American reacts to 'The English Language In 24 Accents'

[@Riku-Leela]

"Why does he sound so sad" Hes british, were usually like that lol

[@valvesofvalvino]

I have huge respect to anyone to can impersonate multiple accents and this guy's skill is amazing. My guess is the swearing helped him to emphasise the stresses in each of the accents.

[@Sophie.S..]

What a lovely guy and his accents were brilliant.

[@ianwalker5842]

...😲WOW!!! Never heard this before! This guy's command of accents both within the British Isles and far beyond is hugely impressive. As an Aussie I can say he even did pretty well with ours about 80% of the time. Regardless of whether or not he was 100% accurate with all of them, he's pretty amazing! No wonder this has over 3 million views.

[@Isleofskye]

He does another one with around 50 Accents:)

[@juliaroberts4962]

I thought he was excellent. It's funny that Ryan thought his natural London accent was Australian , I'm a Londoner too and Americans thought I was Australian when I visited Florida.

[@FionaEm]

On the flipside of that: the number of Americans who think we Aussies are British is just scary ... 😅😅

[@MaryRaine929]

🇩🇪German confirmed! 👍 That was fun to watch. This dude is a talent!

[@James-hd6ez]

A nasty stands with a nasty how predictable 😮

[@MaryRaine929]

@@James-hd6ez You came all the way from Pootins colon to tell me this? Respect! 🤣

[@Midna78]

As a German I've had the time of my life hearing that typical German accent 🤣 Many of us really try to speak more American English, but in general it hit the nail on the head.

[@SavageIntent]

He's pretty good. There are obviously more than one accent for some of these, for example there are many many South African accents, and he was just doing the accent of someone who probably speaks Afrikaans as a first language.

[@danielkelly8870]

That was a surprisingly good attempt at an Aussie Accent, that ‘yes’ at the beginning was definitely more NZ than AU but it was a solid finish!

[@kristymac3236]

Should be called how to swear in 24 accents 😀

[@AdamSandler-_-]

Yeah every 3rd word is a swear word in England, whether a conventional one or not 😆

[@Maedhros0Bajar]

Try Polish. When I was on the Polish sailing ship Dar Młodzieży years back. One of the crew members used a certain Polish swear (the one beginning with a K and ending on an A) word so much that in a sentence of 10 words, 5 of them were said word on average

[@arara2139]

Whoa, a Russian here. Aside from pronouncing city names or personal names a bit weird, it's great. I also apeak Japanese as i live in Japan so i can tell you that Japanese accent isn't close. But maaan, Indian accent sounds sp close to reality lol

[@mikaelathunell2822]

Oh, welcome to my life 😅 I've lived in a dorm for a couple yers by now and met uncountable exchange students which means having to adapt to a bunch of different accents, and that's without having English as my first language myself. Imo is the Indian one is by far the hardest one to get used to (even though you recognize it from miles away 😅), but I think this guy nailed it perfectly.

[@101steel4]

Many people still don't seem to understand the difference between British and English.

[@AnnMcKinlay-zp2ef]

Worth pointing out that, despite what YOU said, a very high percentage of Brits do NOT walk around saying “f***ing” anything!😡

[@damienzwikstra1667]

this guy should make a career out of it

[@sandrap.3399]

it IS his carreer. He is a (voice-) actor

[@philjones45]

Is it?? He's dreadful.

[@MissSJ4429]

I am pleasantly surprised how good he was!

[@Isleofskye]

He does one with 50 Accents:)

[@guillaumejeremia8779]

All those British accents I heard in movies without knowing where they were from! And the French one was pretty accurate too 😂

[@SilvieFicova]

Alll the accents displayed are so hard to imitate - I admire the man for that.

[@84Squall]

as a scouser he was 100% spot on

[@LaurieLeeAnnie]

He’s pretty talented!

[@Jeni10]

There he goes with his cockney again. LOL

[@Isleofskye]

Leave it out, Darling.The Geezer's doing his best.No need to give it large..:)

[@robertofraser101]

Loved it Ryan honestly it sounds crazy some scottish accents I at times find it hard understand what saying at times crazy anyway this was brilliant I think not as easy thing too do at well done young lad he done great and the phone chats was funny 😂 cheers ryan have a g8 rest of week

[@phoenixfeathers4128]

I was talking to a Chinese man a while back and he sounded quite similar to this guy. I just could barely understand a word!

[@jakubport7361]

Doing German, Russian, Jamaican, French English: Yeah man, very nice 🙂👍 Chinese English: bro 😳👉👈

[@danielwoodgate5897]

To our American cousins across the pond, we have many different accents in Britain and Ireland. 😊. In England, there is the West Country (Pirate accent). Northern England accents, such as Manchester called (Mancunians), Liverpool called (Scousers), Yorkshire, Newcastle called (Geordies), and more. In midlands, there is Birmingham called (Brummies) and of course you know cockneys from London. And there are many more accents

[@phoenixfeathers4128]

Scouse is just His guy is so impressive like wow he has it all

[@may_champignon]

the french accent was impressive !

[@catmoore2443]

Yes it was , it's the s really ssorry .😂

[@jkbonn1]

He is really great!

[@Yotanido]

You know, maybe the accents weren't perfect. But damn, they were all instantly recognisable. I'll count that as "good enough" - I wouldn't know the difference anyway.

[@Jeni10]

Ryan, say this out loud: Sarth Efriken Elon Musk has lived in America for 34 years so his accent would be pretty much gone.

[@nolajoy7759]

Oh luke..thez a Sarth Efriken in the caw pawk.

[@richardharrison284]

When writing in accent it is actually more common to spell it Sowf African. Best example Google "Wimpy talk foreign" for a South African made advert showing it, however there are around 10 different ways of expressing English from a South African perspective depending on part of the country, social status, cultural background etc.

[@rjjcms1]

I work with an older South African gentleman and he uses the F word quite a bit and is pretty blunt with his views. Likes to relax with a few beers in front of the rugby.

[@grunge_surf_witch_uk9130]

I always did accents as a kid lol!! My freinds would ask me to do geordie scouse Scottish,posh southern,etc … Americans only do southern English accents. Where I live go two miles up road different accent like Peter key go few miles another way sounds Manchester accent. And Liverpool up the road too. Accents are more about culture too North/South divide.

[@prof.emanuelpaiva]

The guy is awesome indeed

[@archiebald4717]

Some of us are still using those old phones, mine is a 23 year old Nokia. Works perfectly, even though it has been drenched in heavy rain several times.

[@nickyverra2175]

If think about it Australia was directly British until the 1930s and the bulk (over 80 per cent of the population came from the UK) and until the 1970s they really only encouraged Brits to immigrate there so that’s why you feel that the accent sounds closer to ours. Also in comparison with the States whilst about 40 per cent are British descended because it separated in the 1700s it had a much shorter period of direct British influence. Canada to us also sounds very similar to America but that’s because they had lots of influence from the USA as well as the fact the bulk of loyalists after losing the American War Of Independence moved to Canada. New Zealand is equally as British as Australia but the accent is also influenced by the Maori population who make up about 15 per cent of the population. South Africa has a whole range of accents from very close to British to not, and it’s because half of the white population was British descended and half were Dutch descended.

[@aserta]

Not that difficult to understand, but English is my second language so it's easier when you learn English to understand different accents because you're not rooted into just one line. Mad respect for the little (old now) fella for managing to get them out so well.

[@siham1540]

Brilliant!!!! The French accent is pretty accurate

[@KrisThroughGlass]

I'm really bad with accents. I can't even get rid of my very heavy German accent when taking English. Therefore that's really impressive. I have to say that there are a lot of different Scottish accents, so doing only one generic one, was a bit disappointing. You can also hear his own accent through all the accents. I'd love to see a video like this with different people saying the same thing in their own accent.

[@ngaourapahoe]

Your accent is neutral and easy to understand, perfect speed

[@bblake5116]

Apparently I say certain country’s with that’s country’s accent, New Zealand, Ireland and Belgium are some people have pointed out to me, oh and South Africa. I can’t hear it as it’s just how I say them

[@ticketyboo2456]

Ryan sounds exactly like Captain Jack Sparrow when he does his mockney. Pretty damn good.

[@phoenixfeathers4128]

So the German was quite stereotypical, but true!

[@nolajoy7759]

Really good! Would like to hear New Zealand too.

[@johnp8131]

I think the Kiwi accent can be difficult? Like a slightly more nasal Australian, with the occasional South African tone? A least that's what I tell my mate from Dunedin that he sounds like...........................He goes spare when I tell him this!

[@FionaEm]

A Kiwi accent is like an Aussie accent, but with the vowels mixed around. Six becomes sux, sex becomes six, seven becomes siven, pin becomes pun etc etc. We Aussies give Kiwis a pretty hard time about it 😅

[@DJKLProductions]

He made another video with more and improved accents. You should watch it next.

[@JayVFX]

The french one is 100% accurate, though.

[@williamc4309]

His American accent, Americans dont really say take the piss But it was just a random conversation in each accent as he said

[@juliii_g]

Irish #2 sounds like Niall Horan 😂

[@primalengland]

They weren’t perfect, but ever one was recognisable and he’s funny as f**k.

[@glennlingard7851]

Your like everyone here in Wisconsin Ryan, am British and live here in Wisconsin and the first thing am asked is am l from Australia 😂

[@Isleofskye]

Did you emigrate Glenn? Was it the lure of The USA or was it any disenchantment with The UK, please?

[@janetagbugblah8127]

This guy is Jake Wardle he played Freddie Sykes in Twin Peaks

[@francoiscastry]

as a Frenchman, I totally agree with our accent (certainly the worst), because the French are always the worst at learning a foreign language...

[@primalengland]

Why does he sound so sad? 😂 I was thinking the same.

[@MrOrmanley]

8:35 reminds me of Steven He's accent (the emotional damage guy 😆)

[@LJJ22]

The Chinese one definitely was not like any Chinese I've heard talking English, I would not have recognised it as "Chinese". From Hong Kong, so people who have grown up with Cantonese and British English makes sense, because most Chinese I know are from farther North (Bejing, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Jiangsu, Shanghai). Most others from outside of the UK, I would have guessed correctly.

[@baxter1910]

I love this 😂

[@aaroncampbell113]

I thought the Aussie was a little off, but their accent does vary a fair amount, it's a massive country and the major cities are really far apart. Didn't tackle New Zealand I notice. Has he followed up?

[@olanieliwodzka]

You really need to hear the black country British accent. Honestly it doesn't sound like English to me at all 😂 Actor who played Arthur in Peaky Blinders did it very well 😊 Ps. Your shirt really matches your eyes 😊

[@renatewest6366]

This guy over all is quite good.Opinion of an Australian.

[@paulharvey9149]

Wow! He's really good - far better than the video with the woman speaking 17 British accents!

[@peppecrea7414]

About the "f-word" point. From my perspective looks like Americans are the only ones having a problem with it or swearing in general. I don't know how much of it is just an impression of mine but I don't remember ever seeing a non American being bothered by someone saying "fuck" (unless used directly to offend them, obviously). I'd like to have some options from around the world

[@Whiteshirtloosetie]

Still find it funny in a nice way that Americans have trouble telling English and Australian accents apart where for us it is so obvious. Number of people I know who are English who have been to the USA and Americans thought they were Australians. :)

[@phoenix-xu9xj]

We have different accents every 5 miles so yes we have a lot.

[@user-gj8bd]

Russian one was really stereotypical and thick, most Russian-speaking people don't speak like that. But I definitely know some people (generally older than 40 y.o.) who speak like that, very accurate!

[@SweetHooligan1848]

Is he the guy that ended up with small part in Twin Peaks, because of his video?

[@arthena2130]

The Japanese was a bit of. The biggest thing to notice on engrishu is that they don't have either r or l sounds but a sound in between those two, so it is hard to tell if they are saying r or l. I just had to critique when you did not see any comment of it on the video.

[@OpaSpielt]

I'm not sure about the other accents, but the "German English" was quite nice. I speak English with a similar accent. 😂 Have a nice day. Thanks for the funny video 🖐🏼👴🏼

[@renatewest6366]

I don't know for sure but my Dad is German and have been to Germany a few times.Generally don't swear that much.These days younger generation swear in English.F... word from American movie where they over do the swearing.

[@TheSuperlambanana]

I am scouse (the accent you went “what” at) - it’s alright but barely anyone gets it right so this fella did quite well hahaha and men always go high pitched trying to imitate it and that is their mistake 😂 I have a deeper voice than him doing a scouse accent 🌚😂

[@FionaEm]

I'm an Aussie & I reckon Scouse is the best British accent of them all 😊

[@ScotCalvyn]

The best comedy makes you think. And don't be too hard on yourself. We brits have had a long time to remaster what the Norse left us 😂. The best joke ever told. Is in the Norsemen. And it flys over so many. Even after you tell them. Old English and old Norse. Have 3 letters prounoced different. Which only makes a few words sentences different. But still. When the guy goes to English slave what does he say. Even the slave owner knew what he said 😂.

[@PernelTV]

The french one is very good, our R are softer but his accent fit well.

[@datwistyman]

Hahaha that Aussie accent was way off, sounds more like south African. But this guy is pretty good all in all. 🙂 The Chinese one sounds like uncle Rodger. Edit.. I just remembered me and a mate were actor's years ago and we were messing around with accents, and got kicked out of the pub because some woman overheard us and got the shits. 🤦😜

[@ianwalker5842]

He did get some bits of the Aussie one right so I wouldn't say way off, but yeah, shades of NZ and SA along the way. Still better than most Americans can manage though.

[@juliii_g]

I thought of uncle Rodger too 😂

[@zeideerskine3462]

He should be on stage with Fluffy.

[@tinaunderhill5412]

That was so funny. He may not be 100% accurate but pretty close. And nothing he said was offensive.

[@kathryndunn9142]

He's a Londoner. Manchester accent 😂😂😂 Liverpool. Yay Wales 😂😂sheep shagger lmao. Scottish. Irish

[@Zen20000]

That Scouse accent sounded more like a Cardiff accent 😂

[@Mikael_Puusaari]

I'd like to hear him do a swedish accent, at least the stereotypical swedish that some swedes have with the normal v instead of english w 🙂

[@stiglarsson8405]

I was watching out for swedish/scandinavian accent?? Does that means that we speak perfect british English? Not at all but we learn British English mandatory frome third grade, as adult we kind of shifts more toward US English becuse of US cultural influense! In anyway, I was a volonteer, on a event, half of them English speaking, Dutch/France/Germany, but moste of them frome UK and Ireland! Its soo nice to be able to.. be able to speak to a lot of people! And the moste importante thing, people goes to schools and learn "standard english", US or British English and tend to use this in a foregein country!?

[@101steel4]

It's not British English, just English 😉

[@Frazsier-lx1gr]

5:15 Yes, it is. :-)))

[@jojo.s_bekaar_adventures]

as a friend of Mandarin speaker from Taiwan it's not offensive to them

[@LaurieLeeAnnie]

Please do more videos with Tyler!

[@Isleofskye]

Have they done any,please?

[@James-hd6ez]

The Welsh accent was exactly the same as the Liverpool voice although he was pretty good at other accents 👌

[@Blanchy10]

The Italian sounded like Valentino Rossi!

[@luthien3565]

🤣🤣 spot on! great Valentino!

[@Kari.F.]

Elon Musk doesn't have much of an accent at all anymore. The scouse accent was really good, the German was decent. The rest was so-so.

[@gabrielbattais4185]

the french one is exactly the accent a french person have when he don't try to do better by fear of having a ridiculous "fake accent"

[@gert-ib4dy]

Does Ryan smoke Marihuana?

[@cclr3574]

First Irish accent sounds like he was trying to do a Northern Irish accent. Wasn't great but I've seen worse. Second Irish accent not from anywhere really, but at push it sounds very vaguely like a Monaghan accent in parts.

[@DruncanUK]

"Let's insult half the world in 14 minutes or less"

[@brigidsingleton1596]

As 'Sarek' said, "There is no offence where none is taken." 😊❤️🖖

[@powerviolentnightmare5026]

I thought he did a decent job on Irish. He got my Northern Irish (not British) approval

[@runkkariruune]

Ok. Hey Ryan, this is probably the the first comment on your reactions, which are very enjoyable. I'm not absolutely sure coz sometimes i'm even more drunk than now. But anyway, I feel feel kind of discriminated (against?), as that British bloke was not up to impersonating us Finns, speaking proper Rally English! For example: kzbin.info/www/bejne/f2abZWmcoreFo7c It is also very infectious, as my Czech wife and I (or me?) communicate mostly in English, and when she was going to an English course at work, in Prague, with a native English speaker as a teacher, he told that my wife has a kind of Scandinavian accent. Ha-ha! He didn't know that Finland is not a part of Scandinavia, even as we are a Nordic country... So there! Or it could be that I'm part Swedish (genetically), and we still have mandatory swedish lessons at school here in Finland. But I started school swedish from 0%, as my parents spoke only Finnish to me, which was recommended by stupid experts at the time. I could have gotten both languages for free as a child, and avoided countless hours of misery of forced instruction. Fy fan! My children speak fluent Czech and Finnish, and their English is not too bad, as they were listening us speak it from very young, even as we speak our own languages to the kids. Anyways, keep the videos coming, and have a great day!!!

[@jstect9341]

I have talked to some french guys speaking english that's 1 to 1 accurate

[@NamakanejBouchac]

34 million views?!! What the fuck? 😂

[@nightowl5395]

I prefer the woman who speaks in the Anglophenia video (Siobhan Thompson) as she is talented and funny. It is possible you might have seen her video already; but if not, then I think you would be equally impressed; it would be an interesting comparison...with much less swearing 😅

[@RakkiOfficial]

Gotta say, was not really a fan of his take on the German speaking English. Sounded more like an American trying to sound german than a German trying to not sound German... I think it's about the R's and how the vowels are formed. While, yes, we do have only diphtongs in specific cases in our language but a normal vowel sounds like a normal vowel from the phonetic table, when we speak English, we tend to actually speak with the diphtongs of the English language, we may mix up the diphtongs sometimes if we're not as experienced with English, but we do not just apply German vowels in English. the German R does not sound like the Spanish or the English but is more close to the French for comparison, so when a German who's unexperienced with English speaks English, he/she would use the german R and not a rotic R for some reason. Then, usually, Germans do not speak English this choppy, a minority of Germans who are at a very low speaking level of English may (e.g. the Austrian Arnold Schwarznegger in the 80s), but not the typical German. Different consonants that Germans would tend to use would be S/Z instead of TH, or tsh/tsch instead of ch in words like to chop for example. This wouldn't be as pronounced as when an English speaker tries to immitate it but more integrated into the flow of the sentence melody. Sorry, just had to put it out there, kinda starts to annoy that for some reason everyone internationally seems to register the German accent in English as 80s Schwarznegger instead of how it actually sounds 😅

[@infinite_hyperspace]

I definitely don't sound like that when I a speak English. I try to aim for General American. Obviously you will still hear I am german but my accent is nowhere this thick.

[@jillybrooke29]

He is a Londoner or Essex man. Aussies are descended from British convicts 🤣 Not sure about the swearing.

[@mindi2050]

Australians are descended from people from all over the world - including British 'convicts'. Some of them as young as 9 years old.

[@lorrainemckay2622]

His Australian accent was off, with a bit of Kiwi accent thrown in. And I never hear such dreadful swearing from Aussies or any of my Pommy (English) friends.

[@TheHeck69]

the way Americans say Ireland is incorrect

[@beldin2987]

That what i just wrote yesterday about the british vs. american humor .. its political incorrect and "offensive" .. and that is how it should be, because thats also mostly why its funny. Beeing politcal correct and not trying to hurt anybody just isn't funny at all (most of the times).

[@bblake5116]

With South African in all in how you say zebra. If you get that right you can do other words.

[@rawfish_8.3]

Why would the Chinese one be offensive but all the other ones aren't?

[@andreascuracao4636]

I didn't know that italians are able to speak without using their hands 🤔

[@FionaEm]

C'mon Ryan, how many Aussie videos have you watched now?! The Aussie accent is NOT the same as a British one 😅 This poor guy mixed New Zealander, South African & Australian to come up with his impression 😅

[@annicaesplund6613]

😂👏