BRITS React to Do ENGLISH people like AMERICAN accents?
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2024
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People need to realize that California has way more than one accent. Every state has different accents they can even vary from city to city and town to town it’s way more diverse than people tend to think.
Very True…Older San Francisco residents had a “City” accent, which sounded like an Eastern Seaboard accent. Where you can go to agricultural areas of the Northern California had a Farm accent which was closer to Texas/Oklahoma ( Okies) accent.
@@ivandragomiloff2356 Black people in California have a distinct accent too.
@@Green.P3 Haven’t studied that, but they would have a different one from people in the South/Texas etc
But the Northern California city and farm accents did transcend racial and ethnic lines.
@@ivandragomiloff2356 I have family members that live in California and there are rappers that I listen to from there like Kendrick Lamar, Eazy E, Ice Cube etc.. plus from my experience on social media I can tell by the accent they’re from there.
@@Green.P3 I will definitely investigate that. :)
A lot of people do say they learn English from watching American movies and people that say America has one accent need to do a lot more research.
Exactlyy!!
It's funny you brought up English kids having an American accent from watching TV. There are kids in the U.S. picking up slight British accents and certain words from watching Peppa Pig.
Peppa Pig has now been branded a "brat".
When I was in Mozambique, I thought a family seated next to me were American, as the son spoke flawless English with an American accent. The father said it was from his watching too many American UA-cam videos. A morning all show in the UK said it’s not unusual for small children in the UK to speak with an American accent from all the American tv shows they watch. Not all Canadians make the ‘ou’ sound. Most of the ones I’ve met sound the same as an American.
Then there are people from Newfoundland who have an accent more like Irish but it’s own unique thing.
Most Canadians I have met sounded Canadian to me. Many I have met were from rural areas and have their version of a “country” way of speaking. I have met some Canadian actors who told me they were told to get rid of their Canadian accents to be cast. I have confused some Americans who live close to the Northern boarder with Canadians because they sound differently to me from most other Americans. I met some people from Upper Michigan who I thought were foreigners. Like Scandinavians.
This is interesting, as sometimes Canadians can sound more American than some Midwesterners in the United States.
My daughter sometimes sounds australian from Bluey and we're Midwest American as it gets lol
Moved to the states thirty years ago...
My French accent has served me well... 😉
I love French accent
I'm a sucker for the French accent
Born and raised in the Boston area 🤣 aggressive, angry and, offensive. love the descriptions 🤣
Can't stand the Boston accent. Same as English accent in that you cannot find the letter R. as in Caa ,instead of car or paaty, instead of party. Just sickening Also Wudder or Wotter. Just grates on me. it is pronounced like this WHAT ER. Please work on that so you sound somewhat intelligent
Same here, people get so confused when I open my mouth and sound like I walked off the set of a Wahlberg film. The descriptions are dead on.
California has unfortunately has everyone thinking we sound nasally and valley girl and this is not true, I wish people wouldn't judge our accents by movies. I live in the Midwest and no one sounds that way here.
Funny you say that too. I'm from Southern California and the "valley girl" accent gets on my last nerve! Ironically, whenever I speak, I easily get mistaken for somebody from Brooklyn, Harlem, or Queens 😅
I have a pretty strong coastal Downeast Maine accent, and when I spent time in the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia everybody’s first guess was that I was Australian! Everybody thinks New England only sounds like Boston. But being from the region, it’s easy to tell a New Hampshire, Western Vermont, Rhode Island, Southern Connecticut, etc. accent from Maine. Hell, even in our single state we have several clearly different dialects. South coastal and Midcoast, Lewiston/Auburn-Rumford, central interior and foothills, and especially the Acadian Downeast coast, and Aroostook County/Great North Woods all have distinguishable, unique accents.
I'm from Pittsburgh and spent time in New Hampshire for work. No one could quite tell where I was from, but those brave enough to bring it up and ask usually guessed deep south for some reason lol.
Some people I know from Northern Alabama and North Carolina had a similar experience in the UK. People were guessing they were from everywhere but the USA because they were unfamiliar with their accents.
Its the east coast Canadian accent that sounds more Irish. Like around Saint John's Newfoundland or places like that.... or so I think.
I live in Washington State and don't hear Irish at all in British Columbians, most sound the same as a Washingtonian
That Irish lady Diane Something says she gets mistaken for Canadian.
You are absolutely correct. It is Newfoundland where some have a faint Irish accent (the complete opposite side of Canada). My friend is from British Columbia, just outside Vancouver, and sounds nothing like Irish. But I have seen several documentaries about fisherman in the far-eastern province of Newfoundland, and they did talk about their Irish-like accents. It makes sense because that place is the part of North America that is physically located the closest to Ireland and so there was a lot of migration from Ireland to that part of Canada.
The sort of "posh" English accent isn't very interesting. I'm no expert at differentiating the accents of Britain, but i find it way more fun to hear a lilting Irish/Wales accent, or to be two sentences behind in a conversation between Scots.
My Mother was an English professor and she said that the Southern accent was the last vestige of the English accent. It never left, it just morphed because the southerners were more isolated and put their spin on English words.
I moved from the south to Oregon. I get asked where I'm from almost every time I go out
Many years ago I moved from Northwest Georgia to Southern Florida and constantly had the same question 😂❤
Learn to speak quicker my friend
That’s because there are a lot of different southern accents
@@juliayoung537I live in NC and went to a bar in Ft Lauderdale, FL and asked for a Coke. The bartender was flipping out over my accent.
I met a young Irish girl whose accent was completely American, just from TV, movies and the internet. There wasn't a trace of an Irish accent, even though her parents had very heavy ones. The kid had never even visited the States.
I'm Canadian-American, and LOVE y'alls accent!!!
Most of my 50+ years I have heard the world’s low opinion of Americans. I am not offended. Looking down on someone thinking you are superior is your character flaw; not mine.
We do smile a lot, we are a generally happy and proud people. I will never be ashamed of that. Loud, sure, fat, ok. “Let me have people about me who are fat. “
I'm an American, and I can't pick out a Canadian until they say "out" or "about", and that's heard most often in Ontario, spilling into adjacent provinces.
As a North Carolinian, whose grandmother was from Edinburgh, Scotland which is great. Hearing a guy who can’t tell the difference between an American vs Canadian is hilarious. He needs to get out more haha. (We in NC have one of the most difficult dialects in the country)
Deep south American accent is the best. Then Booahsten. Chicago too
Those Brits probably have never heard any of the more extreme American accents (some might even say dialects) like that of the east coast offshore islands along the mid-Atlantic region where some of the earliest British settlers landed and remained isolated until TV and radio began watering down their accents. But to many ears they sound like the accents of Southwest England and I've even seen a British reactor have trouble believing they were American and not British.
And there's also Spanglish or the mixture of English and French spoken in Cajun country.
I think I confused several people in Europe with my southern accent. Some even told me they thought everyone sounded like New Yorkers because of television.
Gaynor, Aidan, and Sophie reacted to this very exact same video 10 months ago on this channel. You guys are starting to accidently double-dip on the reactions. 😅😅😅
I'm from North Central Pennsylvania but don't sound like it. My family's grammar is horrid and I made a conscious decision in my early teens to be ''better" than that. So I sound very midwestern. But I am always struck by how many and varied American accents can be. I love learning about why and how they developed. And i enjoy the same thing about British accents.
Here's something that I have not thought about before now, and that's Australian accents. They all seem very same-y to e. It stands to reason that with their country so sparsely populated and each distinct area so isolated, you'd think there'd be loads of differences in the accent, but I've never heard it mentioned anywhere. -
Nova Scotia Newfoundland and New Brunswick sounds very Scottish, but any how Canadian is easy to tell. Every third word is aye 😅
As an american I sometimes dont notice the English accent anymore especially when watching the Office Blokes. The Scottish accent still excites me, I enjoy hearing it
I've been told I have a thick Boston accent, but I'm not really aware of it, I don't hear it, and if I hear a recording of myself it sounds like someone else. But a Boston accent really stands out in a movie or on TV, it's such a contrast to to the neutral American accent everyone else is using.
There isn't a "neutral American accent".The West Coast, Texas, and the South have their own stand-out accents. As do other parts of the country. Have you never heard a Southerner speak!!
@@2436golden There absolutely is a neutral American accent. It's an accent that has the least amount of local inflection, and it's used by actors, politicians and newscasters. My brother had to use it when he became a newscaster. It's closer it to a midwestern accent than it is to any other. The reason is because it is the least likely to be misunderstood. Referencing several distinct regional accents as an argument against non-regional pronunciation makes no sense.
@@stephensmith7887 It's not so much an accent as it is a trained way of speaking used by those in the public speaking arenas.
@@2436golden Yes, an accent, whether intentionally learned or not.
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Hate to burst the Brits bubble, but American understand when you are asking for water. You guys make it sound like we have a totally different word for it.
It depends from what part of the UK they are from there is some that you do have to ask them a couple of times what they're saying because it doesn't sound like anything .
Californian accent?? That's LA or SoCal accent. I'm from NorCal! but I married an LA girl OHMY GWAD
I am Canadian and I hear every word either of you say.
One accent. Everyone speaks the same
Naivete 😮
I love RP.
Cockney is fun.
Liverpool (Paul McCartney) does my head in.
He actually stayed in London for this interview. He needs to get out into other parts of the country.
I wish y'all did a video with Declan and Aiden 😊
True that you start to not notice accents if you hear them a lot. I like a lot of British tv shows and after awhile, don’t notice the accent anymore. Even if it’s an American show with some British actors speaking how they normally would, I start to not notice their accent.
OTOH, I will ALWAYS notice a Scottish accent or a thick Northern Ireland accent. Sometimes I have to use subtitles. Haha.
I absolutely love the British accent, it is beautiful and refined. A British person could swear at me and I would be like, “Oh, thank you - keep going, please.”
I think that of all English accents around the globe the most difficult to understand ( for me) is a Scottish accent followed by a Cockney accent. I'm a Yonkers (New York) native from an area that borders with the Bronx but we have slightly different accents though we are neigbors. I always wondeer what causes different accents in a single language, is the way we were taught to pronounce the alphabet?
You know what I think about UK accents.👨❤💋👨👨❤💋👨👨❤💋👨
I love the Pikey accent in Snatch. I know it's not from the US but it's such a mix of cultures. I understand Pikey better than I understand some of my fellow US citizens. Maybe I've watched the movie too much.
I swear i can't understand something called a "black country accent" in the UK
Oats, not oots in Canada.
My favorite British accents are Yorkshire, Manchester, and West Country (Bristol)
Sad to say but distinct accents are dying out in the US. From my own experience, born in 1960, in the City of Boston (Dorchester). My own kids and nieces and nephews don't have a Boston accent. Also, the unique words once used only in the area have disappeared.
What sounds very Irish to me is the Canadian Maritime accent such as in St. Johns, Newfoundland. Vancouver sounds pretty American to me.
They're at the Albert Memorial so apparently all video was taken there and around the park. Did anyone find any umbrella? We left one there in 2004.
Canadians will also often stress the 'Oh' in PRO-cess whereas Americans will speak the 'O' as 'Ah' and say PRAH-cess.
The standard American accent is closer to the 1700s British accent than the standard modern English accent is.
There is no standard american accent
It's a myth
This indeed looks like it was filmed early in the plague. The interviewer consistently stands way far from who he's questioning.
Canadian vs American accent differences only sort of exist. There's a continuum of accents across North American English speakers.
FWIW, there's actually a North American thing where kids have developed British accents from being fed let's of Harry Potter videos.
If you're not born in an English-speaking country it's 100% taught to them in only American English only. Because that is the correct way of speaking. Every country if not already an English speaking country and takes a 2nd language it's American English only. And that's a fact you can look up. So when you hear a French person or Russion or Japanese etc speaking in English it will only be American English. You'll never hear a English accent or Australian accent etc coming from foreigners because the only people who speak English in the correct way is Americans. And I mean the average American accent not South or Midwest etc just the normal American accent which I speak and I'm from cny so do I speak like a new Yorker no my voice is what you'd hear on every movie... the "normal American accent" which exists in 75% of america
Nor the web English accents are the best. The only Southern ones that are interesting are Cockney and East End. Manchester and Scouse and Yorkshire are the best in England.
Sounds like they aren’t fully exposed to American accents the way we aren’t fully exposed here unless you travel. I couldn’t understand some British people when I went. Thinking all of you guys sound posh is a stereotype just like the valley girl. Hollywood doesn’t depict most accents. We have some very distinct ones. I can typically tell someone is from New Orleans as soon as they open their mouth, and sometimes which ward they are from. A South African guy asked me what is up with NOLA because they don’t sound like other Southerners 😂
I think Cleveland and Philly accents stand out too.
People mentioned water/wader but not all Americans use that pronunciation.
yeah yeah I already know my accent isn't interesting
Na..
3:50 found the numb nuts!
I hate accents. The only ones I can stand are British ( some ) and Aussie.
British accent is seen as intelligent , while many of the American accents or ethnic groups here don't seem to be
Now we know where all the stereotypes come from. Do I detect a lack of respect for Americans? I like your accent less after this.
3:35. Darren, You are still to Young to be developing Amnesia and or Dementia .
get the straw out of your mouth
We think the Southern accent is funny too. It's weird.