British Guy Reacts to 'ACCENT EXPERT GIVES TOUR OF U.S. ACCENTS - PART TWO' - 'There's More?!'
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I react to Accent Expert Gives a Tour of U.S. Accents - (Part 2) from Wired's UA-cam channel. Covers a wide range of mainly southern and midwestern accents. Enjoy (I hope)!
PART ONE HERE: ua-cam.com/video/XiiYzzn3m60/v-deo.html
Cajun French is not regular French as nobody will understand it. It evolved from Canadian French but took bits from native languages along with English to create something of a unique hybrid language that isn’t spoken anywhere else. Even linguists can’t fully understand Cajun as it’s very fast and some words don’t translate at all.
Very similar to Pennsylvania Dutch in that way. PD began as Palatine German found around Switzerland, but has mixed so much English into it that it's become it's own language. I have a helluva time speaking German with them, as many words don't translate well.
So, just a note: Louisiana Creole (what most people incorrectly call “Cajun”) isn’t actually a dialect of French. It’s a full-fledged creole language, with its own vocabulary and grammar, but based mostly on French. In other words, it’s a different language, and French speakers would only pick up some words and phrases, but none of the meaning. Creolized languages emerge when groups that speak different languages meet; they form a “pidgin” language to communicate with each other. If that mixed language is passed down generationally, it becomes a creole. You heard an example of one in the first video, with the professor who spoke Gullah, an African-based English creole.
the spanish differences can sometimes be great but for the most part there is an ability to understand one another until slang gets introduced then it can be tricky
As someone from Wisconsin who has family in Canada, some Canadian accents are very easy to identify, others are completely indistinguishable from certain northern American accents...
And in Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia (especially Cape Breton Island), the accent is almost identical to a Scottish accent.
Michigan tends to have a dd used for a tt d and t like Kiddy and instead Kitty Midden Mitten Vicdor instead Victor If the word doesn't start with a T 9 time out 10 you will never hear this t but you will hear this T. The big T shouts while little t has left the building or is very rare.
I'm American, and can usually tell if someone is Canadian pretty quickly, though it may take hearing a few sentences from them before it clicks. Even though it's fairly subtle, the differences are there and are noticeable. It's not just words like out, house, about etc. (Which btw do not typically sound like Oot and aBOOT. I don't even get why some people think that). Their pronunciation is much closer to Oat and aBOAT. Whereas Americans use an Ow sound for those words, sounding more like how or wow.
So along those same lines, Canadians use more of a true and rounded O sound in many words where Americans use an Ah or Uh sound. You can tell the differences by words such as sorry, borrow, sorrow, tomorrow, project, process, proceed etc. Ex: Canadians say SOARee, while Americans say SARi. There are also some terminology differences too Ex: washroom (Canadian) and bathroom/restroom (American).
That being said, if you do Part 3 of this video series, you'll learn about other interesting Canadian accents in places like Newfoundland and Labrador. There are some really unique English speaking accents along the east coast of Canada... which do not sound at all like "standard" Canadian or American accents.
Edit: As another commenter pointed out, the accents of some people in the upper Midwest of the US and some Canadians from that same area are virtually the same. It's quite easy to place them as being from that region, but it's nearly impossible to differentiate what side of the border someone is from.
Mexican and Columbian are kinda the "neutral" latin American accents in the sense that they're pretty easily understood across the Spanish speaking world, whereas carribean dialects (Dominican, cuban, Puerto rican) are much more "distinct" and can cause some confusion.
God help you if you meet a Chilean. That's like the equivalent of one of those rural Irish towns where even other Irish people are left thinking "what the hell is that?"
I'm American, and I feel like I can more quickly hear the difference between a British accent and a New Zealand accent than I can a British accent and an Australian accent. However, I don't find it that difficult to tell any of them apart, generally. Maybe it's because of the number of UA-camrs from all these places I've watched.
I can't tell who is from Canada unless you hear Ah after they say something..Like Going home ah? I have noticed that a lot of British English speakers are in America,, You hear them all the time..
The Latin population in California created Chicano culture. It’s basically Mexican immigrants that adapted to the car centric Los Angeles culture. They speak some Spanish although it’s quite broken as English is their first language. These are the kids of the Mexican immigrants who came before. Chicanos take old cars and completely retool them to have hydraulics and stereo systems that are seriously awesome. Those hydraulics make the car bounce up and down or lift the frame. And of course a custom paint job. Chicanos tend to come from less wealthy neighborhoods and their parents struggled a lot. The most famous Chicano is Eddie Guerrero who grew right on the border with Mexico in El Paso. His dad Gory became a wrestler to support the family. Eddie followed suit along with his brothers which there were eight of them. Eddie was only one to make it big. Gory was more of a journeyman wrestler going promotion to promotion as it was still the Territory days when wrestlers often had to change companies to make a living. Eddie started more with the stable period of wrestling where promotions would change cities each week but earn a lot more money. During Eddie’s WWE run he always came out in a lowrider making it bounce around during his entrance. He would have fun as technically he was a Chicano just an older one as he was close to 40.
I'm an American and I can usually tell if someone has a stereotypical Canadian accent though the difference between the typical Canadian accent and some American Midwestern accents can be very subtle. If you know speakers from both areas, it's easier to distinguish the two accents from one another.
When it comes to Americans like myself noticing Canadian accents, it really depends what part of Canada they're in. But, as an example, I couldn't tell that Matthew Santoro was Canadian when I started watching him. I thought he was American. Not to say that the slight differences weren't there. They were, I just didn't immediately pick it out as a Canadian accent. It wasn't until I saw a video of his where he mentioned being a Canadian that I started to notice those little differences. In most cases, I likely wouldn't be able to tell without it being mentioned.
3:58 Not every Latino person in the US appreciates the, “LatinX” tag, from what I gather.
Canadian and American accents are very similar, often indistinguishable. One must look for certain key words that give the game away. Americans will say: process=prah•sess. o=ah
Canadians will say:
Process=proh•sess. o=oh
That said, some Canucks will pronounce the "o" in the American way. I'm only giving one example of many.
In the US, good to remember Puerto Ricans are US citizens. In general Cubans and Puerto Ricans speak much faster and have influence from African and other (Cuba had more enslaved people than all the US despite being a small island). The largest Spanish speaking populations are in the largest cities with NYC biggest, LA, Miami, Chicago, Houston and others having millions of Spanish speakers. Immigrants came from all over, but the South and West/Mountain states had far less diversity of populations and still have fewer people who speak languages other than English at home. In general, the NE, coasts in California. Florida and Chicago area have many people who speak non English languages at home, church and schools.
Yeah it's definitely a misconception. You can grab two people and I guarantee you they will sound nothing alike. And most of the time people can tell you have an accent but they don't know exactly where you're from. Whenever we went to Tennessee people would access where we were from they didn't know where but they knew we had an accent
The Chicago accent is actually dying out as fewer people speak that way. It’s shifting to a more normal midwestern accent now.
The thing about accents appearing to disappear, in some cases thats true but as said in the video, it depends on contact patterns, migration, and identity. The U.K. is significantly smaller and more dense than the U.S., which historically allowed for greater accent variety due to the relative isolation of people (and of course, greater time the speakers have lived there). Most people historically never left their local towns or villages, and if they did it was a few times a year at most. Nowadays, traveling from say London to Edinburgh is something most people have done or could do if they choose to. So some small hyperspecific accents are disapearing as a result of this increased ability to travel. However, languages forever continue to change and evolve, so there will always be accent variety in the U.K.
Here in the U.S., some local accents are indeed disapearing, such as the Ocracoke island accent, but you also have to remember that the U.S. is the size of Europe. So for me, i grew up and have lived most of my life in Michigan. Apart from some time in Virginia and California due to my military background, ive never really spend more than a week outside the midwest. Ive spent months in most states around Michigan such as Illinois, Ohio, and Indiana, as well as some time in northern Penn. This is going to be true of most people in most regions. The northern cities vowel shift primarly effects the cities (who'd a thunk it?), but over time itll work its way into more rural areas. For example i dont have much of the vowel shift, its very subtle, but i do have the beginnings of the cot-caught merger.
There’s a Canadian actor, Oliver Platt. He has nailed a Chicago accent. Look for him in a tv series called The Bear.
With the exception of those who have a "thick" Canadian accent, it's often harder for me to tell between a northern Midwest US accent and a Canadian one, but Canadians' rhythm (prosody?) is often ever so slightly different from general American. Oftentimes, when I find out a certain celeb is Canadian, it becomes clearer in hindsight. Looking forward to your reaction of part 3.
Oddly enough, Canadians seem to have more trouble differentiating between the US and Canadian accents than the Americans do. It's not a super pronounced accent but you can definitely hear it. In an example I noticed is that in a mission in GTA 5 one of the characters, Trevor, talks about learning how to fly in the US Air Force. I noticed right away that he had a Canadian accent but thought it was just an oversight or maybe some other GTA universe reason for this.(It really is not a huge difference.) It turns out that the actor who voiced him was Canadian and Trevor was a lying sociopath who was, in fact, from Canada. Nice touch Rockstar, nice touch.
Oh wow! I caught this within a day of you posting it lmao
Years ago the Army would house multiple people to a room .. like a dorm I suppose in a way .. at Ft Hood once time think there were four people to a room (lower rank). One day one of my "flat mates" had his locker open and he had a Canadian flag displayed inside. He was ..shock .. Canadian .. but I had no idea until I saw that flag.
I have heard French Cajun songs, but I don't understand much of it compared to European French.
It's easier to understand Quebecois and anyway they almost always produce their music in standard French so that it can be exported throughout the francophone world.
A good example would be Céline Dion who started out as a small time singer in Montréal.
I'm not aware of any Cajun music on the world stage and I never hear it in French music radio airwaves.
But, as you would expect, there are local FM stations in Louisiana which satisfy your interest 24 hours a day.!
Hah! I've watched Erik Singer's stuff before, and I've always come away uncomfortably aware of my tongue.
Also, yes. I can generally tell someone is from Canada.
Occasionally, I'll miss one. It gets hard for me to tell the difference between someone from, say, the northern edge of Maine or Vermont and someone from the southern edge of Quebec or Ontario. They're not very far apart, and they're both very far from me.
On the other hand, I have zero difficulty hearing the difference between Blaine, WA, USA and White Rock, BC, CA, and that's only five miles. They're just five very familiar miles. I'm from the Pacific Northwest, not New England.
Im from Minnesota and I can usually almost always tell of someone is from Canada by the way they speak haha
So, your impression of the Piney Woods accent being a classically stereotypical Southern accent is one that most Americans have as well. Though it’s a bit of an anachronism, as there are actually very few people who speak like that anymore (mostly senior citizens). The Appalachian dialects, or what most people would term the “redneck accent”, has almost completely supplanted every other native dialect of the south. It’s heavily influenced by speech from the Scottish Highlands, Lowlands, and the Ulster Scots, and is considered to be more “rough” sounding, with a heavy “twang”. The traditional dialects of the southeast that it replaced, however, were derived from the accents of the English gentry, with some Scottish influences.
Your caloric theory wont work.The more junk food you eat the higher sugar level you'll have making you talk faster burning more calories.😂
As someone who’s lived a lot in the south and in Washington state, my accent is a mix of several regional things but I can easily slip into a more southern accent and it freaks coworkers out
I’m an American. I can tell if someone is Canadian by their accent usually. ☺️
Accents are not hard you have to just pay closer attention to who is speaking.
*promosm* 😕
Not a single person in Miami is lattinx. That's not a thing. I had to turn off after 4 minutes. Love your videos British dude, can't stand the woke original though. I hate those folks with every fiber in my body and it's time to go to sleep, not be pissed off.