I Was Blown Away by These American Accents

[@Lina_unchained]

12:25 The girl singing said "I got a pig at home in a pen and corn to feed him on, all I need is a pretty lil girl to feed him when I'm gone" 😂😂😂 Even though I'm from Boston, my late partner was from the south so I can pick up on various different southern accents pretty well.

[@european-reacts]

oh wow, ty

[@putteslaintxtbks5166]

While in the Marines, I had a friend from Boston and he had a strong Boston accent. I always liked hearing him talk. It took some time to realize that he didn't use R's. I had him say Car Park a few times and that was were I finally got the missing R's.

[@2009kygal]

The Creole accent is the hardest because of the French roots. It's in Louisiana.

[@2009kygal]

There's Trae Crowder. He's from Tennessee. He is the Liberal Redneck. He's funny, but a little profane. You can tell he's highly intelligent and educated because of all the topical humor in his routine.

[@Lina_unchained]

@@putteslaintxtbks5166 I never realized I had an accent (a lot of my family has a much thicker accent than I do) until I moved out of the region and people kept asking me to repeat things or trying imitate my accent 🤣 My late partner Christopher and I made such a pair because he had a barely understandable southern accent and it was hard for people to understand my Boston accent too. We ended up where our way of talking got so mixed up he would say very Boston phrases with a thick drawl but also missing Rs and I would say southern phrases like I was in a Mark Wahlberg movie 🤣🤣

[@bbsbmi]

The number one hardest accent for me to understand is Cajun accent. Deep Louisiana

[@darcyjorgensen5808]

Yes, they pronounce “oil” as “earl” and “oysters” as “ersters”.

[@TamiRuiz-vs2qk]

Me to swamp people need sub titles

[@dotsie]

Hardest for me is Ocracoke. That language feels like they wrote a word on paper, crumpled it, and then tried to read it. Of course, they misspelled the word too....

[@earlonaweary9155]

​@@dotsieWhere is that from?

[@aaronburdon221]

Yup. That was mine. my old sergeant major was straight up from DEEP louisiana when I was in ROTC. I had to have him write a few things down because I had no clue what he said.

[@actmyage2149]

Years ago, we moved from Connecticut to Maryland. Our house was being built and the foreman (Billy Ray) was from West Virginia. My wife began talking to the man and he said, "Yalls ferners?" My wife said, "Excuse me?" and he repeated "Yalls ferners?" She said she didn't understand. He took out a piece of paper and wrote, "You all is foreigners?" She said "We're from Connecticut." He replied, "Yep, yalls ferners."

[@mels607]

definitely checks out for a West Virginian fella XD gotta love em

[@corinnem.239]

😂

[@42Ccastro]

🤣🤣🤣

[@jonadabtheunsightly]

Non-rhotic accents from the Northeast can sound foreign to people from rural rhotic areas who haven't traveled much. They tend to sound like Commonwealth accents (British, Australian, South African, etc.) to rhotic speakers, because the non-rhoticity stands out as the most noticeable feature of the accent (and apart from being non-rhotic, New England doesn't sound anything at all like Deep South, which is the best known American non-rhotic accent by a country mile). My mom used to attend YMCA pool-exercise classes, and there was another lady in the class who had moved here from Boston and had a very strong non-rhotic New England accent; one day when she was absent, somebody else who hadn't been in the class as long, asked her if she knew where "that foreign lady" was. My mom, who had enough prior exposure to know where that accent was from down to the city, thought it was hilarious (once she figured out who they meant) and has retold the story many times.

[@Xabraxas]

​@@jonadabtheunsightlyNutmeggers don't have non-rhotic accents though. You have to go farther north and east before people start dropping Rs.

[@FlyOverZone]

"southern accent" covers about 12 States. There are about 27 Southern dialects in the US

[@annadam]

I think there are way more than that. Accents and dialects can change from county to county in each of those states.

[@Broomer52]

my accent is all over the place, I was born in Indiana, half my family is from Kentucky, I was raised in Virginia. My accent is like a mood ring because that changes depending on how i feel. Sarcasm is usually met with a midwestern accent, Insulting people comes with a southern accent and my everyday voice is just the general accent

[@mrjaspersrevenge]

@@Broomer52 I was born in Ohio, raised in Indiana. My parents were from Newport and Foulmouth Ky. To this day people still ask where In Ky I am from. To make things funnier, my wife is from Switzerland and was taught British style English as a kid.

[@UncleTriangle]

True, Alabama has at least 4.

[@KittyDillion]

truth!! Finally, a person who understands, "southern" is extemely regional, and specialized per region.

[@MelAtlNP]

Just found your channel. I like your accent! I was born in Los Angeles, California. When I was 8 yo, my Mother moved us to a very rural area of Georgia. It took me a year before I could understand anything anyone was saying. It was like an entirely different country to me…and the kids told ME “you talk funny!” You are adorable! I’m subscribing! You’re going to do well on KZbin!

[@mawmawlisa]

lol 😂not surprised

[@nasserineD]

I'm from LA as well and live in NorCal, people here pointed out my accent within months that I didn't even know I had.

[@cmudd9788]

The hardest American accent to understand is the accent of a NASCAR driver being interviewed after he's won the race.

[@thesevendeadlysins578]

True. 😂

[@fandore12]

hahaha

[@LydiaKrow]

@@fandore12 Agreed!

[@millertime3864]

Car ran real good. Just not sure what I should do with my hands.

[@MaryBeth94]

💀💀💀💀

[@snowwhite5842]

I was talking with two Texans about their accents. The older slower speaking Texan said he couldn’t understand “that Northerner”. I reminded him, the other guy was also from Texas. “Yeah, northern Texas”.

[@aronicus.]

as a central texan this made me smile

[@Brin-en8bl]

As a Texan this made me laugh

[@jacquelinejohnson9447]

@snowwhite5842 as a displaced Texan, this made me howl with laughter. I really miss Texas and the Texan humor. 😅🤣😂😊

[@I_recommend_suicide]

He's right, though. North Texas and (for example) East Texas and South Texas/Valley are very different. T. Hill Country boy

[@rodolfosantiago1826]

As an old visitor in Texas I love their accents, but more the ones near the border with México.

[@kimricautumn6918]

You're correct that calling all of those "the southern accent" was a complete cop out.

[@justininnes6260]

As an American- I disagree saying it's a cop out. If someone is from Texas, Kentucky, West Virginia etc. I just call em all southern accents cuz thats what they are in general

[@kristinwright6632]

Agreed. Americans can all pick out a "southern" accent but where? I live in the PacNW and raised in New Mexico and while I can tell there are differences I have a hard time telling which region. I think I can get Louisiana, Texas, and Georgia but outside that? Maybe if you sounded just like Trae Crowder (which they did feature) I might get West Kentucky/East Tennessee but no guarantees. Well, no guarantees at all! I have about as much luck picking out UK accents if they aren't BBC or Edinburgh (and other Scots accents).

[@justininnes6260]

@kristinwright6632 That's because honestly, most ppl don't know what State someone else is from specifically based off accent, just region. It's a reach to expect someone from say, NY to distinguish a Tennessee accent from a Texas accent. The "cop out" comment is unrealistic in every day life

[@AM-jj3rj]

As a Southerner, I also say "it's a cop out." NC alone has 27 dialects. That are completely different then a Bama (Alabama) accent or anything you'd hear in FL. And I agree, it's due to the SIZE of the USA. Spain for example, has many variations of Spanish, many dialects. But is smaller in size then some USA States. In NC, people who are local to the mountains and outerbanks have their own words for things. Words not found in any other dialect of English. Really look at the size of UK. How many different dialects are there. If you compare that to the size of the USA. It's no wonder there are so many different ways to speak English. The cultures vary greatly as well.

[@kristinwright6632]

@@justininnes6260 you make an excellent point. I cannot tell except I know they are different.

[@deedavis1950]

Variations of you: “yuz,” you guys, “yuz guys” “yinz guys,” “you all,” “y’all,” “you unz” and the list goes on. I really enjoyed the content. And I’m so impressed by your accent! The way you say confused, and God, make me smile! That said (and coming from a person who speaks a total of one language), your English is outstanding.

[@terpcj]

Now you've hit the nail on the head why American's don't typically learn a lot of foreign languages...we use all of our language energy trying to just understand each other. (Kidding, not kidding.)

[@susantamas5400]

Never thought of it that way, but so true.

[@KuroChiShikaku]

That explains so very much

[@swordsmancs]

I may not know Spanish but I know roughly twenty different flavors of english

[@KittyDillion]

Valid point

[@forestevans5453]

Speak for yourself

[@craigorr9713]

I am an American who lived in The UK in the mid-1980s. I was travelling in the Highlands of Scotland and I had to translate between a New Yorker and a Highlander. They could not understand each other, but they could each understand me.

[@ellavader8262]

I translated for my southern born dad and his Scottish coworker once. English to English translators 👍

[@renaissanceman7145]

The only time I've ever heard English as a foreign language, I was talking with a Scott. I couldn't understand a word he said unless I was looking a his mouth. I'm from Georgia and I don't believe I have much of a Southern accent, especially compared to some of my relatives, though I'm sure some would disagree.

[@tunatuna711]

I had this play out at a Fortune 500 I used to work for. No one from the U.S. offices could understand the Dublin office, so the unfortunate Paris office employees (for whom English was a second language) had to translate everything the Irish said for our ears.

[@michaelmitchell6509]

My dad tells of an educational trip his company had put him in while working for an international company. They had him, a southwestern American, as well as people from Nigeria, Asia (can't remember exact country), and British guys there. My dad could understand everyone, but many could only understand him! 😂 He became the unofficial translator between their English accents!

[@debmuel]

I had a Scot visit us when I was teaching in China. I had to have one of my students translate. Felt like an idiot.

[@Malhaloc]

Yeah, they did us dirty for the southern accent. That's WAY too broad to just put under one label. There was a Tennessee or Kentucky accent, an Alabama one, a Georgia one, and a Louisiana one. You cannot just put all southern accents into one category like that. I've never even heard the last two! That was awesome!

[@yensia10]

Right, the first "Texas" accent was also a Louisiana accent. Though I suppose it could be someone who lives in Texas right near Louisiana.

[@patrickmahoney3172]

I agree with you, we Americans know there is an accent from each southern state, and even multiple accents within each state. But as a general rule we can say there is a "northern" accent and a "southern" accent that all Americans can identify more broadly. I can't tell a Tennessean accent from a Georgian accent, but the moment you start talking, I can say you are from the "south" just as you would immediately know I'm from the "north". I'm just saying they didn't necessarily "do you dirty", they can only fit so much in one video 🙂 And yes, this changes as you go farther west in the U.S., as that hard and fast rule doesn't quite apply in the same way. Either way, it's definitely fun and interesting to see just how many different accents there are in the U.S.

[@Wasthere73]

Same for California. Its not talked about a lot but there are many distinct accents here as well.

[@Malhaloc]

@@Wasthere73 That surfer accent do be iconic though lol

[@pplesforthis]

I felt the same way about them grouping Vermont, Maine and Rhode Island together. That was so odd -- they're so different, they don't belong in the same category.

[@annettejaymz5104]

You are so kind in your judgment!! I love hearing your opinions because they are not ever rude or disrespectful and that's so RARE and refreshing. Just loving you!

[@CelestialKitsune13]

Appalachian Kentuckian here! Those deep Appalachian accents are something you can only find in the backwoods and hollers. And I'm glad you think our accents is beautiful. 😉

[@bigalexg]

The Beverly Hilbillles (immensely popular 60's TV show) made not only all of Appalachia look like it had barely gotten out of the stone age but stereotyped the entire US South - that and countless TV shows that always had "red necks" and "good old boys" as fair game for ridicule. Sadly, there was some truth in it but still . . .for many Northerners the South was just the butt of jokes. (I'm from the former capital of the confederacy, LOL, and moved to Massachusetts for a few years.

[@CelestialKitsune13]

@bigalexg Yea, we get pretty stereotyped thanks to what people have seen on tv. But Appalachia is truly still a bit of a wild region of the United States. And the people who live here still seem to have some of that wild spirit in them. We're a tough lot. Lol

[@PsRohrbaugh]

​@@bigalexgMy grandparents loved Beverley Hillbillies called em "Real Americans"

[@timcarr6401]

@@bigalexg The Beverly Hillbillies were supposedly from the Ozarks which comes from the area of Southern Missouri, North Arkansas. and NE Oklahoma.

[@bigalexg]

@@timcarr6401 right you are. For some reason I thought Appalachia. It was my favorite show in the 60s'. Apparently "Hillbilly" refers to rural mountain people of the US primarily from Appalachia or the Ozarks, according to Chat GPT anyway. Makes sense the Clampits were further south and west since they were sitting on that Texas tea. I can't say I know a whole lot about Hillbillies but I suspect Appalachian and Ozarkian hill folk have a lot on common? Flatt and Scruggs - who performed the iconic theme song and appeared a few times in the show - were from Tennessee and NC area, closer to where I live in Virginia. Perhaps this is why I associated the show with Tenn.

[@bluemanbrad]

It’s awesome that a foreigner describes American accents as beautiful. Some of it becomes a bit blind to me, traveling over the states. Btw your accent is beautiful.

[@lindahandley5267]

Yes it is and I wonder if they have regional accents.

[@kellyrobinson1780]

He's being polite. He's calling every accent "beautiful" because he's a transplanted Russian and doesn't want to offend anyone.

[@CharliReef]

The hardest American accent to understand is definitely the commercial airplane pilot mumbling into the intercom

[@TX-WI]

😂❤😂❤

[@dany-lgoten2273]

😂

[@splehcar]

Nah, it's the drive through speaker.

[@DentZilber]

You've never heard the Swamps...

[@TX-WI]

@@splehcar 😂🤣😂

[@annettejaymz5104]

You're so much fun to watch and *hear*! Thank you for your kind words and real effort trying to guess the accent!!

[@klown83]

I used to be ashamed of having an Appalachian accent but the more I start talking to people online, the more I realize that people find the accent very comforting.

[@KatCaffeinated]

This is my favorite accent ❤

[@C.V._McCullar]

Appalachian for the most part is a corruption of Scottish- English. It was a common thread in southern language as people homesteaded the south and grew their holdings. At the time southern belles that were held so dear, were looked at by the English as more of an outlier like the cockney and not refined.

[@churlish_hoecake]

😊 ❤ It's amazing how connecting with other people in the world can help you correct your own self-perception.

[@nightraver56]

@@C.V._McCullar alot of Appalachian Mountains & region were settled by what the British derisively called at the time "Scotch-Irish" or modern is "Scots-Irish" essentially what the Norther Ireland LondonDerry or "Derry" dialect was 200 years ago is what turned into mountain Appalachian, both dialects forked & became similarly unintelligible to people not from there. West Virginia coal company towns apparently also tricked a bunch of Russian immigrants into free tickets to "Brooklyn" but where they arrived it was Brooklyn, West Virginia podunk company coal Town where the only work was coal mines & only houses were coal company owned & only food & tool shops were coal company owned, Russians are responsible for West Virginia's reputation for crazy loony people in that backwood towns, there is something different about West Virginia, just feels scary to be all alone in the backwoods with no phone reception you don't feel in Kentucky, maybe just me.

[@ohjenni3601]

@@KatCaffeinatedmine too! That and Louisiana Cajun/Creole. Oh so rich and beautiful

[@xenialafleur]

The first woman talking was doing a TV presenter accent. It's purposefully clear.

[@angie38]

She is/was a news anchor. Her name is Jeanette Reyes.

[@christinelangin7209]

She is a RIOT!!🤣🤣

[@raynathompson]

Well it just sounds like regular non-accented English to me. But I'm in the urban Midwest.

[@AfroKing.]

​@@raynathompson that's still an accent

[@dragons.universe]

Heyyy californian here. The accent they used for us is actually a valley girl/surfer accent, but while most of us have that vocal fry, most of us don’t actually talk like that until you get to LA

[@susansawyer2475]

Add to the Southern California (SoCal) sound is that Central and Northern California has a different sounding accent!

[@nxdboi]

Valley native here. People only sound like that in 70s movies. I've literally never spoken to anyone that sounded like that. The surfer accent might be somewhat correct, but it is actually more common amongst SoCal transplants trying to sound like surfers, and I'm not convinced that harsh valley girl accent was ever actually a thing.

[@maybebecca7513]

I’m native to so cal and who ever says supper? I mean besides my relatives from the Midwest?

[@piperhurtado4945]

I don’t talk like that and I’m from L.A.

[@maybebecca7513]

I’m not sure I have ever met someone that actually has a valley girl accent.

[@CutChemist4688]

Your knowledge of the states is pretty outstanding my friend. Much love from Florida

[@laurahemenway4608]

The absolute hardest accent is outerbanks off north Carolina. They have preserved 1600s England English. So bizarre! They're descended from sailers and pirates that colonized the islands and have been very isolated for several 100 years. Geechi and gullah are also tough. These are coastal south Carolina and incorporate several African tribal languages and coastal Indians. Tough, very tough.

[@tlew9429]

Cajun accents 😳😳😳😳

[@EdWatch-yx7hy]

As someone from the 🇧🇸 bahamas I find the geechie sound JUST like us, use the same words, but add some southern/NC words, and sounds. Like if u took a southerner and bahamian and merged them lol. Baltimore, Louisiana, Georgia.. hell no for me. 😂 like please open your mouth when you talk..accent is one thing..but we can't understand nothing if u don't open your mouth at all 😂 ❤❤❤

[@pretzelbomb6105]

Gullah is so unique among accents that interviews with speakers of it are subtitled _in the same language they're speaking_ .

[@robertireland4589]

Same thing Maryland's Eastern Shore where we have an island, Hoopers where the natives still speak Elizabethan English. Forget understanding it at all. I also believe Tangier island speaks on earlier English, possibly also Elizabethan. These languages harken back to the very early 1600s settling of the Chesapeake bay region. Most the shore and good part of native Marylanders are southern boys and we have even here on the Shore a colloquial language with interesting sayings and ways to pronounce words, tire is tar, sink is zinc, potatoes is taters, then there's "hope my die" a sort of oath, swearing what said is truthful, " hope my die, I she did". Always loved that one. The Shore until the construction of the two bay bridges was in 3 newspapers/magazines called a land time forgot in around 1898-1900. Life took a very slow pace and not until the 1970s did it really begin to open up. Now come to Germany and just in my area a 35mile ancient crater you start at one rim a d by the time you leave the opposite side you've experience at least 3 to 5 of the 75 dialects and even I couldn't understand half of them. Completely different language and words for same items. This is precisely why Germany has an official language, hessian, or high German hailing from the middle of the country.

[@alanjameson8664]

I once encountered a man with a vaguely British accent. It turned out that he came from an isolated area of North Carolina where many people (including slaves and criminals) escaped to because it was so rugged that no one would try to come after them.

[@Candee-Lee]

Enjoying your videos!! I'm a Cajun from the Deep South. I speak English, Cajun French, and Haitian Creole. I never thought I had an accent until I left my state and others would know where I'm from because of it. 😂

[@countrygirl5579]

I LOVE that accent!! ❤

[@KathyStrickland-nh9vx]

Raised my son on Grand Isle. Loved it

[@Candee-Lee]

@KathyStrickland-nh9vx That must have been amazing. We love Grand Isle, how did everyone make out with Hurricane Francine? Hope all is well. We would camp out on Elmer's Isle when I was younger. Such great memories.

[@KathyStrickland-nh9vx]

@@Candee-Lee That was in the 80s. Later moved to Slidell. It was the best place to raise my son. Things were much different then. Most of the people were native to the island. All our friends were Cajun natives. They were cliqueish but when you were in, you were in. My son was blue eyed and blonde hair and came home from school upset because he wasn't dark with dark eyes and hair. Hurricane Ida destroyed it. It will never be the same. Now it's like Florida, transplants, weekenders and tourists. My heart often goes back there. Glad you have fond memories of a very special place.

[@Candee-Lee]

@KathyStrickland-nh9vx Yes, many fond memories. Things change with time, it's up to us to keep the memories alive.

[@SeanMCannon]

I loved how the second example of “tech giants” then showing Apple HQ was used as an example of southern california. Most tech, including apple google facebook etc are in silicon valley, very much NORTHERN california

[@Kinikia95]

Stuff like you're saying right now is why people don't like Californians.

[@Coilylady]

They are just explaining the difference between Northern and Southern California. I’ve lived 30 years in each and it’s like night and day. The Bay Area is Hella different from the south dude! 😂I’m just saying…😊

[@lw6084]

14:00 “He didn’t say nothing. He just brought me the whole thing. I don’t eat much of that stuff. I had a little bit for supper, but the rest of it is going to go bad in there.” You are far easier to understand. Your English is outstanding. ❤️

[@BTinSF]

Mass-a-choo-sets . Once you get that, you'll be perfect.

[@jonadabtheunsightly]

That guy's speech was unclear for reasons that had nothing directly to do with accent. Sometimes old people tell so many pointless stories and get so used to everyone just smiling and nodding when they talk, that they stop bothering to enunciate anything clearly at all. I live in central Ohio, where the mainstream speech pattern is remarkably close to the "General American" from the beginning of the video, but I know a couple of old people here who talk like that. Nobody has any idea what words they're saying, and nobody cares either, because they're not actually communicating any important information. It's not an accent, they're just old mumbling yammerers.

[@CloverEleven]

The last bit is, "rest of it's gonna go bad if somebody don't eat it."

[@AxelFoleyDetroitLions]

Massa-Choo-Sets

[@BTinSF]

@@jonadabtheunsightly Yeah, at a young 79 my tolerance for those old codgers above 80 and their rambling is limited.

[@mbourque]

While the 'Southern' accent spans the Southern region of the US, there are 'sub-regions' of dialects that span about 200-300 miles only and change in the next 200-300 miles. These sub-regions are spotted all over the South, and can even be several in a single State...

[@corryburton9834]

I live in south alabama... I can barely understand southwest Mississippi Cajun lmao

[@AlexofZippo]

I was gonna say, that last man was closer to Louisiana than straight Texas. The Southern accent is a hydra, sometimes you meet some folks who last got news of the outside world in 1980 something and those fuckers have entire lexicons unique to them.

[@michaelsoper3610]

In fact, I would assume most Americans were, like myself, naming the states and regions from which each of the speakers hailed. Using such a broad term as 'southern' is simply impractical in most instances, when it is second nature to take the next step and identify the state/regional accent (what we would call the actual accent; 'southern' is like the catchall 'British', sub-divided into Irish, Scotch, English, etc). In the same way, natives often break down the New York accent into the clear differences between the accents of the borroughs that combine to make the city. Language has historically diverged based on geographic isolation, so one wonders if the current ease of communication will lead to a consolidation to fewer languages/accents or if digital isolation with like-minded people will accelerate development of new ones.

[@corryburton9834]

@@michaelsoper3610 the UK is smaller than what we call the south is a good example.....just for clearance....you can fit ALL OF THE UK 3 times in alaska

[@Ridley369]

Just from Maryland, to the Carolinas, you have more Southern accents than one could even comprehend.

[@knotwool]

My grandma had a Tennessee hillbilly accent until the day she died even though she moved to NY at age 14. It never faded & it was adorable.

[@sunshinenday3439]

My mother maintained her deep Appalachia accent this far no matter where she lived. She moved my youngest brother back near family and he picked up the accent after about a year.

[@richardbresden8474]

I love your attitude. You find beauty everywhere.

[@lorrainehirsch]

Even born Americans have trouble with other accents. We were in the South at a restaurant, and before we were led to our table, the hostess tried to say "We're having a special tonight: buy one, get one free." What she said was "Bow on, get on free." My husband was utterly confused and thought she was asking him to bow to her, so he gave her a deep bow from the waist. 😂

[@Heatherrenee424]

Omg were you in Alabama? 🤣🤣🤣

[@lorrainehirsch]

North Carolina!

[@jesslake7260]

When I was working in Kentucky, I dealt with a lot of people from Appalachia, and I really struggled to understand them. I had a woman say, very quickly, "Kinna geh a spry?" And when I didn't understand, she just started yelling, "A spry! A spry!" As though yelling it would help me understand. 😅 I had to get a coworker who was from Eastern KY to translate for me. She wanted a can of Sprite. 🤦

[@sunshinenday3439]

@@lorrainehirschI'm from Va we have a country accent but NC is a slower draw for sure.

[@joycewebster1060]

Laughed so hard, ya got my crying.

[@TheYates27]

I’m dying over his experience with the Pittsburgh accent. Pittsburgh area resident. Nothing funnier than watching outsiders try to understand Pittsburghese 😂😅

[@cjt-rex7852]

I'm married to a guy from Pittsburgh And listening to his family talk for the first few years. I had no clue what some of the words meant. I've since picked up on everything but I'm from Philadelphia which is the same state and I couldn't get it.

[@ValerieDee123]

His face said it all! Wish someone had said jumbo, nebby, sliberty!

[@bridgetn2575]

I didn’t even know Pittsburgh had its own accent until I met and married my husband! He is relatively accent-free, but his parents have the accent. And his uncles…man, when they’ve had a few drinks in them, I can barely understand them! 😄

[@TheYates27]

@@bridgetn2575 The standard Pittsburgh accent is actually what they modeled newscaster speak after. Pittsburgh accent is actually considered the most average accent in America because it’s the only one that uses things from every region, and is thus kind of understandable by everyone. However there’s everyone’s proper accent then there’s tbd street accent, or common vernacular. Thats where stuff starts getting crazy. Like standard Pitt or NYC is easy to understand. But pluck a blue collar person from either place then try to understand them 🤦‍♂️. Especially in Pittsburgh right. No one can ever identify my accent being from Northern WV except people from Ohio WV and Pa. And really only eastern Ohio and western Pa. Everyone else is always way off with me.

[@Bruhmandude]

​@TheYates27 from the same area as you I heard the burg accent and knew he had no shot

[@quinn1883]

That last accent was Tangier Island in the Chesapeake Bay. You can only get there by boat or plane.

[@lauraprince3854]

Tangier is supposedly the closest we can hear Elizabethean English spoken today anywhere, England included.

[@Healcraft]

ashamed I could actually understand it as I know alot of newfies (newfoundland canada) and it sounds kind of similar

[@a-damthemansixtynan4463]

Northern Neck babyyyy

[@jasonharvey4028]

I really loved this video! Open mouthed fascination for the most of it. You have yourself a new subscriber.

[@bbsbmi]

Boston is on Massachusetts. But Massachusetts is in the area of the United States called New England

[@BTinSF]

Which (New England) is part of the northeast.

[@NathanielDixon-em7qe]

It’s not Massachusetts, it’s massushets.

[@SeanWinters]

​@@NathanielDixon-em7qeMass of two shits

[@bunnyluv2535]

Home of the massholes..😂

[@lw5836]

I LOVED this video. As a SOUTHERNER I was in stitches seeing your reaction.

[@roberts.1050]

He really said, "Boston, this is a beautiful accent." I have now heard everything.

[@russbenner4872]

How many A's in the word Water ? WAAAAAAATER lol

[@rustydowd879]

I'm from CT and I can confirm the Boston and NY accents are both not beautiful. At all.

[@Kinikia95]

Quite possibly the most unpleasant accent in the world. I don't know how they stand one another.

[@melissasaint3283]

The man is being kind, my dudes. Let the man be gracious!

[@violetlove3580]

😂😂😂😂 right?? that and Pittsburg lolol even NY, yeah idk, all east coast accents are weird to me LULZZZZZ

[@Milehighssc5280]

As a non American your understanding of the dialects was impressive. As an English as a secondary/third language you did a phenomonal job

[@jjbud3124]

And Europeans say Americans are all alike. I'm happy to say I got all but a few of these accents. That's probably because of my profession of many years, listening to people from everywhere. What makes some of them hard is the speed with which they're talking.

[@BTinSF]

Exactly. I think I could understand all of them if they slowed down a bit. Also, in at least one case, I think the audio quality of the clip wasn't very good and the girl talking would have been easier to understand live.

[@sgtrosie7859]

There is also an American military accent, which has influences from Midwestern, Southern, African American from all kinds of regions. It's a pretty neutral American accent.

[@Taratreehugger]

Oh that’s really interesting.

[@SaanMigwell]

Yep, I'm PacNW after my time in the army I had incorporated words and grammar rules from all of the states. I'd say the military accent is a softened NE accent with a hint of the south and touch of Norcal. Y'all and finna are both common words in the military accent.

[@ai-aniverse]

Can attest to this.

[@houseofmargot2871]

you can tell someone in the US was/is in the military if they say *"Outstanding"* a lot.

[@ai-aniverse]

@@houseofmargot2871 lmao guilty

[@MaiTai16]

As a Marylander who struggles to understand people in my own state sometimes, I think you did a great job.

[@kickahaw]

Love what you are doing when you go through different states, you can learn to understand them in short time.

[@JIMBEARRI]

Andre, Boston IS in New England. There are six states in New England : Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont.

[@anniecammie]

My heart glowed with joy each time you pronounced Massachusetts. Lovely!!!

[@TimeToBreathe-ntmf]

Grew up in Alabama, south of the USA, we got more accents than ingredients in gumbo 😂 some of them I can't even understand. I did a travel contract in Minnesota, Midwest. Had a patient tell me he loved my accent and how he wished they had an accent😂 Buddy didnt even hear it

[@marsbase3729]

Yeah, it's funny how something you grow up with and seems so normal can be so different to others from different locations. I didn't realize I had an accent until I moved from Pittsburgh to Houston 😝

[@robynbumgardner959]

Six distinct differences in Virginia.

[@jeansteele7685]

@@TimeToBreathe-ntmf most people don't think they have an accent until they meet someone with an accent. Then you can tell the difference. Southern California having an accent is so funny to me. It's not an accent. It's the words people use. Standard American accent sound like my customer service voice. Lol 😂🤣

[@HosCreates]

@@jeansteele7685 ah yes.. the customer service voice 😂

[@ontxtteredwxngs]

Married to a Minnesotan man for 15 years and they don’t ever hear their accent in his family but point out my Texan accent a lot 😂

[@LijaMoore]

I think you're the perfect person to react to these videos! you're delightful and adorable! I'm originally from Pittsburgh. Never picked up the accent though. My mom was from New Jersey which has its own very distinctive accent, and yes, she was Italian. 😊 I moved to Philadelphia, which was also in Pennsylvania, and it had a different accent than both Pittsburgh and New Jersey. Now I live in SW Florida on the Gulf of Mexico. America is HUGE so there are accents and dialects within miles of each other! it never ends! Thank you for being so appreciative and trying to understand us! Keep up the good work, darling!

[@anangrytexan2244]

Texan here, there's regional accents here for sure. If you've lived here long enough you'll pick up on the differences in East Texas, Houston, South Texas, West Texas, The Heartland, DFW... they all sound a bit different and use different words. You'll be able to tell where people come from IN the state after long enough. I myself have a blend of East Texas and South Texas accents. I used to be ashamed of my accent when I moved up north. Yankees laughed at it. Now I'm prouder than hell of it. Keep up the great content friend! See y'all down the trail :).

[@CMeri-sl6bt]

Texas girl here. I've been watching a shit ton of videos to help with hiding my accent. 😂

[@ardentlions6636]

Dfw is not the heartland, that would be Waco, Tx called the heart of Texas, Dfw is considered North Texas.

[@anangrytexan2244]

@@ardentlions6636 My guy the Texas Education System failed you. There's a comma between The Heartland and DFW. A comma typically indicates a distinction between two things. Never said DFW was heartland. I know what the heartland is, I grew up an hour east of Waco.

[@rachelk4805]

Y'all are arguing about a lot of petty details lmao. Waco is part of DFW at this point, the metro absorbed it.

[@anangrytexan2244]

@@rachelk4805 You go sit your Yankee self down somewhere. Adults are talking.

[@LBmusiq]

Just a lil tip: One thing I hear from foreign English speakers is with “ed” at the end of words to show past tense like “ranked”, they say “rank-ed” but it’s pronounced “rankt”. It will really help to sound much more natural. Hope this helps.

[@YeshuaKingMessiah]

Oh try the iNG being spoken It’s ring-gin Ah’m speaking-gin Cookin-gin iz tah-oo harhhhhD (they emphasize final Ds too, in the South)

[@c.mcdermo]

In other words, the "E" is silent. Similarly, words ending with a G, they put way too much effort into a hard "guh" it should just more be a solid noise from your throat, push your tongue into the roof of your mouth and don't let out so much air

[@Woodman-Spare-that-tree]

None of them can pronounce “th” either. They say “d” or “t” instead .

[@Woodman-Spare-that-tree]

Except with words that end in T or D. Like “I posted a letter” or “He is wedded to his job as an engineer.”

[@YeshuaKingMessiah]

@@Woodman-Spare-that-tree it’s a hard sound unless it’s native to u But there are a hundred foreign language sounds English speakers can’t make either lol …think about those weird clicks the !Kung tribe makes…

[@stormeart]

I have worked in nationwide call centers for years. There are many difficult accents to interpret, even as a born American English speaker talking to another born American English speaker. Whereas, I have no trouble interpreting your accent.

[@terrylambert9787]

This is definitely a new flavor of entertainment. I'm enjoying it....... thank you from the oregon coast! You wanna hear some sh!t Go down in the deep south. You got to go way off the roads way back up in the bayou! I grew up on the second largest swamp in the United States, I'd have a pretty good idea. I've definitely had the pleasure to listen to a lot of Crazy slang. it's generally pretty comical!

[@jmatter7765]

You did a GREAT job! THANK YOU for showing appreciation for our Country!

[@StoneWolf99801]

LOVE your accent by the way! The Russian has always been one of my favorites, we have a lot of Russian speaking in southeast Alaska.... We have a few old Russian churches still from when Russia still owned Alaska.

[@NotAnnaJones]

Yep, lots of Russians in central Alaska as well 🙂

[@hopscotchc6n]

Watched this video as distraction from politics & enjoyed it very much. Being from the Midwest & never having traveled abroad, I'm dumbfounded to find the host's Russian accent easier to understand than most of the accents of people in the U.S., especially the South.

[@deedeeseecee9294]

I believe he is from Portugal but everyone says he sounds Russian.

[@nathanoliver4031]

⁠@@deedeeseecee9294lmao I’m in the comments because I thought he was Russian but the way he sings his words sometimes I now believe he is Portuguese 😂😂.

[@menotyou6868]

He sounds Russian (my husband is Ukrainian) so is he a Russian living in Portugal? Anyone know? Either way I love it! A comforting accent somehow.

[@aolsweetsew]

Your face during the southern accents was hysterical! Thank you for the laugh. Hey, I've been speaking American English my whole life and some of those accents I had no idea which region they were or what they were saying. So, you're doing fantastic!

[@Taratreehugger]

Right?

[@lenonkitchens7727]

@13:55 The old man said, "She didn't say nothing, she just brought it to me. A whole thing, and I don't eat much of that stuff. I eat a little bit for supper. Rest of that there gone go bad if somebody don't eat it."

[@jacquelinejohnson9447]

The old guy was fussing because someone brought him food that he doesnt care for and brought him this food for his dinner. But he brought too much and now the old man is fussing because the food will go bad before he can eat it all. He obviously hates waste and is upset over the fact that the food will go bad before he can finish it all. It's food he doesn't normally eat because he doesn't like it, and now he has too much food that he doesn't like that will go to waste. For old folks on a budget, this is a major irritation. Wasting money and food and putting him in obligation for food he didn't ask for, doesn't like, and now has to try and get rid of before it goes bad.

[@AlexofZippo]

And here I was thinking he was hungry and was saying he needed to eat before he started getting hangry. Well shit, yeah that’s some shit to put on an old man. Hope he got something straightened out.

[@noahtekulve2684]

Thanks for the translation

[@skadifrozenfury9266]

You’re adorable and I love the perspective of seeing a non-native American speaker react, i think it can help American travelers learn ways to adopt accents to ease communication barriers. As an American ex-pat living in Europe I find adopting the accent where i am and adjusting the way i pronounce letters helps.

[@beckishelton7155]

I’m impressed with you actually pronouncing Appalachian the correct way. Very nice. I live in the Smokey mountains of East Tennessee

[@gulfgal98]

YES! In these parts (East Tennessee/Western NC) we pronounce it Ap pa LATCH ia)

[@johnozols6325]

It was really fun to watch you trying to figure these out. You did good! And don't feel bad about not getting them all - some were very difficult. And some individuals I could hardly understand, myself!

[@annabeeee2093]

29:55 "well no, we didnt have no electricity, no (slip of the tongue here) running water, if there is we run it out of uh- got it out of the spring. but they eventually got electricity up through here." youre welcome 😂🧡

[@tiawarren5403]

Cajun accent around Louisiana area is the hardest for me as an American to understand! I am from the state of Washington ( Pacific Northwest, native to the state and foreigners I have met usually think I am British...lots of Washingtonians tell me that too, lol, to be fair..personal inflection on my words I suppose

[@loosilu]

It's because it's not just an accent, they are using a LOT of French Canadian words. I know because my late mother was from Quebec and that was my first language.

[@Rouxgarou96]

@@loosiluThat’s because we are French Canadian, our Acadian French ancestors were exiled from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick and moved to south Louisiana under Spanish rule. There they adopted the Creole culture and mixed it with their Acadian culture to create Cajun culture.

[@loosilu]

@@Rouxgarou96 I know!

[@NotAnnaJones]

It’s that Canadian creeping in… ya?

[@elouise5593]

Hey, fellow Washingtonian! Sometimes people around here accuse me of having an accent, and like you, I was born and raised here! I don't know what sort of accent they think it is. I think it's more that I grew up very shy and haven't gotten over that shyness mumble, especially when I am feeling shy. I have grown out of the shyness, mostly, though.

[@MollyPitcher1778]

I love all accents. It tells me how big and beautiful the world is. I was a little stumped on the Minnesota/Upper Peninsula accents because I'm smack dab in the middle and we have those too. Southern Wisconsin is more like the Chicago accent, and the further north west is the Scandinavian & Swiss, east is German, north is Native American/Canadian accents. It's a beautiful state too and you should come see it sometime. A long time ago our High School had a well loved geography teacher who traveled every summer with some of his best students. When asked what is the most beautiful place he'd been and would recommend to anyone, he said, Wisconsin. I agree.

[@jonathanbair523]

Duluth area I would say for the most beautiful in the lower 48... South Alaska tho is also amazing...

[@meanderingtenacity4683]

Before I comment on the different accents in America, I just have to say, I think your accent is quite beautiful. You have a very nice voice. Now, on to my particular dialect. I was born and raised the mountains of central California. My grandmother raised me and she was from Los Angeles. So I feel my accent is like hers. I have been told by people that I do have a very slight English accent that comes out when I’m tired, and that I articulate my words much more than most people. Now in a strange twist, my stepmother was born and raised in a suburb of Bakersfield called Oildale. A huge percentage of people from Oildale came from Oklahoma during the dust bowl (1930’s). She has a very “okie” accent. Very much like Oklahoma but more twangy. The rest of Bakersfield sounds pretty much like me with zero southern accent. I have to disagree with the Southern California accent the guy had on there. This is more a cultural thing that emerged during the 1980’s beach and “valley girl” time. Yes, I say dude, my kids do, almost everywhere in California says dude. The drawn out words again is like surfers and people who are stoned! If you would like any more information, just hit me up, I’ve lived all over California.

[@aaronburdon221]

Yea, that Cajun one is rough. I'm pretty good with accents but holy hell that one is tough to understand.

[@graveside_glitz1015]

😂 I love your shocked/focused/flabbergasted faces on some of the harder ones ❤

[@pjf2675]

Your ear for accents is wonderful. I'm from Chicago and i have a difficult time with some of those accents, and truth be told, a lot of southerners have some difficult times trying to understand my accent. Helpful tip: If you want to be able to ecognize a Minnesota accent, watch Fargo in english (maybe with subtitles) and you'll never forget a Minnesota accent. This was a fun video. Thank you.

[@carolgrosklags8933]

@@pjf2675 not all Minnesotans sound like the people in Fargo . I'm f you get far enough North they might sound like that

[@pjf2675]

@carolgrosklags8933 it's one of my favorite accents. 😍

[@ontxtteredwxngs]

@@carolgrosklags8933yeah I live in northern Minnesota and it’s pretty noticeable

[@carolgrosklags8933]

@ontxtteredwxngs I have a friend that used to live down here in Minneapolis and after she moved up there I could tell she had a different accent. She's in northern Minnesota

[@rockstarn77]

​@@carolgrosklags8933I don't know about that. I live right in the middle of Minnesota, like exact center of the state. Big tourist area. I worked in a hotel at the front desk for 10 years. I've heard a lot of accents. The Minnesota accent is hit or miss anywhere in the state. I've spoken to people from southern MN, Mpls/St. Paul/metro area, central MN and northern MN who all have the accent (some of the strongest I've heard were from people in the metro area) and also, many who don't. I often was asked over the phone while making reservations for people where I am from. When I told them Minnesota they were always surprised and would tell me that I had no accent at all. Guess I sound like the standard American voice. 🤷‍♀️

[@monicafiore20]

Im from Pittsburgh and we do in fact speak like that and we're very proud of it! We call ourselves Yinzers ❤

[@MMcCoy-yh4ho]

Pretty sure he said "I am reacting to FARTING american accents" @0:15

[@Seeräuberei]

Das exactly what he said

[@Doom_State]

13 farting

[@SKYLORD98]

I literally read this as he said it and now I can't hear it the correct way😂😂😂

[@jehovahs_thiccness.]

What is the correct way ​@@SKYLORD98

[@zrlansbery]

20:02 New England is the region containing Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts

[@randallsunderland4331]

Is PA New England?

[@abbywilson5988]

​@@randallsunderland4331no. Neither is New York.

[@randallsunderland4331]

@@abbywilson5988 Really? What defines New England then?

[@abbywilson5988]

@@randallsunderland4331 you responded to the comment that says what New England is...

[@randallsunderland4331]

@@abbywilson5988 never mind. I was asking from a cultural standpoint how it’s defined not by what states constitute New England, and why NY and PA aren’t a part of it but I’ll look it up.

[@Angel-2412]

I LOOOOOVE midwestern accents. Definitely all of the movies and shows I grew up watching

[@ASKSer79]

We hate it, we sound simple in Wisconsin

[@ontxtteredwxngs]

@@ASKSer79my favorite show is mst3k and the actors are from Minnesota and Wisconsin so I have a deep love for those accents. They calm me lol I’m Texan but live in Minnesota and married a Minnesota man ❤

[@GodSaveTheUnitedStates]

Glad to meet you brother. I love Portuguese content creators. Love reaction videos too. Greetings from lower Alabama (LA).

[@kburdett]

I’m from Tampa bay, Fl, I have a general American accent. However, my husband’s entire family has been in Georgia for generations, and I adore their slow drawl southern accent. It is so comforting.

[@DLiguori]

Southern Californians don’t use the word supper - that was a terrible impression. Yes, we say dude and bro more than most other places - when I was a kid those were exclusively so-cal words, but they’re pretty common everywhere now.

[@johntaylor7029]

And usually the vocal fry is rare and not super pronounced.

[@Kieselmeister]

​@@johntaylor7029the vocal fry is more of a Pacific Northwest thing. (An accent which historically sometimes also include adding in extra 'R's into words, like pronouncing "wash" as "warsh", though that has become rarer over time outside of rural areas of "Warshington" state.)

[@Just_Some_Guy_with_a_Smile]

Yeah, I was gonna say I have never heard anyone say supper. And I grew up in so-cal

[@ronnieking3848]

It was mostly "you guys" in California when I lived there...and back in Texas it's y'all. I felt well-traveled as a kid when using "you guys" as a gender neutral form of address in the 90's.

[@NBportofino]

Never supper. Ever

[@kelliefish6259]

Andre, 😂 "corn is the only word I understand " .😅

[@samwich9498]

Honestly, that's the only word I understood as well and I'm American lol

[@johnegan5967]

I'm from Boston with a slight Boston accent, and omg, I could barely understand the Foothill accent!

[@astra.nautica.]

Louisiana here! Loved the video, it was very fascinating and I learned so much, I haven't even heard some of those accents before! Really cool :)

[@CharbelLovesJesus]

Im also from Louisiana!

[@mikecarew8329]

I grew up in and around NYC and went to law school in Boston. I assure you, those accents are utterly and completely different. Your confusing Pittsburgh with Boston is proof that it is indeed hard for a non native speaker to pick up the differences in accents. Could see this when you reacted to the excellent Wired Tour of North American accents with the dialect coach. And yes this should prove to you that we will easily understand you with your accent when you eventually visit the US. Boston is in Massachusetts but Massachusetts is one of the 6 states that make up New England region: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.

[@emilyb5307]

New York City and Boston are definitely different - but for non-native speakers, it is definitely hard to tell and I can understand why. Both can sound sort of nasally or rough, both are influenced strongly by Irish and Italian roots, both can be non-rhotic, and if you try too hard to be Boston, you can bleed into a New York accent. It's the same reason that Maine accents and Rhode Island accents can be easily mistaken for Boston if you are not familiar. Seen that happen too!

[@JesusOurGoel]

True.

[@loosilu]

@@emilyb5307 Rhode Island accent cracks me up because it's half Boston and half NY!

[@girlinvt]

Yes they are different.

[@sagittarius420cheefie]

Yeah, Boston and Pittsburgh are quite different. Like you know how you can write out a word the way it sounds when you say it? Pittsburgh got words that I feel like you can't do that with.😂 Like when folks say "Downtown", it sounds like "Dinetine". No, wait more like "Dahntahn". Like you see what I mean. How would you spell that the way it sounds??😂😂

[@ShawnIndigo]

I love you my friend. I literally heard that Creole French speaking today in Michigan at a southern style restaurant for the first time. SAME DAY Later I watch you hear it for the firsttime as well. So cool!

[@Nzzertral]

I always loved when people from the UK get offended over American English even tho American English is closest to the original sound of English due to the British going out of their way to change how they speak so they can sound different from the Americans. So they no longer have anything that sounds like original English except some incredible rural parts

[@JohnFromSC]

I'm from South Carolina and we have several accents in the state. Growing up here you can tell whether someone is from a certain part of the state by how they talk.

[@ritayprice3510]

This South Carolinian agrees.

[@dolphinbear661]

Right? Low-country, foothills, there's at least 3-4 distinct accents in each southern state. Bless their hearts.

[@TinaD1110]

Former South Carolinian here. Gullah and Gicchi get my vote.

[@wolfsblade88]

Lived in SC and east NC. South of Columbia up to Virginia the culture is similar. Good folks. Very particular about their BBQ

[@Sydoku]

The Carolina’s have some of the most diverse dialects in the world

[@AreYouKittenMeRtNow]

The Minnesotan accent had me screaming 🤣🤣 I’m from a big Swedish family, some family in New England some in Minnesota… our reunions are hilarious! Only thing that needed was a few “Uff-Da”s. Lord this just had me cackling, thanks for the entertainment!

[@cplmpcocptcl6306]

EXCEPT…I only know of actors playing a Minnesotan talking like that. But yeah we do say Oof da….you betcha…etc…

[@nathanhall9177]

My wife is from Dallas I’m from Austin. She’s got a real hard twang where’s I’ve got a slow roll.

[@TeagueisTrash]

Boston and New York is sort of similar, because they’re both New England. But New York is more Italian and Jewish while Boston is more Irish

[@Linda-jn9gk]

Don't let it get you down, I have lived here all my life (74 years) and I missed most of them.

[@ascendingkral]

I just love your reactions to the various American accents. Thank you for sharing.

[@ricklanders9951]

I am from Alabama and when I was in Europe years back, people thought I was from South Africa or maybe Australia as that is how my accent sounded to them.

[@mels607]

I can see how it might be mistaken for Australian, their accent always felt like the "southern" version of British English to me lol

[@KuroChiShikaku]

I can see it, if the lads over at HowRediculous are anything to go by for the Australian accent

[@loosilu]

I'm from NY and Boston. The Alabama accent to me is the funniest shit I ever heard! love it!

[@armankaunradt6310]

As an American I will say, this video is f**king awesome.

[@terrencemgentry]

I hate when people act like there's only one southern accent. The south is the most diverse region in America

[@kilroy2517]

LOL, "The south is a very diverse region in America." There, fixed that for ya. As usual, southerners thinking they're exceptional.

[@minecraftfox4384]

​@@kilroy2517 no, it is the most diverse. Ethnically we're not homogeneous like the Northern and Western parts.

[@kilroy2517]

@@minecraftfox4384 nothing i can say would change your mind. you just keep believing that.

[@minecraftfox4384]

@@kilroy2517 yeah, because nothing you say is factual. While everything I've said is backed up by data.

[@cmykat7839]

@@minecraftfox4384 Cite your sources

[@blueskieskoda2833]

I got a giggle outta all that. I swear people keep thinking we speak English, sorry we speak American. Trust me it is different. lol

[@summerohara554]

It used to be English lol

[@blueskieskoda2833]

@@summerohara554 Absolutely, I guess things just change.☺

[@pennydink72]

👍🏽 that's RIIIIIIIIGHT!

[@grenadier4702]

American English and British English. That's it

[@mayathedreamgirl1357]

@@grenadier4702ever heard of a joke?

[@supersolomob422]

14:00 “She didn’t say nothing, she brought- sent me a whole thing I don’t eat much that stuff. Ate little bit for supper. But that there might go bad if someone don’t eat.” this is half of the customers that I serve where I work. My family originated only 150 miles from where we live in West Virginia, but the accent is so different. I know West Virginia isn’t on the map in the video, but trust me, it’s definitely another dialect

[@Varying5]

From the coast of NC and I think Cajun is by far the hardest.

[@BlastedKat]

Im from the deep South. Back in the 80's I went on a hunting trip up North. We went out to a bar\comedy club one night. Though out the entire night we had people just coming up to us saying please just talk to us. The people were just amazed. Lol The owner of the club wouldn't let us pay our tab and said everything was on the house if we came back the next night. We did and had a blast. All due to our deep Southern accent.

[@ai-aniverse]

hardest for me was keepin up with yall from the South when I hit boot camp lmao

[@bayoulafourche]

I'm from south Louisiana, bootcamp was torture for me.

[@savemars4383]

I went to Fort Jackson for my boot camp. Came back with an accent.

[@warren7647]

You're the one that didn't know what a gully washer was.

[@Harry_Stylus]

On the first accent- I am from Akron, Ohio and they teach broadcasters to speak like us because it is the most clear pronounciation of English in America. I think this is because our region was made up of German, Swiss, and Alsatians who gradually began to speak English over time. It is the least "English" of all English accents in America, so to speak. This is a dialect of people consciously focusing on clarity. That's why many English people seem to find it so foreign imo. It is maybe closer to German than English?

[@Houshalter]

There were a lot of Americans from the original 13 colonies moving West when those areas were settled. I think all of the mixing together averaged out the regional variations.

[@elouise5593]

We speak like that here in Washington state, also.

[@hugogirardisking]

Glad to see Pittsburgh on this list. I can't tell you how happy I am to hear you call it beautiful.

[@chrispmar]

Great video! I love your reactions and the kindness and humility (of admitting you don't understand an accent).

[@k_469]

The old man clip @ 13:59 is made harder to understand by the fact that the clip starts while he is ending a story it seems - so context clues are just impossible. For anyone interested the man is saying: "She didn't say nothing, she just brought me a whole thing - and I don't eat much of that stuff. I ate a little bit for supper but the rest of that in there is gonna go bad if somebody don't eat." -source: born in the south.

[@Greg_Andrews]

Well said.

[@monicacollins8289]

THANK YOU!

[@TriciaStewart84]

That old man is just precious! I caught the gist of what he said (about 94%) and thanks to your translation, I pieced it all together.

[@cyirvine6300]

I think you've done VERY WELL with these! I lived in Los Angeles most of my life. When we looked for our 1st home we went to a nearby valley that was only agricultural. They started growing houses for cheap and brought in a lot of angelinos. Their accent was very southern, Tennessee like, but 40 yrs later is almost gone now. In Europe you'd have different languages not just accents!

[@250511B]

You warmed my heart. I was born and raised on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. I have family that talk with that Brogue. ❤

[@dtshifter]

Listen to Pennsylvania Dutch English accent. The Pennsylvania Dutch are people that moved from Germany and Austria in the 1700's and 1800's for religious freedom. They continued speaking low German in their communities and have their own accent when speaking English. My Mother was Pennsylvania Dutch and I grew up listening to this accent from her side of the family.

[@HeatherG-qg5px]

Ooh, have you ever heard a dutchy drunk? Woo-hoo fun😂

[@2009kygal]

I speak Engkish and Hillbilly with a northeastern Kentucky twang.

[@myratrent4942]

so like hillbilly and redneck. for example mayonnaise really mean mayonnaise a whole lot of people here today

[@colinedmunds2238]

@7:26 to pit it in a European perspective, Texas is just a little bigger than France. Lots of room for variation

[@chriskelly9476]

It's not necessarily to do with the size of the state. Western Australia (which is also a state) is four times the size of Texas and we all sound pretty much the same. Texas has 10 times the population and has been 'settled' a lot longer than W.A so accents have had more time to develop.

[@colinedmunds2238]

@chriskelly9476 thats true. Time and separation are crucial to develop divergent accents

[@anyascelticcreations]

Don't feel bad. I've lived here in the US for all 50 years of my life. And I couldn't understand most of this either. When I first moved from Kansas to Wisconsin as a child I couldn't understand a word most people said. Then as an adult I moved from Wisconsin to southern Texas and again I had a hard time understanding the people there. Texas to Arkansas was a much easier adjustment for me because I had already been in the South for a number of years by then. I'm thankful for my time in Texas first, though, because small town Arkansas can be difficult sometimes. I never have adjusted to African American English, though. An African American neighbor and I have to have another neighbor there to translate for us because neither of us understands the other. People have asked me for most of my life where I am from because of my accent. I thought I just had a normal American accent. But I guess not. I would actually really love to talk with a linguist someday so they could tell me where they think my accent is from. Oh, and I find your accent easy to understand. Far easier than most of what we heard in this video today.