Can American Find Hidden English Native Speaker Between English Learners?

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Do you think American can find the hidden native english speaker
between the English Learners?
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[@chanchaniceman]

That Austrian girl’s English is quite almost flawless.

[@MarioDrama632]

Indeed

[@anndeecosita3586]

She speaks well. I think she gave herself away with a slight bit of awkward phrasing.But that was probably nervousness.

[@101steel4]

It isn't, she doesn't sound English at all.

[@waltroskoh8650]

@@101steel4 Her English certainly sounds flawless because she sounds like a native speaker of the most common, most widely known, and most widely understood English accent on Earth. She doesn't sound like she's from the tiny country of England though - you're right about that.

[@101steel4]

@@waltroskoh8650 her English doesn't sound like a native at all.

[@waltroskoh8650]

Pretty easy for native speakers. #3's British accent is somewhat okay, but she makes grammatical mistakes that give it away. Actually, most of the non-native speakers make little grammar mistakes that give it away more than accent sometimes - "I pretty love drinking hot tea on rainy days". Also, non-native speakers seem to have a lot of trouble pronouncing R+L together. Words like "world" and "girl" are dead giveaways. #1 has a decidedly American accent though, and perfect grammar.

[@DOFT.mp4]

#1 did overdo the LA accent in the beginning, though. It sounded forced and too nasally. But after she stopped doing that, she was indistinguishable from a native.

[@101steel4]

English accent, not British

[@101steel4]

@@waltroskoh8650 there's no such thing as British English, or American English for that matter. People in England speak English, people in America speak a dialect of English.

[@deltaflux2381]

@@101steel4 Depends on which definition of dialect you use I guess.

[@101steel4]

@@deltaflux2381 American English IS a dialect.

[@mkla1995]

Tea’s accent is SUPER impressive, she sounds like 97% a native speaker. She would’ve really confused me. But Beth was definitely the easiest one to tell was from the US

[@baccamau80]

Haha ,actually beth is sophia's name.

[@Roi_Anthony]

I thought Beth was actually trying too hard because she spoke so slow, yet said she was from Florida. I thought she was doing a Californian or midwestern accent.

[@mkla1995]

@@Roi_Anthony I went to college with girls that speak like her so I knew she was a native speaker lol

[@JHaras]

She was definitely the most credible, I honestly wasn't sure from the beginning. But she was overdoing it with the LA mannerisms, a native speaker wouldn't do that in this setting, and it seemed like her vocabulary came short. I'm not a native speaker myself technically (Swedish), but that might actually help XD

[@mkla1995]

@@JHaras yeah it was the LA valley girl affectation that have it away lol

[@Ice_V]

Irene's disguise doesn't work at all😁I can't help but smile looking at her🙃

[@nathanspeed9683]

I would’ve loved Sophia 🇺🇸 (Beth from Florida) as the native English speaker to try fooling her with a British accent or something because they previously knew each other. So many new Americans on the show! South Korea must be a popular destination for US Expats! I’m not used to seeing strangers who she didn’t previously met, physically getting close at the end, it must be an European thing. It was a fun episode!

[@henryqu19]

"I think she is from the US" and then "Sophia and Sofia looking at each other" the fact both have the same name ( the sound) makes even better 😂

[@teabelle7719]

Thanks so much for having me , this was such a fun shoot~!! xoxo Tea

[@watashiyo8523]

English is a very easy language to learn, in Spanish, Italian, French and Portuguese there are genders for all the words and you need to combine them with the right termination, not mentioned the right tense and person of the verb! In Portuguese there are words written in a way but they sound completly different as in English like the l sounding like u and sometimes sounding like the "real" l, I think French has this kind of written in a way but spoken on other way...

[@chriswhite6937]

Your grammar is horrific.

[@Dilatribbiani]

And also Turkish language is so hard. Our grammar rule different from english and In our country, schools do not help learning languages. That’s why learning english hard for us. And turkish language is different for many languages. We use a lot of metaphor, suffixes and pronouns hard for foreigners

[@NimrodClover]

She did very well, and if you look at her final guesses you can see just how close she came to getting them ALL correct: #1 - Guess was Germany - Actual was Austria - Both are German speaking neighboring countries - so the base language was correct. #2 - Guess was Native English - Actual was Native English American - had just spent a weekend together. #3 - Guess was a disbelieving England - Actual was Italy - The only really odd-ball person but totally understandable given her mixed heritage of northern Italy. #4 - Guess was Spain - Actual was Spain - Rather obvious. #5 - Guess was a last moment guess of France - Actual was France - There were some clues that she must have gotten just by listening. #6 - Guess was Russia - Actual was Belarus - The two official languages are Belarusian and Russian and are neighboring countries. So, except for #3, she got not only the correct language but placed the person in an area that, at one time, was part of the parent language country. Plus she got the native speaker. That is very good, and she's American. In terms of matching languages: #1 - German - German #2 - Native English Speaker - Native English Speaker #3 - Not English ? - Italian #4 - Spanish - Spanish #5 - French - French #6 - Russian - Russian Outstanding Job ! 84% correct.

[@arunachaleebau8904]

One of the best episode ever❤

[@catinabox3048]

Interesting. Apart from #1 and #2, everyone else clearly has a non-native accent. I have to give it to #3 and #5 though. I speak both languages and work extensively with French and Italian natives, and I still couldn't tell you where these two ladies were from based on accent alone. Usually the French accent is obvious to me from the way they form their vowels (especially the O's) and the lilt of their speech (gravitating toward the end of the phrase/word) and mouth tension. But this person didn't have what to me are defining features.

[@LiniAhn]

French people usually have a strong accent actually because they don’t want to put any effort to speak well 😂

[@muhammadarisaputra2939]

I agree. when I hear athletes from France and Italy when they speak English their accents are very clear

[@jonathanmong4927]

#1 had a prosody thing where she went I meeeeeean and it's not how an Angeleno would say it

[@IssaVenantKasunga]

Nice job I appreciate it, keep moving.

[@hanng1242]

I think there were some hints apparent in sentence construction or word choice. Tea had a very good American accent, but no native English speaker would say, "My favorite food, like crispy." I wonder if she was going to say that she liked "crisps," but then remembered that she was supposed to be an American who would say "chips" and tripped herself up. Sofia's tell was when she said "I pretty love drinking hot tea" and "I have lived very lazy, cozy." Those just aren't natural English constructions. "Guadalupe's" backstory was a pretty clever way to explain the accent, but saying that she spoke Catalan made said story highly unlikely. Lini's and Yuliya's accents were thick enough to give them away.

[@MarioDrama632]

I love your videos.

[@Ilikeoatmealmorethanyou]

it's the christmas jazz song at the end for me hhahaha

[@peta75189]

They all so beautiful ❤️

[@karllogan8809]

The Austrian was the only difficult one, she almost sounds like a native English speaker, the rest were pretty obvious. Some other World Friends with near perfect English accents; Ana from Brazil, Naya from Belgium, Sofia from Sweden, Svea from Germany and Seong-ji from Korea. It's always nice to see Irene even tho her sexy Spanish accent is obvious. 😃

[@_irenesanz]

sorry for my accent🥹

[@karllogan8809]

@@_irenesanz Hope you never lose it. 😉

[@Kaybye555]

​@@_irenesanz😂

[@juangarrido7430]

@@_irenesanz No te disculpes, nuestro acento es sexy y no nos lo quitamos hablando inglés ni patrás 🤣

[@EnglishGurubyCPsir]

Congratulation to meet everybody

[@bre_me]

The Italian speaking in an English accent was so good but the incorrect grammar was what should’ve told the American she was faking it

[@karllogan8809]

The Italian is better at concealing her Italian accent than she is at faking an English one. Her accent didn't sound particularly Italian, English or like anything, it just sounded off.

[@catinabox3048]

She didn't sound English to me, more like someone who was either faking the accent or who had learned British English later on in life and that's her actual accent.

[@bre_me]

Yeah I'm not saying she sounded native. I was just saying that she sounded really good since she normally speaks with an Italian accents. It's strange how if she can mimic an English accent she doesn't do it normally. I imagine if I could imitate an accent in a language I was learning, I would, rather than speaking in an Americanized accent.@@catinabox3048

[@waltroskoh8650]

Nah, it sounded pretty fake to me.

[@tamyresmartines8061]

I understand her point as an author, but thinking in the average day life, you don't use the more complicated rules. So for the average speaker, it's quite easy compared to other languages. But I never realized how easy was, until I started to learn German.

[@isalutfi]

Sadie is pretty adorable.

[@hypetubeofficial]

holy moly! man that was so funny when #3 italian girl started talking i busted out laughing

[@GBelneau]

Ana from Brazil would’ve done well for this game, her English is very good

[@Tweeteketje]

NIce vid. I think the microphone of no.2 is broke, because she sounds incredibly distant compared to the rest.

[@hueypautonoman]

I love how Sadie kept mentioning that she's an author. Get that free marketing, girl. 🙌🏾

[@sadelouise]

A girls gotta do what a girls gotta do 😂💗💗

[@hueypautonoman]

@@sadelouise Amen, sister!

[@alexandrorocca7142]

As someone who is half Italian, I must say that Italians are generally not known for being highly skilled at learning foreign languages. Sofia's English is generally good, but her use of 'pretty' instead of 'quite' was a dead giveaway; that's why the American girl almost lost it.

[@klugscheier1644]

Wow that Austrian girls English is flawless

[@101steel4]

No it's not. Not to a native English speaker anyway.

[@surfboarding5058]

@@101steel4😂😂😂

[@surfboarding5058]

@@101steel4someone’s a little jelly a non native speaks better English than you 😂😂

[@t01]

sophia i cant 🙈

[@anndeecosita3586]

As an American, I think it was obvious. I wouldn’t think anyone except number 2 was a native English speaker. Number 1 wasn’t bad but some of her phrasing was weird and she overdid it a little. What’s a crispy?I think if she was probably nervous and otherwise would have been more convincing. Although, we do have a Chicano English accent in the USA the ladies don’t have it. She was smart to try to pass for a Chula though. I also agree with Sadie about the nuances of English grammar. I write for a living. I have noticed on this channel that a lot of the participants make small grammar mistakes even if they speak well enough to be easily understood. For example I hear people using “more” and also adding er to adjectives. Like saying more prettier when it’s supposed to be more pretty OR prettier. Also if a word has more than two syllables you can’t add er or est. You have to use more or most. It’s incorrect grammar to say beautifuler or beautifulest. Also it’s good, better and best. Not more better or gooder. A lot of times it’s the little things like phrasing or word choices that give people away as non-native when it comes to languages.

[@waltroskoh8650]

Good points, but I must add that the usage of more + comparative adjectives (-er endings) is also very common among native speakers of certain American English dialects, ie. African-American English.

[@waltroskoh8650]

Good points, but I must add that the usage of more + comparative adjectives (-er endings) is also very common among native speakers of certain American English dialects, ie. African-American English.

[@techallday8168]

You sure about that? I need an example because I haven't heard of that as an African-American thing​@@waltroskoh8650

[@AzaliyaSan]

Amazing girls ❤❤❤

[@Kriss_941]

It strikes me as weird how people think about the "difficulty" of learning a given language because you can't really just place languages in a ranking from easiest to most difficult. What really matters is how close or far removed is the language from your own or other languages you know. For me as a Norwegian, Danish or Swedish are extremely easy languages to learn. English is also not that bad and neither is German, just to name a few. This just comes down to our languages being somewhat connected and related, however learning languages such as mandarin, japanese, korean or any south-east Asian languages would be much harder. Yet a native Japanese speaker will probably find Chinese and Korean much easier to learn than European languages.

[@user-sx1eh2sg6x]

Yasssss, slayyyyy💅💅💅

[@tibibara]

Sophia💙us

[@Tenseiken_]

Aw man, video was pretty much over instantly once she recognized voices, especially if one of them is the actual native english speaking person. Can't help knowing other people, but for these kind of videos it would be really nice if there was a way to negate giving a part or even the entire video away. It did happen before a couple times, actually. I'd suggest a voice changer, but at the same time I like the natural way these videos are in. People just giggling and smiling and trying to mask themself by changing up things. I guess the only way to keep it natural is by inviting an actual new person to be the guesser. It was a fun video regardless of it being kinda over in the first couple minutes though.

[@josefschiltz2192]

That was fun!

[@raychat2816]

I can imagine if there was an actual English girl there, hearing the typical American : oh nice accent, stop it ! 😂😂😂

[@MrBigpapawolf]

i discover this channel recently, and i love it but.... I have not seen my "country" Puerto Rico, Puerto Ricans born in P.R. are American (united states) citizens, but if we live in the island we do not get to vote for US president, we speak Spanish because we use to be part of Spain and i recently found out Puerto Ricans can apply for duel clientship with Spain . We are a complicated little island and it would be nice if u find some one to put us the your beautiful wonderful mix.

[@eduardosantos5078]

Kd Ana???

[@thematthew761]

Sophia's been getting much better in these videos!

[@chanchaniceman]

Especially now she’s more comfortable and friendly with some of the people here

[@thematthew761]

Yep@@chanchaniceman

[@VH-eg6vk]

The first girl had actual proper english! The second one had a vocal fry which is I think why she guess! I think it doesnt have to do with grammar because even natives make a lot of mistakes, but with the accents and slangs

[@MarcioNSantos]

I'm Brazilian. What is kind of impressive for me that in all these World Friends videos is how formal all those yound people re with each other. Maybe an influence from Korean culture. Or maybe because Brazilians are in the top of informality.

[@Rudelherz]

I think it is the personal insecurity, especially at that age, that generation...away from family and friends. I can imagine ppl are very different in another setting. Everyone is on his/her best behaviour😂 Like my dog in dogschool. 😂

[@MarcioNSantos]

Makes sense@@Rudelherz

[@GiuseppeMedau]

12:33 Why is she surprised that the girl comes from Italy?

[@linkinblack371]

SADIE LOUISE what did you write and where can i BUY it!?

[@sadelouise]

It's a YA fantasy book called Blood of the Lotus~ ☺

[@linkinblack371]

@@sadelouise cool thanks! I actually found it after a second. I looked up sadie instead of sade...

[@phartbay327]

Pooooleen ❤🇩🇪🇵🇱

[@shaobingboy]

I like how Sadie and Sophia are the extremely chill personalities, and they're both American. Kind of figured that they knew each other from the beginning lol

[@gmgabrielmilan]

Faltou a Ana aí! 😄🇧🇷

[@gpaulbr]

For how long will we just ignore that Sofia is obviously a vampire??????

[@corsarodoro7890]

she is a typical girl from Venice, who knows how many vampire dens in those ancient houses😂

[@linkinblack371]

Queer. You think sofia is the vampire? I thought sophia was the night child...

[@imo400]

I'm looking for a lexys😊she is cute and smart🐒🥀🥀🥀

[@ElenniaH]

So basically she knows half of the guests already? That's a giveaway...

[@LarryYang-zz5xi]

55/555

[@KeseharianHewan]

I'm glad they're separated, otherwise it would be blonde vs brunette.

[@juanjuan5698]

Bruh this was so easy

[@RJSnaiper]

New video. Can Luxembourgish person understand other germanic people.

[@mysteriousdoge1298]

Nr 5 literally said she speaks better Korean than English...

[@LiniAhn]

As you know I’m French ! But I also speak better Korean than French !!

[@mysteriousdoge1298]

That's interestiing 😅I speak my native language Polish far better than any other language so I suspect your family must be Korean 😁@@LiniAhn

[@bre_me]

The first girl is near native level accent. Only a couple words give her away

[@thedeadman82988]

Sophia 😂great Job hiding your accent

[@JosephOccenoBFH]

Welcome new US girl !! 😃

[@sadelouise]

Thank you!! 💓💓

[@yelizkaran-sg4zo]

Number one was perfect 👏👏👏. She has the American accent and zero German/ Austrian accent!

[@surfboarding5058]

Haters are jealous

[@ICU1337]

I love these! I got like 2 right I think🤔But its always fun seeing people fake another countries English accent😂All seven of the ladies did a wonderful job👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@BelaPuma]

Because there's so little distinguishability as in zero grammar so that you have to use specific words that make no sense to convey a meaning 6:30

[@jasontungjw]

Why does Sophia sound so different from other videos lol

[@thematthew761]

She's faking it

[@dul1693]

소피아 너무 기엽다 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

[@John.bww03]

Why are the Americans always the most beautiful???

[@leoesque2803]

Should have gotten a Singaporean to confuse her abit more. In Singapore we’re taught & use standard British English since young. We learnt at the same rate as we learned our native language. In all subjects except language lessons, we’re taught in English. English here is considered as one of the official languages. It’s used in many situations. We use in school, work, daily lives & even at home. Some of us even use English more than our own native language. We even have our own English based creole called Singlish. So, our usage of English can vary from super proper English to Singlish based on the setting we’re in.

[@waltroskoh8650]

From Singapore here. I feel like the accent has changed so much. Everybody speaks in an American way now.

[@FreddyWangNX]

1&2 are indistinguishable

[@benjaminotto5711]

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[@benjaminotto5711]

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[@bobschriswell565]

This is a phenomenal advice for a new stock traders and investors who want that quick short term game, but don't see the light at the end of the tunnel.

[@benjaminotto5711]

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[@benjaminotto5711]

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[@danielrichter465]

By following her trades do you mean copying her trades? I have heard about copying trades

[@MarcioIME2]

Cadê a Ana? Ela fala inglês melhor do que todas essas moças aí.

[@lucasmontenegro4915]

Exato

[@samus88]

Quite the opposite, english has NO rules.

[@proudream]

OMG number 3 did NOT sound British at all lmao I was cackling

[@101steel4]

How does one sound British?

[@im-a_fire.]

First

[@youtube.com.Hal0367]

I'm impressed just learning that three of these girls speak Korean, some of the fluently. How long does it take for Europeans or Americans to master Korean? Isn't that a very difficult language?

[@dorianguey]

Way too easy. Only listened to the first round and knew #2 was the only native speaker. The rest all of accents and make grammatical mistakes.

[@iansmirna5183]

French: "Any language is easy to learn for me". Ok, on that one, no one can avoid the accusation of arrogance.

[@binxbolling]

Ms. Italy had an attitude problem.

[@federicopedroni3647]

Mmm Not at all 😂 you have many problems

[@FullmetalChuunibyou]

The “british” girl was too obvious. Grammar slip-ups and she chose to ATTEMPT what sounds like a damn near caricature of RP English. She was too posh with it. 😂

[@surfboarding5058]

She said langich 😂😂

[@dickmike222]

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[@Adric7Ai]

The real sloths is 2nd Girl💤💤💤💤💤💤

[@benjaminotto5711]

Thank you for the video, I found out that investing is not for everybody, you just need a strong stomach too see your portfolio go down. It might be wiser for a novice to start with copy trading investing, but it is not easy. To invest in growth stocks it is another level, definitely you need to know what are you doing.