Why does Alex Antetokounmpo have not accent!?! | Thanalysis

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Alexandros Antetokounmpo is a Greek-Nigerian professional basketball player for the Wisconsin Herd of the NBA G League. He is the youngest brother of National Basketball Association players Giannis and Thanasis, and EuroLeague Player Kostas.
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[@dagoose.]

He moved when he was 12, he went to middle and high school when his family moved because of Giannis and Thanasis

[@wileyjohnson5681]

Okay That explains why he clearly has American accent.

[@aleksthegreat4130]

His greek is perfect as well.

[@LethalProtector8000]

The change of accents when you talk to different people is very real. I do it too, especially if I'm talking to British people.

[@1lifeonearth]

I am from Milwaukee, we love you guys!!! Please stay here forever!!!

[@Siasianest]

I love this family so much! Είστε οι ΠΙΟ υπέροχοι ❤️

[@kostasskoulidas6549]

Everybody has an accent! Thanasis has Greek accent, Alex has an American accent

[@TPBGR]

His little brother has a slight Greek accent if you listen closely.

[@testingsomething5280]

Noticed it too but it's so slight it's basically irrelevant

[@sloanNYC]

Depends on your age when you accent becomes more permanent. Had a friend who left Romania when she was 8, her sister was 12. She has NO accent, her sister, thick. It is very interesting.

[@tuneunleashed]

Alex up close is a darker Giannis. Looks exactly just like him.

[@bajgy007]

Alex already looks NBA ready.

[@jessyopoku3458]

You got to switch it up bro😂😂 it makes the conversation a bit easier and relatable

[@je7429]

First, love the ANTETOKOUNMPO brothers!

[@upperdeck89-19]

I LOVE YOU BROTHERS!!

[@GLOUFIRE]

We can hear plenty of accent Thanasis 😅

[@slamdunk2270]

Tbf it’s almost unnoticeable

[@zfk8700]

I know

[@purutharma7127]

Not rly

[@dwayneyoung3664]

😂😂 aye that’s comedy cuz we be switchin the black American accents on n off too . I’m tryna add the Greek one to my bag

[@bcdakid414]

Alex basically grew up in Milwaukee so of course he sound like he from here , kinda how 21 savage sound like he from Atlanta

[@MisterAtho]

Also named Athanasios, gonna have to use Thanalysis now 😂

[@SilvioBadaBing]

Thanasis accent is thick when he doesn’t try to hide it

[@tainanking]

Alex and kostas went to school in Milwaukee but only kostas has the heavy accent. Now we know which bros we’re hanging out with which 😂

[@unhhgcrxexhjvuvujchcrzwzwz7956]

People with the level of accent Thanasis has always Believe that they have no accent lol

[@Trapligo]

Α ρε Θανασαρα και Αλεξ

[@sk8zen]

when learning languages some people can’t get native accents down and others can. that’s why giannis has a thick accent where as he OLDER brother doesn’t really have one

[@ericabertagnoli5469]

Well he’s been here longer then he was in Greece so it makes sense.

[@greece-monkey-flips]

I moved to the US from Greece when I was 14. I was the same, didn't know any English. I was made fun of so much for having a "weird accent," that it pushed me to try and figure out how to speak so that people would accept me.

[@fujablack]

Never twist your accent to satisfy anyone, ask them to speak greek too, and you see their accent… be who you are

[@varius21]

@@fujablack easy to say but the reality is that the world is cold. Him, learning to tweak his accent, helped him "get by" in a way, so why not?

[@fujablack]

@@varius21 inferiority mentality, messi is the greatest football player and never tweaked accent

[@varius21]

@@fujablackno, bro. Messi didn’t grow up in a non Spanish speaking country! He just speaks Spanish.

[@fujablack]

@@varius21 ronaldo never grew up in brazil, he went to england at age 18 He never faked his accents to get accepted by anyone, it’s inferiority complex to always try to fit and be fake

[@jerometurner8759]

Alex came over younger, that's why. People under 13 supposedly don't develop an accent.

[@jaimereynolds3914]

The title is wrong. It should read: Why does Alex Antentokounmpo have no accent!?!

[@Username12665]

Everyone’s a critic.

[@jaimereynolds3914]

@@Username12665 Dude i'm just trying to save them some embarassment

[@unib4644]

@@jaimereynolds3914 Bro english is a stupid language already, noone will get embarassed

[@LowKeyDee1620]

nobody cares

[@tarirai]

Everyone has an accent

[@1SOTDMan]

He almost grew up in Milwaukee

[@okolo22000]

Giannis: the 4th best brother when it comes to speaking the English language but is better at quite literally everything else! 😂

[@damana1000]

Best at everything else? How do you know? Thanasis might be the best chess player among them.

[@okolo22000]

@@damana1000 Perhaps but are all 3 of them better than him at Chess? While we’re at it, they all might be better at spelling, math, baseball, tight end, Golf, driving, etc.

[@philipmanolas2270]

To Greeks Thanasis accent is the correct one 😂

[@starentertainer2]

Because of his age!! When youth from the Caribbean move to the states and enrol in the school system their accents change versus and adult moving to the states

[@tainanking]

Like deandre ayton

[@youngflossy213]

Everyone has an accent.

[@kyle1493]

He means having a greek accent

[@ermishatziantoniou5113]

Thanasis the most stereotypical greek accent . Everything pronounced linear

[@Sean-333]

👁THANIAS YOUR PREJUDICE

[@kalex888]

He definitely has an accent. He can mimic all he wants but he definitely still sounds like his first language is Greek

[@DaRealIceO]

You don’t have to listen hard to hear Thanasis’ accent

[@tainanking]

Wonder why tha asks doesn’t have such a heavy accent like Giannis and kostas

[@dlgarner]

He does sound like a Chicago accent if anything.

[@cindykaeding9196]

It's that Dominican education

[@ettaplace800]

It has to do with puberty. If you move to another country after puberty you will keep your accent. Trust me my 83 mother has been living in Australia for 60 years and still has a thick accent. Instead of saying “sit” down she says “shit down”

[@Vaidelotelis]

He has an accent. Everybody has an accent. He has a very easily recognisable American accent and string hints of the accent that black Americans have. But he definitely has a strong American accent

[@Hendrixxthekid]

Yea but they talkin bout the fact he spent like 13 years in Greece and didn’t even know English and he hasnt even been him for 10 years really and his accent is completely gone

[@Jaymoney067]

Alex sounds like he’s from the USA frfr haha

[@yunqtule]

1:08- Greece Accent came out ..hold up that's a greece Accent wow crazy....how Giannis iust nigerian with a Greek accent but theres ppl like that in the UK like Dasmon Iris and so much others....brother is right when you mimic people your accent goes away certain words can come otu

[@ettaplace800]

Btw my mother is Greek. 🇬🇷

[@toms1245]

the best anktetemeopo's are the one's with an accent. that would explain why giannnas has the worst accent but best skills at basketball

[@carribou92]

What does “no accent” even mean

[@athenstar10]

He still have an accent you Americans😂

[@mikeolawale9248]

I love that Giannis kept his cool accent, it has always made him sound classy. I can’t imagine him sounding like an arrogant black American during interviews. We enjoy Giannis and Thenasis Greek accent than Alex American accent

[@___Anakin.Skywalker]

maybe he adopted i mean he ain't not look like giannas at all

[@___Anakin.Skywalker]

African negas goofy doe

[@btran213]

yeah they r the og from the motherland be proud

[@seuntimilehin3381]

If your parents are nigerian, how didn't you know english from birth?

[@Vaidelotelis]

Because people don't grow up speaking English in Nigeria. It's not a language that most people in Nigeria speak at home or in their local community

[@seuntimilehin3381]

@Vaidelotelis you're wrong. I'm from Nigeria and and the official language is English. The education system is mostly in English and universities teach in English. We have our own languages and Of course, there are people who do not speak english but to say people don't grow up speaking English is wrong His parents are from two separate tribes, Igbo and Yoruba(two very different languages) so the language used between them would have most likely been English

[@Vaidelotelis]

@@seuntimilehin3381 see, that's your problem. You only hang out with educated people. The majority of Nigeria is not like that. I've been to Nigeria. It's extremely difficult to find even an educated person who speaks what we would consider to be grammatically correct English that a native English speaker would readily understand. Step into the countryside and people generally don't speak more than a few words or sentences of English. There is a big difference between Australia, for instance, where the official language is English and Nigeria where the official language is also English.

[@seuntimilehin3381]

@Vaidelotelis I was just trying to correct your earlier point of saying "people don't grow up speaking English in Nigeria" because that isn't true If you read my comment you would see I said we have our own languages and not everyone speaks English. The area I grew up in spoke Yoruba, English, pidgin and often other languages on a minor scale so I grew up knowing English, yoruba and pidgin naturally. Obviously people that grow up in the countryside or rural areas would be different from people who grew up in the city and had access to education or a better standard of living You also have to understand that there are parts of Nigeria that speak more English than other parts and thats how it is. For example you would hear more English/pidgin on the street in cities in the south than you would hear in the north because in the north the dominant language is hausa, even spoken by people on a native level who are not ethically hausa but are from northern nigeria. I'm from western Nigeria but I lived a bit in the south and also schooled there for some time. In Rivers state where I lived, which is also very ethnically diverse, the main language you would hear in the city is English or you would hear pidgin. A lot of my classmates could only speak English and pidgin and didn't know how to speak their "native languages" fluently. A lot of them even had english surnames despite not being English or having any relations to England. That's just how it was, so I'm giving you different examples On your point about English that is grammatically correct, I would have to disagree with you. Every country that has English as an official language has it's own unique way of speaking English. I grew up in Nigeria so the way I speak English is a product of the environment I grew up in. When we speak english, we include words like "abi" "sha", "shey" "ba" "sef" among others because that's how we speak and there's nothing wrong with that. Even some people I knew that attended the most expensive schools owned by British people still speak English the way I do with a Nigerian accent We do not need approval of native english speakers from England or Australia. When i was in school i had a friend whose family was originally from England and he speaks English how a typical Nigerian would speak it with words and expressions we nigerians use in speaking english normally that do not exist in England, now why is that? Because he grew up in an environment that spoke that way. He's also fluent in pidgin and can speak yoruba to some degree. I have also been to England and I heard a lot of people using "me" instead of "my" or saying "you was" instead of "you were",. I also notived some people pronouncing "th" as "f" or not pronouncing the letter "t" in words. All of these shouldn't be correct if you want to talk about grammatics but a lot of people speak that way. The same way some people from France may say French from Quebec in Canada sounds weird (yes I've been told that), it's just the way Canadian French speakers speak and that's fine. Also in Canada English and French are the official languages but if you go up north where a lot of the indigenous people live, a lot of them are unable to speak english or French because they speak their own languages exclusively Also finally on your point about "native speakers being able to readily understand". When I went to England they understood me most of the time when I spoke normally but I found I very hard to understand a lot of what they were saying believe it or not, after a few weeks there my ears had adjusted and It was easier. Jamaicans and other countries in the Carribbean would be considered native english speakers but haven't you heard the way they speak english? Or even black americans, they would be considered native english speakers, a lot of them being able to only speak English, but they way they speak especially when they add all their words like "finna" etc, if it isn't what you are used to it'll be difficult to understand as well?

[@aleksthegreat4130]

They all knew pretty good English before they moved to America,all of them,their parents spoke English,because they are from the different Nigerian linguistic groups.

[@dafisdafis1]

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