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Cajun country most definitely the most difficult. Been married to a crazy Cajun for a decade and still have no idea what he or his family is saying. Lol
Agreed
That’s so funny. Never been to Louisiana before, I lived in Houma. One day I got lost so I stopped into a store and asked for directions. I know he was speaking English, I think. I didn’t understand a word he said. He had a very heavy Cajun accent. I had to go to the fire station to get help. 😂
I was raised there, and I have a hard time understanding those crazy Cajuns. They sure know how to cook though!
I totally agree - hardest accent ever for a Minnesotan. I can understand if you talk slow. I don’t really care how you talk - I’m there for the food!
Yes, I can pretty much all states - some harder but all English with some personal area speech.
I was born and raised in the deep south of Louisiana Cajun country and married myself a Texan. I have somehow combined the two accents and can't even understand myself🤣😄
I lived in Texas four different times. I used to think it was funny how when friends would talk about WhatABurger it sounded like they were saying Water Burger. I liked Texans.
@mybluefly5845. I love deep Louisiana accent so much.
Mashed with Texan, (which part of TX?) accent must sound delightful.
You got accent lucky! ❤
lol 😂
Lewis, is your accent considered “Cockney?” The reason I ask is because I noticed when you say “you know what I mean”, it sounds like one word. “Y’noahmeen?” lol, please don’t take offense; I find it delightful, and such fun!
But, if you want to try affecting an American accent, I can help you with some of them. You’d have to choose the region first. Some of them are like foreign languages, even to me, but I can teach you enough that you could blend in to some areas of the Southeast, and some parts of NYC.
@mybutterfly5845 i'm a southern Va boy that grew up overseas, taking 5 years of french. Creole is the most confusing thing i have ever heard.
"Wait. Boston's in New England?" Check out the Boston Tea Party. You may be impressed! 🤣
Too funny!😂😂😂
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The guy categorized all the deep south as having one accent. Everyone sounds different in Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia. Even areas within each state has different accents. He just generalized the whole area.
in another video he actually mentions that there are at least 7 southern accents. i believe though that those accents while different are more similar to each other they they are to other more broader accents like GA, new york, boston, Minnesota
Yup the south is so diverse in dialects it is amazing.
Lewis, I was laughing so hard with the guy from Chicago. I was like "this guy doesn't have an accent" but when it said Chicago i was like "That's where I'm from" LOL. 😂😂
I'm from Chicago and know what it sounds like. I was away in the Army for 12 years, when I came back I REALLY noticed it lol.
Nah I had a jaw drop moment when the chicago guy popped up bc my immediate thought was "I thought we were still doin regional accents" lmaoooo
Ugh. Me too. What accent?,???
😂 Our accents are so much fun!
I couldn’t really hear it either, and I grew up in NY, VA, and MO. I got the STL one right though! Thought it was STL & Memphis but it was Florida instead lol
The NY accent is always so exaggerated when people talk about it. There’s so many different accents around NYC and they’re typically a lot more subtle than how they’re made out to be.
Agreed, I'm from here. Never feel represented in these videos.
I went to college in the 80s in southern California (from Colorado)... had a really good friend there who was from Brooklyn. I had to have him repeat half of what he said. He had that real slowww accent where like every letter was sounded out. 35+ years later and whenever I hear the accent I think, "Jaaaayyyy frommm Brooooklynnnn!"
I’m a west coaster who went to university in NYC. I rarely had people I couldn’t understand. Maybe it’s because of growing up with my Cajun family. 🤣
Same for the southern accents. Are there some crazy back woods people who sound like that? Yes and they're always interviewed after a tornado. But the vast majority of us, especially under the age of 50, don't sound like that.
You can really only judge that if you're not from there. I have a number of NY friends (now and in the past) and what you hear on TV is not far off at all.
Boston is in Massachusetts in the East. Chicago is Midwest. I was born in Minnesota - only northern Minnesotans really talk like that. Minneapolis is fairly normal. I also lived in Chicago - your accent depends on what part of the city you are in.
Also depends on socioeconomic background to a decent extent. Most of the folks with a strong Chicago accent tend to be lower-income blue collar folks. My parents were both white collar workers (A teacher and a government office worker) and I basically have no accent at all unless I’m talking super emphatically (or maybe when I’m drunk)
Died laughing at him saying “that’s not fair”. I love speaking Cajun when I’m in other states because of this exact reaction.
the cajun dialect formed out of a french-english creole so it's not at all surprising.
As a southern American, when I watch British movies or movies with British accents I have to turn on the captions.
The English are easier to understand than southerners.
I thought my Southern mother would love Dowton Abby but she can't understand any of the dialogue and she doesn't want to read captions. I can understand all of the actors and actresses perfectly well as if they have no accents at all.
My wife is second-generation Greek American, and she has the same problem with strong British accents. One time, when we were watching a Harry Potter movie, she said she could pick up Hermione perfectly, Harry most of the time, but Ron hardly ever. She gets the "posh" or standard, king's English OK, but anything much off from that is unintelligible to her.
I bought some earphones that Bluetooth to the TV. I usually use the phones after my husband goes to bed to stay quiet. But they're very helpful for any foreign accent show I'm watching. Much easier to understand the words.
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Easiest = Midwest
Hardest = Appalachian
Specifically Colorado easiest Alabama hardest
Carolina's are harder that Alabama..but Alabama has the most friendly, wonderful people!!
I was born and raised in So. Cal, but my entire family is from the deep backwoods of Kentucky, but even being raised with my parents and siblings having strong accents, I needed an interpreter to understand a lot of my Appalachian kin.
Appalachian is easy once you hear it for awhile
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I got the St. Louis Missouri accent immediately because I worked with a guy from there and every other word out of my mouth was "pardon," "say what," "huh?"
What's crazy is that I live in the southeastern part of Missouri or the bootheel as we like to call it and I immediately picked up the St. Louis accent. I've lived in the bootheel all my life, but I've been told that I have a southern accent, but I just tell them that it's Midwestern which depending on where you live can be a mix between southern and just a general accent.
@@Awood2207 and @AZHITW I'm from near Columbia and the very northern tip of the ozarks. I feel like we are right on the border between the standard midwestern and southern. Most of us have the classic midwester but there's still a lot of people with a bit of that twang. Lol when I visit friends in Texas, I get told I sound like a yankee. When I'm out east, I get asked if I'm from Texas. Go figure.
I agree with both of you about StL. While nobody talks like that here, there isn't a soul here who can't pick out the St. Louis accent. Everyone knows people from St Louis.
I’m a native Californian. I was born in a beach town in SoCal and moved to Norcal in my early 20’s. People from California don’t sound like that. It’s a movie industry parody and people actually buy into it
Ya, I'm from san diego and so is my mom. Sure grew up on the beach in Coronado, and neither she or I talk like that. I've only heard a couple talk like that, and usually heavy stoners. I'm in San antonio now, and they don't really have an accent either, unless you're mexican. LA and San Diego talk like they do in the movies because it is in LA so we have no accent. I did and still do on occasion say dude a lot though
I totally agree. I'm from SD too and we don't talk with vocal fry. It's a stereotype from Fast Times that ppl think is real now
Northern Louisianans near Shreveport sound like Texans. Not Cajuns. We don’t understand them half the time. 😂
I was just gonna say that in Texas we have a ton of accents, I'm sure it bleeds together with our neighbors in the east as well. East Texas is its own thang
@@cannibalvince I have a friend from Nacodoches, TX and her accent is 🔥. I lived for a couple years in El Paso and that's a whole different sound!
Bienville parish confirms
@@nachoakajrod Calcasieu Seconds
Truth....lol
Yinzer here! I've been told my Pittsburgh accent sounds like gravel in a blender. However, that was told to me by my dad, who has the strongest West Virginia Appalachian accent you've ever heard. 😂❤
Burgh girl here too! My cousins husband actually wanted to record me bcuz he said I have the heaviest Pittsburgh accent he's ever heard. Lol
My husband has a Pittsburgh accent. I wouldn’t say it’s a ridiculously strong one, but you can tell when he talks. I was born and raised in Johnstown, but I don’t really have an accent as far as I know.
@@jodiuhron1979 he must be a good dude then!!! 🙌🤣
Also a yinzer here! Ive been asked countless times what certain words that i was just raised with mean, but Im proud to say Im from Pixburgh😂
@@chab1rd155, love him with all my heart! And, OF COURSE, we had a black and gold wedding almost 21 years ago! 🙌🖤💛
The moment he mentioned Dunkin Donuts I knew it was going to be Boston. That general area uses Dunkin Donuts as landmarks for giving directions.
I recognized the Pittsburgh accent immediately because my parents are from the area. I'm from Southern California, but every now and then a "yinz" slips into my speech!
I was a bit surprised by some similarities between the vowel sounds and those of the Philly and Baltimore accents. They're definitely distinct, but I heard some similar sounds.
Pittsburgh girl here too! 🙌 Woo-hoo! 😂
I live around there too. I can always understand what they are saying.
From the ‘Burgh myself.. although I don’t have a strong yinzer accent..
@@marylousaunders3069 lol. Well, I never thought that I did either, but I guess, apparently to others, I do...🤷
25:37- we didn't always have no electricity, didn't have no running water. We'd running it all... Got it out the spring. But they eventually got the electricity up to you
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Spot on for the actual words. If I might add on to clarify the meaning of it for those that might still have some confusion: “in the past we didn’t have electricity. We [even] didn’t have running water. We had to carry it in ourselves out from the spring. Eventually they got electricity up to us.”
@@lucydotg So funny!! When I was young we traveled from the city to the "country" and I was amazed to watch my aunt get well water, and crank it back up!! It was the best cold water!!
Where I live in North Cackalacky, they finally got municipal water in maybe 10 years ago. I'm still drinking spring water cause I don't trust Government water.
Naw we didn’t have no electricity we didn’t have no electro… runnin water either. We run it out of the… got it out of the spring (sprang). But they eventually got uh electricity up through here
I have a cousin that grew up all around the Appalachian mountains and has a extremely strong accent. I grew up on the west coast and I can't understand him at all but after hanging out with him for a day or 2 I'll start understanding him and that freaks me out.
lol that's funny
i grew up in wv so i'm used to readily understanding all but the absolute thickest of accents there. and when i say "thickest" i mean like it almost doesn't sound like english 😅
When I was a teenager, my family moved from the Mid-Atlantic to Upstate South Carolina. A couple of the kids in school had Appalachian accents so thick I could not understand them. I started with a couple of words that jumped out from their sentences, like "fishin'" and "boat" and worked my way forward from there.
The NorthEast has such a diverse set of accents. I'm from Southern Maine and obviously everyone around here sounds normal (To me) but I'll go to conventions and people from Vermont will say "you have an accent" and we'll talk for a bit and then someone from Massachusetts will come along and now all three of us are trying to understand each other. Very funny interactions.
You would be surprised by the "outerbanks" accent. It sounds a lot like people from Cornwall. The reason is that many of its people are decendants of the English that came from Cornwall and surrounding areas, especially in Orocoke. There were many pirates in that area. The most famous was Edward Teach, who was famously known as Black Beard. Orocoke, North Carolina, was a favorite hideout for him.
I always thought Blackbeard liked to hang out in New Orleans, in the French Quarter.
America is just like England, but better. I few hundred years ago the best of the Brits came over and stayed. They were the first Americans and over the years we changed these Brits and they became better, Americans. And before I get heat from this, it was a joke. My grandmother was from England and I loved her as if she was a real person, just like an American.
Love your vids man.
lol, I see what you did there. 😅
Gotdammit, Lewis!! "Oh, lord, Jesus, it's a fire!" fucking sent me!!
Where was that... I'll have to listen again...😂😂
@kathyolney4083 or wait, do you mean timestamp on lewis' vid? It's 24:25.
it's a far, not fire!
Being from SE Georgia, I've encountered an accent that's about as hard as any of the difficult ones at the end of the video. That's the Geechee from the Georgia barrier islands.
Oh definitely. I could be wrong, but I think linguists classify Gullah-Geechee as more than just an accent. It's a dialect (different vocabulary, maybe different word order, etc.). But possibly you might hear people with just a Gullah-influenced accent, which would be hard enough to parse on its own.
I was wondering why they didn't cover that accent.
I have family in Michigan. And every time I call my cousins, it takes me a few minutes to adjust to their accents and speed of talking (I'm in Texas). It's really hilarious!
Boston Massachusetts in New England, we had a fab tea party there...back in the day!!
Check out Carolina Brogue or Outer Banks accent. It's North Carolina with their own unique accent. Kind of British, kind of Irish
Midwesterner here. I was always told by people from other regions we spoke too fast but to us, we sound like every movie or news character out there.
One thing I wanted to say to L3WG concerns the “right on red” rules in the U.S.. Perhaps the confusion for you comes from the Brits driving on the opposite side of the road. You guys would have to dodge traffic to turn right on red. Think of it as left on red for the Brits. If there’s no one coming and you’re not crossing traffic flowing the opposite direction, it makes much more sense to not wait for the light change to change. It’s no wonder you think Brit’s would be plowing into each other!
That 'left on red' deal is a New Jersey thing. It's not official but everyone knows about it and abides by it. Except if you just moved there and nobody told you about it. I narrowly escaped repeated accidents, then someone told me. Still makes no sense, but living in Jersey makes no sense, either.
ooh no.. not da stop an go lights
25:37 You asked if anyone understood that-
Here is what I heard: "...*cuts in*.. we didn't have no electricity, we didn't have no oil. No running water either! We run it out of... we got it out the spring!.. but, they eventually got the electricity up through here."
Many years ago I went to Louisiana and took a boat tour through the Bayou. The tour was run by a very nice Cajun man who spoke with a mean Cajun dialect. The thing is my family is French Canadian and I had no trouble understanding him especially when he added more French when he spoke. I loved it and I could have listened to him for hours. It was great!
Yes, New England, including Boston, is on the East Coast, mainly in the more northern regions. Remember, the colonists were mainly British so landing where there did -- Plymouth Rock -- makes perfect sense. Greetings from Portland, Oregon, my cuz across the pond!
Ok I gave up and I've been speaking American English for 67 years.....
I'm an Acadian from northern maine and can talk the old french that the cajuns speak in louisiana.
My daughter in law is from Maine, and I could listen to her talk for hours. I love that accent
Same here Joe. I'm from the pi area. I always wonder why these accent videos always lumps the whole state in with the coastal accent when we have valley French Acadian accent up here
I'm a Cajun from Louisiana and that would mean we are cultural cousins.
Here I am an American and I have never heard anyone talk like some of these peoples let alone understand any of it.
yeah the cajun i heard giberish fish giberish
Tbf the guy making the original video picked the strongest accents he could find. The Maine accent was way stronger than any I've heard and the Minnesotan was stronger than most of the Canadians I've talked to. And the broad generalizations of the Northeast and South were pretty well, broad. Both of those areas will have several smaller accents as well.
Yeah the Minnesota accent was not even close. Those were skits of people parodying what they think we talk like. It gets old when everyone thinks you talk like the movie Fargo. 😒😒. No one talks like that.
My older relatives talked EXACTLY like those Appalachian mountain men, or that young woman who was sitting on her porch steps. Myself, I now probably have some weird mix of a "born and bred" Cincinnati accent and a "lived here for decades" Baltimore accent. [ I once caught myself saying "worter" (water) the way some folks do here in B'more - and I was horrified!! 😂😂😂]
I was so surprised, Lewis! You guessed right! The most difficult was from Tangiers Island, Virginia!!
😂I have a twang. Southern Indiana. But I think the hardest to understand is French Quarter in New Orleans, Louisiana!!
BTW I typed this BEFORE I watched. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I'm from an Appalachian family. I don't sound that deep holler, but my elders do.
I'm from Texas and in college, my roommate was from West Virginia. Neither one of our accents were real heavy, until we started drinking..... lol
@@Roadtrip635 Oh when I get mad, or drunk no one can understand me.
This video makes me giggle because I can understand everyone that Lewis couldn't understand, but I'm sure there's British and other UK accents he can understand that I'll probably need captions for haha
I'm a native southern Californian, I don't know anyone who speaks like that. Maybe the younger folks, but it's put on.
I lived in Ca for a couple of years. I was shocked when I met someone once who had a valley girl accent. I didn’t think it existed……lol
The Southern California accent is always so exaggerated in these videos.
Nothing better than southern accent on a woman I would know because I’m a southern woman with an accent
Me too.
All ya'll sound ditzy, but I like it too.
Funny I'm a southern woman with an accent and I cringe internally when i hear some of these...
You southern belles are adorable. Don't ever change. That being said, being called sugar or hun by a stranger sounds like you guys are flirting. I know you guys aren't.... but it still throws us midwesterners off.
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Rural central New York state here. We don't have the NYC accent. The Brooklyn NY'rs are difficult to understand.
Ohhh yes you DO have an accent to these Ohio ears.😂 But you're 100% right. It's not The Bronx, Queens or Brooklyn. Not at all.
25:40 "We didn't have no electricity, didn't have no (sounds like he said electric again?), or running water, any way, running out of the...got it out of the spring. But, they (eventually?) got electricity up through here."
I can mostly understand all of these but don't catch every word. My mom was from the eastern shore of the Chesapeake bay (last clip where the guy was talking about his Mom) and I grew up on the border with Quebec, so I speak a good amount of French. That helps with Cajun. I've lived all over the world but now live near Appalachia, so the accent in the above clip I transcribed is heard around here sometimes.
But all of this makes it difficult for others to guess where I am from.
I took one of those "where are you from" accent/dialect tests online and was shocked!! It pinpointed "Cincinnati metro/northern Kentucky" region exactly. I was born and raised n Cincy and all my folks are from Kentucky. I didn't expect it to be so accurate.
@tonkabeanpumpkin-fh4fz I took an extensive one and it was confused. But it was actually quite accurate since it picked up not only many of the places I have lived, but also where my parents were from. The strongest was where I lived from about age 9 to age 12 (northern NY state). It picked up Baltimore and Eastern shore Chesapeake bay from where my parents grew up, western Maryland where my Mom's family lived (and where she spent the summers). It also located me near Ottawa as the strongest component (I spent 3 years an hour south in NY). It also detected Rochester (I lived in the finger lakes for 2 1/2 years, from ages 5 to 7). It also placed me in Chicago, but I only lived there for 6 months. My guess is that I may have picked up the generic American accent (which is similar to Chicago) from watching American entertainment from all the times I lived overseas growing up. I had lived in Central Ohio for a while, but as an adult. It didn't pick that up. Seeing as I have lived in many countries and most sections of the US, and since no one can guess where I'm from (except somewhere in the US or Canada), I was amazed that it figured anything out.
I’m from L.A. and live in San Diego. Tho there are still folks that participate in vocal fry, they tend to hang out in the San Fernando Valley, so we don’t claim them. I speak with a Standard/General American accent mostly; however, when I’m in a relaxed setting, the CA vowel shift can occur and the syllables can elongate; I consciously keep it in check tho. I’ve just discovered this channel. It’s good. 👍 😊
I'm from Oklahoma. Someone that isn't familiar with an Okie accent might confuse me for a Texan. The accent is similar.
I see no difference in Okla and Texas accent. I was born and raised in Texas . Both my parents were from Okla. Could explain that. Lol
Arkansan here, from the ok/ar border. East TX and OK sound the same to me, and of course indigenous groups have their own cultural accent as well.
I'm an Okie as well it happens to me as well
Mines messed up I was born and raised in Southern California, my dad has Alabama accent, and I live in Texas
You guessed the hardest! Good job! (I guessed right too).
I knew that we had the "General American" accent in Northern California, but i don't think we are the only Western State who do. I think all of us in the Pacific Northwest have the General Accent. I don't hear much of a difference fron my accent when i go to Oregon, Washington, or even Nevada.
25:22 You should look up videos of Shakespeare being done in the historical accent that it was written in. Most Shakespeare today is performed in modern accents and sounds very different than when it was written. There are actually some things where he’d written words to rhyme but the rhyming nature is usually overlooked now because the accent has changed so much.
I was just watching this guy yesterday do a video on accents and two of them were people from Robeson County NC which I grew up in and around. It’s kind of a Southern drawl with extra syllables and a hint of Cajun. Yeah is Yay-yuh and they call everyone Pa. It’s also the most dangerous town (Lumberton) per capita in North Carolina, maybe the country.
I'm in New York, and I can identify about 20 different regional accents in this state alone, lol.
In some cases, you can hear what neighborhood someone grew up in. This is especially true in the city, as a lot of different immigrant groups cluster in various neighborhoods. It's easy to differentiate Brox from Queens for example. But even outside the city, it's easy to tell the Adirondak region, from Syracuse, Rochester, and Buffalo. There's a lot of similarities in those, but if you listen closely, you can definitely hear it.
I agree with you, women with a South Carolina accent sound hot, lol. Definitely my favorite accent for women. A voice as sweet as honey, but those girls can spit venom when they want, but do it in the kindest tone of voice you've ever heard, lol.
Of course, the least attractive accent for women is the New Jersey accent, nasal and grating.
Boston accents, like New York accents are also very distinct. There's a "General Accent" that sounds fairly mid-western, there's the Boston Irish accent (which doesn't sound too bad), and then there's the old-school Cambridge accent, which I'm sorry to say, I can't hear without laughing, lol.
As everyone else has stated, Cajun is by far the most difficult, but worse, there's like a dozen different Cajun sub-accents. Get down into the former slave areas, and shit gets weird. Imagine 30 generations of French and Dutch immigrants whose kids were raised by Jamaican and Haitian nannies, lol. It's barely even English in some of the rural areas.
Now if you really want to go down a deep rabbit-hole, the Native American accents are usually (with a few exceptions) distinct to individual tribes. But then some tribes have unofficial off-shoots. They share the same heritage as the larger tribe, but broke off for various reasons, and can be relatively isolated from the main population.
Now here's where it get's really interesting. "Variable Idiosyncratic Diction".
A lot of us grew up in many different places, so we have hybrid accents, where one or the other becomes dominant under different circumstances. I was born in NY, but grew up in Arizona, which was largely Hispanic, with a lot of mid-westerners and my neighborhood was filled with people from Kansas and Texas who all moved with a big manufacturer that relocated to the area. So I've picked up a bit of all of those. I cycle through them, quite involuntarily. If I'm flirting with a pretty girl, a southern accent kicks in automatically, I'm not even really aware of it unless it's pointed out. If you hear a strong New York accent, run for your life, I'm pissed. 90% of the time, I just have the general American accent you normally think of.
The only accent I got right away is the one from NYC and I go there a lot and know lots of people there. I even went to school there for five years. I kind of have the new York accent but a little different. I'm from the Hudson valley. It's a little different here. Would you be able to tell my accent and where I'm from?
The southern Cal one was definitely exaggerated. Grew up in a beach city but moved away. We also don’t usually say “supper.”
I feel like we got did dirty cause ion speak like that at all 😭. There’s just too many different accents out ere. Every damn city or county folks speak differently.
I am from rural North Carolina and my husband is from Yemen....we have been together for 10 years and still can't understand each other at times 😂
I love it. Love 💘 conquers all!
Montana Jordan was that Texas accent he played on Young Sheldon. That's his real accent.. peace from Central Texas Hook'em Horns 🤘
24:54 THAT'S JIM TOM! JIM TOM! He's one of the most famous moonshiners of all time!!!
"I called him out many a time. It'd take us a long time to get into town with that old buggy. He'd tell me to work the brake. -- We'd start to go up a hill, I'd kinda push the brake on. He'd tell that old mule, 'Get up there!-Get!' ... he's scootin' the wheel. He'd look back - ...he'd say, 'turn the brake loose!'
Three ears of corn he'd feed it for lunch. He'd start back home abt 4 o'clock."
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Hey man shoutout from Wisconsin! Congrats on the subscribers! Been watching since 10k less mate 🤙 love your content man! Keep it up! Ope, best be goin! (Ope is a very midwestern thing to say and sounds great in the accent 👍)
There is nothing more midwestern than ope!
My accent was formed from people who were too busy to work on a real accent right in the middle of the country
No o e "works" on having an accent.
Fyi, the Midwest works no harder or longer hours than any other region of the country.
No one "works" on having an accent.
Fyi, the Midwest works no harder or longer hours than any other region of the country.
Born and raised in Texas moved to North Carolina then to Alabama and ended up in Georgia. Definitely southern accent here. Married a Upstate New York man😂
Omg. @28:13 or so…. My aunt taught me “French” through Cajun. 🤣 My actual university French professor laughed me out of class. My uncle is SO Cajun it took me years to fully understand him! And I had to stare at his mouth as he talked. I love them, and after a week with them, I’ll be speaking like them… As someone from the west coast, with a very “standard American English” accent normally…. My friends can all tell when I’ve been talking to my Cajun family frequently. 💜 It takes a while to be able to understand, but is SO worth it! Check out Swamp People!! One of the guys (RIP) looks almost exactly like my uncle.
Love the videos man I watch every upload! I’m from Houston Texas and African Americans have their own little dialect depending on where you’re from. Would love to see a video on this one day
Im a minnesotan from minneapolis, NO ONE talks like that in the cities if you go up north then yes they do its crazy lol
Totally true. When I visit Minneapolis and St. Paul, I'm always excited the RARE times I run into someone with that stereotypical accent.
Yea, you guy sound mostly midwestern. That being said it does seem like you guys still just a bit of that strong O sound...
Yeah it gets old when everyone thinks you sound like the movie Fargo. I have NEVER heard anyone with an accent that pronounced before. Not even Canadians.
@@csailer2353 Same, from Northern MN and I sound more Canadian/Midwest than the stereotypical Fargo accent. I watched Supernatural with the episodes from up north and they sounded like they were from Fargo.
I agree about the southern accent. I lived in Nashville and the women that have that southern draw was my kryptonite when I was there.
Everyone in the US will agree that the Cajun Louisiana accent is the hardest to understand.
Here I sit, with my "newscaster voice" trying to replicate accents. Lol🤣🤣 I think I'll stick to my clear, easy to understand voice 😂😂
new England is a region with several states, Boston is in the state of Massachusetts
I know you do a lot of reactions to American stuff like our different accents, but as interesting as you found his accent I feel like you should totally do a reaction to accents from your own country as well now. xD
My grandmother was from Missouri. She actually had lived in Nebraska before moving to California in 1926. She had a Missouri accent her whole life. We all had a little of it.
Speaking of Nebraska- that area of the Country definitely has an accent all it's own. Montana, Nebraska, Wyoming... It's subtle, but I can immediately recognize it when I hear it.
This is funny. I’m from Oklahoma and moved to Colorado for a couple years and they all told me I had an accent. I had never really been told that before. One thing they pointed out was I always told people “preciate ya“ instead of saying the whole word “appreciate ya.” Then it kind of clicked like yeah okay I guess I get what yall are sayin now haha. Good video as always, Lew!
NorCal doesn’t have an accent but we do have our lingo.
I'm from Minnesota, but live in KS every ONE can tell I'm from the North. Both are considered Midwest but I pronounce words different
Missouri and North, the "i" seems more pronounced lol
In MN the O's and R's are more drawn out lol...
Also with words I say Aunt, where down here they pronounce it as ant. I say Baag, down here they say beg (bag 😂)
13:50 I’d agree with you - that seemed like multiple distinct varieties of Southern accents. To me a “Southern” accent isn’t a single accent but a whole family. It’s kinda like saying something is a “British” accent. There’s loads of very different varieties within it.
All are still recognizable as southern though.
@@ronaldpippen8164 but there’s a lot more variety in the different examples of “southern” that he gave than there is between Minnesota and upper peninsula Michigan, but he made those completely separate categories .
@@AdamNisbett there are so many different southern accents that we would need our own video to cover them all, North Carolina alone has 4 or 5 atleast.
I have lived in Southern California for the last 33 years and the stereotypical California accent is VERY uncommon.
I am proud to say that I have a heavy New Jersey accent.
Taylor Ham or Pork Roll?
Sub, Hoagie, or Hero?
😂🤣😂🤣😂
As an American who watched BBC reruns of The Benny Hill Show, I couldn't understand ANYTHING they said. I needed a translator for that thick British accent. 😅😅
That first 'piney woods Texas' accent is a Louisiana boy. His name is Cody Leveaux. Makes me less confident in this. He might live in Texas now, but that dude's one of my people lol And yep, I am from Southern Louisiana. THis is the accent. It can vary pretty wildly though, depending.
The difference in accents in the state of North Carolina line is staggering. I love my home state ❤
I am from southern Georgia and have a drawl. I’ve often corrected people from other areas who say I have a “twang.” They hear a southern accent and just call it a twang. Meanwhile, they’re talking through their noses.
Yeah, I agree. Twang, to me, is like, "Git own nah, liddle dawgie!" Drawl is more, "Oh, nah, hello dahlin', how you?"
@@andimproud As someone who says it, it's morre laik "Oh, hey darrlinn, how'rre yuu"? But, to be fair, I'm more east Texas.
@cannibalvince oh, howdy neighbor!. I wonder, then, if culture plays a part, as we are black folks. My mama's folks are from east Texas, Harleton, Marshall, Longview. My daddy's folks are from Corsicana and Dallas. I'm born and raised in the DFW metroplex. We definitely pronounce darling as dahlin. How are you is just how you? Either way, dialects and accents are so interesting.
The Yooper-style accent extends as far as the Dakotas in my experience
yooper accent is so fun!! i’m from there and we barely get recognized cuz it’s such a small region, most people don’t even think about it when michigan gets brought up !
I'm a native Southern Californian and you would never hear me speaking slowly with vocal fry. No one I've ever known speaks that way. That's a very inaccurate stereotype.
The New York accent was in the top 5 because people don't know all the accents. They think all the various southern accents are all one.
The hardest accent is the Outer Banks Islands of North Carolina.
What he calls a Southern California accent is well represented among the Kardashians and young, female Southern Californians.
Raised in the IE live in LA and nobody I know talks that way either.
Canadian, here. We can usually tell an American not only by the accent of their speech but more by the decibel.
Get lost. Canadians don’t count.
You bring a genuine, non-stop smile to my face with your reactions. I love your videos. ❤ - watching from WA, USA 😊
thank you so much!!
Born and raised in Itasca County, Minnesota. I moved around the state a bit after becoming an adult. I'd say the "Minnesotan" accent is more of a range. If you're close to the center of the state, it's a general American accent. If you're close to the southern part (especially more towards the rural towns) of the state you get more of a southern "hick" accent. The further you go north though, I think that's when the stereotypical accent comes into play, it's more similar to a Canadian accent the closer you get to the Canadian border.
Much love from Bovey, Minnesota. Cheers!
Please note (as seen on one of the maps) that Florida is NOT a part of the South, and does not have a Southern accent. They have Waffle House and Cracker Barrel, but no decent Southern food.
Some of these accents are exaggerated.
That was fun😂 I understood most of what they said, except Cajun. When I started watching your videos, I didn’t always understand your accent. It’s thicker than other British accents I’ve heard. Now it’s familiar and I like it. 😊
Americans absolutely LOVE British accents.
Not all of us do.
No we don't. Its not all that special to me.
Not necessarily
Sweet Brown! She is from my hometown of Oklahoma City ,!Oklahoma. You can tell by the way she still speaks slow, even in an excited state. And most telling, all the announced diphthongs. Every vowel is pronounced, yet every word is shortened. More twang than drawl.
My second ex-husband was a good ole’ Southern boy from Georgia. He could tell fellow Georgians which county they came from - used to do it all the time with telemarketers. I am native NorCal, but listen to a lot of BBC (plus those in-laws from GA and studying myriad other languages) so my accent confuses the heck out of people. (Probably doesn’t help that I primarily speak to my dogs in Russian.)
I understood the Appalachian accent, but I also spent a summer in the same town as Jim Tom and it took me about all summer to learn to hear it. He lives just outside Robbinsville, NC in the Snowbird area.
I’m a Cajun! lol love the the Boudreaux and Thibodeaux joke. That’s my family too. My accent ain’t that thick but my cousin is. I do throw random French in and people get confused. I love it tho! 😂
My moms from Michigan have family in Pennsylvania, Minnesota Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Tennessee, Virginia, Georgia, Montana, Oregon, California Washington I understood most all these accents. I loved smoky mountain guy talking about not having running water just water coming off a spring in his day. Have hard time understanding the cajuion the most and the last one.
Lived in the South all my life, and I still couldn't tell you the difference between North Carolina and Arkansas accents. But just last week, a Brit was at our local bar and I immediately knew he was from Yorkshire.
I cannot tell you how excited I am you got to hear a Pittsburgh accent. I lived there until I was 31 and we do need our own language lol omg I love it! I've been living in Southern California for 13 years and I've mostly lost the accent but I still can't say things like iron or towel correctly. I'm going home for a visit in August and this made me excited 🖤💛
My wife and I stayed a few days on Smith Island in the Chesapeake, and one of the older gentlemen took us around the island (actually, there are a couple of islands) in his boat. it took a little while, but I accommodated my ear to his accent, but yeah, it was distinctive for sure. Even names for common birds were a bit dialect -- similar, but not quite the same.
Yinzer here, just a little bit. I never really thought I had much of an accent, but when I travel, people point it out.
Went to Port St. Joe, Florida area once, and they for real speak like Larry the Cable Guy.
I don't speak with the California accent,at all and I lived here for my whole life ❤️😅
This was funny! I love how different everyone in America is.
We Texans have different accents in our own state: West Texas, Panhandle West Texas, Hill country ( central Texas ), East Texas, and North Texas as around Dallas- Ft. Worth, and more!😀
Fun fact about a Texas accent: Not everywhere in Texas has a Texas accent. Like, I grew up in Houston and people assume from my voice that I'm from somewhere in New England until they hear me say "y'all" and "ain't" too many times. It's not that I can't do a Texas accent, it's just not how I naturally talk.
Oh, and I can definitely tell where in Texas people come from by their accents. Hell, getting more specific I can tell what part of Houston someone who's lived here all their life like I have is from by how they talk.
L3WG - Here’s a fun fact… the Appalachian’s accent and people track back to the Scottish settlers.😊
I'm American. Lived all over, but primarily Pittsburgh (yup, we're famous for our particular accent), and North Carolina. I agree that even Americans struggle understanding folks from deep in the Appalachian mountains. That accent can sometimes be impenetrable.
Grew up southern, through time came to speak more 'generic' American, but still slip back into southern easily. Most southerners can at least understand the various southern accents (including Appalachian for the most part - and yes, I did understand that gentleman talking about the electricity). My absolute favorite English accent? British RP!
Here in the South we've got a variety of accents here. I'm from North Carolina. I love British accents btw. 😊
Which part of North Carolina?