That Canadian accent sucked one there's Newfoundland, West Coast, northern Ontario and Quebec and its really hard to tell unless you are rural which is true for the Australian and Scottish accents you played as well rural accents are different from urban accents
@@kaiimms5357 I live in London and most of the time people talk fast I just don't understand anything even though I understand 100% of RP / formal speech / standard American English
Nuclear Brit wow that’s weird. I live in Australia and pretty much everyone understands everyone. There are different accents but many of the differences are so minor you wouldn’t know unless you were paying close attention. There are a few outliers like the Perth accent which just sounds more cockney and Melbourne which just have sharper R’s
@@nicolascarey6330 Agree. Unusual because examples of the Welsh accent in English are nearly always South Walian. For the Welsh language itself the opposite probably true.
“Guess the English Accent” 1. English 2. English 3. English 4. English 5.English 6. English 7. English 8. English 9. English 10.English Edit: omg I just checked and this is most liked comment on this video. Will not make more edits but that’s just cool...
@@fabiansaerve yeah for instance, a German speaker speaking English may pronounce a “w” as a “v” the way they do in German which is a clue to the language
And also the guy from Windows Corporation calling to tell me my computer has a virus that will bring down the Internet unless I let him log in remotely.
Timestamps (different order) English (Essex) 4:26 Jamaican 2:26 Indian 0:50 American (California) 2:50 Australian 4:50 American (New York) 1:38 Irish 0:23 American (Southern) 6:50 Canadian 7:14 New Zealand 8:25 Filipino 5:38 South African 5:14 Scottish 6:02 American (North-Central) 4:02 Northern Irish 8:01 Welsh 2:02 Singaporean 3:38 English (Geordie - Northern England) 3:14 Maltese 8:50 English (Birmingham) 6:26 -n English (London) 1:14 English (Bristol) 7:38
I think people are surprised we have so many accents in the uk but it’s honestly true. I’m from Coventry and sometimes it’s hard to understand Birmingham which is so close and some of the northern accents when they talk fast. Btw that Birmingham accent was mild
If you hear the recordings that the Germans did of POWs in WW1 there used to be a lot more regional accents. But migration and probably TV have changed things.
Yeah honestly it would have been a bit more accurate to say Northern Midwest, Places like Idaho and Montana are technically North Central but sound very, very different from the clip.
Yes. Upper Midwest, not Chicago. I will respectfully disagree with the person who guessed Minnesota. I think Iowa. Or maybe Ohio? Doesn't have that sing-song quality that I associate with Minnesota accents.
The only place in America I hear that accent is the state of Minnesota, maybe the white people who live in North Dakota, idk. The white people around the Great Lakes - Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, western NY - don't sound anything like that
As a Canadian I'm a bit disappointed you didn't add more of the accents from the Atlantic region i.e. Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, PEI. Newfoundland accents will throw you for a curve.
The accent in Canada varies more than people think. Along with the Atlantic varieties, there are differences between Anglo-Montreal, Ontario, the Prairies and west coast. The differences aren't as pronounced as you might hear say across England, but they're still there.
@@davidreichert9392 I notice that English Montrealers don't always nasalize words like "can, Canada, and, & dance." The people in Toronto do nasalize them.
Some of these were very mild versions of the accents, e.g. the Brummie and the Northern Irish. You should have played a clip of Jasper Carrott for the former and Ian Paisley for the latter!
@@davidtaylor4975 I have personally known a few Northern Irish people over the years, including one from Ballymena. The Northern Irish accent can be very difficult to understand, even if it’s someone you know well.
Northern Irish is very easy, just do Ian Paisley bellowing GINGER AND COMMUNITY! cheers Jimmy Carr, who is of course Jamaica when said in a Jamaican accent.
As a Spanish speaker: 1) English (London) (wrong) 2) Indian (I love it) 3) English (London) 4) US? Idk (yes it was lol) 5) an American countryside (it was WELSH LMAO) 6) idk ???? It sounds foreigner (well... Jamaican) 7) US 8) Somewhere in England (yep) 9) It sounds turkish 10) the typical US accent from the movies 11) An English accent that sounds a bit American 12) English again???? (Nooo Australia sorryyyy) 13) US (WHY SOUTH AFRICAN WHAT) 14) Somewhere that is not England nor US nor Australia nor Canada nor NZ 15) SCOTTISH, I LOVE IT 16) English again lmao 17) A posh US accent 18) another US accent but this one is not posh 19) another US accent... I like this one (WHY WHAT? WHY BRISTOL PEOPLE TALK SPEAK LIKE AMERICANS) 20) probably northern irland 21) I don't know and I don't understand either 22) this is ENGLISH This is not supposed to be offensive, just what a non-native person thinks
It’s more compelling to say where you’re from, not just that you’re a Spanish speaker. There are dozens of countries that speak Spanish. Are you from Spain? Are you from Venezuela? Lol WHERE is your perspective coming from?
This sounded very South African to me. I am South African. Let me explain. My country has 11 official languages. There are also 4 official race groups, as per apartheid classification. This is still sort of accepted as a reference, because it works practically (we as SAs don't take offence to it). So here they are (% indicating population proportionality): 1) Blacks (79%). Divided into xhosa, zulu, venda, sotho, pedi, tswana, tsonga. 2) Coloureds (9%) 3) Whites (9%). Afrikaners (Dutch-descended) and English (British-descended) 4) Asians (2%). Indians and Chinese Blacks mostly speak their indigenous native tongue as a first language, but most can speak some form of English to varying degrees. Many of the younger generation, and less often the older generations, speak it as a mother-tongue. Almost all whites can speak English, esp of course, those who are British-descended. These speak it as a mother-tongue. Afrikaners speak it as a second language (very few cannot speak it). Most Coloureds (like whites) are bilingual. They speak either English or Afrikaans as a mother-tongue, and the other as a second-language. More speak Afrikaans than English. So the situation here is very much like the whites. Asians = these are mostly Indians, and almost all speak English as a mother-tongue. Chinese people can all speak some form of English. In essence, most South Africans can speak some form of English, as SA is an ex-British colony. Now, if you analyse my speech above, it will become clear to you that there is no standard SA accent, since so many ethnicities and languages exist. You may very well imagine, then, that many accents exist. So, who are the mother-tongue English groups? Refer to my speech above: 1) White British-descended SAs 2) Some Coloured people 3) Most Indian people 4) Some black people (esp the younger generation) 5) Some Afrikaans kids (younger generation, where Afrikaans parents have made the decision to raise them using English as a "mother-tongue", as it were). So, depending on the upbringing and the schooling, as well as some other influences, various accents will be used amongst these "mother-tongue groups" (MTGs). Many sound British-influenced, others not. Amongst "English-Second-Language Groups (ESLGs), other accents prevail, although these can take on British-influenced accents as well. The type of South African accent heard in the video sounds to be coming from MTG 1, a British-descended white South African. Do I make myself clear? A word in passing: there is no such thing as "A" South African accent. There are VARIOUS SA accents rather than "A" SA accent. Is this understood? But a classic "ENGLISH SA ACCENT" would probably regard the MTG1 as the prototype. As heard in the video. Kindly take time to make sense of this! PS: Wikus Van De Merwe is an Afrikaner (descended from the Dutch). Thus, English is not his mother tongue. His mother tongue is Afrikaans (daughter language of Dutch). Please tell me you understand? Never make this mistake again. Charlize Theron is also an Afrikaner. Afrikaans is her mother tongue. Her current version of English has been strongly influenced by America. Elon Musk is a British-descended English-mother-tongue speaker. Trevor Noah is Coloured (mixed race). His mother is a black woman (she speaks Xhosa as a mother tongue). She raised Trevor to speak English as a "mother tongue", as it were. His dad is Swiss-German, by the way. But he was mostly absent from Trevor's life. Roger Federer's mother is Afrikaans. She is South African. Like Trevor, his father is Swiss as well. So Federer is half South African, half Swiss. He was raised in Switzerland.
I'm surprised you didn't include a Yorkshire or Cockney accent. I was listening to hear if any of them were missing "H" sounds or if they pronounced the "TU" sound "TCHU" Also, some of these are way too indistinguishable, you need people with thicker accents
@@cuteako9078 yep our accent also evolved through times tho, some of us-- especially the upper class filipinos or the ones who's in a prestigious universities, their accent were sometimes closer to americans
@@siopao734 I think it's more about how exposed/inudated you are to American culture. I'm not "upper class" (and so does nerds I know) and we all talk like Calis.
This was so much fun! I'm Swedish and a bit of a language nerd, especially when it comes to English dialects and acccents. I had the biggest issue getting the different English dialects down. I recognise them but couldn't pinpoint the areas. But if you count just guessing English as being right on those I got 17 right answers! :D And I'm really proud of myself for guessing the actual regions for the american ones correctly.
Well done, I only got 19 and theoretically it's my mother of a tongue. There were a couple accents I'd never heard before (Maltese, Filipino) and where did they dredge up that american hockey player?
@@Hurricane000007That north-central accent is usually called a "Midwestern" accent because the north-central region was the actual Midwest a long time ago. It's still called the Midwest.
Irish Indian Londoner New Yorker Cymraeg Jamaican Californian Geordie Singaporean North Central American Accent Essexian Australian (British accent) Suid Afrikaanse Filipino Scottish Birmingham Southern American Canadian Bristol Northern Irish Kiwi Maltese
Indian (think I know which Indian was speaking) English American English Australian Filipino (they pronounce "t" in a different way. This is how I got it. Indonesia also does the same) English New Zealand (if you hear too many "but umm" then you can be sure it's NZ. I noticed it when I heard the players' interviews) 8/22 not bad I didn't expect to get even one correct
18 - am a Brit. Did not know the Singaporean and Maltese. Some of the accents were quite mild and not that heavy but shows what an amazing language it is!
well here in malta we have English as our main language and Maltese is made up of English, Arabic, French, and Italian so when we speak English it sounds like it but because we have other languages made up in the Maltese language it affects they we talk in all those languages especially English
Here in Singapore our main language is English but we might also say Malay Chinese and Tamil. We use the British accent and the American accent combine
@@fullmetaltheorist I believe what F J Cook was trying to say was that people have difficulty identifying the difference between Canadian and American accents, in the same way Americans seem to be unable to distinguish between Australian and New Zealand accents.
@@fullmetaltheorist Not really, Canada has several accents, the west coast of Canada pretty much share the same accent as NorCal, Oregon and Washington.
I got 0:27 Irish 0:50 Indian 1:15 England Londen 1:40 New York 2:02 Welsh 2:27 Jamaican 2:51 California LA 3:14 Geordie 3:38 Singapore 4:03 American North-Central 4:27 English Essex 4:51 Aussie 5:14 South African 5:38 Filipino 6:02 Scottish 6:27 England Birmingham 6:50 Southern 7:16 Canadian 7:39 England Bristol 8:03 Northern Irish 8:27 Kiwi 8:51 Maltese
disappointed there wasn't more variety for Canada. There are different accents in the west, the parries, Ontario, Quebec, the Atlantic provinces, and the territories. I'm born and raised in BC and i can instantly tell if someones from Ontario or Newfoundland just by small accent changes
London and Essex are not 10 miles apart, they border each other, north Essex, north of Chelmsford, have a very rural accent, south Essex, from Thurrock to Southend-on-sea, the A13 corridor, have a cockney-like accent, knows as Estuary Essex.
0:26 Irish 🇮🇪 0:50 Indian 🇮🇳 1:14 London English 🇬🇧 1:39 New York American 🇺🇸 2:02 Welsh 🇬🇧 2:27 Jamaican 🇯🇲 2:51 Californian American 🇺🇸 3:14 Georide English 🇬🇧 (Idk wtf that is) 3:38 Singaporian 🇸🇬 4:03 Minnesotan American 🇺🇸 4:26 Essex English 🇬🇧 4:50 Australian 🇦🇺 5:15 South African 🇿🇦 5:38 Filipino 🇵🇭 6:02 Scottish 🇬🇧 6:26 Birmingham English 🇬🇧 6:50 Texan American 🇺🇸 7:14 Canadian 🇨🇦 7:38 Bristol English 🇬🇧 8:02 Northern Irish 🇬🇧 8:26 Kiwi/New New Zealand. 🇳🇿 8:50 Maltese 🇲🇹
Instead of multiple English and American accents there could have been German, Russian, Italian, Spanish, and French accents. That's why I only got 5 of all accents right. I'm still happy about Filipino making it to this video and its pure simplicity.
@@herobrine3306 Yep my country definetly has like wait let me Google it. Edit: It has over 120 languages. They are: Aklanon Central Bikol Cebuano Chavacano Hiligaynon Ibanag Ilocano Ivatan Google just showed these but I swear it has over 120 languages. (Sorry for my bad grammar)
Scottish, Irish, Northern Irish, Various English, Me British Various American, Me American Me thinking to myself: "Canadian should be the same as American" *Hear Canadian* Me: What is that
The accent you played was South Indian accent India does have multiple accents as well. We were a British colony for very long so a lot of people are fluent in English. Idk why people in the west are so surprised to hear that?
It’ll be interesting to see the same video of accents, but with an international accents of people speaking English. Like “guess the international accent challenge”, but speaking in English. Hope you get the point.
I suspect the North-Central American is just an interview of a Canadian hockey player playing in the US... The Canadian guy had the mildest diction, with only a slight rising in 'about.' You should have included Maritime accents from Canada!
It is both- notice how he pronounces, "seen" more flat than in the central states but he does pronounce, "about" wider. Also "year", the "a" is emphasized while the "o" in "ago" is stressed. The mix of flat sounds and rounded sounds was a dead giveaway to me.
It is very clear to understand the English accent of US Californea, US north-central, Canada, Jamaica, UK London, Scotland, UK Birmingham, South Africa, India, Filippines n Australia. Could not tell English accent of US New York, US southern, Welish, Irish, Northern Ireland, UK Bristol, UK(G-----), UK Essex, Maltese,Singapore n Newzealand.
Now with people for whom English isn't their first language? My accent in English is weird for people who don't know it, but really recognizable if you know.
When I heard it I thought it was an interview with Nicholas Latifi who is a Canadian Formula One driver and I was like "LATIFI!!!!! THAT'S CANADIAN" yeah, nah (Kiwi slang for no) it wasn't
As someone who’s from the north-central US (Iowa and Minnesota), I would have to disagree and say this was pretty spot-on for a Minnesota or North Dakota accent. The Canadian accent is a little different (and from what I know of it, though I’m not Canadian so can’t speak to it as well, the Canadian accent here was pretty spot on, too).
@@kirsten879 Oh I didn't say it wasn't a "North-Central" US accent, I said that particular accent sounds more Canadian than the so called 'Canadian' accent @ 7:14.
aren't all English accents not a weird British accent? since you know.... they are derived from the British accents and at some point English was only spoken in England until England started it's world domination
This was fun. I don't know English accents by region, but I quickly recognized number #19 was Stephen Merchant, mostly from playing Portal 2 a few times. #4 took my a while to remember, but it's Judge Judy.
It's strange to read comments where people are like 'I didn't know there were so many British accents'. Like, did you expect us all to speak like the Queen or smth? 🤦
Only ones I missed were Philippino, Maltese and Northern US (thought it was Canadian) oh- also, thought the Geordie was Scottish! 🤦🏻♀️ (I’m from Australia)
I'm Canadian and the North US accent caught me as well (didn't help that he was talking about ice hockey). Honestly, I've never heard an American even from the border regions talk like that. Must be a very specific area remote from the rest of the US but close to Canada
I found this test very strange as they included Maltese English, Philipino English but not Nigerian English (the most populated African country) or Ghanaian English, for example.
well here in malta we have English as our main language and Maltese is made up of English, Arabic, French, and Italian so when we speak English it sounds like it but because we have other languages made up in the Maltese language it affects they we talk in all those languages especially English. You should try learning maltese it is not difficult at all
Timestamps: Irish 0:23 Indian 0:50 English (London) 1:14 American (New York) 1:38 Welsh 2:02 Jamaican 2:26 American (California) 2:50 English (Geordie - Northern England) 3:14 Singaporean 3:38 American (North-Central) 4:02 English (Essex) 4:26 Australian 4:50 South African 5:14 Filipino 5:38 Scottish 6:02 English (Birmingham) 6:26 American (Southern) 6:50 Canadian 7:14 English (Bristol) 7:38 Northern Irish 8:01 New Zealand 8:25 Maltese 8:50
There are, of course, noticeable differences in the accents in the North and South of England. A northerner will pronounce the u in the word "bus" like the oo in "hook".
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Idk
That Canadian accent sucked one there's Newfoundland, West Coast, northern Ontario and Quebec and its really hard to tell unless you are rural which is true for the Australian and Scottish accents you played as well rural accents are different from urban accents
At 4:10 I wonder which NHL player is being interviewed because he sounds Canadian af.
@@meowpoosaymeow What are you talking about? They don't speak English in Greece! 🇬🇷
The Irish Accent literally changes every 15 minutes you drive
At what speed?
@@somedudes6455 walk speed.
Lmao
Why?😂
Sure, it's ridiculous to sum up the whole country in one accent. Same goes for Scotland.
I did not realize just how many accents England has
as far as I know, there are more than 30 and all of them are extremely different than each other
As a brit i live in the south near London and i struggle to understand someone from Manchester due to the accent
@@kaiimms5357 I live in London and most of the time people talk fast I just don't understand anything even though I understand 100% of RP / formal speech / standard American English
Nuclear Brit wow that’s weird. I live in Australia and pretty much everyone understands everyone. There are different accents but many of the differences are so minor you wouldn’t know unless you were paying close attention. There are a few outliers like the Perth accent which just sounds more cockney and Melbourne which just have sharper R’s
I didn't realize that there were many American accents. I'm surprised I didn't get American English in New York. So sorry everyone.
1. Irish - 0:28
2. Indian - 0:50
3. English (London, Recieved Pronunciation) - 1:15
4. American (New York) - 1:39
5. Welsh - 2:03
6. Jamaican - 2:27
7. American (California) - 2:51
8. English (Geordie) - 3:14
9. Singaporean - 3:38
10. American (North West) - 4:02
11. English (Essex) - 4:26
12. Australian - 4:50
13. South African - 5:14
14. Filipino - 5:38
15. Scottish - 6:02
16. English (Birmingham) - 6:27
17. American (Southern) - 6:51
18. Canadian - 7:15
19. English (Bristol) - 7:38
20. Northern Irish - 8:02
21. New Zealand - 8:26
22. Maltese - 8:50
It's offensive to call half of those "English" accents when they're nothing of the sort
Ay that’s cheating!
Me: Hmm this kinda sounds like Welsh but I'm not so sure ...
Welsh dude: "Shepherds"
Me: Yep this is Wales
I love the Welsh accent :D
You mean sheep 🐑 😂😂😂😂😂😂
It was North Walian. Welsh accents change as you move. The Welsh Language is also different in different regions
@@nicolascarey6330 Agree. Unusual because examples of the Welsh accent in English are nearly always South Walian. For the Welsh language itself the opposite probably true.
@@Rosie6857 Only Gogs think that. Everybody knows that true welsh is Pembrokeshire Welsh. WILL YOU STOP LAUGHING!!!
“Guess the English Accent”
1. English
2. English
3. English
4. English
5.English
6. English
7. English
8. English
9. English
10.English
Edit: omg I just checked and this is most liked comment on this video. Will not make more edits but that’s just cool...
Lmao🤣🤣
accent is not language dummy
@@blusk2248 U dont get the joke dummy
@@blusk2248 r/woooosh
@@drniravkumar9891 Lol another one of these r/wooshes
Can you do people from non-English speaking countries speaking English?
That would be a lot harder!
Vivy-kun it would be much easier because you can hear how they would pronounce a word and that can lead to their language.
@@vivy-kun3510 The opposite.
@@fabiansaerve yeah for instance, a German speaker speaking English may pronounce a “w” as a “v” the way they do in German which is a clue to the language
They did. India and the Philippines are not English-speaking countries
We are all familiar with the indian accent from tutorials, how to get for free and how to fix videos
And also the guy from Windows Corporation calling to tell me my computer has a virus that will bring down the Internet unless I let him log in remotely.
@@historyforsigmas Yes😂
Yes ahahahahha
Anyway, Indians are so good with tutorials and I always watch their videos lol
Yeah lol.
The Jamaican accent😂”shut your mouth”
LOL!! I guessed Bahamas for that one
Shut your mouth i sey it like: shut yaur mauth
how is the “North central” American accent more Canadian than the actual Canadian accent
That’s what I was thinking lol
I think it’s the official “hockey” accent.
Glad it wasnt just me haha it sounded like a hockey commentator
Same thoughts...
first thing I thought was "thats an Ontario boy right there". the canadian accent they showed had none of the hallmarks of Canadian english.
Timestamps (different order)
English (Essex) 4:26
Jamaican 2:26
Indian 0:50
American (California) 2:50
Australian 4:50
American (New York) 1:38
Irish 0:23
American (Southern) 6:50
Canadian 7:14
New Zealand 8:25
Filipino 5:38
South African 5:14
Scottish 6:02
American (North-Central) 4:02
Northern Irish 8:01
Welsh 2:02
Singaporean 3:38
English (Geordie - Northern England) 3:14
Maltese 8:50
English (Birmingham) 6:26 -n
English (London) 1:14
English (Bristol) 7:38
I freaked out when queen Jade Thirwall was there with her geordie accent will always be ICONIC 😂💕
SAME im Geordie too. love this comment.
THATS THE ONLY REASON I GOT IT, bc i knew who the speaker was
Samee!!
🙌🙌 they couldn't have chosen a better person
@@vik5791 true. Nothing but the truth.
Or Perrie edwards tho...
Did the Welsh real dirty having sheep in the background 😂
I got the following right: Indian, Jamaican, American (California), Australian, Scottish, American (Southern), Canadian, and New Zealand
I got Canadian NZ America (NY) (my accent 😂) America California America South, Jamaica, Indian, Scottish
nice i got 9 right aswell
I got 11 right, not including Canadian...
I'm Canadian.
@@tasmanmillen maybe there is no Canadian accent exists
What did you think the english one was?
I'm british, that's why that one particularly interests me
Singapore, Filipino and Indian accent are the noticable ones.
Time stamp
@@realgigachadtrustme indian 0:50, singaporen 3:38, filipino 5:38
U forgot jamaican
i cant tell the singapore
Lol Yung pfp mo parang towel na chicken sa Jollibee Filipino ka ba🤣🤣🤣😂😂
I think people are surprised we have so many accents in the uk but it’s honestly true. I’m from Coventry and sometimes it’s hard to understand Birmingham which is so close and some of the northern accents when they talk fast. Btw that Birmingham accent was mild
If you hear the recordings that the Germans did of POWs in WW1 there used to be a lot more regional accents. But migration and probably TV have changed things.
Hell yeh mate why there's so many accent in uk but here in straya we only got 3 lmao
yeah that was extremely mild
I live in Wolverhampton and that brummie accent was deffo weak
Were you 'sent to Coventry'?
1:12 it is tamilian(a group of people in India) accecent
it changes after every 200 km
Keralite accent is so bad
@W4D P4D they have an accent
I have a lot of Malli friends and they had the same accent
Tamil people say 'yum' instead of 'm'.
*hears widro and paymaya*
Me: yep is Philippines
Ahh time stamp please cant watch all of these ive been waiting for the ph
05:40 palya ang pronoumciation "with row" instead of "with raw" "depowsit" instead of deposit" inartehan pa kasi.
It's obvious haha
Sarap sa tainga
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I swore the central USA accent was a Canadian hockey commentator, must have been the midwest US
Yeah honestly it would have been a bit more accurate to say Northern Midwest, Places like Idaho and Montana are technically North Central but sound very, very different from the clip.
@@gooseincitypark definitely from a post game interview. Probably Minnesota
Yes. Upper Midwest, not Chicago. I will respectfully disagree with the person who guessed Minnesota. I think Iowa. Or maybe Ohio? Doesn't have that sing-song quality that I associate with Minnesota accents.
The only place in America I hear that accent is the state of Minnesota, maybe the white people who live in North Dakota, idk. The white people around the Great Lakes - Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, western NY - don't sound anything like that
I'm sure that was a Canadian or someone in Canada
As a Canadian I'm a bit disappointed you didn't add more of the accents from the Atlantic region i.e. Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, PEI. Newfoundland accents will throw you for a curve.
The accent in Canada varies more than people think. Along with the Atlantic varieties, there are differences between Anglo-Montreal, Ontario, the Prairies and west coast. The differences aren't as pronounced as you might hear say across England, but they're still there.
@Diana sick and how do you know what Newfoundland is?
@@davidreichert9392 I notice that English Montrealers don't always nasalize words like "can, Canada, and, & dance." The people in Toronto do nasalize them.
Your accent as an Canadain is closet to the Californian accent
I'm from Australia, and to me the Newfoundland accent sounds almost exactly like Irish
How come no one's mentioning the fact that Kim Kardashian was played for the California accent?
3:15 its Jade Thirlwall!!! Where's my Mixers? 😍😍
How are you supposed to understand while they have the weakest accents
It’s true that quite a few had very muted accents.
It makes it more of a challenge.
3:39 singaporean sounded like nothing honestly
Constantine Ravenna It definitely sounded like a vaguely Asian accent, but that was about it. The Maltese one was the hardest for sure.
@@StamfordBridge Not for me
Some of these were very mild versions of the accents, e.g. the Brummie and the Northern Irish. You should have played a clip of Jasper Carrott for the former and Ian Paisley for the latter!
The Northern Ireland was about average (it was James Nesbitt btw) Paisley was from Ballymena which sounds almost Scottish!
@@davidtaylor4975 I have personally known a few Northern Irish people over the years, including one from Ballymena. The Northern Irish accent can be very difficult to understand, even if it’s someone you know well.
Northern Irish is very easy, just do Ian Paisley bellowing GINGER AND COMMUNITY! cheers Jimmy Carr, who is of course Jamaica when said in a Jamaican accent.
As a Spanish speaker:
1) English (London) (wrong)
2) Indian (I love it)
3) English (London)
4) US? Idk (yes it was lol)
5) an American countryside (it was WELSH LMAO)
6) idk ???? It sounds foreigner (well... Jamaican)
7) US
8) Somewhere in England (yep)
9) It sounds turkish
10) the typical US accent from the movies
11) An English accent that sounds a bit American
12) English again???? (Nooo Australia sorryyyy)
13) US (WHY SOUTH AFRICAN WHAT)
14) Somewhere that is not England nor US nor Australia nor Canada nor NZ
15) SCOTTISH, I LOVE IT
16) English again lmao
17) A posh US accent
18) another US accent but this one is not posh
19) another US accent... I like this one (WHY WHAT? WHY BRISTOL PEOPLE TALK SPEAK LIKE AMERICANS)
20) probably northern irland
21) I don't know and I don't understand either
22) this is ENGLISH
This is not supposed to be offensive, just what a non-native person thinks
Los primeros eran claramente acentos irlandeses, no ingleses, amigo.
It’s more compelling to say where you’re from, not just that you’re a Spanish speaker. There are dozens of countries that speak Spanish. Are you from Spain? Are you from Venezuela? Lol WHERE is your perspective coming from?
The same for me that speak Portuguese
This sounded very South African to me. I am South African.
Let me explain.
My country has 11 official languages. There are also 4 official race groups, as per apartheid classification. This is still sort of accepted as a reference, because it works practically (we as SAs don't take offence to it). So here they are (% indicating population proportionality):
1) Blacks (79%). Divided into xhosa, zulu, venda, sotho, pedi, tswana, tsonga.
2) Coloureds (9%)
3) Whites (9%). Afrikaners (Dutch-descended) and English (British-descended)
4) Asians (2%). Indians and Chinese
Blacks mostly speak their indigenous native tongue as a first language, but most can speak some form of English to varying degrees. Many of the younger generation, and less often the older generations, speak it as a mother-tongue.
Almost all whites can speak English, esp of course, those who are British-descended. These speak it as a mother-tongue. Afrikaners speak it as a second language (very few cannot speak it).
Most Coloureds (like whites) are bilingual. They speak either English or Afrikaans as a mother-tongue, and the other as a second-language. More speak Afrikaans than English. So the situation here is very much like the whites.
Asians = these are mostly Indians, and almost all speak English as a mother-tongue. Chinese people can all speak some form of English.
In essence, most South Africans can speak some form of English, as SA is an ex-British colony.
Now, if you analyse my speech above, it will become clear to you that there is no standard SA accent, since so many ethnicities and languages exist. You may very well imagine, then, that many accents exist.
So, who are the mother-tongue English groups? Refer to my speech above:
1) White British-descended SAs
2) Some Coloured people
3) Most Indian people
4) Some black people (esp the younger generation)
5) Some Afrikaans kids (younger generation, where Afrikaans parents have made the decision to raise them using English as a "mother-tongue", as it were).
So, depending on the upbringing and the schooling, as well as some other influences, various accents will be used amongst these "mother-tongue groups" (MTGs). Many sound British-influenced, others not. Amongst "English-Second-Language Groups (ESLGs), other accents prevail, although these can take on British-influenced accents as well.
The type of South African accent heard in the video sounds to be coming from MTG 1, a British-descended white South African.
Do I make myself clear?
A word in passing: there is no such thing as "A" South African accent. There are VARIOUS SA accents rather than "A" SA accent.
Is this understood?
But a classic "ENGLISH SA ACCENT" would probably regard the MTG1 as the prototype. As heard in the video.
Kindly take time to make sense of this!
PS: Wikus Van De Merwe is an Afrikaner (descended from the Dutch). Thus, English is not his mother tongue. His mother tongue is Afrikaans (daughter language of Dutch). Please tell me you understand? Never make this mistake again.
Charlize Theron is also an Afrikaner. Afrikaans is her mother tongue. Her current version of English has been strongly influenced by America.
Elon Musk is a British-descended English-mother-tongue speaker.
Trevor Noah is Coloured (mixed race). His mother is a black woman (she speaks Xhosa as a mother tongue). She raised Trevor to speak English as a "mother tongue", as it were. His dad is Swiss-German, by the way. But he was mostly absent from Trevor's life.
Roger Federer's mother is Afrikaans. She is South African. Like Trevor, his father is Swiss as well. So Federer is half South African, half Swiss. He was raised in Switzerland.
@@ochrechap that's really interesting to know
I'm surprised you didn't include a Yorkshire or Cockney accent. I was listening to hear if any of them were missing "H" sounds or if they pronounced the "TU" sound "TCHU"
Also, some of these are way too indistinguishable, you need people with thicker accents
Boʕl of waʕer
hahaha the filipino accent here is so stressed. Words were pronounced letter per letter hahahah
Not all filipinos sounds like that tho lol
@@cuteako9078 yep our accent also evolved through times tho, some of us-- especially the upper class filipinos or the ones who's in a prestigious universities, their accent were sometimes closer to americans
@@siopao734 I think it's more about how exposed/inudated you are to American culture. I'm not "upper class" (and so does nerds I know) and we all talk like Calis.
@@rajavlitra ah yess
I love this channel :D
I was like "hey! That's judge judy!"
THANK YOU! I was trying to place it!
Yeah - such an identifiable NY accent
I love how you can recognize scottish accent so easily when they say words with the letter 'r' 😂
right 😭
I live in Scotland. That's too right! 😂😂😂
It was the "oo" word that gave it away for me.
I guessed the Filipino accent when she said, "pay maya" lol
Tsaka de-pow-seet
This was so much fun! I'm Swedish and a bit of a language nerd, especially when it comes to English dialects and acccents. I had the biggest issue getting the different English dialects down. I recognise them but couldn't pinpoint the areas. But if you count just guessing English as being right on those I got 17 right answers! :D And I'm really proud of myself for guessing the actual regions for the american ones correctly.
Haha, saaaame
Samma sak här! Bommade Geordie (av någon anledning), Filipino, north-central (eller vad den nu hette) American och Maltese.
Well done, I only got 19 and theoretically it's my mother of a tongue. There were a couple accents I'd never heard before (Maltese, Filipino) and where did they dredge up that american hockey player?
@@b3ngunn I thought it sounded like a hockey player too! That's why I went "Canadian...?" first xD
@@Hurricane000007That north-central accent is usually called a "Midwestern" accent because the north-central region was the actual Midwest a long time ago. It's still called the Midwest.
18, and I'm annoyed as the South African one was one of the most mild versions of Saffa I've heard
She sounds like a South African Jew from Johannesburg 😂 [There are many, many South African Accents]
Yes, I wish they had used an Afrikaner accent. It's absolutely delightful when the Afrikaners speak English!
Right? To me Welsh sounded more like the Saffa
I honestly though it was new Zealand at first
@@eaubert1 Afrikaners are not native English speakers, so that wouldn't make sense.
I was just waiting for one featuring "about" or "boat" - and when it came, sure enough it was Canada!
I never hear "aboat" or "aboot." Then again, I'm Canadian.
Heard Paymaya
Me (a Filipino): "questions whether Paymaya is also available in other countries" 😂😂
Yeah same 🤣
pero parang hind pinoy yung nag salita duon hahaah iba accent
Typical accent ng mga Pilipino talaga yun HAHAHAHAHAHA
It's actually really easy to identify Filipino accents because they say things like "Virtu-al" and "Sandwheech"
@@daltonmiller5590 virchual
You could tell the Welsh accent by the sheep in the background 🤣
nigel owens👀🤣
Irish
Indian
Londoner
New Yorker
Cymraeg
Jamaican
Californian
Geordie
Singaporean
North Central American Accent
Essexian
Australian (British accent)
Suid Afrikaanse
Filipino
Scottish
Birmingham
Southern American
Canadian
Bristol
Northern Irish
Kiwi
Maltese
Indian (think I know which Indian was speaking)
English
American
English
Australian
Filipino (they pronounce "t" in a different way. This is how I got it. Indonesia also does the same)
English
New Zealand (if you hear too many "but umm" then you can be sure it's NZ. I noticed it when I heard the players' interviews)
8/22 not bad I didn't expect to get even one correct
Nice man I got 2 XD
@@fritzasong Yes, I think he meant that. I'm Filipino by the way.
I'm "she"
Filipinos pronounce T without H,unlike in some other countries
@@NZC_Meow Oh, I'm so sorry.
18 - am a Brit. Did not know the Singaporean and Maltese. Some of the accents were quite mild and not that heavy but shows what an amazing language it is!
well here in malta we have English as our main language and Maltese is made up of English, Arabic, French, and Italian so when we speak English it sounds like it but because we have other languages made up in the Maltese language it affects they we talk in all those languages especially English
@@graciesultana7464 I was very confused with Maltese because it sounded exactly like an Arabic accent but she was able to pronounce the “p” perfectly
Here in Singapore our main language is English but we might also say Malay Chinese and Tamil. We use the British accent and the American accent combine
The Kiwi accent is to the Australian accent, what the Canadian accent is to the American accent, if you get me?
No they're different. Canadian and American accent are very similar but people in Canada pronounce words like "Out." differently.
@@fullmetaltheorist I believe what F J Cook was trying to say was that people have difficulty identifying the difference between Canadian and American accents, in the same way Americans seem to be unable to distinguish between Australian and New Zealand accents.
@@fullmetaltheorist Not really, Canada has several accents, the west coast of Canada pretty much share the same accent as NorCal, Oregon and Washington.
I got
0:27 Irish
0:50 Indian
1:15 England Londen
1:40 New York
2:02 Welsh
2:27 Jamaican
2:51 California LA
3:14 Geordie
3:38 Singapore
4:03 American North-Central
4:27 English Essex
4:51 Aussie
5:14 South African
5:38 Filipino
6:02 Scottish
6:27 England Birmingham
6:50 Southern
7:16 Canadian
7:39 England Bristol
8:03 Northern Irish
8:27 Kiwi
8:51 Maltese
disappointed there wasn't more variety for Canada. There are different accents in the west, the parries, Ontario, Quebec, the Atlantic provinces, and the territories. I'm born and raised in BC and i can instantly tell if someones from Ontario or Newfoundland just by small accent changes
The sheep in the background at Welsh gave out that it was from somewhere in Northern UK lmao
My esl students really enjoyed this, cheers, although they did'nt recognise the Irish one and I'm Irish haha
Guessed NZ straight away. There are actually more than one NZ type of accent.
so true, im from dunners so ive got the southern kiwi accent
The “a” always gives it away.
This was more Polynesian kiwi. North Island.
Distinguishing between London and Essex is impossible. They are about 10 miles apart.
not really, im from up north but Essex and London sound different to me
London and Essex are not 10 miles apart, they border each other, north Essex, north of Chelmsford, have a very rural accent, south Essex, from Thurrock to Southend-on-sea, the A13 corridor, have a cockney-like accent, knows as Estuary Essex.
Depends which part of London you are talking about. East London and South West Essex is more or less the same place.
You know it’s the Welsh when there’s worryingly loud sheep squeals...
0:26 Irish 🇮🇪
0:50 Indian 🇮🇳
1:14 London English 🇬🇧
1:39 New York American 🇺🇸
2:02 Welsh 🇬🇧
2:27 Jamaican 🇯🇲
2:51 Californian American 🇺🇸
3:14 Georide English 🇬🇧 (Idk wtf that is)
3:38 Singaporian 🇸🇬
4:03 Minnesotan American 🇺🇸
4:26 Essex English 🇬🇧
4:50 Australian 🇦🇺
5:15 South African 🇿🇦
5:38 Filipino 🇵🇭
6:02 Scottish 🇬🇧
6:26 Birmingham English 🇬🇧
6:50 Texan American 🇺🇸
7:14 Canadian 🇨🇦
7:38 Bristol English 🇬🇧
8:02 Northern Irish 🇬🇧
8:26 Kiwi/New New Zealand. 🇳🇿
8:50 Maltese 🇲🇹
Missed out on doing all the different Australian accents, regional state differences. It could’ve been a few for New Zealand as well.
for me England and Indian accent are easy to recognize..
There are multiple accents in England, which one did you mean?
@@vadimzdonutube so does in India , that one was a Southern one.
Which part of England?
The most obvious one was the strong valley girl accent from California.
Kim Kardashian
same sounds basic lol
I don’t want to offend anyone however, I would say that’s my least favourite accent. It hurts my ears.
"Abote" instead of "about" always exposes the Canadian😏
Some Americans also speak that way.
I could get 6 accents: Filipino, American (California), English (Birmingham), Northern Irish, English from New Zealand, and Maltese.
Instead of multiple English and American accents there could have been German, Russian, Italian, Spanish, and French accents. That's why I only got 5 of all accents right. I'm still happy about Filipino making it to this video and its pure simplicity.
I think the intent was accents from places where English is commonly spoken as a first language.
@@tyrelchavez english is also a language of the philipines but not first language
Well, I actually expected quite the opposite.
@@herobrine3306 Yep my country definetly has like wait let me Google it.
Edit: It has over 120 languages. They are:
Aklanon
Central Bikol
Cebuano
Chavacano
Hiligaynon
Ibanag
Ilocano
Ivatan
Google just showed these but I swear it has over 120 languages.
(Sorry for my bad grammar)
@@SM-ky6pb ...wOt?
Scottish, Irish, Northern Irish, Various English, Me British
Various American, Me American
Me thinking to myself: "Canadian should be the same as American"
*Hear Canadian*
Me: What is that
The accent you played was South Indian accent India does have multiple accents as well. We were a British colony for very long so a lot of people are fluent in English. Idk why people in the west are so surprised to hear that?
That Londoner sounded like she had quite a bit of an American accent going on.
True
#14... just by hearing the first word. I was definitely sure it's Fiipino.. oh yes she's speaking my accent hahaha
It’ll be interesting to see the same video of accents, but with an international accents of people speaking English. Like “guess the international accent challenge”, but speaking in English. Hope you get the point.
Yes, like Russian English, German English and Arabic English!
Etienne Aubert Yeah.
It's amazing that even with some countrys are repeated they have regional variations
Indian can't miss out 🤣🤣😂😭
I suspect the North-Central American is just an interview of a Canadian hockey player playing in the US... The Canadian guy had the mildest diction, with only a slight rising in 'about.' You should have included Maritime accents from Canada!
It's always annoyed me that I can't tell Canadians from Americans.
Very simple: when an American is extremely shy and polite, while saying "oot" and "aboot" instead of "out" and "about", he's probably Canadian.
@@eaubert1 No one ever says oot or aboot. It's pronounced just like in American English
@@deathbygrapes5 I actually find it's more like "aboat", but maybe that's just where I live. But it's definitely not aboot.
It is both- notice how he pronounces, "seen" more flat than in the central states but he does pronounce, "about" wider. Also "year", the "a" is emphasized while the "o" in "ago" is stressed. The mix of flat sounds and rounded sounds was a dead giveaway to me.
The canadian "about" is [əʊ], rather than [uː]
You can immidiately identify Filipino accent, when it's clear and clearly spoken in every syllable
Agree with that! 👍
It is very clear to understand the English accent of US Californea, US north-central, Canada, Jamaica, UK London, Scotland, UK Birmingham, South Africa, India, Filippines n Australia. Could not tell English accent of US New York, US southern, Welish, Irish, Northern Ireland, UK Bristol, UK(G-----), UK Essex, Maltese,Singapore n Newzealand.
The canadian accent should be divided into western canada, eastern canada, and newfoundland.
Why so inaccurately?
It's so interesting! I watch like every your video)) So cool. 😎😄 Thank you very much! 😁💛
Now with people for whom English isn't their first language?
My accent in English is weird for people who don't know it, but really recognizable if you know.
French?
I can tell, as you replaced "whose" with "whom"
@@santiir1 Québécois!
Its crazy how many accents the UK and Ireland have for such small countries. They can literally change after an hour drive.
You should do one with Kenyan or more African countries not only South Africa but I only missed 6
The "North-Central" American accent @ 4:00 sounds more Canadian than the Canadian accent @ 7:14
When I heard it I thought it was an interview with Nicholas Latifi who is a Canadian Formula One driver and I was like "LATIFI!!!!! THAT'S CANADIAN" yeah, nah (Kiwi slang for no) it wasn't
As someone who’s from the north-central US (Iowa and Minnesota), I would have to disagree and say this was pretty spot-on for a Minnesota or North Dakota accent. The Canadian accent is a little different (and from what I know of it, though I’m not Canadian so can’t speak to it as well, the Canadian accent here was pretty spot on, too).
@@kirsten879 Oh I didn't say it wasn't a "North-Central" US accent, I said that particular accent sounds more Canadian than the so called 'Canadian' accent @ 7:14.
@@electricrussell True true-the Canadian accent sounded like a very slight version of it. Maybe someone from Toronto?
@@kirsten879 More of an Anglo-Montreal accent.
woah woah woah you did not just make an english accent video without Scouse and Mancunian?!!
I guessed 11 :) I love the Canadian accent the most!
#11 is actually the accent most common in London
No it's not most common is cockney and Roadman
In Australia, its the same in literally all cities. But in the country side and remote parts, its so much stronger than the cities.
There are other English accents in the Philippines. I believe the one featured here is from a Tagalog speaking region like Metro Manila.
Not really english accent, some filipinos have american accent
@@exo.6922 Yup, I have an American accent when I speak English. This is very common if you're from an educated middle-class background.
The clip is more like bisaya English accent because on how she pronounced the word deposit and withdraw, it has the bisaya accent.
I'm so happy Welsh was in this LMAO
The north central american accent and canadian accent is switched around 😂😂
3:16 Jade❤️
I can finally spot a Canadian accent, but I thought the Australian, South African and Maltese were a weird British accent.
aren't all English accents not a weird British accent? since you know.... they are derived from the British accents and at some point English was only spoken in England until England started it's world domination
South African always starts off sounding like northern England before morphing a bit and that's the only way I know it's South Africa
I heard the sheep and said Wales before I even registered the accent 😅
The Scottish one sounded like a female version of Roy Keane 😂 (Irish)
And the Scouser accent shouldn’t be missing
Lol at judge judy talking about cases
This was fun. I don't know English accents by region, but I quickly recognized number #19 was Stephen Merchant, mostly from playing Portal 2 a few times.
#4 took my a while to remember, but it's Judge Judy.
There are literally So many more accents✨
5:39 i know that accent,because its my accent (filipino)
Like kung pinoy/pinay!
Alang pumangsen hahah
It's strange to read comments where people are like 'I didn't know there were so many British accents'. Like, did you expect us all to speak like the Queen or smth? 🤦
how the hell was 10 not Canadian? he pronounced 'calling card' as 'calling cerrrd' and that's still south of the border. holy cow
I’m Canadian and I have to admit he really sounded Canadian to me haha.
Our accents vary if the speaker is from South Ontario they sound more American
#4 was Judge Judy LOL
Only ones I missed were Philippino, Maltese and Northern US (thought it was Canadian) oh- also, thought the Geordie was Scottish! 🤦🏻♀️
(I’m from Australia)
I'm Canadian and the North US accent caught me as well (didn't help that he was talking about ice hockey). Honestly, I've never heard an American even from the border regions talk like that. Must be a very specific area remote from the rest of the US but close to Canada
5:38
The person: **speaks**
My mind: I think it's.... Filipino...?
1 second later...
**Answer showed up** 6:01
Me: I knew it!!!!!
I found this test very strange as they included Maltese English, Philipino English but not Nigerian English (the most populated African country) or Ghanaian English, for example.
Timestamps (different order)
1.Indian 0:50
2.American (California) 2:50
3.Australian 4:50
4.American (New York) 1:38
5.Irish 0:23
6.American (Southern) 6:50
7.Filipino 5:38
8.Singaporean 3:38
9.English (London) 1:14
The Jamaican accent kill me,lol.
SHUT YOUR MAWT!
The same here in England, except no one outside actually takes notice and always does southern.
I got all except the Maltese, Filipino and Singaporean, I was so amazed that I got so many right
well here in malta we have English as our main language and Maltese is made up of English, Arabic, French, and Italian so when we speak English it sounds like it but because we have other languages made up in the Maltese language it affects they we talk in all those languages especially English. You should try learning maltese it is not difficult at all
Timestamps:
Irish 0:23
Indian 0:50
English (London) 1:14
American (New York) 1:38
Welsh 2:02
Jamaican 2:26
American (California) 2:50
English (Geordie - Northern England) 3:14
Singaporean 3:38
American (North-Central) 4:02
English (Essex) 4:26
Australian 4:50
South African 5:14
Filipino 5:38
Scottish 6:02
English (Birmingham) 6:26
American (Southern) 6:50
Canadian 7:14
English (Bristol) 7:38
Northern Irish 8:01
New Zealand 8:25
Maltese 8:50
7:24 does anybody know from what interview this is? It sound so interesting and I'm curious what happened 😂
Now I want to hear the end of the story the Canadian guy was telling 😁🤣
There are, of course, noticeable differences in the accents in the North and South of England. A northerner will pronounce the u in the word "bus" like the oo in "hook".
And a Brummie will say buzz.