Omg! The Southern slang and just the Southern accent alone was pretty accurate. I'm watching this thinking "yep...yep, that sounds like me". I'd say about 90% of the slang I've heard or used daily. Southern people tend to talk either really fast or very slow. I tend to talk fast, and I have to repeat myself quite often when I speak. It's funny because when you talk, you really don't notice that you have an accent until you meet or hear someone else's accent.
@@kingdommoney4739 It's just an expression, chill out! Tell that to everybody else who says the same thing! I know who I am in Christ! Please leave me alone.
I never picked up the southern accent. I have family from the south but spent my life in a city full of people not from here. But I still turned out weird and talking funny. Love southerners though. I could get along with them great.
I’m late to this but I can relate to this too. I always have to repeat myself and I even cut out a few words to say em real quick and it does no one any good 🤣
This video just cracks me up!! My parents are both from Rhode Island so “orange” is pronounced “arr ange”. I grew up in Michigan but spent quite a bit of time in the south so I know the southern accents well, I feel like my English is sometimes mixed between all three accents. 😂
as I'm not a native speaker, I thought for a long time that all Americans pronounce the words with the letter O as A..like Orange, as you mentioned and many other words..love, obvious..for instance..then I found out that it's proper to the east coast accent ... especially in the northeast area (Boston NY) and what's also noticible in general it's a very nasal accent, especially in women!
When I was a teenager ,I used to work at Walmart and I told some guy who was from Boston that I was "fixin to go on break.". He gave me a weird look. He didn't understand what i was saying. He was a nice guy and my friend but he had no idea what "fixing to" meant
I had such a fun time comparing accents with Shannon! Living outside if the US for 6 years made me lose most of my accent, but I do miss hearing it a lot! There are so many different accents in the states~ Hope you guys enjoyed! -Christina 🇺🇸
I am Southern Californian, and I love when your Boston accent comes out. It sounds "wicked" smart. Could you do a "World Friends" video, with you teaching someone else your native Boston accent? I know you have said you are not from Boston proper, but you grew up close enough.
@@Neo-Reloaded Maybe because it's the least populated state. Alaskans also speak 20 indigenous languages like Yupik and Aleut, so their accent has concepts from those languages.
You can have neutral newscaster American accents in all 50 states though. The fact that these two girls sound like they grew up down the street from each other and have to imitate the accents from their native states is proof of that. It's mostly people over 50 that have stronger regional accents. The younger generation have much more neutral general American accents, especially if they grew up in the suburbs, went to college and work in professional environments. You're kind of forced into that accent based on class.
It's propably the same in every country, the slang is usually stronger in countryside, small towns and used by older people. Bigger usually have a more modern slang with loanwords etc.
To me, their natural accents still sound pretty different. Christina has that northern "nasal" quality to her voice which Shannon doesn't. Christina also does a lot of uptalk, where you raise the pitch at the end of a sentence to indicate that you're not finished talking. (To people who don't use uptalk, it sounds like you're asking a question.) Christina also opens her mouth a lot less, and spreads her lips more than Shannon does. To my ear, it actually gives Christina more twang than Shannon, which is interesting because people usually associate the South with twang.
@@ZipplyZane 95% of the words they speak sound identical to me and I work all over the country. Neither have typical Northern or Southern regional accents.
As someone raised in Georgia, I can confirm everything Shannon said. I grew up hearing “over yonder “, “fixin to”, “no you ain’t!”, “ well bless your heart “, “Lord willing and the creek don’t rise”, “it’s just a hop, skip, and a jump away”, “How y’all doin’?”…. And SO MUCH MORE! Lol! My mom is from California and is Latina, my dad from Georgia. My accent is stronger than Shannon’s but not as strong as a lot of my friends here. Fun video! Both girls are very cool.
Southern accent is just so wonderful, love it ❤️ More of that. And - I do think it’s a bit of shame that these ladies don’t stick to their lovely, wonderful accents most of the time, instead of this kind of ‘generic’ American accent. Would be lovely to listen to!
How to study English knowing that there are several accents and words from different countries and even States like US 🇺🇸 ? It's best to stick with an accent, but in the end it's always a mixture of all accents.
In general, and this is just my opinion (I’m from the south). Most of the Pacific Northwest states and some of the Midwest states have the most “neutral” General American accent if you don’t want to sound like you’re from somewhere specific.
If you grow up with mostly US media. You'll eventually use that version of English. No matter what schools try to enforce on you to use. Without noticing and without doing it on purpose, you'll use the US media version of English if you hear it while growing up all the time.
@@finflame13 Some places in the rural PNW will have Southern accents, however, due to a lot of far-right wing folks who decided to move out and resettle in order to escape race mixing. Oregon for example was literally established as white ethnic state that banned the permanent settlement of non-whites. This is also a reason for all of the political violence in the region where the cities are some of the most progressive in the country while you have literal Klan towns on the outskirts. Some towns in Idaho have even been caught by the FBI for funding domestic terrorism and have been monitored going back to the '60s and '70s.
My favorite thing to hear in Bostonian accent is “I left my car keys in my khakis” I’ve worked with quite a few people from that area over the years and even had English class with a teacher that was from there and had a heavy accent and they were always a pleasure to work with (I’m from the Chicago area). Nice video! 👍🏻
I've also noticed that every foreigner in America when they try to imitate in "American" English have the same West Coast accent probably because of American TV and movies filmed in Hollywood, Los Angeles (West Coast) I'm guessing
I grew up in NC - like shannon :D later we moved to Europe and the Middle East, so my accent sounds very similar to hers. Americans can pick up on it and ask me if im from the south but people who are not from the us often times ask me why do I have a California accent, which I definitely don't. been asked if I was from New Zealand too which is super weird. but I think its just that some people can't tell the accents apart and they just feel like whoever sounds American is from California lol
The cutest thing about these videos is watching the little Asian mannerisms that leak out every now and then from these native looking and sounding westerners. I didn't even know this was a Korean channel until I started noticing their mannerisms. I wonder how long they've been in Asia.
I haven't noticed American accents all that much except for how people pronounce "crayon" and "water" differently and obviously there are some vocab differences like with "y'all" and "pop" and "sucker" which I never grew up saying. But one thing that I did notice from my own experience, as someone who first learned English in Hawaii and who later moved to the mainland, is that some words that I took for granted in Hawaii don't exist or are pronounced different in the mainland. For example, in Hawaii, "karate" is always pronounced ka-ra-TEH (sometimes with a flip of the tongue) and never ka-RA-ti like they do on the mainland, and "ukulele" is pronounced OO-kulele, not YOO-kulele. The default words for urine and feces were "shishi" and "doodoo," not "pee" and "poop" like they say on the mainland. There's also "bibidees" which are men's underwear, a word that I haven't heard mainlanders use. I also realized mainlanders often use the term "Hawaiian shirt" to refer to an aloha shirt.
Unfortunately regional accents are dying off. There's even Irish people from Ireland who speak in standard American English accents now.. I'm 35 and feel I'm part of the last generation to have a very thick NYC urban accent, but I can code-switch and speak in standard accent as well. I use it when I'm at work, or when I lived in Japan to talk/teach to Japanese people. When I'm around peers in casual situations, especially NYers I just let my regional accent go unfiltered. Makes me talk faster and is less stressful. Talking in standard English feels necessary but it's a lot of work and I mess up whenever I'm angry, happy or surprised. The moment something suddenly spikes my emotion the NY accent comes out on its own.
As a native New Yorker, I get asked to say "Forget about it" in all one word whenever I travel in the south, midwest and northwest. Now that I reside in Florida, I feel I am losing the accent a little bit. I have been told that when I get pissed off that my NY accent and attitude goes from zero to 100 in a nanosecond. I love going to Boston to see my Yankees at Fenway Park. Sadly, I have been told that the strong Boston accent is dying out due to so many students and foreigners moving in to study in the city. The Sam Adams Beer Company has a TV commercial that plays up the accent. I see it about once a week here in Florida
Accents die becaus of mass media. Tik Tok and youtube 'teach' an english standard that youngsters pick up as 'normal'. If you were to travel in England say back in the 40s, EACH VILLAGE, not region but village had their particular accent. As mass television 'taught' a standard English, accents started to die. With the advent of digital mass media, it will be even worse in twenty or thirty years.
It's not due to students and foreigners moving in. Rather the older generation moving to the suburbs. Same happened in NYC, the Italians and Jews with the heavy New York accents moved to Long Island and NJ. Now you have 20 somethings that grew up in Manhattan that sound like valley girls.
I can see your perspective, but it felt pretty normal to me lol... I live "close" to the south so there's a lot of that influence here and I witnessed some "extended family of a friend" visit from California who NEVER had any exposure to the south or southern people and it wasn't that far off. I can totally see people from the north doing the same.. like they always hear about southern people but encountering them in person is actually like meeting a Martian.
The accents along the East Coast are mainly variations of English accents. Faster talking in the North think cold weather.. Slower talking in the South think hot and humid .....
I want to add some more Southern slang words too! The first one is "gonna" which means 'going to'. For example, "I'm gonna take a nap" The second word is "draws" which means underwear. Kinda like "Go pick up your draws off the floor. The third word is "daggum" which some people use when they don't curse; it's another word for 'd*mn'. The last one that I can think of would be "imma" which means 'I am (I'm) going to' for example, if my mom were to ask me when will go to the store, I would say "Imma go later".
Gonna really isn’t Southern slang. It’s used across the country. On the other hand fixin’ to or finna would be Southern. A Southerner is more likely to say I’m fixin’ to leave. Draws is the Southern way of pronouncing drawers. And one of the meanings of drawers is underwear so they didn’t create that meaning although they use it more. I have heard some non Southerners say draws but not as much.
I maintain y'all is the superior third person plural. Super easy to say, gets the point across, a little bit folksy but in an endearing way. It seems to be spreading so I assume others agree with me.
Central Floridian here. Most accents here are country, creole, Spanish, and Caribbean. Same with South Florida (depending on were you are) except now there are more up north folks down there.
These accents are very subtle.. I am an Indian ...we speak Hindi as our primary language in the north of India though the north Indian states have their own dialects and languages...South Indians don't speak Hindi atall until they can't do with their own language....they have a very heavily influenced regional accent when they speak in Hindi and it's a joy to listen to them..😊😊
I’m happy that they haven’t lost their northern/southern roots! All the different US accents, so colourful! I notice Christina’s Boston accent, I get hints of Canadian especially when she pronounced out. It makes sense I’m guessing Massachusetts isn’t too far away from Canada.
@@marydavis5234 It's 222 miles from Boston to Stanstead, Quebec, Canada ... not sure if that's the closest border crossing, however. From Pittsfield, MA to Saint Armand, Quebec, Canada is 202 miles.
@@Timotimo101 Well guess who's from Pittsfield? Me. And we don't sound anything like Canadians. And certainly not French-Canadians. Her accent was just odd. She didn't sound like a Masshole at all.
@@aidanb.c.2325 Some of her sounds seemed like MA to me but I'm originally from Tennessee and living in Vermont and New England for over 20 years now so you should hear what I sound like! LOL. Some people say I sound a little Southern and some say I sound a little New Englander ... so it's a hybrid.
oh yeah, that is almost like a different language lol. there's also the outer banks accent that is pretty interesting - worth checking out. (edit: typo)
I do have an accent but mostly comes out when I'm mad. Course when I'm not mad and I'm talking you can hear some southern sounds. Like "accent" for me I say "accen" I basically leave out the "T".
I was born in Alabama but my whole family is from North Dakota so I don’t have any sort of accent at all…I kind of use a mix of Native American northern and southern
Really? I had thought in the last video she might be from West Texas like around Austin because they tend to have a soft Southern accent. She Doesn’t sound Californian to me.
Florida here too and we tend to have a more neutral general American accent I think, I don't know if there really is a regional Florida accent, just a mix of influences from everything I guess but nothing super strong. Totally get the shortcuts thing though, maybe that in itself is a Florida thing, I don't know lol. EDIT: Exceptions to this would be Miami with more Hispanic, Cuban influences and such, and the north Florida/panhandle area where you get a much more Southern influence.
As someone living in the Northeast U.S and native to the region, it’s always strange that NJ is closer to Nova Scotia Canada, and Wisconsin than it is to Florida.
In the northeast of England where I come from accents recognisably change every 10 miles or so. 30 miles from home they will kniw you’re not a local. In comparison American accents are fairly homogenous.
Being from Wisconsin, I don't feel like this fully represents the North in the accents. With that said, I know the North i split up between the north along the coast and the "midwest" and Wisconsin is always classified as the "midwest" even though we're closer to both sides are up aove everyone so we have our own "accent" or so everyone tells me when I speak. I'm a fully born and bred Wisconsinite. Cheesehead all the way. I know one thing, in my "neck of the woods" we don't sound nothing like any of the things portrayed "northren" in this video. There some people not being represented here. Seriously, we sound nothing like that. Would be neat to see the different parts of the north represented so people can understand just how DIFFERENT we really are.
Im from Minnesota, and people tells me that our accents have Canadian in them. I have canadian friends and I don’t think I sound like that. But perhaps its a confirmation bias thing 🤷♂️
Fellow Minnesotan here, I've heard that we sound Canadian aswell. I do believe that to some degree that's true because I personally don't pick up on any difference in our speech besides the pronunciation of 3 words... out, about and house 🤣
Wow i never knew you used "over yonder" in the States. I thought it was just used in the north of England where im from. Thats crazy. Great video by the way 👍
There are a lot of similarities... one that's used in the southern U.S. and probably northern England is "I reckon." First time I heard that on a UK program I was surprised... we think of it as being a southern thing here in the states.
Yonder and reckon are common in the Southern USA. Other words are chest of drawers (which people pronounce chester drawers), commode, and fancy. Not fancy as in elaborate but fancy like to say you like something. I fancy a glass of sweet tea. Other regions tend not to use fancy that way.
Idk why florida gets associated with the south anymore i know it is south of america but its literally a mix of all states they should do a southern state that isnt so diverse in accents
Nice topic, it's good see two American girls going asymmetric with the north and south accents. Christina looking good and Shannon being straight up sexy; such a beautiful smile, I enjoy watching you smile and talk everytime. Great job!
A Brit who lived for a while in North Carolina- Chapel Hill. I mainly had no problem with the accent other than once when an electrician came to the house. He said something to me and I literally had no idea what he was saying. Eventually after really concentrating I found out what he wanted me to do. BTW I have an English RP accent yet was always asked am I German or French!!
I had a friend from South Carolina who I use to play online games with but his accent was so incomprehensible I had to pretend I was having problems with my headset in order to avoid having to voicechat with him!
Being raised in Connecticut, most people would peg me for being a Midwesterner, but a little New York slips in every now and then because I lived in the western half of the state.
Damn I haven't heard some deep South slang in a while! I'm from Tennessee, and I'll lay out a few Southern words I can come up with y'all may have skipped: " Reckon " - I reckon I... " aught " - to go ahead and put this word in. " I'ma " - make sure to list out all I can think of though. I'm... " fixin' " to just think of a random conversation I'd have. When I bump into people my instinct is to say: " Ope! " - Sorry about that! I didn't mean to.. " Ma'm! "... This was very interestin! Not often ya get to hear from the North and South, we usually are polar opposites lol.
Yonder an old school term, used to be common in Nigerian pidgin English too. Eg you leave us go yonder. Meaning you went far away. The Boston accent is kind of close to British, hence more intelligible to my Nigerian ear.
This was definitely South vs East lmao totally missing the west coast accent. (Cali/Oregon) And a true Northern accent borderline sounds like a Canadian accent (Wisconsin/Montana)
I'm southern and its funny how northerners assume country and southern is the same and that every southern state has the same accent. I'm Texan and our accent is wildly different than a Louisiana accent lol
I've noticed in some of these videos the foreigners always seem to think "southern accent" means "Texan accent" ... like you can tell they're thinking "cowboy/ranch" stuff, which is quite different from "the deep south" Louisiana, Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia etc.
I really liked this video! I'm from New Orleans, Louisiana, in the South. In just my city alone there are 5+ different accents, but none of them do I find to be that stereotypical/cinema southern accent. My accent is quite neutral like I find Shannon's; no one can really tell where I'm from, which is kinda sad 😅because an accent is like a part of your identity in a way. I say y'all, but yonder, ain't, and bless your heart I use in a humorous or exaggerated way. Fixin', imo, is verrry Mississippi/Alabama/Carolinas.
Shannon sounds “softly” Southern to me. In her first video I thought she might be from Austin although she is from Florida/North Carolina. That was because I could hear a difference in pronunciation between her and Christina. I have a friend from NOLA who sounds mostly neutral because she has lived in other parts of the country and in other countries. But when she says certain words it becomes very apparent she does have some regional pronunciations in her accent. . When I moved to the South (mostly lived on the Gulf Coast) I noticed a lot of people pronounce mayonnaise as a two syllable word ma nayse. I thought it was strange at first because I grew up where it’s pronounced as three syllables. But whenever I would say mayonnaise, people would look at me confused like they had never heard this so I gave up and started saying mayo. 😂
Apparently a lot of words from the south have made there way to Minnesota. I grew up here, call my parents Mama and Daddy, say y'all, and over yonder along with some of the other words and phrases she said were southern! Both my Mama and Daddy grew up here in MN too🤷♀️ Aswell as 3 out of my 4 Grandparents! Only thing I can think of is maybe a lot of the influence of this came from my one Granny that grew up in Jersey... but, that's not south🤷♀️ America has been such a melting pot of people from all over for so many years now though that through the generations I think a good dispearsment has happened! Some of it isn't even necessarily a "North" or "South" thing perhaps ... but an "American" thing! For many generations "Americans" have come from all over the world!
@@anndeecosita3586 I know it is said to be a pretty strong accent. I know being from here that I don't pick up on it the way others not from here do . The further North I travel within the state though I feel like it gets thicker and I pick up on that! I can def pick up on the Canadian accent! Sounds cliche but I hear it most in words like out, about and house 🤣
Its very common especially in cities that border the Great lakes. “Y’all” is definitely used a good amount in cities like Rochester, Buffalo, Cleveland, Erie PA, Duluth, Grand Rapids, Marquatte, Chicago, Milwawkee etc. Its even said in Northern Appalachia too, in Southern tier NY, western and central PA, and western MD. Its not really that common in the Northeast U.S areas that are south of Albany NY. Especially not said much in the lower hudson valley, eastern PA counties that border NJ, and doesn’t even get used in the Adirondack mountain area either, along with New England.
southern accents are slightly different... the alabama accent is different than border states....they are also slight variations in southern accent in each state..north alabama.sounds a little different than south alabama for example.
As a Southern “traditional English” that is spoken in the Northern United States sounds weird to me lol 😂 Like what Northerns would call a crayon “cray-on” mine and my families would sound like “crown” Same with putting the “ing” on the ends of words. I always just say huntin, fishin, swimmin, doin, playin, cookin, drivin, etc. One think that could explain our differences in dialects is that the New England areas were heavily settled by English who had “posh accents”, as well as Irish and Italians. The Great Lakes area also has a enormous Scandinavian and German culture. Meanwhile in the South it was mostly settled by “Celtic” people. Most notably Scottish, Northern Irish, Welsh, and people from the West Country England (such as Cornwall) however, the Upland South (Kentucky and Tennessee) has a good amount of German influence as well. As someone from Kentucky it’s also always hilarious to me that southern Indiana and Ohio have more “southerner” accents but the farther you go up the more harsher it goes lol 😂 My father is actually from the North (New York) and his side of the family up there as well as him always have a “harsher” tone then my maternal side down here in the South. My mom and I always feel like lab rats going up there as they all wanna hear us talk haha
Definitely my favorite World Friends video ever. As someone from New Jersey I would like to point out that most of us do not sound like characters from "The Sopranos." In fact I'd say most of us have a very neutral American accent (give or take a few words or phrases).
I don't know anyone who was born and raised in NJ that sounds like that, you're right that the majority are definitely closer to a flat/neutral accent. If I'm traveling people are surprised that I'm from NJ and they say I don't sound like what they expect but I guess with how the media emphasizes those strong accents for our state that's what most people think we sound like.
I think it be awesome if you had the entire state of NJ speaking like the Sopranos😂😂😂 good show! Hey I'm a Bostonian and as much as I would like to say WE DON'T sound like characters out of The Departed ahhhhh we kinda do😂😂😂😂😂
Most of the people I’ve met from New Jersey didn’t sound like the Sopranos but not what I would call “neutral” either. I think sometimes people are so used to their accent they don’t notice certain things as much as outsiders do.
@@anndeecosita3586 I think I am very aware of what I sound like, as well as the people around me. I did write that the mostly New Jersey accent is neutral except perhaps for a few words or phrases. What I didn't say was that people who come from the area directly opposite to Philadelphia definitely have a Pennsylvanian accent, or an accent from that area of PA that is very distinct.
Oh... that is what US americans mean with their "many dialects".😅 I am german, speaking only "high german". There are german dialects I can not understand at all, because they use many words that do have not the sightest similarity to the "high german word" and sometimes even change the sentence structure. For example : I have lived in the city cologne for over 35 years. Until to this day I do not understand the sightest, when someone does say something in "real Kölsch" (real, because during carneval and in TV they talk a more tourist friendly version of it). Swiss is even worse. Their dialects are so different, that sometimes the one village can not understand the talking of the neighbour village. I think that is what is confusing for us in the rest of the world if US is talking about dialects... because all those US dialects are still understandable. US americans should visit the UK. A state of the sice of california, I would say, with many dialects that are very hard and sometimes impossible to understand.😉
If you go into the deeper rural areas you might get that here too, but yeah I agree in general even though there are a lot of accents here, they are by and large very much understandable, maybe except for a few regional specific terms. I would say English in general is very permissive of variations in dialect and accent, we can usually understand all of it as long as it's not a super thick accent (defined by me as over-pronouncing every consonant, over-stressing every syllable, and not letting vowels breathe enough)
hello, great video. may i suggest one thing. zoom in on the ppl talking to each other to at least waist height? full body and grey chair shots r awkward. perhaps a small table between them with a flower and vase like friends having a kiki, bc this is how this conversational comparison reads. xoxo
They speak with the same General American accent although Christina is from Massachusetts and Shannon is from Florida / North Carolina. That proves that regional accents are disappearing in the United States.
love southern accents, the ticker the better. However the size of the country doesn't mean there must be many accents. For example smaller places as England has tons of accents, and the Netherlands too. even smaller countries such as Slovenia, Croatia or Serbia has accents that differ from town to town let alone regions. On the other hand, Russia is huge but lacking the accent divisions. or Turkey for example
Yay I’m so happy they at least discussed the USA having different accents because a lot of non-Americans think we only have one. I’m American and struggle to understand some people depending on where they are from. There are also word variations among the regions. In Southern USA English I see a lot in common with UK English. Southerners say yonder, reckon, courting, fancy (as in like). Contrary to popular belief the word rubbish is used in the USA however it’s mostly by saying someone is talking rubbish so speaking lies or nonsense. Southerners typically drop word ending g in ing and re and or in words like store, door, floor. Many also say y’all, ain’t, commode for toilet, buggy for shopping cart., tennis shoes not sneakers. Sometimes people will shorten fixin’ to to finna. Idioms and colorful expressions are common. My mom says “she was sweatin’ like a ho in church”. Like I’m in the Midwest now and met a guy from Alabama who was cooking for an event. I told him he put his foot in the meal. He immediately understood and laughed whereas most non Southerner likely would not have. Also I call my mother mom because I grew up in California but my family is Southern. Most Southerners I know call their parents mama and daddy from childhood until well into adulthood. There isn’t the idea that you have to switch from daddy to dad at a certain age. My mom called her grandfather Papa. But someone from Maine likely sounds very different from a Louisianan and culturally there will be differences. One day I will have to tell you guys about Jazz funerals in New Orleans.
Wired did a 3-part series totaling nearly 80 minutes by a linguist about a year or so ago that "just barely scratched the surface" of all the different accents in the US. Overall I think he (and some linguist friends) went through about 60 different accents in the videos. It was quite fascinating.
I honestly think New Jersey shoreline from even Cape May point, looks, and scenery wise, more similar to New England states and Maritime Canada like Nova Scotia than to the shoreline of Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina. Cape May is just a flatter version of Cape Cod Massachusetts. And Cape May New Jersey is closer to Nova Scotia Canada than it is to Florida. In fact, New Jersey is literally closer to Wisconsin, and Nova Scotia than to Florida
Yes. Bill for example has a kind of old fashioned Southern accent because he's so old. The rest like Arlene and Sam were born in South Carolina and Georgie respectively.
@@galmanferguson ohhh I see.. I think as the series progressed they either started to fade out the accent or I got better at understanding it... but it's crazy
sometimes i think i don’t have an accent then remember i talk like this “idn’t think y’d do it!” “ain’t no way ts fuckr flew by like a bat outta hell n thought he’d be alright” “ma, couldja help me real quick? m tryna get this ta work right” “yer seriously tryna do this?” 😭 i’m from the south but i talk pretty fast, you kinda gotta get yer words out ta be heard in my house
i live in florida and know a lot of people who are from georgia, south and north carolina, alabama and stuff and omg their accents are so different than ours where i live (north central) we have southern people, like southern accents and stuff, but they are mixed with more ig northern? and they aren't as thick we still say things like ain't, ya'll fellah ect. but just not as harsh also for the "i ain't gonna do that" i ALWAYS say "ah ain't gonna do dat"
this is the first time I discover that the southern accent is very melodic..almost tinted with an Italian accent...isn't that weird that most of the people who were living there were french descendant (french colonies like virginia, Carolina, Georgia, Luisianna) which are french female names (pronounced Virginie, Caroline, Geaorgie and Louisiane)!! french accent is strong and not melo at all !! so I suspect a latine mix (cuba) (Costa rica), while the majority of itlian immigrants were concentrated in NY area...and even a big latine community most of them from costa rica but even though the accent is still strong !! that's very bizarre !
There were a lot of English, Irish, Scottish and welsh people who moved to part of the south also. Lot of Appalachia is descended from these people and it shows in their words and music.
It’s funny she said Louisiana is country sounding, I’m from Louisiana, and I really don’t hear country sounding people, except when you get more up in the state. Closer to Ms, or Arkansas.
ain‘t, yonder, dawg, bless your heart and the mannerism … all from jolly old England. The Boston accent has clearly Irish influence with a drop of RP English.
Omg! The Southern slang and just the Southern accent alone was pretty accurate. I'm watching this thinking "yep...yep, that sounds like me". I'd say about 90% of the slang I've heard or used daily. Southern people tend to talk either really fast or very slow. I tend to talk fast, and I have to repeat myself quite often when I speak. It's funny because when you talk, you really don't notice that you have an accent until you meet or hear someone else's accent.
I noticed that too about speed! Funny enough I usually talk real fast, but then depending on my mood will sometimes talk real slow with the drawl. 😅
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@@kingdommoney4739 It's just an expression, chill out! Tell that to everybody else who says the same thing! I know who I am in Christ! Please leave me alone.
I never picked up the southern accent. I have family from the south but spent my life in a city full of people not from here. But I still turned out weird and talking funny. Love southerners though. I could get along with them great.
I’m late to this but I can relate to this too. I always have to repeat myself and I even cut out a few words to say em real quick and it does no one any good 🤣
I really want to listen to Christina speaking with Boston's accent. Looking forward to more of this!
This video just cracks me up!! My parents are both from Rhode Island so “orange” is pronounced “arr ange”. I grew up in Michigan but spent quite a bit of time in the south so I know the southern accents well, I feel like my English is sometimes mixed between all three accents. 😂
as I'm not a native speaker, I thought for a long time that all Americans pronounce the words with the letter O as A..like Orange, as you mentioned and many other words..love, obvious..for instance..then I found out that it's proper to the east coast accent ... especially in the northeast area (Boston NY) and what's also noticible in general it's a very nasal accent, especially in women!
So do you sound like Miss Rhode island from Miss Congeniality
Mixed accent is best accent!
When I was a teenager ,I used to work at Walmart and I told some guy who was from Boston that I was "fixin to go on break.". He gave me a weird look. He didn't understand what i was saying. He was a nice guy and my friend but he had no idea what "fixing to" meant
I saw a meme that I guess was from the Boston area. It was a neon sign reminding drivers to use their turn signals and it said "Use yah blinkah".
I had such a fun time comparing accents with Shannon! Living outside if the US for 6 years made me lose most of my accent, but I do miss hearing it a lot! There are so many different accents in the states~ Hope you guys enjoyed! -Christina 🇺🇸
🛑 no simping
I am so happy to read your valuable message, Christina. You are so cute
No one talks about the Alaska's accent. Why?
I am Southern Californian, and I love when your Boston accent comes out. It sounds "wicked" smart. Could you do a "World Friends" video, with you teaching someone else your native Boston accent? I know you have said you are not from Boston proper, but you grew up close enough.
@@Neo-Reloaded Maybe because it's the least populated state. Alaskans also speak 20 indigenous languages like Yupik and Aleut, so their accent has concepts from those languages.
You can have neutral newscaster American accents in all 50 states though. The fact that these two girls sound like they grew up down the street from each other and have to imitate the accents from their native states is proof of that. It's mostly people over 50 that have stronger regional accents. The younger generation have much more neutral general American accents, especially if they grew up in the suburbs, went to college and work in professional environments. You're kind of forced into that accent based on class.
It's propably the same in every country, the slang is usually stronger in countryside, small towns and used by older people. Bigger usually have a more modern slang with loanwords etc.
*bigger cities
@@Foreignmonk34 Yeah, I've noticed that too.
To me, their natural accents still sound pretty different. Christina has that northern "nasal" quality to her voice which Shannon doesn't. Christina also does a lot of uptalk, where you raise the pitch at the end of a sentence to indicate that you're not finished talking. (To people who don't use uptalk, it sounds like you're asking a question.)
Christina also opens her mouth a lot less, and spreads her lips more than Shannon does. To my ear, it actually gives Christina more twang than Shannon, which is interesting because people usually associate the South with twang.
@@ZipplyZane 95% of the words they speak sound identical to me and I work all over the country. Neither have typical Northern or Southern regional accents.
As someone raised in Georgia, I can confirm everything Shannon said. I grew up hearing “over yonder “, “fixin to”, “no you ain’t!”, “ well bless your heart “, “Lord willing and the creek don’t rise”, “it’s just a hop, skip, and a jump away”, “How y’all doin’?”…. And SO MUCH MORE! Lol! My mom is from California and is Latina, my dad from Georgia. My accent is stronger than Shannon’s but not as strong as a lot of my friends here. Fun video! Both girls are very cool.
I’m from Georgia too I can relate
Christina and Shannon work good together 👍 more content World Friends
Southern accent is just so wonderful, love it ❤️ More of that. And - I do think it’s a bit of shame that these ladies don’t stick to their lovely, wonderful accents most of the time, instead of this kind of ‘generic’ American accent. Would be lovely to listen to!
How to study English knowing that there are several accents and words from different countries and even States like US 🇺🇸 ? It's best to stick with an accent, but in the end it's always a mixture of all accents.
In general, and this is just my opinion (I’m from the south). Most of the Pacific Northwest states and some of the Midwest states have the most “neutral” General American accent if you don’t want to sound like you’re from somewhere specific.
The accent doesn't matter. What matters is not using UK vocab in the US like "mate" or "cheers".
If you grow up with mostly US media. You'll eventually use that version of English. No matter what schools try to enforce on you to use. Without noticing and without doing it on purpose, you'll use the US media version of English if you hear it while growing up all the time.
@@finflame13 Some places in the rural PNW will have Southern accents, however, due to a lot of far-right wing folks who decided to move out and resettle in order to escape race mixing. Oregon for example was literally established as white ethnic state that banned the permanent settlement of non-whites. This is also a reason for all of the political violence in the region where the cities are some of the most progressive in the country while you have literal Klan towns on the outskirts. Some towns in Idaho have even been caught by the FBI for funding domestic terrorism and have been monitored going back to the '60s and '70s.
Yeah, I can put on my southern accent, but I mainly used the “general” American accent everyone else on the planet is familiar with.
My favorite thing to hear in Bostonian accent is “I left my car keys in my khakis”
I’ve worked with quite a few people from that area over the years and even had English class with a teacher that was from there and had a heavy accent and they were always a pleasure to work with (I’m from the Chicago area). Nice video! 👍🏻
I've also noticed that every foreigner in America when they try to imitate in "American" English have the same West Coast accent probably because of American TV and movies filmed in Hollywood, Los Angeles (West Coast) I'm guessing
I grew up in NC - like shannon :D later we moved to Europe and the Middle East, so my accent sounds very similar to hers. Americans can pick up on it and ask me if im from the south but people who are not from the us often times ask me why do I have a California accent, which I definitely don't. been asked if I was from New Zealand too which is super weird. but I think its just that some people can't tell the accents apart and they just feel like whoever sounds American is from California lol
My Boston accent really comes out when I’m drunk 😭 but “wicked” will never leave my vocabulary even now that I moved to florida
Same here!😆
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Cheers from the Pacific West coast of Canada.
Eh?
The cutest thing about these videos is watching the little Asian mannerisms that leak out every now and then from these native looking and sounding westerners. I didn't even know this was a Korean channel until I started noticing their mannerisms. I wonder how long they've been in Asia.
I haven't noticed American accents all that much except for how people pronounce "crayon" and "water" differently and obviously there are some vocab differences like with "y'all" and "pop" and "sucker" which I never grew up saying. But one thing that I did notice from my own experience, as someone who first learned English in Hawaii and who later moved to the mainland, is that some words that I took for granted in Hawaii don't exist or are pronounced different in the mainland. For example, in Hawaii, "karate" is always pronounced ka-ra-TEH (sometimes with a flip of the tongue) and never ka-RA-ti like they do on the mainland, and "ukulele" is pronounced OO-kulele, not YOO-kulele. The default words for urine and feces were "shishi" and "doodoo," not "pee" and "poop" like they say on the mainland. There's also "bibidees" which are men's underwear, a word that I haven't heard mainlanders use. I also realized mainlanders often use the term "Hawaiian shirt" to refer to an aloha shirt.
Unfortunately regional accents are dying off. There's even Irish people from Ireland who speak in standard American English accents now.. I'm 35 and feel I'm part of the last generation to have a very thick NYC urban accent, but I can code-switch and speak in standard accent as well. I use it when I'm at work, or when I lived in Japan to talk/teach to Japanese people. When I'm around peers in casual situations, especially NYers I just let my regional accent go unfiltered. Makes me talk faster and is less stressful. Talking in standard English feels necessary but it's a lot of work and I mess up whenever I'm angry, happy or surprised. The moment something suddenly spikes my emotion the NY accent comes out on its own.
They aren't dying, they are just changing. New accents have been emerging (Miami, chicano, northwestern...) None of those existed 50 years ago.
“Even Irish people who speak in standard American English now”
What the f*ck… What part of Ireland are you from? 😂
Knowing American accents from movies, and now having them compared like this is really informative
As a native New Yorker, I get asked to say "Forget about it" in all one word whenever I travel in the south, midwest and northwest. Now that I reside in Florida, I feel I am losing the accent a little bit. I have been told that when I get pissed off that my NY accent and attitude goes from zero to 100 in a nanosecond. I love going to Boston to see my Yankees at Fenway Park. Sadly, I have been told that the strong Boston accent is dying out due to so many students and foreigners moving in to study in the city.
The Sam Adams Beer Company has a TV commercial that plays up the accent. I see it about once a week here in Florida
Accents dying out in Newfoundland also.
@@patriciakeats1621 Every time a local accent dies, the world looses something important.
Accents die becaus of mass media. Tik Tok and youtube 'teach' an english standard that youngsters pick up as 'normal'.
If you were to travel in England say back in the 40s, EACH VILLAGE, not region but village had their particular accent.
As mass television 'taught' a standard English, accents started to die. With the advent of digital mass media, it will be even worse in twenty or thirty years.
@@nickgermanic8505 Yes.
It's not due to students and foreigners moving in. Rather the older generation moving to the suburbs. Same happened in NYC, the Italians and Jews with the heavy New York accents moved to Long Island and NJ. Now you have 20 somethings that grew up in Manhattan that sound like valley girls.
Christina is acting like she's just met a Martian, not a fellow countryman.
I can see your perspective, but it felt pretty normal to me lol... I live "close" to the south so there's a lot of that influence here and I witnessed some "extended family of a friend" visit from California who NEVER had any exposure to the south or southern people and it wasn't that far off. I can totally see people from the north doing the same.. like they always hear about southern people but encountering them in person is actually like meeting a Martian.
Can I request a video of all of the Americans from different region of the US gather together and talk about their own slangs?
I’m from GA but Louisiana has Cajun, Yat, etc.
The accents along the East Coast are mainly variations of English accents. Faster talking in the North think cold weather.. Slower talking in the South think hot and humid .....
I want to add some more Southern slang words too!
The first one is "gonna" which means 'going to'. For example, "I'm gonna take a nap"
The second word is "draws" which means underwear. Kinda like "Go pick up your draws off the floor.
The third word is "daggum" which some people use when they don't curse; it's another word for 'd*mn'.
The last one that I can think of would be "imma" which means 'I am (I'm) going to' for example, if my mom were to ask me when will go to the store, I would say "Imma go later".
Gonna really isn’t Southern slang. It’s used across the country. On the other hand fixin’ to or finna would be Southern. A Southerner is more likely to say I’m fixin’ to leave. Draws is the Southern way of pronouncing drawers. And one of the meanings of drawers is underwear so they didn’t create that meaning although they use it more. I have heard some non Southerners say draws but not as much.
I might add
fixin to (about to)
britches (underwear or pants)
dagnabbit
doggone
"Gonna" & "imma" started in the south but went coast to coast.
I maintain y'all is the superior third person plural. Super easy to say, gets the point across, a little bit folksy but in an endearing way. It seems to be spreading so I assume others agree with me.
@Adam Brown I stand corrected. The best, nonetheless
Central Floridian here. Most accents here are country, creole, Spanish, and Caribbean. Same with South Florida (depending on were you are) except now there are more up north folks down there.
These accents are very subtle.. I am an Indian ...we speak Hindi as our primary language in the north of India though the north Indian states have their own dialects and languages...South Indians don't speak Hindi atall until they can't do with their own language....they have a very heavily influenced regional accent when they speak in Hindi and it's a joy to listen to them..😊😊
Christina is back!!!
I’m happy that they haven’t lost their northern/southern roots! All the different US accents, so colourful! I notice Christina’s Boston accent, I get hints of Canadian especially when she pronounced out. It makes sense I’m guessing Massachusetts isn’t too far away from Canada.
Massachusetts to the Canadian border is 1'579 miles.
I think it's just the nasally As and Os that can smetmes resemble Canada.
@@marydavis5234 It's 222 miles from Boston to Stanstead, Quebec, Canada ... not sure if that's the closest border crossing, however. From Pittsfield, MA to Saint Armand, Quebec, Canada is 202 miles.
@@Timotimo101 Well guess who's from Pittsfield? Me. And we don't sound anything like Canadians. And certainly not French-Canadians. Her accent was just odd. She didn't sound like a Masshole at all.
@@aidanb.c.2325 Some of her sounds seemed like MA to me but I'm originally from Tennessee and living in Vermont and New England for over 20 years now so you should hear what I sound like! LOL. Some people say I sound a little Southern and some say I sound a little New Englander ... so it's a hybrid.
Love hearing those accents. Liked and subscribed 😁👍💕
this kind of video is so interesting ,as a chinese ,there are so many dialects as wall,it is interesting to listen difirent acsent
Saw a video about the mountain folks of Appalachia- that is just a whole different ball game
oh yeah, that is almost like a different language lol. there's also the outer banks accent that is pretty interesting - worth checking out.
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I’m here before watching Ginny and Georgia and now I’m really excited to learn about accents
I do have an accent but mostly comes out when I'm mad.
Course when I'm not mad and I'm talking you can hear some southern sounds. Like "accent" for me I say "accen" I basically leave out the "T".
This series are so fun! The blonde girl looks like Lauren Daigle with a heart/diamond shaped face.
I was born in Alabama but my whole family is from North Dakota so I don’t have any sort of accent at all…I kind of use a mix of Native American northern and southern
These girls are sooo pretty🔥🔥😍😍😍
I’m a New Yorker so I never realized I talk fast. Not until I saw this.
Me all the way in Hawaii knowing more Southern terms than Christina lmao. Giiiiirl
I would've pegged Shannon to be from CA, but to hear her speaking Southern make her even more endearing.
Really? I had thought in the last video she might be from West Texas like around Austin because they tend to have a soft Southern accent. She Doesn’t sound Californian to me.
@@anndeecosita3586 I thought that based on her looks. I didn’t hear her accent until this video. CA has all types so it’s not out of the question.
I’m from Florida I don’t think my accent too bad but I live here. We just take shortcuts when we speak not bout to pronounce every letter I’m sorry 😂😂
Florida here too and we tend to have a more neutral general American accent I think, I don't know if there really is a regional Florida accent, just a mix of influences from everything I guess but nothing super strong. Totally get the shortcuts thing though, maybe that in itself is a Florida thing, I don't know lol. EDIT: Exceptions to this would be Miami with more Hispanic, Cuban influences and such, and the north Florida/panhandle area where you get a much more Southern influence.
@@thelightshineth8848 true florida is not much southern accent to me north fl is southern fl have no drawl to barley more Caribbean down there
I'm from the Midwest. I went to Miami and talked to the native Miami people. Sounds funny af. I could hardly understand what they were saying
As someone living in the Northeast U.S and native to the region, it’s always strange that NJ is closer to Nova Scotia Canada, and Wisconsin than it is to Florida.
0:27 I think Shannon looks like a golden retriever has just turned into a human. I like her happy smiley retriever face.
I love too that you picked two generally non rhotic american accents.
In the northeast of England where I come from accents recognisably change every 10 miles or so. 30 miles from home they will kniw you’re not a local. In comparison American accents are fairly homogenous.
That was a nice chat. Nice.
Being from Wisconsin, I don't feel like this fully represents the North in the accents. With that said, I know the North i split up between the north along the coast and the "midwest" and Wisconsin is always classified as the "midwest" even though we're closer to both sides are up aove everyone so we have our own "accent" or so everyone tells me when I speak. I'm a fully born and bred Wisconsinite. Cheesehead all the way. I know one thing, in my "neck of the woods" we don't sound nothing like any of the things portrayed "northren" in this video. There some people not being represented here. Seriously, we sound nothing like that. Would be neat to see the different parts of the north represented so people can understand just how DIFFERENT we really are.
Im from Minnesota, and people tells me that our accents have Canadian in them. I have canadian friends and I don’t think I sound like that. But perhaps its a confirmation bias thing 🤷♂️
Fellow Minnesotan here, I've heard that we sound Canadian aswell. I do believe that to some degree that's true because I personally don't pick up on any difference in our speech besides the pronunciation of 3 words... out, about and house 🤣
Great video and idea but it woulda been cooler to see a yankee and a southerner who each had noticeable accents talkin to each other.
Iowa accents are different also. And the way different states call things are cool. Like in the south a cart is a buggy.
Wow i never knew you used "over yonder" in the States. I thought it was just used in the north of England where im from. Thats crazy. Great video by the way 👍
There are a lot of similarities... one that's used in the southern U.S. and probably northern England is "I reckon." First time I heard that on a UK program I was surprised... we think of it as being a southern thing here in the states.
And I never knew that was used in England until like two months ago😂
That's where we get it in the Southern US because Northern English people were a large group who settled in the American South.
Yonder and reckon are common in the Southern USA. Other words are chest of drawers (which people pronounce chester drawers), commode, and fancy. Not fancy as in elaborate but fancy like to say you like something. I fancy a glass of sweet tea. Other regions tend not to use fancy that way.
Read 'Albion's Seed'
This is really good video
I will say that “fixin to” is starting to be replaced with “finna,” functioning similarly to “gonna” but with the meaning of “fixing to.”
Idk why florida gets associated with the south anymore i know it is south of america but its literally a mix of all states they should do a southern state that isnt so diverse in accents
Nice topic, it's good see two American girls going asymmetric with the north and south accents. Christina looking good and Shannon being straight up sexy; such a beautiful smile, I enjoy watching you smile and talk everytime. Great job!
As a southerner I am proud of it ❤
How cute is Christina 😍
Wen supah pretti onna outsah iyuh supah cute onna insai !
28 year old southern boy. still say mama and all my male friends do too
It's crazy that even now you can notice the British influence on Boston accents and vocabulary
A Brit who lived for a while in North Carolina- Chapel Hill. I mainly had no problem with the accent other than once when an electrician came to the house. He said something to me and I literally had no idea what he was saying. Eventually after really concentrating I found out what he wanted me to do. BTW I have an English RP accent yet was always asked am I German or French!!
I had a friend from South Carolina who I use to play online games with but his accent was so incomprehensible I had to pretend I was having problems with my headset in order to avoid having to voicechat with him!
English RP accent is the best :)
Being raised in Connecticut, most people would peg me for being a Midwesterner, but a little New York slips in every now and then because I lived in the western half of the state.
Damn I haven't heard some deep South slang in a while! I'm from Tennessee, and I'll lay out a few Southern words I can come up with y'all may have skipped:
" Reckon " - I reckon I...
" aught " - to go ahead and put this word in.
" I'ma " - make sure to list out all I can think of though. I'm...
" fixin' " to just think of a random conversation I'd have. When I bump into people my instinct is to say:
" Ope! " - Sorry about that! I didn't mean to..
" Ma'm! "...
This was very interestin! Not often ya get to hear from the North and South, we usually are polar opposites lol.
im from maine and we Use "MA" a lot when talking about mom and its kinda like....MaH..like saying it in the back of your mouth
Christina and Shannon work good together..I'm from Mizoram
Yonder an old school term, used to be common in Nigerian pidgin English too.
Eg you leave us go yonder.
Meaning you went far away.
The Boston accent is kind of close to British, hence more intelligible to my Nigerian ear.
Careful Christina, this girl is FIRE!
This was definitely
South vs East lmao totally missing the west coast accent. (Cali/Oregon)
And a true Northern accent borderline sounds like a Canadian accent (Wisconsin/Montana)
Imagine trying to do an Alaskan accent. I'm from Alaska and we have our own accent that's probably not very well known in other states
I'm southern and its funny how northerners assume country and southern is the same and that every southern state has the same accent. I'm Texan and our accent is wildly different than a Louisiana accent lol
I've noticed in some of these videos the foreigners always seem to think "southern accent" means "Texan accent" ... like you can tell they're thinking "cowboy/ranch" stuff, which is quite different from "the deep south" Louisiana, Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia etc.
I really liked this video! I'm from New Orleans, Louisiana, in the South. In just my city alone there are 5+ different accents, but none of them do I find to be that stereotypical/cinema southern accent. My accent is quite neutral like I find Shannon's; no one can really tell where I'm from, which is kinda sad 😅because an accent is like a part of your identity in a way. I say y'all, but yonder, ain't, and bless your heart I use in a humorous or exaggerated way. Fixin', imo, is verrry Mississippi/Alabama/Carolinas.
Shannon sounds “softly” Southern to me. In her first video I thought she might be from Austin although she is from Florida/North Carolina. That was because I could hear a difference in pronunciation between her and Christina. I have a friend from NOLA who sounds mostly neutral because she has lived in other parts of the country and in other countries. But when she says certain words it becomes very apparent she does have some regional pronunciations in her accent.
. When I moved to the South (mostly lived on the Gulf Coast) I noticed a lot of people pronounce mayonnaise as a two syllable word ma nayse. I thought it was strange at first because I grew up where it’s pronounced as three syllables. But whenever I would say mayonnaise, people would look at me confused like they had never heard this so I gave up and started saying mayo. 😂
Apparently a lot of words from the south have made there way to Minnesota. I grew up here, call my parents Mama and Daddy, say y'all, and over yonder along with some of the other words and phrases she said were southern! Both my Mama and Daddy grew up here in MN too🤷♀️ Aswell as 3 out of my 4 Grandparents! Only thing I can think of is maybe a lot of the influence of this came from my one Granny that grew up in Jersey... but, that's not south🤷♀️ America has been such a melting pot of people from all over for so many years now though that through the generations I think a good dispearsment has happened! Some of it isn't even necessarily a "North" or "South" thing perhaps ... but an "American" thing! For many generations "Americans" have come from all over the world!
A lot of times I can peg a Minnesotan from the distinct accent many have.
@@anndeecosita3586 I know it is said to be a pretty strong accent. I know being from here that I don't pick up on it the way others not from here do . The further North I travel within the state though I feel like it gets thicker and I pick up on that! I can def pick up on the Canadian accent! Sounds cliche but I hear it most in words like out, about and house 🤣
@@anndeecosita3586 If I may ask, where is it that you're from?
Yea yall is very very southern, but now its common everywhere.
Its very common especially in cities that border the Great lakes. “Y’all” is definitely used a good amount in cities like Rochester, Buffalo, Cleveland, Erie PA, Duluth, Grand Rapids, Marquatte, Chicago, Milwawkee etc. Its even said in Northern Appalachia too, in Southern tier NY, western and central PA, and western MD. Its not really that common in the Northeast U.S areas that are south of Albany NY. Especially not said much in the lower hudson valley, eastern PA counties that border NJ, and doesn’t even get used in the Adirondack mountain area either, along with New England.
southern accents are slightly different... the alabama accent is different than border states....they are also slight variations in southern accent in each state..north alabama.sounds a little different than south alabama for example.
As a Southern “traditional English” that is spoken in the Northern United States sounds weird to me lol 😂
Like what Northerns would call a crayon “cray-on” mine and my families would sound like “crown”
Same with putting the “ing” on the ends of words. I always just say huntin, fishin, swimmin, doin, playin, cookin, drivin, etc.
One think that could explain our differences in dialects is that the New England areas were heavily settled by English who had “posh accents”, as well as Irish and Italians. The Great Lakes area also has a enormous Scandinavian and German culture.
Meanwhile in the South it was mostly settled by “Celtic” people. Most notably Scottish, Northern Irish, Welsh, and people from the West Country England (such as Cornwall) however, the Upland South (Kentucky and Tennessee) has a good amount of German influence as well.
As someone from Kentucky it’s also always hilarious to me that southern Indiana and Ohio have more “southerner” accents but the farther you go up the more harsher it goes lol 😂
My father is actually from the North (New York) and his side of the family up there as well as him always have a “harsher” tone then my maternal side down here in the South. My mom and I always feel like lab rats going up there as they all wanna hear us talk haha
The "general" Southern accent is said to come from the fact that Northern English people settled the South and vice versa in some books.
Why you acting like your from a different world? We are all Americans my southern friend.
Definitely my favorite World Friends video ever. As someone from New Jersey I would like to point out that most of us do not sound like characters from "The Sopranos." In fact I'd say most of us have a very neutral American accent (give or take a few words or phrases).
I don't know anyone who was born and raised in NJ that sounds like that, you're right that the majority are definitely closer to a flat/neutral accent. If I'm traveling people are surprised that I'm from NJ and they say I don't sound like what they expect but I guess with how the media emphasizes those strong accents for our state that's what most people think we sound like.
As someone else from New Jersey...thank you. I get that question a lot from different parts of the country. "Why don't you speak like the Sopranos?"
I think it be awesome if you had the entire state of NJ speaking like the Sopranos😂😂😂 good show! Hey I'm a Bostonian and as much as I would like to say WE DON'T sound like characters out of The Departed ahhhhh we kinda do😂😂😂😂😂
Most of the people I’ve met from New Jersey didn’t sound like the Sopranos but not what I would call “neutral” either. I think sometimes people are so used to their accent they don’t notice certain things as much as outsiders do.
@@anndeecosita3586 I think I am very aware of what I sound like, as well as the people around me. I did write that the mostly New Jersey accent is neutral except perhaps for a few words or phrases. What I didn't say was that people who come from the area directly opposite to Philadelphia definitely have a Pennsylvanian accent, or an accent from that area of PA that is very distinct.
Oh... that is what US americans mean with their "many dialects".😅
I am german, speaking only "high german". There are german dialects I can not understand at all, because they use many words that do have not the sightest similarity to the "high german word" and sometimes even change the sentence structure.
For example : I have lived in the city cologne for over 35 years. Until to this day I do not understand the sightest, when someone does say something in "real Kölsch" (real, because during carneval and in TV they talk a more tourist friendly version of it).
Swiss is even worse. Their dialects are so different, that sometimes the one village can not understand the talking of the neighbour village.
I think that is what is confusing for us in the rest of the world if US is talking about dialects... because all those US dialects are still understandable.
US americans should visit the UK. A state of the sice of california, I would say, with many dialects that are very hard and sometimes impossible to understand.😉
If you go into the deeper rural areas you might get that here too, but yeah I agree in general even though there are a lot of accents here, they are by and large very much understandable, maybe except for a few regional specific terms. I would say English in general is very permissive of variations in dialect and accent, we can usually understand all of it as long as it's not a super thick accent (defined by me as over-pronouncing every consonant, over-stressing every syllable, and not letting vowels breathe enough)
Dude i'm smelting of this cuteness
hello, great video. may i suggest one thing. zoom in on the ppl talking to each other to at least waist height? full body and grey chair shots r awkward. perhaps a small table between them with a flower and vase like friends having a kiki, bc this is how this conversational comparison reads. xoxo
i love American Southern accent 😍
Christina is making me want to visit Boston! I like the Bostonian accent
They speak with the same General American accent although Christina is from Massachusetts and Shannon is from Florida / North Carolina. That proves that regional accents are disappearing in the United States.
love southern accents, the ticker the better. However the size of the country doesn't mean there must be many accents. For example smaller places as England has tons of accents, and the Netherlands too. even smaller countries such as Slovenia, Croatia or Serbia has accents that differ from town to town let alone regions. On the other hand, Russia is huge but lacking the accent divisions. or Turkey for example
"Brutally" may sound different in different regions. I personally prefer the sound and pronunciation "Bru:tly".
I was thinking like episode of modern family that Michelle went to southern part with his partner while I was watching the video. So funny lol
Yay I’m so happy they at least discussed the USA having different accents because a lot of non-Americans think we only have one. I’m American and struggle to understand some people depending on where they are from. There are also word variations among the regions. In Southern USA English I see a lot in common with UK English. Southerners say yonder, reckon, courting, fancy (as in like). Contrary to popular belief the word rubbish is used in the USA however it’s mostly by saying someone is talking rubbish so speaking lies or nonsense. Southerners typically drop word ending g in ing and re and or in words like store, door, floor. Many also say y’all, ain’t, commode for toilet, buggy for shopping cart., tennis shoes not sneakers.
Sometimes people will shorten fixin’ to to finna. Idioms and colorful expressions are common. My mom says “she was sweatin’ like a ho in church”. Like I’m in the Midwest now and met a guy from Alabama who was cooking for an event. I told him he put his foot in the meal. He immediately understood and laughed whereas most non Southerner likely would not have.
Also I call my mother mom because I grew up in California but my family is Southern. Most Southerners I know call their parents mama and daddy from childhood until well into adulthood. There isn’t the idea that you have to switch from daddy to dad at a certain age. My mom called her grandfather Papa. But someone from Maine likely sounds very different from a Louisianan and culturally there will be differences. One day I will have to tell you guys about Jazz funerals in New Orleans.
Wired did a 3-part series totaling nearly 80 minutes by a linguist about a year or so ago that "just barely scratched the surface" of all the different accents in the US. Overall I think he (and some linguist friends) went through about 60 different accents in the videos. It was quite fascinating.
@@MagsonDare i saw that and it was fascinating
I honestly think New Jersey shoreline from even Cape May point, looks, and scenery wise, more similar to New England states and Maritime Canada like Nova Scotia than to the shoreline of Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina. Cape May is just a flatter version of Cape Cod Massachusetts. And Cape May New Jersey is closer to Nova Scotia Canada than it is to Florida. In fact, New Jersey is literally closer to Wisconsin, and Nova Scotia than to Florida
Like the MA saying :" can ya spare a fella a quarta for a cup of chowda"
is the southern accent the one we see in the HBO show called TRUE BLOOD? it's so hard for me to understand it.
Yes. Bill for example has a kind of old fashioned Southern accent because he's so old. The rest like Arlene and Sam were born in South Carolina and Georgie respectively.
@@galmanferguson Sookie's accent was difficult for me, but Arlene, Tara and Lafayette, gosh, I needed aid (subtitles).
@@alexmendez9792 I think Sookie's supposed to be like a 'northern' Southern accent where they speak a lot faster.
@@galmanferguson ohhh I see.. I think as the series progressed they either started to fade out the accent or I got better at understanding it... but it's crazy
sometimes i think i don’t have an accent then remember i talk like this “idn’t think y’d do it!” “ain’t no way ts fuckr flew by like a bat outta hell n thought he’d be alright” “ma, couldja help me real quick? m tryna get this ta work right” “yer seriously tryna do this?” 😭 i’m from the south but i talk pretty fast, you kinda gotta get yer words out ta be heard in my house
As European I like the southern accent the most. It is so soothing and chill.
What a Beauty of differences, people talk, speaking.Interested to understand & to enjoy.Languages.
i live in florida and know a lot of people who are from georgia, south and north carolina, alabama and stuff and omg their accents are so different than ours
where i live (north central) we have southern people, like southern accents and stuff, but they are mixed with more ig northern? and they aren't as thick
we still say things like ain't, ya'll fellah ect. but just not as harsh
also for the "i ain't gonna do that" i ALWAYS say "ah ain't gonna do dat"
The best depiction of a Boston accent is Matt Damon's character in Good Will Hunting, especially in that bar scene.
- How do you prevent American people talking?
- Don't let them say "like" 😂
Not all Americans say like. Some say know what I mean 😂
today's kids use a lot of the world ''like''..(Im like) (it's like)...instead of the ''you know'' overused in the previous generations...
this is the first time I discover that the southern accent is very melodic..almost tinted with an Italian accent...isn't that weird that most of the people who were living there were french descendant (french colonies like virginia, Carolina, Georgia, Luisianna) which are french female names (pronounced Virginie, Caroline, Geaorgie and Louisiane)!! french accent is strong and not melo at all !! so I suspect a latine mix (cuba) (Costa rica), while the majority of itlian immigrants were concentrated in NY area...and even a big latine community most of them from costa rica but even though the accent is still strong !! that's very bizarre !
There were a lot of English, Irish, Scottish and welsh people who moved to part of the south also. Lot of Appalachia is descended from these people and it shows in their words and music.
It’s funny she said Louisiana is country sounding, I’m from Louisiana, and I really don’t hear country sounding people, except when you get more up in the state. Closer to Ms, or Arkansas.
I’m from South Carolina and I’ve never said yellah 🤣 def would say fella without thinking about it.
My fam would say force like it’s supposed to be said 🤣
Momma or mama is definitely the normal
I say “fixin to” and my Ohio friend always laughs.
I use Bless your heart genuinely 🤣🙏🏻🥰
Commentary over 🤣🤣
ain‘t, yonder, dawg, bless your heart and the mannerism … all from jolly old England.
The Boston accent has clearly Irish influence with a drop of RP English.
Love the blondie 😚
In Texas we say fixin to eat or fixin to do something