+Austin Staab Same. Good training if you are an actor on stage in _Alabama!_ or another Southern-esque play. You'll get looked at funny, however, if you talk like this in the South.
Im from TN too. But this guy isnt doing a modern Tennessee accent. He is teaching old south. Think Foghorn Leghorn. In TN we use what is considered an Inland south accent. If you go to Savannah, Ga you are more likely to find people speaking like this guy.
For those saying you live in the south and no one sounds like that, it's because he's doing an old southern accent. One you would hear in gone with the wind and things similar to that. I've lived in Georgia my whole life, and I still hear remnants of the old south accent, especially in the older generations (i.e 65+ age)
I'm afraid I have to agree with many of the commentors here; it's not a particularly good rendition of any southern accent, let alone the non-rhotic one for which you were going.
I've lived in Georgia my whole life, and I think that this accent is more old fashioned. Also, there is a difference between accents among the many different races of people living in Georgia, that are really common and easy to recognize if you listen to each one.
He gets an "A" for effort! Haha. I'm glad he mentioned that there's not just one southern accent. The US is huge so a southern accent in Georgia sounds very different than a Texas accent (which I have). Personally I'm jealous of those who have a more "tradional" Southern drawl. Oh and I love Irish accents I think they're super sexy! Lol 💚
what.. the. Fuck are you talking about PEOPLE STILL HAVE THIS ACCENT YOU STUPID FUCKING SHIT. AND BTW IF YOU DIDNT KNOW U SHIT HEAD. THE SOUTHERN ACCENT ORIGINATED FROM THE BRITISH ACCENT. BECAUSE IN BOTH CONTINENTS HAVE DIFFERENT FUCKING TEMPERATURES SO THEY'RE BODY TENDS TO CHANGE.
In Georgia the further south u go the longer drawl is more pronounced. I lived between northern Georgia ,Augusta Ga.and several years in Charleston SC. So I've experienced a lot of accents . Southern Georgian accent is by far the most delightful . Long a drawn out . Heaven the ears.
Did you listen to the beginning of the video? He explicitly stated that very few people speak like that anymore in the south. The only time you're going to hear that accent nowadays is in period pieces and old films. And, for what he WAS trying to impersonate, it was very good.
Jacob Oneal Many people (including myself) are fascinated by this particular dialect. It's especially useful if you're in a play or making a recording of some kind. :)
PeachInPeril Y'all are right. LOL Ellen DeGeneres says she's been asked why she says y'all, and it's because while she's in L.A. now, she grew up in TX/LA. Real Southerners, whether current or former residents, will use "y'all".
It's amazing how many of the commentators here obviously did not listen to what he said. 1) He plainly said that there are MANY southern accents, and, 2) he was going to focus on an older accent like in Gone with the Wind or a Tennessee Williams play. So while he does well in the few minutes he has, what he's demonstrating is a fantasy hybrid of a Southern accent. Very few actors are native Southerners. Clark Gable was raised in Ohio and Pennsylvania. Vivian Leigh and Leslie Howard were British. Elizabeth Taylor was raised in by Midwestern Americans in London, Paul Newman was also from Ohio, and Burl Ives was from Illinois, yet all of these people are will known for their portrayals of iconic Southern characters. And some of the accents are quite bad.
mtlcstr: I hear what y'all're saying, and I agree that most Hollyweird accents are garbage, and borderline insulting. We did listen to what he said, we were just so busy laughing our asses off at how stupid his advice is that we didn't bother acknowledging his horrible portrayal of what we actually talk like here in TN.
Nona Ubiz so basically you all allowed yourselves to look like you have poor comprehension skills and commented without even listening to the first few seconds of a 2 and a half minute video?
Miss Craft Geek Thank you! I love the people thinking he's talking about the state of Tennessee 😂 Tennessee Williams, people, a playwright! He says "Tennessee Williams plays"...💁
To be fair, he did say he was doing a Gone With the Wind accent. With the thickness of the accent, it wasn't terrible. Heck, Paula Deen sounds as fake.
lol i was in flordia last summer and this lady from boston said i had a very southern accent, im from virginia and i dont hear an accent at all. i say southern words like yall though, but let me tell you that lady had a very strong boston accent
As a Southern American, I will agree with him that there are MANY different variations. For example, my dad drops his "R" when he speaks and says "buttah" for butter; however, I say "butterrrrrrrr" (lots of emphasis on the R). I suppose his accent is softer but mine is definitely twangier. It just illustrates there are LOTS of different Southern accents. Actors never get it right and always end up sounding like Foghorn Leghorn.
“Southern accent” is very generalized. Also, accents similar to this range farther than the South. For example, a “Southern” accent is common here in North Idaho. I have one despite being born and raised in the North.
Pretty decent job, speaking as a lady born and raised in Kentucky. I'm glad you differentiated the old southern plantation accent from the more modern one. I find that foreign actors often get the southern accent wrong because they speak like Southerners from 200 years ago. Where I'm from, the people who are very very rural used to also pronounce "leg" and "egg" with the ay sound, as in "lay". So they sounded like "layg" and "aig." That is very deep pockets of hillbillies, though. They still also use very odd Old English words like "nary, reckon, & yonder."
My family (most of whom were raised in the Carolinas) actually does pronounce their r's, as do I. He forgot to point out--or is perhaps unaware--that there are rhotic and non-rhotic Southern dialects.
It sounds like you’re combing bits of the historic aristocratic accent and the lower class and modern accent. Take the posh British accent, add a little flow or “the southern lilt” and you have the posh southern accent which is the one with the dropped R. Then they’re is the tighter sound which you’ve been mixing with the posh accent to create a lower class r dropper accent. Watch the history channel video it’s pretty accurate
As an American, this is interesting and, generally, accurate. I'm from southern California, but I have a degree in English and speak with "general American" accent, I'd say. And we DO pronounce the "t" in the word "banter." "BANTER and "BANNER" have always been distinct in my experiences across the socio-economic spectrum. I live in Los Angeles, and most people here are non-native, so the accent is more generalized than, say, my home city San Diego, where the accent, especially among young people, is more distinctly "SoCal"
Wow, you really sound British trying to do a Southern Accent. I’d love to hear you try a Louisiana accent, because of how unique it is and how hard it is to imitate without sounding like an idiot that’s never heard anyone from Louisiana.
She's totally right, this a Charleston accent. But you are also right, this is a very specific accent and its not as widely spoken as the modern southern accents of places like Alabama, Mississipi, and North Louisiana.
The funny thing is that people are talking about the stereotyping in such. I live in the very northern part of what would e considered the "south." Aka: Virginia. And I actually hear people talk like this relatively often. It's hilarious.
I love in Louisville kentucky and I'm also in the top of the south, but people don't talk like this at all. Most people just don't say l's in words ,, like normal is "its cold outside" but here its "its code outside"
i almost forgot i'm from here in louisiana and within this state accents can vary so differently from 2 or 3 parishes distance from regular southern to cajun french or creole
+Alberto Diaz There is some stereotypes in this video. Buuutttt if you wanna think that this is how they/we sound, then go right ahead. Are you American, Alberto ? just wondering
I live in TN so half of my accent is northern and other half is southern. And I can tell you, his English accent is affecting how he talks, he needs to talk more laid back, and comfortable, and act like its natural, and he is not trying so hard.
Michelle K I know! Haha! My fiancee is from TX as well and and this sounds nothing like a TX accent. In fact, she barely even has an accent. The guy is doing more of a stereotypical "hillbilly" accent. I do like his other videos though. The Irish one is pretty good.
The Texan accent is much different from the general Southern drawl, though. They're completely different dialects of American English. That said, this guy's "Southern" accent isn't that great...
yeap, these are very old, very old southern people will sound like this, more modern southerns. The "less posh" version is actually a lot closer to how most people sound now I live in Georgia, so i know my shit
Ou, zat is khow true Rashn actzent zound like. Just pronounce each letter like you'd do if it was separated from a word. And never, never use articles. I tell you like a guy who has been speaking Russian language (St. Petersburg accent) for whole my life
I had to do 3 pages of acting in a southern American old fashioned voice. with nearly no practice, thank God I nailed it. I enjoy doing accents and I think I will improve this one
Wrong. Just. Wrong. Southern people kinda speak improper and we use lot of different words Ex: "I'm fixin to eat one of them hamburgers you got cookin"
Speaking as someone from Texas, I can definitively say that a Southern accent has a slower tempo. Also, in addition to excluding the ending 't' sound, we also sometimes leave out ending 'g' sounds.
When doing a southern accent keep in mind there are different accents out there. If you were to go to Arkansas and listen to there accent and then go to Texas, it is totaly different. Me, I'm from Arkansas so I would know what it sounds like.
I'm from the midwest but my family is from the south, and I have to say that is just now how they talk lol, I'm around it everyday. But then again, my family is from South Carolina and Tennessee, they speak totally different from people from Georgia, Florida, Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi.. You kind of sound like you're imitating an upperclass lady from Georgia from the like 50's mixed with a random Australian accent, but that's just my opinion hahah
He's absolutely right with the old southern accent. Like other North Carolinians I speak the WWII-onward southern accent, with its intense rhoticity, but my elderly grandmother sounds exactly like this.
Right this is more of a "Georgia Peach" sound and certainly more old fashioned than you hear even where I'm from in East TN. This accent just makes you want to say "Well I do declay-uh!"
Jordan Moorman, True this type of non-rhotic southern accent is found lahgely in older southerners, but some younger southerners have similar non-rhotic accents too!
@@forestgreenorgangeekclaire8629 A rhotic accent is one where pretty much all or most Rs get pronounced. A non rhotic accent is one where most Rs after vowel sounds get dropped.
Vivian Leigh was English and she did a great Southern accent as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind. It is, however, a dying accent as more and more of the letter "r" is pronounced. This "r-less" accent is also heard in people like former President Carter.
Depending on where you go this isn't too far off. Not the sound, but the methodology. Although he does kinda sound Australian. A British accent with twang lol
Dad was from NW Arkansas, a specific southern accent I can still spot a mile away. Its identical to eastern OK, Tulsa, south western Missoura (as he would say) Joplin for example, and as far south as Fort Smith and Hot Springs, home of Bill Clinton, who speaks the same. That particular southern accent is easy on the ear and easy to understand no matter where you are from. Its filled with little courtesies and witticisms & constant teasing, which really means they like you. We kids grew up in Canada, and just cannot even come close to copying any southern accent. On the trip South to meet Grandma in Rogers, as children, we had only 2 weeks to try and sound like our cousins. Any American accent is pretty cool to Canadians, and much as we tried, it wasn't enough time. Am sorry to see accents like that getting homogenized or wiped out completely. This Brit is doing better than I could, though it sounds a bit Lil Abner. Interesting to hear all the comments from Southerners about Old and New style accent. I will pay attention more.
This sounds about as southern as a southerner affecting a fake British accent. No offense, but it might fool Europeans, but it has about the same chance of fooling a southerner as if I (a southerner) faked a cockney accent.
The easiest way to get a Southern accent is to come live with my granny. The process begins with biscuits and gravy, country bacon, and grits for breakfast. Then, you'll be ready to learn.
And there are many variations of this Southern accent. Some are strong from the south say Georgia, but people from Texas might sound closer to rural people in the west than to people in the south, i suspect that that has more to do with culturally texas has more in common with the southwest than they do the South say in Goergia, etc.
I know. Like I said above, he's just doing a stereotypical southern accent. He probably never even met anyone from the south. I think he learned it from a movie. :P
the southern accent is so hard to do without sounding fake or forced. i have never heard anyone do it that i could tell they were not southern. either you from here or you aint. and i think what makes it so hard is there are so many accents in the south depending on what state your in, then there are those like me who have lived in Alabama, Texas and Florida in my youth so mine is probally harder to nail down than some others
okay I am tired of reading the negative comments. I don't speak with an accent because I lost it a long time ago when I moved away from the south but when I was actually in the south, in the area where I grew up, people actually spoke like this all the time. (Southeast Texas)
All the southern folk getting upset is very humorous and intriguing to me. We get it, your sophisticated accent cannot be matched until you reach level 100 in God accent.
I'm American (son have a southern accent ) so I get a funny mixture of feelings This is a funny mix if "I learning" and "something doesn't sound right"
I've lived in Tennessee all my life and I'm laughing at this. Fair try though.
+Austin Staab Same. Good training if you are an actor on stage in _Alabama!_ or another Southern-esque play.
You'll get looked at funny, however, if you talk like this in the South.
+Farscryer0 yeah he was getting pretty sterotypical
Exactly
Im from TN too. But this guy isnt doing a modern Tennessee accent. He is teaching old south. Think Foghorn Leghorn. In TN we use what is considered an Inland south accent. If you go to Savannah, Ga you are more likely to find people speaking like this guy.
Austin Staab I was LO:oking for Parody...:Dawn it!😂😂
I'm from Alabama and nobody not even uncle Jerry talks like this
+Erik Mitchell He is showing us the accent that people had during the civil war era. Accents change you know.
There are different accents in the south
+King Beastley houston accent, new orleans accent, atlanta accent, etc
Hahaha. He is doing a Southern accent that is most common in people who have never been to the South and try to fake it lol
Great Uncle Jims form Britian did.
tip from a southerner: combine your conjunctions. mostly "you would have." say: you'd've or y'all'd've (you all would have)
+Lordofzeldafed im from the south and I have never heard anyone say anything like that before... don't do that, people.
+yoto sun really? I hear it all the time and I live in Georgia
+Lordofzeldafed i went to Georgia for 4 months and never heard it there either.
+yoto sun I hear it a lot, maybe its just where I live. where'd you visit
Lordofzeldafed ft. Benning.
"Old Fashioned" = understatement of the century.
This is like Gone With the Wind, old.
Gentry Walker Well, hence the disclaimer at the beginning when he mentions this is a Tennessee Williams-style accent...
Gentry Walker Very true..lol
Well, he did specifically state that the accent would be heard in Gone With the Wind
Oh bless your heart.
Lol I know right
For those saying you live in the south and no one sounds like that, it's because he's doing an old southern accent. One you would hear in gone with the wind and things similar to that. I've lived in Georgia my whole life, and I still hear remnants of the old south accent, especially in the older generations (i.e 65+ age)
I'm afraid I have to agree with many of the commentors here; it's not a particularly good rendition of any southern accent, let alone the non-rhotic one for which you were going.
No one down here in the south sounds like that lol
No. In north Georgia
+Corey lulz This is also like... very "proper" southern. You'd find this accent on the people from the "early days" that had a lot of money.
+Corey lulz right? lol That's like... General Robert E. Lee impersonation south
I can hear remnants of it, it's more rhotic now (probably cuz of gangstas poppin in da hood, so people want to sound different than that).
Right
it may not be "perfect" to native ears but I must say I really loooove an old fashioned non-rhotic fancy southern accent!!
I've lived in Georgia my whole life, and I think that this accent is more old fashioned. Also, there is a difference between accents among the many different races of people living in Georgia, that are really common and easy to recognize if you listen to each one.
yea hes speaking like plantation owner southern english lol
This should be called "everyone in Forrest gump" accent
Collin Culver Lahf eeis lahk a bawx awf chawklits.
He gets an "A" for effort! Haha. I'm glad he mentioned that there's not just one southern accent. The US is huge so a southern accent in Georgia sounds very different than a Texas accent (which I have). Personally I'm jealous of those who have a more "tradional" Southern drawl. Oh and I love Irish accents I think they're super sexy! Lol 💚
This is how plantation owners and southern belles used to talk, but honestly this particular accent is long gone today.
Too bad. It was so nice.
what.. the. Fuck are you talking about
PEOPLE STILL HAVE THIS ACCENT YOU STUPID FUCKING SHIT.
AND BTW IF YOU DIDNT KNOW U SHIT HEAD. THE SOUTHERN ACCENT ORIGINATED FROM THE BRITISH ACCENT. BECAUSE IN BOTH CONTINENTS HAVE DIFFERENT FUCKING TEMPERATURES SO THEY'RE BODY TENDS TO CHANGE.
In Georgia the further south u go the longer drawl is more pronounced. I lived between northern Georgia ,Augusta Ga.and several years in Charleston SC. So I've experienced a lot of accents . Southern Georgian accent is by far the most delightful . Long a drawn out . Heaven the ears.
literally no one has this accent, i would know because im from atlanta, GA which is in the south
They have a slower accent
Than the british accent because its a thicker temperature in the south. So they turn into demons
This is extremely stereotypical, I live in Georgia and i've never heard ANYONE talk like that. It's way to exaggerated.
Did you listen to the beginning of the video? He explicitly stated that very few people speak like that anymore in the south. The only time you're going to hear that accent nowadays is in period pieces and old films. And, for what he WAS trying to impersonate, it was very good.
SummerSolemnlySwears mmkay my bad.. but wouldn't that make this pointless then
Jacob Oneal Many people (including myself) are fascinated by this particular dialect. It's especially useful if you're in a play or making a recording of some kind. :)
SummerSolemnlySwears Tru i suppose
CharWV She is partly right bro. Like.. Civil War era but my point was that the title is misleading
He got our accent wrong. He forgot our trademark ya'll
PeachInPeril Y'all are right. LOL Ellen DeGeneres says she's been asked why she says y'all, and it's because while she's in L.A. now, she grew up in TX/LA. Real Southerners, whether current or former residents, will use "y'all".
PeachInPeril LMAO. It's just not a southern accent without y'all.
PeachInPeril its spelled yall and pronounced yaw
he said old fashioned lmao
XD y’all is basically our catch phrase
It's amazing how many of the commentators here obviously did not listen to what he said.
1) He plainly said that there are MANY southern accents, and, 2) he was going to focus on an older accent like in Gone with the Wind or a Tennessee Williams play. So while he does well in the few minutes he has, what he's demonstrating is a fantasy hybrid of a Southern accent.
Very few actors are native Southerners. Clark Gable was raised in Ohio and Pennsylvania. Vivian Leigh and Leslie Howard were British. Elizabeth Taylor was raised in by Midwestern Americans in London, Paul Newman was also from Ohio, and Burl Ives was from Illinois, yet all of these people are will known for their portrayals of iconic Southern characters. And some of the accents are quite bad.
mtlcstr: I hear what y'all're saying, and I agree that most Hollyweird accents are garbage, and borderline insulting. We did listen to what he said, we were just so busy laughing our asses off at how stupid his advice is that we didn't bother acknowledging his horrible portrayal of what we actually talk like here in TN.
Nona Ubiz so basically you all allowed yourselves to look like you have poor comprehension skills and commented without even listening to the first few seconds of a 2 and a half minute video?
Miss Craft Geek Thank you! I love the people thinking he's talking about the state of Tennessee 😂 Tennessee Williams, people, a playwright! He says "Tennessee Williams plays"...💁
It’s because half the Midwest still has a southern accent!
To be fair, he did say he was doing a Gone With the Wind accent. With the thickness of the accent, it wasn't terrible. Heck, Paula Deen sounds as fake.
Texas and Southern parts of america have so cool accent, i love it ... Its so cool to speak like them, and Scotish accent too
Lol is this a joke? If you want a real southern accent y'all should watch sawyer in Lost, the show is incredible and sawyer is perfect
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No lie - I came here because of Sawyer xDD
Or... better idea.. GO TO THE SOUTH. Hear REAL people, not actors, speak.
The problem many run into is taking what actors do and believing that's southern when honestly it's not. Come to the South and find out for yourself.
@@BarsQUEEN16 oh yeah I'm gonna go to the South so I can read a small section of a book to children
this is very very very very old fashion
He specifically said at the beginning of the video that he was going to refer to the old fashion, Old Westerns-type of accent.
@@kuaimanareable Which aren't real you want a real southern accent listen to Confederate "General" Julius Howell Recalls the 1860s
y'all he tried
Look up who Shelby Foote is.
Now THAT is an authentic old fashioned southern accent. I honestly think he might have the coolest accent of all time.
Very helpful!!! I'm auditioning for the part of Scout in "To Kill A Mockingbird" and I needed this!
lol i was in flordia last summer and this lady from boston said i had a very southern accent, im from virginia and i dont hear an accent at all. i say southern words like yall though, but let me tell you that lady had a very strong boston accent
North Carolina checking in. Haven’t heard this one yet 😂
As a Southern American, I will agree with him that there are MANY different variations. For example, my dad drops his "R" when he speaks and says "buttah" for butter; however, I say "butterrrrrrrr" (lots of emphasis on the R). I suppose his accent is softer but mine is definitely twangier. It just illustrates there are LOTS of different Southern accents. Actors never get it right and always end up sounding like Foghorn Leghorn.
“Southern accent” is very generalized. Also, accents similar to this range farther than the South. For example, a “Southern” accent is common here in North Idaho. I have one despite being born and raised in the North.
Pretty decent job, speaking as a lady born and raised in Kentucky. I'm glad you differentiated the old southern plantation accent from the more modern one. I find that foreign actors often get the southern accent wrong because they speak like Southerners from 200 years ago. Where I'm from, the people who are very very rural used to also pronounce "leg" and "egg" with the ay sound, as in "lay". So they sounded like "layg" and "aig." That is very deep pockets of hillbillies, though. They still also use very odd Old English words like "nary, reckon, & yonder."
I’m from south Alabama and we absolutely do pronounce Rs, even at the ends of words. We don’t say ‘suppa’ - we say ‘supper’.
Now I really want to re-read Gone With The Wind, out loud.
My family (most of whom were raised in the Carolinas) actually does pronounce their r's, as do I. He forgot to point out--or is perhaps unaware--that there are rhotic and non-rhotic Southern dialects.
It sounds like you’re combing bits of the historic aristocratic accent and the lower class and modern accent. Take the posh British accent, add a little flow or “the southern lilt” and you have the posh southern accent which is the one with the dropped R. Then they’re is the tighter sound which you’ve been mixing with the posh accent to create a lower class r dropper accent. Watch the history channel video it’s pretty accurate
I'm from Mississippi and that is a Cajun accent at first; the second I only hear in movies about the south.
I am a proud Georgian and for an old lady or older person to say to you "bless you're heart" is an insult lollllll
As an American, this is interesting and, generally, accurate. I'm from southern California, but I have a degree in English and speak with "general American" accent, I'd say. And we DO pronounce the "t" in the word "banter." "BANTER and "BANNER" have always been distinct in my experiences across the socio-economic spectrum. I live in Los Angeles, and most people here are non-native, so the accent is more generalized than, say, my home city San Diego, where the accent, especially among young people, is more distinctly "SoCal"
Im from louisiana..i would love to hear someone attempt a cajun accent
Believe me, quite a few cajun accents sound similar to this one, at least in terms of non-rhoticity and a few vowels.
I knew a girl from North Carolina who sounded _just_ like this.
For some reason, that is how I imagine the Founding Fathers sounding like.
I'm from South Carolina, and all I can say is bless his heart. 😂
Wow, you really sound British trying to do a Southern Accent. I’d love to hear you try a Louisiana accent, because of how unique it is and how hard it is to imitate without sounding like an idiot that’s never heard anyone from Louisiana.
She's totally right, this a Charleston accent. But you are also right, this is a very specific accent and its not as widely spoken as the modern southern accents of places like Alabama, Mississipi, and North Louisiana.
The funny thing is that people are talking about the stereotyping in such. I live in the very northern part of what would e considered the "south." Aka: Virginia. And I actually hear people talk like this relatively often. It's hilarious.
Chesterson Jack I live in Virginia (moved here in 1978 with my family) and I loooooooooove the Southern accent.
Ayyyy
I saw the Bully Scholarship Edition pic gg
I love in Louisville kentucky and I'm also in the top of the south, but people don't talk like this at all. Most people just don't say l's in words ,, like normal is "its cold outside" but here its "its code outside"
I'm from Atlanta, Georgia. This was pretty accurate.
I loved all of the other videos but found this one to be not as good like, he sounded very English in this one.
Exactly what I was thinking.
A New Horizon Kathleen Paul He was being British in this one. I heard very little to no "Southern" accent whatsoever.
Yeah, it sounded like "Would y'all like a spot of tea?"
@@HunterShows xd
i almost forgot i'm from here in louisiana and within this state accents can vary so differently from 2 or 3 parishes distance from regular southern to cajun french or creole
AME HERE AGAIN
I’m glad you’re posting this because I’m actually playing Laura in the glass menagerie so this is really helpful
I closed my eyes, and I'm hearing Forrest Gump!
I'm southern, born and raised, and I can verify that the "g" and "r" in a lot of words is "forgotten". Try again.
Right,
i live in texas and nobody talks like this.
Key word "Old southern accent"
***** k
+Alberto Diaz This is not even old southern
Jon a I think it is like an old late 1800's or early 1900's.
+Alberto Diaz There is some stereotypes in this video. Buuutttt if you wanna think that this is how they/we sound, then go right ahead. Are you American, Alberto ? just wondering
I live in TN so half of my accent is northern and other half is southern. And I can tell you, his English accent is affecting how he talks, he needs to talk more laid back, and comfortable, and act like its natural, and he is not trying so hard.
I'm from Texas. That's about as southern as you get. Not even close.
Nope, Louisiana
Michelle K I know! Haha! My fiancee is from TX as well and and this sounds nothing like a TX accent. In fact, she barely even has an accent. The guy is doing more of a stereotypical "hillbilly" accent. I do like his other videos though. The Irish one is pretty good.
EricCrane Yeah, it's more like that, but not very good, lol!
The Texan accent is much different from the general Southern drawl, though. They're completely different dialects of American English.
That said, this guy's "Southern" accent isn't that great...
Matt Price Couldn't agree more! My fiancee' (from TX) doesn't even have an accent, lol! Maybe certain words, but still, pretty much non-existent.
yeap, these are very old, very old southern people will sound like this, more modern southerns. The "less posh" version is actually a lot closer to how most people sound now
I live in Georgia, so i know my shit
I'm curious to see if anybody can imitate our accent.
Me cuz I live in AL
I don't know I slipped into a Russian accent.
It's my name. So why share it? lol same I go from British to Asian
I don't know how this happened.. I can't even accents.
Ou, zat is khow true Rashn actzent zound like. Just pronounce each letter like you'd do if it was separated from a word. And never, never use articles. I tell you like a guy who has been speaking Russian language (St. Petersburg accent) for whole my life
I had to do 3 pages of acting in a southern American old fashioned voice. with nearly no practice, thank God I nailed it. I enjoy doing accents and I think I will improve this one
Wrong. Just. Wrong.
Southern people kinda speak improper and we use lot of different words
Ex:
"I'm fixin to eat one of them hamburgers you got cookin"
Y'all bless his heart
Perfect
Speaking as someone from Texas, I can definitively say that a Southern accent has a slower tempo. Also, in addition to excluding the ending 't' sound, we also sometimes leave out ending 'g' sounds.
I'm a southern American why am I here
Me too man!!!!
Michael Kennedy. To listen to this British fellow teach us how to get the lead in Gone With The Wind.
I am from Northern American, and I am from WISCONSIN, why am I here?!?!
*Well ya Son of a gun...* i'm gettin' in love with this Accent boi..
When doing a southern accent keep in mind there are different accents out there. If you were to go to Arkansas and listen to there accent and then go to Texas, it is totaly different. Me, I'm from Arkansas so I would know what it sounds like.
The first one is so my mother-in-law
I've been watching a few of your videos in a row, and I think you're in over your head here. But your other videos have been plenty solid.
Amelia brought me here
same
I’m a southern American and live in Georgia. This is so funny to watch :)
I'm from the midwest but my family is from the south, and I have to say that is just now how they talk lol, I'm around it everyday. But then again, my family is from South Carolina and Tennessee, they speak totally different from people from Georgia, Florida, Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi.. You kind of sound like you're imitating an upperclass lady from Georgia from the like 50's mixed with a random Australian accent, but that's just my opinion hahah
This is the accent of civil war era southerners, not modern, why can't people lisen?
He's absolutely right with the old southern accent. Like other North Carolinians I speak the WWII-onward southern accent, with its intense rhoticity, but my elderly grandmother sounds exactly like this.
Intense rhoticity? My southern accent is largely non-rhotic
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Right this is more of a "Georgia Peach" sound and certainly more old fashioned than you hear even where I'm from in East TN. This accent just makes you want to say "Well I do declay-uh!"
If anyone alive speaks like this in real life, they are few and far between. This is coming from a native of the American South.
This is interesting - thanks for sharing! Loved listening to it. Come live in the South for a while. You will enjoy it!!!
This is a 1950's southern accent which nobody speaks anymore unless you meet an elderly southern person
Jordan Moorman, True this type of non-rhotic southern accent is found lahgely in older southerners, but some younger southerners have similar non-rhotic accents too!
He stated that at the beginning of the video,though. He used the term; "Old-fashioned one"
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@@forestgreenorgangeekclaire8629 A rhotic accent is one where pretty much all or most Rs get pronounced. A non rhotic accent is one where most Rs after vowel sounds get dropped.
Vivian Leigh was English and she did a great Southern accent as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind. It is, however, a dying accent as more and more of the letter "r" is pronounced. This "r-less" accent is also heard in people like former President Carter.
You can still find younger southerners with non-rhotic accents
if Elvis heard this he would be rolling in his grave. This is something Charlie Daniels would probably shoot you for trying to attempt.
Just make sure you put him down I hate to hear him whine for an hour before he does go down....
Nono Nono on im from Southaven, Mississippi and I don’t even sound like this lol. Good effort!
Depending on where you go this isn't too far off. Not the sound, but the methodology. Although he does kinda sound Australian. A British accent with twang lol
Sky S. That's what I have said. Mix a British accent with a Southern twang (or mix Boston and Southern accents) and you've got an Aussie accent.
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I know some folks in Montgomery and Mobile that still have that style of accent. My grandmother sure did.
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On one of your videos I was fixin to ask you to deal with the southern accents and then I found this!
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Dad was from NW Arkansas, a specific southern accent I can still spot a mile away. Its identical to eastern OK, Tulsa, south western Missoura (as he would say) Joplin for example, and as far south as Fort Smith and Hot Springs, home of Bill Clinton, who speaks the same.
That particular southern accent is easy on the ear and easy to understand no matter where you are from. Its filled with little courtesies and witticisms & constant teasing, which really means they like you.
We kids grew up in Canada, and just cannot even come close to copying any southern accent. On the trip South to meet Grandma in Rogers, as children, we had only 2 weeks to try and sound like our cousins. Any American accent is pretty cool to Canadians, and much as we tried, it wasn't enough time.
Am sorry to see accents like that getting homogenized or wiped out completely.
This Brit is doing better than I could, though it sounds a bit Lil Abner. Interesting to hear all the comments from Southerners about Old and New style accent. I will pay attention more.
This sounds about as southern as a southerner affecting a fake British accent. No offense, but it might fool Europeans, but it has about the same chance of fooling a southerner as if I (a southerner) faked a cockney accent.
The easiest way to get a Southern accent is to come live with my granny. The process begins with biscuits and gravy, country bacon, and grits for breakfast. Then, you'll be ready to learn.
Wait, so British people think us southerners sound posh?
Just him😂
Well from a Southerner, he sounds nothing like us.
+Ashlee Viverette No, not at all. Us Brits think Americans sound... um... nasally and a bit stupid. But never posh. Sorry.
Not so much but I'm sure if I were from England instead of Houston, I would think you nailed it.
I live in Georgia, and I can say this is veeeerrrryyy true XD
Ikr
He clearly states that he's doing an old-fashioned southern accent. He does a great job.
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Watching this makes me laugh so much im from TN and we sound nothing like that lmao
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The more curious this accent is the more incredible it resembles with pronounced old accent in America prior to 1930s.
I never heard any southern talk like this
I spent 2 years in,Chicago nicknamed Hic because of my good ole Alabama accent
he said old fashioned lmao
And there are many variations of this Southern accent. Some are strong from the south say Georgia, but people from Texas might sound closer to rural people in the west than to people in the south, i suspect that that has more to do with culturally texas has more in common with the southwest than they do the South say in Goergia, etc.
Ehh im from Tennessee so yeah i dont see it
I know. Like I said above, he's just doing a stereotypical southern accent. He probably never even met anyone from the south. I think he learned it from a movie. :P
Everything I learned about the Southerner's accent, I learned from the movie Wild Wild West.
Good stuff, there.
This doesn't even sound remotely American lol
he said old fashioned lmao
the southern accent is so hard to do without sounding fake or forced. i have never heard anyone do it that i could tell they were not southern. either you from here or you aint. and i think what makes it so hard is there are so many accents in the south depending on what state your in, then there are those like me who have lived in Alabama, Texas and Florida in my youth so mine is probally harder to nail down than some others
He specifically said he was going for an old stage Southern accent. FFS.
okay I am tired of reading the negative comments. I don't speak with an accent because I lost it a long time ago when I moved away from the south but when I was actually in the south, in the area where I grew up, people actually spoke like this all the time. (Southeast Texas)
All the southern folk getting upset is very humorous and intriguing to me. We get it, your sophisticated accent cannot be matched until you reach level 100 in God accent.
well this dude tries to hard and he sounds like a goofy cartoon character or a robot putting on that hard Mississippi accent
Kal Blaylo I think he did a decent job. I mean he's a Brit too. Have to remember. That's extra credit.
+Magnus Imperium yeah it just don't like any body I've ever ran into
I'm American (son have a southern accent ) so I get a funny mixture of feelings
This is a funny mix if "I learning" and "something doesn't sound right"
Im southern but he sounds nothing like me
Teddy Howell same
Teddy Howell he's doing the traditional old fashioned accent, nowadays people don't sound like that anymore
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he said old fashioned lmao
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