Can Asian Tell who is a American just by listening English?(American, British, Canadian, Australian)

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[@kevinkingmaker7395]

Almost impossible to distinguish standard American accent from Canadian unless Canadian pronounces 'about' with a Canadian accent.

[@chrisnguyen4611]

Just talk long enough until someone apologize

[@Lina_al_j]

in the end when the Canadian said "quite" and "about" I could tell but earlier on I wouldn't have guessed who was Canadian and who was American. they should have brought someone from like the Deep South or smth :D

[@changliu3477]

I know that, eh?

[@jackfrost7543]

There are many people from the south, in specific dialects that say aboot. lol

[@May-ve6sr]

Or they offer you, their leg. (SouthPark or maybe Family Guy Reference)

[@thomasbrown2390]

Really charming video. And Nicki your English is excellent, way better than my Chinese! The subtle differences especially between the UK and Australia and between US and Canada are wonderful and so interesting. Try adding in S Africa and New Zealand!

[@seanpule266]

I agree, Niki is quite beautiful. She mentioned living in Korea for 7 years and might have become fluent in that language as well.

[@deanmcmanis9398]

She did a great job guessing. Even Americans would have a tough time hearing differences in English from an American and a coastal Canadian. It would be fun to have this guessing game using people from many non-native English countries speaking English (Germany, France, Korea, Japan, Mexico), and getting clues to their native origin by asking them key questions about their home country. But to make it a realistic challenge, they need to not try and sound American or British (just talk normally).

[@henri_ol]

I'm glad to see Callie from US again 🇺🇸 , now she is main member of the channel

[@avatr7109]

you're literally below every video drooling over every woman. What region are you from?

[@Bobby56288]

@@avatr7109 ikr🤣🤣, he's everywhere

[@5Li0n50fGod7]

@@avatr7109 He's most likely from India.

[@ronniekoh2226]

Niki’s English is surprisingly good. She is from China and she can speak English fluently, that’s amazing.

[@lorenkevin4371]

yeah but English as a subject written in Chinese primary school for very many years.

[@connorsu4587]

yeahh and also i don’t feel like she has a chinese accent but more like a korean accent

[@lillian8033]

And she also speaks really fluent Korean as well

[@Zoom03352]

''fluent''

[@williamjordan5554]

Not quite fluently.

[@cadyroll]

Cady here 🇬🇧 maybe I should practice an American accent, I was too obvious and my one line was erm.. questionable 👀 Nikki did pretty well!

[@PaulYason]

Just discovered this channel for about a week, amazing content! Keep going folks! Also if I'm not mistaken, are you scouser Cady? 😁

[@louisconnors8616]

Scouse power

[@johnson6099]

Lol 😂 this was so fun to watch! I know that some Asians feel nervous about their English, so I feel it's always great native English speakers are very encouraging to them with a smile ☺

[@OceanicPearlz1]

Honestly yeah my dad

[@jessicadelrosario2185]

I cant even tell most canadian accents from US accents. Especially parts of the Mid-west, or parts of Canada that are close to the US.

[@Thisnameisnottakenjk]

That girl doesn't have a Canadian accent though. She is a city girl from Toronto. If there were to be a girl from like rural Manitoba it would be very obvious. I am from rural Wisconsin and this Canadian girl sounds more American than Canadian than people here in Wisconsin or Minnesota. Yet it is still really easy to distinguish a rural Canadian from someone from Wisconsin.

[@jessicadelrosario2185]

@@Thisnameisnottakenjk yeah, i'm in Alaska and the parts of Canada i've been through, on the west side of the nation, are pretty much exactly like it is up here.

[@kyoshi4646]

@@Thisnameisnottakenjk Wait till they hear a montreal accent

[@EddieReischl]

Good to see Callie again. Yeah, telling Canadian accent from Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and the Dakota's accent is pretty tough, it's akin to trying to tell Australian and New Zealand accents apart. It is interesting Cady had a hard "c" in schedule. Don't know if that is common in the Scouse accent, and the silent "c" is just a RP British thing, or if it's more of a depends on the person thing.

[@scottw.3258]

In Scotland we tend to say it more like 'skedgule' rhyming with 'sledge'.

[@irenejohnston6802]

We say schedule in Liverpool, Sh.... perhaps young people have adopted skedule. what is Scouse? Accent varies from north to south, inner city, suburbs in South. Not Cilla Black or media types.

[@olajong2315]

@@irenejohnston6802 if you’re from Liverpool, you should know what a Scouse accent is.

[@davidreichert9392]

There's one very big distinction between a Canadian accent and the accents of the northern US states, where they use the very American soft 'a' sound.

[@hanjis5894]

honestly i'm from Wisconsin and the more I think about it the less I can tell the difference between our accent and the stereotypical Canadian accent. We don't really do the whole "oo" sound in "about" though. the thing I notice most prominently where I live is that closed "oh" sound. ex. "soory, chicagooh". but I think some canadians may do this too?? cant say ive spoken to a lot of canadians so I have no idea

[@henri_ol]

Welcome to world friends , Kari from Canada 🇨🇦 and Mia from Australia 🇭🇲

[@akmedman8078]

Should've had a sentence like "I was walking about the concourse" so that the Canadian would say "I was walking abo00t the concourse". that would be like a dead give away lol

[@margaretirish705]

Your speaking English is excellent-!

[@gxh9061]

Good job on her, I have been in Australia for a decade now and I still couldnt tell the Australia girl from the others. In most cases I am able to tell the British accent apart from other accents though

[@calliejo2829]

Hi everyone, Callie here 🇺🇸 I think Niki did a great job and it was nice meeting all of the girls. What do you think, would you be able to tell I’m from the US?

[@henri_ol]

Hi Callie , i'm glad to see you again for more videos and i undestand why some people may say that you have an canadian accent 🇺🇸🇨🇦

[@calliejo2829]

@@henri_ol Hi Henri! Thank you- I’m glad to be back as well ☺️ I agree, it can be tough to tell the difference between accents from Canada and the USA!

[@SocialiteJ]

I luv u

[@scottlang7271]

Hi Callie, I would have had trouble picking you apart from Kari. You are both definitely North Americans, but I would likely get both of you wrong on either side of the fence (so to speak).

[@Ricky0122]

Chinese here. It's true our English listening test is pronounced in American English.

[@Princeofvenlo]

I would love to be on World Friends. I’m Nigerian with a proper Nigerian English accent

[@prince223681]

Canadian and American accents are the indistinguishable Coming from a native speaker of English

[@harrymok1809]

You can tell if they say sorry

[@itzyaboyizzy]

They have a distinct way of pronouncing OU sound. Almost sounds Minnesota and Wisconsin

[@zhangshawn2357]

I’ve been living in Australia for 5 years, it’s quite easy for me to recognize Australian accent, but I was confused about canadian and American accent, they sound really similar 😅

[@kilroy2517]

There's very little difference between American and Canadian English. There are certain words that are a giveaway - words with the "ou" sound like out and about, they tend to say with an "oo" sound - oot and aboot .

[@PaulYason]

​@@kilroy2517 haha just by your last statement I can tell you're from the states. It's not really oot aboot 😂 just not as wide open mouthed compared to American accent

[@davidreichert9392]

Callie doesn't have as distinct of an accent as many Americans, though she does have one tell, and that is in the soft 'a' sound. As well, Kari doesn't have a distinctly Canadian accent either. again she has a tell with "about", and she said "Toronto" in a way that very few people from Toronto actually say it, though she may have done that because she is speaking to an international audience, and the local pronunciation is not well understood outside of Canada.

[@aday4evr]

Isn't it just torono? Like without the T? I feel like most people would understand that.

[@davidreichert9392]

@@aday4evr More like "Tronno"

[@aday4evr]

@@davidreichert9392 eh that was bascially the sound I was going for with my spelling. Still. I think most people would understand that. It's not that different from Toronto it just sounds a bit slurred.

[@davidreichert9392]

@@aday4evr Perhaps, but I've had to repeat myself with a more clear pronunciation a number of times when travelling abroad.

[@cbttrainee5961]

WOW. She did AMAZING!!!!!

[@user-mj1hv4ho2b]

“so she twists two crisps “ this made me cried in school English class long time ago. +Worcestershire sauce

[@viictor1309]

5:23 Some people in Louisiana still speak franch, and I believe some people on New Orleans do too but I'm not sure.

[@aday4evr]

Yeah but it's not really the country's second language the same way it is in Canada.

[@gordonwallin2368]

Again, another happy video. Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada

[@clueless-lassi-joins-internet]

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[@stephenrowell9373]

Really good , funny video again, thanks ladies, difficult for the Chinese lady to tell the four accents apart I think .

[@nathalykim1263]

niki did really good! it's hard to tell US/canada apart, plus, i feel like australian accent isn't that known by english learners i feel like if you don't know specifics of the differences, like the word 'out' for canadians, or crisps from the uk, or the 'naur' that aussie ppl have, it all sounds lowkey generic if you just learned english and didn't particularly dive into the different countries

[@aday4evr]

Yes plus they didn't even give them any good words for the Canadian accent to come out. I'm from the US and unless the person has a really strong like rural(?) Canadian accent (idk the right word for it) then you really can only tell the difference on words like out. The other accents have a lot more difference in a lot of words so once you get the sounds down it's easier. But for Canada v usa idk how they expected her to do that.

[@j2174]

Most of the time it is easy

[@odin13th76]

To be fair some of the words they had like schedule weren't pronounced the proper way for UK and Canada. They did the American pronunciation, that might have helped distinguish those ones more.

[@haris1iqbal]

She should have asked them to say a sentence containing the word "about" and she would have probably recognised the Canadian. 😅

[@user-tq9vs6fc9u]

4 is a really good guess for America, just because the accents are very similar. Also Niki, your English is really good! Even without the subtitles, I would be able to understand you. I think most others would agree.

[@psychogenesis6755]

I agree. I'm especially impressed because it's like her third language. Assuming she knows good Korean with living in Korea for 7 years and all. Props to her!

[@karllogan8809]

Her English is very good, and 1000 times better than my Chinese.

[@word42069]

Yup! Her English and comfort speaking it is better than my Mandarin!

[@lifted_above]

I find one of the most telling things about Canadian accent compared to USA accent is their pronunciation of the long and short vowel "o" in their words.

[@bahioTeixeira]

I'd get the Australian one when she said "nor" lol, the distinction between Canadian and American accent is really tough for me to grasp tbh

[@timlamb6196]

I grew up in Detroit and a few people down here in Alabama has asked me if I was Canadian.

[@gabrielbadilla2191]

Thanks for another video I’m from Costa Rica and really learn and enjoy your videos a lot. Keep going you’re dope everyone

[@princessg8097]

I got them all cause I live in Australia and I lived in the uk before and I watch American movies lol and Canada is pretty similar to American accent so that’s the option lol

[@DayJobEnd]

The Australian accept sound like in some parts of the UK. It is the same actually, so yaaa she was kind of right :) maybe some words are different but the accept is not very much or at all different.

[@duyen681]

Now I can differentiate 4 accents from theirs. But Canada and The USA are so indentical

[@richardle6200]

She did a great job 😂🎉🎉🎉

[@danpungguk_yeoja]

Hi everyone! 👋 I'm Kari from Canada, thank you for the invitation to join in this video World Friends!🇨🇦🌏Niki was so sweet, many people have a hard time finding the difference between American and Canadian accents... could you tell the difference? 🤔

[@BrunoGomes-ne9eo]

Brazilian here. I can't tell the difference :)

[@80sGamerLady]

I can! But... Im American. 😁 So it's easy for me.

[@kristianbjrnjensen5388]

Most of the canadians, I have heard, sound a bit different than but much alike USA -people (They have Yas intead of Yes.) , but YOU sound MUCH different. ---and nice in comparison . Maybe your job as language coach has influenced your speaking. You could be a closet english having lived with scandinavians.

[@knockeledup]

At the end when you said about is when I could actually tell.

[@mervinjumawan6784]

Love this Video

[@QrlzM]

Nikki is super funny and she seems very comfortable in her own skin and looks like she has a vibrant personality. I hope to keep seeing her in these videos

[@udama9326]

NIki also speak French and Korean ， amazing

[@worldwideultras4549]

Callie, you are so humble and cheerful

[@calliejo2829]

Wow, what a nice compliment! Thank you so much ☺️

[@mrspo7012]

I am proud to say I got them all right.

[@RxPow]

theres basically no difference between "canadian" english and American English especially if you are from Toronto. Usually in the praries or quebec do they have a more distinguishable accent

[@beingsneaky]

I did an accent test andit saud i had a midwestern accent. yeah ppl close to the borders are hard to tell sometimes. US? Canadian??

[@rolkl6898]

Nice video Really enjoyed it

[@majpanik]

She did very well 👏 👏

[@user-hn2wc3fy7y]

lmfao how did she convince herself of 1 and 4 after the solid logic about French speakers in Canada? that was hilarious

[@mimib5151]

Callie’s from Michigan! Yassssss

[@seastm]

Niki is so cute 😍

[@Tommy-en3dp]

Niki❤️❤️❤️

[@AB-cp2yh]

I’m Aussie everyone I know says Vase the English way

[@anndeecosita3586]

Delightful video. Of note, some words will be pronounced differently depending on where you are in the USA like aunt, route, vase. But I do sometimes confuse Upper Michigan and Minnesota people for Canadians. They tend to sound differently from a lot of Americans when pronouncing certain words. I can’t even describe the sound they make but there is an episode of How I Met Your Mother that talks about this accent.

[@j2174]

Personally, I find many Michigan accents, like Minnesota, sound like what someone thinks a Canadian sounds like and with the stereotype turned up

[@BrunoGomes-ne9eo]

Callie's accent is an absolute giveaway hahaha, but i know Canadian English sounds a lot similar to the American.

[@cahinton.]

General American and Canadian accents are close to identical, with a few pronunciation differences on specific words. I'm from Minnesota (it borders Canada), so often Americans from other parts of the country confuse me for a Canadian even though as a Minnesotan I think Canadian accents sound more like West Coast/Californian.

[@BrunoGomes-ne9eo]

@@cahinton. That's interesting. I must confess i can't distinguish both most of the time. I'm Brazilian and i speak Portuguese.

[@cahinton.]

@@BrunoGomes-ne9eo Yup, it's often hard for even Americans/Canadians to tell the difference. There are several regional accents in both countries so usually what gives Canadians away for me are specific words.

[@BrunoGomes-ne9eo]

@@cahinton. Ah i see. Since Canadian English isn't widespread like American i do have a hard time distinguishing both, but like you said, specific words can be a giveaway.

[@allisongrant3094]

Depends especially on where the American is from. A lot of Americans have a decidedly “American” accent.

[@G3rain1]

Most Americans and Canadians would have trouble telling each other apart bases on accenet alone, unless someone has a strong regional accent.

[@ulvessens5902]

Hello Niki !

[@matthewstallion4339]

The Chinese lady is hella cute 🥰

[@lordkent8143]

To catch the American I would ask this question: "What comes after Y?" To catch the Canadian I would ask this question: "Pronounce this word for me please.. a-b-o-u-t."

[@kenmore01]

Oh, not always. People in Minnesota or Eastern North Dakota will disprove your "about" question, and to be fair here, that poor girl! Accents vary much more in different geographical places within countries Canada or USA than between the countries themselves. My girlfriend lives in Australia and I live in west coast USA. We now know each other's accents and sayings well, but could easily get confused with other accents within our respective countries. Personally, I find the accent thing fun, and am happy they exist. They make life so much more interesting!

[@aday4evr]

@@kenmore01 you're not wrong but when I'm watching youtubers and hear the Canadian out like nine times out of ten they'll be Canadian so I think it's reliable enough.

[@skwarepeg1068]

Wait, why would "What comes after Y?" catch the American? Asking as an American.... ;)

[@lordkent8143]

@@skwarepeg1068 the world says zed. Americans say zee.

[@uamdbro]

@@lordkent8143 Maybe a minority but some Canadians say zee

[@luminescentlion]

Distinguishing the Canadian from the American is nearly impossible but the other two are semi easy.

[@joshi6898]

As a non native English speaker, for me the hardest accent to understand is Australian. Specially when they talk fast.

[@ljangay9978]

omg i got it all right (as an Asian) so proud🎉😂

[@decakjeisaozasuncem8843]

canadians talk fluid, soft and sweet while those from usa talk loud and clear, so its easy to guess but nothing is more easy than guessing brits, when you hear english is being abomianted the hard way everything is clear like a sunny day

[@Dancemomsbiggestfan901]

I answered how much English do you know since after kindergarten I started doing French so… 2 years hah

[@atajanjorayew7409]

Canadian girl you are so beautiful so cute 😗

[@eunbyeol7096]

Wow I tried to take the test too and I'm quite suprised, I thought Mia was from England and Cady from Australia because I thought English have their accent very marked but no apparently Aussies does :0

[@Haywood-Jablomie]

Holy Hips Batman !!!

[@tylerensminger]

She did pretty well honestly. The crisps thing would have gotten mr but I think I would have said UK though anyway

[@Cowtymsmiesznego]

She basically got it right immediately. Canada is literally in America. And Australia is not technically part of the UK anymore, but it's very closely tied to the UK (it only left in ~1900 and it's a part of the Crown).

[@tepid_soda]

gonna go 'well aktchewally' here, but we federated in 1901 and established full legal independence only in 1986. either way we're not 'part of the crown' -- we're an entirely separate commonwealth realm and technically, the crown of australia is a different entity from that of the UK though it has the same incumbent

[@ightimmaheadout290]

Mexico is in America

[@ightimmaheadout290]

also 🤓☝️south americans are in America too

[@RobertoHernandez-cx4yt]

American english and canadian english is the same thing but just the different words that they say

[@beingsneaky]

i say both vase and vaz..

[@kayflip2233]

Yeah, Callie does sound Canadian.

[@peter0010]

So glad it wasn't a southern (RP) accent but a regional dialect instead

[@kkmeah]

To be honest as an American I can’t tell the difference between Canadian and American. Also Australian and British is very similar sounding to me.

[@lbell9695]

Notice how the person pronounces their vowels, especially their 'o's'. The Australian vowels like o's are quite broad, hence why the meme of them saying 'no' as 'naur' came to be. Furthermore, whilst Australians tend to soften the 't's to 'd's, the British either pronounce the 't's or use a glottal stop where they skip over the 't's like instead of 'Potter' it would be 'Po-ah'. Intonation is also a good way of distinguishing a Brit from an Aussie. British english sentences tend to go down in intonation, whilst Australian english tends to go up. Australians typically also sound a bit more 'warmer,' and tend to slur their words, whilst Brits tend to be crystal clear and precise in their speaking. I hoped this helped 😊

[@onceinamillion5549]

Kari looks a lot like Nina Hillman from Niziu to me lol (mostly from when she was in nizi project)

[@RickVietsub]

I have an interest in accents, i would smash this challenge

[@maryhp7034]

niki的英语好棒！

[@ea42455]

Wonder how she'd handle my heavy southern accent?

[@NathanLipetz]

All 4 were obvious to me from start. But I’m a Canadian who spends a lot of time in America, and have friends from both England and Australia

[@ItsMeAnn628]

That’s interesting. I thought the Chinese girl was arrogant with her stereotypes. 🤷‍♀️

[@swetha2428]

Please upload daily... Love from 🇮🇳India ❤️💚

[@mileycyrusfan197]

*sees the title* oooh, canada is back! and looks like we have another canadian!

[@co-jt6gd]

Hoo boy! Poor Mia and Kari

[@user-rw4vz2qr6k]

CRISPS

[@drsrsv8884]

This video was super funny and awkward

[@gilnahnu]

as a american the 1st accent is like the generic accent but holy sh i cant tell the differences between american and canadian accents

[@singalore]

Videos like this kinda promote love and world peace.

[@colaii5845]

You guys are cruel hahahahaha

[@katherinegarlock2249]

They should have had them say 'proper' or 'tomorrow'.

[@marck717]

Hi, I’m from Illinois, and sometimes I find it difficult to distinguish between an Upper Michigan accent and a Toronto accent. They are very similar, they both pronounce the word “about” as “a-Boot” and they both tend to say the word “A” at the end of a question. This is also the case with people from certain parts of Minnesota as well.

[@gregmuon]

I was going to say the same thing. I'm Californian, but know people from those places, and I can't tell them apart at all. North American accents IMO have more to do with regions than countries.

[@ProCelestialEmpire]

As a Chinese who right now live in Chicago, ABoot is just a South Park Canadian accent lol I never heard any Canadian pronounce in that way

[@cahinton.]

I disagree. I'm a Minnesotan and Canadians sound to me more like people from California (aside from the few words they pronounce differently, of course). Also, Canadians (from Ontario mainly) pronounce "about" like "a-boat", not "a-boot".

[@rilessmiles6590]

@@cahinton. I'm from Ontario (Toronto) and everyone I know pronounces it as "uh-bowt" but the bow is pronounced like when someone takes a bow, not like a tied ribbon/bow, or a bow and arrow.

[@carolinedias4958]

@@cahinton. no one from here says it like that 😂

[@realalbertan]

Put a Newfie in there....

[@skwarepeg1068]

If you'd had South African, I would have had trouble placing that, I think. I have less experience hearing that (other than Trevor Noah! ha!), and it sounds very UK to me mostly.... But I remember one South African I met whose accent had something slightly different about it.

[@asiangirls4976]

That’s quite interesting, can Europeans identify the Asian accent also?🤣🤣

[@aday4evr]

I think you'd have to be more specific than that. Can a European identify (insert language) accent. Not just Asian in general that would make no sense.

[@Joker-yw9hl]

Russell Peters has quite a funny bit about this topic

[@ItsMeAnn628]

I’m from the US and I would definitely be able to discern an Asian accent.

[@aday4evr]

@@ItsMeAnn628 between different Asian accents though? And be able to place them?

[@ItsMeAnn628]

@@aday4evr That’s not what she asked. She generalized them all into one. I answered her question not yours.

[@shawnv123]

should’ve done an american who speaks in a southern accent

[@Paradox-es3bl]

Should've had them say "about" and "eh?"

[@halaelbaltagi9622]

I think because the British girl had a Liverpool accent (I think) it was kinda harder but Niki did well 😅

[@OTPulse]

As an Australian I've never heard anyone say vase the way the Aus girl did. Maybe she's Victorian, they very American like down there.

[@alanwilliams2284]

Sometimes yes, because of severe/strong pronunciation, wrong pronunciation: most Americans use a quite wrong pronunciation of Iraq, also Vietnam. Also many Americans talk very loudly, also abrupt, also with no respect to wait a moment until the other speaker(s) have completed their comment. Also no respect for local officials (the American yelling at immigration/passport officials with comments like 'where's the passprt line for American citizens? When in fact this pretty much doesn't exist. Also get in a taxi and instantly ask the driver 'where can I buy a crocodile skin handbag less then 6 inches long and with 4 internal pockets, and made on a Friday morning and not more the $10-?' No wait to see if the drive speaks English, lack of any consideration that maybe it's considered sacrilage or illegal to kill crocodiles and no understanding that maybe in that country people use metric not imperial measurements, and expectation that the driver will know what $10- is equal to in the local currency?

[@mylearningjournal7188]

If I were her, I would definitely know who was from UK because she said "CRISPS". But it's really hard to differentiate American accent from Canadian accent.

[@anndeecosita3586]

I don’t think she had ever heard the word crips before. TBH The UK lady was obviously not from the USA from the moment she opened her mouth.

[@mylearningjournal7188]

@H Thanks

[@StranieroPL]

Niki is so, sooo sweet 😍

[@gxh9061]

Actually if I am right the second language in Australia is Mandarin

[@toubeelo1979]

They should've gotten an american with a heavy NY accent.

[@forksandspoons7272]

LOL! I've encountered the confusion of chips/fries/crisps with online friends in other countries. It's best to use pictures in my experience. 👍

[@lordm4686]

make a video between german🇩🇪 vs swiss german🇨🇭vs austrian german🇦🇹. please

[@martthesling]

Why?

[@joshuddin897]

@@martthesling pourquoi pas?

[@joshuddin897]

Gute idee.