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I think you keep getting confused because he’s saying North America, that’s our continent. The southern USA is included in that lol.
North America is Canada, the U.S., Mexico and the six countries in Central America.
@@hrussell9677 I know
It seems like Europeans refer to the South as Southern America when it really should be Southern United States. No wonder people from South America get pissed off. And at the same time, a lot of Europeans think Mexico is in South America. And they say WE are bad at geography.
@@jariemonah South Americans get pissed off bc Europeans confuse them in comment sections discussing geography?
First World Problems.
@@scorchogrey2385 Nah they get pissed off when people refer to the United States as America or call us Americans. Latin Americans call us "estadounidense" which translates to United Statesian but we don't call ourselves that weird name.
Bees, you DID hear a Southern accent! :) ...he said "accents in North America (the continent)" not "the Northern US". Yes, Please do Part II, it's very good :)
Exactly. North America is a continent of the U.S., Canada and Mexico. 👍
@@rich_t and many more countries are included in North America :)
@@uwbadger79 Americans tend not to include them due to being within the separate region of "Central America". But yes, they're on the same continent.
@@willsofer3679 You can get a boisterous class discussion on the number of continents, and whether North, South and Central America are one, two or three continents. I really enjoyed teaching international classes because everyone was surprised by and usually interested in exploring other people's world views. My method was to challenge hitherto unexamined beliefs and get people to think outside their boxes, but to do so politely to describe reality not to argue talking points.
@@JMM33RanMA I’ve never heard it argued by anyone that North, South, and Central America are one continent. Two, yes. Three, rarely. But never one.
The fact that this guy can shift so easily, so fluidly, from one accent to the other is amazing. I'm learning so much and he's fascinating to watch and listen to. Really enjoying this video. Need to watch the rest in the series.
PLEASE DO ALL OF THESE THEY ARE SO GOOD
My ppl have been in the Piney Woods for several hundred years and I LOVE how accurate this guy is with accents. When he says the word, "fascinating" in the North Carolina accent, it's sublime.
Do part 2 AND 3.
Being an occasional voice actor, I'm not ashamed to admit this guy is way better than me with dialects. Then again, it's sort of his job. But he does it effortlessly. It's impressive.
You were correct about the southern accent. This is accents of "North America" which includes the US, Canada, Mexico and others. If it had said Northern America I think it would be more reasonable to assume it was only the northern part of the US but "North America" the continent is more than just the US.
Isn’t Mexico South America? I should know that but I forget lol
@@ShyAnn291 no
@@ShyAnn291 No Mexico is part of North America. Brazil , Columbia, Argentina, Bolivia Peru, Ecuador etc are all South America. You may be thinking of the term "Latin American" countries which include both North American and South American countries that share the same language backgrounds from Spanish, Portuguese, and French influence in the areas, this includes Mexico and most of the countries south of it all he way into South America.
@@xJamesLaughx oh ok, thank you very much!
I am sure they know that.
North Carolina has the motherload of accents. ....and yes, the South is in North America.
I'm from NC and got so excited when I first watched the original video, and then watched this excitedly waiting for the NC part because I knew how good it was. Mostly due to how interesting the outer banks are. It's a truly fascinating group of islands. Unique wildlife, weird histories, geological curiosities, and holy shit I sound like a travel agent.
Even from city to city it's so different. Start in Winston-Salem, hop on 40 and go straight west through Hickory and into Asheville. It's not a long drive but you encounter so many different styles.
@@Lyeit Definitely speaks to the relative isolation of those populations before the interstate highways were built.
As a North Carolinian, I concur.
He did an extremely good Yinzer accent. I’m from Pittsburgh and don’t have the accent-and yeah, it’s socioeconomic a lot-but I have some relatives that do. It sounds made-up to most of my non-US friends.
Hello fellow Burgh baby. It is true there is a socioeconomic divide in Pittsburghese especially between the black and white communities in Pittsburgh. But, fundamentally Pittsburghese is ostensibly only from Pittsburgh and has remained very isolated due to the combination of Polish, Italian, Irish, and African American speakers all living together much more closely and intermingled than would traditionally appear in a city it's size. Blame it on the Rivers and mountains. The mix is also why Pittsburghese doesn't extend much past the city itself. There was even a Northern and Southern Pittsburghese in previous generations but they have largely melded into the Pittsburghese we are both familiar with translating today.
I am from From deep down in Georgia and he was on point the whole time. We southerners do smooth out words like “fire”, “fly”,etc. words like “floor and though” are pronounced as “flo” and “doe”
YESSS THIS SERIES IS SO GOOD
I'm happy to see I'm not the only person who finds accents and languages so interesting. Hope you're well!
Yes, do parts 2 and 3 please! This is one of the very best "accent" series on TH-cam; it's so knowledgeable and so comprehensive, and Erik not only absolutely knows what he's talking about, he can slip into any accent instantly and accurately.
Remember, in this context a "southern accent" means the southern US! South America is a whole separate continent, where they speak Spanish and Portuguese.
Indeed. He seemed confused by the term "North America". I should also note that in the case of French Guyana, and a few islands in the Caribbean, and off the coast of South America, they also speak French.
@@willsofer3679 Yes, of course. I was painting with a broad brush, perhaps excessively so, in the interest of pointing out a big difference. For that matter, we should mention that in Suriname, and on a few other Caribbean islands, they speak Dutch.
@@DelGuy03 Quite right. Honestly, I tend to forget about the Dutch speakers.
I love a strong southern accent it’s just so warm in the ear and endearing
I have a general American accent with hints of Southwest and Midwest in there. I also say y'all unironically so I definitely fit the cowboy stereotype accent
I'm mostly from NC but also have a mostly general American accent. I say yall just because it's a good contraction though ironically I don't generally type it with an apostrophe.
I have a general American accent with hints of southern. My mother is from Indiana and my Dad is from South Georgia so it makes a lot of sense!
@@thebayoudiaries8389 my dad was from LA but grew up on Arizona. My mom was Ohio born so she has a lot of midwest in her way of speaking
I'm from CA but live in Texas. I have a mix of a Los Angeles, San Fransisco, and Texas accent.
I'm from Massachusetts and I have the general American. Those of us in the western half of the state are rhotic
FYI: North America consists of Canada, Mexico, and USA. Some even include all the Virgin Islands as well.
Yes, technically many Caribbean islands are North America. The southern islands are South America. Of course not all islands are English speaking.
I have watched these videos several times and I love them. Please do the rest. I love the way your face lit up when you caught what he was illustrating and that you could hear the differences. The first time I watched it I had a hard time as I didn't understand the terminology and couldn't quite hear some of the differences.
Part 2 please. Beesley how about a video about US territories. It's good I'll find a link
North American accents are incredibly varied, but, that's not terribly surprising when you think about the HUGE geographic areas over here. It's the huge amount of variation in accents in the UK are what shocks me. So many different accents in such a relatively small area.
He’s right about Virginia…I grew with up with a distinctive Tidewater accent. Now I speak in a more general American accent for people who may not understand me.
Do part 2. For a non-American, it will educate you. Our history isn't as long as most...but it's kind of fascinating in it's brevity.
There is history in this country it is called Native History.
First of all, I'd love for you to react to the entirety of this series. It's not comprehensive, but it covers a lot of different accents.
Just a note: When they say "North America", it's referring to the continent. Not the U.S., which is colloquially called "America". The continent includes the United States, Canada, and Mexico... And sometimes Central America, though we in America generally don't think of it as such (though it's technically on the same continent). Since this only covers English-speaking communities, it's just referring to the United States and Canada, in this particular series. Not enough people regularly speak English in Mexico, and likewise also have different varieties of spoken English, to include it.
Don't, s'il vous plaît, forget Quebec and France's Ste. Pierre et Miquelon off the Canadian and New England coast.
@@JMM33RanMA I've always enjoyed Quebec's English dialect. I've typically only heard it growing up on the program "Just for Laughs" (Juste pour rire) when they didn't dub music over it.
You gotta do more of this. This was one of the best vids on American accents I've ever seen.
Yay! I'm so glad you're doing this series. I think it's absolutely superb, and the guy is incredibly impressive at accent mimicking as well. (I've heard some people say that he slipped up a bit when doing their native accent, but given how many of them he atttempts, including some very subtle distinctions, I think he's allowed a couple of slip-ups!)
I think you figured this out part-way through, but "North American" refers to the continent of North America, not to the northern part of the USA. I suspect that Luis will show up here sooner or later to comment further on this. :D
I'm one of those people who picks up the accents around me. So if I do a Doctor Who or Harry Potter marathon I start to sound British! It can be kinda fun sometimes.
I took linguistics in college (uni for you). It is very interesting how language changes in pronunciation and meaning. Please continue. An informative video.
I wish he had caught onto/focused more on the dropping of the "r" in British English (non-rhotic accents) as a "fad" that caught on. The British used to sound generally a lot more like Americans, before their various class struggles which modified speaking patterns (to climb a social ladder, or carve out a unique community, like the cockneys).
@@willsofer3679 I can't remember which but after one of the world wars, America changed their way of pronouncing to be different from Britain.
@@abrad6901 I've never heard that, but perhaps I'm just missing something there. If you have a source, let me know. I do know that by the first World War, most British accents were non-rhotic (except for the West Country, obviously). And the mixing of soldiers during the war influenced speech even more over here with the development of the "Trans-Atlantic" accent, which the upper class on the east coast of the U.S. adopted.
@@willsofer3679 I am thinking it was after ww1. This was in my linguistics class at college..very fact based. A speech by the president led to Americans feeling more patriotic and the upper class began using rhotic to show that. I can't find my notes on that class..I moved twice since then. Sorry.
@@abrad6901 No worries! This is probably just something I'm unfamiliar with. I thought the shift was generally post WW2. or during, but that may not be the case.
EDIT: a few American presidents spoke with a Trans-Atlantic accent post WW1, so I think this might actually be a post 1930s development. At least overall.
The locals in the Northern Neck and Eastern shore of Va pronounce things like "White Stone" "Whait Stun" said really fast
Just to clarify for any one who is wondering North America means the entire continent. This would include Canada, the USA, and Mexico. It does not mean just the northern part of the US.
@beesley I'm American from the South. This guy you are reviewing is awesome. I love him. My family speaks a classic south and please don't think the Hollywood southerner is correct. They can't get it right. It makes us crazy lol
They'd honestly get a more semi-accurate "classic" Southern accent from listening to Foghorn Leghorn on Looney Tunes, than they would from other Hollywood actors.
EDIT: For real, Mel Blanc was a fantastic voice actor, and genuinely knew how to replicate the accent. It's not far off.
Have you ever heard Virginians speak? There are several different accents there. I was talking with someone I thought was from England but he spoke a particular Tidewater accent that sounded very British, but not the somewhat Shakespearean dialect of the Chesapeake Islands.
For real. The Hollywood southern accents have me cringing.
@@elizabethsjourney701 always. Only a couple of real south actors can get it right.
I always say I have no accent. I am from Virginia (the mid Atlantic). When I go two states north I get told I have a southern accent, but if I go two states south I get told I have a northern accent.
Virginia has a number of different accents, fewer since Kanawha County stayed loyal to the Union.
What part of Virginia?
@@samanthamyers4267 I'm not Virginian, I only know of three or four for sure, Chesapeake Islands, the Tidewater one that sounds British, the other Tidewater one and non-Tidewater, but there are probably more.
I’m from nc but I live right next to Virginia. 434 area code va was definitely southern. I mean thick southern
I’m from Virginia Beach & my brother has a Tidewater accent but I don’t. I actually think I don’t have an accent at all. Though when I go north or south I’m told the same as you.
I am just loving how much you are loving these American accent histories.
One very important note here is that there's only a small minority that says LatinX, the LATINO community are very proud of culture, to call anything else is an insult.
Agreed
I flip through accents on occasion, mainly from a strange accent-less one (think stereotypical American, like Christopher Reeves' Superman) to a very slight Southern Accent, though of unknown type. My Dad's side of the family owned a massive orange grove in Florida, and my mom's side of the family came from Pennsylvania and so different words are pronounced differently sometimes because of how I learned them when I was little and how I hear them on the day-to-day
I speak with an Appalachian accent and I drag words long with the The e and r dragged way to long and I don’t realize it until I hear myself recorded
I wanna hear myself recorded all of a sudden. I'm from Alabama and I don't really think I have much of a southern accent at times. But when I talk to a friend that lives up north he always comments on my southern accent
I have a BA in History, I graduated with honors, and I never thought of this before! Great reaction. Loved this
The entire US (except Hawaii) is in North America, including Alaska. Canada is also in North America.
I love these series of videos and I’m so glad you found them and that you’re reacting to them! Definitely looking forward to part 2!
This dialect coach is INCREDIBLE! 😳
From a “price smoothing” Appalachian southerner, This was Great! MORE, MORE, MORE!!!
He might also like to check out the Celebrating Appalachia channel.
Yes keep going. It's so enjoyable to watch you learning stuff.
more, please! really like your content
I would love to see a part 2 reaction! Hope you're able to get to it soon
I came from the virginia moved to Kansas then to deep south and lastly Southern New Jersey. My accent is a hot mess combination of all of it.
I live in Virginia and I don't have any accent lol 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I grew up in Baltimore, MD. Whenever I'm up north I'm accused of sounding southern, and when I'm down south I'm told I sound like a "Yank". Lol
Same for me & I grew up in Virginia Beach, VA.
OMG thank you for showing this video. I am from TX & LA and I could hear the different accents in one grocery store. The knowing of the mechanics of the accent blew me away! Subscribing now. Thank you so very much.
This guy teaches dialects to actors so they can sound authentic to the region in the feature film they are to appear in.
Has anyone told him that North America means Canada, the U.S., and Mexico?
I’ve seen this series before and just want to emphasize that each state does not have their own accent. It’s very regional. So in the 2nd part he discusses Chicago Illinois. Just so you know the only people with that accent are the people from that city and metro area. The REST of Illinois is very very very different. But he doesn’t say that in the video. (I live in the middle of Illinois and we sound much more like a Midwest/southern mix) I point this out because it’s annoying to classify Chicago as Illinois, it’s like saying only London is England.
Also you don't have to go south very far only a few hours before you hear that southern twang.
@@hifijohn Yeah, I’m from central Illinois and my husband is from the Chicago suburbs, we sound completely different lol. I have a little more “Kentucky twang” than I do northern Midwest lol.
@@hifijohn The differences from where I grew up in Ohio are quite stark. Most people have a "general American" and non-specific Midwestern accent, which sounds more-or-less like people from California and Oregon. But you have a TON of families with Kentucky accents mixed in, even Eastern Kentucky (with a heavy Appalachian accent). A lot of them migrated to Ohio in the early to mid 20th century for work.
@@willsofer3679 Southeast Ohio is definitely a very different world accent-wise than northern Ohio.
In addition to different accents you will also find we use different words for things depending on what nationality was dominant in that region. From old Norse you have the word "poke" which means bag. From that it moved to the Ulster Scots and then to the US around Appalachia. So in that part of the US people still use the word poke instead of bag. Some might say aways away or over yonder to describe something a bit distant. You might hear people say they have a whole mess of problems or a whole slew of problems. A lot depends on what group settled there originally.
This is fascinating and this guy is incredible with his linguist ability.
I AM SO GLAD you watched this video... I've known about this guy for years... and it explains North American accents so well (I'm a linguist) and I am happy that you found him... there is also part 2 and 3 of this btw.
Not only should you watch part 2. U should watch part 3 too!!
When I was In central Florida i and my buds from south shore ma. we were asked by some ladies at the table next to us If we were from Ireland or the U.K.! lol
The crazy thing is that Eric is Canadian and mastered a bunch of American accents
I grow up in Boston and often drop my “r” when speaking certain words. I also speak with a more British pronunciation when saying words such as the following: aunt, can’t, laugh… I have lived in the Chicago area for over 40 years and have picked up using my “r” s more often but when I am tired I will slip back into my Boston accent with certain words. People often confuse my accent with someone from New York which is puzzling to me.
I’m from Indiana and I find this extremely interesting. I knew there was much diversity in our dialects, but this was really cool. I’d like to see one on all the British dialects. I don’t know if “Cockney” is an actual dialect but I still have trouble understanding that one.
You're absolutely right James! This is a quality video you're turning us on to I'm from Pittsburgh and he got our very unique accent down perfectly, which is not easy
Yes do part 2! And I like when you pause and give your thoughts
The accent on Ocracoke Island sounds just like Phil Harding from TimeTeam. He’s from Wiltshire, England, which corresponds to the regional references this presenter identified.
FINALLY I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS SERIES
Yes! Part 2 please
I find this stuff fascinating and often ask myself what kind of accent do i have. Well i'm an African-American living in Detroit, Mi so you would expect me to have the typical local afro-accent but that isn't the case.
I think i have more of a general American accent, with a bit of southern African-American mixed in. My grandmother is from the South so growing up around her and my family has certainly influenced my speech in that regard.
Since people tend to adopt the dialect of the people around them. I wonder how the internet will affect dialect in the future.
Not surprised at how surprised you were by the African American accents. It blew my mind the first time I heard an African Brit, and most of them still sound like white Brits to me.
I love hanging out with people with different accents. If I spend a few days with say an American southern person I pick up their accent. I will keep this accent too for a few weeks after I go back home until it fades. I have noticed this with a southern accent and Mexican accents and Australian.
As a guy that grew up in Arkansas, being around many Southern accents, the weird one is the Mid Atlantic like Baltimore. It sounds so strange to me.
I know you already did 2 and 3, but I really enjoyed your reaction to the southern accents, being from Tennessee myself. I just couldn't stop grinnin' watchin' ya (you get that I'm 'puttin' on here right?)
One thing none of we Spanish speakers say, latinx!
It's a term imposed by white English-speaking people, yes. Spanish speakers tend to use the masculine "Latino" instead of the 'gender-neutral' Latinx. I find a lot of Hispanics aren't even familiar with the term.
In Philadelphia we are in that Midland accent bridge. And use that gost dipthong thing that forces us to use long O's and long u's. We have a mix of north and south. We say water, wooder and quarder for quarter.
thank you for doing these videos. I have been enjoying them. btw, British music and culture is amazing! I am an American Britophile.
I love Erik. Glad to see you reacting to this.
He didn't mention the lack of accent which is common in NY. News Anchors and reporters across the US learn to speak like those of us in the real NY because we don't have a regional accent or any accent. This has expanded to Canada, New England and into Pennsylvania in a major way. When I have met British people they have been surprised that I and those with me have no accent because they expect a NYC accent.
You started part one, now you got to go all the way
Professor Higgins is alive and well🤣
I thought the same! 🤣
The accents are all regional. I was born in Southern Illinois and my mom was very strict on I and my brothers speech. She Mom was born in Chicago but was moved back to Southern Illinois after her father passed away since Grandma was from there.
I use to work at a gas station next to I 57 so I got to hear accents say from Chicago, western Kentucky and Tennessee. I also heard them from the St Louis areas and west of there. I remember one time meeting a couple guys from New Orleans and heard some Cajun I think.
Id love to see the interaction stats for this video and see how much of it was fast forwarded.
You know, that face lowering he was talking about in North Carolina also happens in Australia, I think. It sounds that way to me.
Maybe because he was just talking about the beginning of the linguistic history from the 1st settlers, which were white ?
Sunn M'Cheaux is everything. Well all of these people are everything.
He nailed one of the many North Carolina accents!
Americans use a lot of "TH" stopping especially in the North Central. You'll hear people use "cha" in replace of "you"
Ex: "Whatcha doin?" " I betcha" "I get cha"
Then you'll hear people mix it into one word, Ex: "can'tcher be?" Meaning "why can't you be like them?"
We also tend to drop the last 1 or 2 words at the end of sentences, Ex: "come with?" (Come with me) "you like?" (You like that) "if its cool" (if it's cool with you)
Grew up in Pittsburgh and live in Fl now. On the way down other people can spot Pittsburghers by our accent. I don't have much of it anymore.
As a native of Raleigh, NC I can attest lots of people have a hard time placing my accent. I’ve heard all kinds of guesses but few people ever pick North Carolina straight away.
One of the contributing factors is that many people from other states come to work and live in The Research Triangle area, (Raleigh-Durham and Chapel Hill) thus influencing the accent. Also, there is a high concentration of people from other states in Cary, N.C.
I've never thought I had an accent. But in the say past 10 years I've been told I have a strong accent. The person themselves don't hear it and everywhere you go is different. Heck I can go to Okeechobee, not far away and their's is to me way stronger. That's what I love about our beautiful country. Let's hope we can all get along damnit
Hes very good sadly we're losing most of our accents in the north. Also, Hollywood actors would hire someone like this if they need to learn a certain accent for a movie role.
BTW the worst movie accent goof is ray liottas accent in field of dreams, he spoke with his native NY accent it should have been a south Carolina accent.
Did you not watch the video?
when I first started working at the place I'm working now I talked to this guy from Laos and not 2 minutes into the conversation he told me I was from upper state New York near Buffalo and I was amazed that he could get where I was from from my accent I found later that he was a trucker that drove all around the United States
Let us take a moment to discuss your Northern British accent and the loss of the dental fricatives: turning 'thought' into 'fought' and 'that' into 'vat'. 🙃
BURGH BABY! It's great to see him pointing out that we're one of the smallest colloquial continental speakers in North America. It's literally just the counties around Pittsburgh, AT MOST. Most people, even in the US, can have a very hard time understanding dense Pittsburghese without some time.
I have several good friends from both Philadelphia and Baltimore and I notice that when I'm around them I'll sometimes start pronouncing my vowels like they do - especially the goat sound he made like in "go" or "no". Its way too easy for this Californian to slip into that. I'm afraid if I lived in the Mid-Atlantic region I'd pick it up really fast.
This is why if you ask an American where they're from, they often reply with the state, because there is enough variety between states that we think it important enough to make the distinction.
I remember moving from Georgia to Ohio. I was 5 or 6 years old and had to take speech therapy because my teachers couldn't understand my deep south accent. Later, 16 years old, I moved from North Carolina to Iowa, I was bullied because of my accent. They never believed I was from North Carolina because the guy from Charlotte, North Carolina (I came from High Point), sounded different from me. They always called me a liar.
The South is still in North America. North America is the US & Canada. Central & South America are comprised of Latin countries.
I have a customer one time I asked if she was from Scotland or Ireland, I knew she wasn't from England. I live in Ohio, USA. You have the same thing
"Kidnapped" means sold. They were folks whose villages were pillaged by neighboring tribes, where they were enslaved and then sold to the Portuguese for coin and goods.
This is a great video, thanks Bees!
Gilman is a very true language that's survived!❤❤
.This is a great video, much more accurate than the others I've seen. This guy is really good! Yes, look at Parts 2 and 3.
That maybe the best video I've ever seen.
Fuckinnn finallyyy another reaction to this its GOLD. Thanks Beesley!
Watch @cc with coffee if you want a southy sound. I'm Scottish Irish English and French. I already have internal conflict lol
I definitely want to see part 2!