Can ENGLISH Speakers Find an American just by their English?? (Who's Faking?)

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[@TheSouthIsHot]

Why did you tell us the answer before it started? It would have been fun for all of us to guess the American.

[@xKendraDx]

yeah it made it really weird...

[@jkthetitan]

so true

[@LSG_Squadron]

I was guessing since I forgot who it was and I thought it was the blonde girl who is last on the left

[@TheSouthIsHot]

@@LSG_Squadron The blonde girl was very convincing except I already knew who was the American because they TOLD us!

[@LSG_Squadron]

You just need to have bad memory at the right time :)

[@tibowmew]

Jakob's accent was good at the start, but the more he talked, the more the South Sfrican accent came out. Same with Beth. Claire did great. I could tell eventually that there was SOMETHING, but never would have guessed British. Odessa was obvious from the way she said her own name, but I didn't know where from.

[@rezda3787]

Yea I noticed their accents from the very start

[@zachfreeman2502]

"Odesser"

[@NateIsNotOkay]

For Clare, her name kinda gave it away. The name Clare is very popular in the UK.

[@queentitan2855]

Also, she said a English instead of an.

[@ButterflyG673]

Lol I noticed their accent from the beginning!

[@elizabeth1toney]

I didn’t realize they were faking american accents till the end.. I thought they just were all foreign lol

[@bunpeishiratori5849]

yeah, it was weird. The only one who seemed to come even remotely close was the Brit. to be honest,the whole video was kinda silly.

[@Ivan-fm4eh]

Even the American didn't really sound American. She must have lived overseas for a very long time. Lauren/Claire was, by far, the closest

[@anndeecosita3586]

I agree. The American sounded slightly foreign to me too. She said her accent has changed since living abroad.

[@Ace-mw9pm]

@@Ivan-fm4ehshe said she was trying to confuse them by sounding less American

[@-zerenity-2322]

what timestamp sry im tweeking on this cuz i literally thought she aint american either@@Ace-mw9pm

[@deanmcmanis9398]

51 states was a red flag. You should have started the video without telling who was American, so we could guess too. Lauren and Beth did a great job with their American accents. It is a fun program format. I would like to see more, finding the Canadian, Britain, and Australian, although it would require some serious accent talent.

[@quickgirl80]

That would have been fun, at least for the first 20 seconds.

[@rabbitazteca23]

naur because I am easily gaslighted. So if they said 51, I'd say 51 too and Im American. It'd be so embarrasing since I distinctly remember doing an acitivity in the 8th grade where we have to memorize all the sates and lable them all in one of our quizzes in social studies.

[@angelus1738]

I'm American and said 51. That wouldn't have given it away lol

[@hanaemori4885]

You’d be surprised to know how many Americans think there are 52 states...

[@Skythe.]

The guy saying you gave it away even when he said the wrong number

[@amber2784]

when they were saying they thought beth was the most american, I honestly don’t know why they would think that. She sounded really australian to me. And tbh I thought lauren’s american accent was really good

[@mayamaeru]

agree fully

[@alexandriagonzalez7801]

Me, too. She said "Alasker" 🤣🤣

[@henri191]

"Hi , my name is Clare" Me : "For me you are and always will be Lauren 🇬🇧😁"

[@Wiley_Coyote]

She did a good job there. 😁

[@emmas5938]

Haha yes! I’ve watched the other World Friends videos so if I heard the name “Lauren” I would’ve known it was THE Lauren- being “Clare” for this game was a smart move 😂

[@amelia-ct7dj]

she did good but I could honestly tell she was British (which I am obsessed with the accent)

[@sassyradish9177]

All of their real accents came through so quickly 😅

[@annabanabanana]

Even the American girl still sounded like she had a foreign accent and was trying to speak with an American accent. It was weird. 😅

[@aisha2370]

Maybe that was her strategy?

[@ididntknowtheyhadwifiinhell]

yup when she said "from the USA" instead of just US i was suspicious

[@hux2000]

Yeah, her accent isn't standard from any part of the US. I'm wondering if she's lived overseas for a long time.

[@lilliezimmerman1800]

"I'm from Louisiana" lol

[@Beetlejooce01]

xd

[@Beetlejooce01]

With a sa accent

[@victoria_m13]

it’s so interesting that Odessa thinks her name is russian. but there is no such name for a person in russia. Odessa is a name of a town in Ukraine. it’s a beautiful sea-shore town with grate history and very nice climate

[@Ka2aKgames]

I hoped to find comment like this, cause I'm from Odessa. Thanks for this explanation 😉

[@808galaxxxy]

@@somethingsomethingmegan she said that she was born in 1996, so I have no idea why she called Odessa a russian name

[@tarmaque]

Odessa is indeed a Ukrainian seaside town, but the name is actually Greek. 😁

[@vita4144]

or her name can be Khadjibey if she was born a couple of centuries earlier 😅

[@florianmeier3186]

It is actually a city (about 1 million) and a little bit the New York of the East as it has always been a quite multi cultural harbour. It is maybe most famous for the big staircase with the falling stroller/push chair in the movie from 1925.

[@TVfen]

For me, being from Spain, and having been around many Aussies and south-africans, I knew right away they were from there. I knew Odessa wasn't american, but I couldn't spot the accent. And Lauren 🤯 wow, I would have never said that she was from the UK. For a moment there I thought "World Friends" was tricking us into think there was only one american, but they had two ... you know, to surprise us, but when I heard one of them saying "she is Canadian" I thought "Ok, that could be it!".

[@theoriginalKland]

I agree her "American" accent was actually almost spot on Canadian.

[@alexandriagonzalez7801]

She did not sound American to me. Something about the cadence was trying too hard. Also, when she said "jography" I cringed

[@laurenainslee]

Should have thrown a couple Canadians in there to make it a little harder lol

[@geosophik9369]

Oh yeah! That would've been a lot of fun :)

[@j2174]

But through in Canadians that have regional or more specific Canadian accents so it’s trickier.

[@saturn6563]

Nah, Canada is just another state of the US. So there would be 2 or 3 Americans, which would be too obvious.

[@anndeecosita3586]

@@saturn6563Not really. I’m American and many times I can tell right away someone is Canadian depending on what part they are from.

[@nikhilnagboth8425]

Exactly what I thought.

[@henri191]

Welcome to world friends Odessa 🇳🇿 , Beth 🇭🇲 and Jakob 🇿🇦 and good to see Emma back 🇺🇲

[@ameliaxxqueen5543]

What about lauren

[@emmas5938]

It was so nice to meet some new, wonderful people! And of course it was wonderful to film with Lauren! 😊

[@LB_die_Kaapie]

Why he didn't pronounce his name properly? Surely it's Yakob since he sounds afrikaans lol

[@ilovetwice5]

thanks for spoiling it👍👍

[@falanikotaulia2636]

What about Odessa

[@vinja858]

The game was immediately over with that 51 state question/answer LOL

[@potatoesvevo9465]

Am I the only one who thought Emma didn’t even sound American. She definitely has an accent

[@Nitrix77]

100%

[@theoriginalKland]

Yup 100% a slight Quebec accent

[@DFDamer71]

same

[@alissalee7519]

i was gonna say she sounds midwestern but thats just what i say when someone doesnt sound californian HAHA

[@potatoesvevo9465]

@@alissalee7519 I’m originally from the Midwest and she definitely doesn’t sound midwestern lol.. I was thinking Canadian haha

[@ericlee4991]

It was fun to watch, but I don't know Emma seems to have something that I don't know what it is. It sounds a bit very very vaguely different. I actually thought at the beginning Claire has a pretty good accent and as keeping watching it, thought Beth could be a good candidate as well. Without knowing who Emma was, I would guess Beth as an American.

[@cerka27]

I’m from Texas and when Jakob said Louisiana, I was like, 👀👀👀 that’s a dead give away. He doesn’t sound like he’s from the south.

[@captsparrowslady]

It was obvious to me that Odessa was definately either Australian or Kiwi... there were a few words where she added that 'rrr' sound to the end of the word (like the name Emma sounding like Emmer). There were a few other words that gave away her accent like that. Beth's American accent was quite good but there were a few words I noticed that betrayed her Aussie accent, similar to Odessa. Jakob was obviously South African... but I think the one that fooled me the best was Lauren/Clare... I thought that she was from Canada... A lot of Canadians have a similar sounding accent to Americans but then they'll have a few vowel pronunciations that are different (like in the word Process americans will typically say "Praw-sess" and some Canadians will say "Pro-sess" ... things like that, that give it away) that I thought I heard in Lauren/Clare's accent

[@tim1724]

Lauren's fake American accent impressed me. I'm so accustomed to her usual RP accent that it sounded really weird to hear her in this video. Beginning the questioning with "How many states are there? was extremely silly. No American over the age of ten could possibly answer that incorrectly. Most Canadians would probably get that right too, so when everyone but Emma answered that wrong I knew none of the were likely to be Canadian either.

[@marcanthony7020]

Yeah I thought Emma was toast being the only one to answer it correctly but I guess 50 states + Washington DC is kinda confusing to outsiders

[@futurez12]

Lauren _definitely_ doesn't have an RP accent, lol. She sounds like she has a North Midlands accent to me (I'm English BTW). I'm from the Home Counties (South East), and I have more of an RP accent than her but even I don't sound RP, not even close.

[@JustASkyrimHorse]

I'm sitting is Sussex and I got that right tbh

[@faithpearlgenied-a5517]

I'm English and I can tell you, that is NOT an RP accent lol. Where did you get the idea she speaks with a 'Received Pronunciation' accent? 🤔

[@faithpearlgenied-a5517]

@@futurez12 Yes, definitely not RP. Nowhere near.

[@henri191]

"How many states in the US" Okay , i'm gonna count the star on the flag 🇺🇲 and it's 50 stars

[@Wiley_Coyote]

Very bad planning by the producers here. The first question 100% gave away (if it wasn't clear) that there was only one American there.

[@nathalykim1263]

@@Wiley_Coyote but i feel like some ppl get confused about porto rico, im not american, but i was confused too cuz isn't it 50 plus porto rico?

[@EddieA329]

@@nathalykim1263 Puerto Rico isn't a state it's a US territory

[@sighcantthinkofaname]

@@nathalykim1263 I totally get non-Americans getting confused, but I can't imagine anyone who grew up in the states getting mixed up. Someone in America is way more likely to think Puerto Rico's a seperate country than they are to think it's an additional state.

[@nathalykim1263]

oh, okay, thanks guys, I got things mixed up

[@dahood.skibbs]

0:55 if you don’t want to know who it is right away and then 1:12 because at 1:10-1:11 she/he holds her/his flag

[@Laurenade]

Hey guys it’s me Clare😂😂😂 I had to use a fake name juuuust incase anyone recognised my actual name lol but this was super fun and it was really great to meet new friends! Everyone did such a great job and look forward to the videos to come from this group 🤩

[@Doctor.Whommm]

Hi, Claire.. en. 😆 Hehe, it's lucky that you recently discussed the differences between Celsius and Fahrenheit, using the example of those tick tok videos. It was very funny to watch you and your reactions, especially when you were called an American.

[@henri191]

Hello , Clare...or should i say Lauren 😂

[@PinkGrapefruit22]

As an American, I think I would've known who was or wasn't just by hearing the accents, but it's hard to say since we knew who it was from the beginning. Clare/Lauren and Beth both did very good American accents but every now and then there would be a slightly non-American pronunciation. Very fun to watch everyone guess!

[@RonJDuncan]

My problem with Beth is that half way through, I only heard Aussie after awhile, as if she gave up trying.

[@chishh2554]

I'm not even American and to be honest only Claire/Lauren had a better American accent. Everyone else slipped up too often and didn't have a genuine American-sounding accent (excluding the actual American of course). I found the video strange, it was so obvious just by their answers (the states question) and their accents, that none of them were American.

[@carterskindle7086]

Shouldn't have revealed it to us at the beginning, it takes away some of the fun. Jakob and Claire did a good job covering up their accents but after a little while their real accents became to come through.

[@rrrrrrrr7860]

at first maybe but it would have given it away instantly when the guy said he is from Louisiana :D he doesnt sound southern at all

[@Stilez]

I guessed most of them correct except Claire. I could hear a slight accent, but would've never guessed UK. She put on a good American accent. No way most people outside CAN/USA could tell the difference between Canada & USA unless they have a strong pronounced Regional accent stereotypical to their state/province. This is why there are so many Canadian actors in Hollywood & on USA TV, because they sound so similar. There are a few dead giveaways, like names for certain objects & metric/imperial measuring for sure.

[@emmakim2542]

Wait what Emma does not sound American. She has a pretty clear accent and also very different speaking mannerisms. I feel like maybe for people who watch these videos English might be a second language (just a guess) so it's harder to distinguish the accent. Of course her english is fluent, but it's just not American.

[@potatoesvevo9465]

I agree that she doesn’t sound American either, the way she says her S’s sounds different. I would guess she’s from a very northern state tho.

[@lexmartinez1624]

Americans have many different dialects and other things like that. I just assumed she was from a very northern state that was near Canada (i.e. Minnesota, Wisconsin, Montana) I also assumed her accent was a bit more softer if she were from any of these states. All assumptions though

[@RHKang-hl3ps]

I'm not super familiar with Northern accents bc I'm from the West Coast but she def sounds like she's from Minnesota.

[@theoriginalKland]

French. Her first language is more than likely Quebec french. It's apparent in how she pronounces "to" as "tu".

[@fsujavi16]

Emma sounds very american. Claire was very good but she said one phrase that brought out her real accent (something towards in the first half of questions).

[@willywhale5439]

So funny when Lauren say word "answer" and then she realise she sounded like british

[@harpy96]

Lemme just say that the name Odessa is the male version of Odysseus, aka it's greek in origin. The reason people seem to think it's Russian or Ukraine is bc of the Ukraine city, which was given the name by the Russian queen(?) Catherine as a sign of respect to the Greek colony which was present there in the past. Also, the word that the name Odessa is derived means "wrathful"

[@JosephOccenoBFH]

I'm dying to see Christina's reaction on Lauren mimicking a U.S. accent 😄 Maybe in another video 😁

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[@MaryBeth205]

This was so much fun! Thanks for a great time, everyone! :)

[@worldfriendsnet]

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[@glstka5710]

51 states?!?!?! That was a dead giveaway at the start.

[@emmas5938]

Hello, everyone! It’s Emma here! I had so much fun with Beth, Odessa, Jakob, and Clare… who turned out to be Lauren!!! I was so excited to meet her at last! This is was an interesting concept: try to sound the most American, see who’s faking their accent, and try to find who is the real American! My strategy was to keep my accent (and not put on an obviously fake accent xD) but I tried not to be too obvious in other ways! It was fun to film with the others and I had a blast! It’s all for fun! It was nice to be back on World Friends! Thanks for checking out the video!

[@henri191]

Nice to see you back 😁🇺🇲

[@RuB3Nius]

Hello Emma, it's true that I knew you before from other videos of the channel, but out of the 5 you sounded the more american to me.

[@geosophik9369]

Thought you guys would make a video about guessing who's the American, but with non-white Americans, without saying a word, and only playing voice recordings in order to match the right person. That would be hard AF.

[@theoriginalKland]

I gotta know, is Emma's first language French?

[@fsujavi16]

@@theoriginalKland she said it’s the only language she knows.

[@lucasm4299]

I didn’t watch the whole video but by accent alone, Claire actually sounds more American than Emma. Emma’s accent sounds forced and very standardized as though she learned it. Her accent is a little weird too.

[@samuelsprings7245]

YES!!! Emma doesn't sound American. If anything, Claire sounded more American!

[@summertwinkle749]

@Zee Aye Yes, she sounds like a teacher, especially a primary school one.

[@elizabethsjourney701]

I thought the same thing. From when she first introduced herself I heard her accent and it doesn’t sound American.

[@GoodOldCinema]

She was trying to sound less American to make it harder for the others to guess correctly.

[@anndeecosita3586]

@@GoodOldCinemaThe time she most didn’t sound like an American was in her introduction before the game started.

[@anndeecosita3586]

TBH I thought they all sounded like non-Americans including Emma. I wonder if her parents are immigrants because sometimes the kids will still pronounce some words like their so. In her opening introduction I thought she was Eastern European partly because of her pitch when she said USA. Or maybe it could just be the part of the USA she’s from. Lauren and Beth did do well overall but they had their moments with certain words. Now Jakob and Odessa were very obvious. Fun fact. people where I’m from in the USA don’t say sneakers or trainers. We call them tennis shoes.

[@mynameisjeff2571]

Here in South Texas we also say tennis shoes! Also the primary language spoken here is Spanish so people have a noticeable accent when speaking English.

[@anndeecosita3586]

@@mynameisjeff2571 I’m not Texan but I’ve mostly lived in the South and I think the term tennis shoes is more popular in this region than sneakers. I spent most my childhood in California living on the border and I speak Spanish. In Cali, Texas, certain parts of Florida, a lot of the billboards and business signage will be either in Spanish or both English and Spanish. Living closer to a border makes a difference I think. I find Minnesota and some South Dakotans oftentimes have a way of speaking that makes me take them for Canadians. I’ve also met people from Upper Michigan, or Upers they call them who I thought were foreigners because I wasn’t familiar with their accent .

[@dynamo116]

Same! I kept thinking "was Emma raised overseas or her parents were in the military and she bounced around a lot as a kid?", I'm used to a lottt of different accents in the U.S. (Boston, New Yawkkkk, Midwest, California, Joisey, Texas, Southern, etc.) but Emma's was just super weird, she sounded foreign, I thought she might've been Canadian for a second and expecting an "ey" at the end of the sentence lol

[@emmas5938]

I’m from New Jersey and also around Philadelphia/NYC. People around that area say “sneakers”. I know of “tennis shoes” as well but it’s more common to hear “sneakers” where I’m from.

[@RonJDuncan]

@@dynamo116 I relate to this. If I had to do a self assessment, I'd say that I sound more "midwest" as far as dialect goes than anywhere else, but I lived in a lot of places as a kid (including Germany) because I was an army brat. Still, in my early to mid teen years, I lived in Kansas before going back to Hawaii a second time to finish my jr and sr years of high school. I've spent nearly 30 years since then in New Mexico, but I never picked up on the more sing-song style of speech and only know of a couple of terms that wound up in my vocabulary that are typical where I live.

[@Evangeline-V1]

It's funny just looking at Lauren's reaction.

[@rsking6120]

Lauren was the only one who was really challenging to differentiate Jakob and Odessa were both pretty obvious to me from the beginning Beth did a good job as well, but I could tell after a bit of chatting A fun vid regardless!

[@zachb1344]

Odessa was right about the Olympics being held in the U.S. (it was in Atlanta, Georgia) in 1996 but it was the Summer ones

[@primmoore6232]

#2 lost it from the start by saying her name was "OdessER" and she is A (not an) English teacher.

[@b3nnefits]

Who tf doesn’t know America has 50 states? I say this as an Australian.

[@rachelcookie321]

That’s exactly what I thought and I’m from New Zealand. I’ve heard it a million times just from normal use of the internet. I feel like it would be hard not to know America has 50 states.

[@chishh2554]

I know right? And I'm from Zimbabwe

[@criteecgaming]

Really like the concept but having them ask questions like that definitely gave everyone away instantly. I think it would be better to have them say famous lines or maybe read from a script. Start with words that are pretty universal then as you get deeper into it pick words that would be different from what an American would use and vice versa. Like the one girl said, using different words for shoes is a perfect example.

[@moonlitegram]

Every time I think I'm confident in understanding the difference between the Australian and New Zealand accent, I get thrown for a loop. I really thought Odessa was going to be from Australia and Beth was from New Zealand. But got it completely backwards.

[@issiebrown8460]

Ask them to say “fish and chips” and you’ll have an answer right away 😂 or maybe that’s just something we Aussies do to torment Kiwis

[@hudskito]

LAUREN DID SO GREAT OMG im impressed!! i like that girl

[@ozzyfromscotland]

I have a natural English-Scottish-American accent because of my parents and the fact I've lived in Scotland my whole life, so it would be an actual nightmare to figure out. Plus, I'm good at geography and know most of those facts, too lmao. Oddly enough, people have said I sound Australian sometimes, but strangers often ask if I'm American after hearing me speak-

[@rajkaranvirk7525]

Why do you have the flag of Nova Scotia as your profile pic ?

[@ozzyfromscotland]

@@rajkaranvirk7525 it's a cool flag

[@rajkaranvirk7525]

@@ozzyfromscotland Oh okay. I was just wondering cause I’m Canadian, so I thought that was weird

[@chishh2554]

Emma was so blatantly obviously American. It's like she didn't try 😆

[@caroiae]

Emma: If they say sneakers instead of trainers Me: ✨Tenis✨

[@jross4622]

Me (also American) : "gym shoes"

[@ch4rl3n3w]

1:19 found it ironic that Odessa said she was an english teacher but said “I am a English teacher” lol

[@cruelrenz]

Kia ora, I am ‘A' fellow countryman of Odessa. If the contraction of “I + am = I’m” had been vocalised, then you would be correct. In Odessa case, the use of a non-contraction statement is grammatically correct. Non-contraction: I am ‘A’ English teacher [correct]. Contraction: I'm ‘AN’ English teacher [correct].

[@drrd4127]

I knew Beth was Australia straight away. I live in Australia, I am Scottish, I could pick it up by the mouth movements when she talks.

[@bellamelissa87]

I honestly thought Emma was German when she first started talking at the very beginning 😮 it’s hard for me to believe she is American. Idk why I feel that way but that was tricky even though we knew who she was the American lol

[@Wiley_Coyote]

They totally blew this with the States question, but it was fun at least to see how much Lauren has improved as an accent mimic. She should rightly feel proud. Keep Emma around. She's very clever.

[@learnurduwithsara1068]

Clair just cracks me up every time she speaks.

[@lena644]

"Alaska is the state that everyone forgets about. ... It's far from everything." So, are we just ignoring Hawaii?

[@MrHawky-sc6lo]

As a Canadian Claire had the best fake accent when she said Jacob you could easily hear the accent but she held it pretty good 90% of the time.

[@LJBSullivan]

I could tell right away, everyone had an accent. Also could tell Emma was from the east coast.

[@apdorafa-rafaelalmeida7159]

I am from Canada and certainly Beth would totally pass as an American. I know Clare from previous videos, so my opinion about her accent is biased lol. I was actually surprised to learn Jakob is from South Africa because to me he sounds like English is nit his native language. And yes, in North America people are bad at guessing accents...most people can't differ between British, Australian, Scottish or Irish accents....all accents that don't sound like North American English (US and Canada) sound British to us.

[@sijdnsd6460]

When Beth said Jakob sounded Australian from South Africa, by the way she said Australia, I knew she was Australian lol.

[@choerryIover]

I knew Beth was Australian the moment she said the word "Texas", the accent came out SOOO hard!!!

[@Bloooooooooopp]

Right. I heard it 100% lol for the most part she did okay!

[@Dayzer17]

I knew right away who was the american. I remembered I had seen the first woman in some video and she had been British there. For the other, I just listened to there accents for a while and got them too. But there accents were pretty good anyways.

[@MrDuckyDumb]

I'm British (from England) and I thought people easily knew there was 50 states in the US.

[@lovingpunisher1007]

Yeah I’m blown along by this lmao

[@StalKalle]

Lauren's reactions are gold!

[@Simsrockslol]

the girl on the left has a really good american accent

[@stephenwright133]

Lauren did pretty well as "Clare." 😀

[@johnalden5821]

Yes, it's pretty clear she's been working on her American accent. It's pretty good at this point. Not a dead give-away for sure.

[@RonJDuncan]

@@johnalden5821 It was too stereotypical valley girl for me. Nearly every time I hear somebody from the UK try to do what they think an "American" accent is supposed to be like, they seem to default to that one. Even so, I have to give her credit, since she kept it up more than the rest did.

[@theoriginalKland]

Emma is American? From where? Cause hee accent sounds more Quebec than anywhere in America.

[@samuelsprings7245]

Exactly.

[@BucyKalman]

It is pretty easy to differentiate a North American English accent from a British, Irish, or Australian accent (if the latter are not deliberately impersonating an American as in this video). I can't tell, however, if someone is from the USA or Canada based on his/her accent alone, unless he/she has a very specific accent like a Deep South accent from the US, or a Newfoundland accent if he/she is Canadian.

[@arielusher9979]

The American really doesn’t sound like she was born in America…

[@lesterburhnam7272]

south african accent is so beautiful !

[@EvsEntps]

"I'm a English teacher." Nice grammar you have there English teacher.

[@robloxadventures5495]

I am Emma too and its so funny when I heard “EMMERRRR” 😂😂😂😂 Ive never heard anyone say emmer

[@JJJRRRJJJ]

This was dumb. Why give away the answer before? It was mostly just a question of whether or not people were intentionally answering questions incorrectly, or purposely trying to sound NON-American at times (Emma seriously had a weird accent… either doing it to confuse people, or she just isn’t a great example of American English).

[@Xielian1]

Bro if I was there they would think I’m the American when I tell people that I know how to speak Italian and Spanish since I’m from Spain and Italy they’ re very surprised

[@zingerman11259]

they all have clear audible accents this was so easy to guess who it was

[@MooseShower]

I’m from the US and I forgot Alaska existed and said Texas is the biggest state. If that isn’t the most American thing

[@robbhays8077]

Lauren's accent was the most convincing. The others did the "a" to "er" thing that was a dead giveaway.

[@nathanmcknight187]

Wow, nice work Clare. Convinced me. And Emma... what is your accent? Did you grow up overseas? Trying not to sound too American I guess. But even at the end, she doesn't *quite* sound American to me. Must be North Dakota or something? What are trainers?

[@smorrow]

The way she said "four, five six" for the Olympics sealed it for me

[@exercisesandwich3812]

I'm come from Hong Kong ,but my London British is great!

[@thedorsinator]

Emma was not born in the USA

[@samuelsprings7245]

EXACTLY. Emma might be an American citizen, but was she BORN in the States to native English-speakers? 🤔 She definitely has a light accent, and it isn't an American one. Her pronunciation and pitch even in the beginning when she said, "I'm from the USA" didn't sound American. It was off.

[@rachelcookie321]

She was. She commented on another comment that she’s from New Jersey.

[@newsreal4994]

An American would be able to rat out everyone just in their introductions! It would be game over immediately. Except Lauren, her valley girl accent is really impressive.

[@josie.murden]

It is so easy for people from the UK to sound most American.

[@rachelcookie321]

I can tell you as someone from the UK that I can not do an American accent. I don’t even know where to start.

[@pzg98]

At first I thought that Emma wasn’t American 🤣 also, Lauren did amazing with the accent. The rest were obvious non-Americans.

[@tombirkland]

I grew up in Alaska. We used to say that we were going to cut Alaska in half and make Texas the third largest state ;-)

[@wesscouzsketches]

Odessa is Ukrainian name actually!it’s Ukrainian sity’s name

[@crazebanana6432]

Jakob does better than most A lot of people just can’t speak nor understand English Where some (like me) just always had tv in their life, so English was always apart of me

[@brothermalcolm]

The “literally” gave it away for claire 😂

[@DFDamer71]

So confused about what the point of the video was. The people watching knew who the American was before they started playing, and then they all knew after the first question because she was the only one to get it right as well as the dude calling her out in front of everybody for getting it right. Don't understand what the point of this was after that first question.

[@ereumsung189]

Beth has soooo gorgeous voice!!😍😍😍

[@ThunderPants13]

I'm glad Emma is the American since she's the only one who knew how many states there are.

[@nathanmcknight187]

No... the middle girl is Canadian, not German (my first choice--all English speaking right?). "Oooh, ohkay" was sooo Canadian. Could be MN though. Left to right: (at 9:31 ...Michigan, England, Canada, New Zealand, Aussie (I would have said, before someone else tipped off the South Africa thing).

[@raynemichelle2996]

Alaska is more than twice as big as Texas. "Odesser" and Jakob couldn't keep up with an American accent at all. 1996 was the Atlanta summer Olympics. 2002 was in Salt Lake City Utah. I lived in Utah until 2000. Then the 2010 Olympics were in Vancouver, which is near where I live now.

[@tophat7735]

It’s Odessa

[@kellzilla]

@@tophat7735 that's why it's in quotation marks. She pronounced it with the "er" not the "a."

[@gabriellaAW]

As someone…. Whoose lived in the USA all my life and (according to my friends) sounds like i could be either British, Irish, or Australian I feel like i could definitely trick people if i were to theoretically be put in a room full of people from the Uk Anyways this was interesting to watch

[@jlpack62]

Emma is the only one that sounds like an American to this American's ear.

[@chevy9122]

WOOO NEW ZEALAND im sorry New Zealand gets exited when were mentioned because alot of ppl think our country culture is silly😭

[@Matthew-qc1xz]

Jakob couldn't hold back the SA accent. It finds a way out. 😂🇿🇦

[@paranoidrodent]

It's interesting that he opted to identify himself as being from Louisiana, a state with several local accents that not everyone will recognize easily. It was a nice try at misdirection.

[@anndeecosita3586]

@@paranoidrodent True Louisianans have a lot of accents but I think he would have been better off going with somewhere like Pennsylvania or maybe Kansas. I have encountered some Americans who are Mennonites who speak Pennsylvania Deutch/Dutch which the language rooted in German. I think they when speaking their language they sound more similar to his accent than any Louisianans.

[@paranoidrodent]

@@anndeecosita3586 True, the Pennsylvania Dutch accent is closer but what are the odds Jakob is familiar with that one? He probably just named the first American location with some odd sounding accents he could think of since he was on the spot.

[@sparkyshore3543]

I thought Lauren’s was the only good fake American accent.

[@gioking99]

I see Lauren i click video 😌

[@annathevideoviewer]

dito

[@hansantonio110]

Lauren my heart💓

[@YuriyKuzin]

2:40 "Odesa it's russian...." wtf when you don't know your name origin... Odesa it's a city in Ukraine, there is Odessa in TX and this name can be tracked to immigrants from Ukraine (yeah in those times it was part of russian empire) and I don't know any case that it is usual name for ppl, but this name is actually greek origin from name Odyssey

[@pollyesterpocket]

5:09 is Emma actually American tho? I feel like she lived overseas for a while bc this sentence sounds off….is it just me?

[@mynameisjeff2571]

I think on some sentences she was doing that on purpose so it wouldn't be too obvious. It was still pretty obvious when she was the only one who knew how many states there are tho lol

[@anndeecosita3586]

It is not just you. I thought the same. My theory is perhaps her parents are immigrants because sometimes the children of immigrants with still pronounce certain words like their parents do.

[@anndeecosita3586]

@@mynameisjeff2571 I could see it if she only sounded foreign during the competition but she sounded the most like a non American right when she introduced herself and none of the other people were around. I was a little confused. I think it’s way she says certain words and how her speech pattern isn’t what I typically hear. For example when she said USA she said the A in a way that kind of went up in pitch and gave it more stress. I’m curious what part she’s from.

[@emmas5938]

I am born and raised in the USA. My parents aren’t immigrants- my family has been in the USA for generations. I grew up in New Jersey and also around Philadelphia/New York. The USA is a really big country so not everybody is going to sound the same. I have now lived abroad for over two years and I usually speak with people who don’t speak English as their first language so the way I speak has changed to make it easier for people to understand but I’m still American through and through. Hope this explanation helps 😊

[@anndeecosita3586]

@@emmas5938 Yes it does help. I think sometimes when we are around a group of people long enough we tend to absorb some of their accent and speech rhythms maybe without realizing it. I hope you’re not offended because I don’t think anyone is suggesting you’re not American. We were just curious. I said in another post that what mostly gave that impression is this raised pitch/inflection thing I sometimes hear at the end of your sentences that is very uncommon for Americans. One person wrote he kept expecting to hear “yah” after you complete a sentence which I think is a better description of what I was trying to say. Again I am in no way suggesting you’re not American. You did well repping the 🇺🇸 BTW I enjoyed the video.

[@jc.9]

1) her accent’s too good to determine where she’s from 2) australian? 3) obviously the american 4) australian 5) south african

[@Sam_on_YouTube]

I knew Lake Placid hosted the olympics twice and Salt Lake City once. I guessed there was probably 1 more, but I didn't know it was Squaw Valley. Had to look it up.

[@orianamandi]

Poor Lauren😂😂 her accent is really good tho, even when she speaks in her natural accent she sounds a little bit American to me😅😂

[@solido888]

There are definitely people in the states, mostly New England, that would pronounce Emma as Emmer, or washer as warsher, etc.