Louisianian here. In my opinion they picked an excellent clip for us, and I had been nervous about it too. Hollywood gets the South Louisiana or Cajun accent wrong in 99% of everything they put out. Most of the time they just do a southern US twang, but in reality south Louisiana has 0 to do with that accent as Cajun accent is basically completely derived from Francophones some of whom only learned English in the last 100 years.
Also a lot of people confuse Cajun and Louisiana Creole which are different groups of people. I used to spend a lot of time inNOLA and there are multiple accents there. Some sound almost Caribbean and others similar to New Yorkers City people
You guys have a whole different dialect, and part of that is due to the uniqueness of the culture of the Mississippi bridging a wide gap of unlikely links through a chain of generations. It’s quite smooth when you actually listen to it with the context of French and both American and African American English. Creole and Cajun accents are actually pretty amazing to hear when spoken fluently.
My dad's side of the family comes from Natchitoches - as a youngster I have memories of fishing for crawdads : ) lotsa racism around that area though from what I encountered which is a shame. It's a quite beautiful piece of the country. Will never forget those days spent on the Bayou.
Julia's right about the New England clip having non-rhotic word endings like some English accents. So the "er" almost becomes an "ah", like in "Septembah".
The famous "pahk the cah in hahvahd yahd" but not all New England talks like that. It's mainly in the Boston area and Rhode Island. Connecticut, New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine they don't really talk like that.
@@SamtheII know a lot of New Yorker and New Jersey people who do not pronounce Rs much either. Actually there are Southerners who do it as sugah, butta, brotha, and so on
Don't despair Julia your English is good 99.99% of country. The most difficult parts of Louisiana and Appalachia is also due to dialect differences. Like Creole and isolated mountain people respectively.
And actually if you go into the nitty-gritty, there are accents within California. Not just North & South because of size of state, but local hillbillies within SoCal. For instance actor Slim Pickens (Dr. Strangelove and Blazing Saddles) is from small town near Fresno, CA (mid state). I don't know if his accent in the movies is altered for roles, but I've definitely met people in the hills who were a bit isolated and had strong accents unlike typical accent associated with California.
@@johns6795I have heard some people from Northern California who I thought sounded a bit Dutch. I thought they were the children of recent immigrants and was surprised they were multi generational Californians. Also one big difference between NorCal and SoCal is the pronunciation of the word almond. SoCal pronounces the L and NorCal doesn’t.
I think in that video she was just giving her impression of a MN accent. Her natural speaking voice (or at least the one she puts on for the camera) is definitely more general, at least in my opinion.
@@oXPhillyXoHer accent has changed over the years. Most entertainers in the USA do that unless they are making their money from certain music genres. The actor doing the Pittsburgh accent was showing how he speaks back home.
I'm from Colorado and we have a neutral or general accent but I can almost always understand others... EXCEPT when I was young I met a girl from Louisiana and we talked on the phone and I could barely understand her so I definitely agree with this assessment. The other English speakers I had difficulty understanding were from Ireland (south, countryside) and Liverpool, UK.
Julia, eu tenho um orgulho gigantesco de você. Se destaca muito com seu jeito bem brasileiro de ser. Acredito que as pessoas não tem noção do quanto para nós brasileiros é dificultado o ensino de um outro idioma. Parabéns pelo seu sucesso! #TeamJulia #Brazil
"Dificultado"?! Tá maluco? Não é dificultado EM NADA, ainda mais hoje em dia, plmds! Não é porque o Brasileiro médio tem uma cultura isolacionista monolíngue, e na maioria das vezes preguiça mesmo de aprender outro idioma, que exista qualquer tipo de "dificultamento", não existe.
@andersonrockeravenger6749 concordo contigo, eu aprendi sozinho apenas pesquisando e me afundando nos estudos, até mesmo jogos ou filmes ajudam com isso.
The Carolinas have several regional accents that make them stand out from other southerners, and these islander accents are pretty strong. That particularly pronounced shift in the "i" sound in "times" is interesting. Other southerners do have a similar tendency to shift the "long i" toward a sort of "ah"-ish sound, but it always sounded a little extra strong and distinct to me in the people I've met from the Carolinas. Of course, I love the way a lot of Carolinians they say "Carolahna." 💙
I'm from North Carolina and the accent didn't sound familiar at all to me. But it is a big state--from the mountains to the islands on the Outer Banks. So the accent is quite different from one end to the other.
I was coming to say the same thing. It sounded just like the Maryland/Virginia Tidewater accent. Makes sense that coastal Carolinians would sound like that too. And that is nothing like the accents of the rest of those states.
@@AlbertHardyJr Oh yeah, absolutely. There's a very broad range of regional dialects. These island accents are a world away from the mountain talk in the western Carolinas, which is a type of straight-up Appalachian accent.
ITA I have been to South Carolina not North. But some of the people I have met from North have very distinctive and strong accents. It’s where sometimes I can tell someone is from NC opposed to another part of the South. And I noticed some will drag out that I in Carolina. I ❤ how they say it.
@@chicamorena18 I don't know how to differentiate the accent of people who speak english in different places, because for me it's the same thing, now if I spoke english, maybe I would understand.
@@chicamorena18 That's the same with me. I'm Brazilian and could say I can speak Spanish, but I can't distinguish the accents (unless very obvious things, but not the countries). And neither with English. It's pretty recent though that I started paying attention to the Portuguese accents differences 😂😂
The funny thing about these accent videos is that they only cover the white accents which, generally tend to sound very different from the black accents from region to region.
There’s a Texas accent then there’s a Houston accent 😂😂😂 sounds similar to the example but mixed with AAV. Is our friend in the camo from Texas too? I would love to be on this show, I’m working on becoming trilingual and am so fascinated by every episode 😍
I'm glad they at least distinguished Yooper from the rest of the Michigan accents 😂 we definitely speak differently between the north and the south. Wasn't in that clip but there are points of what they characterized as the Minnesotan accent like "oh you betcha" and "ope!" which are also part of that yooper slang
As someone from Northern California they need to start distinguishing between NorCal and SoCal. The long vowels and the “oh my god valley girl” accent is very Southern California. We have a tiny bit of that in Northern California but our accent different. Our accent is stronger and clear and faster. It sounds more general American.
Agreed. NorCal Bay Area here. 🙋🏻♀️ Majority of my family lives in SoCal and two of my sisters speak with the typical SoCal valley girl accent - I find it annoying. It’s very reminisce of “Clueless.”
Me SCREAMING, But mostly laughing 😂😂😂 at the first two! Like I have any of these people been to New york? Lol! That's a long island Italian if I ever heard one, furtherest west, queens. I don't know if they weren't watching the clip because that guy was legit wearing a Boston hat, put I don't even understand what's difficult to understand about that accent...... But it was 10 times out of 10 clearly New England --__-- to confuse the two BLOWS MY MIND! which is funny❤😂
@@gracesgr8t Yeah lol! I was surprised that was featured. Maybe they found his accent a little hard to understand, but I was used to it since I heard it for like 7 years so 😅
6:30 I’m white and grew up in Miami. I was diagnosed with dyslexia when I was young so I never took Spanish classes. When I am speaking to people who speak Spanish or have a Spanish accent I unintentionally change the way I speak. I would say I have a “general American accent” so I do notice I “code switch” in certain situations. Maybe it’s a comfort thing? A way to make other people and yourself feel comfortable and excepted? Idk but many ppl do it
A dialect coach Eric Singer said in his accent tour that North Carolina has the most diverse amount of accents in the USA. I can see that. Sometimes I can tell when someone is from North Carolina without them telling me because some people there sound distinct. Also some have heavily Southern accents despite what the participants have heard. IMO Upper Southern usually sounds different to me than Deep South. UP tends to make one syllable words sound like two syllables. Hell with be he yul. Help he yulp.. DS usually drags the vowel but no second syllable sound. They are also highly likely to drop syllables from words. Some places like STL Missouri have a weird mixture people do this strange thing where different vowels sounds alike her and hair sound like hur.
Wow. They remind me the nightmare I encountered when I travelled from Florida to Iowa, listening various accents which I couldn't comprehend so I had to ask thrice. I am Indonesian.
The cajun phonology and slangs mixes spanish, french, lousianish creole, seminole creole, guanche with english accents. By far its the hardest phonology to statesonian speaks clearly and communicative to others english dialects.
I used to live around a lot of Southern Louisiana people and my friends had to code switch for me to understand. This clip wasn’t so bad because all of what he said was in English so I understood. Usually it’s not all English words. My number 2 is Appalachian English because they have some vocabulary terms of their own.
Appalachian and navajo and Chinook english maybe dialects or separates idioms properly if a statesonian person doesn't study the culture and idioms possible it's gonna be out of the social interaction of theses communities. By far in others contexts they're very hard than cajun cos they uses ameridigens and Asians idioms if they want. It's another tuff expert mode of communication for few persons only.
Gets even crazier when you realize most states have even finer sub-accents. Virginia alone has, like, 6 or 7: standard drawl (Central Virginia, Richmond, Charlottesville), Tidewater (Virginia Beach, Norfolk), City North (Fairfax, Alexandria, bordering Washington DC), Mountains (Roanoke, Salem), Shenandoah (Luray), South (Danville, Appomattox, Lynchburg), and even farther west (Wytheville, Galax). I’d love to see a series on this based upon where they think people are from in each part of each state.
7:09 thing about the UK is there isn't a general UK accent per se, the standard newsreader accent is based on an upper class accent and matter how you speak you are giving away something about the place you grew up and your socioeconomic status There are some accents that are more neutral than others, for example there is kind of a general Northern England accent that isn't associated with a specific city, but that sounds very marked if you are in Scotland, Wales or the South of England
@@aldozilli1293 accent levelling is real, and there is a general Northern accent that some people approximate, it's something linguists have written about, there's a general Southern accent too ("standard Southern British") Some people have very pronounced regional accents, other people not so much
The North Carolina one was the “Hoi Toider” dialect of the Outer Banks and other islands along the mid Atlantic coast, it got its name from how “high tide” is pronounced. It was largely separated from mainland English for over 200 years following colonization and retained some British/Irish/Scottish influences lost in other American dialects, similar to Appalachian English.
The problem with New York (City) is that it's got so many people with so many cultures packed into a relatively small area that it's actually got several accents. The example in the video is more of a classic Brooklyn/Staten Island accent (and it specifically had to be the dad, because those areas have become more like the downtown Manhattan accent recently, so they needed someone older to demonstrate).
Im Canadian and got New York and New England right away, those were so easy, I think they're overthinking lmao Edit: I got almost all of them, the Anericans are either overthinking or dont know accents well at all
This was very generalized state accents. A lot of these states or areas may have several accents so it can be difficult to pick the area if it is one less known ones. I was raised in Northern California and the accent there is not the same as what was shown. That was more of a Southern Californian accent. Northern California is more General American, except where I grew up in the north Sacramento valley, which is General American but words can have a slightly different way to pronounce them. I grew up adding syllables or taking syllables for words. Like the female name Theresa, we would pronounce it (Treesa) or words like nuclear as Nuke-a-leer. The is a small subset area there that grows Almond trees and they swear that Almond is pronounced Ah-mond. When I went into the Air Force people could not figure out where my accent was from, and when I said California they thought I was lying.
New York has different accents just among the boroughs in NYC. Then take it upstate and you’ll find we sound somewhat Canadian in some places. My uncle ends most of his sentences with “,eh” like the stereotypical Canadian. Most of the time I have a very southern accent, having lived in the south for twenty years now. However, there are certain words I say with a very stereotypical NY accent. I’ve had people spot that I’m a Yankee, and not southern raised. Like the girl in the ball cap, I do sometimes mirror people when I speak to them. The more I’m around them, the more I sound like them and use phrasing similar to their phrasing.
Cajun from Louisiana here. When I joined the Army almost no one could understand a word I said, even though I was college educated. Eventually I managed to get locked into a "General American Accent". Several years later I got married. When me and the then wife flew into Louisiana to visit family I ran into a friend at the airport. It was like a switch was flipped and I was back to talking full on Cajun English. The wife looked like a cat watching tennis on TV. After a few days she started to understand roughly what people were saying. Then we visited the grandparents and it switched to Cajun French. Cat watching tennis on TV again.
That North Carolina accent I don’t think it was the general North Carolina accent that you hear on the mainland, I think that was the accent from the Outer Banks, which is very strong and quite difficult to understand.
North Carolina here! I second that southern belle accent. I’ve always felt like my accent sounded like that ever since my friend in high school teased me for how I said theater (“the-uh-tu”). I never realized I said it like that but he liked it and it definitely had a Southern debutante ring to it 😅
Got all but the Missouri and North Carolina and Yooper. Haven’t been to those areas to hear the natives speak. Had seen some videos of cajuns so that was easy too especially since he was speaking of crawdads (crawlfish). I learned the word in WV.
There isn't one New England accent. Each state has a different one, and Boston itself has many different accents based on ethnicity and socioeconomic status. But many people generalize "New England" as the stereotypical Boston accent. Coffee is "caaaawfee" in Boston area, more open. New York has a deeper "coooaaawfee" sound. I grew up 20 miles north of Manhattan and we said "cahfee" with a very flat accent. My mother was from New Hampshire and my grandparents had a very strong NH accent. Non-rhotic like Boston but more sing-songy, had a specific cadence.
Vocal fry is not annoying at all. I love Californian accent and Finish speakers. It got an interesting touch to the voice. I think people find it annoying because it sounds a bit elite to some. Same for royal English. I love it. The other accents I love are from Texas.
Ok, but please- As a native of Massachusetts, never tell anyone from New England, Pennsilvania, or New York that you think these are one and the same. People here have deep rivalries (often sports related) with other states, and people have a lot of pride in our local culture/identity. Calling New Yorkers or Philidelphians New Englanders or vice-versa is just begging to start a fight. 💀💀
The pick for North Carolina was strange. I agree with the Virgina girl, that was a weird example. Im from North Carolina and there are varying levels of southern accent, with some being stronger than others. But the one showed here sounded like some backwoods accent that most of us from here have never heard.
That North Carolina accent is what you call "coastal country " outerbanks, Wilmington, all the the cities that border the east Coast of NC. I'm from Wilmington and a lot of people speak like that
My english is so basic but I think The Brazilian girl (Julia) has lost her accent completely, could any native speaker confirm this? Like, can you hear her accent or she has gotten rid of it? (She's so good despite of everything)
as a Canadian , I would mostly agree with you. I would say that she's lost about 85% of her accent. I think she will always have a little bit of an accent but she definitely sounds like someone that has lived for a while in a mostly English speaking country
okay, my girlfriend says that she sounds like someone that immigrated to a North American country for high school. she says it sounds a lot like Spanish people that immigrate to Canada/America at age 12 and quickly lose their accent
@@Haywood-Jablomie Appreciate that you answered my comment bro. And you're right, It's impossible to lose our accents, but there's nothing wrong with that, I think that having an accent makes you unique and people should stop thinking about the idea of sounding like a native speaker (since it's not possible for the majority of people). Greetings 🙌
I’m American. If I didn’t know her I would think she immigrated to an English speaking country when she was young. Accent is pronunciation and also a rhythm. For example the way she said New York was mispronounced but the choice of where to stress would make me think English wasn’t her first language if that makes sense.
I’m from Detroit and we speak pretty neutral. I will say we replace "th" words with "da" though. Like "the" becomes "da". Or "that" becomes "dat" 😂😂 But if you went to school in the suburbs you know how to speak general English like me 😂😂
I disagree that African American Detroiters generally sound neutral. The accents seem on par with black Californians as far as twang goes, and it's noticeably more rhotic than people from the deep South.
I haven’t been to NC but I have met people from there. It seems to me there are multiple accents. Some that are very strong and distinctive. Even the way they pronounce Carolina is not all the same.
Lol is that George Cooper a.k.a Montana Jordan for the texas accent?? 😂😂 Also, she was right when she said the Texas accent is from east Texas bc Montana Jordan is from Longview which is east Texas
Uhhh. No, that “California” accent is very specific to a specific area of California (The San Fernando Valley). California has about 3 distinct accents. Where I’m from, our accent was heavily influenced by the people who left Oklahoma and the south during the dust bowl. So we sound southern in a lot of ways (we’re the only area outside of the south that has the pin-pen merger).
i think bc im from Houston, Texas and had so many people come from Louisiana I can understand him more than I can from someone from New England. I mean Lake Charles is a 2 hour drive while going to Austin or San Antonio or Dallas is a 3-4hr drive.. it’s right there but i feel like those from the Appalachia mountains are harder to understand the more deep you go in Edit: The guy that they show in the video to show Texas, he aint from Texas, he from Arkansas which is the next state over if your from Northeast of Texas
They need to do Florida. North Florida is Southern. Central is a hodgepodge of transplants from North. South Florida you have Miami Spanglish. Talk about code switching.
i was pretty lost for most of it and then i heard the yooper and went “yup that’s michigan” no hesitation 😭 i didn’t realize how strong our A’s were until this LMAO
The only two I can say aren’t really correct is the southern area accent and the Texas accent. The guy you had for the southern area accent was putting on some sort of accent that isn’t generally spoken in the south. And Texas accents really depend on the ethnicity tbh. I’m from Alabama and lived half my life there and in Texas and the one y’all said was Texas sounded not like and Alabama/ Mississippi/ Georgia accent to me.
That guy sitting in car sounded low key fake because he was doing the most. Like Andrew Lincoln’s “Georgia accent”. Southern accents are generally low energy until they get angry. Then it’s on.😂
its kinda funny where the native speaker of english itself couldn't understand the whole conversation in certain accent like I'm not failure after all lol (im not native english)
I hope @worldfriends77 makes a video about the similarities between Indonesian, Dutch, Portuguese, Tagalog, Malay, Arabic, Hindi, Tamil, Chinese, and Hokkien. It would be so fun!
The American accent that is the hardest to understand (hands down, no question about it, there is no discussion) is Baltimore, specifically E. Baltimore.
People forget. California is big too. I'm from the Bay Area in Northern California and nobody I know talks like that up here. I also live in an extremely urban area so that "Oh my God!! "Gnarley bro" surfer talk isn't really a thing up here like that unless they are boomer ex-hippies or totally embraced that lifestyle. What we definitely do is drop unnecessary words where it is not even a proper full complete sentence. For instance and easy example is say I'm confused about what I am witnessing someone I know is doing. I would simply walk up to them give them a puzzled look and say "The hell?" Or or vulgarly "Da f*ck?" I know other places do this too but up here less is really more. People don't trust folks that talk too much because you might be a snitch or just messy. 15:17
We also pronounce the s at the end of words when it’s supposed to be silent. Like Illinois and Louis 😂 But words that aren’t supposed to be plural we add an s to them. Like Meijers and Krogers 😂
Julia and genesia, the bests
Louisianian here. In my opinion they picked an excellent clip for us, and I had been nervous about it too. Hollywood gets the South Louisiana or Cajun accent wrong in 99% of everything they put out. Most of the time they just do a southern US twang, but in reality south Louisiana has 0 to do with that accent as Cajun accent is basically completely derived from Francophones some of whom only learned English in the last 100 years.
You know it's Louisiana if he's talking about Boudreaux and Thibodeaux.
Either that or they use a slight Parisian French accent which is also incorrect
Also a lot of people confuse Cajun and Louisiana Creole which are different groups of people. I used to spend a lot of time inNOLA and there are multiple accents there. Some sound almost Caribbean and others similar to New Yorkers City people
You guys have a whole different dialect, and part of that is due to the uniqueness of the culture of the Mississippi bridging a wide gap of unlikely links through a chain of generations. It’s quite smooth when you actually listen to it with the context of French and both American and African American English. Creole and Cajun accents are actually pretty amazing to hear when spoken fluently.
My dad's side of the family comes from Natchitoches - as a youngster I have memories of fishing for crawdads : ) lotsa racism around that area though from what I encountered which is a shame. It's a quite beautiful piece of the country. Will never forget those days spent on the Bayou.
Julia's right about the New England clip having non-rhotic word endings like some English accents. So the "er" almost becomes an "ah", like in "Septembah".
The famous "pahk the cah in hahvahd yahd" but not all New England talks like that. It's mainly in the Boston area and Rhode Island. Connecticut, New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine they don't really talk like that.
@@SamtheI as a rhode islander i concur
Yes sr ,she is a very cool person ,those type of vides make my day.
@@SamtheI this is basically a softer british accent
@@SamtheII know a lot of New Yorker and New Jersey people who do not pronounce Rs much either. Actually there are Southerners who do it as sugah, butta, brotha, and so on
Julia is almost present in all videos 😂😂😂😂😂😂
She is the best man
@@GabrielDl-f5l Você é brasileiro? Ela tem muita energia, parece que tá ligada no 220 o tempo todo hehehe.
Yeah, and I love it! She's really funny
Brazilian things
@@Junior-v6z I'm not Brazilian bro, you were close. And yes she is funny and adorable haha
Don't despair Julia your English is good 99.99% of country. The most difficult parts of Louisiana and Appalachia is also due to dialect differences. Like Creole and isolated mountain people respectively.
Also, it seems some of these clips are from actors who might be exaggerating a bit for comedic effect or otherwise...
And actually if you go into the nitty-gritty, there are accents within California. Not just North & South because of size of state, but local hillbillies within SoCal. For instance actor Slim Pickens (Dr. Strangelove and Blazing Saddles) is from small town near Fresno, CA (mid state). I don't know if his accent in the movies is altered for roles, but I've definitely met people in the hills who were a bit isolated and had strong accents unlike typical accent associated with California.
@@johns6795I have heard some people from Northern California who I thought sounded a bit Dutch. I thought they were the children of recent immigrants and was surprised they were multi generational Californians. Also one big difference between NorCal and SoCal is the pronunciation of the word almond. SoCal pronounces the L and NorCal doesn’t.
I'm loving this videos about English. Loved Julia and June
Their synchronization (Julian and Genesia) will always be my favorite part.
I love julia's hair style
Taylor Swift was actually born in West Reading, Pennsylvania so really far from Minnesota.
But grew up in Tennessee.. so Just confused 😅
Minnesota soccer mom! That Dang Deer
I think in that video she was just giving her impression of a MN accent. Her natural speaking voice (or at least the one she puts on for the camera) is definitely more general, at least in my opinion.
She was just doing a Minnesota accent for fun
@@oXPhillyXoHer accent has changed over the years. Most entertainers in the USA do that unless they are making their money from certain music genres. The actor doing the Pittsburgh accent was showing how he speaks back home.
Ireland and Scottland: "Hold my beer"
Jamaica to Ireland and Scotland: No, you hold my beer.
@@aprodutubeIKR I have to ask for an interpreter whenever I watch a video in Jamaican Patois.
I actually understand Jamaica more than I do Scot’s or Irish people
@@AmiWhiteWolf Di wait wolf tink an nuo Jumieka. Bot wi Jumiekan dem smaat...wi chrik im. An im no nuo notn.
I'm pretty sure the video title says Diffrent *US* accents
I love Julia's hairstyle ❤❤❤
I'm from Colorado and we have a neutral or general accent but I can almost always understand others... EXCEPT when I was young I met a girl from Louisiana and we talked on the phone and I could barely understand her so I definitely agree with this assessment. The other English speakers I had difficulty understanding were from Ireland (south, countryside) and Liverpool, UK.
Your accent isn't neutral at all, it's very standoutish in places like say Louisiana
Julia, eu tenho um orgulho gigantesco de você. Se destaca muito com seu jeito bem brasileiro de ser. Acredito que as pessoas não tem noção do quanto para nós brasileiros é dificultado o ensino de um outro idioma. Parabéns pelo seu sucesso! #TeamJulia #Brazil
Pedante pra caramba, se toca
"Dificultado"?! Tá maluco? Não é dificultado EM NADA, ainda mais hoje em dia, plmds! Não é porque o Brasileiro médio tem uma cultura isolacionista monolíngue, e na maioria das vezes preguiça mesmo de aprender outro idioma, que exista qualquer tipo de "dificultamento", não existe.
@andersonrockeravenger6749 concordo contigo, eu aprendi sozinho apenas pesquisando e me afundando nos estudos, até mesmo jogos ou filmes ajudam com isso.
we need more julia content
2:28 As a Southern Californian, every dude I know speaks at that speed.
The Carolinas have several regional accents that make them stand out from other southerners, and these islander accents are pretty strong. That particularly pronounced shift in the "i" sound in "times" is interesting. Other southerners do have a similar tendency to shift the "long i" toward a sort of "ah"-ish sound, but it always sounded a little extra strong and distinct to me in the people I've met from the Carolinas. Of course, I love the way a lot of Carolinians they say "Carolahna." 💙
I'm from North Carolina and the accent didn't sound familiar at all to me. But it is a big state--from the mountains to the islands on the Outer Banks. So the accent is quite different from one end to the other.
I was coming to say the same thing. It sounded just like the Maryland/Virginia Tidewater accent. Makes sense that coastal Carolinians would sound like that too. And that is nothing like the accents of the rest of those states.
@@AlbertHardyJr Oh yeah, absolutely. There's a very broad range of regional dialects. These island accents are a world away from the mountain talk in the western Carolinas, which is a type of straight-up Appalachian accent.
@@AlbertHardyJr Pretty sure it was an outter banks accent like Ocracoke island or something.
ITA I have been to South Carolina not North. But some of the people I have met from North have very distinctive and strong accents. It’s where sometimes I can tell someone is from NC opposed to another part of the South. And I noticed some will drag out that I in Carolina. I ❤ how they say it.
As I don't speak english, everyone speaks the same way to me.
I mean, that makes sense
@@Joseph0484 Yes, when you don't speak a language, you can't understand the different accents in it.
As a person who speaks English the accents are different by state I don't recognize Spanish accents by country
@@chicamorena18 I don't know how to differentiate the accent of people who speak english in different places, because for me it's the same thing, now if I spoke english, maybe I would understand.
@@chicamorena18 That's the same with me. I'm Brazilian and could say I can speak Spanish, but I can't distinguish the accents (unless very obvious things, but not the countries). And neither with English. It's pretty recent though that I started paying attention to the Portuguese accents differences 😂😂
The funny thing about these accent videos is that they only cover the white accents which, generally tend to sound very different from the black accents from region to region.
There’s a Texas accent then there’s a Houston accent 😂😂😂 sounds similar to the example but mixed with AAV. Is our friend in the camo from Texas too? I would love to be on this show, I’m working on becoming trilingual and am so fascinated by every episode 😍
Yes he’s Texan. He’s an actor from the show Young Sheldon.
I'm glad they at least distinguished Yooper from the rest of the Michigan accents 😂 we definitely speak differently between the north and the south. Wasn't in that clip but there are points of what they characterized as the Minnesotan accent like "oh you betcha" and "ope!" which are also part of that yooper slang
True . I met a Yooper who I initially thought was Scandinavian. I got the impression this group didn’t know what Youper meant but maybe I am mistaken.
As someone from Northern California they need to start distinguishing between NorCal and SoCal. The long vowels and the “oh my god valley girl” accent is very Southern California. We have a tiny bit of that in Northern California but our accent different. Our accent is stronger and clear and faster. It sounds more general American.
Agreed. NorCal Bay Area here. 🙋🏻♀️
Majority of my family lives in SoCal and two of my sisters speak with the typical SoCal valley girl accent - I find it annoying. It’s very reminisce of “Clueless.”
Great video! Can you guys add Hawaii's Pidgin into the mix? It's probably really have some people scratching their heads there! LOL.
Me SCREAMING, But mostly laughing 😂😂😂 at the first two! Like I have any of these people been to New york? Lol! That's a long island Italian if I ever heard one, furtherest west, queens.
I don't know if they weren't watching the clip because that guy was legit wearing a Boston hat, put I don't even understand what's difficult to understand about that accent...... But it was 10 times out of 10 clearly New England --__-- to confuse the two BLOWS MY MIND! which is funny❤😂
Fun video as usual! Also, I recognize Montana Jordan's voice anywhere because of Young Sheldon! 😅
I literally thought “He sounds like Georgie from Young Sheldon.” But I didn’t recognize him from the video clip 😂 Now I know why I thought that
@@gracesgr8t Yeah lol! I was surprised that was featured. Maybe they found his accent a little hard to understand, but I was used to it since I heard it for like 7 years so 😅
I love his accent. He’s my favorite on the show.
Good to see Julia again ...btw we all learning something new today in English🇺🇸.
Lollll that Taylor swift clip 😂😂 of the dang deer jumping out in front of her
Julia, você tá muito ❤, com todo o respeito, é claro.
12:27 I didn't understand any word he said before the "well, well, well" 😂😂😂
Do one for UK accents
6:30 I’m white and grew up in Miami. I was diagnosed with dyslexia when I was young so I never took Spanish classes. When I am speaking to people who speak Spanish or have a Spanish accent I unintentionally change the way I speak. I would say I have a “general American accent” so I do notice I “code switch” in certain situations. Maybe it’s a comfort thing? A way to make other people and yourself feel comfortable and excepted? Idk but many ppl do it
Spanish people are also white 😂
Miami is full of hispanics they are not all white
Yeah that’s called racism girl lol. And Latinos can also be white, or black, or Asian, etc.
@@aldozilli1293 thank you caption obvious
@@aldozilli1293The OP said people who speak Spanish not Spanish people.😂 I speak Spanish and am definitely not white.
Julia is the best 🎉❤
A dialect coach Eric Singer said in his accent tour that North Carolina has the most diverse amount of accents in the USA. I can see that. Sometimes I can tell when someone is from North Carolina without them telling me because some people there sound distinct. Also some have heavily Southern accents despite what the participants have heard. IMO Upper Southern usually sounds different to me than Deep South. UP tends to make one syllable words sound like two syllables. Hell with be he yul. Help he yulp..
DS usually drags the vowel but no second syllable sound. They are also highly likely to drop syllables from words.
Some places like STL Missouri have a weird mixture people do this strange thing where different vowels sounds alike her and hair sound like hur.
Wow. They remind me the nightmare I encountered when I travelled from Florida to Iowa, listening various accents which I couldn't comprehend so I had to ask thrice.
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Cajun is definitely the hardest American accent
By FAR
The cajun phonology and slangs mixes spanish, french, lousianish creole, seminole creole, guanche with english accents.
By far its the hardest phonology to statesonian speaks clearly and communicative to others english dialects.
I used to live around a lot of Southern Louisiana people and my friends had to code switch for me to understand. This clip wasn’t so bad because all of what he said was in English so I understood. Usually it’s not all English words.
My number 2 is Appalachian English because they have some vocabulary terms of their own.
Appalachian and navajo and Chinook english maybe dialects or separates idioms properly if a statesonian person doesn't study the culture and idioms possible it's gonna be out of the social interaction of theses communities.
By far in others contexts they're very hard than cajun cos they uses ameridigens and Asians idioms if they want.
It's another tuff expert mode of communication for few persons only.
Gets even crazier when you realize most states have even finer sub-accents. Virginia alone has, like, 6 or 7: standard drawl (Central Virginia, Richmond, Charlottesville), Tidewater (Virginia Beach, Norfolk), City North (Fairfax, Alexandria, bordering Washington DC), Mountains (Roanoke, Salem), Shenandoah (Luray), South (Danville, Appomattox, Lynchburg), and even farther west (Wytheville, Galax). I’d love to see a series on this based upon where they think people are from in each part of each state.
7:09 thing about the UK is there isn't a general UK accent per se, the standard newsreader accent is based on an upper class accent and matter how you speak you are giving away something about the place you grew up and your socioeconomic status
There are some accents that are more neutral than others, for example there is kind of a general Northern England accent that isn't associated with a specific city, but that sounds very marked if you are in Scotland, Wales or the South of England
There isn't a general Northern accent. It's always very clear if someone is from Bolton, Manchester, Liverpool, Yorkshire, Newcastle.
@@aldozilli1293 accent levelling is real, and there is a general Northern accent that some people approximate, it's something linguists have written about, there's a general Southern accent too ("standard Southern British")
Some people have very pronounced regional accents, other people not so much
The North Carolina one was the “Hoi Toider” dialect of the Outer Banks and other islands along the mid Atlantic coast, it got its name from how “high tide” is pronounced. It was largely separated from mainland English for over 200 years following colonization and retained some British/Irish/Scottish influences lost in other American dialects, similar to Appalachian English.
The problem with New York (City) is that it's got so many people with so many cultures packed into a relatively small area that it's actually got several accents. The example in the video is more of a classic Brooklyn/Staten Island accent (and it specifically had to be the dad, because those areas have become more like the downtown Manhattan accent recently, so they needed someone older to demonstrate).
Im Canadian and got New York and New England right away, those were so easy, I think they're overthinking lmao
Edit: I got almost all of them, the Anericans are either overthinking or dont know accents well at all
Cool show!
i love when both girls lean down to hear better😂
This was very generalized state accents. A lot of these states or areas may have several accents so it can be difficult to pick the area if it is one less known ones. I was raised in Northern California and the accent there is not the same as what was shown. That was more of a Southern Californian accent. Northern California is more General American, except where I grew up in the north Sacramento valley, which is General American but words can have a slightly different way to pronounce them. I grew up adding syllables or taking syllables for words. Like the female name Theresa, we would pronounce it (Treesa) or words like nuclear as Nuke-a-leer. The is a small subset area there that grows Almond trees and they swear that Almond is pronounced Ah-mond. When I went into the Air Force people could not figure out where my accent was from, and when I said California they thought I was lying.
New York has different accents just among the boroughs in NYC. Then take it upstate and you’ll find we sound somewhat Canadian in some places. My uncle ends most of his sentences with “,eh” like the stereotypical Canadian. Most of the time I have a very southern accent, having lived in the south for twenty years now. However, there are certain words I say with a very stereotypical NY accent. I’ve had people spot that I’m a Yankee, and not southern raised. Like the girl in the ball cap, I do sometimes mirror people when I speak to them. The more I’m around them, the more I sound like them and use phrasing similar to their phrasing.
At 11:23, knew right away that northwestern, from the "fathers" being pronounced as "fod-ers" (fod like cod)
2:15 uh oh, editor, fix your media imports
hahaha missing media
Texas guy @12:27 got the same cadence as Boomhauer lol
Cajun from Louisiana here. When I joined the Army almost no one could understand a word I said, even though I was college educated. Eventually I managed to get locked into a "General American Accent". Several years later I got married. When me and the then wife flew into Louisiana to visit family I ran into a friend at the airport. It was like a switch was flipped and I was back to talking full on Cajun English. The wife looked like a cat watching tennis on TV. After a few days she started to understand roughly what people were saying. Then we visited the grandparents and it switched to Cajun French. Cat watching tennis on TV again.
Everyone gonna ignore the fact that the video of the Minnesota accent is THE taylor swift 😭😭
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I'm from Southern Louisiana and I looooove the accents down here ❤
The person for the Texas accent was actually an actor from young Sheldon named Montana Jordan
Should of did the mississippi accent. I love that one.
That North Carolina accent I don’t think it was the general North Carolina accent that you hear on the mainland, I think that was the accent from the Outer Banks, which is very strong and quite difficult to understand.
Yeah calling that NC was a bit off, they specified Yooper and Pittsburgese but called Outer Banks just NC?
North Carolina here! I second that southern belle accent. I’ve always felt like my accent sounded like that ever since my friend in high school teased me for how I said theater (“the-uh-tu”). I never realized I said it like that but he liked it and it definitely had a Southern debutante ring to it 😅
Got all but the Missouri and North Carolina and Yooper. Haven’t been to those areas to hear the natives speak. Had seen some videos of cajuns so that was easy too especially since he was speaking of crawdads (crawlfish). I learned the word in WV.
That parrot lady is amazing
it would be fun if you guys doing this kind of videos but do it with great britain accent😂
There isn't one New England accent. Each state has a different one, and Boston itself has many different accents based on ethnicity and socioeconomic status. But many people generalize "New England" as the stereotypical Boston accent.
Coffee is "caaaawfee" in Boston area, more open. New York has a deeper "coooaaawfee" sound. I grew up 20 miles north of Manhattan and we said "cahfee" with a very flat accent. My mother was from New Hampshire and my grandparents had a very strong NH accent. Non-rhotic like Boston but more sing-songy, had a specific cadence.
12:30....omg...it's the Ford F****** Ranger guy! xD
I love the two cheerful and wonderful people, Julia and Genesia and I am really looking forward to it❤❤👍🤩
I'm a troll, lower Michigan, and the yooper was light since you can get thicker Minnesota or Canandian sounding.
here we go
Vocal fry is not annoying at all. I love Californian accent and Finish speakers. It got an interesting touch to the voice. I think people find it annoying because it sounds a bit elite to some. Same for royal English. I love it. The other accents I love are from Texas.
Ok, but please- As a native of Massachusetts, never tell anyone from New England, Pennsilvania, or New York that you think these are one and the same. People here have deep rivalries (often sports related) with other states, and people have a lot of pride in our local culture/identity. Calling New Yorkers or Philidelphians New Englanders or vice-versa is just begging to start a fight. 💀💀
When they thought the New York accent was from Boston......😂😂😂 I was like. "HOW DARE YOU?!"
Thank you for the advice lol
Not sure about your area, NY you'll just be laughed at
The pick for North Carolina was strange. I agree with the Virgina girl, that was a weird example. Im from North Carolina and there are varying levels of southern accent, with some being stronger than others. But the one showed here sounded like some backwoods accent that most of us from here have never heard.
It's the High Tide accent on the eastern side of the state. Kinda niche.
That North Carolina accent is what you call "coastal country " outerbanks, Wilmington, all the the cities that border the east Coast of NC.
I'm from Wilmington and a lot of people speak like that
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I used to be a customer representative before. I had a customer caller from texas it was hard to understand.
the girl from uk reminds me of charli xcx
The hoi toider accent is highly localized and not representative of North Carolina as a whole. It is a fun one to include, though.
Do a Great British Bake Off version 😂
My english is so basic but I think The Brazilian girl (Julia) has lost her accent completely, could any native speaker confirm this? Like, can you hear her accent or she has gotten rid of it? (She's so good despite of everything)
as a Canadian , I would mostly agree with you. I would say that she's lost about 85% of her accent. I think she will always have a little bit of an accent but she definitely sounds like someone that has lived for a while in a mostly English speaking country
okay, my girlfriend says that she sounds like someone that immigrated to a North American country for high school. she says it sounds a lot like Spanish people that immigrate to Canada/America at age 12 and quickly lose their accent
@@Haywood-Jablomie Appreciate that you answered my comment bro. And you're right, It's impossible to lose our accents, but there's nothing wrong with that, I think that having an accent makes you unique and people should stop thinking about the idea of sounding like a native speaker (since it's not possible for the majority of people). Greetings 🙌
@@Joseph0484 You are totally correct in my opinion. We all need to "Strive for Progress, NOT perfection" when learning languages.
I’m American. If I didn’t know her I would think she immigrated to an English speaking country when she was young. Accent is pronunciation and also a rhythm. For example the way she said New York was mispronounced but the choice of where to stress would make me think English wasn’t her first language if that makes sense.
It would be so fun to see you all react to Ben Brainard's Table videos (the non-political parts)
I’m from Detroit and we speak pretty neutral. I will say we replace "th" words with "da" though. Like "the" becomes "da". Or "that" becomes "dat" 😂😂 But if you went to school in the suburbs you know how to speak general English like me 😂😂
I disagree that African American Detroiters generally sound neutral. The accents seem on par with black Californians as far as twang goes, and it's noticeably more rhotic than people from the deep South.
I have never been to Detroit but I have been to Michigan. I think a lot of them sounded like Canadians. Not all.
Can you do a big video with 20 women of from around the world from different backgrounds playing the say it backwards game? ❤
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The North Carolina video is the ourer banks accent which is different than the usual North Carolina accent
I haven’t been to NC but I have met people from there. It seems to me there are multiple accents. Some that are very strong and distinctive. Even the way they pronounce Carolina is not all the same.
y'all need to do the british version
also i hope the editors didnt get fried lmao cause there are some missing medias there
Lol is that George Cooper a.k.a Montana Jordan for the texas accent?? 😂😂
Also, she was right when she said the Texas accent is from east Texas bc Montana Jordan is from Longview which is east Texas
Uhhh. No, that “California” accent is very specific to a specific area of California (The San Fernando Valley).
California has about 3 distinct accents.
Where I’m from, our accent was heavily influenced by the people who left Oklahoma and the south during the dust bowl. So we sound southern in a lot of ways (we’re the only area outside of the south that has the pin-pen merger).
i think bc im from Houston, Texas and had so many people come from Louisiana I can understand him more than I can from someone from New England. I mean Lake Charles is a 2 hour drive while going to Austin or San Antonio or Dallas is a 3-4hr drive.. it’s right there but i feel like those from the Appalachia mountains are harder to understand the more deep you go in
Edit: The guy that they show in the video to show Texas, he aint from Texas, he from Arkansas which is the next state over if your from Northeast of Texas
I looked it up and Montana is a Texan born and raised. He sounds every bit Texan to me.
The Cauphee type pronunciation is common to downstate New York and parts of adjacent New Jersey but not upstate New York
Was the guy with the strong Texan accent Georgie from “Young Sheldon”? lol
Yaa looks like georgie, sounds like georgie too
They need to do Florida. North Florida is Southern. Central is a hodgepodge of transplants from North. South Florida you have Miami Spanglish. Talk about code switching.
i was pretty lost for most of it and then i heard the yooper and went “yup that’s michigan” no hesitation 😭 i didn’t realize how strong our A’s were until this LMAO
11:51 is that the actor who plays crocodile in the live action one piece
The only two I can say aren’t really correct is the southern area accent and the Texas accent. The guy you had for the southern area accent was putting on some sort of accent that isn’t generally spoken in the south. And Texas accents really depend on the ethnicity tbh. I’m from Alabama and lived half my life there and in Texas and the one y’all said was Texas sounded not like and Alabama/ Mississippi/ Georgia accent to me.
That guy sitting in car sounded low key fake because he was doing the most. Like Andrew Lincoln’s “Georgia accent”. Southern accents are generally low energy until they get angry. Then it’s on.😂
its kinda funny where the native speaker of english itself couldn't understand the whole conversation in certain accent like I'm not failure after all lol (im not native english)
The same happens with Spanish speakers and probably other languages as well.
the knee slap🤣
Atlanta?
I hope @worldfriends77 makes a video about the similarities between Indonesian, Dutch, Portuguese, Tagalog, Malay, Arabic, Hindi, Tamil, Chinese, and Hokkien. It would be so fun!
Can you do Cambodia please 🙏 😢 🇰🇭❤
The American accent that is the hardest to understand (hands down, no question about it, there is no discussion) is Baltimore, specifically E. Baltimore.
GENESIA...🙇♀️
People forget. California is big too. I'm from the Bay Area in Northern California and nobody I know talks like that up here. I also live in an extremely urban area so that "Oh my God!! "Gnarley bro" surfer talk isn't really a thing up here like that unless they are boomer ex-hippies or totally embraced that lifestyle. What we definitely do is drop unnecessary words where it is not even a proper full complete sentence. For instance and easy example is say I'm confused about what I am witnessing someone I know is doing. I would simply walk up to them give them a puzzled look and say "The hell?" Or or vulgarly "Da f*ck?" I know other places do this too but up here less is really more. People don't trust folks that talk too much because you might be a snitch or just messy. 15:17
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Would have been funny to put an Australian or an Irish clip in there without telling them first.
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Accent 1 for sure Boston
We also pronounce the s at the end of words when it’s supposed to be silent. Like Illinois and Louis 😂 But words that aren’t supposed to be plural we add an s to them. Like Meijers and Krogers 😂
Where do people pronounce the s at the end of Illinois?
@@anndeecosita3586 😂😂 Come to Detroit and you’ll find out, and I’m not talking about the suburbs either lbvs