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Once someone told me, that in USA there's not just one accent since there live a lot of people from many different parts of the world from long time ago, so each one has a different accent.
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Just to clarify: the use of the word "y'all" is not exclusive to Texas but rather is found all over the South. So you are just as likely to hear it in South Carolina or Tennessee as in Texas. Also, the cot-caught merger can be found in other places in the U.S., such as western Pennsylvania or parts of New England, so it exists outside SoCal.
Y'all is Southern, but it has spread beyond the South, even further than the Southern accent has spread. For those who are not familiar with this term, "you" is singular and "y'all" is plural, so if I am about to watch a movie at a theater and trying to get opinions from those who just saw it, I would say: One person: Did you like the movie? More than one person: Did y'all like the movie?
Valley Girl accents are specific to the valley. Southern California accents very WIDELY. There's Chicano accents, the beach accent, the valley accent, etc. We have more than one accent also :)
I am from New Hampshire and speak with a rather thick New England accent. The non-rhotic r is quite prominent up here as well. Like other regions of the world, we also have a lot of colloquialisms. The non-rhotic aspect of our accent made it easier for me to learn French which is uvular rhotic. It's an easier adjustment than the hard r hich is most common in American English.
I'm from western Connecticut. We definitely pronounce our "R's". I notice western CT has little hints of NY. Since we are right next door and lots of NYers visit CT all the time. Or lots live in CT and commute to NYC. But, the eastern half of CT gets some slight hits of the non-rhotic r. But overall I don't think CT has much of an accent when compared to NY and the rest of New England. Funny enough, I moved to Cape Cod a few years ago. Many people here have thick non-rhotic accents. One guy I became good friends with also had that same thick accent, but he was from New Hampshire. I think most people think New England accents is just Boston or think all of New England sounds like a Boston accent, when it's much more varied. :)
My mother grew up in Middle Tennessee. My father was from Queens. I spent the first four years of my life in a suburb of Baltimore, Maryland. I have lived in Cincinnati, Ohio for almost 60 years, now I now why I speak the way I do.
I had a Spanish teacher from Spain and she said she learned how to speak English well by watching Oprah nearly everyday. Oprah's no longer on TV of course but there are other talk shows to watch & listen to conversation and banter. The TV accent is the most important accent to pay attention to as it's used by the vast majority of Americans.
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In the south, there are both rhotic and non-rhotic as well. Take a listen to Amy Walker’s tour of American accents and she clearly defines the differences in some areas of the South.
I am unfamiliar with any non-rhotic southern accent spoken by anyone under the age of 80. My 95 yo grandmother: non-rhotic. My 73 yo mother (and her siblings) from the same area: fully rhotic. I've seen the same throughout the south. I'd be keen to learn of some enclave this linguistic trend has not reached.
@@Kerryjotx I’m from and still live in Mississippi, and I’ve never heard any non-rhotic accent here in anyone under about 80 yo with the exception of maybe a few rural AAVE examples. And even that’s in the over 60 crowd. You seem to have found the one tiny group of time- and change-defying speakers that history forgot.
@@garylmedlock It's non very common anymore. But it can still be heard on rare occasions. I live in rural Eastern Virginia, and you can occasionally find younger speakers who still have elements of this accent. But it's hard to find. Most speakers are older. But this is a trend that's happening to accents all over the country. Most young people nowadays don't have strong accents and many have no accents. Even some young people from rural areas often have no accent at all anymore.
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Adding an “s” to brand or store names occurs in various parts of the US and it comes from when retail chains like Woolworth’s did this to their names. It’s from when a store would be called something like “Brown’s Store”, which today is pretty much no longer done.
I grew up in Peoria,Illinois,and the only way I can describe the sound of the local accent is like if Scandinavians learned to speak English in Alabama.The city has a lot of people with German and Scandinavian heritages,and a lot of of transplanted Southerners.Has anyone else from there noticed it?
I'm from a small town near Bloomington-Normal. I always thought I had a standard General American accent, but when I met a lot of people from Chicago while in college, they insisted I sounded southern. I do think being from a rural area adds another layer on top of a normal "American accent"
I grew up in elgin, Ive never been that way but thats interesting. Ill have to listen if im ever out there. There are a few spots near elgin that get a little crazy like Addison. A lot of italians live there so the accents get wonky.
There’s a specific accent that’s somewhere between northern and southern that people seem to have along the line between the two. I think Peoria is getting close to that line.
@@givememychannelback5425 Dude I grew up in a small town and despite it being in a northern state, people from the town (me included) "sound a little country" I'd say it's like a mix of Baltimore(we're like right above the border) mixed with like a back-woods/redneck sound.
Fun fact: the Texas accent is very similar to the Tennessee accent. This is because of the large amount of Tennesseans that moved to Texas before it was a state. The help Tennessee rendered Texas during its war of independence is why Tennessee is called the Volunteer State.
As an east Tennessee native that has spent plenty of time in Texas, I can con confirm this to be true-ish. Depends on the part of Texas you're in as the accents can differ
I'm glad someone else pointed out that there is a difference between a New York City accent and accents found in the rest of the state. People tend to generalize when talking about NYC and simply refer to it as "NY." I'm from NY, and sound nothing like someone from NYC. My accent is actually closer to a midwestern one, with a little southern Ontario thrown in.
I live 15 minutes from the NY state border in PA. When I lived in Columbus (Ohio), everyone would be like “oh I’ve always wanted to go to the city” and I would just be like “that’s about 8 hours from where I’m from”. Utter confusion for them.. 😂
I'm from Brooklyn (no I don't sound like a "hey I'm walking here!" type of person lol) but I just hate when people think that all New Yorkers are of Italians descent like, no lol. I love Italians but nyc is very diverse so it's kinda annoying to think we're all Italian.
There's not only ONE NY accent. There's upstate and the different NYC burroughs. It's impossible to lump them together. Queens, Bronx, Brooklyn, and Staten Island accents are very separate and distinct. Very.
New Orleans has multiple long time accents. Sometimes I can tell what part of town someone is from. Some people sound Caribbean. New Orleans is pronounced New Awlens
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I enjoyed this video very much. However, I must point out that while Reese Witherspoon may have been born in New Orleans, her accent is very much a Nashville one. She grew up in Tennessee. I think a good example of a New Orleans accent would be Harry Connick Jr although his accent has softened through the years.
Native speaker from New York (and English teacher) here. While I think this video does a good job of breaking down many of the details, I think you could have been a bit more clear about what "New York" is. I noticed on your list that it included "California, Boston, and New York." Of these three, two of these are cities and two of them are states. All of your graphics suggested that you were talking about New York STATE - but from the content - and from your comment at the end of that section, you were clearly talking about New York CITY. The NYC accent is highly localized to NYC - and New York State is a big place. It happens all the time when I travel around the country that native English speakers want to know why I don't have a "New York accent" if I was born and raised in New York. It also happens that people from outside the country will contact me because they're traveling to New York City and they don't understand that my city is as far from NYC as Amsterdam is from Paris. This is to say that I'm disappointed that you contributed to the confusion by only once clarifying that you meant New York City - while multiple times on the graphics suggesting that this accent is heard around the whole state. It's not.
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Certainly NYS has a fair bit of variation in accents, as someone who's lived in Central New York/North Country (split or on the line) for 12 years, then near Poughkeepsie for 3 years and ever since in Western New York, and I have a definitely mixed NY accent.
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Thanks for posting this. 6th gen Texan with a mixed southern gentleman/Texas accent. Somehow my son independently developed a Texas/So Cal accent since he was little.
Languages are so interesting to me. With American accents you should cover the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania accent it's somewhat similar to Midwest but all is own too. I'm from there.
Me too, from Pittsburgh. We sound very Midwestern with some Appalachian thrown in there and the Scots-Irish accents, too. Funny that we sound Midwestern a bit because I think most people from here consider ourselves to be Northeasterners. But we are on the border of 3 different regions: Northeast, Midwest, and the South. We are right next to West Virginia and Ohio, and the Mason-Dixon line is not far away. But our state is in the Northeast, and that's what I consider myself to be, a Northeasterner.
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This lesson was pretty useful. I couldn't believe so many different s amount the american accents! So informative. I think I will be able to notice some differents after this lesson. Great one Ethan, well done. I just loved it.
To be clear, the New York accent really only applies to a small portion of the state, particularly NYC and Long Island. An hour or so north of the City, the accent almost disappears. By the time you get to central and western NY, the accent is midwestern. If you're in the Appalachian region of the state, especially close to the PA border, some people pick up little bits of the Appalachian vernacular and accent as well.
I am glad you at least gave mention to multiple NY accents. I have a Bronx/Manhattan accent but I can hear a difference in the Brooklyn/Queens , Long Island, north Jersey accents and the Upstate NY accent isn't even a NY accent and sounds more like the Midwest accent.
I’m an American who’s lived in Texas my entire life. Texas has a stereotypical accent for movies but here, we know if you’re from east, west, south, central, or north Texas. There are slight differences that we can pick up on.
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It should be noted in the Goodfellas clip here both actors talking were born in New Jersey, an adjacent state to New York. They are simply playing New York characters. Both states can have a similar accent
I suppose he saw the name of the character before his audition and figured he should be speaking like a stereotypical New Yorker of Italian descent. And he pulls it off so naturally!
The so-called "New York Accent" is really limited to the area right around New York City. It's not correct to say that "both states have similar accents" because if you travel in New York state, you will not hear a "New York Accent" in most of the places you go.
I’m from SoCal but I got to school in NorCal and my friends say that I have a very strong SoCal accent that I didn’t realize until I moved. I have a vocal fry, I say “ya no” (means no) and “no ya” (means yes), I use totally as a descriptive word (he was totally out of line when he said that to you) or as another way of saying yes enthusiastically (Do you wanna go bowling us? Totally!) and I have a strong valley girl accent (think Cher or Dione from clueless, it’s not the over to top stereotypical voice like in the song “Valley Girl” but the way I say things like elongating my words, pitching my voice up, etc. these are the most common ways people have been able to figure out I’m from SoCal. The kardashian’s way of speaking, imo, is much closer to the stereotype (they are closer to the Simi Valley where the Valley Girl accent originated from) but as you get farther away the accent becomes less strong but the lingo is still used. I love learning about accents from around the US. I have family in Philly and I love that they say “yous” instead of you guys, shore instead of sure, and ye instead of Yeah (the A would be the vowel that stands out more) it’s fascinating and shows the diversity of this country.
Damn, as a Brazilian I can say I can't tell apart the difference between COT and CAUGHT either... Those two vowels are a nightmare, so I feel glad I might simply join Californians there...
Cot and caught differ in all accent of American English. Even General American English speakers pronounce them differently depending what dialect is the basis of their "General American".
I think you missed an opportunity when talking about Michigan. We have the Michigan mush mouth where an entire question like "did you eat?" becomes "jeet?". And how we replace the t's in the middle of of a word with d's so city and kitty becomes cidy and kiddy.
East Texas and Rio Grande Valley accents are quite different; so much so that Midwesterners visiting the Valley would ask why we didn’t have Texas accents. We did, and other Texans could hear it, but those from outside Texas often could not.
There are way way more than 5 or 20 accents in this country. It depends on your race, nationality, location, generation & education. You haven't even nicked the surface. You've only hit a few famed accents. It's a never-ending subject for many videos on UA-cam. Great for you.
Terrific video about American accents. I had a hard time once trying to get a dude from Texas hahaha. In my opinion,it's one of the hardest accents to understand.
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Reese is actually from Tennessee, but the accent in the central/western part of Tennessee rather than the eastern part where an Appalachian pronouncement
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Adding an S to the end of a brand or a store was common in my family, especially the older generation. We're on the west coast but they came from the midwest decades ago. I think it's because you're making it possessive, like an old-time corner store, e.g. "Joe's Hardware" that you would refer to as simply "Joe's". We always called the Fred Meyer grocery chain "Freddy's" for example.
Florida doesn’t have a specific accent that I’m aware of. Because it’s a conglomeration of lots of people from lots of places. New Yorkers, Cubans, Spanish speaking demo other countries. You might find something lightly “southern” in more isolated communities? But for the most part. Florida itself has no specific accent.
@@roberthill4236 exactly, it's a conglomeration of lots of people from lots of places. There are many accents. And nothing I would nesessarily discribe as a "Florida" accent. Just accents of people from places who live there
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The NY accent was a NYC area accent. The Rochester/Syracuse accent is different. In Rochester the word lilac is pronounced as li lock. Southern English, which is my native tongue, can be difficult for some to get. Like instead of saying ought to be, I'd say orta be in normal conversation, but at work I used more conventional English because I speak to folks from all over the place.
So I find the Rhode Island accent very interesting. I lived in Connecticut just a couple of miles south of of RI border. One would think there would be some bleed over or a transition over the state line but no. When you cross the border into RI there is a distinct and striking change in accent.
There are some accents in the deep south (Alabama and Louisiana) that are non-Rhodic too. Funny enough, they also put an apostrophe S at the end of brand names in the south.
It’s amazing how as soon as you got to California, you highlighted people imitating Californian accent, rather than listening to actual Californians speaking, with the exception of Billie Eilish. Thanks for reinforcing stereotypes.
Ok, as a native southeastern North Carolinian with a very "southern" drawl...I never knew just how similar our accent here is to New York of all places!!!
Since my childhood I have traveled the world and lived overseas. Within the US of America I have spent time in 44 states and lived in 5. Great video! However, you did not mention the most easily recognized accent from the state of Louisianna and that's Cajun....and what about the Midwest which is quite distinct. And you should have mentioned others in Northern New England like Maine and Massachusetts (namely Boston). And being a Texan I would like to point out several distinctions and accents, because there are so many variations within our state. Not just dialects but accents. Even before California moved to Austin the accent of an Austinite varies quite a bit from the valley as do Dallas, Houston and even San Antonio which is only and hour away. Not to mention East Texas and its heavy southern drawl not as pronounced in the rest of the state (Dallas being the exception.) Everything is bigger (and better) in Texas! Many people with different languages and cultures have blended together before and after Texas actually became a state when fighting for independence! Including the indigenous people, and those of European Spanish, Aztec and Mayan decent, to the French and German migrations of people from Texas emerged the Texans.Spicing todays landscape as Tejano communities grew and brought such diversity with accents and dialects only found here. Unique to Texas is an accent from another language spoken throughout our state and it is of of Hispanic origin. It is a blend of Spanish (primarily) and English using words and phrases from both it has morphed into a language what Texans call "Mexican"
I used to confuse Australian and Kiwi accents but they’re actually quite different if you know what to look for, especially when they say things like “fish and chips”. Oddly there isn’t a whole lot on UA-cam about it!
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The dichotomy between "accent" and "dialect" is pronounced especially in the South. As a North Carolinian there are a literal handful of dialects in the state that fall under a "Southern accent". Some are rhotic, some are non-rhotic. Ocracoke dialects (along with Tangier Island in Virginia) are so completely different from a "general" Southern accent that they're separate. I grew up in central NC, but my family is from the coast near Calabash, and my dialect is very different from my wife who grew up a couple miles from me, but her family is central NC.
4:45 Years ago, when my son was in elementary school, he asked me how to spell "dragon". I told him d-r-a-g-o-n, he was surprised and told me that he would have thought it began with a "j", jragon. Ever since that time, I have been working to pronounce my dr- sound as such and not a jr- sound. He discusses that in this video.
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Once someone told me, that in USA there's not just one accent since there live a lot of people from many different parts of the world from long time ago, so each one has a different accent.
[d] + [y] = j ? t̠ʃ ? d̠ʒ ? what is right?
Exactly [d] + [j] = [d̠ʒ] (you => jʊ]) not [d] + [y] = [j]. we don't have the sound [y]
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Just to clarify: the use of the word "y'all" is not exclusive to Texas but rather is found all over the South. So you are just as likely to hear it in South Carolina or Tennessee as in Texas. Also, the cot-caught merger can be found in other places in the U.S., such as western Pennsylvania or parts of New England, so it exists outside SoCal.
Yall is found all throughout the Midwest as well, particularly the lower Midwest as it was historically tied to the south in the Civil war
Y'all is Southern, but it has spread beyond the South, even further than the Southern accent has spread. For those who are not familiar with this term, "you" is singular and "y'all" is plural, so if I am about to watch a movie at a theater and trying to get opinions from those who just saw it, I would say:
One person: Did you like the movie?
More than one person: Did y'all like the movie?
It’s also nationwide in AAVE
Agreed. Y’all is a Southern American English word but had spread. I have heard non-Americans living in their home countries use it.
@@silentsmurf To be fair, AAVE is originally a southern accent as well.
Valley Girl accents are specific to the valley. Southern California accents very WIDELY. There's Chicano accents, the beach accent, the valley accent, etc. We have more than one accent also :)
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I am from New Hampshire and speak with a rather thick New England accent. The non-rhotic r is quite prominent up here as well. Like other regions of the world, we also have a lot of colloquialisms. The non-rhotic aspect of our accent made it easier for me to learn French which is uvular rhotic. It's an easier adjustment than the hard r hich is most common in American English.
I'm from western Connecticut. We definitely pronounce our "R's". I notice western CT has little hints of NY. Since we are right next door and lots of NYers visit CT all the time. Or lots live in CT and commute to NYC.
But, the eastern half of CT gets some slight hits of the non-rhotic r. But overall I don't think CT has much of an accent when compared to NY and the rest of New England.
Funny enough, I moved to Cape Cod a few years ago. Many people here have thick non-rhotic accents. One guy I became good friends with also had that same thick accent, but he was from New Hampshire. I think most people think New England accents is just Boston or think all of New England sounds like a Boston accent, when it's much more varied. :)
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My mother grew up in Middle Tennessee. My father was from Queens. I spent the first four years of my life in a suburb of Baltimore, Maryland. I have lived in Cincinnati, Ohio for almost 60 years, now I now why I speak the way I do.
I had a Spanish teacher from Spain and she said she learned how to speak English well by watching Oprah nearly everyday. Oprah's no longer on TV of course but there are other talk shows to watch & listen to conversation and banter. The TV accent is the most important accent to pay attention to as it's used by the vast majority of Americans.
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In the south, there are both rhotic and non-rhotic as well. Take a listen to Amy Walker’s tour of American accents and she clearly defines the differences in some areas of the South.
I am unfamiliar with any non-rhotic southern accent spoken by anyone under the age of 80. My 95 yo grandmother: non-rhotic. My 73 yo mother (and her siblings) from the same area: fully rhotic. I've seen the same throughout the south. I'd be keen to learn of some enclave this linguistic trend has not reached.
I have certainly heard it often in Mississippi and Alabama. I’ve worked in the area for over five years
@@Kerryjotx I’m from and still live in Mississippi, and I’ve never heard any non-rhotic accent here in anyone under about 80 yo with the exception of maybe a few rural AAVE examples. And even that’s in the over 60 crowd. You seem to have found the one tiny group of time- and change-defying speakers that history forgot.
@@garylmedlock It's non very common anymore. But it can still be heard on rare occasions. I live in rural Eastern Virginia, and you can occasionally find younger speakers who still have elements of this accent. But it's hard to find. Most speakers are older.
But this is a trend that's happening to accents all over the country. Most young people nowadays don't have strong accents and many have no accents. Even some young people from rural areas often have no accent at all anymore.
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Adding an “s” to brand or store names occurs in various parts of the US and it comes from when retail chains like Woolworth’s did this to their names. It’s from when a store would be called something like “Brown’s Store”, which today is pretty much no longer done.
I grew up in Peoria,Illinois,and the only way I can describe the sound of the local accent is like if Scandinavians learned to speak English in Alabama.The city has a lot of people with German and Scandinavian heritages,and a lot of
of transplanted Southerners.Has anyone else from there noticed it?
I'm from a small town near Bloomington-Normal. I always thought I had a standard General American accent, but when I met a lot of people from Chicago while in college, they insisted I sounded southern. I do think being from a rural area adds another layer on top of a normal "American accent"
I grew up in elgin, Ive never been that way but thats interesting. Ill have to listen if im ever out there. There are a few spots near elgin that get a little crazy like Addison. A lot of italians live there so the accents get wonky.
Yo, I'm also from there and I totally agree. My family on that side is mostly Irish, but we still have that accent going on lol!
Reese Witherspoon is not from Louisiana, she is from Tennessee. Ellen is Louisanna.
There’s a specific accent that’s somewhere between northern and southern that people seem to have along the line between the two. I think Peoria is getting close to that line.
As an American I don't really think about the differences between American accents often. Very informative even to us Native speakers
Do you live in a big city or small town
Go to Philly and you’ll be blown away lol
@@givememychannelback5425 Dude I grew up in a small town and despite it being in a northern state, people from the town (me included) "sound a little country" I'd say it's like a mix of Baltimore(we're like right above the border) mixed with like a back-woods/redneck sound.
@@givememychannelback5425 I'm From about 10 miles away from Nashville kinda small town
@@JayDillDrums hell no I'ma keep my ass out of cities
I have a soft spot for Appalachian English. Cajun is pretty awesome too, Boomhaur was the best in King of the Hill.
Fun fact: the Texas accent is very similar to the Tennessee accent. This is because of the large amount of Tennesseans that moved to Texas before it was a state. The help Tennessee rendered Texas during its war of independence is why Tennessee is called the Volunteer State.
There isn't a single Texas accent. Travel to far west Texas where the influence of Spanish creates a particular El Paso accent.
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@@roberturibe3150 also where Thelma lives, who makes a wreck out of men.
@@iolitelight I agree, but East Texas and Tennessee are very similar.
As an east Tennessee native that has spent plenty of time in Texas, I can con confirm this to be true-ish. Depends on the part of Texas you're in as the accents can differ
I'm glad someone else pointed out that there is a difference between a New York City accent and accents found in the rest of the state. People tend to generalize when talking about NYC and simply refer to it as "NY." I'm from NY, and sound nothing like someone from NYC. My accent is actually closer to a midwestern one, with a little southern Ontario thrown in.
Correct. NY state, southern Ontario, and southeastern Michigan are very similar.
I live 15 minutes from the NY state border in PA. When I lived in Columbus
(Ohio), everyone would be like “oh I’ve always wanted to go to the city” and I would just be like “that’s about 8 hours from where I’m from”. Utter confusion for them.. 😂
I'm from Brooklyn (no I don't sound like a "hey I'm walking here!" type of person lol) but I just hate when people think that all New Yorkers are of Italians descent like, no lol. I love Italians but nyc is very diverse so it's kinda annoying to think we're all Italian.
There's not only ONE NY accent. There's upstate and the different NYC burroughs. It's impossible to lump them together. Queens, Bronx, Brooklyn, and Staten Island accents are very separate and distinct. Very.
New Orleans has multiple long time accents. Sometimes I can tell what part of town someone is from. Some people sound Caribbean. New Orleans is pronounced New Awlens
im from nyc and i am OBSESSED with the midwestern accent and wish i could get it down but it's so hard for me.
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I enjoyed this video very much. However, I must point out that while Reese Witherspoon may have been born in New Orleans, her accent is very much a Nashville one. She grew up in Tennessee. I think a good example of a New Orleans accent would be Harry Connick Jr although his accent has softened through the years.
She also is a descendent of a signer of the Declaration Of Independence
well you aren’t born with an accent lol just depends on your environment
Native speaker from New York (and English teacher) here. While I think this video does a good job of breaking down many of the details, I think you could have been a bit more clear about what "New York" is. I noticed on your list that it included "California, Boston, and New York." Of these three, two of these are cities and two of them are states.
All of your graphics suggested that you were talking about New York STATE - but from the content - and from your comment at the end of that section, you were clearly talking about New York CITY. The NYC accent is highly localized to NYC - and New York State is a big place. It happens all the time when I travel around the country that native English speakers want to know why I don't have a "New York accent" if I was born and raised in New York. It also happens that people from outside the country will contact me because they're traveling to New York City and they don't understand that my city is as far from NYC as Amsterdam is from Paris.
This is to say that I'm disappointed that you contributed to the confusion by only once clarifying that you meant New York City - while multiple times on the graphics suggesting that this accent is heard around the whole state. It's not.
Hello @MrTwostring! Thanks for your comment, I believe it's super valuable what you've shared to English learners. We took note of your suggestions for the future. Thanks for your help, and thanks for watching the video.
Certainly NYS has a fair bit of variation in accents, as someone who's lived in Central New York/North Country (split or on the line) for 12 years, then near Poughkeepsie for 3 years and ever since in Western New York, and I have a definitely mixed NY accent.
I love L.A accent ❤️ I used to intonation goes up a lot when say cartain words to express my feelings lol I just realized 😂
I was in college and my teacher was extremely fluent in English, i asked him sir how i can be fluent in English just tell me the easiest way,he told me watch prison break five time😂 without subtitle as those day prison break series was on trending in our college and classmates... So i started and today Alhamdullilah i am fluent and understand 90 percent english,though i am not living in English speaking environment..
Your video is so interesting .it help me to understand the American accent clearly. Before it i didn't understand the American accent perfectly but after it i learn more about it . Nowadays I am learning American accent for doing job in the us customer service. I am from India . Hope one day I will become perfect in the understand American English . Before i had started learning the American accent I feel that it is so tough to understand but now I am able to understand what you and all are saying. But also I don't understand some word's in between of lines. thanku for your valuable video
Fingers crossed!
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I see Billie Eilish I click, I am super excited for this lesson to premiere. I am buzzing for it. You are the best my fluency caches. Cheers:)
Hope you like it!
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I have family from Minnesota and North Carolina. I like how Minnesotans draw out their “O”s. Like Minnesooata and Ooooh doantcha knooow?
What can I say? what an incredible lesson!
Thanks for posting this. 6th gen Texan with a mixed southern gentleman/Texas accent. Somehow my son independently developed a Texas/So Cal accent since he was little.
Can you please make a lesson on Canadian accent?
I'm from Alabama and my mother says things like: Coner for Corner & Cheer for Chair.
Eagerly waiting for vampire diaries lesson 😍😍😍
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My thoughts exactly!!
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I grew up in a beach city in Southern California and I’ve been told I like to extend the sound of vowels in words.
Languages are so interesting to me. With American accents you should cover the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania accent it's somewhat similar to Midwest but all is own too. I'm from there.
Me too, from Pittsburgh. We sound very Midwestern with some Appalachian thrown in there and the Scots-Irish accents, too. Funny that we sound Midwestern a bit because I think most people from here consider ourselves to be Northeasterners. But we are on the border of 3 different regions: Northeast, Midwest, and the South. We are right next to West Virginia and Ohio, and the Mason-Dixon line is not far away. But our state is in the Northeast, and that's what I consider myself to be, a Northeasterner.
@TheKliz1117 Yeah, I recently found out we live in the Appalachian mountains. Had no idea until I was 31 lol
It's been a dozen of days I take 1-2 of your vids a day and as a French I've learned quite a lot of things on connected speech and understanding of many English accents. You're really doing a great job and are helpful to many people
Hey there! Thanks so much for learning with us. Great to hear that our lesson was helpful for you!
What a marvelous lesson! I’ve just loved it!! Please, keep up the good work! Could you make more videos about unique accents? 🙏🏻
TY for differentiating between the south and Texas..
This is something everyone seems to get wrong..
This lesson was pretty useful. I couldn't believe so many different s amount the american accents! So informative. I think I will be able to notice some differents after this lesson. Great one Ethan, well done. I just loved it.
Eminem has a clear American accent same when he's singing so fast.
That was his strongest subject in school: English.
@@JohnSmith-pg9ns Where do you watched about it?
It’s a Michigan accent, not everyone in the USA talks like him.
Singing 😂
Please u don't get it cleaned! Eminem has black Americans accent
I am obsessed with the American accent.
One of my coworkers is from philly and he said that people there say "jeet" as in "Did you eat"
To be clear, the New York accent really only applies to a small portion of the state, particularly NYC and Long Island. An hour or so north of the City, the accent almost disappears. By the time you get to central and western NY, the accent is midwestern. If you're in the Appalachian region of the state, especially close to the PA border, some people pick up little bits of the Appalachian vernacular and accent as well.
As for Southerners, it may be surprising to know that people along the Gulf Coast do not have Southern accents.
I don’t know what you call the accent from upstate NY, but when I watch Lost in Yonkers I consider that an authentic NY state accent.
LongIsland is completely different thsb NYC
I am glad you at least gave mention to multiple NY accents. I have a Bronx/Manhattan accent but I can hear a difference in the Brooklyn/Queens , Long Island, north Jersey accents and the Upstate NY accent isn't even a NY accent and sounds more like the Midwest accent.
I’m an American who’s lived in Texas my entire life. Texas has a stereotypical accent for movies but here, we know if you’re from east, west, south, central, or north Texas. There are slight differences that we can pick up on.
this video is so fun to me, I watch the whole without skip any sec....
Amazing content! I always heard this question intonation in the end of the sentences and never knew it was a Californian accent.
I'm a 62 year old native NYer, mostly Central Brooklyn. I've never had that "Italian" Queens accent at all.
I've found this lesson super useful that will help me better understand Americans when they speak☺
Ethan, I love your facial expressions while watching videos😍
Maybe you should watch the movie Fargo.
It should be noted in the Goodfellas clip here both actors talking were born in New Jersey, an adjacent state to New York. They are simply playing New York characters. Both states can have a similar accent
Related, even though Jason Alexander is from 'Joisey' IRL, the actor doesn't 'tawk' like George Costanza at all!
I suppose he saw the name of the character before his audition and figured he should be speaking like a stereotypical New Yorker of Italian descent. And he pulls it off so naturally!
@@SvenElven good point indeed
The so-called "New York Accent" is really limited to the area right around New York City. It's not correct to say that "both states have similar accents" because if you travel in New York state, you will not hear a "New York Accent" in most of the places you go.
I’m from SoCal but I got to school in NorCal and my friends say that I have a very strong SoCal accent that I didn’t realize until I moved. I have a vocal fry, I say “ya no” (means no) and “no ya” (means yes), I use totally as a descriptive word (he was totally out of line when he said that to you) or as another way of saying yes enthusiastically (Do you wanna go bowling us? Totally!) and I have a strong valley girl accent (think Cher or Dione from clueless, it’s not the over to top stereotypical voice like in the song “Valley Girl” but the way I say things like elongating my words, pitching my voice up, etc. these are the most common ways people have been able to figure out I’m from SoCal. The kardashian’s way of speaking, imo, is much closer to the stereotype (they are closer to the Simi Valley where the Valley Girl accent originated from) but as you get farther away the accent becomes less strong but the lingo is still used. I love learning about accents from around the US. I have family in Philly and I love that they say “yous” instead of you guys, shore instead of sure, and ye instead of Yeah (the A would be the vowel that stands out more) it’s fascinating and shows the diversity of this country.
Damn, as a Brazilian I can say I can't tell apart the difference between COT and CAUGHT either... Those two vowels are a nightmare, so I feel glad I might simply join Californians there...
I know, right? It's really hard for us to notice the difference there. I feel u, bro.
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Cot and caught differ in all accent of American English. Even General American English speakers pronounce them differently depending what dialect is the basis of their "General American".
As a American from the Midwest I found this to be a way to general view of accents here. The Midwest was nothing like I have ever heard.
I'm studying English, American English is what I like best.
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It s a stupid accent .
I think you missed an opportunity when talking about Michigan. We have the Michigan mush mouth where an entire question like "did you eat?" becomes "jeet?". And how we replace the t's in the middle of of a word with d's so city and kitty becomes cidy and kiddy.
And that's not even mentioning Michigan's most favorite accent which is adding "ope" to anything with an exclamation.
Wadder insisted of water. Yup.
East Texas and Rio Grande Valley accents are quite different; so much so that Midwesterners visiting the Valley would ask why we didn’t have Texas accents. We did, and other Texans could hear it, but those from outside Texas often could not.
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I really love Australian accent l wish if there are more lessons about it😥😥
Reese is from Tennessee. Totally different accent from Louisiana.
Wow! American accents❤
Which one should I learn, a question has been raised in my head.
Yeah this is super useful, despite I wish sooner or later a lesson regarding Canadian accent will be uploaded.
That would be wonderful too.
There are way way more than 5 or 20 accents in this country. It depends on your race, nationality, location, generation & education. You haven't even nicked the surface. You've only hit a few famed accents. It's a never-ending subject for many videos on UA-cam. Great for you.
Thank you for your comment. You're right, there are many accents!
Terrific video about American accents. I had a hard time once trying to get a dude from Texas hahaha. In my opinion,it's one of the hardest accents to understand.
Thank you l really need to know more about American accents
I am waiting for 'ford vs ferrari' lesson. Plz do the lesson on this movie.
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Hello bro . To my mind you are the best teacher . I am extending my vocublary and improving my pronounciation by your lessons . And l have some suggestion . One of them you should increase academic words and ielts words vocublary .
Thank you for your work, it's so useful and fun. I have problem with english so I'm glad I can learn it just from videos like that ❤️
Reese is actually from Tennessee, but the accent in the central/western part of Tennessee rather than the eastern part where an Appalachian pronouncement
I love american accents, it would be nice to see in the next video Chicago and Florida accent, thank you so much
Parts of SoCal also have a strong Chicano accent.
Awww yeah, it was such another extraordinary time, so I thrilly enjoyed it and learned a lot from this lesson. Thank you ever so much, Ethan, for this unbelievable video. Greetings from Colombia.
Adding an S to the end of a brand or a store was common in my family, especially the older generation. We're on the west coast but they came from the midwest decades ago. I think it's because you're making it possessive, like an old-time corner store, e.g. "Joe's Hardware" that you would refer to as simply "Joe's". We always called the Fred Meyer grocery chain "Freddy's" for example.
You sure it’s not cause they’re names?
Absolutely love this
Yeah, but we Californians tend to drop out S, T's, and Y's. It's a trade off.
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Florida doesn’t have a specific accent that I’m aware of. Because it’s a conglomeration of lots of people from lots of places. New Yorkers, Cubans, Spanish speaking demo other countries. You might find something lightly “southern” in more isolated communities? But for the most part. Florida itself has no specific accent.
Wow there are so many accents in Florida and Boston that would take a few episodes.
@@roberthill4236 exactly, it's a conglomeration of lots of people from lots of places. There are many accents. And nothing I would nesessarily discribe as a "Florida" accent. Just accents of people from places who live there
One of things that I really like about this channel is that everytime it suprises me with cool video lessons 🙂
I was so curious about different american accents.Thank you
I love American accents! I've learned a lot with this lessons, thank you so much guys...
The NY accent was a NYC area accent. The Rochester/Syracuse accent is different. In Rochester the word lilac is pronounced as li lock. Southern English, which is my native tongue, can be difficult for some to get. Like instead of saying ought to be, I'd say orta be in normal conversation, but at work I used more conventional English because I speak to folks from all over the place.
So I find the Rhode Island accent very interesting. I lived in Connecticut just a couple of miles south of of RI border. One would think there would be some bleed over or a transition over the state line but no. When you cross the border into RI there is a distinct and striking change in accent.
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That's great!
There are some accents in the deep south (Alabama and Louisiana) that are non-Rhodic too. Funny enough, they also put an apostrophe S at the end of brand names in the south.
I go to Kroger’s and the Walmarts 😂
It’s amazing how as soon as you got to California, you highlighted people imitating Californian accent, rather than listening to actual Californians speaking, with the exception of Billie Eilish. Thanks for reinforcing stereotypes.
Louisiana accent is a different breed of southern accent
Lake Charles & Shreveport sound like Texas.
Ok, as a native southeastern North Carolinian with a very "southern" drawl...I never knew just how similar our accent here is to New York of all places!!!
Since my childhood I have traveled the world and lived overseas. Within the US of America I have spent time in 44 states and lived in 5. Great video! However, you did not mention the most easily recognized accent from the state of Louisianna and that's Cajun....and what about the Midwest which is quite distinct. And you should have mentioned others in Northern New England like Maine and Massachusetts (namely Boston). And being a Texan I would like to point out several distinctions and accents, because there are so many variations within our state. Not just dialects but accents. Even before California moved to Austin the accent of an Austinite varies quite a bit from the valley as do Dallas, Houston and even San Antonio which is only and hour away. Not to mention East Texas and its heavy southern drawl not as pronounced in the rest of the state (Dallas being the exception.) Everything is bigger (and better) in Texas! Many people with different languages and cultures have blended together before and after Texas actually became a state when fighting for independence! Including the indigenous people, and those of European Spanish, Aztec and Mayan decent, to the French and German migrations of people from Texas emerged the Texans.Spicing todays landscape as Tejano communities grew and brought such diversity with accents and dialects only found here. Unique to Texas is an accent from another language spoken throughout our state and it is of of Hispanic origin. It is a blend of Spanish (primarily) and English using words and phrases from both it has morphed into a language what Texans call "Mexican"
A lot of celebrities that were born and raised in Texas don’t have a typical Texas accent but their parents always seem to. Louisiana too.
I like how you used Tennessee for Texas
I'd like to know Australian and New Zealand accents through Rose and Jenny from BLACKPINK.
Atleast know their names😂
I used to confuse Australian and Kiwi accents but they’re actually quite different if you know what to look for, especially when they say things like “fish and chips”. Oddly there isn’t a whole lot on UA-cam about it!
You should do the Baltimore City, Maryland accent. You warsh your clothes either in the warshing machine or in the zinc with wooder.
Thank you for posting such a great video. I enjoyed how different the accents are on the basis of the region. As an English learner, now I'm struggling to get out of the accent of my own language. 🤔 Because I'm going to have a trip to South America in the near future, I practice speaking English a lot❤🔥
Good luck!
The dichotomy between "accent" and "dialect" is pronounced especially in the South. As a North Carolinian there are a literal handful of dialects in the state that fall under a "Southern accent". Some are rhotic, some are non-rhotic. Ocracoke dialects (along with Tangier Island in Virginia) are so completely different from a "general" Southern accent that they're separate. I grew up in central NC, but my family is from the coast near Calabash, and my dialect is very different from my wife who grew up a couple miles from me, but her family is central NC.
We need more lessons like this one. ❤️
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Reese Witherspoon is not from Louisiana, she is from Nashville. She grew up in Green Hills. But that's another story.
Oh, thanks for the info!
And her accent confirms it
4:45 Years ago, when my son was in elementary school, he asked me how to spell "dragon". I told him d-r-a-g-o-n, he was surprised and told me that he would have thought it began with a "j", jragon. Ever since that time, I have been working to pronounce my dr- sound as such and not a jr- sound. He discusses that in this video.