speaking English. When I was in the US in 2015, some people even thought I was American. Thank you for this informative and beautiful video. Greetings from Austria
@royjohnson465
@royjohnson465 3 ай бұрын
Yes, I know very well about Rhoticity in English. The “Rhotic” 👍 English dialect like you and me speak is the very best one and the most purest and accurate form of English. “But” the R dropping “Non-Rhotic” 👎 dialect is terribly incorrect and they slaughter the English language being very wrong.
@sidimuslim9353
@sidimuslim9353 3 ай бұрын
@@royjohnson465 👍
@Blue-jd8jf
@Blue-jd8jf Жыл бұрын
Californian accents are basically🐻 1)Californian TV broadcast English 📺🎙️📻 2)Valley girl 👱‍♀️🌄 3)Surfer, Skater, Val dude🏄🛹 4)Urbanite inner city dweller Latino👨🏽🛣️🌆 5)Urbanite inner city dweller black👨🏿🌉 🌃 6)Rural whites in Central California👨‍🌾🖼️🌽
@diolaneiuma215
@diolaneiuma215 Жыл бұрын
There's a guy named Luke from my business class who is a stereotypical surfer dude with the thickest L.A. stoner DUUUUDE accent ever lol
@babyvanderwoodsen
@babyvanderwoodsen Жыл бұрын
you forgot gay
@Blue-jd8jf
@Blue-jd8jf Жыл бұрын
​@@babyvanderwoodsenmost gays talk like blck women snapping their neck and fingers, other gays speak like Valley Girls
@MaquiagemparaEles
@MaquiagemparaEles Жыл бұрын
​@@Blue-jd8jf what is latino? Because u put a brown guy.
@Blue-jd8jf
@Blue-jd8jf Жыл бұрын
@@MaquiagemparaEles the majority of latinos in California are Mestizos from Mexico and Central America. On average Mestizos are brown because they have Native American and Spanish ancestry
@kleiner851
@kleiner851 Жыл бұрын
I grew up in Gaston County, NC. When I heard the Difference between the Southern Drawl, and then the Southern Twang, I was shocked at how much I did both, but I leaned closer to the Drawl. Thanks!
@Lina_al_j
@Lina_al_j Жыл бұрын
I grew up in wake county and later moved to europe and the middle east, where i made an effort to lose the accent (which was not that strong in the first place) due to people struggling to understand me. I was convinced all my southern drawl was gone till i encountered a group of people from NC on a flight and they asked me whether i was from NC 😁
@Law19157
@Law19157 7 ай бұрын
I absolutely love America for this, these different accents are fascinating. I especially like the southern drawl though I speak with a California accent.
@jeanneprieto5219
@jeanneprieto5219 9 ай бұрын
As a Californian, I think the use of “like” as a filler tends to lessen with age. I remember when I was in HS in the late 90s in the Bay Area, a teacher listening in on a conversation asked me if I was at all aware of how many “likes” I used. 😂😂 I don’t think I use “like” as much, as I used to, but I still do it quite a bit.😂
@davidwalter2002
@davidwalter2002 Жыл бұрын
6:36. My mother grew up in Tennessee, and although she lived in New York most of her life, she never completely lost her Southern accent (you can take the girl out of the South, but you can't take the South out of the girl). She added diphthongs to single-syllable words, saying "foe-er" for four and "doe-er" for door. But she balanced it out by removing syllables from other words. She definitely said "Dubya" when spelling our last name, and my father was not "Howard," he was "Hawrd."
@justincanter8037
@justincanter8037 Жыл бұрын
I recently moved to Alaska, from Northern California. One ove the most distinctive accents I have ever heard is the native Inuit accent…I’ve grown to like it…it’s similar to the native accents I heard in the south west, but distinctive in its own way
@mariedupuis7802
@mariedupuis7802 2 ай бұрын
For me who is French and have learned English from UK, the more difficult accent to understand from the US is from the south ! Often I understand nothing 😅but I like this cool accent like I like those from my country as their dialects because it speaks of history . ❤
@davidplotkin5173
@davidplotkin5173 Ай бұрын
Somehow this came onto my feed and I'm glad it did! I very much like to mimic accents, even international ones, and you did a good high level summary of how the major dialects emphasize, like, different thangs. Thank ye so much!
@danielhamid479
@danielhamid479 Жыл бұрын
I can’t even imitate my native language dialects they way he does it with his! The guy is a genius lesson creator and extremely dedicated! 👏🏻
@misssagacious
@misssagacious 11 ай бұрын
Native of the Bay Area here. Apparently, the use of the word hella is distinctive to this region, something I never noticed because it was normal to me!
@SeaToSkyDreaming
@SeaToSkyDreaming 11 ай бұрын
Also from the Bay Area and I’ve really only heard “hella” growing up there..
@marisajurgens3022
@marisajurgens3022 8 ай бұрын
Hi there, when I was an Au Pair in San Francisco people tried to figure out where I come from. Just from the accent they would say around Boston. In reality I am a German-Mexican who grew up in Germany parents talking English together. In German school we learned British English but my Mom's collegues were American Military. So with time my English became a British/English, lol. Cool content! Thank you for your great work.
@bluemax73
@bluemax73 11 ай бұрын
My wife is from the Bronx, we live upstate and in all our travels when my wife talks everybody says " you're not from around here are you ". Very thick Bronx accent. Boy do I love her!
@fernandoamy8278
@fernandoamy8278 11 ай бұрын
I find different accents fascinating. That's one of the things that I liked about being in the Army.
@celsofukuhara1794
@celsofukuhara1794 Жыл бұрын
I am from Brazil. The strangest thing about the English language is the difficulty of identifying the punctuation in sentences: .,!?. I always have the feeling that Americans and English speak straight, without punctuation. The difference is that in the Portuguese language of Brazil, this detail is very clear.
@brendanfarrow3674
@brendanfarrow3674 10 ай бұрын
I'd say in Appalachian there's a lot of minor differences in grammar aswell. Like, instead of saying: "I can't wait to get one of those," I'd say, "I can't wait to get me one of them." Reflexives are super, super common, and "them" often replaces "those"
@SandfordSmythe
@SandfordSmythe 8 ай бұрын
I worked with an Israeli who was fluent in 6 languages including English. We were interviewing someone from Appalachia, West Virginia. He looked at me helpless and said he couldn't understand what the man was saying.
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