Southern Accent Tip | Amy Walker
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- How To do a Deep Southern American Accent - Accent Tip
Amy Walker shares tips on how to perfect your Deep Southern American accent in this mini-lesson. Written by Amy for Nokia: conversations.n...
My grandma speaks like this (she's 90) and does the whole "mmm-hmm" thing, too. People who are saying this is not accurate--well, she did say it was an older accent, so if you're not around lots of older folks, then yeah, it may seem inaccurate. But I have heard this before, and, might I add, that lots of Deep South black folks (that I know) have this accent.
Yes, my family (who is black), especially older ones who are first or second generation migranta from the South sound like this and I love it
@@mayorjoshua I love how they sound too!
theres lots of similarities between the deep south black folks and white folks dialects. For instance theres the black southern dialect saying "we finna go to the store" and the white southern dialect saying " we fixing go huntin"
@@stavfeldman8128 Steve Harvey says "we fixin to do this" a lot, but he pronounces it fickin' ta.... i didn't know that's where that came that came from but that makes sense
I do declare... she sounds warmer than a june bug in sprang
Raymond Kidwell 👌
Blanche Devereaux is that you?
don't you mean " I doo declea... she sounds wama than a juune bug in sprang" ?
HAHAHAAHA
Her Upper class southern accent is DEAD ON! Wow, that blew me away!
Why are people so touchy and sensitive? She acknowledges that it is an old fashioned accent, and I find it interesting to learn how people used to talk a long time ago. These types of videos are for actors and if you were playing a character from the southern United States from over 100 years ago, it would be better to sound like this than a modern day Southerner. JMO
+GingerGilligan totally jmo cause I have to disagree
+Cindy Harry Disagree with what, exactly?
yes thank you! i have an aduition for my school play and i needed to learn a old southren accent so here i am and im thankful i get to learn it
Actually , R-less southern accents still exist today, Want proof? just go watch some of my videos or go to the New Orleans area or to Virginia's Piedmont region .
Actually , R-less southern accents still exist today, Want proof? just go watch some of my videos or go to the New Orleans area or to Virginia's Piedmont region .
people need to understand that the south has so many southern accents.
Two-wheel-life yes it does
Yeah, but where is the one from this video supposed to be?
@@51MontyPython Late - she explains it. Watch the video again, you'll largely hear this drawl in Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, and some parts of West Virginia. I used to hear it pretty frequently just asking for directions in the far latter there.
yes and this sounds like none of them except the ones made up in Hollywood for B actors
@@themaestro5338 Evidence?
This accent isn't as old as many may think. Although it's rare, I still have plenty of family members who speak just like this! Well done, your accents are impressive!
I'm from North Carolina and this accent gets my stamp of approval! Our state's accent isn't quite like the deep south's, but it's close and I have met people from these regions who do sound like that. There are exceptions, like the black people from South Carolina, some of them have Caribbean accents because of Charleston's historical role as a port city that traded goods and slaves with the Caribbean nations. I love language and dialects!
Wrong. It’s not the Caribbean accent you hear from the people living in South Carolina… those are Geechie people (Native to South Carolina far longer than most of the current inhabitant’s ancestors) & they are speaking with a Geechie accent. They escaped their illegal bondage, fleeing to what used to be a cut-off area… -and maintained some of their African culture and dialect as a result. Please, for the love of all things… if you live in the state (or even if you don’t), do your fellow people justice by learning the history!
I think this is the most beautiful accent in the US. I was working in a hotel and a middle aged couple from deep south checked in. The way they spoke was so soothing and beautiful. Loves it.
Her expressions perfectly complement her accent
This accent sounds like a old plantation owner from Louisiana.
Only in the movies
Don't hurt me, massa! Please don't whup me, massa!
I imagine this deep Southern accent could belong to a beautiful Belle from Louisiana circa 1845. Her husband is the plantation owner.
macnos Lol
Sounds a bit more like an old plantation slave from Louisiana.
I was born and raised in a very rural area in the "Black Belt" region of Alabama and yes this accent is real. It is not common to be that strong with the younger generations but I know of many elderly individuals who speak like this. Being as her introduction stated it is a very old accent this video is perfectly accurate IMO.
When i hear this accent i immediately think of Louisiana lol
Lady Wolf_94, Louisiana ( especially in and around New Orleans) the Eastern part of Virginia, and the greater Jacksenburg area are where you most often hear non-rhotic southern accents among younger southerners. I've got a similar accent to this one. I'm a younger southerner who regularly drops his R's. This accent used to be common in Charleston SC and, Savannah Georgia, among other cities and towns in the south.
Native Louisianian here. I'm 38 and I've never heard anyone talk like this except in movies. The New Orleans area accent sounds very similar to a Brooklyn accent. Everyone in south Louisiana west of the Mississippi speaks in a Cajun accent.
@@bradhamilton8542 Agreed.
I'm born and raised in the south and i've NEVER heard anyone talk like this. except in gone with the wind! haha
The preacher at my grandma's church actually sounds almost EXACTLY like this. Glascock County Georgia, if you're interested
I'm not far from glascock actually. I've heard people from glascock and jefferson counties talk similar to this (with long drawn out words) but not necessarily this "high cotton" southern she's speaking. but i'm sure there are some that may still talk like that though like you say
jkcrusher18 Yes there are people who sound just like this. They are usually the older generation. Accents change over the years but if you go deep deep down south you will hear many people speaking like this.
I'm from ETN our accents aren't like this one but there is none in the South like this I can tell a fake one from a real one including those of older generations and they didn't talk like this. Actors/Actresses butcher the Southern accent worst than any other I've ever seen. And I knew my great grand father who was born in 1892 and he never sounded like this! BTW he lived to be 94 years old hence how I knew him he was a sweetie pie and I love him very much and he loved me!
***** I think that many Southerners resent the "Honey Boo-Boo" stereotype, because for those who have never been to the South, they probably think we all talk like this. Ugh.
AUSTRALIAN wanting to learn this OLD accent! Love it in movies. Please do a longer video on it
The only actress in the history of television, in my opinion, who absolutely nailed the Southern accent was Rue McClanahan (Blanche Devereaux) on The Golden Girls. She absolutely had it down perfect!
agree!
omg yes!!
Her accent may not be good, but it cracks me up that people consider themselves experts on southern accents because they were born and lived in a state or two. Reality check: the south is close to 800,000 square miles. The average human being will walk 150,000 miles in their entire lifetime. You don't become an expert on the south just because you popped out of your mother below the Mason-Dixon line.
I'm willing to bet +90% of those who read your post have no idea what the Mason-Dixon line is!
Flubly you're just mad she sounds amazing. she sounds like a person from new Orleans Louisiana
Flubly Nobodys an expert on the South but we're discussing dialects. Most people do know how they talk.
I realize this is old but I have to disagree with you Flubly. And correct you. Being born and raised in the south, and being around multiple different (southern) dialects for your entire existence does kinda make you an expert, just saying. In any case, far more than some random accent fanatic who has possibly never stepped foot in the south and relies on their knowledge of southern dialect from so called “accent coaches” on youtube, something anyone could do. You, the woman in the video, whoever.
I live in North Carolina and have my whole life, I have family and friends in Virginia, West Virginia, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, Tennessee, and I’ve known people from the various remaining sothern states and I have never, EVER, heard anyone talk like this. Ever. The only time you’ll hear someone talk like this is in Hollywood, when some crap movie is being made that’s based in some anonymous region of the south. I’m sorry, it’s just not real. Maybe a hundred years ago, or like another commenter said, in Gone with the Wind or something, but not in the real world honey. (Thought I’d throw that in there) 😊
It's like the variation in Midwest accents. We all have variation. Even folks from different parts of states sound different (I don't sound like a Yooper...someone from the Upper Peninsula).
The southern U.S. has several different accents, this is just the most dramatic and thus most fun to imitate. I lived in Tennessee for years, and heard some older people in Nashville talk like her, but the Appalachian accent was totally different.
I grew up in South Carolina, and I think the last time I heard this drawl, was in the 1960s. This isn't "Gone with the Wind", anymore. The really interesting accents are the Gullah-Geechee of the SC coast, and the NC Outerbanks "high tider" brogue.
gee people, watch a civil war movie or something and you'll instantly realize how very accurate amy is
I'm from Alabama and yes. in southern Alabama some people do talk like that but that accent would more commonly be found in Mississippi or Louisiana. it comes from the french language and was brought to the south by the french colonists between 1400 and around 1800 and is a modified version of the french language.
I wish everyone still talked like this sounds so old. Love it
That's hilarious......and well done. It sounds a bit more like an African-American southern accent but very accurate. You can walk around Atlanta all day long and never hear a southern accent. Many transplants from up north in Atlanta. All trying to escape the snow and ice.
African American accent? How can a race have an accent? This is just southern lol. That's like me saying you have a white accent .
+Kid for Christ There actually is a term to describe how African Americans talk since our speech and slang is derived from grammar found commonly in many west African languages. You've got the southern type and the urban, city talk. It's generally called Black english. They even have interviews on TH-cam if you want to know what it sounds. And of course not all African Americans talk like this.
Love your accents Amy. I'm from Atlanta, and you're right; that accent is old and unfortunately dying out : ( Atlanta is so filled with transplants now that southern accents are hard to find around here, but my parents have rich great old accents. The old Atlanta accent sounds more gentrified than the one you did. I've rarely heard the old Atlanta accent done well, but Jessica Tandy did a good job in Driving Miss Daisy. Rue McClanahan totally overdid it in the Golden Girls. Bless her heart !
THANK YOU! I'm auditioning for a part and this was BEYOND helpful, straight foreword, and simple.
She said..."Deep south...hang." Yep, that sounds about right.
XD
Nooooo
Lol.😆
I wish we all talked like this. It's so peaceful and no one sounds rushed.
This is how my grandma & aunt talks lol. They even have southern names. Dorothy Ann & Kimberly Davis. We're from Mississippi.
I live in Alabama. I think she is making it a little too strong for your normal Alabaman, but some of us have accents this strong. My Calculus professor for example; she talks talks just like the lady in the video. which acts as a example of some one that is very smart and has strong southern accent. It's mostly people who are hypocrites who constantly say we are bigots (which is not true) and then turn around and say we are stupid and trashy because we have a different dialect than they do.
I’m from the south and the thing those people dont realize is that there are so so many different accents.
That was more old Louisiana than anything
OMG! You'll think I'm being a smart ass but you just wouldn't believe how nostalgic that accent has made me. It reminds me so much of my early years in Macon and Monticello Georgia. Sadly most of my relatives who spoke so beautifully are no longer living but your example of the accent was wonderful to experience again. Thank you so much. You brought a smile to my face and a tear to my eye.
The silly thing to me was that when I was there, loving the deep south accent, all they said to me was 'Oh, I love your English accent, talk to me' in a beautiful honey-dripping deep south tones,, how the hell can a Lancashire lad sound good to them?
It's because you're British and many people just dig the accent. Mainly that. Too be honest I myself prefer a British accent over an American one though I love the homey feeling I get from the stereotyped southern USA one.
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@@alyssajasmine3216 Tommy corridor
This accent STILL exists among older people in Birmingham, Alabama and many parts of rural Georgia.
That's an old school rich southern accent. Only the rich talked like that.
Mike Mac and the slaves.
I'm from Atlanta, GA, and I'd say Amy is doing a Charleston (SC) accent. I think the old Charleston accent is the purest 'Southern accent'. (not to be confused with a Geechee accent)
You sound like this woman from a lifetime movie who was either from SC or GA. I have been trying to find these actress to see if her accent
Is real.
Englishman here with the stereotypical accent to boot.
I wish people still spoke like this. This accent melts my butter.
My, my; I think I'm gettin' the vapours....
where do you originally come from? because your southern accent sounds really affected.. I mean, it's like you memorized all the distinctive features listed on wikipedia and tried to apply them all at once.
ksufler she’s American and has an American accent
Ana Leah Bertubin ... southern accents are from america
She's from Seattle and has an incredible talent, why criticize? She can do more accurate accents than anyone I've ever seen.
Could this be any more exaggerated. She has probably never heard anyone from New Orleans (Y'at dialect), or from the Acadian area of the state, as that is distinctly different from the rest of Louisiana and the rest of the southern states
Mais I love me dat Acadian accent, chere!
Shaw ya dun wan nun nah?
I'm from New Orleans, and I know many people who talk like that. I would describe this as a "New-Orleanian" accent, more than "deep southern" because it sounds like most older folks would talk.
Frank Underwood
Lmao!! Hell Yeah
and Jimmy Carter
I went to college in North Carolina and I had a female English professor with this accent. I loved listening to her voice.
Is it just me, or is non-rotic totally e-rotic? B-)
I am trying to master my Georgia accent for a production at my school. This helped me get that Texas twang out of my voice and make it more subtle. Perfect for the 1940s Georgia! Thanks!
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I grew up in NE Alabama. There were just a couple of families that I knew who spoke with, what I learned today, is described as a heavy non-rhotic accent. For white southern people, I think its mostly the historical big cotton areas that have a heavy non-rhotic accent.
Hahahaha oh the irony that the best adjective for a southern accent is hang. Subconscious racism yay!
You're an idiot.
Jake Star Oh dear looks like someone took the joke seriously. What's it like in your head?
I like the fresh points people are making about how no one really talks like this anymore, especially given that at 0:10 Ms. Walker says "this is an OLD accent, but you MIGHT still find it..." - but God forbid should anyone pay attention to things like words.
I need to get this women pregnant
i need to kick your ass bitch
+Osama Gamal common, you wouldn't? look at her, she's an 11
I don't think you heard what she said. She said she's using the old style southern ascent, not the one you hear not in 2015. I'm assuming this because she's an actress and is always playing that old character from a time when people sounded like that.
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i just love the way she says Mississippi and Mmmmmmm....she does bring out the feeling of it....beautiful...pure genius!!!
Most of my family live in the woods down in Bami and none of them sound like that, but I love the way that sounds.
Accents change over time. Watch TCM and you'll hear how the everyday accents have changed. This Southern accent is spot-on for a specific time period and area. It's more theatrical, so Hollywood loves using this accent as opposed to the modern Southern accents.
Right, because the background defines if a person is in a certain area, and therefore, has the knowledge of how it is spoken in such area.
It could perfectly be a green screen, but the message would be the same.
I agree with Skulllifeizmylife, I'm from an area between New Orleans and Baton Rouge and I have friends and relatives who talk like that. Well done Amy! Love your videos. Keep it up!
She already mentioned that this is an old accent, and isn't widely use. So i don't get why so many people are hating at her and saying it's an old accent and not used when she already said the same thing in the video...
My aunt lived up north but when she married she went south to louisiana (there in Texas now) so she was living down there for so long that she picked up the accents
Its the accent most associated with the place. Yes it may be wrong at this time period. But this is the accent i would probadly expect to hear (or something similiar/close) if i went there !
I truly wasn't trying to be offensive. Its just a matter of stereotypes and perceptions. I actually find accents to be very interesting, and it happens that these accents tend to carry that association to a lot of people. I'm from the Pacific Northwest (and Alaska, originally), so we have a pretty neutral accent around here.
Older people from Charleston,SC have that accent. In fact, visitors are almost "disappointed" we all don`t talk like that.It`s still around but much less common than 40 years ago.
Born and raised in Alabama, been all over the south and I’ve met some of the most rural and southern people you can imagine. I’m 99.9% sure this accent no longer naturally exists. Actually I believe this accent never existed, I think it’s just the “professional” actor’s interpretation of southern accents.
this is the most beautiful accent, im obsessed with it, i want to do this accent for fun as i like it so much... particularly have a soft spot for guys with the southern accent, wish southern guys would visit London more...ps you are absolutely beautifu and so dreamy!!!
Love this accent. When I heard it in “The Notebook” I thought it was just lovely.
i live in alabama and i have been in everypart of alabama and i have never heard anyone talk with an accent that strong
I'm from Georgia and I thought this was going to turn out odd... it's absolutely perfect.
One of my favorite videos on TH-cam and I can’t explain why. I’m a sucker for deep southern accent. Women spoken only. Sorry for my misogyny 😂
Grew up in Florida Georgia area.Love this southern accent-like dripping syrup from your mouth slowly
I'll drip this syrup in yo mouff!!!
It's an old accent true but anywhere separated from large cities in that part of the deep South you'll still find them. I myself am from NC. Funny thing is I speak with a mishmash of accents gained from 20 years in the service.
Usually i dont like southern accents but that was one of the sexiest accents i've ever heard...ever, I'll be back in ten
I believe the non rhotic southern accents began in Charleston and spread throughout the south the Virginia tidewater version seem to be the most formal type of non rhotic accent which spread southwestward as the wealthy planter society moved southwestward into north and south Carolina and into Georgia with some of them into Alabama and even farther west however the coastal areas have various versions of non rhotic English even in the pan handle of florida
I don't personally live in the deep south, but I visit there frequently and I hear a lot of people talk like this. Granted, they're mostly older people, but people DO talk like that. Just not EVERYONE
I'm from Alabama. No one actually speaks like that non-rhotic Gone With the Wind Hollywood movie accent here. Some (generally very old) people have accents which are slightly similar to this in certain parts of Georgia, Alabama, Coastal South Carolina, and Louisiana though. I love the videos though, Amy, and I'd invite you to come down to the South to hear all the regional dialects we have to offer. We're not all that bad. Well, some of us aren't anyway.
I would love a video on the different southern accents. Delta Burke sounds different from Scarlett O’Hara who sounds different from Reba McEntire. Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi, the Carolinas, the Plantation accent, etc.
Well, my guess is this:
She said it's an "old accent", which I guess means you probably won't find many people who still have it. It is probably popular in movies set in past time periods in the south because that is how they sounded back then.
I could be wrong, but it's just a guess.
@3asal1
It's an older accent as she said in the beginning of the video. She did exaggerate the accent with a few of her words, but overall it was relatively accurate. You'd have to travel to certain parts of Louisiana and Mississippi to hear it these days though. And even then, you would have to talk to the older generations to really hear it.
I take that back.. This is deeper than the Oracle..Love it!!
Come on southerners, let's bring the accent back! lol this accent is frikkin awesome dude.
@DuckTapeFreak She said it was rare. She said you probably won't see that accent anymore because its old, which is why the only person you saw with a similar accent was old.
@Rachulie This accent was actually quite common in the Deep South around the 18th-19th centuries, and still exists in some areas, though admittedly to a significantly lesser extent and somewhat evolved. It's still a very valuable accent in the world of theatre, and in case you haven't noticed, this woman IS an actress. So just... chill, dude. Seriously.
i'm from south carolina, and i personally have heard people with this accent. my old math teacher from alabama speaks very, very similar to this.... like she said, it's old and uncommon and kind of Gone with the Wind-ish, but you might hear some older people talking like this.
Amy how I wish that Audible had contracted you to perform "Gone with the Wind". It would have been absolutely perfect with this accent.
This accent is also known as a Louisiana Drawl and while she does go a little cartoony in places, it is a real accent, generally used by the decedents of higher class English immigrants. Thicker, richer, deeper accents are the more commonly heard, but this is still spoken by factions of southerners, especially those with plantation backgrounds. Think of it as the same way there are tons of British accents. Cockney is working class, Southern Posh is high class. US Southern accents are the same.
This is the MOST fun accent ever! Let’s make it more common! Come on, southerners! 🍹
You are AMAZING.
@miditek Exactly. She says its an "old" accent, and though I don't disagree, its only old in the context of its use. Its old Hollywood's version of a southern accent.
@Rachulie I don't need a degree in linguistics. I know quite a bit about theatre and acting. This particular accent is actually still used a LOT in the acting world, and it has been since the time it was common. THAT is how this accent is documented as having existed at one point; it's been transmitted over the years by actors to other actors and to their audiences. No, it's not commonly spoken now. No, it's not a proper representaion of a modern dialect. But it existed. So again I say, chill.
LOL Thats awesome. Im from southern GA and I have to say, you're spot on.
Lived on Florida/Alabama line my whole 43 years and never heard a soul talk like this.
I've heard this accent very recently, actually. Anyone else watch Swamp People? I think that it's a beautiful accent. Like all Southern Accents. :)
i'd like to see u do a compilation of the different southern accents.
Nice Southern Accent, that sounds cool.👍
This is actually quite good, despite all the mmhmmmm exaggeration. Born and raised in Georgia and have many old relatives that talk with this accent -- very Coastal/Savannah/Charlestown-like and very old school. Straight out of Gone With The Wind. All you "southerners" here unfamiliar with the accent have been watching too much cmt and Reba.
there seems to be many factors in deep southern drawl even some carribiean influence in certain places like south atlantic
Most of my immediate family speaks like this -though not as extreme. In Georgia we call it the gentrified southern accent. You usually hear it on words like "career" or names like "Martha".
@Rachulie Yet, she does say it's an older accent. I'm from Oklahoma, but I've been to other southern places and I have only heard this accen't about 3 times. She makes a note of how it isn't much spoken anymore.
Your smile is incomparable. I hate that most of people in Russia do not smile at all. It is a little bit unpleasant that people think I am crazy when I walk smiling))
this is funny, I would call this a "Hollywood Southern Accent." Being from the south we can identify differences from state to state, and social class. One tip: the closer the state is to the north the sharper, and rougher the accent is. The closer you get south the longer the smoother is sounds. Poor/rural is less formal, the wealth/urban gets more proper. I laugh through Forrest Gump even though I love the movie.
Women who talk with the Mississippi and Alabama accents are sooooo adorable!
I love that creepy little smile she does at the end of every accent video she makes.
I know quite a few people from Mississippi and Louisiana that sound this way. Now this isn't really a Cajun accent though, but one of the accents in that area
OH WOW THANKS SO MUCH . i need to do this accent for my school production and this helped alot.