Guess the English Accent!

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  • See if you can win this geography/world game: Guess the English accent/dialect (from a spoken audio clip). One point for each correct answer! Comment your score below 😁
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  • @itsNNAU
    @itsNNAU  4 ปีที่แล้ว +89

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    • @samanthaschnetzler7812
      @samanthaschnetzler7812 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Idk

    • @marktynan6045
      @marktynan6045 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That Canadian accent sucked one there's Newfoundland, West Coast, northern Ontario and Quebec and its really hard to tell unless you are rural which is true for the Australian and Scottish accents you played as well rural accents are different from urban accents

    • @БранимирМилошевић
      @БранимирМилошевић 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      At 4:10 I wonder which NHL player is being interviewed because he sounds Canadian af.

    • @billyboyer9599
      @billyboyer9599 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@meowpoosaymeow What are you talking about? They don't speak English in Greece! 🇬🇷

  • @bobbills2953
    @bobbills2953 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1624

    The Irish Accent literally changes every 15 minutes you drive

    • @somedudes6455
      @somedudes6455 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      At what speed?

    • @bobbills2953
      @bobbills2953 3 ปีที่แล้ว +82

      @@somedudes6455 walk speed.

    • @chewinggum5550
      @chewinggum5550 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Lmao

    • @looiart
      @looiart 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Why?😂

    • @strummerman7174
      @strummerman7174 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Sure, it's ridiculous to sum up the whole country in one accent. Same goes for Scotland.

  • @ii-gc3uf
    @ii-gc3uf 4 ปีที่แล้ว +695

    “Guess the English Accent”
    1. English
    2. English
    3. English
    4. English
    5.English
    6. English
    7. English
    8. English
    9. English
    10.English
    Edit: omg I just checked and this is most liked comment on this video. Will not make more edits but that’s just cool...

    • @elsathome6919
      @elsathome6919 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Lmao🤣🤣

    • @blusk2248
      @blusk2248 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      accent is not language dummy

    • @Obliskia
      @Obliskia 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@blusk2248 U dont get the joke dummy

    • @drniravkumar9891
      @drniravkumar9891 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@blusk2248 r/woooosh

    • @Obliskia
      @Obliskia 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@drniravkumar9891 Lol another one of these r/wooshes

  • @angelicaninanita7422
    @angelicaninanita7422 3 ปีที่แล้ว +176

    Singapore, Filipino and Indian accent are the noticable ones.

    • @realgigachadtrustme
      @realgigachadtrustme 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Time stamp

    • @jsluvr143
      @jsluvr143 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@realgigachadtrustme indian 0:50, singaporen 3:38, filipino 5:38

    • @folasadeapanpa4070
      @folasadeapanpa4070 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      U forgot jamaican

    • @brandonlouiebajo3745
      @brandonlouiebajo3745 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      i cant tell the singapore

    • @adyingchannel925
      @adyingchannel925 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Lol Yung pfp mo parang towel na chicken sa Jollibee Filipino ka ba🤣🤣🤣😂😂

  • @paxromana1
    @paxromana1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +244

    As a Canadian I'm a bit disappointed you didn't add more of the accents from the Atlantic region i.e. Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, PEI. Newfoundland accents will throw you for a curve.

    • @davidreichert9392
      @davidreichert9392 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      The accent in Canada varies more than people think. Along with the Atlantic varieties, there are differences between Anglo-Montreal, Ontario, the Prairies and west coast. The differences aren't as pronounced as you might hear say across England, but they're still there.

    • @rQualzz
      @rQualzz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Diana sick and how do you know what Newfoundland is?

    • @michaelbednarski3571
      @michaelbednarski3571 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@davidreichert9392 I notice that English Montrealers don't always nasalize words like "can, Canada, and, & dance." The people in Toronto do nasalize them.

    • @whatthefrick1442
      @whatthefrick1442 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Your accent as an Canadain is closet to the Californian accent

    • @douglassmithe9799
      @douglassmithe9799 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I'm from Australia, and to me the Newfoundland accent sounds almost exactly like Irish

  • @dameonyoung8218
    @dameonyoung8218 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    How come no one's mentioning the fact that Kim Kardashian was played for the California accent?

  • @zatsumisanotheraccountlol4450
    @zatsumisanotheraccountlol4450 4 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    *hears widro and paymaya*
    Me: yep is Philippines

    • @tomato._.4528
      @tomato._.4528 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ahh time stamp please cant watch all of these ive been waiting for the ph

    • @gabrielamalaya5947
      @gabrielamalaya5947 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      05:40 palya ang pronoumciation "with row" instead of "with raw" "depowsit" instead of deposit" inartehan pa kasi.

    • @CRLR3XS
      @CRLR3XS 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's obvious haha

    • @bron1477
      @bron1477 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sarap sa tainga

    • @deutschesvaterlandfankanal
      @deutschesvaterlandfankanal 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@bron1477gi iyot ang aking taiga ng ad

  • @karinag53
    @karinag53 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    As a Spanish speaker:
    1) English (London) (wrong)
    2) Indian (I love it)
    3) English (London)
    4) US? Idk (yes it was lol)
    5) an American countryside (it was WELSH LMAO)
    6) idk ???? It sounds foreigner (well... Jamaican)
    7) US
    8) Somewhere in England (yep)
    9) It sounds turkish
    10) the typical US accent from the movies
    11) An English accent that sounds a bit American
    12) English again???? (Nooo Australia sorryyyy)
    13) US (WHY SOUTH AFRICAN WHAT)
    14) Somewhere that is not England nor US nor Australia nor Canada nor NZ
    15) SCOTTISH, I LOVE IT
    16) English again lmao
    17) A posh US accent
    18) another US accent but this one is not posh
    19) another US accent... I like this one (WHY WHAT? WHY BRISTOL PEOPLE TALK SPEAK LIKE AMERICANS)
    20) probably northern irland
    21) I don't know and I don't understand either
    22) this is ENGLISH
    This is not supposed to be offensive, just what a non-native person thinks

    • @gavindoyle692
      @gavindoyle692 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Los primeros eran claramente acentos irlandeses, no ingleses, amigo.

    • @rpk5216
      @rpk5216 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It’s more compelling to say where you’re from, not just that you’re a Spanish speaker. There are dozens of countries that speak Spanish. Are you from Spain? Are you from Venezuela? Lol WHERE is your perspective coming from?

    • @souavarocha2136
      @souavarocha2136 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The same for me that speak Portuguese

    • @ochrechap
      @ochrechap 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      This sounded very South African to me. I am South African.
      Let me explain.
      My country has 11 official languages. There are also 4 official race groups, as per apartheid classification. This is still sort of accepted as a reference, because it works practically (we as SAs don't take offence to it). So here they are (% indicating population proportionality):
      1) Blacks (79%). Divided into xhosa, zulu, venda, sotho, pedi, tswana, tsonga.
      2) Coloureds (9%)
      3) Whites (9%). Afrikaners (Dutch-descended) and English (British-descended)
      4) Asians (2%). Indians and Chinese
      Blacks mostly speak their indigenous native tongue as a first language, but most can speak some form of English to varying degrees. Many of the younger generation, and less often the older generations, speak it as a mother-tongue.
      Almost all whites can speak English, esp of course, those who are British-descended. These speak it as a mother-tongue. Afrikaners speak it as a second language (very few cannot speak it).
      Most Coloureds (like whites) are bilingual. They speak either English or Afrikaans as a mother-tongue, and the other as a second-language. More speak Afrikaans than English. So the situation here is very much like the whites.
      Asians = these are mostly Indians, and almost all speak English as a mother-tongue. Chinese people can all speak some form of English.
      In essence, most South Africans can speak some form of English, as SA is an ex-British colony.
      Now, if you analyse my speech above, it will become clear to you that there is no standard SA accent, since so many ethnicities and languages exist. You may very well imagine, then, that many accents exist.
      So, who are the mother-tongue English groups? Refer to my speech above:
      1) White British-descended SAs
      2) Some Coloured people
      3) Most Indian people
      4) Some black people (esp the younger generation)
      5) Some Afrikaans kids (younger generation, where Afrikaans parents have made the decision to raise them using English as a "mother-tongue", as it were).
      So, depending on the upbringing and the schooling, as well as some other influences, various accents will be used amongst these "mother-tongue groups" (MTGs). Many sound British-influenced, others not. Amongst "English-Second-Language Groups (ESLGs), other accents prevail, although these can take on British-influenced accents as well.
      The type of South African accent heard in the video sounds to be coming from MTG 1, a British-descended white South African.
      Do I make myself clear?
      A word in passing: there is no such thing as "A" South African accent. There are VARIOUS SA accents rather than "A" SA accent.
      Is this understood?
      But a classic "ENGLISH SA ACCENT" would probably regard the MTG1 as the prototype. As heard in the video.
      Kindly take time to make sense of this!
      PS: Wikus Van De Merwe is an Afrikaner (descended from the Dutch). Thus, English is not his mother tongue. His mother tongue is Afrikaans (daughter language of Dutch). Please tell me you understand? Never make this mistake again.
      Charlize Theron is also an Afrikaner. Afrikaans is her mother tongue. Her current version of English has been strongly influenced by America.
      Elon Musk is a British-descended English-mother-tongue speaker.
      Trevor Noah is Coloured (mixed race). His mother is a black woman (she speaks Xhosa as a mother tongue). She raised Trevor to speak English as a "mother tongue", as it were. His dad is Swiss-German, by the way. But he was mostly absent from Trevor's life.
      Roger Federer's mother is Afrikaans. She is South African. Like Trevor, his father is Swiss as well. So Federer is half South African, half Swiss. He was raised in Switzerland.

    • @karinag53
      @karinag53 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ochrechap that's really interesting to know

  • @goodvibescovers8282
    @goodvibescovers8282 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I guessed the Filipino accent when she said, "pay maya" lol

    • @j1007ch
      @j1007ch 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Tsaka de-pow-seet

  • @markb7303
    @markb7303 4 ปีที่แล้ว +103

    18, and I'm annoyed as the South African one was one of the most mild versions of Saffa I've heard

    • @SirKaison
      @SirKaison 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      She sounds like a South African Jew from Johannesburg 😂 [There are many, many South African Accents]

    • @eaubert1
      @eaubert1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Yes, I wish they had used an Afrikaner accent. It's absolutely delightful when the Afrikaners speak English!

    • @inurihettiarachchi9780
      @inurihettiarachchi9780 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Right? To me Welsh sounded more like the Saffa

    • @OrangeUtan1
      @OrangeUtan1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I honestly though it was new Zealand at first

    • @SirKaison
      @SirKaison 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@eaubert1 Afrikaners are not native English speakers, so that wouldn't make sense.

  • @ericBorja520
    @ericBorja520 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I was like "hey! That's judge judy!"

    • @me2525
      @me2525 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      THANK YOU! I was trying to place it!

    • @EH23831
      @EH23831 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah - such an identifiable NY accent

  • @JoshuaThoresonMusic
    @JoshuaThoresonMusic 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    The canadian accent should be divided into western canada, eastern canada, and newfoundland.

    • @sweiland75
      @sweiland75 ปีที่แล้ว

      Why so inaccurately?

  • @ciaran6988
    @ciaran6988 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    My esl students really enjoyed this, cheers, although they did'nt recognise the Irish one and I'm Irish haha

  • @Prbnoi
    @Prbnoi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Indian can't miss out 🤣🤣😂😭

  • @saradziarnowska3641
    @saradziarnowska3641 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I guessed 11 :) I love the Canadian accent the most!

  • @ykcamseyer
    @ykcamseyer 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The New York one is Judge Judy. For sure.

  • @p.millard557
    @p.millard557 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I found this test very strange as they included Maltese English, Philipino English but not Nigerian English (the most populated African country) or Ghanaian English, for example.

  • @phantom8346
    @phantom8346 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I got all except the Maltese, Filipino and Singaporean, I was so amazed that I got so many right

    • @graciesultana7464
      @graciesultana7464 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      well here in malta we have English as our main language and Maltese is made up of English, Arabic, French, and Italian so when we speak English it sounds like it but because we have other languages made up in the Maltese language it affects they we talk in all those languages especially English. You should try learning maltese it is not difficult at all

  • @terranceparsons5185
    @terranceparsons5185 ปีที่แล้ว

    All of them except Maltese. But i did get a lot of the speakers! Judge Judy, Jamie Oliver, Stephen Merchant, James Nesbitt.

  • @killerqueen6733
    @killerqueen6733 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    me : mmhm interesting
    **Kim Kardashian joins the video**
    me: wait is that-

  • @Harelisse
    @Harelisse 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It's amazing that even with some countrys are repeated they have regional variations

  • @_E1I_
    @_E1I_ 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I'm so happy Welsh was in this LMAO

  • @believer775
    @believer775 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    It's so interesting! I watch like every your video)) So cool. 😎😄 Thank you very much! 😁💛

  • @andraskaracsonyi6822
    @andraskaracsonyi6822 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I knew Geordie because Jade Thirlwall speaking❤

  • @charleneraymond4036
    @charleneraymond4036 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I heard the sheep and said Wales before I even registered the accent 😅

  • @lilithleviathan7644
    @lilithleviathan7644 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The sheep in the background at Welsh gave out that it was from somewhere in Northern UK lmao

  • @HeidiSvenson
    @HeidiSvenson 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I'm a Californian born and bred but I was so stoked that I could discern the dialect differences so well! I think part of it comes from acting and maybe another part is becuase I am British on my Dad's side. (You should've included some Scandinavians speaking English - I am Swedish and Norwegian as well and I always love detecting that accent, even though they speak English so fluently). THAT WAS SO FUN!

    • @snowmonster42
      @snowmonster42 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      LOL- you even type with a California accent!

  • @jasminbehrendt7669
    @jasminbehrendt7669 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I got Irish, Indian, London, New York, Welsh, California, Essex, Australian, South African, Birmingham, Canadian, New Zealand. That's actually crazy! I am not a native speaker.

  • @Daniel_san3011
    @Daniel_san3011 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    French accents next pls

    • @eaubert1
      @eaubert1 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ben, i'y en a pas beaucoup!

    • @barbawahhhh4129
      @barbawahhhh4129 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@eaubert1 au contraire, il y en a beaucoup ! ;)

    • @davidreichert9392
      @davidreichert9392 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      All I would be able to manage is Quebecois, all the others sound the same to me.

  • @Ejexion
    @Ejexion 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    As a Canadian, I object to that Canadian accent. There are a lot of accents in Canada, many much more interesting than that bland, Portland-Oregon-sounding one.
    Edit: Sorry, I love the whole video, though. Aboot. Eh. Sorry.

    • @synestia4005
      @synestia4005 ปีที่แล้ว

      It sounds to me like a bungie or microsoft presentation and I got annoyed and bored quickly. It's not fair, but the association is there since it sounds so similar to those awfully sentimal and long-drawn marketing bullshit shows. I even thought it's american english because of that.

  • @jamestheminorbender4978
    @jamestheminorbender4978 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    There's no Filipino than saying "Guys" and "So" repeatedly.

  • @hannofranz7973
    @hannofranz7973 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    in Scotland there is also quite a variety of local dialects. highland Scottish has some kind of melodic singing added to its harshness whereas Aberdonian is extremely harsh and Glasvegian again extremely unique for another kind of melody.

    • @DanDownunda8888
      @DanDownunda8888 ปีที่แล้ว

      I worked with 2 Glaswegian ladies and when talking to either it was sometimes difficult to understand for the first few months. Then I was used to it, but listening to them talk to each other was like listening to a completely foreign language altogether.

  • @josiahjudah3126
    @josiahjudah3126 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Funny, I got most except for the Englishes' English (UK) accents. Never thought it has so many variations to that very small location

    • @zxadf1581
      @zxadf1581 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      i mean uk involves scotland, wales and northern ireland, which the general stereotypes have such different accents.

    • @Kolious_Thrace
      @Kolious_Thrace 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      This very small location is the birthplace of the English language so it is normal to have so many accents!

  • @fhpurcell7713
    @fhpurcell7713 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    1. Newcastle (ah shit I'm so fucking wrong. would've expected the Irish accent to be stronger)
    2. India
    3. England
    4. American Lite lol
    5. Welsh (but only because they were talking about sheep)
    6. North African??? (ohhh I could've guessed Jamaican, fuck sorry)
    7. American Midwest (ah fuck i have no idea how different Americans sound)
    8. Northern England
    9. Asia?? (eh I'll give myself half a point for this)
    10. Northern US
    11. England but idk where. Something that just sounds stereotypically English.
    12. Aussie

  • @Stouter2
    @Stouter2 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    number 21 sounds like a south african who emigrated to NZ lol

  • @emmons5326
    @emmons5326 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I can distinguish the British, Scotish and American English. The rest of them are challenging especially hearing from Irish, I would think it was an American speaker.

  • @sniipwiip196
    @sniipwiip196 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    As an Australian Idk but I got so happy when I guessed right for Australian 😂

  • @sturdywordy1158
    @sturdywordy1158 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Most of these aren't English accents! They're English spoken by non English people! English accents are Scouse Cockney Brum Northern Geordie etc

  • @madcrusader123
    @madcrusader123 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I got Australian, NZ, Welsh, Scottish, US Cali/NY/Southern, Brummie, Geordie, Londoner and Southern.

  • @mizzenmonkey
    @mizzenmonkey 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Canada has many regional accents, as well. Someone from Newfoundland sounds quite different than a Nova Scotian, and again an Ontarian. Northern Canada sounds different than Southern.

    • @sweiland75
      @sweiland75 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's perfectly understandable that people outside of North America don't know the difference but many Americans think we Canadians speak like those Americans from the midwest and that's just stupid.

  • @toni4729
    @toni4729 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    There are a lot missing. Cockney for a kick-off. How could you forget that one?

  • @Sabbathissaturday
    @Sabbathissaturday 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I’m a 51 year old native Texan and I only missed 4! I’m really good with accents, though.

    • @Anjamzahoor
      @Anjamzahoor 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      You are laying !

  • @CraigReeves
    @CraigReeves 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The Birmingham accent was very muted as is much stronger.. Only ones I didn't ger right were the East Asian ones

  • @dcterra
    @dcterra 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I thought I had a good chance to get all of them but I whiffed on Singaporean and Maltese. I thought Bristol was Devon and thought Brummie was Mancunian, but in my defense the speaker did not have a very broad accent and then I switched South African and Kiwi, but once again neither was very broad in my opinion. And then to my shame I also mixed up American North Central and Canadian. But I nailed Geordie, Essex and both Irish accents. I'm American and Scottish with an active in interest in this subject.

    • @bassetts1899
      @bassetts1899 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I've lived in Manchester for 11 years and I guessed Manchester for the Brummie one. It didn't sound Brummie at all!

  • @dannoagent8688
    @dannoagent8688 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The New York accent was very mild. If you travel to New York or New Jersey you will hear a much more distinctive accent

    • @doublefeature
      @doublefeature 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      that's judge Judith Sheindlin. she has a jewish/brooklyn accent.

  • @damianguzman9942
    @damianguzman9942 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I've got 5 right, the indian accent. the southern American and Californian accent, the Brixton English accent and the Canadian accent

  • @cazique
    @cazique ปีที่แล้ว

    Lmao I got every single one right up until the very last one, 22.

  • @lexkoal8657
    @lexkoal8657 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Only 4. Indian, California, Scottish, Canadian

  • @fathan2025
    @fathan2025 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Me only got 5 correct answers:
    I just watch the wrong movies

  • @PJ-fj9hx
    @PJ-fj9hx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Pleasantly surprised and bemused to hear my distinctive Jamaican accent at number 6.!

  • @Bookwhiff
    @Bookwhiff 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    #10 sounds way more Canadian than American

  • @MrVidification
    @MrVidification 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    If these are accents largely found in UK (judging by the number of England accents listed) then the new entry alongside Indian English should be Polish English, and perhaps also Romanian English. What is also commonly missing from similar videos are Chinese English accents, a stereotypical highland Scottish accent or a gaelic speaker. It would also be interesting for more people to include rougher sounding accents from all regions too to get a rough idea of how difficult the english language can be in reality (very fast talking geordie, mancunian or glaswegian can be tough!)

  • @Pax_Veritas
    @Pax_Veritas 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    There were 5 that I didn't get:
    1) Maltese cause I've never run a casino
    2) Singaporean cause I've never run a tax haven
    3) South African cause it was a very bad rendition not very South African
    4) Filipino cause I've never bought a bride
    5) Northern Irish cause I am Northern Irish and it didn't sound like Northern Irish!
    If you had better samples I would get them all. Most I got within a second

    • @ochrechap
      @ochrechap 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      This sounded very South African to me. I am South African.
      Let me explain.
      My country has 11 official languages. There are also 4 official race groups, as per apartheid classification. This is still sort of accepted as a reference, because it works practically (we as SAs don't take offence to it). So here they are (% indicating population proportionality):
      1) Blacks (79%). Divided into xhosa, zulu, venda, sotho, pedi, tswana, tsonga.
      2) Coloureds (9%)
      3) Whites (9%). Afrikaners (Dutch-descended) and English (British-descended)
      4) Asians (2%). Indians and Chinese
      Blacks mostly speak their indigenous native tongue as a first language, but most can speak some form of English to varying degrees. Many of the younger generation, and less often the older generations, speak it as a mother-tongue.
      Almost all whites can speak English, esp of course, those who are British-descended. These speak it as a mother-tongue. Afrikaners speak it as a second language (very few cannot speak it).
      Most Coloureds (like whites) are bilingual. They speak either English or Afrikaans as a mother-tongue, and the other as a second-language. More speak Afrikaans than English. So the situation here is very much like the whites.
      Asians = these are mostly Indians, and almost all speak English as a mother-tongue. Chinese people can all speak some form of English.
      In essence, most South Africans can speak some form of English, as SA is an ex-British colony.
      Now, if you analyse my speech above, it will become clear to you that there is no standard SA accent, since so many ethnicities and languages exist. You may very well imagine, then, that many accents exist.
      So, who are the mother-tongue English groups? Refer to my speech above. I'll call these Mother-Tongue Groups (or MTGs), labelled 1 to 5 below:
      1) White British-descended SAs
      2) Some Coloured people
      3) Most Indian people
      4) Some black people (esp the younger generation)
      5) Some Afrikaans kids (younger generation, where Afrikaans parents have made the decision to raise them using English as a "mother-tongue", as it were). These get sent to traditionally English schools, and begin to adopt British-sounding accents. Their parents, when speaking English (their second language), would still have the strong Afrikaner accent.
      So, depending on the upbringing and the schooling, as well as some other influences, various accents will be used amongst these "mother-tongue groups" (MTGs). Many sound British-influenced, others not. Amongst "English-Second-Language Groups (ESLGs), other accents prevail, although these can take on British-influenced accents as well.
      The type of South African accent heard in the video sounds to be coming from MTG 1, a British-descended white South African.
      Do I make myself clear?
      A word in passing: there is no such thing as "A" South African accent. There are VARIOUS SA accents rather than "A" SA accent.
      Is this understood?
      But a classic "ENGLISH SA ACCENT" would probably regard the MTG1 as the prototype. As heard in the video.
      Kindly take time to make sense of this!
      PS: Afrikaans is a daughter language of Dutch, spoken in South Africa. Many Whites and Colourdes speak it as a mother-tongue. Whites who speak Afrikaans as a mother-tongue are referred to as Afrikaners. When they speak English, they give off that characteristic strong accent that many take to be "the English South African accent". This is VERY WRONG. The prototype English SA accent is that of the white person who is of British-decent. An example of this would be Richard E. Grant, the actor, who is a British-descended white South African.
      Charlize Theron is an Afrikaner. Afrikaans is her mother tongue. Her current version of English has been strongly influenced by America.
      Elon Musk is a British-descended English-mother-tongue speaker.
      Trevor Noah is Coloured (mixed race). His mother is a black woman (she speaks Xhosa as a mother tongue). She raised Trevor to speak English as a "mother tongue", as it were. His dad is Swiss-German, by the way. But he was mostly absent from Trevor's life.
      Roger Federer's mother is Afrikaans. She is South African. Like Trevor, his father is Swiss as well. So Federer is half South African, half Swiss. He was raised in Switzerland.
      The take-home message:
      The prototype English South African accent is that of the soft British-descended white, and not the strong one of the white Afrikaner (who speaks Ensglish as a second-language). Let's please settle this ONCE AND FOR ALL!

    • @Pax_Veritas
      @Pax_Veritas 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ochrechap OK thank you for taking the time to explain. From my POV as Northern Irish (white British (Scottish)-descended), it does not sound as distinctively South African as I would expect, same as the other languages I mentioned

    • @ochrechap
      @ochrechap 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Pax_Veritas But fortunately, now u know hey! That is DEFINITELY a SA accent. White English-mother-tongue British descended South African.

  • @oliverjason
    @oliverjason 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    i had a hard time with the first one because I thought it was just English accents....like the country lol

  • @SiNCERELYTAYY1
    @SiNCERELYTAYY1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Was #4 judge Judy lol

  • @markusb3712
    @markusb3712 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    7:39 #19 Is that Stephen Merchant, AKA Wheatley from Portal 2, that I'm hearing? God I love this!

  • @leonardomesquita4801
    @leonardomesquita4801 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I just guessed the Californian accent.

  • @harshitbaweja5594
    @harshitbaweja5594 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    All those accents were very stereotypical and cliche so it was really easy to find the LA accent or Indian accent or Canadian accent or latin accent but most british accent sounded very similar except maybe bristol one.

  • @tammyandretti9019
    @tammyandretti9019 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Filipino is the best English accent in ASIA.

    • @myk1137
      @myk1137 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      A subjective opinion

  • @nam6282
    @nam6282 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    literally the only accent i was able to figure out was indian

  • @makiburgess5733
    @makiburgess5733 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The “north Central American” sounded Canadian, especially since he seemed to be talking about (ice) hockey.

    • @sweiland75
      @sweiland75 ปีที่แล้ว

      You should learn what a stereotype is.

  • @amywinter9453
    @amywinter9453 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I just thought I heard Kim Kardashian

  • @abugonda
    @abugonda 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    5:39 she just said “PayMaya”

  • @thephidias
    @thephidias 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I think the different American accents were easy (CA and NY and Southern were really spot on). The only ones I did not get were Singaporean (I guess it matters which ethnicity is speaking English there), Filipino (could have been any non native speaker) and Maltese. The Maltese I know do not speak like that - maybe they just do when amongst themselves, who knows. As for the different regions in England I could only guestimate London, north, south.....plus Geordie, of course. Irish was mild but typical, northen Irish was a bit difficult but I got it right in the end. The South African accent was VERY mild, but noticeable. Australia: instantly recognizable (vowels, diphtongs, sing-song). Canada had the give-away "about" in it. And Scottish can be heard ten miles against the wind before the first word is said....

    • @bnrh64
      @bnrh64 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      From someone who's lived in Malta, I thought it was quite spot on. Whenever my friends would talk to me in English, it sounded like that. They also speak Maltese however English is also a very common language used on the island due to England colonising it in the past.

  • @DanielMcCarthynz
    @DanielMcCarthynz 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    The New Zealand one is a Maori New Zealand accent. Most people don't talk like that. You should have specified as you did with UK and USA

  • @iantheultimatemegaglaceon7514
    @iantheultimatemegaglaceon7514 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I was so close to getting the first one correct.

  • @youtube-ventura
    @youtube-ventura ปีที่แล้ว

    Uh, something is wrong with the California accent. Sounds like someone from Europe that later moved to California and has been living there a long time.

  • @andreacrumlish9976
    @andreacrumlish9976 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Why did it not specify what scottish accent it was? Our accents are different in, say, Greenock compared to Fife (very random choices there lol)

    • @billps34
      @billps34 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think because the Scottish sample is just a standard Scottish accent . . . not a regional accent. I'm Scottish too. I couldn't detect where she was from, maybe a very slight hint of west coast/Glasgow/Ayrshire, but difficult to place. She could literally be from anywhere in Scotland.

  • @salma-4618
    @salma-4618 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    As a non- native English speaker, I’ll take the 12/22.

  • @beasantos8395
    @beasantos8395 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    i can't guess the accents but i guessed some of the owners of those voices...migosh jade's accent is so lovely, i can't almost understand it...actors/celebrities voices are remarkable..

  • @jannat4585
    @jannat4585 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    7:26 i want to know the whole story! How did she know???

    • @naghamfakhreddine9205
      @naghamfakhreddine9205 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Same😂😂😂 but we girls are petty like that and we pay attention to details 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️😂

  • @rishabhrockstar5739
    @rishabhrockstar5739 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I got 75% of it right
    Most of are Either Uk, US 🤣🤣😬

  • @KYuanRong
    @KYuanRong 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    #9 Sounds like Singapore English

  • @jennioconnor8239
    @jennioconnor8239 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    what the heck the bristol one aint right

  • @FF-uq6vl
    @FF-uq6vl 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    You really should have included the Scouse (Liverpool) accent and the Yorkshire accent which are very distictive.

  • @yash_sharma123
    @yash_sharma123 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Indian accent was of most famous indian actress hema malini (the dream girl )

  • @thadwayneferrwalt147
    @thadwayneferrwalt147 ปีที่แล้ว

    #15 is filipino because they're talking about cashing in their paymaya haha

  • @scoops0406
    @scoops0406 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wasn't the English (Essex) Ricky Gervaise?? If so, he's from Reading, Berkshire.

  • @melissaforson4180
    @melissaforson4180 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Jamaican accent was very easy

  • @philipusher4282
    @philipusher4282 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Singaporean? You're kidding me. Don't think anyone could get that one, or Maltese for that matter. The rest were pretty straight forward.

    • @bnrh64
      @bnrh64 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lmao I lived in Malta so I got it straight away. W singaporean i just guessed eastern asian country

  • @kailawkamo1568
    @kailawkamo1568 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Irish! (Years of watching Sean finally paid off), Indian, English and American accents are hard to distinguish for me, Aussie!!, shuta Philippine english hahaha, Scottish, Southerner! (I know cowboy-speak when I hear it).

  • @inamartina9985
    @inamartina9985 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I recognized mostly the indian american britain n flipin

  • @graciepascual5253
    @graciepascual5253 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    North central america Accent silent
    4:05

  • @VaishnavieSangam
    @VaishnavieSangam 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    #7 is Kim Kardashian

  • @silviasimonetti4271
    @silviasimonetti4271 ปีที่แล้ว

    Just 9 correct answers.....a disaster!

  • @Alienguy500
    @Alienguy500 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I got North Central American, Filipino and Maltese wrong, managed to get all the others right though

  • @animeyt3221
    @animeyt3221 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Here's my answers without looking at the actual answers. 1: Irish. 2: Indian. 3: British. 4: American. 5: Scottish. 6: Jamacian. 7: American again. 8: Irish again. 9: Indonesian? 10: American again. 11: British again. 12: Austrialian. 13: Welsh? 14: Filipino. 15: Scottish again. 16: British again. 17: Southeren American. 18: I actually don't know this one. 19: Welsh?? 20: Irish. 21: Austrialian again. 22: Jamacian?

    • @jimmyv3597
      @jimmyv3597 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      21 was New Zealand

  • @ChristoAbrie
    @ChristoAbrie 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    anyone else heard Kim Kardashian for the California accent?

  • @owenpage7080
    @owenpage7080 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    "Guess the English accent" The first one *Irish*

  • @puretestosterone2373
    @puretestosterone2373 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    4:39 instantly knew it was jamie

  • @consuelac4578
    @consuelac4578 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Weird how they didn't at least separate north and south Wales

  • @HungerGamesFan88
    @HungerGamesFan88 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

    how are you defining "north-central" here? thats full might-as-well-be-canada-but-technically-america

  • @mazensoufy2424
    @mazensoufy2424 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    🏀 ⚽️
    Correct wrong

  • @rhutajoshi9288
    @rhutajoshi9288 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The Indian accent is not like this across the country, different regions within India have a different English accent😁
    This one is specifically South Indian accent

    • @EagleOverTheSea
      @EagleOverTheSea ปีที่แล้ว

      There are multiple South Indian accents.

  • @kimkishie368
    @kimkishie368 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    #14 i got it😆😆😂😂
    But I'm proud my english accent.. 😆

  • @sirsquirrel6176
    @sirsquirrel6176 4 ปีที่แล้ว +522

    Can you do people from non-English speaking countries speaking English?

    • @vivy-kun3510
      @vivy-kun3510 4 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      That would be a lot harder!

    • @fabiansaerve
      @fabiansaerve 4 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      Vivy-kun it would be much easier because you can hear how they would pronounce a word and that can lead to their language.

    • @LWT1331
      @LWT1331 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@vivy-kun3510 The opposite.

    • @Wilk32
      @Wilk32 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@fabiansaerve yeah for instance, a German speaker speaking English may pronounce a “w” as a “v” the way they do in German which is a clue to the language

    • @Pedro-ds3cq
      @Pedro-ds3cq 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      They did. India and the Philippines are not English-speaking countries

  • @BradleyGao
    @BradleyGao 3 ปีที่แล้ว +212

    Me: Hmm this kinda sounds like Welsh but I'm not so sure ...
    Welsh dude: "Shepherds"
    Me: Yep this is Wales

    • @nixi7688
      @nixi7688 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I love the Welsh accent :D

    • @damienreilly4347
      @damienreilly4347 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      You mean sheep 🐑 😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @nicolascarey6330
      @nicolascarey6330 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It was North Walian. Welsh accents change as you move. The Welsh Language is also different in different regions

    • @Rosie6857
      @Rosie6857 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@nicolascarey6330 Agree. Unusual because examples of the Welsh accent in English are nearly always South Walian. For the Welsh language itself the opposite probably true.

    • @nicolascarey6330
      @nicolascarey6330 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Rosie6857 Only Gogs think that. Everybody knows that true welsh is Pembrokeshire Welsh. WILL YOU STOP LAUGHING!!!

  • @brianisme6498
    @brianisme6498 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1428

    I did not realize just how many accents England has

    • @johnberk9077
      @johnberk9077 4 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      as far as I know, there are more than 30 and all of them are extremely different than each other

    • @kaiimms5357
      @kaiimms5357 4 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      As a brit i live in the south near London and i struggle to understand someone from Manchester due to the accent

    • @mysteriousDSF
      @mysteriousDSF 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@kaiimms5357 I live in London and most of the time people talk fast I just don't understand anything even though I understand 100% of RP / formal speech / standard American English

    • @brianisme6498
      @brianisme6498 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Nuclear Brit wow that’s weird. I live in Australia and pretty much everyone understands everyone. There are different accents but many of the differences are so minor you wouldn’t know unless you were paying close attention. There are a few outliers like the Perth accent which just sounds more cockney and Melbourne which just have sharper R’s

    • @iantheultimatemegaglaceon7514
      @iantheultimatemegaglaceon7514 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I didn't realize that there were many American accents. I'm surprised I didn't get American English in New York. So sorry everyone.

  • @tunaan80
    @tunaan80 4 ปีที่แล้ว +809

    We are all familiar with the indian accent from tutorials, how to get for free and how to fix videos

    • @DavefMCT
      @DavefMCT 4 ปีที่แล้ว +73

      And also the guy from Windows Corporation calling to tell me my computer has a virus that will bring down the Internet unless I let him log in remotely.

    • @jayajadhav8221
      @jayajadhav8221 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@historyforsigmas Yes😂

    • @TYGVlogger
      @TYGVlogger 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yes ahahahahha

    • @TYGVlogger
      @TYGVlogger 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      Anyway, Indians are so good with tutorials and I always watch their videos lol

    • @Venus-xj8bd
      @Venus-xj8bd 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yeah lol.

  • @Hamodi0505
    @Hamodi0505 4 ปีที่แล้ว +331

    How are you supposed to understand while they have the weakest accents

    • @StamfordBridge
      @StamfordBridge 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      It’s true that quite a few had very muted accents.

    • @eaubert1
      @eaubert1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      It makes it more of a challenge.

    • @constantineravenna86
      @constantineravenna86 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      3:39 singaporean sounded like nothing honestly

    • @StamfordBridge
      @StamfordBridge 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Constantine Ravenna It definitely sounded like a vaguely Asian accent, but that was about it. The Maltese one was the hardest for sure.

    • @constantineravenna86
      @constantineravenna86 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@StamfordBridge Not for me