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So let's work on a general Minnesota accent. We're gonna go straight for the stereotype, and then you can kind of knock it back from there. Depending on what you're going for. So let's work on the oral posture of the Minnesota accent. Take a look at me saying this phrase. 'Oh geez, I've known him for 20 years or so.' So watch what's happening with my mouth. 'Oh geez, I've known him for 20 years or so.' So there's a lot of lip corner tension, and there's not a lot of jaw movement. So you get kind of a little bit of a smile there. They call it the Minnesota friendly accent.
The diphthong O. The two elements O in your Minnesota accent become shorter, to a more of a pure sound. So, Minnesota becomes Minnesota. O, O, Minnesota. The diphthong I. Because the jaw tension in the Minnesota accent, it brings that sound very far forward to I, I. I becomes I. And also, because the jaw doesn't move that much that R sound becomes kind of hard. So work and further are the R sounds in the words work and further. Work and further. So in this oral posture, the ah sound becomes more forward. So father becomes father. Gone becomes gone.
So what's the musicality of this accent? Listen to this phrase, 'Oh geez, I've known him for 20 years or so.' There's a lot of upward inflect. It's a very friendly accent there. So that tells you a little bit about the people from Minnesota, possibly. But don't take my word for it. Go listen to some native Minnesota speakers, and discover the accent for yourself. Take a look at the oral posture. Take a look at the sound changes, and the musicality. And it'll give you a good idea of what the accent is like. - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
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I'm a Minnesotan and here in the Twin Cities we don't talk like the stereotypical Minnesota accent, lol!
Also, it seems like lots of Minnesotans are commenting on this... Did anyone else from Minnesota look up how to do a Minnesotan accent? Lol.
Twin Cities suburbs......totally looked it up just for fun!
As soon as I flew into the Twin Cities I heard it.... Everyone in the Twin Cities sounds like this to me
Charles Rank I was curious what would come up XD
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I’m from Minnesota too and I looked this up😂also we don’t sound irish
i lived in Minnesota for most of my live (Rochester) and i thought that i didn't have an accent but as soon as i moved to Washington literally the only thing i was getting asked/told was "where are you from" and "wow your accent is so thick" so just because you cant hear your accent doesn't mean other people cant as well
diego da dealer , it's amazing how many ppl from the upper west coast visit northern Minnesota!!! And we do sound like this in the northern part of the state, but we talk FAST!
i grew up in western ND right on the MN border.. Now I live in Indiana and nearly weekly I run into people that comment on my thick accent. For example when I order Root Beer.. I usually have to repeat myself a few times. (I even try saying it the other way.)
EVERY single person in the world has an accent.
I live 15 min from Rochester in Kasson and you here literally all the time people that have moved here asking why we talk the way we do. And we just think that it’s normal. but to people away from here it’s not normal. It’s the same thing for us. We all have different accents. And it’s pretty cool when we see how different it is from other people.
I’m from Minneapolis and I think we speak different up in the cities then down south/far up north.
Wow i have been living in Minnesota for nearly 20 years, the only time i heard this "Minnesota Accent" was from someone who was from Wisconsin.
Don't know why...I grew up there & hear it every time I talk to someone from home. I also hear it at least once a week at my job...I can't tell the difference between Minnesota and Wisconsin accents though, but I can always tell that it's someone from one of those two states.
It increases in the north of minnesota, with the older population and the amount of alcohol consumed, seriously.
Love your pf pic lol
She said at the beginning she'd be doing it very severe and you could edge it off from there. Truth is, if you go to a rural city up north, you will hear people speaking like this.
Hell, that was MILD compared to some of the accents I've heard up there
Not a judge but only a very few people spoke like this. Minnesoda or Torronno is a good indicator of where you're from, but television has been an influence for 50 years or so
Outer suburbs too.
Yeah I live in a rural city in northern MN. The accents get silly sometimes even I can hear it
For the people here that say "We sound nothing like this." You are mostly wrong. Some people don't have as thick of an accent as this but we still say our o's and a's pretty long. We are so used to the way that we talk, that it's hard for us to hear our accent. Same with any other accent. I've went to other states and a lot of times when I say something, they ask me if I'm from Minnesota. So we do have an accent somewhat like this one.
Please no hate, I'm just stating my opinion.
FuNnIe BuNnIe THANK YOU!
But we don't sound Irish
True
FuNnIe BuNnIe also hearing a minnesotan chirp in hockey can really show the accent
Same thing with me when I moved to Texas. I could never figure out how they knew it was MN in particular!
I'm also from Minnesota and I know for a fact that we do not sound Irish.
+Emmy Cancino If you're from Saint Paul, you'll find a lot of old people with an Irish-sounding Minnesota accent.
+leesdroidaccount harbin I live near St. Paul and I have never heard anyone with an Irish accent
Maggie A Not an irish sounding accent, an irish influenced Minnesota accent. And I'm talking about the REALLY old people. Like about to turn to dust old.
And plus, what part of the cities do you live in?
+Emmy Cancino ikr!! so am i we dont sound like that at all
+leesdroidaccount harbin I am Irish and know Irish people and this is not how we talk..
Can you not understand English? She clearly said she was going for the STEREOTYPICAL Minnesota accent.
Thank you. TH-cam is overun by imbeciles.
disagree
I thought she said she'd "knock it back a bit" though?? Lol
Maybe she wanted us to do that?
Sterotypical is based on SOME truth. No truth in this AT ALL!!!
Yes, and then she said you can dial it back a little, which isn't helpful. It's not helpful to teach anyone a stereotypical accent unless they're supposed to be playing a character with a stereotypical accent. Minnesotans sound more like her normal voice.
I think she nails it, especially the rural, up north accent. I totally feel at home while listening to her. (I was born in Thief River Falls and grew up in Park Rapids.)
I was born and raised in Minnesota but moved to the west coast when I was 18 and I can say that I have been told numerous times that I have a ¨Minnesotan¨ accent. The reason you don´t hear the accent or asked about it is because you never leave Minnesota! And why are all of you natives getting offended? I take pride in my Minnesotan accent.
we just think we don't sound like that but we do about 50% of the time
I'm from a suburb of Minneapolis and the only people I've ever heard talk this way are from up north or are older.
I’ll be the first Minnesotan to admit it, I know I have an accent, I’ve been told. Mine isn’t that extreme, but I have it for specific words and vowels.
Same here. For me it's O, like in Minnesota & Sorry.
Minnesotans deny having an accent, but a lady up there told me I have a "strong southern accent" and I don't think I do, but I obviously have something for her to pick it up. I am from Florida and live in Texas.
Y'all do have accents, and don't be ashamed, its adorable!
We aren't cute!
@Pineapple EVERY single person in the world has an accent except those who don't speak. Everyone. And I grew up in MN & I when I'm at work, I always know when I'm talking to someone from MN or Wisconsin...I can't tell the difference between the two, but I definitely know it's one or the other. MN does have a very distinct accent, although some Minnesotans accents are much more pronounced. (For instance, there are only a few words which people catch my MN accent from, possibly because I moved away so long ago, but they still catch it if they're familiar with the accent.)
I am from Minnesota, near Fargo and this is literally how my whole town speaks. It sounds completely normal
You have to live really far up north for this to apply. Most of the population lives in the Twin Cities and we don't sound like that. We have a slight accent but it's very different from this one. Mostly just affects how we say "bag" and "roof/root".
Minnesotan here! My parents are from the East Coast and I grew up in Minneapolis so I'm pretty sure I don't have an accent, BUT my best friend is from a small town in Minnesota and HER MOM (who's in her 50s I'd guess) sounds EXACTLY like this!!
I think the younger generation is mostly losing it, which is sorta sad :(
We keep our jaws tense here 'cause they're frozen solid don'tcha know
I'm from MN and your regular voice sounds waaaay more normal to me than your "Minnesota" accent haha.
People waaay overdo it. I can't stand listening to actors try to do it, Orr the Canadian one.
Oh yeah. I have relatives who are Minnesota born and raised who come to visit every so often. They’re from Deluth so the accent isn’t super strong but they o’s are definitely accented.
I moved to Minnesota from the South and y'all definitely have this type of accent and yes... even in "the cities." Dont be ashamed it's a cute and endearing accent. Hell even I have been picking it up from most of my customers having the accent, mostly in the long Os and hard Rs. The Is and As too. It's not mentioned in this video but people from MN have a certain way they say the long "a" in words like "cake." Like most people would say "iron RAYNGE" but up here its "iron REHNGE." Also the accent is stronger amongst those of Norwegian as well as Ojibwe ancestry.
And what I realize from people who are not native to MN don’t realize is there is a severe accent change from “Twin Cities-Metro Accent” to “Northern Accent” to “Iron Range Accent”.
I giggle at everyone who claims they don't sound like this. I moved to MN for five years after living in the lower Midwest; you guys sound like this.
I love how we go to the comment section and 98% percent of it is Minnesotans saying "We don't sound like that!!!!"
I'm Minnesotan, and it really is a toned down version of that, thicker on the range and North border.
(If you're trying, a really common Minnesota-specific saying is "Oh for cute" or "Oh for funny!")
90 percent of people today dont speak like this. Its the northern and older generation thats has the dontcha know and you betcha accent
Very great explanation! Practicing for a role and using the comments to practice 😃
this is funny! I have lived in Minnesota since I was a small child. I travel quite a bit and wherever I go, people can tell almost immediately that I am from Minnesota. It drives me nuts because I wish I could hear what they were hearing - ya know!! :)
Short & sweet, helpful as a starting point for learning a "strong Minnesotan dialect" for my upcoming Auditions, ie. "Marge "from FARGO
That lady that does the linguistics though is super talented. Her and one other person are very skilled at it.
You're the best at this. Straight up
I'm Minnesotan and I love this! I can't stop laughing! I do know a few people who talk like that! LOL
I work security and every friggin truck driver sounds like the stereotype, to the point where I can pull it off well enough to mess with them. Fun times. 😁
They are from northern then because I only hear it that way up north
Same😂
I was born and raised in the Twin Cities. When I went off to the Air Force, I thought I didn't have an accent. People pointed my accent out to me. After basic and starting tech school, I told my class that I come abot 10 min from Minneapolis. Then I heard others joking saying abot abot. I was also asked if I had lived in Canada.
Omg thanks because I’m moving to Minnesota for the rest of my life almost, didn’t want to bullied at school🤗
Im from mn and some people for sure talk like this, and i think its a bit of a subtle accent so we ourselves dont notice it as much.
Northern Minnesota here and I don’t sound like this but my neighbors sure do! Haha.
Yeah, she started with the stereotype, but we do sound like this to varying degrees. I live in Minneapolis, but venture into central Minnesota around Mora, you'll hear it very thickly.
I live in central MN and I can change my accent from MN to US standard fairly easy, I'd say the people with the heaviest accents are older or live out in the country.
I sound a lot like this, but different because I grew up near an Indian reservation and got a heavy Ojibwa influence. When I first went to college some east coast people wondered if I was from Ireland.
This is so true to how I speak! Too true, but then again Norwegian is often spoken at my home so that might make a difference...
Jag det synder lika som norska (eller svenska xP).
I was looking for a video about Minnesota accent because a friend from Minnesota called me and I did not understand some words. This is exactly what I notice 0:24
I always chuckle when they say the word "gross."
I'm from Santa Rosa, CA (Northern) and I lived and worked for about 2 years in TN at a Starbucks. It was culture shock with all the Southern drawls but I loved how nice and friendly people were. One day, someone I was waiting on heard me speak and said, "Oh, you're not from around here!" I said I wasn't but asked them to play a game and guess. One person thought I was from Minnesota...lol...I don't know why though. I finally did I said from California and they all looked at me funny and said you don't sound like you're from California. I gathered they thought all Californians sounded like "valley girls", so I told them I was from Northern California...big difference...and they were like.."Ahhh...I get it"....I love different accents. My two favorite are the Scottish and Liverpool with the Bostonian, New Yorker and New Jersey included.
Yes so amazing video much good!
no one that i know speaks like this in Minnesota XD lmao this is like a Canadian accent
This is like rural Minnesota. I’m from the cities and I’ve lived here my entire life and I have never once met a person who sounded like this
Want to hear a Minnesotan accent? Listen to my voice in my videos I grew up in St. Paul and would spend time in Grand Rapids deer river and Duluth. We DONT SOUND LIKE THAT!!
You do sound like that a little bit actually, just toned down ^^
lol dammit!
Yeah, I'm from Grand Forks and it took me less than 20 seconds to identify you as local. That "about" will betray you every time. But you do sound a lot more northern. You actually sound like you're from Brainerd or even Bemidji.
I KNOW WE DON'T WHERE NOT IRISH
That was great, do you work as a dialect coach for actors?
I'm from Minnesota and most people don't sound like that. Some have a thicker accent, but I've never heard someone with an accent like this. But all these comments, so true lol
anyone else from mn but just wanted to know if they talked like the stereotype?
Im from AZ and met this women from Minnesota ....she did not get out 3 words and i knew where she was from....She asked how did you know i was from Twin Cities? answer you opened your mouth.....i find the accent charming......AZ does not have any accent.....but its hard to find a native....most people in AZ are from someplace else.
No one seems to notice that we kind of don't put a lot of emphasis on our t's, we mostly skip them or say them gently.
Howdy Doody der ? :D I'm from "Minnesoda" and I've actually heard people, and sometimes myself, talk like that! I am not offended by this video at all! I think it's awesome!
Same!
Genevieve Pinnella I think he meant minnepop, we don’t use the word soda here oofta I dropped my walleye
Being a Minnesotan, I have heard so many people judge my accent, i had no clue we had our own accent, and a little joke I play is doing a long oooooooohhhh whenever someone asks something
Hahaha!!! This is my favorite video ever!! I lived in Minnesota and I don't speak like that! I just think its soo funny :P
nothing about bag/tag sound? when I moved to florida that was the only sound I got made fun of for (that and saying pop instead of “soda” 🙄)
I’m Canadian and this accent is really easy for me for some reason...
yeah I was born in MN but kinda lived all over,i am now in wi and wil be moving to MD,and....
yeaaahhh I can say she's pretty right on LOL.
I've lived in Minnesota my whole life and have been to almost every county in the state and I've never heard anyone talk like that.
I am from Minnesota Brainerd Baxter area and when she did the i screamed because she does it perfectly
I’m Minnesotan and I have a slight accent apparently according to my friends
Try moving away for years and then coming back. It sounds quite a bit like this, although I do think that the MN accent has mellowed through the years. 😉
Native Minnesotan here from the Twin Cities. I definitely hear an accent, particularly when older generations talk, but this video ain’t it. We don’t all sound like Fargo, ND
It’s funny how we call it pop not soda but soda is in Minnesota
I’m from the iron range and honestly we kinda sound like that up here but a veryyyyy toned down version most of the people that say that they don’t sound like this are from south, I’m very up north so that may be why I sound like that
What about the " Mat-Su" move to Alaska?
I am from Minnesota and I know for a fact that we dont sound like this!! we speak like you do when your not mimicking us
I live in minnesota and i have heard many of people like this so this is true i also have a video of a friend who is talking like this
I've lived in Minnesota my whole life and never gone out of state and I sound nothing like this
It's not THAT noticeable. Our o's are definitely prominent and drawn out, but that's really only if you live on the range or anywhere north of the cities. I have a Minnesotan accent, and wow...this just...wow....
I’m from Pennsylvania but have been asked twice by random people at my job if I’m from Minnesota! Lol
I live in Minnesota and I looked this up and god just god
ya sure,you betcha
I’ve been in Minneapolis my whole 22 years of living and have NEVER come across someone who speaks like 0:25😂
U betcha!
Get a little bit of liquor in me and this is spot on.
That's a very cute accent. I absolutely love it!
+Cinnamon .Nika They only speak like this in the northern parts of Minnesota.
It's very less pronounced than that. I've it's slightly stronger of an accent in the north but still not as pronounced as she's doing it.
THATS MY VOICE AND SPEACH PROFESSOR 👁👄👁
I’m 30min away from the Canadian boarder in MN and I’ve never heard someone talk like this. this is such a stereotype
She SAID she was going for the stereotype.
I'm italian (born and raised in italy 30 years) with a strong accent (of coooourse!) and my wife is from Minnesota...I definetely need to improve my accent LOL...any tip welcome :)))
I'm almost 60 yrs old and when I was a kid almost all the people over 60 that I knew sounded just like that. Of course the church I went to did the early service in Swedish and the second service in English, so I heard some pretty strange accents!
I adore this accent lmao
Minnesota nice is actually just passive aggressive
I live more western (near lake superior) and I don't think I sound like this.
I may have an accent, but I do NOT sound like that.
U from Minnesota
I live in Minnesota and yes this is s stereotypical one. I never hear people speak like that. But I guess it depends on the “thickness” of your accent.
as a minnesotan We don’t talk like this
“OH YA BETCHA” is such a lie
Minnesota!!!!
I was born in Minnesota and I lost my accent but this sounds nothing like it
Lol I've been living in Minnesota since I was born so 15 years and never thought I had an accent until people start talking about this.
Every single person in the world that is able to speak has an accent. Your accent is normal to you so it sounds normal, but it IS an accent, it's just the accent you're used to hearing.
I'm Minnesotan and we don't have a lot of tension in our mouth we talk with normal mouth posture....
Yeah Den born and raised in northern Minnesota been out in Los Angeles for 19 years and every time someone asked me where I'm from I say Minnesota they they mock me and say oh minisoooda
I live in Southern Minnesota, and she sounds almost nothing like us. Though I guess we don't move the jaw a ton.
You betcha
I grew up in Chicago but now live further north in Illinois (like 3 mins from the Wisconsin border) and white people from around here sound just like this. It's just a general midwestern accent.
Dexter's mom talks like that, so do other cartoon moms-especially Garfield the cat.
I am from Minnesota, and I can't do that at all!
Since when do we talk like we're from the movie Fargo? The last time I checked we don't go around saying "Doncha Know" or "Yew Betcha".
DenaDaniel92 I say you betcha but it’s very casual and less over pronounced
Nearly All the people in the UK use Doncha know and Yes betcha, The best Minasotan accent was on American Pickers. What a sweet beautiful accent he had, full of friendliness and an obvious Nordic background. As to an Irish accent, many places have that, as they were one of the biggest influx of English speakers. Parts of Eastern Canada sound pure Irish and they think they are speaking pure Canadian English. ( Fine example "Fitzees Fabrications)
This is more extreme than what it is actually like here, but the whole 'o' thing is something we definitely do. Also, it seems Minnesota is one of the only places where soda is simply called pop.
To all of the people in the comments that "don't think they sound like that", either you do, or you grew up in or south of Saint Cloud and have a Midwestern accent. I know I sound that way sometimes (I'm from the Red River Valley myself).
she said dont take her word for it
I only heard it after I moved out of Minnesota and came back to visit... Then I heard the accent.