I'm German I naturally speak with a pretty clear English accent. When I talk to my American friend though, I noticed that my accent becomes weaker and I tend to pronounce things with an American accent instead. My friend recently told me that I sounded like an English person trying to fake an American accent 😂
yeah i can relate. i find myself speaking with an american accent with my american friends because they’re speaking with an american accent as well🤷♀️
achint kaur ikr like Scottish and London accents are not the same thing, also, there is no such thing as an “English” accent in my opinion, like an Essex and Liverpool accent sound really different to me 😂
heather kingston 170 yh I was born in Rochdale and moved to a posher place a when I was 11 and my brother was only 5 so he’s posh and I make fun of him and my friends 😂
As a German I can agree haha. "Th" is the worst. For example: I love you We say like "ei lof ju" Or the dog killed the rabbit "Ze doag kilt ze rrabit" We can't pronounce the soft r as well when we say r it always sounds like a growling dog haha
I have an American accent so that means I simultaneously own many guns, eat a week's worth of food in a day and have no clue about where the non-Murica countries are located at
That thing about the "Not losing your accent after 12 yrs old even after decades of being there" thing is plain out WRONG. My mom came to america from sweden in her 30s and after 8 years her accent was completely not noticeable. (Im not saying it wasn´t there, because maybe to more keen eared people its a LITTLE noticeable). So my mom Went from Stockholm Area Swedish Accent to average american - or to be more specific; North Virginian American - accent in *under* 10 years.
hejmeli I am from the northern portion of the state of Virginia. Most of us in the Northern part of the state have a more mid Atlantic accent (Similar to Maryland, Delaware, and parts of Pennsylvania).
hejmeli I thought the same thing too since my mom is from Zimbabwe and came to US in the late 90s, but no, you just can’t detect it since you’ve been around her for so long. My teacher called my mom for the first time in grade 8 and immediately noticed it.
The concept that you can't lose your accent after 12 is beyond stupid. My father was 19 when he moved to California and 28 when he went to Illinois. He went from Texan accent to the general American accent.
haha ikr I used to live in the north and they were all like 'ya reet mate waddup' and I was called posh because I have a mixed accent. xD only people who live/ visited the north of England understand.
Sasaki Umiquema well sits that if you have a strong Australian accent or a weak accent the stronger ones are more in the further you go from civilization
What he means is that there is no "British accent". Just like the US, there are loads of different accents, from RP to cockney to Scouse to Brummie to Northern. And that's just in England! Limiting all the accents in Great Britain to the single "British" is just incorrect.
I was raised in a bilingual home (English and Spanish) and I can crudely translate French and some German, really strange because it feels instinctive.
english, german (obviously), dutch, danish, swedish, icelandic, norwegian and faroese The first three are considered West Germanic and the rest are North Germanic.
my father is canadian/Caucasian and my mother is Japanese and I lived in both countries and when I only speak one language for a long time, my other language becomes a little hard to pronounce and the word processing becomes slower. I also forgot why I'm posting this comment while writing it
I'm from America and I live in China. I still am nowhere near fluent in Mandarin, but I often find myself forgetting English words when I've been speaking in Chinese for most of the day. It's funny and frustrating at the same time. And I happen to have a really standard Mandarin accent with just a tinge of a Northwestern/Tibetan accent to it.
Rickey Andres It's all about practice. My father's first language is French, but he's been living in English areas for so long that he even sometimes struggles with _French_ if he doesn't practice. Good reason to call his mother more though lol x)
(cool story alert) Same, my father is African-American from New York and my mother is from Japan. I was born in the US but moved to Japan when I was 5. As I was learning Japanese and becoming more fluent, my English skills became weaker due to me not speaking it as often. My mother then encouraged me to only speak to my best friend in English so we wouldn't forget the language. To this day, I still have trouble remembering a word in English and/or Japanese.
Rickey Andres My mom is Norwegian and my dad is polish. My dad was adopted by American parents and so he never learned polish and only speaks English. I know Norwegian but my mom was so young she doesn't remember her mom's talking Norwegian to her, therefore she only knows English other than languages tough in school. I know English and Norwegian but I have a very strong Norwegian accent. I am learning sign language for my niece and want to learn Polish so I can travel and see what kind of community my dad would've lived in. I also am going to go back to Norway to see the community I would've lived in. My parents are sadly divorced so obviously I have an extra way to meet people. I don't hang out with a certain type of cultures. I live meeting different types of people and learning about different cultures and societies even though sometimes with my social anxiety it can be scary.
I’m Polish, just like my family. My parents and I moved to England when I was 3, to Surrey (county close to London). Although I can speak Polish, I have picked up a British accent. I then moved to Staffordshire, where people say I have a “posh” accent. I’m now learning French, and I somehow find it easier to pronounce French words, compared to the rest of my classmates.
Lauren J And he never even just said English, we're talking all four countries here. Who knows how many accents there are over England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
Joanne Jones He probably just meant the general posh accent. Just like when he said “American accent” there’s like 100 American accents, but I’m assuming he means the general “no accent” California-ish American accent
By British accent do you mean a London accent? Britain has completely different accents in each region, and Scotland counts as Britain as of now so you could speak like that if you like. People outside of Britain can barely tell the difference between accents unless the listen really carefully, like, REALLY carefully, same as how I can't tell the difference between an American accent and a Canadian accent, but do I mean a Texan accent or maybe a New Yorker accent? :)
conner britton there are multiple English accents, like a someone from Hampshire I can’t understand an accent from Lake District or Yorkshire very well.
I'm no scientist but I believe you'd pick it up quite fast, although it would be subconsciously, you'd probably be able to understand more than you think you could.
No, unfortunately that is the same with me. I was born in America but I lived in Pakistan for 1 year and I picked up Urdu when I was 6 years old and then I went to America and I learned English. I'm 16 years old now and I can't speak Urdu correctly even if I tried.
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2wenty 2wo Not with that attitude, you can't! #encouragement
Nope. I spoke Russian till I was 7 years old but then forgot it when I moved to America and now I have a fluent American accent but when I speak Russian I still have great pronunciation and according to Russian speakers I still sound fluent
Hi Asap Science! This is an interesting video. But I am curious, if one can do "impressions" of an accent and others say that it sounds genuine, is there scientific evidence for one to replicate an accent almost perfectly due to being exposed to media that contains a particular accent?
Eryn Wyckoff say I'm not a scientist 😂 but say you try to replicate an accent you can't do say British or American as there is many types but If you are sure that something like that is an accent that exists go ahead mate, but not offend anyone 😂
Yep. While I may not be a scientist, I can tell you that media can affect the accent of a person, and can help someone learn another accent. People here in my country have an American Accent when speaking English either because of Americans colonizing us (for the very old elders) or because of Social Media, Movies, News, etc. (for us youth). Also, because we're bilingual from birth, we can tell the subtle differences between most accents. Mostly in English. For example, tomato isn't just tuh-may-tow in American and tuh-mah-tow British, it's actually tuh-mAY-tō, tuh-mAH-dohw. Or at least, in the case of stereotypical American and British Accents. Also, from experience, I've learn that it's easier to learn another accent while learning the language that accent is usually used, rather than the accent being used in your first language... Hope this is relevant! ^^
Here is one, I live in Birmingham in England, not Alabama. When I went to America and had a taxi, they say where I am from. I say Birming-hum and their response is, "Ahh Birming-ham" I always get confused but I get it just because of accents.
I know that some people are scared of New Yorkers. I mean, it doesn't sound bad or anything. But, I can see how it sounds aggressive. I'm mostly surrounded by southern accents Or those neutral(I don't know what they're called) commercial accents though, so maybe it depends on what you're raised around.
Evelyn Tapia Well, to be fair argentinian is so distinctive it's somewhat easy to imitate. It's probably the single most distinctive accent in the american continent.
Lion Alesso they have a very distinct accent, I'm Hungarian but I don't have any accent. Most Hungarians do because the education of English is not of quality here, and I must say it's very entertaining to hear the way they speak when I'm Hungarian myself, knowing I don't sound "Hungarian" with my English at all. Kinda sad tho cause businessmen and these important people, idk, tend to have a really funny, bad accent
As an American, I think the Scottish and Irish accents are underrated. Such beautiful dialect is overlooked as the British accent gains the center of attention. But then again, that's just my opinion. All accents are great as they signify your origin and unique self. 😊
A small correction, if I may: Japanese does not *not* have a 'ra' and a 'la' phoneme, it's just that they're the same. ら in hiragana(or ラ in katakana) are *called* the 'ra' kana, but actually you'll hear a lot of Japanese people say these as 'la' just as often. An example of this would be the word レモン, which is written and therefore also said as 'remon'. But, since r is the same as l, this can just as well be pronounced as 'lemon'. TL;DR: Japanese does have ra and la phonemes, they just happen to be the same.
Well, I'm bilingual and I have to say that I do recognise subtle differences between accents, even if they are quite similar. It might be because when you are raised with two languages you understand the slight differences that give those languages their unique sound.
I know a 9 year old boy whose parents are from two different countries, and the boy was raised in america, so he fluently speaks his father's native language, his mother's native language, and english.
In my second language, I picked up the posher accent because my teachers taught us how to speak like textbooks. I can't speak with the more relaxed accent or with the laid back dialects, so I speak basically the equivalent of the Queen's English and struggle with slang. Your second language accent may partly depend on who taught you.
My accent changes by how much i speak the language. More I speak. The more I sound like its my motherlanguage this changes back to point 0 after a while not using it
@@MarcusofMenace, they can do whatever they want for their own video. But I do think it is unnecessary and I wouldn't have political things in a non-political video if I made one.
I'm bilingual, I moved to the USA at 7 years old and I have been here for 4 years, when I speak English I have a normal accent, I don't sound like I speak another language and when I speak Spanish I sound normal, I lost my Spanish accent and I miss it so much
I was born in the Philippines and lived there for eight years. After eight years, I moved to Canada. In Canada, I learned how to speak English. After about a year, I was pretty good at English maybe even to the point that when I talked English, I could get rid of my Filipino accent without even trying at all. Although, when I speak Tagalog or Kapangpangan (I am fluent in both, and English), I still have my Filipino accent. Some people have found that cool, and some people say that it was probably because I was really young and that kind of helped for some reason? But yeah, I don't know if it's weird of not, but I'm proud of it, haha.
I’m from the Philippines too but I speak English not Hiligaynon or Tagalog. I’m not fluent in those languages except for English although my household speaks Hiligaynon and Tagalog 😂😂 I kinda am self taught.. I never went out of the country to learn English or had tutors. Except when I went to Hong Kong for vacation. I watch TH-cam and movies that are English and ask my parents what they mean. Now, I don’t understand Tagalog and Hiligaynon, only a few. In my school, they teach us English, Tagalog and Chinese. I learned Chinese ever since I was 2 years old but am still not fluent at it.😂😂 I don’t know what’s wrong with me but I find it weird talking to my classmates in my language. I could also get rid of my accent when talking in English but when it comes to talking to actual Americans and some foreigners, it comes back ‘cause of how shy of a potato I am. 😂😂😂 Sorry for the long and late reply. Here’s emojis of me: 🥔🐷
Same with my cousins, they are Dutch, but when they speak English they sound proper American even though they've never met an American or been there. So weird.
If I remember correctly those who speak Dutch (like me) are better at learning other languages with the corresponding accents because of our language, I might be wrong but I'm not sure
von kasteren Same, born in England but raised in Canada... When I'm with friends I have this Canadian accent but when around my family I go to a more comfortable British one. I don't really realize the change.
My good friend Matthew is a master of accents. He was able to tell me I had a slight Texan accent, even though I had live in New England almost all my life.
not necessarily, i grew up in china and learned chinese by being forced to learn or not understand anyone. if you submerge yourself in an environment where you can't speak your native language(s), you can learn that language with minimal accent. at least for me it works but i did sing in a choir singing in different languages but learning languages without accents aren't impossible, you just need a good teacher.
+Honk Hik bc you were forced to! i had to also learn English and Spanish bc of my family, but here in the US its an option; in HS its just simple words, college just twice a week. Plus having a life and work barely leaves you with extra time to learn any language..
I'm American and never been to another country, I live in the southern region, but over the last few weeks I developed a subtle English or British accent. Why, though?
My accent is idk. I used to have Hong Kong accent now I only have a bit left. I HAVE A WEIRD IDK WHAT ACCENT IS IT. And it’s easier to learn other language when you speak Cantonese XD
I have a Brittish Accent. My Mother is Brittish and my Father from Cape Cod Hyannis Port. And I was born in New England. And I don't have a New England Accent.... It was how I was raised. And most of my friends when I went to Phillips Exeter all were from Abroad and we lived in dorms there.
I've been learning English as a second language since I was 6 and I don't have an accent. But I started learning French when I was 11 and I sound like a dying duck to this day.
Can confirm that I can perceive difference in sounds more accurately than my monolingual friends...I grew up learning Polish and English simultaneously, now learning Spanish, and I find I'm able to pick up distinctive sounds to the language more easily than my monolingual counterparts.
Slavery is an ignorant response if you're going for why anyone shouldn't be proud to be from the South. People in the North sold people into slavery so you can't say Northerners weren't at fault either. Not to mention so many people are ignorant and uneducated to the fact that the first slaves brought to America were Irish, not African. Anyhow... Southern accents, imho make people sound so uneducated. If I had one, I'd do everything in my power to lose it.
All of my aunts, uncles, and cousins live in the country and speak with a southern accent. Tbh, whenever I hear it I automatically assume you're an incest-ridden farmer boy I'M SORRY
I'm Australian and every time I go to the USA no one can correctly guess my accent. I guess people are used to the over exaggerated fake Australian accent.
it depends how you say certain words, like a lot of words you say are similar to both how australian and british say them but its key words that you say with your accents that are completely different, so its hard to tell the different till we hear stereotypical words we associate with australians, like if you ask someone to do an australian accent you'll notice they will always say the same words only for australian accents
+MrAntieMatter It's easy to peg an Australian accent from other accents... it becomes only becomes difficult for me to differentiate between Aussie, New Zealanders and certain South African dialects... 😩
I'm Danish but my cousins are American so we learned English from a very young age. We also started learning German earlier because both of my grandparents on my dad's side were German teachers
What do your accent say about you? Maybe where you are from.
Lol
Nah. That can't be it
Eh?
lol
Uhhhh I was gonna comment that 😠😠
*Australians sitting confused in corner*
XD
Aussies seh ing een da cornahh
Ay m8
*sobbing while patting koalas and eating vegemite toast*
wispina VEGEMITE
I'm German I naturally speak with a pretty clear English accent. When I talk to my American friend though, I noticed that my accent becomes weaker and I tend to pronounce things with an American accent instead. My friend recently told me that I sounded like an English person trying to fake an American accent 😂
😂 😂 😂
Thats weird, lol
yeah i can relate. i find myself speaking with an american accent with my american friends because they’re speaking with an american accent as well🤷♀️
There is no American accent??
Winterspore
There are American accents, there are a lot of them though.
american : “I love the british accent”
england : “Ahh yes, the s i n g u l a r british accent”
achint kaur ikr like Scottish and London accents are not the same thing, also, there is no such thing as an “English” accent in my opinion, like an Essex and Liverpool accent sound really different to me 😂
Me and my brother have different accents because I went to a school in another part of yorkshire. It's really fun to make fun of him even though
If the average American heard a geordie speak, they wouldn’t believe it was British
There are more accents in Britain than in America lol
heather kingston 170 yh I was born in Rochdale and moved to a posher place a
when I was 11 and my brother was only 5 so he’s posh and I make fun of him and my friends 😂
I'm disturbed by my own voice
kek XD same
Let me guess you have a new York accent I feel you
Well watch this video
th-cam.com/video/8Nn66deBIt8/w-d-xo.html
@@uh8455 mood
Same.
I am also disturbed by your voice.
" British accents are sophisticated" Clearly you haven't heard the northern British accent!
Or Birmingham
+Darth Ren W
*cough* Wales *cough*
+999,999,999 views RIP Tommon
clearly you dont know what a survey really is.It certainly is not his opinion.
How Americans see British accents:
Good day. May we have a cuppa?
Reality:
Oi blud, gimme ur stuff m8 or else I'll shank u m8. That aint lit bruv.
It's true tho... not all of us speak like the bloody queen
Phanic! At the disco
Ikr. Some people do...
But most of us are roadmen trying to be cool
Look at my channel description
MyDayzzzDontGetGassedBrav 😂
Look at my channel description that's so me
I am British, and I speak like your original assumption, except I don't say 'cuppa', I say 'cup of tea'. Your stereotypes are terrifyingly accurate!
Forgod sake not all British accents are sophisticated
Rifter IKR
BUFM HURM FRM HURM
^ A British laugh :D
Aye
Levi
*Me saying haggis in Scottish*
So you're saying, if I damage a certain part of my brain, I can be British?
Perpetually Pessimistic 😂😂
You can start trying drinking like one :V
Your so mean atleast we dont insult people and atleast no of us get killed in school weve got education you dont
Chloe Stuart This is my favorite comment ever!
Chloe Stuart you're saying you have education but you can't even use the right "you're" and spelt almost everything incorrectly, see your way out.
As a German I can agree haha.
"Th" is the worst.
For example: I love you
We say like "ei lof ju"
Or the dog killed the rabbit
"Ze doag kilt ze rrabit"
We can't pronounce the soft r as well when we say r it always sounds like a growling dog haha
2SilverEyes oke wtf ._. Bei mir 'hört ' sich das anders an ._.
Damn why did the dog kill the rabbit...😭😭
GROOT
That's very interesting. Languages are very fascinating.
I agree "Th" is the worst. I just can't pronounce it right!
What does your accent say about you?
where you live
Keirungi Mugadu tru😂
Mom was born in Greece, so she hs this cool accent. She also passed it on to me and my sister, so we always have this hint of an Athenian accent.
IKR I was about to say that
Keirungi Mugadu I don't live in Boston but instead of saying car I say ca so my teachers like what?? o.o
I'm from New Zealand and we have so many different accents here in our small country. And we don't say fush and chups... 🙈
-Oooo i like your accent! Where you from?
-I am liberian
-mmm my bad * whispering* I like your accent where you from?
Ashley I am Kenyan
@@killua5076 r/woosh
🤣 Jay Versace.
I love that vine.
I have an American accent so that means I simultaneously own many guns, eat a week's worth of food in a day and have no clue about where the non-Murica countries are located at
You must be one of those idiots.
No
XFile N Joke
Your head
Pretty much
O you one of those idiots who is jealous that America is the best country ever where do you live Germany watch out hitlers coming!!
That thing about the "Not losing your accent after 12 yrs old even after decades of being there" thing is plain out WRONG. My mom came to america from sweden in her 30s and after 8 years her accent was completely not noticeable. (Im not saying it wasn´t there, because maybe to more keen eared people its a LITTLE noticeable). So my mom Went from Stockholm Area Swedish Accent to average american - or to be more specific; North Virginian American - accent in *under* 10 years.
hejmeli I am from the northern portion of the state of Virginia. Most of us in the Northern part of the state have a more mid Atlantic accent (Similar to Maryland, Delaware, and parts of Pennsylvania).
hejmeli I thought the same thing too since my mom is from Zimbabwe and came to US in the late 90s, but no, you just can’t detect it since you’ve been around her for so long. My teacher called my mom for the first time in grade 8 and immediately noticed it.
Hell accents can be fairly easily changed
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The concept that you can't lose your accent after 12 is beyond stupid. My father was 19 when he moved to California and 28 when he went to Illinois. He went from Texan accent to the general American accent.
The British accent is sophisticated?
Clearly you've never been to the north
haha ikr I used to live in the north and they were all like 'ya reet mate waddup' and I was called posh because I have a mixed accent. xD only people who live/ visited the north of England understand.
+XxLadybirdGirlx X I have a mixed one as well and all my friends used to call me posh
When people say "British accent" outside of the UK they mean RP.
I don't see any reason to change that.
clearly never been to Glasgow
Or the south of London...
fun fact: if you have an english accent....
you’re probably from england
(this was a joke very funny moment leave me aLONE)
Wow! My mind has been blown!
Wow m8 yur so ejucated. Oi gimme dat Snickers’
Kangaroo Fam what the fook
No
Not always , you could be having a English Accent from your family and not be born from England
And then you hear the Australian accents...😂
Sasaki Umiquema well sits that if you have a strong Australian accent or a weak accent the stronger ones are more in the further you go from civilization
Bogan accents are the absolute worst to have to listen to
The nightmare of us speakers of English as a foreign language.
Sasaki Umiquema the best
Oy mate there's nothin wrong with that
Of course, the famous "British" accent
??????
What's that supposed to mean?
What he means is that there is no "British accent". Just like the US, there are loads of different accents, from RP to cockney to Scouse to Brummie to Northern. And that's just in England! Limiting all the accents in Great Britain to the single "British" is just incorrect.
i got a pub accent m8
british accent bahhhhh im scottish and if you have been to scotland we Do NOT talk like that
+Me Me Me If you live in Scotland you have a British accent.
i thought u said phone memes.
😂 what has the world come to?
Okay so I'm blood South African right? But I've got one hell of a Canadian accent when I speak and I've never been to Canada😓
TheWonderGirl You are elon musk
You are very cute😍
Reeyo M sammeeee but I’m from Canada and I sound British XD my background is Vietnam aswell. Many have said I sound British XD
Sameee. Im english-indo but i have a american accent. Everyone thinks that. However, ive never ever been to america or american countries lol
im South African and have and American accent but pronounce most words in a South African accent 😅
I was raised in a bilingual home (English and Spanish) and I can crudely translate French and some German, really strange because it feels instinctive.
Same
It's because Spanish, French and German are all Romance languages- which means they've all descended from Latin
Actually German isn't a Romance language it's a Germanic language. That being said English is similar enough to German to understand some of it.
Purple Dragon I see. Thanks for the tidbit. What are some other Germanic languages?
english, german (obviously), dutch, danish, swedish, icelandic, norwegian and faroese
The first three are considered West Germanic and the rest are North Germanic.
my father is canadian/Caucasian and my mother is Japanese and I lived in both countries and when I only speak one language for a long time, my other language becomes a little hard to pronounce and the word processing becomes slower. I also forgot why I'm posting this comment while writing it
That's called a dormant language
I'm from America and I live in China. I still am nowhere near fluent in Mandarin, but I often find myself forgetting English words when I've been speaking in Chinese for most of the day. It's funny and frustrating at the same time.
And I happen to have a really standard Mandarin accent with just a tinge of a Northwestern/Tibetan accent to it.
Rickey Andres
It's all about practice. My father's first language is French, but he's been living in English areas for so long that he even sometimes struggles with _French_ if he doesn't practice.
Good reason to call his mother more though lol x)
(cool story alert) Same, my father is African-American from New York and my mother is from Japan. I was born in the US but moved to Japan when I was 5. As I was learning Japanese and becoming more fluent, my English skills became weaker due to me not speaking it as often. My mother then encouraged me to only speak to my best friend in English so we wouldn't forget the language. To this day, I still have trouble remembering a word in English and/or Japanese.
Rickey Andres My mom is Norwegian and my dad is polish. My dad was adopted by American parents and so he never learned polish and only speaks English. I know Norwegian but my mom was so young she doesn't remember her mom's talking Norwegian to her, therefore she only knows English other than languages tough in school. I know English and Norwegian but I have a very strong Norwegian accent. I am learning sign language for my niece and want to learn Polish so I can travel and see what kind of community my dad would've lived in. I also am going to go back to Norway to see the community I would've lived in. My parents are sadly divorced so obviously I have an extra way to meet people. I don't hang out with a certain type of cultures. I live meeting different types of people and learning about different cultures and societies even though sometimes with my social anxiety it can be scary.
as a new englander 0:30 made me feel good
Jack Hurwitch f
Wow, you must be really intelligent.
Same here I’m a Mainer
Jack Hurwitch well accents have nothing to do with personalities
as a southerner 0:30 made me feel sad
I’m Polish, just like my family. My parents and I moved to England when I was 3, to Surrey (county close to London). Although I can speak Polish, I have picked up a British accent. I then moved to Staffordshire, where people say I have a “posh” accent.
I’m now learning French, and I somehow find it easier to pronounce French words, compared to the rest of my classmates.
Due to the fact that slavic languages in general have more consistent phonetics with latin languages (assuming you know Polish).
'English accent' which one there's over 25
Lauren J z I think to most Americans the classic English accent is the posh, well enunciated and articulated way of speaking
Lauren J And he never even just said English, we're talking all four countries here. Who knows how many accents there are over England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
I mean, I think he meant in generally. But, he might mean the stereotypical ones
Theres also Rally English....
Joanne Jones He probably just meant the general posh accent. Just like when he said “American accent” there’s like 100 American accents, but I’m assuming he means the general “no accent” California-ish American accent
I'm going to fake a British accent for my kid's first 12 years he's alive so I can say I have a child with a British accent.
Good luck lol. Report back in 12 years-- I want to see what happens.
By British accent do you mean a London accent? Britain has completely different accents in each region, and Scotland counts as Britain as of now so you could speak like that if you like. People outside of Britain can barely tell the difference between accents unless the listen really carefully, like, REALLY carefully, same as how I can't tell the difference between an American accent and a Canadian accent, but do I mean a Texan accent or maybe a New Yorker accent? :)
That's an extremely vague statement. We have a lot of accents in Britain.
No, do a Miranda sings accent
People refer to British as the one that sounds all posh and sophisticated. It's a stereotype that all brits talk like that.
Most Americans: all British people are posh
Me (I'm from Liverpool England): Oi lad goin' the chippy later.
Ellie Parry ME
Same!
Ellie Parry SAME
Ellie Parry omg I'm from Liverpool as well 😅
Ellie Parry 😂😂 I'm from london, but I'm no where near posh lol
"British accents are thought to be sophisticated"
*which one*
english
RP
conner britton there are multiple English accents, like a someone from Hampshire I can’t understand an accent from Lake District or Yorkshire very well.
I'm from Yorkshire and it's kinda the opposite of sophisticated
Somerset accents are not sophisticated in the slightest and I love it
why did he say tuhmahtoh so fancy that's how I say it sry
Robyn I come from just outside London. Though I don't pronounce the T in tomato.
Robyn lol why u everywhere
Same
ikr
Obnoxious, but consistent
There isnt just one british accent, there's hundreds depending on what part of britain u come from
MEH GOOSTAAAH The same with the American accent
CAKE yeah but no one likes the American accents.
I have an english accent and I love American accents
I’m from Newcastle,and I grew up in New Zealand so my accent is kinda a Geordie/Kiwi
CAKE that’s true. Can anybody even understand us Northern Irish people?
I speak shrek
"Get outta my swamp"
lol
Erica hamberger
Sprechen sie Shrek?
Get now ur an all star
I'm British, but I think I have a real Northern accent. I don't say "alright?", I say "orrite?" or "awlroit?". It's a bit strange. 💜
at least you are native speaker lol
I spoke Spanish as a young child until around 4. Then forgot its my native language if I completely remastered would i have an English accent?
I'm no scientist but I believe you'd pick it up quite fast, although it would be subconsciously, you'd probably be able to understand more than you think you could.
No, unfortunately that is the same with me. I was born in America but I lived in Pakistan for 1 year and I picked up Urdu when I was 6 years old and then I went to America and I learned English. I'm 16 years old now and I can't speak Urdu correctly even if I tried.
2wenty 2wo Not with that attitude, you can't! #encouragement
Offcourse you can mate.
Nope. I spoke Russian till I was 7 years old but then forgot it when I moved to America and now I have a fluent American accent but when I speak Russian I still have great pronunciation and according to Russian speakers I still sound fluent
Can I get as much likes as possible without doing a damn thing?
No
L and gimme your ring
you can . but you may not
NO
Yes
I'm from Philippines, but I hear my thoughts with a British accent. Please send help.
weird.
I'm British and I hear my thoughts in a Canadian/American accent
+Hoden Abdirahman what the heck
·APH Iggy· yea, its because i watch too much pretty little liars and a WHOLE lot of canadian shows
..ok, i was just agreeing with gabriel that it also happens to me, its not a problem or that big a deal
Hi Asap Science!
This is an interesting video. But I am curious, if one can do "impressions" of an accent and others say that it sounds genuine, is there scientific evidence for one to replicate an accent almost perfectly due to being exposed to media that contains a particular accent?
Eryn Wyckoff say I'm not a scientist 😂 but say you try to replicate an accent you can't do say British or American as there is many types but If you are sure that something like that is an accent that exists go ahead mate, but not offend anyone 😂
Yep. While I may not be a scientist, I can tell you that media can affect the accent of a person, and can help someone learn another accent. People here in my country have an American Accent when speaking English either because of Americans colonizing us (for the very old elders) or because of Social Media, Movies, News, etc. (for us youth). Also, because we're bilingual from birth, we can tell the subtle differences between most accents. Mostly in English. For example, tomato isn't just tuh-may-tow in American and tuh-mah-tow British, it's actually tuh-mAY-tō, tuh-mAH-dohw. Or at least, in the case of stereotypical American and British Accents.
Also, from experience, I've learn that it's easier to learn another accent while learning the language that accent is usually used, rather than the accent being used in your first language...
Hope this is relevant! ^^
I'm Australian. We have democracy sausages every election.
I will ask the Australian people I know about this, you better not be lying.
+Max Stirner they're not lying. We really do have that every election. Oh how I love my country.
Caitlin Pembroke
Lol that's hilarious
Yeah. And the girls put tampons in their mouth.
+Tara Freeman of course it's mandatory 😂
Here is one,
I live in Birmingham in England, not Alabama. When I went to America and had a taxi, they say where I am from. I say Birming-hum and their response is, "Ahh Birming-ham" I always get confused but I get it just because of accents.
I'm surprised you haven't adopted a middle eastern accent.
Yo im from brum too and i get it
I cant pronounce birmingham or birminghum and Im british?!?
Flora_Feature its not that hard. Burm-ing-um
Ok
New York accent is considered rude? This is giving me so much BROOKLYN RAGE!!!!!!
Sota Steelwing lmao
I know that some people are scared of New Yorkers. I mean, it doesn't sound bad or anything. But, I can see how it sounds aggressive. I'm mostly surrounded by southern accents Or those neutral(I don't know what they're called) commercial accents though, so maybe it depends on what you're raised around.
I'm from England and the New York accent is the only one I can stand without wanting to rip my ears off, it actually sounds really nice
Because new yorkers are soulless shit heads
new england accents are “intelligent”??? i’m from boston and i can fahkin tell you, we are not intelligent
I demand we compare goat sounds to unite the world with our differences! #worldwidegoatsounds
Seriously though, cool fact right from the get-go.
i think its the same with ducks too, or it might be geese... its one two.
Yeah I agree. In my village goats and dogs sound the same. Even me in the morning. We all have the same accent.
Kervin Becinal I imagine the screaming sheep being in a town full of screaming people now. Thanks. :P
xD
Snowflake Productions I got there Toyota thing on there own vid lol
How can you say British accents and then split American accents into groups? There are loads of types of "British" accents.
I moved to the US at 20 and sound like a native speaker. I could speak English before but after moving here my "foreign accent" disappeared. It's odd.
Maybe because you had been hearing the american accent in movies before you moved in?
You can actually get rid of an accent after 12, it always depends on the individual person :)
I used to live in Ireland but then I moved to Canada and my accent sort of "disappeared" as well, idk it's weird.
Evelyn Tapia
Well, to be fair argentinian is so distinctive it's somewhat easy to imitate. It's probably the single most distinctive accent in the american continent.
Crimson Dynamo
Argentinian accent. It's very particular.
Wait... Im from Hungary and when i speak english i dont have an accent. Wierd...
Kitty Katz ok
I mean i sound like i was born in england/america when i speake english...
Kitty Katz most Americans I've met know what Hungary is... Did you mean where it something?
Lion Alesso they have a very distinct accent, I'm Hungarian but I don't have any accent. Most Hungarians do because the education of English is not of quality here, and I must say it's very entertaining to hear the way they speak when I'm Hungarian myself, knowing I don't sound "Hungarian" with my English at all. Kinda sad tho cause businessmen and these important people, idk, tend to have a really funny, bad accent
Weird you spelled weird wrong
me have an Irish accent my teacher hated it she thought I was making it up
I’m curious where are you studying at
which Irish accent? From which region
Leah Tyrrell he implied that he’s living somewhere else and not ireland, and maybe he has irish parents
Guy headline WTF! I love Irish accents, wait are you North or South???
I love Irish accents! I'm Irish myself but have an American accent. I was born here and I want an Irish accent....
As an American, I think the Scottish and Irish accents are underrated. Such beautiful dialect is overlooked as the British accent gains the center of attention. But then again, that's just my opinion. All accents are great as they signify your origin and unique self. 😊
Here in England, basically every single county has its own accent! Even within counties, you can have a few different accents!
2:37
Is that why some of them say ‘famiry?’
A small correction, if I may:
Japanese does not *not* have a 'ra' and a 'la' phoneme, it's just that they're the same. ら in hiragana(or ラ in katakana) are *called* the 'ra' kana, but actually you'll hear a lot of Japanese people say these as 'la' just as often. An example of this would be the word レモン, which is written and therefore also said as 'remon'. But, since r is the same as l, this can just as well be pronounced as 'lemon'.
TL;DR: Japanese does have ra and la phonemes, they just happen to be the same.
I like how he put RUDE by Donald Trump
*casual dead inside New Yorker has viewed your comment and sighed in existancial pain that the citie's evil carrot man has gained power*
ONE LØVE FELICITY lol I know Donald trump and I am in Australia lol
iam felicity it's funny bc his accent sounds different than mine and I've lived in ny my whole life😂
+Minty Moon *fellow New Yorker sighs along with you in apparent rude accent*
felicity stegall Same
Well, I'm bilingual and I have to say that I do recognise subtle differences between accents, even if they are quite similar. It might be because when you are raised with two languages you understand the slight differences that give those languages their unique sound.
Me: sees title
My Aussie arse: SHET
I know a 9 year old boy whose parents are from two different countries, and the boy was raised in america, so he fluently speaks his father's native language, his mother's native language, and english.
I speak Croatian, German and English fluently without an accent in any of these languages...
If it were 2009, that 9 year old boy could've been me.
+Fabnazidoge TV That's not bad, that's good!
so he's trilingual
It sounds as if you're surprised that he can speak three languages?
proud to be an 'MURICAN!!! where we secretly hate our own accent
I'm New Yorker, and I strongly dislike the General American accent.
And I'm English but like the American accent
Sterry Gaming I can't stand the General American accent.
+Sterry Gaming
I like the general American accent but I think it's kinda boring
Anisa Ally Why would you like it? It way too simple!
I sound like a llama giving birth
proof or didn't happened!
+Kat Sofroniou He does.
L BECAUSE YOU'RE FISHING FOR LIKES AND COMPLIMENTS. ANOTHER L FOR BEING A DUMBASS
+Blast Uranus wth
+Blast Uranus you need jisoos
In my second language, I picked up the posher accent because my teachers taught us how to speak like textbooks. I can't speak with the more relaxed accent or with the laid back dialects, so I speak basically the equivalent of the Queen's English and struggle with slang. Your second language accent may partly depend on who taught you.
My accent changes by how much i speak the language. More I speak. The more I sound like its my motherlanguage
this changes back to point 0 after a while not using it
i was born with a bilingual family but they never taught me their language.
aw thats sad
That's a waste.
***** ummm....ok?
I would literally give my left hand to have grown up bilingual
+Pencir I come from an entirely UK family but I'm still French-bilingual for weird reasons.
And then there is us Canadians who forever get shadowed in "eh" and "aboot" when we don't even say them!
*there are
I love their aboots😂
and so-rie (sorry)
There are people who say "aboot" and "eh", you must have grown up in somewhere like Ontario where no one really speaks that way.
Eh, what you gonna do aboot it?
I have a Yorkshire (British) accent
same Ey UP
Ross W no
I'm Australian.
You not mentioning us kinda Triggered me.
And I have Have an Australian & A British accent so
Unknown Female yea us Aussie's have pretty different accents to where you go like brogans have a mostly differ accent
🙆🏿♂️
Well no one cares if your triggered, sorry a TH-cam video couldn't go over every accent of English to avoid your triggers.
@@JM-bb8xi I agree that she shouldn't be triggered because there are a lot of other accents other than Australian, but don't be a little shit about it
69% of people consider Australian accents to be drunk England’s retarded cousin.
american english is actually very close to what traditional english sounds like, were as british english became very weak after the revolutionary war.
nsksgsievvwogs
What do you know, English obviously isn't your first language. Where*
You're self delusion is amusing.
Teeeechnically it's true, because early English was more rhotic and had less vowels than now
+Ebon Hawk it's actually true.
I really really hate insect puns, they really BUG me 👴
😤😤
lol
Oh don't bee like that.
SHUT THE PUN UP
STOP IT WITH THE COPY AND PASTE!!!!!!!
THEY ARE THE REAL CANCER OF THE INTERNET!!!!
THAT JOKE HAS BEEN AROUND SINCE 2012 FOR FUCKS SAKE STHAAP
Wait lemme do something very quick-
*distant bang*
HelLo hOw dO yOu dO mAtE
I love how you wrote "Rude" under Donald Trump lolol😂😂
Briana Styles "I don't like him so let's making a non political video political"
MarcusofMenace stfu u bitching to trump
Mat t how am I bitching *to* trump? I was pointing out how idiotic for a youtube channel to make a non political video political
Mat t Logical Fallacy: black and white
@@MarcusofMenace, they can do whatever they want for their own video.
But I do think it is unnecessary and I wouldn't have political things in a non-political video if I made one.
If you read this have a happy 4th of July my fellow Americans!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸
It's July 3rd
What do you mean? It's still six pm the third...
(I'm joking obviously)
it's July 3rd
It's July 3rd
I have an American accent and a blobfish accent
I'm bilingual, I moved to the USA at 7 years old and I have been here for 4 years, when I speak English I have a normal accent, I don't sound like I speak another language and when I speak Spanish I sound normal, I lost my Spanish accent and I miss it so much
Same here whenever I speak Spanish I speak kinda weird even thought I was born in central america
WE ARE NOT SOPHISTICATED!!!! HAVE YOU BEEN TO BIRMINGHAM
Niamh Walker do you mean little Pakistan ?
readingfc83 I lol'd. Nah fam the Birmingham accent is special disease in its own right and does not descriminate based on ethnicity.
Or Liverpool
Don't take this the wrong way, like, I REALLY don't mean offence, but I always found British accents arrogant sounding.
The CPMR That's mainly just the Cambridge posh twat accent.
I was born in a bilingual household, now I am quadrolingual
haha,same
Yup. And I talk with an accent in every single one of the languages, even in my native language. No, *especially* in my native language.
Kenny an accent just a way of saying things, everyone speaks with one
I am too, it has been 11 months did they grow?
goats do not say "baa" that's the sheep sound.
alots of goats do.never looked at screaming goats on youtube?
+Nismo Jdm why would i? 😂
yeah, goats normally say "FLESH!!!"
.....
I have a goat as a cousin, and I'm a sheep. I find this comment very offensive.
They go "maa".
Teacher: you cant hear pictures
Me: *shows her the thimbnail of this vid*
Teacher: ok im convinced
I was born in the Philippines and lived there for eight years. After eight years, I moved to Canada. In Canada, I learned how to speak English. After about a year, I was pretty good at English maybe even to the point that when I talked English, I could get rid of my Filipino accent without even trying at all. Although, when I speak Tagalog or Kapangpangan (I am fluent in both, and English), I still have my Filipino accent. Some people have found that cool, and some people say that it was probably because I was really young and that kind of helped for some reason? But yeah, I don't know if it's weird of not, but I'm proud of it, haha.
JustRaine that’s so cool
I’m from the Philippines too but I speak English not Hiligaynon or Tagalog. I’m not fluent in those languages except for English although my household speaks Hiligaynon and Tagalog 😂😂
I kinda am self taught.. I never went out of the country to learn English or had tutors. Except when I went to Hong Kong for vacation. I watch TH-cam and movies that are English and ask my parents what they mean. Now, I don’t understand Tagalog and Hiligaynon, only a few. In my school, they teach us English, Tagalog and Chinese. I learned Chinese ever since I was 2 years old but am still not fluent at it.😂😂
I don’t know what’s wrong with me but I find it weird talking to my classmates in my language. I could also get rid of my accent when talking in English but when it comes to talking to actual Americans and some foreigners, it comes back ‘cause of how shy of a potato I am. 😂😂😂
Sorry for the long and late reply. Here’s emojis of me: 🥔🐷
i have two different accents. dutch for when i speak dutch and american for when i speak english no idea how this happened :x
j99dude i know what you mean but mine is actual american not "dutch-american' if you know what i mean :x
Same with my cousins, they are Dutch, but when they speak English they sound proper American even though they've never met an American or been there. So weird.
same here; i can comfortably switch between a british and an american accent whenever i want
If I remember correctly those who speak Dutch (like me) are better at learning other languages with the corresponding accents because of our language, I might be wrong but I'm not sure
von kasteren Same, born in England but raised in Canada... When I'm with friends I have this Canadian accent but when around my family I go to a more comfortable British one. I don't really realize the change.
singapore has like 4-6 different native accents
oh rearry? i thought it was part of china or something
+Cheah Wen Chong lol what?!
***** no way, but there are lots of chinese migrants,
India has WAY more!
+Cheah Wen Chong
Singapore is in the Malay peninsula. It isn't even in China.
My good friend Matthew is a master of accents. He was able to tell me I had a slight Texan accent, even though I had live in New England almost all my life.
British Accent represent!
yay team british accent
yusssssss
Shut up u ming
Michael 2715 same
YAY team British accent
The feeling when you talk with a foreign accent in your native language.
they got the eyes wrong in the Japanese baby
That's racist.
W
That's racial*
+Christiaan Overgaard it's called a joke dumbass
+Adrian Banuelos it's actually true, so it's not a joke.
0:53 who noticed that the earth looks like a pregnant woman with a missile in her stomach?
XD
I'm happy to be bilingual, wish i could learn another language but its deff too late now
It is never too late to learn a new language
its true, its never to late but as the video states, you will most certainly always have a accent
+Jose Brito i tried for two semesters in college but forgot immediatelt after, and its the same with the other ppl i know in their 20s
not necessarily, i grew up in china and learned chinese by being forced to learn or not understand anyone. if you submerge yourself in an environment where you can't speak your native language(s), you can learn that language with minimal accent. at least for me it works but i did sing in a choir singing in different languages but learning languages without accents aren't impossible, you just need a good teacher.
+Honk Hik bc you were forced to! i had to also learn English and Spanish bc of my family, but here in the US its an option; in HS its just simple words, college just twice a week. Plus having a life and work barely leaves you with extra time to learn any language..
I grew up in a house where English and Igbo (a common Nigerian language) are spoken 🇳🇬
same brodie that makes us smart or something
What about lgbt in Nigeria?
+fede018 lmao. This comment just came out of nowhere
+fede018 its non existent over there
same, mostly Igbo tho
I'm American and never been to another country, I live in the southern region, but over the last few weeks I developed a subtle English or British accent. Why, though?
Toby lowther ...?
I'm pretty sure you've had a stroke.
Nick Nori Maybe.
Have you been watching a lot of videos/shows with characters that have British accents?
TheRedPandaCat Actually, no.
1:08 I know a Russian who moved to the UK at about 16 years old and now has an English accent.
My accent is idk. I used to have Hong Kong accent now I only have a bit left. I HAVE A WEIRD IDK WHAT ACCENT IS IT. And it’s easier to learn other language when you speak Cantonese XD
Good thing I'm trilingual (Spanish, French & English)
WOW ;)
Si, oui, yes, ja, ja, ja, da, sim :P
I know Spanish and English. Trying to Learn French tho.
i am like penta-lingual i.e English, Marathi, Malvani, Hindi and Goan
Me! I'm able to speak Italian, Spanish, and I decided to take a class on English during school!
I can speak English and Spanish fluently. Am I special mom?
nope, just bilingual :p
+Just Me lol
same.
In 'merica probably but in Europe its completely different. Its normal to speak 3 languages^^
Same. We are special. We should gloat
I have a Brittish Accent. My Mother is Brittish and my Father from Cape Cod Hyannis Port. And I was born in New England. And I don't have a New England Accent.... It was how I was raised. And most of my friends when I went to Phillips Exeter all were from Abroad and we lived in dorms there.
I've been learning English as a second language since I was 6 and I don't have an accent. But I started learning French when I was 11 and I sound like a dying duck to this day.
U have an accent it just may be an amarican one
@@katecastro752 yeah everyone has an accent
1:43 - 1:57 my mom is Chinese and still can't pronounce photosynthesis after 18 years of living in the United States.
I can't sometimes
@@MattTheCommenter my guy most people in America say specific and pacific exactly the same so we really don't care
Not able to speak a foreign language without your native accent after such a young age? Nonsense.
Can confirm that I can perceive difference in sounds more accurately than my monolingual friends...I grew up learning Polish and English simultaneously, now learning Spanish, and I find I'm able to pick up distinctive sounds to the language more easily than my monolingual counterparts.
So, what my accent say about me?
nothing. because accents can't talk. you do
How tf does this have so many likes
spam bots..lol
Akașșș idk either
what you're talking aboot ?! ,,,,,,,LOL
Anyone else try very hard to read "Fuhgettaboutit"?
Na, easy for me m8
i read it as "fajetabouti" i know I'm wrong 😂
Oh i got it now! It's forget about it! What a dumbass i am! 😂
forget about it
ain't nobody got time for dat
Haha in 0:35 boi trump how did you get here? Are you making a wall here xD
He came here to make TH-cam great again
meanwhile me: does impressions of accents when im isolated in my room for a laugh
I'm proud of my southern accent.
I wouldn't be
+Amaury Lannes give me a good reason why he shouldn't be proud of where he is from.
+littleike222 Slavery.
Slavery is an ignorant response if you're going for why anyone shouldn't be proud to be from the South. People in the North sold people into slavery so you can't say Northerners weren't at fault either. Not to mention so many people are ignorant and uneducated to the fact that the first slaves brought to America were Irish, not African. Anyhow... Southern accents, imho make people sound so uneducated. If I had one, I'd do everything in my power to lose it.
All of my aunts, uncles, and cousins live in the country and speak with a southern accent. Tbh, whenever I hear it I automatically assume you're an incest-ridden farmer boy I'M SORRY
I'm Australian and every time I go to the USA no one can correctly guess my accent. I guess people are used to the over exaggerated fake Australian accent.
Maybe it's a regional difference. Idk if Aussies have different accents depending where they live though.
Australians and British people sound the same to us.
+Calikid331
not the same but similar
But I can usually hear the Australian accent when they say words that I have the letter "i" in it
it depends how you say certain words, like a lot of words you say are similar to both how australian and british say them but its key words that you say with your accents that are completely different, so its hard to tell the different till we hear stereotypical words we associate with australians, like if you ask someone to do an australian accent you'll notice they will always say the same words only for australian accents
+MrAntieMatter It's easy to peg an Australian accent from other accents... it becomes only becomes difficult for me to differentiate between Aussie, New Zealanders and certain South African dialects... 😩
2:49 "Stronger white matter."
I'm Danish but my cousins are American so we learned English from a very young age. We also started learning German earlier because both of my grandparents on my dad's side were German teachers