Why so many Americans speak Chicano English
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- Chicano English is a variety of Standard American English that's popular in areas of the United States with a lot of Mexican Americans. What does it sound like, why do many non-Chicanos (Mexican Americans) speak it and how do you know if you speak it? I spoke to a linguist and Chicano English speakers to find out.
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This makes me wonder about the influence of the Chicano dialect on the “valley girl” accent or dialect that is very common in Southern California among wealthy white women, I feel like I hear it a lot among celebrities, but it has some clear similarities with the Chicano dialect.
I have a valley girl accent and I don’t understand why since I’m a Jewish brown woman living in rural PA. Neither sides of family speak this way and most of the local people don’t either. I don’t know where it came from from. Maybe because I’m online a lot?
@@chickensalad3535 jew is a religion not an ethnicity
Southern states seem to love Mexican culture without realizing due to the amount of cowboy clothing they wear. Mexicans were the og vaqueros or cowboys!
Pretty sure valley girl accent influenced Chicano not the other way around, Chicano is more recent
@@Guahtemocchicanos been around since the zoot suit era lol
I am so enamored by this because I speak Rez English a Native American way of speaking and I see so many common things that they say that we say or how they say it that we say it it is crazy even this barely concept I’m like huh I totally get the Chicano I don’t get the English way and I grew up with Americans cause I am a real one.
We used to be Native Americans we were colonized, we have similar accents because it's literally Spanish mixed with Indigenous vs English/German with Indigenous
My dad had a mix of all three where he has a very indigenous voice mixed with Spanish mixed with the English influences of Idaho
@@Belisonte-dl4gd We cling on to our ancestry and culture up here as much as we can, at least for the Ojibwe, but we are all mixed like Mexicans, accept our mix is Scandanavian, French, and Gaelic-Scottish. They call it the Métis mix, but we still speak our language and practice our culture as Ojibwe. So we are the Latinos of the North somewhat, but we speak English as a first language instead of Spanish. Some of my people in north Ontario and Quebec speak French and not English so we use our language to communicate. We are Native, Mexicans and us. We are Turtle Islanders and in our eyes, yous are us and have every right to be here by the way. What affect one brown population affects the rest. We have ice on us as Native Americans as well. Many are also mixed more in the cities with Indigenous Mexicans and Guatemalans and Mexicans alike. I don’t see the Ukrainians or any other people being shipped off! Off topic. Sad.
@@Belisonte-dl4gd True for the Native Americans colonized by Spain-ruled by Mexico. Similarly true also for the French-speaking Native American tribes in Louisiana. Then there is a small minority of Native American tribes in Alaska when it was apart of the russian empire who had contact with russian merchants and spoke russian who by the russian empire at that time classified them into groups of 'civilized' and 'uncivilized' and had wars with them which was one of the reasons why russia gave Alaska to the U.S. for cheap
Yes!!! I wasn't sure if I was actually picking up on similarities or if it's just cause I'm Pueblo so my Mexican and Native family is one and the same 😂 glad someone else noticed!
I’m in NYC and I have no contact whatsoever with Native Americans on my day to day so my exposure to your dialect is only limited to TV and social media. I’ve seen videos of Natives and I also watched the AMC show Dark Winds and to me, it seems like your dialect and the Chicano dialect share a lot of similarities.
3:30 also worth mentioning. She says “ehh” as a filler word like how you do in Spanish instead of “uhh” like in English.
I’m American and my second language is Spanish. When I code switch it changes between “eh” and “uh” naturally, which I find interesting because it wasn’t a purposeful change I made. Sometimes if I’m speaking Spanish for a long period of time the switch doesn’t happen though. I’ll just speak English with a Spanish accent and it confuses people around me who don’t speak Spanish. I don’t speak Chicano English though obviously.
you're from the US*
I'm born in America with Mexican parents but I do pronounce the words right and even passed my school I forgot what's it called where kids get tested their English and get out of it I passed that too that so many kids do not get out of. I do say uhm when I speak English and eh in Spanish but, I can't speak Spanish all day long I can't even explain well in Spanish without using English lol
Also , when I was a kid most people were surprised I even spoke Spanish which I was surprised too. Some people think I only speak English.
I have always heard and said "eh" like the filler word "y'know". Not literally "you know" but like "y'know" in Val speak.
so true! its the same with people from other countries that learn US English
Only one missing is the star of david
This video is so high quality and deserves more views
@oldmansebbs1882 Thank you!
@@byfernandoh Omg I thought you had thousands of subscribers, the quality is amazing!
The only problem is that some people like learning linguistics. Not a lot.
Nah I think alot of people do, theh just dont know its called lingustics@@HoggySklump
When you say Latinx, you lose all credibility when talking about Latinos.
I'm not going to lie, when I first saw the video I totally thought that it was some other youtuber's content that had been reposted by a small channel- the video was so delightfully edited and thoroughly crafted. I didn't realize that I was watching a personal legend in the making. I've watched your introduction and can truly say that I'm rooting for you. I'm really interested in seeing how your research and storytelling break open that shell of having to choose of being de aqui o de alla, to look at the thing inside which is entirely our own. I look forward to seeing what's in the hyphen.
This comment made my day!! Thanks for taking the time to write it.
When Professor Fought said “You have a right to your dialect that goes with your identity and you should be very proud of it”, that hit hard and was very emotional to me. I don’t speak Chicano English, but I have an English learner accent and my native language is Salvadoran Spanish. I’ve always been self conscious of it, and that was very powerful to hear.
I’m also wondering if Chicano English was influenced by any specific Mexican Spanish dialects. Salvadoran Spanish has a different rhythm to it than Mexican Spanish, and it makes me wonder!
Salvadoran here! We have a beautiful language, Caliche, it does have its own rhythm. I'm also half Mexican so I've slowly had a weird way of speaking both the chicano English and the Salvia Caliche accent too lol
I think it might be since the Mexican immigrants and family here in NYC, they tend to be from Puebla/Oaxaca/CDMX and they don't sound like the people from the video? like the softend "L" sound is similar but not exactly the same as the Chicano English from California [I'm a 1st gen Salvi so yeah I've been told I don't have a specific accent, more that it'd muddled with some words that MIGHT clue in to where my families from; but then again my family came when they were young teens so they may have assimilated to the Caribbean Accent that is dominant here in the East?]
After I read about Calo on Wikipedia, I always assumed the Mexican accent I grew up with in SoCal was based on Calo--- cuz it's a different accent from the various mexican accents of people who are not native english speakers
@@ay.maripoxa I though caliche was like hard chalky rock in the soil?
As a person who grew up on the Mexican border we call those "mistakes", and we try to teach people to speak standard English because it can help them with their careers.
I loved this insight!! not many people breakdown Latino dialects or accents like this! Just recently someone told me I had an accent and I never noticed lol and this person was from my home town. When I go to LA, I can understand if they think I have an accent (I am from CT) but I wonder how I sound to people in CT then lol it's suuuper interesting
NOPE, NOT LATIN, MORE THAN 40 SPANISH DIALECTS
Regional across the States.
Good for you. Pero si te podías ganar un Oscar, un Grammy o un Chorizo.
This is actually so amazing. Being from a border town in South Texas, I’ve always struggled to label the manner of speaking that locals tend to have. It makes so much sense now; we speak in the Chicano English dialect!
Most tejanos and including myself have more country accent than anything but u probably thinking of west accent lol
@bellal3167 I had friends from the valley in college and I know exactly what you mean!
@@riohtx7012 nah dude people from the 956 valley 100% speak chicano english
this is hardly a dialect, you guys are stretching.. all the examples were completely different, the influencer women had a valley girl accent, the presenter has a vanilla california accent, the people in the street had varying levels of mexican accent. and that girl in the festival said "going" and "these" in a completely normal way lololol
@@tingmo6669 why are u here lmao
i’m a white guy from southern california and i had no idea that the chicano definition of, “barely” wasn’t standard until watching this rn.
It just barely registered for me, too.
I'm in TX and have coworkers who have said this to me and I usually picked up on context what they meant, but always assumed they were using the wrong word, not that that was the literal definition to them. Super interesting.
Funny thing my family uses "barely" in this context (in addition to ordinary context) but we don't speak Chicano at all. I didn't know it had anything to do with Chicano speakers.
You should do a video about Mexican influence on Chicagoland. I feel the media at large has a tendency to overlook the Mexican population of Chicago, especially considering how large and concentrated it is. There're communities like Cicero where 80% of the population speaks Spanish and 88% identity as Hispanic/Latino.
@@Komadaki I’m from Chicago, and you best believe I have a Chicago-centric video coming!
@@byfernandohyay!! what neighborhood are you from ?? :)
Midwest period!
@@byfernandoh yes please! I didn't know I had an accent until I visited my family in Texas. My cousins kept trying to immitate me. I can't even hear it myself. I am also Mexican so it was double the funny to them. 🙃 oh well, that was a fun linguistic lesson lol
Makes sense as to why my Abuelos ended up there as opposed to other parts of the city
This is so cool, I am Mexican, my dialect is of an English learner and I have influences from British English and German due to my learning of languages so I don't speak Chicano, and recently I just met a person that grew up in Texas, and I noticed her strong Chicano English, it's funny because she is not from Hispanic origins, sometimes being around her my brain tells me to speak in Spanish and she looks at me like what? Then I remember she's not Mexican 😆
😂😂😂 thank you for saying this because I am a white white girl, like I joke I glow in the dark but I'm from Texas and so cal and when I moved up to oregon I noticed people sometimes look at me funny or ask why am I talking like a Mexican but I'm not, I'm just talking. Accents are so weird and so fun. Omg when he said nothing....that's how I say nothing 😂😂😂 anyhow, it's funny you mention the white girl from Texas because sometimes I get a southern accent and sometimes it's like this Chicano. I love that so many people from so many places can share our worlds with each other!!
@@audralynn7454being white has got nothing to do with being Hispanic or Mexican, just fyi
I am all for this kind of content! There’s not a lot of creators out there talking about hispanic issues and topics. Super important for us to discuss THESE things! ❤ great job!
@@Synthpea Thank you so much! I’m so excited to dive in. This is just the beginning!
As someone that lives in SoCal this was so interesting to learn about Chicano English 😆
I also loved the interview with the linguist
This makes so much sense now, because a lot of Mexican Americans here talk that way and I never could name or describe it, thank you!
Love the video. I’m from LA and my mom is Mexican and my dad from Argentina.
I speak fluent English and Spanish, and most people in LA say I sound “white”, even Canadian to be exact. Everyone says I sound really proper in both languages, and that I “don’t look or sound Mexican or like I’m from LA”.
This has given me many issues. It felt really good when a Black female passenger from Philly that I drove told me I “sound sooo Mexican” lol. She then went on to imitate whatever sentence I had just said lol.
My mom is from Puerto Rico and has a really strong accent...but i grew up only speaking english. Ive been called out for having an accent all my adult life. The exact thing im call out the most on is the way i annuciate my vowels. Politics, tomorrow, drawer, milk, picture are all words i get called out on a lot. I guess the mystery is solved.
This whole video is divide and conquer with a us vs them narrative. And no, there is no "chicano English" There is only bastardizing of languages. If Mexico were filled with 200,000 Chinese immigrants and in ten years they insisted chanclas were now xinghuas how would you feel?
The end goal of this is the destruction of the u.s as per either that pr a means of stoking the flames of their planned civil war.
Ooooh New fave channel!!! I hope you explore other Latin American dialects like Nuyorican or other metropolitan areas. I’m of Central American descent from the DMV and I’m not sure if we really have an accent. Also, excited on other stories you’ll dive into! I know this channel is gonna blow up!!
yeah id say its like our miami english but very new york
It depends on the person, well mannered educated good people talk pretty normal, nice white accent, maybe a splash of influence from being a Spanish speaker. the ghetto ones speak with some sort of African American Latino fusion type thing. Another thing I’ve noticed is it’s pretty uneven between males and females on the manner of speaking. Males heavily lean towards the nasty accent and not too many just speak normally, while most females sound pretty normal. Actually if anything the ghetto-er they are the more immigrant they sound.
I speak Nuyorican I’m from Brooklyn NY
I accidentally speak like this all the time
I've gotten in trouble for it, but it's just from mirroring the people around me
Exactly, it is so unconscious
How did you get in trouble? That's odd
I believe Gloria Anzaldúa also talks about this in "Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza". This video was really interesting and I might write my thesis paper about Chicano English. I can already tell that your account is going to see a lot of growth :D
that would be such a sick thesis! 😁
u got this. go for it!
Woww I would love to read your thesis if you write about this!
When I went to college at UT I met some friends that I thought spoke Spanish, because they had this accent, and because I speak Spanish. So I tried speaking to them in Spanish and they didn’t understand me. And they were like, “No, we’re just from Laredo. We don’t speak Spanish.” And I thought it was so cool!
Also when I first came to the US, we lived in Mississippi at one point. And that’s when I think I lost my accent lol because my friends (in the 5th grade!) pointed my accent out to me. And they gave me some really good pointers on how to make my English sound more Standard US English. And it was so cool because they were telling me things that I’ve never even heard from ESL professors! They taught me how to connect words, and they thought me how make the “th” sound, and how to make my vowels less pronounced. Lol
However, I do miss my accent. My mom had it and it was so beautiful. It didn’t sound “spicy” though, it sounded very charming. And my dad kind of still has his accent and it sounds very nice.
what a great read
That’s BS all people in Laredo speak Spanish.
This is so true! So many Laredoans speak this way but aren’t fluent in Spanish, especially if they’re 2nd or 3rd gen Mexican-American and onwards.
I love the positive language used in the discussion of this topic. As someone who has been struggling with identity *queue the line in the Selena movie* -I smiled the whole time so thank you for this! Looking forward to more of your content!
I didn't realize there was a name for these speech pronunciations/patterns I grew up with. Thank you!
As a Miami English speaker, it’s crazy how different I realized I speak from my Anglo-American friends when I moved up north.
Very interesting video! I will travel to the USA soon as part of my job and I am a little worried about how my accent could affect my performance in the workplace. This video is really calming because it reinforces my thought of 'there's nothing to be ashamed of.'
The research and editing on this video is excellent!
I know I was so surprised when I saw the subscriber count I thought it would be at least 100k
i wonder who the editor is?? props to the quality of work
I feel like this channel is filling a desperately needed space! I've always wanted to see videos centered on the U.S Latino experience, thanks so much for doing this!
Linguist here. Really nicely researched video :)
Looking forward to seeing your content!
This was so interesting! I’m Chicano from central California and I’m not fluent in Spanish but when I hear my own voice back from recording I get a hint of an accent. I’m always surprised and wondering why am I talking like that lol. I always figured it was just a California accent.
I just decided to learn Spanish to better communicate with Spanish-speaking people that come into my cafe job, so this video is great timing! Thank you!
I am half Mexican and half Italian American. I was raised in Utah and California. I definitely speak California-Utahnics (I just coined that) and never felt like I fit into the Chicano accent. I grew up with my USA mom and forgot any Spanish I knew as a toddler, but I had it on my toungue, I could pronounce Spanish words pretty well. After living in LA for 17 years, I must have picked it up a little bit of Chicano because I do pronounce some words that way and I use barley in both forms. I have always been fascinated with the diverse accents in LA and the world. Thanks for the video.
This whole video is divide and conquer with a us vs them narrative. And no, there is no "chicano English" There is only bastardizing of languages. If Mexico were filled with 200,000 Chinese immigrants and in ten years they insisted chanclas were now xinghuas how would you feel?
The end goal of this is the destruction of the u.s as per either that pr a means of stoking the flames of their planned civil war.
I always get a bit emotional seeing archival photos of Latino families from the past. Just a reminder that we’ve been here a long time, and we’re part of the history of this country too, no matter what people say. This is such a beautiful video.
I'm fifth generation Mexican-American and I love seeing photos of my grandma and great grandma from back in the 40s and 50s. For many, the border crossed us and it's an important history that characterizes why we are who we are.
@@camerontuck108 well, The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was in 1848, so unless you are over 175 years of age, no border crossed you nor anyone you know.
@@camerontuck108 That's so beautiful, thank you for sharing! Not enough Americans know that history.
@ my grandpa’s side of the family lived in New Mexico for many generations before the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed. I don’t have any family in Mexico, but I am proud to be Mexican-American.
I went to subscribe when you mentioned it, and when I did, I was like: What do you mean, 320 subscribers and less than 1000 views!? Haha, I mean, yeah, okay, you work in that field, but the video is so high-quality I thought it was from a big channel. No doubt you'll grow fast! Good luck, hermano
Thank you! Yes, just now getting started as an independent journalist and this UA-cam channel. Thank you for your support!
It’s inconceivable to grow up in LA and not notice Chicano English has a different intonation than other varieties.
Back in highschool (down on the Texas/Mexico border), my chemistry teacher once half-jokingly explained to us that she spoke three languages: English, Spanish, and Chicano.
Thank you SO much for making a video ab Chicano culture and influence. So many ppl ignore and dismiss us
I’m trying to get more into my culture, this video has really helped me feel confident in how I talk. I’m trying to learn Spanish and understand what I speak too now! (Chicano English) also from Cali 💗
norcal or socal? i don't usually see southern californians say cali so i'm curious if it's a regional thing lol
@ I’m from SoCal :) yeah i just say it like that cuz it’s shorter lol
@ interesting, thanks! i wonder if it's a bit regional even within socal? i'm from north county and people i talk to tend to look at "cali" as a "transplant" word, used by someone who moved to the area fairly recently and never by locals. not saying that this is what it actually means!!! i'm examining the perception my community has on the term cuz clearly it's skewed lol and i'm interested in how we developed this assumption, so i appreciate your input. i live toward the east coast now so blow the pacific a kiss for me lol
@ haha oh I see! Well here besos 🌬️💙
I grew up on the border and it was very prominent there for EVERYONE! Even the white kids! It was less pronounced with them for sure. I also think accidentally switching “ch-“ and “sh-“ sounds is a part of it sometimes. I remember my sister coming back from college trip and she mentioned everyone there said she had an accent and she couldn’t hear it! It was Chicano English all along!
Do you have an example for those ch and sh switches?
@@xXPeaceForeverrXx choos for shoes is the classic
I'm from the border and Anglo and still sometimes mess up my SH and CH sounds. And I like to sometimes accidentally mix in a hard E sound for the I-sound. Meelk instead of milk, etc, and it's totally random.
@@viejitoloco4133 Haha, the best one. Chair and Share are tough ones sometimes.
I am OBSESSED with how you broke everything down. It’s incredible.
Damn, such a nice video. I do like what the linguistics teacher said at the end about the way that you speak English is more than just a way of speaking it, rather, it is your heritage and culture, where you come from
Hats off to you, man!
Yessss!!! This makes perfect sense. Never thought about it.
Wow this video has helped me realize why I struggle so much speaking Spanish!!! English has a flow to it while Spanish is evenly diced up words. I’m going to try and speak English diced up the same way Spanish is and maybe I won’t be such a slow speaker. Thank you!!
@@krystopherlee3426 They call this syllable timed vs stress timed languages. There are great videos on UA-cam that go into detail. Makes so much sense when you learn it.
Love the video...I'm from Texas and many of us here speak Chicano English with a Texas accent ...lol...a little different dialect...
This video bright me so much joy to watch! I live in Texas and the diversity in my area is nuts. I love hearing people talk bc it tells so much about their personal flavor history! This was such a fun watch
This makes SO much more sense now. My sister and I are half Black American and Puertorican but she hung mainly with Mexicans. Pretty quickly, my sister picked up this accent that she still has well after a decade. She speaks spanglish, but before that, she was speaking chicano. She'd be asked what her ethnicity was and where she grew up (we're born and raised in Michigan🤭). She also raised eyebrows and she could never understand why. This video explains it perfectly.
its very interesting because this definitely has regional versions as well. someone speaking chicano english in miami is going to sound completely different than houston or even corpus christi
Miami wouldn't be Chicano english - not enough Mexicans lol
This deserves more views and more awareness to everyone as a whole.
So happy the algorithm sent me this -- please keep this up, you are definitely going to go big!!
I grew up in northern New Mexico and watching this made me realize that me and all of my family do speak chicano English. New Mexico‘s accent is pretty similar to Southern California’s Chicano English, but just a little bit of a twist but I think that goes for a lot of different southwest states. It all sounds kind of similar, but there’s always a little slight difference.
White boy from New Mexico here. Everybody always tells me I have an accent. I tell them it's cuz I speak Chicano English, but I'm a white boy. They're like, no, it's like Irish or Canadian. I'm like, no, you're hearing Southeast Heights ABQ out of my pink face.😊😅 🌶
Yeah, the Mexican American accent in Southwest states like California comes specifically from Northern Mexican immigrants. The New Mexican spanish accent actually has a lot in common with the spanish from northern mexico it's so interesting.
NM is different, at one time I was able to tell if someone was from NM just by hearing them speak. People in El Paso TX also have different intonations and to me, they partially "sing" when speaking.
I’m from California, and I grew up around people who speak this dialect. I love Chicano English! The rhythm is so soothing.
This whole video is divide and conquer with a us vs them narrative. And no, there is no "chicano English" There is only bastardizing of languages. If Mexico were filled with 200,000 Chinese immigrants and in ten years they insisted chanclas were now xinghuas how would you feel?
The end goal of this is the destruction of the u.s as per either that pr a means of stoking the flames of their planned civil war.
Production quality through the roof and a super interesting linguistic topic that's directly relevant to me? I look forward to the explosion of your channel
Thank you Fernando! Such a good video. Makes me feel more comfortable to speak Chicano English
Can you link the teachers guide to supporting Mexican American Standard English learners in the description? I’m an ESOL teacher and would love to share that document with my colleagues.
Loved the video; you’ve earned a sub!
Just added to the description!
@@byfernandohThank you so much! It was a very interesting read. I would be interested to know about possible influences from AAE, such as the zero copula. It’s not generally present in Spanish (to my knowledge), but it could have come from Náhuatl. I’ll definitely be researching this further.
PLEASE keep posting amazing content 🥺
My pet frog is named fernando! Also this is such a good video :DD My favorite teacher is mexican and I always thought her accent was so pretty. I now understand what it is and this is so cool!!
This is a really interesting and well made video! Glad the algorithm brought me here.
Oh my gosh, this channel is amazing.
@@paolam.638 Thank you, Paola!
This was a super interesting video! I also appreciate the emphasis that a different way of speaking doesn't make it wrong or improper.
I’m Mexican American from the DMV. I’ve always found it fascinating visiting my family on the west coast, noticing exactly this twang. Your analysis on this subject is on point, very well done!
I know California DMVs have terribly long lines, but that doesn't mean you live there.
I'm so glad I came across this video. It makes sense now why my English sounds different from my daughter's. I was born in L.A., grew up in SD and Baja. I can sometimes hear myself having an accent. When my daughter speaks, she sounds regularly American. She used to ask all the time why I spoke differently. Now it makes sense. 😊 I speak Chicano English. Thank you for making this video.
Love this video! Learned a lot about something I hadn’t paid much/enough attention to before. The UA-cam algorithm really has been serving up the good stuff lately!
This video was executed so beautifully, from the easy-to-follow flow of your storytelling to the input from experts and real life examples on top of the visuals. I'm subscribed! Wishing you much success
This whole video is divide and conquer with a us vs rhen narrative. And no, there is no "chicano English" There is only bastardizing of languages. If Mexico were filled with 200,000 Chinese immigrants and in ten years they insisted chanclas were now xinghuas how would you feel?
Really well written a and the graphics are great!! It makes it really easy to follow along
This was so well put together, you have a beautiful perspective of the world. Thank you for sharing ❤
all chicanos are mexican american but not all mexican americans are chicano. places like boyle heights in east la are where chicano english thrives. my mexican american family is from south central and we were exposed to the local black english, not chicano english. i can only think of 1 cousin who somehow picked up any chicano english.
but its true that lots of us will say 'going' the chicano way. so somehow that has spread from east la to south central, which was historically black english terrirory. BUT! there has been a demographic shift and south central is becoming more latino. so chicano english could finally be spreading geographically in the la basin. time will tell
california ane everything in it has always been historically mexican, learn your history
Really great work! I’m interested in seeing what other videos you will post in the future!
Thank you for making these videos! I feel as though modern chicano journalism is drastically under-looked
incredibly well-presented and edited!! thank you for this fascinating video, hope to see more ❤
This video is so interesting and well made! I’m Mexican American and grew up in Massachusetts, so I don’t have this accent. But in high school I lived in Colorado and heard it a lot more.
This is an amazing video, I learned so much! Thank you!!
1:44 pero like… you do. 😂😂😂
You appeared in my algorithm, UA-cam is recommending your channel 👍🏻 love this type of longer form content. Cant wait to see more videos like this one, it was very interesting!
I’m Mexican American and bilingual. I majored in English in college and worked at the school’s writing center. I noticed that a lot of bilingual students (Spanish-English) also tended to write and speak in passive voice. For example, “He’s going to be writing an essay,” rather than “He’s going to write an essay.”
Similar to English in Louisiana. Heavily influenced from creole “get down” = getting out the car
this is such a high quality video! i appreciate how much research you did
You just solved a mystery for me! So Spanish is my first language and I possessed a heavy accent when I started learning English in school when we moved to South Texas from Mexico. Throughout my adolescence, I was aware I had accent but it also seemed like some of my Mexican-American peers that usually did not speak Spanish also had some type of accent. My English was the U.S. standard English mixed with a Spanish accent while theirs was Chicano English! So much makes sense now! 😊
I’m looking forward to all the content you post! I’m a Hispanic linguistics major right now and your research is amazing! It’s amazing to see someone from the community use their skills to do amazing research like yours!
Such a well researched and interesting video, just subscribed!!!
Dying to see you reach your million followers, so well deserved ❤
When you said „I emailed Carmen Fought“ and in the next scene there she was, giving you an interview, I looked at your subscriber count and my jaw dropped! You deserve so many more subscribers, asap!
I'm a Mexican American and i'm born here and grew up speaking English. I started kindergarten with white kids and we read and had a play, etc etc. Then in first grade i moved to a poorer side of town and there were no white kids. Some of the kids had spoken Spanish and were learning English in 1st grade. I had to be sent to the 4th grade reading class to read with them. On 2st and 3rd grade I was reading Biographies of Galileo and Astronomy books and being sent to read with 6 graders. I got straight A's and 100 perfect scores on all my tests. Well to make a long story short, after junior high and high school, i thought I was speaking English without an accent. Well i moved to Austin Texas my senior year and was hanging around all white people and i remember saying that I wanted to go eat a sangwhich. Everyone one started cracking up... and I corrected my self immediately and siad sandwhich.. and they were like no you said sangwich we all heard it. I was sooo embarrased. So I started paying attention how all the white people prounounced words and was paranoid about having a Spanish accent. Well I joined the military and by that time, I was hanging with people from Idaho, Boston, Michigan and I heard all these accents. I used to get looked at funny because they would look at my name tag "LOPEZ" and they would ask me if I was adopted. I got asked that 100's of times. Its because I was the first Mexican they had met iin their lives sometimes or had only seen on TV and they were used to Mexicans having a heavy accent or using bad grammar or speaking Spanglish. Anyways... at the end of my military career I was working for the General of the base and I had to review medals that were given to Marines and these college educated white officers would come in a give me their awards and I would start reading it and start striking out words and find misspellings or correct bad grammar and you should have seen the shock or embarrassment on their faces with a Marine named "LOPEZ" was fixing their English. Some would tell me "What are you doing?" And I'd tell them, "Sir, I can take it like it is but if the Colonel finds a mistake, he's going to come out yelling and wanting to ream somebody". Would you rather it be me or you? And they'd say, "Carry on Marine". It used to give me such pride that I was able to overcome their misguided conception of a Hispanic not being able to master the Queen's English!
so awesome to see this channel before it gets big :) proud of all the work you do !
lol I didn’t know I spoke differently or had an accent until I left LA. I’m 30 and I’m just learning that I speak Chicano English. Great video!
When I think of the variety of dialects SoCal, this is one of the most prominent in my mind. When those regional accent videos were making the rounds a few years back, I was really sad that this set of sounds got less than 30 seconds.
thank you so much for bringing light to this!
I love how the algorithm works sometimes! haha Me salio un reel de esto y abro youtube y aqui esta el video completo!! :D
@@monicamorales2023 Muchas gracias por el apoyo y por venir a visitarme acá! ;)
This seems very similar to Italian flair of Argentinian Spanish. Great video!
(also lol that lefty professor saying Latinx 😂)
This was such a fun watch and well done! It’s so important to remind people that having an accent doesn’t mean that someone is bad at English or less intelligent. I love when I’m hanging out with my friends and our accents slip out hahaha. I still sometimes pronounce “pizza” as “peeksah” lol that one will never leave me 😅 Looking forward to more videos! 🌟
Amazing 👏🏻 Proud Chicago English speaker 🙋🏻♀️
Chicano english is literally a dialect called "calo" that originated from mixed Iberian romani/nahuas of Central Mexico that migrated during the early 20th century and basically stuck in the community, words like "vato, carnal, cubo, simon" are confused as slang but is actually remnants of the roma dialect.
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The Mexican American accent in Southwest states like California comes specifically from Northern Mexican immigrants.
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Vato is a Northern Mexican word just like morra, compa, pistear, plebes, jale, arre, macizo, machin, troca. The mexican american accent is build upon the North Mexican accent which doesn't have nahua influence instead it has influence from the indigenous communties of the region. That's why the Northern Mexican accent sounds more tough and extroverted while the other mexican accents are more sing songy and formal. The foundations of the mexican american accent come from the Northern Mexican accent cause even when states like California were part of Mexico many of the mexican people living there were from Northern Mexico and even once those states became part of the US many of the first immigrants were from the north of mexico. That's another reason why corridos which is a northern mexican music genre is popular in states like New Mexico. In places like Los Angeles you can a hear some central mexican influence in the accent because there are many mexicans there that come from that region but even then the main influence continues being the one from northern mexicans. Another intersting thing is that the accent of the natives in northern mexico is distinct from that of the other regions in mexico but it does have similarities to the accents of the native people in the southwest of the us. That's why the mexican american accent can sound similar to the native people in the southwest of the us.
This is great! Saludos desde Tejas! Thanks for your work
It is like New York English, you get the Italian and Yiddish influence.
I'm white, grew up in Coastal SoCal since 9yo. I used to have a bit of chicano accent, but only when immersed around chicanos. When i went to ucsb i developed a thick 'valley girl' accent. Unfortunately i cannot do either accent on purpose :(
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Chicano english is my favorite, hearing it always makes me feel safe and at home.
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I didn't hear the word 'mang' until i was 24 and some AH was racistly mocking a latino accent---- the word is 'man', but with a little lean on the 'n' with a little hum/buzz/growl(?)
My ear isn't great. Linguists! Back me up or hit me with a clue-by-four as appropriate---
There Is No 'mang' it's mannn?
Right?
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Also i use barely both ways in my everyday life, so even if i can't speak the accent anymore, i still have that
Got here at 2.44k subscribers, and by the end of your video you were at 2.47k echale!!!
Growing up in Easter Europe, we were always taught english in school the British way, but i never really resonated with the accent or words. I prefer specifically Chicano english not only because it's similar since we also roll the "r" and put emphasis on the "t" and pronounce the vowels almost identically in my native language (Hungarian) which makes it easier & feel more natural to speak it, but also because Chicano Ameircan sounds more enthusiatsic and makes practicing english a lot more fun!
it is so interesting hearing about this from this perspective because i have had many conversations with many people in which we often talk about how we say certain things differently amongst each other...
with having spanish as my first language i have been told i speak with a very fast pace and consistent rhythm and that i am very light with my tongue that i speak more with my teeth than i do utilising my entire mouth
which is something i have noticed with many other spanish rather than english speakers
one funny thing though, and i say it is mainly because of my schooling is, despite spanish being my first language and my fluency in it... my vernacular is much more extensive in english but according to people i "speak with a spanish tone"
Interesting
Great video, can’t wait to see what you have next !
I grew up in City Terrace (blocks away from Boyle Heights). My parents had Filipino accents, which I avoided. So the two strongest factors in my native speech were the neighborhood and television.
In college, some people noted that I spoke with an accent. Though I studied theatre dialects around then, so my speech patterns changed significantly.
the gag is, THEY spoke with an accent, too!
LITERALLY, amazing video. What a great reporter, your video looks amazing.
how cool! i'm white and chinese but i grew up in a very mexican community and i think i have a faint chicano english accent! i think it's more obvious with some of my words. i didn't know "barely" wasn't used like that elsewhere
It definitely goes on to influence Californian and West Coast Vernacular.
As someone new to the country, living in LA, I hear this everyday and I always think it sounds so fun and playful, such a great video! Glad to finally know the name of this dialect
What an interesting video