Can Japanese Guess English Accents? (Interview)
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- Опубліковано 29 чер 2021
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Dear god man the reading material.
it would be fun to see what Japanese people thought of different language speakers speaking Japanese phrases. like British English speaking a Japanese phrase, see the nuances of our accents on their language.
Love these interviews with people on the street. Would love to see more. Hope this video gains a lot of traction.
The second example is entertaining, there is a UA-camr who sounds the same but is not Indian.
DiodeGoneWild is the name of the channel
Thank you, Yuta-Senpai!
Plot twist, Yuta just wanted to flex his native-like English skills.
Lol
He's not native though. He has fluent english skills though.
Yeah, if i couldn't tell his voice i would have placed it more towards australian maybe... He does not have the normal japanese accent ^^
@@mathis8210 It seems he learned english in a similar manner to me. Learning the language piece meal from several different sources and many different examples. Like I have a base of a dorset accent (RP accent), since thats the correct english Iearned through exposure. But i also copied subtle nuances of how my filipino mother speaks english. And know pronounciations of specific words in the american manner due to friends and the simpsons.
With Yuta he clearly started learning in Katakana form and then later corrected himself but kept the echoes of the accent he memorised. Later he likely encountered the difference between L and R because i hear him emphasising the R sound, overcompensating to sound more american. He says his vowels in a rather Japanese manner. But then he learned certain words in the softer english pronunciation. Like when he says more. He says Maw like an english person as opposed to the hard R Morrr.
If he wanted he could totally just live somewhere english speaking 9for like 2 years) and completely remove the kinks to sound completely authentic.
@@mathis8210 To me his accent has strong syllabic stress that I hear from Chinese speakers, but has a lot of the vowel sounds that I know from Japanese accents. A bit of australian cadence though.
I love that the piece they read was just a line from Rick and Morty lol
And I understood pretty much all of it. since im from the south. Florida to be exact. although it doesn't really feel southern at all to be honest. well at least where im from. my bff might say otherwise since he grew up on a farm.
@@Floridamangaming729 If you live in South Florida like Dade, Broward, Orange, etc county then yeah it doesn't feel southern, but the more Northern you go the more Southern it gets.
@@PaulBen19 Irony detected.
@@Nobody-hc1rw I know right lol
I was trying to remember what it was from haha
this man really just commissioned a bunch of people to read an extract from rick and morty.
People submitted the voice clips for free. He asked in a community post a while ago.
Yup I took part lmao
I haven't watched rick and morty in forever, so i thought the audio clips where from an actual scene :P
‘Excerpt,’ but yeah.
@@beatfromjetsetradio8239 I think you'll find that 'extract' and 'excerpt' are synonymous.
To be fair, Yuta does have an atypical accent to most Japanese people when speaking English. His pronunciation is quite unique.
why did i hear this comment in his accent
I've never seen this channel before and have no (specific) interest in Japan (although I am very interested) so it didn't occur to me for a second that his segment was japanese, I guess italian! I found it realy hard to pinpoint, I assumed it was a non-native European who has lived in the UK for a long time as the accent is clearly following a broad "English" accent.
A more standart one is the guy called Nobita, he has a heavy Japanese accent I've seen in most people I've met. It has a lot of katakana phonetics.
@@SiriProject Just goes to show that you shouldn't teach or even assert that Katakana english is correct english. Because its not even vaguely correct most of the time. I genuinely think the correct way is teaching the functions of the roman alphabet, just to demonstrate how dynamic the system is. And how diverse a verbage you can have using it, and understand why english is how it is from that understanding.
And I honestly think its far simpler to teach than memorising Kanji all from as early as elementary to high school and maybe even into higher education.
Not because I say Roman letters is better. But simply demonstrating that compared that. Teaching roman letters is far simplier. One can take years. The other can take an afternoon.
I feel like Nobita could've been a better candidate for the Japanese accent
As soon as I heard the "Hello" I knew it was Yuta. Shame he wasn't doing the interviews, would have been great to just see him announce "It was me" and shock the hell out of them.
oh my god yess that would be a great idea
Yuta's accent is definitely a strange one.
It was I, Dio!
Yes!!!
I thought it was Chris Broad from the hello but the second snippet of audio told me it was Yuta.
it's funny that they consistently said that Yuta's accent is the clearest and definitely native, because it sounded the most familiar to how their teachers spoke, maybe.
@Connelly Howe the fark...nsfw beware
@@lyhthegreat you're right, I should've listened
@lyhthegreat what is it? I’m scared to click it lol
@@vaded2135 something u wouldn't wanna open up while there's people looking at your screen lol
@@lyhthegreat what was there to click
AHHH omg I'm in this! Mines was the Scottish accent at the end! I'm so flattered I was picked but I didn't expect to get Korean? This is so cool and interesting to watch. Thanks Yuta!!!
Loved your voice and accent! Thank you!
Your voice is so cute ❤️ And I love your accent.
Your accent is really soft, and easy to understand.
The Scottish accent is usually one of the most difficult to understand, as illustrated here:
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Oh thank you!! Yeah i definitely agree that there are stronger variants of the Scottish accent and mines is quite soft. I also spoke a bit clearer so that probably has something to do with it!
I knew instantly that from northern part of the UK. Took me a few more second to realise that was a Scottish. Nonetheless, your voice was charming.
Always so smooth with the learning Japanese part
Yuta's was a wild card LOL. Not a typical Japanese accent but also not a typical foreign English Accent! Well done!!
Yep!
It's definitely an east Asian man trying to speak in a standard American accent. Slightly towards Japanese, but Chinese could sound like this as well.
"Maybe it's Australian"
Yeah, nah
Yeah, nah
Yeah, nah
Nah yeah
Yah, neah
Yeah nah
16:10 that is such a common misconception! Everyone has an accent and there is no "standard" English. In the UK alone there are hundreds of accents. So be proud of your accent, native or not!
RP accents do exist.
@@Trashheapcuntspawn Yes, but in my opinion it's an oversimplification of what language really is. Just because an accent is traditionally considered to be "standard" doesn't mean other accents are incorrect. I would argue that minority of people speaks with RP accent based on my experience.
They said they didn't understand at all. If you want to show that there's no standard English, he should ask Japanese who are advanced level. Anyway who think shame on his/her accent in the first place? The accent and accuracy are different.
@@Trashheapcuntspawn RP isn't a standard really, it's just a specifically codified way of speaking which was favoured by broadcast media for a few decades up till the eighties somewhere. The standard accent favoured by those media now is called "Estuary English", but still that's no more a standard than RP ever was!
@@coconutpineapple2489 not sure what you're trying to say but I want to clarify that I only referred to what the girl said in the video to point out that this misconception is very common. Noone shamed anyone in the video but in real life it happens on daily basis. So I just wanted to encourage people who might read my comment to be proud of their accent!
Yuta does speak English with a British accent so I think they did well in guessing.
@H S Leaning more towards British IMO.
Yeah sounds like a mix to me
Soft British, but certainly not fully American. Also some nasal sound carried over from Japanese I think.
@H S iirc japanese people actually learn british english, so its more leaning towards british
@@fakename2336 Think it depends more on where they've spent time overseas and what English media if any they consume. I would say Yuta's is Japanese speaking vaguely Standard British with bits of American. It's pretty hard to pin a non-native speaker down to specifics because it will be all sorts mixed in. Also 'British' and 'American' are incredibly broad on their own.
1:25 "Is it Hawaii?' I almost spit out my drink lolll Thats not what i expected.
Username checks out
Is that a fellow person from Hawai’i I see?
For those uncultured folk, username is Hawaii kawaii
@@randominternetguy3537 Which is especially funny once you know there’s actually an island named Kauai (pronounced Kawaii)
@@somewhatnotable8099 Hawaiian anime? XD
Yuuta is a confirmed native speaker of English and a foreigner because some Japanese people said he was the foreigner judging by his Japanese.
At this rate it won't be long before he is getting "Nihongo jouzu" from people on the street
@@aaro1268 uP
"How long have you been in Japan?"
@@dycedargselderbrother5353 Yatta !!
no, his accent sounds quite weird, exaggerated, unnatural.
The only accent that wasn't immediately obvious to me (American) was the Philippine accent. I thought it was Italian (see Melodica Bros for example).
Italian? That's curious. I've never heard any native Italian speaker sounding that way when using English.
I thought it was from Austria
I was so confused, I guessed Germany although it doesn't sound like a German person
I was convinced it was a Mexican accent
I wasn't sure at first if it was Philippine or Jamaican but by the end I was more confident about it being Philippine
Can't wait to see how he plugs his Language Teaching services. They're always clean transitions.
"The UK doesn't have an accent".
No, instead we have dozens of different accents lmao not everyone speaks like the Queen
The U.K is made up of 4 countries.
Saying a "U.K accent" is like saying an American accent, but meaning any accent from either Canada, U.S, Mexico and Brasil...
they say UK accents change by the postal code
@@nootics This is fairly accurate. I did an accent test a few years ago which asked a lot of questions about how would you say certain words, and eventually it pinpointed to the area exactly where I was raised!
@@Utamiko Switzerland has something very similar, there's also a website here that does the same thing, point to your town based on the words you use. Though i forgot if it was for all of German speaking Switzerland or only the part i live in.
It's crazy how many accents exist on this tiny strip of land, much like the UK it seems
Actually the number in the UK who speak something like the queen is 2% or less now.
The fillipino accent was the hardest to tell as an european who has plenty of experience with english speakers.
You probably just haven't met many Filipinos. Their accent was actually pretty obvious by the end
With the filipino accent the consonants tend to be very hard and the vowels are very similar to italian and spanish but there are regional (north & south) differences.
How? They sound like mexican peewee hermans.
I can tell by shitty mic cuz im also filipino and has shitty mic
@@Crushenator500 You are right I don't think I have ever met or spoken with a Filipino neither in english or my native language.
There's nothing as smooth and consistent as Yuta's transition from the video topic to him advertising his Japanese learning course
That was a very soft Scottish accent, being Scottish myself it was easy to tell it was Scottish. But, there are a lot rougher and more intense Scottish accents out there that would be more difficult and unique to tell. Would love to see someone trying to guess an accent like that.
Scottish too, I nearly laughed when I heard it because it sounds exactly like a girl I know.
"I did eh, yer paren's are gonna do eh, break tha cycle Mortey, rise above"
There's something odd about living a Scot living in England. You lose the accent yourself but you can instantly understand someone speaking it.
Since it was very soft near the beginning I thought it might have been from northern Ireland.
I'm English (from the East), I was having trouble guessing which city she was from - any idea? My final guess was Glasgow, even though obviosly she doesn't have the classic Glaswegian accent I would say from some of her vowel sounds it resembled that more than any other scottish accent I can pinpoint (which isn't many)!
@@_Shadbolt_ Honestly sounds like it might be a Edinburgh accent to me, or at least something lowlands.
@@cyqry oh lol, shows what i know
8:57 So Yuta is secretly a famous TikToker. Noted
Tiku Tokka desu yo
Yuta will always have the smoothest transitions into promoting anything
As an American, every accent in this is very obvious except for one. The Filipino one I just guessed “something related to Spanish” - so I guess that’s partially right!
Same here but I also knew it wasn't Spanish/Latin American because my mom is Spanish and I could tell there was something different about it.
Its easy to tell im a filipino my self i can hear the shitty mic he has ngl most philippines mic r sucks that's why i can tell he's filipino i have a spanish friend and his mic is better than mine(90%filipino mic r sucks)
@@jegosalvador68 lollll because of the microphone?! 😂
@@MidnightBlue105 Y E S
Right, since Philippines has been colonized by the Spaniards, Filipinos adapted plenty of words from Spain.
*Data:*
_Yuta sounds foreign when he speaks Japanese to Japanese people_
_Yuta sounds English when speaking English to Japanese people_
*Conclusion:*
_Yuta is a foreigner from England_
The long hair dude's answers were hilarious 💀💀
there was lots of thought put in and some good justifications for his responses. He showed some great confidence in his experience and his answers as he proceeded to get almost all of them completely incorrect.
My brother’s wife is Japanese, but she speaks English with an English accent because she learned from a native English tutor. You would never know she was Japanese if you only heard her. As for the US accent, you could do a whole different video pointing out the various accents that are spoken there. Same for the UK + Ireland.
Especially Ireland. You drive 10 miles in each direction and you have a completely unique accent.
Yep, exactly
The Filipino girl's reaction was adorable. Thanks, Yuta!
"I've never heard a Scottish person speak English before,"
Oh lordy. Japan stop it now! lol
so that means you haven’t watched shrek?
@@GLOWISGREAT micheal Myers isn’t Scottish if anything he’d be English since his parents are English. The scots aren’t exactly thrilled to be called English either.
@@tannerthepanman9202 cope
UK/England is actually a pretty good guess for Yuta's accent, his accent has a lot of characteristics of an accent from southern England, like the low vowels in words like "ask" and "what", and non-rhotic "r" in words like "Morty" or "hard".
Yep!
Yourself as an accent clip? Brilliant!
this man dropped from the ceiling
I was worried one of these days he may injure himself
This is great. Just fun to see and hear. The brain is amazing in that we can understand our spoken languages as well as regional and individual nuances.
As a Filipino, I knew D is a Filipino by his "hello".
I figured it out when I heard the vowels and hard consonants.
When I heard that pronunciations Im sure that its a Filipino
Impression ko sa hello Mexicano.
same here. filipino's hello is more like hellow 🤣
yuta is always so smooth with his ad transitions
I can’t believe they couldn’t tell when the person had a Japanese accent in English
This happened to me too. At first, I couldn't tell if someone else had a Spanish/Latino accent in English unless it was very thick and evident.
But I also had trouble recognizing different English accents in general. It's been a few years now and I'm getting better at that.
From talking to other people, it seems like learning to distinguish accents in your target language is an advanced skill.
Because yuta doesn’t really have a Japanese accent or it didn’t sound like it in the clip
@@Errupt precisely
He did not sound like a typical Japanese person speaking English.
Yuta has more of a British accent than a typical Japanese accent
7:10 -Yuta's self-insertion
Oh my god, I felt a "Filipino aura" in her even before she revealed her roots.
I immediately recognized the Filipino accent after hearing "hello"(because I'm Filipino); the rest, I had to hear the longer monologue to get the correct accent including Yuta's.
Nice Yuta! I was just looking for a video like this earlier this week! Glad to see you made one! Hopefully NY accent is in here
I’m an American playing “guess the accent” along with the people in the video 🤪
Hearing Rick and Morty read by Cardi B was like 5 consecutive slaps to the face.
How can she slap?!
I'm usually great at these dialect quizzes, but the one after Yuta had me stumped. I have coworkers from that place and it doesn't sound similar to them at all
Ditto!
I wasn't able to get any of them from the "hello" alone. The only one that I didn't instantly get from the second example was the Philippines. It would be interesting to see how well Japanese people can distinguish between their own accents
I smiled right away because I recognize it rightaway that it was yuta speaking English.
That English Man Yuta :)
On the topic of accents:
I have recently watched a relatively old anime called „Shinreigari“ or „ghost hound“ and the accent in there sounded really different from normal Japanese and really good. A little internet research showed it to be Fukuoka-ben or Hakata-ben. Can you do a video on this accent?
You should check out Mashiro No Oto that just aired this last season. The main character and everyone from where he's from speak the Tsugaru dialect and it sounds much different from standard Japanese.
@@Tohlemiach Yeah I dont know why, but I feel like the japanese dialects sound friendlier than standard japanese. Maybe its because its what you speak to friends and family, and standard japanese is the business/polite language.
@@hauptmann25 Yeah I think it could definitely have a lot to do with that. You hear the dialects almost always without honorifics, so I think that's going to give them the impression that they're more intimate. I guess it would be good to compare casual standard Japanese to these other dialects. I'd still say they sound warmer and rounder, and I think it has a lot to do with their regular usage of "ya" instead of "da". It's just a softer sound.
Ghost Hound is a golden classic!
I appreciate the video Yuta keep up the good work, also good luck to you when getting people to interview. Most of them seem very to be very good people!. One day I will visit japan.
私は日本語の勉強です。私がんばります！
ありがとうございますYuta！
Yuta's english is Underrated the fact they thought it's a British accent bro, Yuta you're amazing!
black American from the south or maybe Midwest (could be north or south)
Looking good, Yuta! The longer hair and facial hair work nicely with your face.
When it came to the Philippine part I was Laughing because I knew it was Filipino because of the Pronunciation and stops. And then realized that I knew this because I'm Filipino
Really good one, fella. You could make a Round 2 video of this content, but with a compilation of other countries. What do you think? If you want a "Brazilian" english accent, make yourself at home to answer. Cheers from São Paulo, mate. Keep it up.
I'd gladly watch this again, and I will.
Hey, I was trying to send in a recording but things got in the way. Please consider doing another, and I'll send one in from a new region :)
Yuta’s British accent was not bad.
When I was going through the second clip: This is definitely British accent but something is strange.
When I heard the third one: Haha, this is clearly Yuta.
The beginning “When I was little” reveals that the speaker is not native. But the pronunciation of latter part was quite impressive. Yuta does grab the essence of British style of speech.
Yep!
This was easy. I got them all apart from the Philippines one. I only got the Japan one because it was obviously Yuta's voice. And the Philippines one I thought sounded similar to the Indian one, just not as strong.
Thanks, Yuta, for the interesting video. I had fun guessing the accents as well, and got them all correct except for the Scottish accent which I thought was either that or a British accent from the countryside 😅. I’ve listened to your voice long enough to recognize it, lol!
ありがとうございましたと元気で！👍🏻😊🌎
*any english voice*
Every Japanese: aMeRiCa
And Uk
I got them all right! haha! Right before the Filipino one started playing, I started trying the same lines in my own Filipino accent and I literally rolled on the floor laughing when I heard that the next guy was Filipino lol.
Also, Yuta's accent is just his own. It should be called the Yuta Dialect lol.
The girl with the blue backpack seems like such a sweetheart 🙂 and I want to have a beer with the older dude hahaha
Hi Yuta! Thanks for all your videos! I was wondering if you could ask people in Japan what their thoughts are on foreigners who don't like wearing masks (since Japan has had a long tradition of wearing masks long before the pandemic) - a video about this would be really interesting. Thanks!
Since i made quite wide rounds around the internet i could tell almost all the accents. Only one i had trouble with was the philipines one. I haven't heard many people from there yet.
That was very interesting! I got all correct except the Filipino one. It's fun to see all the different guesses.
yuta is real smooth when it comes to promoting his classes
got everything right... I kinda got stucked at the Philippines one, but when that half-filipino said that it sounded like PH, i was convinced....
Honestly, I don't think I would've guessed the third one if I didn't know him.
Lol they used the UA-camr lazy masquerades voice, he's has a good horror/mystery channel if anyone is into that category of stuff, has has very interesting content on his channel 💜
As soon as I heard that (C) "Hello", I knew it was Yuta. Very easy to distinguish, if you follow his channel, that is.
Otherwise, the "S" sound specifically is the giveaway here. Very Japanese specific.
*British me who can't even understand half of Britain's accents*
Yh, good luck lol
Surely you can understand a Scouser or Geordie accent?
@@ToastieBRRRN it's the same language so I'm bound to understand some of it but I'd be lying if I told you I didn't stand like an idiot trying to process what they just said lol
You must be happy Yuta!
As a Filipino, I immediately recognized that English accent. I was happy that girl also knows. We know our roots.
7:44 As someone actually from Manchester I died laughing at this part.
Ha, I was wondering why you weren't asking the questions - and it all became clear!
Wow, filipino accent! Didn't expect that. Recognized it right away since I'm filipino, neat that someone else got it too
thst scottish accent sounded clear to my surprise 😂
this is a serious polling because Yuta is in the mix!!😅
Yuta throwing himself in the mix. 😆
lol, I love the reactions of the ossan with the instrument bag.
The 1st one is called African-American Vernacular English (AAVE). Lang Focus did a really good video on the linguistics of it.
I guessed all accents correctly the first time, I was a little confused at Yuta's version because the first two audio really sounded like British but the third gave it away
As someone who will be moving to Scotland soon, I'm proud of myself for having identified the scottish accent at the first few words.
Hearing a Japanese guy day England was amazing. And being British myself and hear that lady say "British people don't have and accent. because we're native speakers." I think I know what she meant. But it still made me laugh alot!!! Because in Britain we have more than 1 accent in our country. Even across the the diffent countries that make it up. Please keep doing these videos. I enjoy them very much!!!
The third one was Yuuta himself speaking wasnt it? That one took me a minute cause his accent is very interesting. The only one I didnt get was the 4th one, I thought it was a french (or french Canadian) accent, but Ive never really heard phillipino english before.
Yay! I got all but the one from the Philippines.
I wonder how they'd do if the clips were people speaking in Japanese. Would it be easier to recognize where the accents were from if they were speaking the native language of the people guessing?
Now I kinda wish I came across these videos before to give Yuta a Canadian accent a listen x3, also I could only figure out the first two accents
I played along when I watched the video. I got every accent apart from Philippine's (Not really familiar with that accent as I don't really know anyone from the Philippines!)
On the Japanese one, I initially thought it was someone faking a british accent (I'm British, so it sounded like british but there were bits that sounded unnatural to me), then eventually I realised it sounded very similar to the beginning of the video when Yuta was speaking! :D
This is good, it gets me guessing and try to see if I can manage to get them correctly. I am happy that I did. To me, the hardest one was the last one. The first one sounds like how the Williams sisters (venus & serena) speak, so I know it is American. Staying in the country where there was quite a number of Indians, I definite know the second one. Third was Yuta, especially he speaks. Living more than half of my life in Philippines, it is easy to guess the 4th one. The last one was a bit tough even though I know it sounds from the UK. I managed to guess it to be Scottish because he sounds and reminds me of Alex Ferguson.😁 Yay!
I'm not a native englsih speaker but I'm happy I got 4/5 correct! The only one I couldn't guess was Philipines accent, the "a" sounds made it sound very familiar to some of the slavic accents I heard before but no ringing 'r's so i was very confused! I enjoyed listening to the Japanese people' opinions on the recordings, they were very waried and unexpected!
The girl with the mint and purple backpack who said she has Filipino roots is SO CUTE. You can tell how nice she is by how she talks 💜
that was super interesting! wish you you included mine though 😂
I like the guitar guy, he's completely clueless.
I can only guessed it right for 4 of them : black person from US, India, and Scotland. And of course Yuta's lol. Was about to send mine (already on Drive) but I'm not too sure about the last question. Luckily didn't sent it cuz it was like 2 paragraphs long.
Thanks for the video, so entertaining yet informative.
I feel like it is so much easier to tell accents that are close to what you hear. Like the Southern accent one was super easy to tell since I'm from the US.
Great video, Yuta! I nailed the American and Indian accents, but completely botched YOUR accent, LOL! (I had guessed northern Africa for yours.) The Filipino accent was interesting and I was slightly off for the Scottish accent as I had guessed northern England. This test is a lot of fun for native English speakers as well!
This is the script for the first 3 English conversations from the Southern USA with Ebonics.
1) "Hello."
2) "Listen, Mory, I hate to break it to you, but what people call love is just a chemical reaction that compel animals to breed. It hit hard, Mory. Then it slowly fade leaving you stranded in a failing marriage. I did it; your parents gonna do it. Break the cycle, Mory, rise above! Focus on signs!"
3) "When I was lil bitty, I was real quiet and I really like reading books. Usually, I was reading scary books and people thought I was weird. I... I probably really was."
The next 4 times, the third answer was changed per person.
Keep up with the great videos!
The older man with long hair really didn’t guess a single one… like, not even closely😂
Played along, got all of them but D (thought it was the Netherlands, then South Africa)
"I have never heard a Scottish person speak English before" lmfao
That part killed me.. IMAO
The 2nd recording is the best line from that entire show.
Yeah the Philippine one stumped me too and Im a native English speaker(American). Guess I just haven’t heard the Filipino accent enough
Great thumbnail 👌🏽