How to Speak with Different American Accents 🇺🇸

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Let's explore some of the different accents you may hear when visiting or living in the US. I'll talk a little about what's happening with each accent, provide you with some examples, and hopefully this will give you a better understanding as to why these well-known accents sound the way they do.
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0:00 Intro to American Accents
1:09 New York Accent
3:54 Boston Accent
6:04 Southern Drawl
7:30 Southern Twang
8:50 Minnesota Accent
9:56 California (Valley) Accent
12:19 Speaking Course Announcement
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[@edwardamosbrandwein3583]

Is the "dark l" pronounced only at the end of words as it is in British English?

[@edwardamosbrandwein3583]

Pronouncing /e/ like a short /i/ is also typical of New Zealand English

[@xapaga1]

I'm struck by the lack of regional varieties in American English (AmE) to the degree of linguistic poverty, uniformity and dreariness. I find the USA much less diverse than the Americans think despite their ethnic salad bowl.

[@anthonyz7023]

Where in the Bay Area are ya from? Did you take the AC transit buses ?

[@j.goggels9115]

_Dropping_ the "R" and using long vowels... Haha! In the UK standard, you _add_ "R"s, in Cornwall and Ireland. That's why I am watching your video. I can easily spot if a British person comes from Yorkshire, South Wales, Liverpool or East-London but with America, outside of Forest Gump's Old South, I am at a complete loss.

[@erikschmitz1841]

I am originally from Minnesota, and we would never say "put the soda in the bag". We would say "put the pop in the bag".

[@timmy334]

I spent a year in Minnesota after high school. It's a completely different dialect from here in Alabama. I loved it though.

[@rosemarystrobel3437]

No soda here. It's pop once you cross the St. Croix from Wisconsin.

[@jenniferpearce1052]

And it's pronounced "pap", not "pop".

[@shw_1957]

You betcha!

[@carmensandiego3691]

We say pop in Canada too eh!

[@jeanhowell9353]

The southern drawl is varied. People from TN have a distinctive sound as does SC and LA. There is no pure “southern accent” very different from state to state. It’s wonderful.

[@Harrison.DuRant]

I'm from SC and have people ask me, "Where are you from?" who are also from SC. I think I sound like everyone else in the south, but my accent is pretty thick. It's still not even close to the top end of the spectrum though. It's always fun when you travel out west or up north and everyone asks you, "Say y'all!" and you just say, "y'all..." then they think it's the greatest thing ever.

[@johnbaugh1122]

For sure. I live in Arkansas and the accent here is completely different from GA/SC. Love a proper southern accent.

[@ChristopherMHeaps]

I wish anyone not from the South could understand this.

[@solomonrivers5639]

“Hell on Wheels” killed me because Anson Mount is clearly from Tennessee but his character was from Mississippi

[@botsareeverywhere]

In SC different towns/areas have different drawls, I lived there for 9 years but it took me about 3 years to tell which area people were from

[@GGdeTOURS37]

Strangely as French, many times I don't ear the difference, even way you say it! But I noticed that in the opposite way: We were explaining the different French accents to American friends but they didn"t catch it, even when we were giving examples! It's something very difficult for the foreigner to ear!

[@dianaantonova1196]

Yeah! For me , as Ukrainian learner, it`s also very difficult to hear some differencies, even when he accentuate them (especially with New York accent and its "l" becoming "w" - i can't catch it anyway!

[@masond7573]

I think that's typical if you're listening to a language that isn't your mother tongue. I didn't notice a difference between French spoken in Paris vs French spoken in Montréal

[@dennisdonoghue9202]

Of course. If that is not your native tongue, its not noticeable. As a French person, you don't notice other French people sounding different than the region you are from? I have always heard the way people speak has something to do with cliamte

[@robertwoodrow9650]

That would be > "Hear" the difference!

[@excancerpoik]

Yeah it's the same with swedish move a few km and its basically another language but people say it all sounds the same

[@cracklasco]

Californian here. I was thinking, “isn’t this guys regular voice the Californian accent?” You made me realize things I’ve never payed attention to in my life, I was cracking up thinking “THAT IS HOW WE TALK, MY GOD!”

[@joseitsme]

Here in California, we have several different accents. Not only the SF Valley accent, but the "surfer" accent and the Chicano accent.

[@mszafran51]

Yo dude, like, what’s happening man?! 🤣🤣🤣

[@Dre_Key]

yep there are several, probably not enough time to cover them all in this video, and it depends on where you are.

[@ZackfromNoHo]

The "Val" accent is not real common anymore, even here in the 818 (the telephone area code for the Valley). I listened to the video to find out what he considered to be the California accent. I always thought of the CA accent as being more or less the standard U.S. accent because we have people from all over living here so we get a mixture. My own accent is closer to "surfer dude" but with a mixture of New England (my mom was from Boston) and Texan (I have friends and spent time there before the pandemic). Y'all pahk the cah ovuh theah...

[@shaunsteele6926]

valley/surfer/stoner accents are all pretty much the same. I'm not any of those things but I still sort of speak that way from growing up in SoCal

[@shaunsteele6926]

@@ZackfromNoHo probably because the "valley accent" was exploited in the 1980s making them all self conscious of it lol

[@AlgaeEater09]

You can DEFINITELY hear how the New York accent originated from the British accent. It's got so many similarities.

[@obaidulhaque7687]

YEA ,, VERY FIRST I NOTICE 😂😂

[@wezzuh2482]

English itself is from Britain so that doesn't make much sense. If what you are referring to is the "rhotacism", that is the fact that both the British and New Yorkers don't pronounce r's in final positions, then that is actually a change not a preservation. Most varieties of American English, including standard American articulates the r's, but that is a preservation from an earlier form of English. It was British and New England varieties that stopped pronouncing them.

[@wezzuh2482]

@@skidder67 The modern variety of English that most closely resembles Early Modern pronunciation is Dublin English, not Southern American.

[@scrambler69-xk3kv]

Hate the no letter R New York accent. That is why I love the mute button on my tv if I hear it I can just hit the Shut up button.

[@bchristian85]

Partially true. Because Hollywood typically gives characters modern British accents for films set in the colonial era, people assume that American English slowly over time diverged from British English, but it was more the other way around, with what we now think of as British English (the Received Pronunciation) taking hold in Britain in the 19th century. However, the accent was still more neutral than a modern Southern drawl.

[@bloxoss]

As an American, there are definitely more variations of dialects, but you hit the big ones! I'm impressed :)

[@SophiesDriver]

Yes, he has a very thorough embrace of ridiculously stereotypical speech patterns assigned to a variety of English Speaking US Americans

[@ExpTube1969]

The Valley accent is Hilarious.

[@lynnmcrae8655]

I agree with the comments that there are soooo many "American" accents. It's nice to see the nuances analyzed and explained. I would also love to hear some excerpts from native speakers included in the video.

[@bonnieb.8040]

Not only does the southern accent vary from state to state, it varies in each state. For example, the accent in East Tennessee is different from Middle Tennessee.

[@familysystem]

I swear, those people in the mountains in east tennessee have a whole nother language to the people in west tn where I’m from! They’ve got a beautiful sound over there.

[@MeadeSkeltonMusic]

Virginia has many different ones too. In SW VA they are very different from Tidewater.

[@BarryBishop]

Native Texan here and I've noticed that Texas has at least 4 different regional accents: East Texas has a nasal twang, West Texas and Panhandle (but not El Paso) a drawl (esp. noticiable in the L's and R's) South Texas with its Spanish influenced English., Central and rural areas with a general southern accent and all regions with unique Texas lexicon.

[@Ethan-fh9lq]

Tennessee is really three small states lumped together. Historically East Tennessee was very distinct geographically, economically, politically from the rest of the state. It was for instance one of the only areas that resisted confederate rule during the Civil War- East Tennesseeans voted overwhelmingly against secession even after the attack on Sumpter, and after the war broke out it became a hot bed for Union sympathizing guerrillas and saboteurs. It was also one of the only parts of the South where Republicans had a chance at local elections during most of the century after the civil war. Of course the mountainous valleys of East Tennessee tend to produce pretty different social patterns than West Tennessee’s Mississippi plantation lands.

[@Cxrsxn999]

I live in East Tennessee and people say I sound like I’m from Alabama or Texas

[@Sal.K--BC]

The overuse of 'like' has spread to the speech of young people in many places, including parts of Canada. Also, 'no worries' has spread far from Australia. When I was a kid, no Canadian would have ever said 'no worries,' but now it's very common.

[@broodge45]

Or 'no problem' … and why does every sentence now start with "So..."

[@zhangshawn2357]

That’s true, Australian teenagers use a lot “like” as well, almost in every sentences

[@psychescope239]

Hell, even in places across the globe you can hear teens mimicking this mannerism. I live in Poland and in the past few years the conjunction "jakby" (a literal translation of "like") has come to be used in exactly this way, despite it being, in many cases, semantically incorrect.

[@xapaga1]

@@psychescope239 The same applies here in Japan. Young people tend to use the filler, "mitaina" when it's absolutely unnecessary to use it. Whether it's an influence from Hollywood movies, I really don't know.

[@SirakawaHaruka]

That’s because young people today are so stupid that they will lose the train of thought while talking if they don’t use “like” all the times.

[@dablaqueguy]

I'm a black guy from the Chicago area, who's parents are from southern Georgia. I've noticed the way I speak has a mix of every accent it seems. When I was younger, I noticed how differently I sounded from kids from wealthier neighborhoods, so I worked to pronounce words more clearly. Now i'm older, and not so concerned about how I sound, but I definitely slip into speaking similiar to whoever i'm around. I don't conciously know i'm doing it.

[@bigd2829]

Huh that is very interesting

[@Svince54]

You are not the only one. I have sometimes had to apologize to people whose accent I started using after I was talking to them for a few minutes. Most people don't notice or don't mind. We moved a lot when I was a kid. I think it developed as a defensive mechanism. I have one friend who does the same thing, but I am sure that most people just speak with the accent they learned first, and never developed a blending in skill.

[@jamesdeanharrelson9743]

i promise you no matter where you are from, once you come down south you’ll start saying “y’all”, its the best word ever

[@rbhughbanks]

People from Alabama don’t have an accent, but you did a great job explaining why the rest of the country talks so funny. 😊

[@nc3826]

denial, ya'll is not only a place in Egypt 😆

[@ChristopherMHeaps]

Alabama is an absolutely terrible place. So glad I never have to go back.

[@rmj7]

😂😂😂

[@rbhughbanks]

@@ChristopherMHeaps Mister, I thought everyone would understand that I was joking. My accent is thick and slow. Your comment about Alabama, on the other-hand, was just mean and hurtful. Shame on you.

[@DarthVantos]

@@rbhughbanks Im not from Alabama im from Maryland. But people i know from Alabama all say they are glad they left. What are yall doing down there?

[@whoahdudeman]

No native Minnesotan would EVER say, "put the soda in the bag." They would instead say, "Put the pop in the bag." Big difference.

[@anndeecosita3586]

My coworkers and I recently had lunch with a guy from Minnesota. I think he has been working to get rid of his accent but it slipped out when he said the word both. Sounded like boath. It was so cute. I love that accent. ❤

[@kevinthompson507]

I was out west with some coworkers and they said that I don’t have a Minnesota accent. Later in the evening after some drinks they said “oh there it is!” Another time people said I didn’t have an accent and then I got a phone call from my dad. I hung up and they were like, “what was that? You sounded like a different person on the phone with him.”

[@mrZanZibar777]

Also the sound in bag is more like ray, say, etc. The video presenter isn't emphasizing it enough.

[@bretlir]

Put the pahp in the bague

[@whoahdudeman]

@@bretlir Yes! You nailed it!

[@Twistaholic]

I grew up in California. It's important to note that the valley he is referring to is the San Fernando Valley, not the Central Valley. It's a suburb of Los Angeles. The word hella is more of a Nor-Cal thing and although it has migrated it's way down south it's not a part of the "typical" valley accent. Still loved hearing him do me though.

[@mikeluna2026]

Oh, good to know, thanks.

[@Eskey__]

A 100% true. I’m born and raised in Southern California and no one says hella down this way. That’s definitely a Northern California thing.

[@deanm375]

Totally accurate. Right? When I was a teen in the early 80's everything in SoCal was "bitchin' or Mega-Bitchin". Surfers might say something is "Tubular".

[@caccalot3637]

@@Eskey__you probably live in middle class or higher

[@tonyschmitz1997]

My wife and I are both from Nebraska. She had the standard American accent I had more of a rural western dialect/accent. After moving to eastern South Dakota she’s picked up the Minnesota accent yet mine hasn’t changed or it’s gotten to be more standard but not when we go back to my family ranch I fall right back into the old accent.

[@Jackjohnjay]

When I, a native Minnesotan, spent the summer in Maine as a teen, the locals gave me so much grief about how I said the word ‘bag’! They laughed so hard at us! Haha. That was 25 years ago and I couldn’t hear the difference at all! 😂 thank you for finally explaining it!

[@Jackal_Blitz]

I grew up in northern Iowa, and definitely heard people saying "bayg". It's way thicker than he does it in this video. Some people even try to work it into the word Chicaygo.

[@joeldowell5059]

Oh man, I'm a Wyomingite currently living in North Dakota and that was one of the first things I noticed when I got up here, the accent definitely threw me off for a second!

[@pizzaboisupreme]

I think it's more a Mid-West-in-General accent. From a Michigander who also says pop and bayg.

[@kmstins]

@Jewels...I will always remember the first time I visited my future in-laws in St. Paul. My fiance's mom told me to get her "a beg". I replied with "what?" She started flipping out and saying "a beg, a beg!". I stood there looking like a deer in headlights until she finally put the word paper in front of beg. 🤣💡🤗😉

[@tsoliot5913]

bieg

[@bobbynguyen9921]

10:46 this valley accent is a Southern California thing and “hella” is a Northern California (more specifically Bay Area) thing. You would not commonly hear someone speaking with that accent and saying the word hella. Before it was more popularized, the use of that word indicated which part of the state you were from.

[@rexx9496]

Hella spread to everywhere now.

[@voongnz]

Hella is in New Zealand now, and I didn't bring it back from my cousins in Northern CA.

[@FreedomLovin]

"Hella" actually originated in my home town of Hayward, an Oakland suburb. I hella used it as a kid but it seemed dumb when I got older.

[@RileySullivan]

“Hella” has definitely spread to Southern California too. Every time I hear someone say that, I ask “are you from the Bay Area?” And often times they say “no”.

[@leflores91]

Facts. I used to live in South Lake Tahoe. Yeah, that's further north. But, I picked up on certain things. I’m from NY, by the way.

[@marissa8776]

Being from California I can also tell you we tend to drop the “T” in words like Santa turns to sanna, Sacramento turns to sacramenno, mountain turns to mounin etc lol

[@freneticoddball2112]

I chuckled when you mentioned the Florida panhandle and Louisiana. I grew up in both states! When my son got into kindergarten, his teacher called me in for a conference to discuss his language skills. She was suggesting I put him in Speech Therapy because he wasn't speaking clearly at 5 years old (we had moved to the Pocono, PA area by then). I was infuriated! My son was incredibly verbal, highly communicative, and had a vast understanding of multi-syllabic words. So I stood my son in front of her and asked him some simple questions: 'What water falls from the sky" his answer ---> "Rain." (pronounced 'rane') "What sound does a telephone make?" -----> "Ring." (pronounced 'rayng [soft g]) "What color is grass? -----> "Green." (pronounced grayne) "What is bread made from?" -----> "Grain." ----Deep South takes most 'ee' sounds and pronounced them 'ay" as in 'hay'----- And when I showed him certain pictures? ----Ow-ell (Owl), tow-ell (towel), ow-er (hour), gray-ess (grass); you get the point. Simply and firmly stated, if she was to teach language arts, certainly she understood that children speak in different dialects. It was not her job to correct my son on the certain way he learned to speak growing up. We spoke proper English, no 'aint's' and "gunnas" (going to), we say "May I" and "Please" and "Thank You" and address all adults as Mr. or Miss/Mrs. She conceded. But we do say "Fixin' to"....

[@stuartm6069]

I completely understand your frustration with this. I'm 58 now, when I was about 8 we moved from Boston to eastern Ohio, My mother and I both had thick Brookline accents (think President John Kennedy's accent). I eventually had to go to speech classes to lose my accent because no one could understand what I was saying. I'm so sorry now that my accent is gone and replaced with the very plain Ohio accent.

[@sabinehalfhill4005]

I’m from Southern California. I do agree with the dialect being common amongst kids, but I feel like that was more common in the 90’s and early 2000’s. Also, you should cover the surfer accent which is another Calif classic 😂 there’s also spanglish, amongst others!

[@kiajulian4619]

I know everybody here still talks like that. And the surfer accent is pretty much the same as a valley accent... And you can't do Spanglish because then you're getting into the difference between how different races of people speak English in different states and that would take like all month. Lol

[@TheSnerggly]

Very true. My ex was a surfer, I could barely understand him sometimes.

[@jonathanaldana4941]

To me ppl from the OC have that typical surfer accent “Oohhh woah”

[@albertovaldivia6132]

@@kiajulian4619 surfer accent is very different from the valley accent he was explaining, surfer accent is a lot lazier and a longer stretch on vowels, like bro or dude and hella is specifically Bay Area dialect Another example of surfer dialect is dropping the t at the end of a word and replace it with a -d sound to make them flow better like “what’s up” = “wha(d) up”

[@yacobz]

I grew up in the San Fernando valley in the late 90s and 00s, and have never met a single person that spoke with that caricature of an accent. Aside from bilingual kids, I don't think we really had a discernable accent. If we do, it's definitely nothing like what everyone thinks "valley" sounds like.

[@Mahal.Kita_]

As a Texan I would say the main difference between southern drawl and twang is the drawl is slow and deep while with twange we speak a bit faster and slightly higher pitched. Another thing, drawl sounds a lot more southern while twang is less heavy but still very southern

[@gmichele4603]

As a Brit, I think the Texan accent/ southern drawl is the most attractive American accent by far: it’s really charming. Are there also big regional variations within Texas itself?

[@buddyunderwood5873]

im from the north of Louisiana where i'm from i'm from when i'm talking on the phone with family or talking to people i know not at school the country comes out. But when im at school i have a mix of the 2 one my friends heared the way i said ten it kinda sounded like tin

[@jumpinjee]

⁠@@gmichele4603 I’m from Texas. There are huge differences in Texas, not only regional but the difference between people in the city and just a few miles outside of the city are dramatic. Much like the differences between London proper and Cockney.

[@kevinwilkins7851]

In upper midwestern states all the way north to Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin there's a distinct twang and especially in the country. Am from Milwaukee and when I talk to my best bro from north of me in the country he has a pronounced twang.

[@citroen143]

You are the typical friendly American guy. God bless you! The way you pronounce English is breathtaking. You bring hope to all those foreigners who strive to learn your language🙂 I was impressed by your ability to reproduce so many accents, you are better than many actors. Thank you for helping us with English all over the world. Best Regards😃

[@InteractiveEng]

Thanks for commenting & checking out the lesson. 👍

[@user-ek3km5or1q]

Beautiful smile, too!

[@user-ek3km5or1q]

What's the name of the accent, where some people tack on, 'er' at the end of words that don't exist such as IDEA-ER, Linda becomes LINDER, Cuba becomes CUBER, etc.?

[@citroen143]

That much is true! A smile that kills (Harrison Ford), posh accent (Annette Bening), charming and amiable manners (Gary Cooper). Cutting remarks and puns (Bugs Bunny), at times despthicable (Duffy duck). But to get -got-got and stop disparaging Mr U's Reputation! No more cruelties against colour and behaviour! Signed: ye friendly neighbour a.k.a. The Merry Man. Shall I pass the fan-test or the ominous verb "to flunk" is downing on my endangered fate? Linguistically Yours 🙂@@user-ek3km5or1q

[@88KeysIdaho]

@@user-ek3km5or1q I think that has something to do with "Rhotic" accents. You piqued my curiosity, and I found this video for you: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y3SqeoaEmpl_qKs

[@user-bq7js2gy4x]

As a native Minnesotan, one would say, “up on the rouf”, or “up the crick without a paddle” and of course lasagna is that Italian “hot dish.”

[@zekharye1]

I grew up in Minnesota in the 1950s and 1960s. We didn’t say “soda” (except for “club soda”) - we said “pop” when referring to soft drinks. Pop came in bottles back then.

[@mike.b90210]

Exactly

[@juanguzmanhernandez7288]

That is right, I had a friend, elderly, he used to pop when referring to what we call soda, at first I did not understand but he was drinking a soda and I understood that context, have a great day

[@COlson-rh3dg]

Where I live we still call it 'pop'.

[@bchristian85]

And if you live in the South, it's all "Coke" whether it's Coca-Cola or not.

[@tomfields3682]

​@@bchristian85My friend from VA called it co-cola!

[@76bwjordan]

Being a native southern speaker that's lived around both the drawl and twangs, I would say the key difference between the two is more about pitch and tempo. An upbeat, nasal, quick "Hey, y'all" would be a good example of a twang, while a drawl would be a slower, deeper, breathy, sometimes almost throaty "howwwalllyalllldoin'?"

[@MeadeSkeltonMusic]

I say both, but there is kind of a light twang that isn't so hard on the ear. In parts of Appalachia.

[@DoctorSmartyPants]

And choice of words, right?

[@Minorcan123]

Nailed it!

[@NecroTV666]

I'm from NY and we don't speak that way.

[@alexanderboulton2123]

For the difference between twang and drawl, say “Hell yeah brother!” and then “Hwhell I do declare…”

[@jeanneprieto5219]

As a Californian, I think the use of “like” as a filler tends to lessen with age. I remember when I was in HS in the late 90s in the Bay Area, a teacher listening in on a conversation asked me if I was at all aware of how many “likes” I used. 😂😂 I don’t think I use “like” as much, as I used to, but I still do it quite a bit.😂

[@latetotheparty4785]

I’m 66 and was born and raised in NorCal. I say “ like” every sentence. However, I write without fillers.

[@theveryfirst]

I'm English. I love the US southern drawl accent. Beautiful.

[@ryanc970]

👍

[@brianmilosevic8400]

Sounds rednecky 😅

[@schs1977]

A common Southern phrase would be "Tell Momma an 'em I said Hey", which means "Tell your Momma and your family I said Hi".

[@My2up2downCastle]

Me too.... i'm from deepest darkest Buckinghamshire (England) and we have almost lost our country accent..... but i love the Southern US accent. There's a wonderful short video knocking about with a little Southern boy writing out his mum's shopping list..... stroh bearies, tayders, mo tayders, ayaggs,...so bloody cute!

[@lisaalinaaa7765]

I sometimes struggle with pronouncing the ‘r’ in words when talking in english, so it’s actually great to hear that you don’t really do that in NY or in the Boston dialect. Makes me way happier that I could sound like a local if I tried hard enough without having to struggle with the ‘r’!

[@greenmachine5600]

yea that is true. There are many non rhotic dialects/accent along the east coast, especially in the northeast. Not just the New York accent and Boston accent, but the New Jersey, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Maine, and New Hampshire accent too. There are some non rhotic accent in the south too. The traditional Georgia accent, Mississippi, and Louisiana accents are non rhotic.

[@Shoppinghappens]

Boston…where “car keys” sounds like something you wear. (Khakis)

[@Fummy007]

British English doesnt pronounce the "r" after a vowel too.

[@CreepersNeedHugs]

Go anywhere in the UK and it's the same thing. As​@@Shoppinghappens said, "car keys" sounds like, "khakis."

[@jordanashtonsmith5436]

@@Shoppinghappens cockies??? 😅😂

[@brianlabarthe8511]

Used to work at ValleyFair in MN, it's been over 10 years now, brought me back instantly. I miss people of MN, thanks so much for this video!

[@davidkasquare]

Wow. Just from the little you talked about and in the Minnesota accent, I can tell it’s an accent that’s been somewhat influenced by the Nordic languages, probably because of the huge amount of Swedes, Norwegians and Finns that moved there. I’m from Finland, and those sounds are really familiar to the English that people speak here.

[@broodge45]

The cadence as well...

[@davidkasquare]

@@broodge45 yes, agree

[@BaconDrive]

The Minnesota accent has a lot of crossover with Canada.

[@What_Makes_Climate_Tick]

I come from Minnesota, near the border with North Dakota. My mother was from a very small town where everyone was Norwegian, and some even third and fourth-generation Americans spoke it at home. While the pure o sound is true and highly stereotypical, I think the pure oo sound is even more characteristic. I now live in southeastern Michigan, and when people say "food", I hear it as being shaded by varying amounts toward "feud". My father is from a Nebraska community with a mix of Swedes and Germans, and this was true there too.

[@davidkasquare]

@@What_Makes_Climate_Tick … and you even have a Swedish name, Löfgren, Leave Branch, which is a typical Swedish name with two parts of nature combined. My actual surname is Forsberg, Stream Mountain. 😊 And yes, I do agree that it’s the vowels where the Scandinavian “ancestry” can be heard the most.

[@trapin68]

It’s not just the Minnesota accent, it’s prevalent through North Dakota, Wisconsin, and Michigan’s upper peninsula. I believe it’s actually called the Northern Accent.

[@tranquilized13]

It's the Canadian accent lol

[@hankamania]

@@tranquilized13 Except they punctuate with "ya?" rather than "eh?"

[@shionkreth7536]

@@tranquilized13 As a Canadian I had to rewatch that segment as I couldn't pick out 'what was different'. :D

[@anderander5662]

What I notice is the similarity to the Chicago accent where they say Chi KAAAH go and Minn e SOOOH tah

[@buckjones4901]

Yup people from the Upper Pennisula in Michigan have an accent (Yoopers) compared to lower Michigan. It is very close to Canadian accent.. aye... lol

[@stanstanly3812]

This was great! Being a Air Force brat I've grown up all over the place and I've heard all kinds of dialects of the english language. Spot on.

[@CrimsonRaven51]

Also with a New York accent is a hold over from Old English which is to add an “r” sound to words that end in “w” as in “I sore you yesterday,” for “I saw you yesterday.”

[@southpaw487]

I thought for sure he was going to do an over-exaggerated New York accent, but it was actually very good. I'm from Brooklyn and when my late husband would do a New York accent, I always had to tell him that, for most people, it was really more subtle than what he was doing.

[@justin_your_cousin9273]

Upstate NY doesn't sound like that

[@pamelamyers9613]

Massachusetts is the exaggerated accent. I like to listen to people talk in that state.

[@Stormento2]

@@justin_your_cousin9273 seems like he is doing a more southern ny accent in the video

[@its.kaylin.8807]

@@justin_your_cousin9273 bc nobody cares enough about upstate ny- its very forgetable for someone who isn't from NY/NJ.

[@justin_your_cousin9273]

@@its.kaylin.8807 NYC smells

[@kenstrauss5841]

I grew up in Long Beach New York . You described my accent pretty close BUT I can hear very distinct “ New York “ accents from Bronx, Yonkers, Brooklyn , and Jersey . All within a 30 mile radius of Manhattan !

[@paulbedichek5177]

The Bronx accent is from the Dutch,and has lasted all these years. Instead of the, they say duh, all the t's are d's.

[@AnvilMAn603]

theres no different accent for each of the boroughs of new york, thats down to racial accents like brooklyn italian and such.

[@LUIS-ox1bv]

@@paulbedichek5177 In Chicago they also use d in place of the t, and there was no large settlement of Dutch, or Dutch influence in Chicago.

[@tomfields3682]

​@@LUIS-ox1bvIt was the German settlers who brought that to Chicago. Germans speak Deutsch, which is often confused with Dutch.

[@MetroCollectablesandvlogs]

Yeah, def does not apply to Strong Island .

[@CamJam312]

The southern accent (SC native) has a wide variety that changes not only in just state to state, but also from county to county. A common word that I hear pronounced differently is "fire". Sometimes the "r" sound can be held in the back of the throat (popular in towns settled by Scots-Irish). Sometimes I hear folks dropping the "r" sound and putting more emphasis on the "i" sound. With the older folk, like my papa, I've heard it spoken as "far" with a drawn out "a" and a little lazy on the "r", subtle but still noticeable

[@stuartm6069]

Having lived in South Carolina for a number of years, the state is very interesting with it's accents. The coastal accent (which has similarities to the Boston accent only slower and more drawn out) is very different from the upstate accent which is closer to Appalachian hillbilly of eastern Tennessee and West Virginia.

[@eleriloki6275]

I grew up in NW Iowa, spent 14 yrs in Texas (and married a Texan), 20 yrs in East TN and now 6 yrs in WI. Luckily I mostly kept my Iowa accent (Standard American with flattened "a") but I do fall now and then into a weird southern drawl. Because of this locale diversity I have noticed a few things about the accents from the places I've lived. 1. Texans flip the short i and double ee sounds. Example, "I hurt my heel walking up that hill" would sound like "I hurt my hill walking up that heel." 2. Southerners tend to mush a whole sentence into one or two words. Example, "yontu" = do you want to. Or "fixin to" = getting ready to. And of course "y'all" = you all. However, there is a distinction some southerners have adopted. They will say "y'all" to refer to one person and "all y'all" to refer to a group. (I have since switched to "y'all" from the "you guys" I used to say in Iowa.) 3. Southerners will move vowels from one word to another. Example: "oil can" will sound like "ol cian (cyan)" - moving the "i" from oil to can. 4. Wisconsinites, even in southern WI, have a tendency to sound Canadian. They even say "eh". And "aboot".

[@RhiannonRaven]

I am from the UK and my uncle and aunty who are now in their 70's, emigrated to Boston when they were in their 20's. They have a really interesting accent which is a mixture of Welsh English and Boston, its really fascinating to listen to them talk when they come over. As a native UK English speaker I find it very hard to distinguish between the various American accents other than the New York and the Southern accents. Very informative video, thank you.

[@lisaroberts8556]

You may be referring to the American Trans Atlantic Accent. Look for American News reels of the 1920’s. Lots of News Broadcasters of the time. Almost all had that very distinct accent. Today the accent is near nonexistent.

[@dylanmurphy9389]

Same, they all sound the same to me

[@sonyavanwoerkom3108]

Where are you from? I'm hearing ta (to) and cer-in (certain) as you speak :)

[@michelleonardo4389]

As an English major, this is definitely one of my favorite topics. ❤️

[@InteractiveEng]

Glad you enjoy it! 😊

[@xapaga1]

In British English (BrE), "an English major" means a British Army officer with the NATO rank code of OF-4 below the rank of lieutenant colonel and above the rank of captain whose ethnic background lies in England. But in American English (AmE), it means a university/college student who studies (or reads in BrE) English and/or its related literature as his/her speciality (or specialty in AmE).

[@VivekPatel-ze6jy]

​@@xapaga1 I'm from England, but due to the amount of American media I see, my first thought was the 'studied English at uni' meaning

[@xapaga1]

@@VivekPatel-ze6jy As an Anglophile I find the situation quite deplorable. I feel as though I acted more in tune with the English than the real life Englishman.

[@SuperPhilthyrich]

Terms crack me up. I work for a major corporation in WA, and if I ever greeted a coworker with, “What can I do for you, baby?”, it’d likely be the beginning of the end of my career. But this is a totally acceptable and common greeting in the south.

[@alexisgreen-hernandez8604]

California here I am so surprised 😮 we have an accent. Wow!! you learn something new each day.

[@khadimgueye5015]

How dare you ignore this😅

[@choonblaze]

Not really an accent but a way of emphasizing words and vowels that other regions don't

[@Mark-sy2bx]

I'm from Minnesota, my daughter did not grow up there, but when in another country talking to an American she was asked if she's from Minnesota because of her accent. I wasn't aware we had one other than the stereotypes.

[@miadzag]

I'm from Detroit, and I went to the top of the mitten and got asked about my accent at a gas station. I was like "um, accent?" Apparently so 💁‍♀️

[@nickpaine]

"..top of the mitten". Wha...? The UP? Upper Peninsula ?

[@merricat3025]

​@Nick Cifuno you don't know the mitten?

[@miadzag]

@@nickpaine nooo lol the north part of the lower peninsula thats shaped like a mitten

[@sgtelias2258]

My company HQ's are based in MN and I think it really depends. I actually expected everyone to have a heavy MN accent but they don't. Those from up north have more distinct accents than those from Minneapolis. Also, the Wisconsin employees have a very noticeable accent... similar in many ways but slightly different.

[@daveymeshell6337]

I think that the hardest accent to replicate is the accent between Maryland and Philadelphia. It’s a mix of northern and southern. As well, it would be interesting to see a video about the connection between a Brooklyn accent, and a New Orleans accent.

[@jamesp13152]

Philadelphia here. Meeting people across America for the first time, some thought I was Southern, some Northern.😄. Philadelphia not only has a unique accent they also destroy the language. Hello=( Yo sup). How are you= (How yizz doin.) On and on 🤣

[@christopherfritz3840]

Isn't that the accent that Kate Winslet had to Master in that movie she played a detective?

[@jamesp13152]

@@christopherfritz3840 😀Yes. Water= wooter. Singular person is, yizz. Multiple people is, youze. How yizz doin Christofer?

[@GeoGuy388]

It's definitely a challenging accent. The actor Dominic West, who's from England, played the lead character on The Wire which was a police officer from Baltimore. West had so much trouble getting down the Baltimore accent that he and the producers agreed that he should just go with a "generic northeastern" accent. Very few of the actors on that show were able to speak with a Baltimore accent, and the ones who did were natives of the area in real life.

[@daveymeshell6337]

There’s definitely a connection between Baltimore and Philly as far as their accents go. In both places an “oa” sound seems to come out as an “ew” sound as in hoagie to hewgie and a Coke to a Cewk. The mixture of the northern and southern accent is the most interesting thing to me. It seems to be the epicenter where the north and south meet, long-term culturally, at least. Although, you find the same thing in a New Orleans accent. I grew up in Brooklyn and the New Orleans accent is the closest thing to a Brooklyn accent that I’ve heard. The Brooklyn accent really must “still” lean heavily on when Brooklyn was a part of Amsterdam. When I was in Amsterdam, the way they spoke English reminded me of NYC in general. “ee” sounds becoming “uh” sounds. Get the phone, get the door becoming get duh phone, get duh door.

[@brendanfarrow3674]

I'd say in Appalachian there's a lot of minor differences in grammar aswell. Like, instead of saying: "I can't wait to get one of those," I'd say, "I can't wait to get me one of them." Reflexives are super, super common, and "them" often replaces "those"

[@SandfordSmythe]

I worked with an Israeli who was fluent in 6 languages including English. We were interviewing someone from Appalachia, West Virginia. He looked at me helpless and said he couldn't understand what the man was saying.

[@c.chanelrienstraroman984]

I was born and raised in Minnesota, and I have to agree with what another gentleman pointed out, its pop in Minnesota. I have never heard the word soda in Minnesota.

[@Blue-jd8jf]

Californian accents are basically🐻 1)Californian TV broadcast English 📺🎙️📻 2)Valley girl 👱‍♀️🌄 3)Surfer, Skater, Val dude🏄🛹 4)Urbanite inner city dweller Latino👨🏽🛣️🌆 5)Urbanite inner city dweller black👨🏿🌉 🌃 6)Rural whites in Central California👨‍🌾🖼️🌽

[@diolaneiuma215]

There's a guy named Luke from my business class who is a stereotypical surfer dude with the thickest L.A. stoner DUUUUDE accent ever lol

[@babyvanderwoodsen]

you forgot gay

[@Blue-jd8jf]

​@@babyvanderwoodsenmost gays talk like blck women snapping their neck and fingers, other gays speak like Valley Girls

[@MaquiagemparaEles]

​@@Blue-jd8jf what is latino? Because u put a brown guy.

[@Blue-jd8jf]

@@MaquiagemparaEles the majority of latinos in California are Mestizos from Mexico and Central America. On average Mestizos are brown because they have Native American and Spanish ancestry

[@slippperss]

I was born in California and lived there for 9 years, but am now living in a different state and I just realized that I do have that Valley Californian accent. It’s barely noticeable since I’m so used to it, haha

[@Hazem-Gt]

I like how 'coffee' is spoken in a NY accent. Cwah'fee. Charming!

[@user-ob3kv8hj1z]

Cawfee period 😅

[@johnford1043]

As a Californian, I can tell you that your presentation is pretty good. The Valley accent used is a bit dated. The word emphasis is still used as well as accenting the first syllable of every word is still used. I think it comes from radio and TV announcement style of speaking.

[@tonyrodd6348]

I'm from the UK and my daughter says "like" all the time. Obviously picked it up from American dominated SM. Does my head in as we say here.

[@manontherails4937]

Californian and Angelino since 1960. The biggest difference between all the accents you listed and the Valley-Girl accent is, the Valley-Girl accent only spoken in a brief period of time; I think exclusively during the 80s. Not before or after like the New York, Southern, Minnesota, Boston or the Louisiana accent which are deep-rooted and have long time-span ethnic beginnings - and are still heard today. However, you are correct in stating that all these accents are very stereotypical.

[@brianarbenz1329]

"And I was like _oh my gawd"_ That's the middle and upper middle class suburban youth way of speaking during the satellite TV/Cable and early Internet era, that being the 1980s through mid-90s. Popular media became so ever present that accents became a matter of cultural identity, rather than geography.

[@BORN-to-Run]

Good Job. As a native Californian, I think our accent is a conglomeration of all other US accents, seeing that EVERYBODY and their uncle moved to California and pitched their accent into the fray.

[@eliteteamkiller319]

The L.A. stoner accent is unmistakable. I think it's actually a San Bernardino accent.

[@shaunsteele6926]

@@eliteteamkiller319 you mean the "valley girl" accent?

[@BORN-to-Run]

@H WHEN I was growing-up, "EVERYBODY'S" parents were from somewhere else. We children were born in California, but ALL OF OUR THE PARENTS were from other states; None of them were native Californians.

[@BORN-to-Run]

@@shaunsteele6926 The Valley girl accent is a "Southern" California "Upper Class" accent (not ghetto), that originated in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles.

[@BORN-to-Run]

@@eliteteamkiller319 Hmm, I need to hear that. I'm from southern California, and we don't hear ourselves as sounding different from others.

[@theophilhist6455]

What a great lesson. We have similar language interests! Having taught for nearly 40 years and having taught in New Hampshire, New Jersey, Virginia, Ohio and Michigan.... when ever people hear me speak they pickup on what I have adapted by long term exposure to hearing natives speaking their accents. I've used these in my teaching style on purpose and for fun. Interestingly for example Ohio ( O-hii ) has several accents within the state such as south-eastern has a West Virginia drawl and Appalachian vocab...and then west of I-75 there's some speak with Indiana and Kentucky-isms...northwest sometimes sounds like Michigan farmers (melk vs, milk)....and the Cleveland historic New England connection has some inflections that the "natives" don't know they have but an outsider from the northeast will notice. Fun stuff...thanks

[@ethandouro4334]

I'm a Brazilian and I got a mindblow by how new York accent is just like our Portuguese accent, we tend to make our Ls at the end of a syllable sound like /w/ too, that's why we say /brazew/ instead of /brazel/ like other languages

[@InteractiveEng]

Thanks for commenting & checking out the lesson. 👍

[@dustang5.O]

In the South we would say, “I can’t wait to git me one of them.” We substitute and use “them” instead of ever using “those.” Also, there are about 5 different ways to use “y’all.” It’s quite interesting how we’ve taken one slang word and given it 5 different ways of being used.

[@nissevelli]

Interesting watch. As a MN native, he got the long O’s and the “ayg” concepts correct, but the pronunciations were wrong. We hold the vowels much longer than the examples given here.

[@antoniotorres7822]

I'm just here to learn American slangs. Thank you, guys!! I'm learning English language. I'm from Monterrey, Mexico. Best regards!!

[@InteractiveEng]

Glad you enjoyed the lesson. Thanks for your comment. 😊

[@agoraphobicadam1171]

Loscientos mi Espanol no es buena. Dios teh bendiga mi amigo .

[@grimcity]

Antonio, if your writing is anything like the way you speak, then you are doing a great job!

[@paolopetrozzi2213]

This garbage is not English, is the garbage version of it, the one spoken in the U.S.

[@sahhull]

If I were you. I would wait until the Americans actually start speaking English. There is British English and incorrect English :-)

[@cristinaharrison8435]

Wonderful rendition of American accents.I am an Italian linguist teaching languages in Los Angeles and found your presentation very interesting! Well done!

[@teeechincx5607]

the over use of “like” is real. I feel so called out 😂 l never realized it

[@Lemoncatsf]

Grew up in a coastal, beach community in California but picked up a little of my mother’s Minnesota accent. I love all of the regional US accents but will never forget a childhood cross country trip and my SoCal raised father not being able to understand the clerks at a convenience store outside of Atlanta in the 80s 😂

[@Lil_Angry_Bitch]

I lived in California for 37 years, including in the San Fernando Valley and I only ever heard something resembling a "Valley" accent once, and it was from somebody who wasn't from California. The "Valley" accent is just a stereotype found in TV and Film. It may have been common in the 70s and 80s but it is now mostly extinct. Also the word "Hella" is commonly used in Northern California, like in the Bay Area, and isn't commonly used in Southern California, or in the San Fernando Valley, where the "Valley" accent originates.

[@ellalouise5152]

I am a Minnesotan and 2 months ago I went to California for a National Competition and this other high school kid who was from Ohio (we were all high schoolers) was purposely trying to find people with a Minnesotan accent. I made him very happy haha!

[@SHAWNTESH]

I think the Cockney accent sounds pretty cool. It sounds more down to earth.

[@marisajurgens3022]

Hi there, when I was an Au Pair in San Francisco people tried to figure out where I come from. Just from the accent they would say around Boston. In reality I am a German-Mexican who grew up in Germany parents talking English together. In German school we learned British English but my Mom's collegues were American Military. So with time my English became a British/English, lol. Cool content! Thank you for your great work.

[@jpadma9]

Awesome!! I lived in California, Michigan, NC, CO, and TX. I'm a Spanish speaker and now I'm a mix of accents!

[@InteractiveEng]

Very cool! Thanks for commenting & checking out the lesson. 👍

[@justincanter8037]

I recently moved to Alaska, from Northern California. One ove the most distinctive accents I have ever heard is the native Inuit accent…I’ve grown to like it…it’s similar to the native accents I heard in the south west, but distinctive in its own way

[@enischial965]

You did a pretty good job on us New Englanders. The only thing I will point out is packie s pronounced the same way as you would say pack, as in "pack your suitcase". Us and the New Yorkers are the only non-rhotic accents you will typically find in the US. The northeast is a bit of an outlier when it comes to the rule of American accents being rhotic.

[@sidimuslim9353]

Dropping the R is also called rhoticity. As a non-native speaker, I searched for a long time for the official word. But I always spoke and speak rhotic English, which is my natural way of speaking English. When I was in the US in 2015, some people even thought I was American. Thank you for this informative and beautiful video. Greetings from Austria

[@royjohnson465]

Yes, I know very well about Rhoticity in English. The “Rhotic” 👍 English dialect like you and me speak is the very best one and the most purest and accurate form of English. “But” the R dropping “Non-Rhotic” 👎 dialect is terribly incorrect and they slaughter the English language being very wrong.

[@sidimuslim9353]

@@royjohnson465 👍

[@charlesbullghost5491]

Actually American indian Indian reservation tribes in the US. Has there own different accents.

[@criiis]

you do a really good job at not over exaggerating the accents.

[@joemoore4027]

I served in the Navy on an aircraft carrier. The number of accents you would hear on board were from Maine to Guam. It was always a game to guess were some shipmate was from. It was endless. Being from New York I always lost.

[@davemiller6055]

I'm glad he mentioned dialect vs accent. Many videos like this don't mention that. Accent is how words are pronounced. Talk vs Tawk Dialect is which words are used. Pop vs Soda

[@Xsetsu]

This is probably true with most of them, but one thing I have noticed about a southern accent is that there is very fine line between doing it right and overdoing it. Usually with most actors, especially from the UK, they tend to over do it just a bit. The southern accent(s) has an almost singsong rhythm to them. Words are shortened or drawn out to keep a steady rhythm in many cases.

[@colinafobe2152]

to me, the thicker Southern accent the better :) sounds so nice

[@Xsetsu]

@@colinafobe2152 I love it as well. My personal accent is all jacked up though as I have lived in NC, Texas and Alabama so it is all over the place.

[@colinafobe2152]

@@Xsetsu i wish i can speak english that way

[@ledhed5717]

The “sing/song” is the Irish/Scots influence. A good example of a UK actor overdoing a Southern accent to me was Lauren Cohen as Maggie in the Walking Dead. There were several instances that her “Southern” accent seemed strained and just not quite right. But it doesn’t have to be someone from the UK. David Carradine did a horrible “Southern” accent in the North and South mini series back in the mid-80’s. Hew was from California trying to do a South Carolina gentleman. I remember laughing even as a young kid.

[@citizencoy4393]

Some clusters of ppl especially blk southerners literally sound like they are singing when they talk.

[@BabyBugBug]

The California accent is where everything sounds like a question lol

[@hwhytee1]

I was born and raised in Southern California and I never thought I had an accent till I moved to New England. Apparently I did. LoL. I think different accents get accentuated with the different slangs as well. Californians always use the word “the” in front of the name of any highway. “THE 101, THE 134, THE 15, etc”. I agree the “valley” or “surfer” accent has either changed or not used at all. Kids here in New England also use the filler “like” as much as any kids of this generation. In any case, it is interesting to hear the different accents here and thank you for breaking it down for everyone. ;)

[@bluemax73]

My wife is from the Bronx, we live upstate and in all our travels when my wife talks everybody says " you're not from around here are you ". Very thick Bronx accent. Boy do I love her!

[@danielhamid479]

I can’t even imitate my native language dialects they way he does it with his! The guy is a genius lesson creator and extremely dedicated! 👏🏻

[@alexanderboulton2123]

The New York accent water is probably gonna be more “Woatah,” whereas in Boston you might get “waddah”

[@A3._coffie]

Im from southern Florida so you hear less of the Southern accent here but you definitely nailed it with the Southern Twang. I always forget we gots that here until it accidentally slips out in conversation. Also if you're talking to someone else with a southern accent (either kind) you subconsciously feed off eachothers accent and it becomes more noticable

[@GM_Flynx]

Indeed, there are many accents across the vast and varied regions of the States. Surprisingly, dialect only varies a bit, and is not as intense as other languages and countries. You can usually intuit the nature of a dialectical difference from context. I love playing with the Lower Alabama Twang that I gained from the Florida Panhandle, but if I am in Georgia, I can easily switch to the Valdosta and bottomland lilt. I was visiting near Savannah with some friends. We stopped at a micro-brewery. The locals were palavering on and the friend who was a locale and I immediately switched to talk they them and interpret to our other friends what was being said, as they were not familiar with the dialectical and accent differences. It was very amusing!

[@terrioestreich4007]

I'm from Minnesota and grew up with my Swedish great grandparents and Swedish and Norwegian grandparents,, even my kids tease me how I say certain words, like bag. I guess that I say it like bayg, just like this gentleman said

[@ngohung49]

American accent usually up tone. It was fun for me when first time I came to visit the USA because I usually pronounce as British accent. Then my American friend recognized my British voice. That is so interesting 😊.I personally both like American and British accents 😊 thank you so much for sharing this great video

[@InteractiveEng]

Thanks for commenting & sharing. 👍

[@Lufelac]

What's up tone

[@JessPope]

British accent is one of my favorites.

[@edwardamosbrandwein3583]

How does a UTAH accent sound like?

[@edwardamosbrandwein3583]

If a learner of English decides to acquire an American accent, which one would you recommend?

[@ursulakolb3760]

You never picked up on the Southwest accent or Arizona accent. It's wild and unique. I'm a NYC/Philly transplant. I moved to Arizona in 1980. First up to Northern AZ right of the Apache Rez then to Tucson. In Arizona we mix reservation lingo/sounds with Spanglish and California Valley spill over. Body language and certain facial expressions also play an important role especially among the indigenous peoples.

[@OrdinaryishPerson]

As a middle TN native that southern drawl is spot on accurate

[@celsofukuhara1794]

I am from Brazil. The strangest thing about the English language is the difficulty of identifying the punctuation in sentences: .,!?. I always have the feeling that Americans and English speak straight, without punctuation. The difference is that in the Portuguese language of Brazil, this detail is very clear.

[@danadoozer9990]

The way you're able to do the various accents is really cool! I work for a call center and speak to people all over the US on a daily basis, and I find all the different accents to be really interesting! I'm from Wisconsin, and several times a week I get asked if I'm from Canada! I've lived in Wisconsin for my entire life, but had no idea that I had an accent at all, until people pointed it out to me!😂

[@user-nv3fj8ql2l]

Same!

[@pohkeee]

Same for me, being from Northern Minnesota…even in Europe I was asked if I was Canadian!

[@mpetersen6]

We don't talk funny. Everyone else does.

[@danadoozer9990]

@@mpetersen6 YES!!!! This EXACTLY!

[@mpetersen6]

@@danadoozer9990 The same could be said by anyone speaking with a regional accent. Actually there are a variety of accents just in Wisconsin.

[@kingstonperez-2484]

As a californian, I can confirm he is not even using an accent. He's just speaking normally.

[@JuliaKrakowiak]

as a new yorker here, people have been telling me i have a very strong accent and didn't believe them, this video shut me up real quick

[@sarco64]

When I moved from New Yor to North Carolina I noticed that the southern drawl/southern twang distinctions tended to be more related to social class than geography. Affluent, urban, and educated people tended to talk more like Scarlet O'Hara and rural working-class people more like Gomer Pyle.

[@echt114]

From my time in the south, that Scarlet Ohara thing seemed almost non-existent.

[@sarco64]

@@echt114 That may well be the case today. I moved to a small town in NC in the early 1980s and lived there for three years. I suspect that NC has become much less "southern" since then. There are probably a lot fewer fast-food restaurants that have liver mush biscuits on their breakfast menu.

[@kylepatrick113]

Gomer Pyle 😅 I moved to sc from ny and I can attest to this.

[@kristenb5177]

Northerners have nasal voices it's like nails on a chalkboard . When I hear them talk , I wanna pass them a hankie and say blow your darn nose

[@fluffysquirrel8385]

no, it is real. North Carolina has definitely "desouthernized" a little bit recently, but in rural areas this is true.

[@nil2k]

As a texan who lives in california (also in the bay area), I can confidently say there are multiple accents in both places and I can tell where you likely grew up in either state with great accuracy. There are several much less common words that make it clear.. or at least as clear as it is when you hear most canadians say the word "against" or most texans say "nuclear"

[@EdBrumley]

I’m from southeastern Illinois and know I have a bit of a southern accent. With some people having a more pronounced southern accent even within the same family. (Like the way my 2 brothers talk) I served in the U.S. Air Force and worked at an office with at least 10-15 new people coming to process paperwork everyday. I got extremely good at guessing where each person was from just from their accent. One peculiar thing I noticed from just about anyone from the north east coast of the U.S. is they might drop their R’s, (in words like Park, Car, Bar, Party, Star, etc) , but they liked to drop the A from the end of a word and ADD an ER. Example: “I called Linder (Linda), who lives out in Indianer, (Indiana) and she says her Alexer (Alexa) speaks perfect English.”

[@dabbingraccoons6416]

As a Californian it is super common to use like after every like a few words like the way I just used it, I didn’t do that on purpose like it’s just the way we talk

[@KDbelieves]

As a native New Yorker, I also noticed that we tend to use "like" a lot. Especially the younger generation. Also, the New york accent is mostly influenced by the Jewish and Italian communities, so their accents tend to be stronger than let's say a Latino New Yorker.

[@Ellada-hu5tx]

And Jewish communities of New York come from Eastern Europe and mostly speak one of the Eastern Slavic languages.

[@azufresaurio1346]

That happens in lots of countries with the translation of like, like in Spain's spanish people in Madrid we tend to say "en plan"

[@feropont141]

Well years ago that was not the case. But now the younger folks just cant stop saying the word like since over time peoples vocabulary got more and more limited so people resort to filler words such as like because they do not know the proper word to convey the meaning.

[@justkat6]

I've been learning mostly the British accent (RP) and now pivoting to General American accent it's really surprising to see that New York accent shares a fundamental character with RP (the 'r' dropping feature) rather than it's counterpart.

[@bassmeisterD]

There are several non-rhotic accents along the east coast of the USA in what were the original colonies, from New England to Georgia.

[@krakenoutofwater]

super neat and informational!! have you heard much of the utah/idaho accent? i moved to utah not too long ago from western massachusetts and the accent really stood out to me! the "g" sound is often hardened and replaced by a 'k' sound, and an "ing" sound is often more like an "een" sound. for example, "i'm going to take my dog swimming" vs "i'm goink to take my dok swimmeen" (or sometimes "swimmink"). in words that have an "ai" sound, they use more of an "eh" sound. for example, "he's in jail and i don't care" would become "he's in jell and i don't cehr." hope this helps!

[@mariedupuis7802]

For me who is French and have learned English from UK, the more difficult accent to understand from the US is from the south ! Often I understand nothing 😅but I like this cool accent like I like those from my country as their dialects because it speaks of history . ❤