As someone who does study accents, this is really impressive. The ability to break an accent down into small parts that define the accent is essential to learning new ones and can take people years to learn. Some people never learn that skill and require a dialect coach to break it down for them. The fact that you basically taught yourself how to do it AND can teach others is nothing short of amazing. Those are difficult skills to master. Also, from a training perspective, this is a perfect example of good training technique. You start at the beginning, keep your explanations simple, and give many examples so a variety of learning styles can get the most out of your lesson. So, yeah... You rock!
not a linguist here but Jesters accent reminds me of a 1st generation western immigrants from Moldova/Romania when they've inherited an accent from their parents but grown up being taught english as their main language
It's wild that Laura does this so naturally, it feels totally off the cuff when she does it. even when she's cracking a joke with that fast wit she does the accent effortlessly. great vid!!
@cak01vej in the context of performance or acting i'd say doing so "naturally" is commonly understood as seeming natural - it does not seem awkward or practiced. I'm not referring to any natural talent I'm talking about the manner in which she does it. your tone and self-conceitedness are off-putting and annoying. you are just being an ass
I'm a linguistics student and I've been looking into accents a lot lately for conlanging, which is how I got here. I don't know anything about critical role or the jester character, but this is an awesome break down of all the parts of the accent that could work anywhere. I looked up how Laura Bailey actually sounds playing Jester and you've figured it out perfectly. The jealousy is real.
You say you're no expert, but this was actually a really great walk through on accents in general, and on how to study them. No just Jesters, but any accent. I'm actually in a Voice acting class, studying under Deb Munro, and the way you're going about this video is very similar and reminisce of her coaching.
"I'm no expert"-she says as she expertly breaks down the accent- Great work! this helps a lot! i felt like i was close to the accent before but i couldnt hold onto it. thank you!
I don't watch Critical Role, but I am a DM that is trying to improve my accents for NPCs. Outside of your intent to make this about Jester's accent, you created a very good instructional video to help D&D players/DMs understand how to practice accents with some good tips... well done!
This is also why speech and language are so intriguing to me (enough that I got my Bachelor of Science in Communication Sciences and Disorders with the intent to get my Masters in Speech and Language Pathology.) You get to see how regional languages can change and morph each other. So one person hears Moldova, another Belarus, and another hears Ukraine. Whereas I hear similar patterns to Irish and German.
This is delightful! I am not British, but I've listened to a British stage actor talk about an accent called 'General American' that is taught in British acting schools. It's not actually from anywhere, nobody in America uses it, but it's basically an accent that hits a bunch of notes that will convey to a british listener that the character is American. I think that's kind of what Laura is doing with Jester's accent. It's like a 'General Eastern European.' She's hitting a bunch of notes that convey to American listeners an Eastern European accent - notes you have done an outstanding job isolating! - even though probably nobody from Eastern Europe really sounds quite like Jester. And I'm sure that's intentional on Laura's part!
wOAH im pretty sure i know where this accent comes from? i'm romanian and this sounds almost exactly like the accent that happens when natives try and speak english.
Many elements also sound very much like a Polish person speaking english but not exactly. I find Jester's accent very pleasant to listen to, easy to understand and sometimes funny but in a strangely familiar way.
@@nondorian As a Pole I thought I heard romanian/russian accent. But that rollin R is sooo much polish, so I can't say no to those who are thinking it's closer to polish than any other eastern/central eurpean accent.
@@ghostyprince I mean...to be fair it's not as if Romanians didn't take on multiple languages in their travels. So it could be a combination of Polish and Russian accents mixed in with speaking English.
Has Laura seen this video? It's fantastic and so apparent that you've done so much work! Considering you're not even a voice actor, your picking up on all these details is evidence of your dedication!!
Funnily enough, I've used her accent, adapted to my male tabaxi character (actually Khajiit but similar)..... and it has been a blast playing it with my group. At first, I was a bit weird it out but it ended out being great.
Besides the Jester song, this is the first Ginny Di video I've seen. What have I learned about Ginny Di from this first time viewing? "Quick disclaimer, I am far from an expert! I don't actually know anything about accents." ... Ginny Di is a liar... a talented.... talented liar....
EnDSchultz Well, I’d say she just basically rolled a natural 20 on performance as people were able to realise how talented she is at both performing and teaching the accent, thereby weakening her statement about not being an expert
you have jester's mannerisms down to a science! im doing a lot of campaign 1 right now (playing catch up) and ive been working on a grog voice. getting it pretty close, because my natural timber is about the same as travis's anyway.
i live in texas and have lived in texas my entire life (specifically san antonio) and ive never heard anyone who sounds like fjord in my life, but fuck man if i can do that voice i fucking will for the rest of my life
@@rorokhorosho imo, it's a little more of that softer mid southern-southern east coast US accent than Texan. People around here speak in a similar manner to early Fjord
The only thing i can think about rn is Caleb singing the wizard and i, nott singing dancing through life to caleb, beau and molly singing what is this feeling, and dear old shiz but it’s dear solstryce.
Katie Kiesel I’d argue The Wizard and I as either a song for Fjord, about his hopes to get into Solstryce Academy in the beginning of the campaign, or an inversion of the song as Nott’s (familial) love letter to Caleb. Dancing Through Life would also work well with Molly, and oh man, can you imagine Jester singing ‘I’m Not That Girl’ while staring wistfully at Fjord’s turned back?
As a aspiring voice actor, I feel like this helps people who don't understand subtle nuances in a voice, from inflections to simple ways to touch your tongue to the roof of your mouth...…. Thank you for helping me and others learn and practice our Jester voices! Sincerely Badass Pagan (P.S ii haven't practiced inversed R's for awhile so thanks for that lol)
I stumbled across this video entirely by accident and I must say I'm so happy I did. I studied voice in college and learning vowel placement, tongue placement, and mouth shapes was a huge part of my training. It's very difficult to place if you don't have a coach to help you through this process, and I was fortunate to have someone working with me for years to make sure I was doing everything correctly. You've clearly put incredible effort and thought into how Laura does the accent herself. I now teach music, choir, and voice, so from a teaching perspective I really appreciate that you show the audience first what you're teaching, how to do it, and then provide an example. This is literally a major component of teaching. We're trained to do called "interactive modeling" and you're demonstrating the modeling part of it so, so perfectly. Brava!
This is so perfect!! I've been doing most of this subconsciously for her voice in my roleplays on my channel, but this will definitely help me clean it up! Thank you so much!
The bit about talking to yourself in the accent is spot on though. My girlfriend's dnd character has a very similar accent in my homebrew campaign and I always slip into it when I'm teasing her. It's just a fun accent.
Ha, talking about the 'ooo' with subtitles on, auto-CC changes it from "when you're grossed out" to "when your girl stabbed you" which would be a completely different noise.
I especially like the way you explain the flapped r- when I use one, I basically just replace all my r's with d's (for example, "bread" becomes "bdead"). But Jester's version of it is just a bit more "open" than that, and you really nailed it, nice work :-)
Alas, one of my good friends is working on a Jester "Popular" song, so I will be sitting this one out so I can best support hers!! But don't worry, I have plenty more musical CritRole plans!
I love mimicking Jesters voice. This was an amazing video!! Beautifully done, like totally thought I was listening to Laura how to do Jesters voice. Just absolutely brilliant ☺️
HOLLY GUAKAMOLY THAT WAS IMPRESSIVE!!!!! Every time you did the accent I couldn't help but giggle/smile this was great and I'm going to use this to try and learn her accent :3
Watching your videos and trying to catch up on Critical Role has really helped me find a voice for my Water Genasi in our D&D campaign. Thank you for the tips, and keep up the incredible work!
I recently decided that I am totes keen on voice acting, I found this super useful!! You pin point all the key things that make it superrrr easy to pick up the accent. Now I am a guy, but this is by far my favourite accent from the Mighty Nein, and I will manage those high pitches :P. Thanks for the awesome tutorial. p.s. love your hair best colour choice!
I’m getting so tired of doing readings for homework so I’ve decided to learn to do jester’s voice so I can read my readings out loud to myself in her voice and trick myself into thinking I’m just practicing her voice and not doing homework lol
You’re incredible! You sound JUST like Jester, it’s insane! And like someone already said, your analysis of her accent is so detailed and precise, if only I weren’t so rubbish at accents, I know it would help a lot!!
Oh my goodness thank you so so so much for sharing this! I always made my own attempt at her accent, but when I’d listen back there was always just something not quiiiiite right. It helps so much to hear this technical explanation and to see where I was veering off track, I can’t wait to get practicing now! 😊😊
You are vibrant, wonderful and talented and in no way need to justify yourself to trolls. Thank you for creating a channel I know I can always go to when I need to improve my day.
This is great! I find what always gets me is staying in an accent and not shifting suddenly or even subtly to another. I will admit it's easier to remember an accent when you associate it with a specific character, maybe that's the key to developing numerous generic accents, just create a bunch of different characters in your head for each accent and really visualize who you think those people are, and then talk like them when you want to mimic the general accent. This is speaking from the perspective of a GM who wants to change accents often.
I found Ginny's "flip R" explanation really helpful (I can roll my Rs, but my natural accent skips a lot of consonant sounds). Appropriately enough, the line "I'm wearing, like, a pretty cute dress" is really good practise for the Flip R.
This is actually pretty good and comprehensive and insightful and interesting for study, play, research, and idea development in general! Kudos and thanks! Reminds me of all that amazing hard work what goes into synthetic languages and constructs from programming to Klingon LOL
WOW!! I’ve always said to myself if I could do any M9 character’s voice it would be jester, and this helps so much! Also this impression is mind blowing, that broadway worthy performance included!
I've been listening to and mimicking accents by ear for decades; I've never heard anyone really break down the process and explain it quite like this though. Great food for thought.
Holy crap! 😳 this is amazing! I looked down at something right before you used the accent for the first time and I snapped my head up because I legit thought it was Laura!
You’ve nailed the components of diction! A lot of people forget about cadence and pitch as being part of the accent and they play a Critical role *eyebrows* in a convincing accent
Thank you as a DM who does a shitton of accents this helps alot. I can use this for many diverse characters. Again thank you for all your help for everyone who asked ( politely 😉 ). Keep up your great work!
This was super interesting! I’ve picked up on some of the things she does with her voice, but I didn’t realize a lot of them! It’s really good insight and this’ll be the first time I learn a voice for a cosplay haha 💕💕
I love the explanations! You're a really great observer of her speech patterns. I really like this video, I'll have to try and practice her accent. I want to start to do more accents. :)
Makes me really wonder how Laura would reacto to this, from "Hu, so that's I'm doing ?" to "Yeah, that's totally what I'm doing". I mean, sure she's a pro but I wonder how technical/instinctive her approach was.
Bit late (just joined C2 fandom a week or three ago, and C1 fandom a few months before that), but that extra Y is Palatalization, or moving the blade of the tongue closer to the roof of the mouth while pronouncing the vowel. Thank you for calling my attention to it; I'm going to start listening for it more now. Also thanks for pointing out that it changes the cadence -- I'm not sure I would have picked that up on my own (despite my experience with languages).
Thank you so much! I actually got the guts to finally do my first cosplay for my local con (As yasha!) because of your videos and just yeah thank you for being awesome and amazing!
That was a cool video, you went into necessary details and seem to have studied Laura's voice acting really in detail. And your singing was great! I doubt I could make the accent work because my native language isn't English and I already need to focus on masking my own accent, but I enjoyed it nonetheless!
Ah, but your native language comes with a whole different toolset of sounds to approach it with. You're actively thinking about mimicking one native English accent, mimicking a different English accent can't be too difficult. (Says the guy who only knows one language, himself.)
i use a very similar accent to Jester's for my friday night dnd game! i say similar because i didn't want to steal the exact cadence and speech pattern as we met on a CR fan server and they'd totally just call me out for playing almost exactly Jester anyways. Human Wild Magic Sorcerers are fun to give blue skin as part of their backstory :D
Yeah that does sound fun! I'm currently working on a backstory for Triton sailor in the vain of Fjord kinda but different of course I'm not even sure what class I want him to be. At first I was thinking a Paladin but I'm kinda shying away from that now because I think it's too on the nose ya know? Anyway your character sounds really cool!
I encourage my D&D players to mess around with accents. I made a point of letting them know that my homebrew world has no Ireland, France, or other places from Earth, so they don't need to worry about nailing accents from those places. My only advice was to decide what their accent sounds like and be consistent with that sound.
I tend to mimic accents and play around with voices all the time. I've gotten very good at picking up on mannerisms and posture as well, so I often start nearly copying the character in movement too. I like how in depth you've studied Laura's Jester.
this was in my recommended ,, youtube knows me too well :') also I would like to say that this is such an interesting, cute and informative video, I learnt a lot and it was really enjoyable ! subscribed,
It is insane how close you sound to Laura when you do your Jester voice. The first video I saw with you was one of your Jester costplay and I thought it was you with Laura ' voice over mimmicing 😂 that is how spot on it is 😂😍
Three years ago I had all my teeth pulled. I couldn’t talk at first but took a few days singing out loud to myself to train myself how to sound right talking with no teeth.
I know Ginny hasn't done it, but some cosplay critters have done something quite similar: www.reddit.com/r/criticalrole/comments/9u6n3x/no_spoilers_jester_wants_to_make_caleb_popular/
As someone who does study accents, this is really impressive. The ability to break an accent down into small parts that define the accent is essential to learning new ones and can take people years to learn. Some people never learn that skill and require a dialect coach to break it down for them. The fact that you basically taught yourself how to do it AND can teach others is nothing short of amazing. Those are difficult skills to master. Also, from a training perspective, this is a perfect example of good training technique. You start at the beginning, keep your explanations simple, and give many examples so a variety of learning styles can get the most out of your lesson. So, yeah... You rock!
Wow, thank you so much, that means so much to me to hear!!
Came here to say pretty much exactly this. There are Mozarts and Salieris in all all forms of art. You, Ginny, are absolutely a Mozart!
I completely agree--I teach/coach competitive public speaking and your breakdown is spot on. I'd use this to show my students in a heartbeat.
Ginny Di pretty sure he's saying a career change is in order
not a linguist here but Jesters accent reminds me of a 1st generation western immigrants from Moldova/Romania when they've inherited an accent from their parents but grown up being taught english as their main language
It's wild that Laura does this so naturally, it feels totally off the cuff when she does it. even when she's cracking a joke with that fast wit she does the accent effortlessly. great vid!!
@cak01vej hahaha alright smart ass
Practice makes perfect! xD
@cak01vej in the context of performance or acting i'd say doing so "naturally" is commonly understood as seeming natural - it does not seem awkward or practiced. I'm not referring to any natural talent I'm talking about the manner in which she does it.
your tone and self-conceitedness are off-putting and annoying. you are just being an ass
It's almost as if she's a professional voice actress with years of experience in the industry.
@@gumballthechewy Yes, but it can still be impressive, too.
I'm a linguistics student and I've been looking into accents a lot lately for conlanging, which is how I got here. I don't know anything about critical role or the jester character, but this is an awesome break down of all the parts of the accent that could work anywhere. I looked up how Laura Bailey actually sounds playing Jester and you've figured it out perfectly. The jealousy is real.
Go watch Critical Role! It's really good!
@@dontwanadisplaynameonutube2951 They play Dungeons & Dragoooooons! :D
@@ThorsShadow TheY PlaY Dng DRAGNSssS
You say you're no expert, but this was actually a really great walk through on accents in general, and on how to study them. No just Jesters, but any accent. I'm actually in a Voice acting class, studying under Deb Munro, and the way you're going about this video is very similar and reminisce of her coaching.
Technically, this was a really good teaching video, technically.
YUS TEACH ME THE ACCENT QUEEN
Correction God
Oh no
Shit god safira youre everywhere
Wasn't expecting you here
@@zestyspider3266 but you should
"I'm no expert"-she says as she expertly breaks down the accent-
Great work! this helps a lot! i felt like i was close to the accent before but i couldnt hold onto it. thank you!
super accurate, just short of calling the sounds by the technical term
I don't watch Critical Role, but I am a DM that is trying to improve my accents for NPCs. Outside of your intent to make this about Jester's accent, you created a very good instructional video to help D&D players/DMs understand how to practice accents with some good tips... well done!
Funny seeing you here! :P
@@TanisAnnicchiarico Haha! Heya Tanis... I see you found "young Wally" from over 2 years ago. lol. Cheers buddy!
As someone who speaks a Slavic language this is a pretty good example of a belorussian/ukrainian/russian accent. I myself am Slovenian.
Ditto, some of it is PRETTY spot on!!
This is also why speech and language are so intriguing to me (enough that I got my Bachelor of Science in Communication Sciences and Disorders with the intent to get my Masters in Speech and Language Pathology.) You get to see how regional languages can change and morph each other. So one person hears Moldova, another Belarus, and another hears Ukraine. Whereas I hear similar patterns to Irish and German.
This is delightful!
I am not British, but I've listened to a British stage actor talk about an accent called 'General American' that is taught in British acting schools. It's not actually from anywhere, nobody in America uses it, but it's basically an accent that hits a bunch of notes that will convey to a british listener that the character is American.
I think that's kind of what Laura is doing with Jester's accent. It's like a 'General Eastern European.' She's hitting a bunch of notes that convey to American listeners an Eastern European accent - notes you have done an outstanding job isolating! - even though probably nobody from Eastern Europe really sounds quite like Jester. And I'm sure that's intentional on Laura's part!
wOAH im pretty sure i know where this accent comes from? i'm romanian and this sounds almost exactly like the accent that happens when natives try and speak english.
Many elements also sound very much like a Polish person speaking english but not exactly. I find Jester's accent very pleasant to listen to, easy to understand and sometimes funny but in a strangely familiar way.
@@nondorian As a Pole I thought I heard romanian/russian accent. But that rollin R is sooo much polish, so I can't say no to those who are thinking it's closer to polish than any other eastern/central eurpean accent.
I'm from hungary and to me it either sounds like romanian, or slovakian. (but now that a few people pointed out, it does sound a bit like polish too)
@@ghostyprince I mean...to be fair it's not as if Romanians didn't take on multiple languages in their travels. So it could be a combination of Polish and Russian accents mixed in with speaking English.
I work with a couple of Romanians and it does sounds like them
This was both really adorable and educating! Now I kind of want more videos like this one :D
I'd be happy to make more - what other kind of stuff would people like to learn?
oh I know, right? is anyone watching this in 2020?
Caleb's Zemneian accent? I mean it's basically a German accent but still.
Yes
@@imadethiscomment5663 indeed, by now I'm thinking she should be the one being paid by the SkillShare and such and such!!
It’s even more impressive when you realise how low Laura’s actual register is on her normal voice and how she holds jesters pitch so well
Has Laura seen this video? It's fantastic and so apparent that you've done so much work! Considering you're not even a voice actor, your picking up on all these details is evidence of your dedication!!
Funnily enough, I've used her accent, adapted to my male tabaxi character (actually Khajiit but similar)..... and it has been a blast playing it with my group. At first, I was a bit weird it out but it ended out being great.
Im trying to get a tabaxi accent down. Its hard
I legit love the way you explain things.
You have a very charismatic presence, Ginny.
Jester would be proud ❤
Besides the Jester song, this is the first Ginny Di video I've seen. What have I learned about Ginny Di from this first time viewing?
"Quick disclaimer, I am far from an expert! I don't actually know anything about accents."
... Ginny Di is a liar... a talented.... talented liar....
Rolled a Nat20 on the deception!
well Jester is a Cleric of the Trickery Domain......
EnDSchultz Well, I’d say she just basically rolled a natural 20 on performance as people were able to realise how talented she is at both performing and teaching the accent, thereby weakening her statement about not being an expert
I now want to hear an entire rendition of popular with Caleb 😂
Now that's a great idea!
Liam are you listening!?!
Y e s
Or “Wicked in 6 minutes with Elphaba Widogast and Galinda Lavorre”
Woah! When you dropped the jester accent- I was bamboozled 😂
For someone who doesn't know anything about accents, it's a very good accent.
you have jester's mannerisms down to a science! im doing a lot of campaign 1 right now (playing catch up) and ive been working on a grog voice. getting it pretty close, because my natural timber is about the same as travis's anyway.
kinda thought Travis's accent was like a soft "Texan" accent with a twist of a southern draw as well.
@@DracosDiabolis During S1 and Grog Travis did not do a texan accent? However, during the current S2 as Fjord he does.
i live in texas and have lived in texas my entire life (specifically san antonio) and ive never heard anyone who sounds like fjord in my life, but fuck man if i can do that voice i fucking will for the rest of my life
@@rorokhorosho imo, it's a little more of that softer mid southern-southern east coast US accent than Texan. People around here speak in a similar manner to early Fjord
Album idea: The Mighty Nein sing songs from Wicked
In our hearts, we all want this.
At least there's Vox Machina with Hamilton.
Popular...
The only thing i can think about rn is Caleb singing the wizard and i, nott singing dancing through life to caleb, beau and molly singing what is this feeling, and dear old shiz but it’s dear solstryce.
OMG YES
Katie Kiesel I’d argue The Wizard and I as either a song for Fjord, about his hopes to get into Solstryce Academy in the beginning of the campaign, or an inversion of the song as Nott’s (familial) love letter to Caleb. Dancing Through Life would also work well with Molly, and oh man, can you imagine Jester singing ‘I’m Not That Girl’ while staring wistfully at Fjord’s turned back?
As a aspiring voice actor, I feel like this helps people who don't understand subtle nuances in a voice, from inflections to simple ways to touch your tongue to the roof of your mouth...…. Thank you for helping me and others learn and practice our Jester voices!
Sincerely
Badass Pagan
(P.S ii haven't practiced inversed R's for awhile so thanks for that lol)
I stumbled across this video entirely by accident and I must say I'm so happy I did.
I studied voice in college and learning vowel placement, tongue placement, and mouth shapes was a huge part of my training. It's very difficult to place if you don't have a coach to help you through this process, and I was fortunate to have someone working with me for years to make sure I was doing everything correctly. You've clearly put incredible effort and thought into how Laura does the accent herself. I now teach music, choir, and voice, so from a teaching perspective I really appreciate that you show the audience first what you're teaching, how to do it, and then provide an example. This is literally a major component of teaching. We're trained to do called "interactive modeling" and you're demonstrating the modeling part of it so, so perfectly. Brava!
This is so perfect!! I've been doing most of this subconsciously for her voice in my roleplays on my channel, but this will definitely help me clean it up! Thank you so much!
I have no intention of doing any kind of accent but this was still really interesting and it's always impressive to hear your impression.
Your accent imitation is awsome and you definitely nailed the pitch in every word, absolutely amazing! :D
May the Traveler brighten your days, always!
The bit about talking to yourself in the accent is spot on though. My girlfriend's dnd character has a very similar accent in my homebrew campaign and I always slip into it when I'm teasing her. It's just a fun accent.
Ha, talking about the 'ooo' with subtitles on, auto-CC changes it from "when you're grossed out" to "when your girl stabbed you" which would be a completely different noise.
"when you're grossed out" - "ew"
"when your girl stabbed you" - "Ы!"
As an Eastern European, I applaud the way you caught everything so correctly :D
I especially like the way you explain the flapped r- when I use one, I basically just replace all my r's with d's (for example, "bread" becomes "bdead"). But Jester's version of it is just a bit more "open" than that, and you really nailed it, nice work :-)
I am (b)dead! I (b)died in 2100.... wait, it's 2024, I'm not (b)dead yet...
I FEEL LIKE EVERYONE'S ALREADY REALIZED THIS, *BUT SHE SOUNDS SO MUCH LIKE DRACULARA*
So Ginny, when are YOU going to do Popular as Jester?
*gasp* yes! This!
Alas, one of my good friends is working on a Jester "Popular" song, so I will be sitting this one out so I can best support hers!! But don't worry, I have plenty more musical CritRole plans!
@@GinnyDi Good. Because I've loved the ones you've done so far. Then again, Jester IS such a fun character.
@@GinnyDi what is the name of your friend? Is it a video creator?
@@misterdayne2792 It's not my place to announce their project! I'll make sure to share it on my social media when they do, though.
That bit of Popular actually floored me. Still don’t know how you manage to sing so well and so strongly in that accent! Bravo.
It is awesome I found this after seeing the post of you and Laura dressed up as Jester for the 7th anniversary of CR
I love mimicking Jesters voice. This was an amazing video!! Beautifully done, like totally thought I was listening to Laura how to do Jesters voice. Just absolutely brilliant ☺️
HOLLY GUAKAMOLY THAT WAS IMPRESSIVE!!!!!
Every time you did the accent I couldn't help but giggle/smile this was great and I'm going to use this to try and learn her accent :3
yeah...you're analysis is perfect. I generally do what you do a mimic their voices but i couldnt explain how to. you knocked it out of the park
Watching your videos and trying to catch up on Critical Role has really helped me find a voice for my Water Genasi in our D&D campaign. Thank you for the tips, and keep up the incredible work!
I recently decided that I am totes keen on voice acting, I found this super useful!! You pin point all the key things that make it superrrr easy to pick up the accent. Now I am a guy, but this is by far my favourite accent from the Mighty Nein, and I will manage those high pitches :P. Thanks for the awesome tutorial. p.s. love your hair best colour choice!
I’m getting so tired of doing readings for homework so I’ve decided to learn to do jester’s voice so I can read my readings out loud to myself in her voice and trick myself into thinking I’m just practicing her voice and not doing homework lol
I legit read that in my mind in Jester's voice.
You’re incredible! You sound JUST like Jester, it’s insane! And like someone already said, your analysis of her accent is so detailed and precise, if only I weren’t so rubbish at accents, I know it would help a lot!!
Oh my goodness thank you so so so much for sharing this! I always made my own attempt at her accent, but when I’d listen back there was always just something not quiiiiite right. It helps so much to hear this technical explanation and to see where I was veering off track, I can’t wait to get practicing now! 😊😊
You are vibrant, wonderful and talented and in no way need to justify yourself to trolls. Thank you for creating a channel I know I can always go to when I need to improve my day.
This is great! I find what always gets me is staying in an accent and not shifting suddenly or even subtly to another. I will admit it's easier to remember an accent when you associate it with a specific character, maybe that's the key to developing numerous generic accents, just create a bunch of different characters in your head for each accent and really visualize who you think those people are, and then talk like them when you want to mimic the general accent. This is speaking from the perspective of a GM who wants to change accents often.
I have not heard Critical Role, been meaning too but haven't had the time, but seriously.... listening to you talk as Jester makes my day.
I found Ginny's "flip R" explanation really helpful (I can roll my Rs, but my natural accent skips a lot of consonant sounds).
Appropriately enough, the line "I'm wearing, like, a pretty cute dress" is really good practise for the Flip R.
This is actually pretty good and comprehensive and insightful and interesting for study, play, research, and idea development in general! Kudos and thanks!
Reminds me of all that amazing hard work what goes into synthetic languages and constructs from programming to Klingon LOL
This is amazing! Not a lot of people can pick up on these sections of accents. You might not be an expert now but lord you can be! Impressive!
WOW!! I’ve always said to myself if I could do any M9 character’s voice it would be jester, and this helps so much! Also this impression is mind blowing, that broadway worthy performance included!
I've been listening to and mimicking accents by ear for decades; I've never heard anyone really break down the process and explain it quite like this though. Great food for thought.
Holy crap! 😳 this is amazing! I looked down at something right before you used the accent for the first time and I snapped my head up because I legit thought it was Laura!
That was really interesting and also very funny.
Also, your Jester accent is really on point.
Dang homie, this is an intense breakdown.... I'm going to be bugging my family with this voice foreverrr
Ty
You’ve nailed the components of diction! A lot of people forget about cadence and pitch as being part of the accent and they play a Critical role *eyebrows* in a convincing accent
This was actually pretty informative and gave some insight into voice acting and doing voices, pretty cool
Man this was really more in depth than I expected and very well dissected!
Am I the only one that thinks there is a similarity between Laura Bailey's Jester and Dexter from Dexter's Laboratory?
Jolly Yellow considering that I’ve gotten 3-5 comments just like this... no, you are not alone
@@GinnyDi Ah now I don't feel silly for thinking it!
Ok, so practicing your Flipped R also helped me FINALLY after literal years manage a Rolled R as well. Thanks for that.
Oh my gosh, this makes me so happy to hear!!
I want a full video of Jester singing Popular from Wicked! Maybe she brings the viewer in for a makeover while singing it?
Thank you as a DM who does a shitton of accents this helps alot. I can use this for many diverse characters.
Again thank you for all your help for everyone who asked ( politely 😉 ).
Keep up your great work!
Even as a slavic person, I had no idea how to pull that out without feeling like I can't speak english. This is super helpful.
I'm living for this. Ginny, your hair is amazing
This was super interesting! I’ve picked up on some of the things she does with her voice, but I didn’t realize a lot of them! It’s really good insight and this’ll be the first time I learn a voice for a cosplay haha 💕💕
Accents; Many fun.
Jesters Accent; The freaking best fun ever.
I don't really know anything about the character, but this is a good breakdown of how putting on accents work in general.
Wow, that's a lot to remember. Laura and you make it look so effortless.
It’s really crazy how much you sound like Laura herself. You’re an amazing person/ voice actor/cosplayer. Thank you for everything you do
I love the explanations! You're a really great observer of her speech patterns. I really like this video, I'll have to try and practice her accent. I want to start to do more accents. :)
Makes me really wonder how Laura would reacto to this, from "Hu, so that's I'm doing ?" to "Yeah, that's totally what I'm doing".
I mean, sure she's a pro but I wonder how technical/instinctive her approach was.
This was incredible! Thank you for a great tutorial! It reminds me of an accent I uses for a past campaign and I love it!
Found this very helpful for just learning how to do accents in general 😊. Will use what you have said to improve my accents for D&D. Thank You
This was so well thought out and written! All the kudos!
Bit late (just joined C2 fandom a week or three ago, and C1 fandom a few months before that), but that extra Y is Palatalization, or moving the blade of the tongue closer to the roof of the mouth while pronouncing the vowel. Thank you for calling my attention to it; I'm going to start listening for it more now. Also thanks for pointing out that it changes the cadence -- I'm not sure I would have picked that up on my own (despite my experience with languages).
Thank you so much! I actually got the guts to finally do my first cosplay for my local con (As yasha!) because of your videos and just yeah thank you for being awesome and amazing!
Wonderrrfiul, beeauteefiul, verrry good verrry
Jester's accent is just Dexter from Dexter's Lab (she even does the thing where the voice drops an octave when shouting).
I’m starting a new campaign soon, and I’ve been trying to learn her accent to use for my character! So glad I found this video! 💕
More of these pleaaaaase :O This is so helpful.
This was impressive. Well done.
That was a cool video, you went into necessary details and seem to have studied Laura's voice acting really in detail. And your singing was great! I doubt I could make the accent work because my native language isn't English and I already need to focus on masking my own accent, but I enjoyed it nonetheless!
Ah, but your native language comes with a whole different toolset of sounds to approach it with. You're actively thinking about mimicking one native English accent, mimicking a different English accent can't be too difficult. (Says the guy who only knows one language, himself.)
i use a very similar accent to Jester's for my friday night dnd game! i say similar because i didn't want to steal the exact cadence and speech pattern as we met on a CR fan server and they'd totally just call me out for playing almost exactly Jester anyways. Human Wild Magic Sorcerers are fun to give blue skin as part of their backstory :D
Yeah that does sound fun!
I'm currently working on a backstory for Triton sailor in the vain of Fjord kinda but different of course I'm not even sure what class I want him to be.
At first I was thinking a Paladin but I'm kinda shying away from that now because I think it's too on the nose ya know?
Anyway your character sounds really cool!
I encourage my D&D players to mess around with accents. I made a point of letting them know that my homebrew world has no Ireland, France, or other places from Earth, so they don't need to worry about nailing accents from those places. My only advice was to decide what their accent sounds like and be consistent with that sound.
This is so helpful. Great video! Thanks for all your hard work.
I tend to mimic accents and play around with voices all the time. I've gotten very good at picking up on mannerisms and posture as well, so I often start nearly copying the character in movement too.
I like how in depth you've studied Laura's Jester.
THANK YOU ACCENT QUEEN! Im trying to figure out Nott, and I’m gonna do what you said and go to Nott heavy scenes! 💜
That popular sample was EVERYTHINGGGGG
Vox machina has a hamilton album, M9 deserves the les mis album
I think it should be wicked
Your jester accent is spot on! Thanks for the video, it's an accent I'd like to try on an NPC or two
I love this video a lot, and it's helping me figure out how to break up the pieces of the accent I'm trying to do for my human cleric.
this was in my recommended ,, youtube knows me too well :')
also I would like to say that this is such an interesting, cute and informative video, I learnt a lot and it was really enjoyable ! subscribed,
Wow, wonderful job Ginny!
There's a fine line between Jester and Zoya The Destroya :D Loved the video!
You should see all the outtakes where I said something and then paused and said to myself "nope, too Zoya" haha!
@@GinnyDi Divine spell-casting aside, my money is still on Jester winning in a fight, lol
It is insane how close you sound to Laura when you do your Jester voice. The first video I saw with you was one of your Jester costplay and I thought it was you with Laura ' voice over mimmicing 😂 that is how spot on it is 😂😍
This is a surprise and really interesting and thorough breakdown
"The difference between 'I'm'unna' and 'I'm going to' is just really pronounced." I see what you did there.
Three years ago I had all my teeth pulled. I couldn’t talk at first but took a few days singing out loud to myself to train myself how to sound right talking with no teeth.
Wow, Popular really fits Jester and until i heard you sing it i dont know that I would have ever made that connection!
Legit, the first time I heard you do your Jester voice, I thought you had spliced together audio clips of Laura and were lipsincing, it was that good
I came to this video and i wasnt expecting to subscribe and like it, but oh my, you're very good at this and very charismatic (20 at CAS)
Okay but now I want you to make a video of you singing Popular as Jester.
I know Ginny hasn't done it, but some cosplay critters have done something quite similar: www.reddit.com/r/criticalrole/comments/9u6n3x/no_spoilers_jester_wants_to_make_caleb_popular/